Fausto Russo Alesi
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palermo, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: October 13, 1973
Age: 51 years old
Gender: Male
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Vincere
Overview: The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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If I May
Overview: A man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-08-12
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The Double Hour
Overview: A chambermaid and a former cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a turn for the worse when her mysterious past is revealed.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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The Roses of the Desert
Overview: A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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La passione
Overview: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Strangeness
Overview: During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Secret Journey
Overview: After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-20
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In Memory of Me
Overview: Investigates the life a young man who has decided to enter a Jesuit monastery in Venice, but is then overcome by agonizing doubts before his ordination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-02-24
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Sicilian Letters
Overview: Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using his personal connection as the Boss' godfather, his task is to get him to reveal his hiding place in their secret letters.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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Garibaldi's Lovers
Overview: A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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Behind the Scenes: The Traitor
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-22
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Esterno Notte (part I)
Overview: The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-05-18
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Esterno Notte (part II)
Overview: The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-06-09
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Kidnapped
Overview: The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-05-25
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Cabrini
Overview: Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-07
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Blood of My Blood
Overview: In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Federico’s twin brother, and making him betray his priestly mission. Federico hopes to secure his brother a burial on consecrated grounds. In modern times, Federico Mai, a Minister inspector, knocks on the doors of the very same convent, in order to broker a sale of the property to a Russian millionaire. Unbeknownst to him, a mysterious "Count" lives there.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-09
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Duse
Overview: The legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse, through the latter part of her life and her legendary career is now long over.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
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If I May - Chapter II
Overview: Over the course of a day, Fausto, invincible in his inertia, watches a paradoxical procession of visitors pass by: the mellifluous parish priest of the town; a mysterious man with his absurd ghost-themed business idea; the captain of the Carabinieri who proposes a shotgun wedding to his daughter, who has become pregnant by a stranger. Finally, late at night, a couple of thieves enter the house with Barbara's complicity. Fausto surprises them, impassive and bored as always, and reassures them: there is nothing left, neither gold nor paintings, everything has been sold. The three do nothing but chat until the sun rises, when the thieves leave and Barbara puts the coffee on the fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-09-01
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Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Overview: On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-03-30
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The Order of Things
Overview: An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Twice Born
Overview: Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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The Traitor
Overview: Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-05-23
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Agatha and the Storm
Overview: The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers to spontaneously spark and malfunction.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-02-27
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Bread and Tulips
Overview: An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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The Bad Poet
Overview: 1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with D'Annunzio, Comini finds himself torn between loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, who will put his burgeoning career at risk.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-05-20
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The Catholic School
Overview: Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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If I May - Chapter III
Overview: Third installment in the "If I May" trilogy by director Marco Bellocchio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
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Leopardi. The Infinity Poet
Overview: Showcases the life of Giacomo Leopardi, an Italian poet known for his melancholic verses on fleeting happiness, existentialism, and human suffering.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-08-28
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