Giuseppe Cederna
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma
Birthday: May 25, 1957
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Gender: Male
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Nine
Overview: Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-03
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Pantafa
Overview: Marta and her daughter Nina move to Malanotte, a small mountain village. The little girl has been suffering from hypnagogic paralysis for some time, a sleep disorder which can lead to hallucinatory states, and Marta thought that a bit of mountain air and distance from the frenetic rhythm of city life might benefit the little girl. However, the house they move into is anything but welcoming, and children are never seen playing in the streets of Malanotte. Nina’s symptoms begin to worsen from the very first night in the new house, and the little girl has more and more vivid nightmares in which a ghostly figure sits on her chest, immobilises her and steals her breath. For Marta, a single mother in a place she finds increasingly sinister, it will become harder every day to know what is best for her child.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-03-30
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Who Is Afraid of Dracula?
Overview: Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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3/19
Overview: Camilla is a successful attorney in her forties who accidentally causes the death of an undocumented migrant. At first, she is only interested in exonerating herself, but soon a feeling of responsibility starts nagging her: the dead body of a young man is lying in the morgue because their destinies fatally crossed. Camilla is used to shielding herself from pain, and she is incapable of really caring, even for her own daughter. In the midst of discovering the victim’s identity, she meets Bruno, the head of the morgue, who seems to be the only one who can truly understand her. The investigation she pursues will take her far from her surroundings until she will be forced to question herself, her unresolved past, and the life she really wants to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-11
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El Alamein
Overview: War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
Overview: A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco (1932-2016).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-03-02
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Exitus: Il passaggio
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-02-02
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Marrakech Express
Overview: After learning that an old friend of theirs has been arrested in Morocco on drug charges, four former college buddies set out for Marrakech to bail him out.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-05-11
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The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Overview: Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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The Family
Overview: "The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-20
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Aspettando il sole
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Overview: Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac, who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina. He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella.
Genres: History Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-10-31
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Mediterraneo
Overview: Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-02
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Mother Ebe
Overview: Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-04-08
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Sotto Sotto
Overview: Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-03-01
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Roseanna's Grave
Overview: Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-06
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Per non dimenticare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Porzûs
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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The First Day of Winter
Overview: Valerio is a lonely young boy who can't get on with the others of the same age. He just observes without been seen and tries to compare himself to them, especially with two tough guys from his swimming course. One day Valerio sees something that will change him forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-07-12
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Von Scerscen.- Diario di un'indagine
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Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-02-24
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Dream of a Summer Night
Overview: Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Genres: Music Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-11-15
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Men Vs Women
Overview: From married couples to platonic roommates to testy rivals with romantic chemistry, the never-ending battle of the sexes gets personal.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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1960
Overview: By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy during the 1960s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-05
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Partigiani
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Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Henry IV
Overview: Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-05-24
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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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Gangsters
Overview: Genoa, 1945. The war is over but not for 4 partisans who still try to capture the remaining fascists. They are not satisfied with the concept of justice that the new born Italian Republic tries to instigate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-02-01
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Marcel!
Overview: The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves her mother immensely, but her mother loves Marcel more than anything else. Will an unpredictable event allow those circles of love to reconnect?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-06-01
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Italia Germania 4-3
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-01-05
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Vanille fraise
Overview: Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-29
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Under the Chinese Restaurant
Overview: A young man captures the fancy of an inventor's daughter when he passes through a basement door into another dimension.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-04-14
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The clump
Overview: A man walks through the Salento countryside. He holds a glass jar in his hand. Empty. Fields of centuries-old olive trees exterminated by the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium parade past. The man walks towards his grandfather’s olive grove. His destiny is to return to the places of his adolescence. Strange plant shapes appear in the countryside. The man with the jar crosses the valley. He feels he is being watched. Fauns threaten him or perhaps protect him. The man must perform his ritual, a clump of earth – la paddotta - awaits him on the bank of a stream. In an eternal present, everything begins again and is fulfilled in every single moment.
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Original Language: it
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Ricordare Anna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-03
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She's the One
Overview: What if you could answer any question and eliminate all doubts before making the most important decision of your life? What if, by some sort of magic, you could live your life pursuing your wildest and deepest desires? That’s what’s about to happen to Andrea, a thirty-year-old man on the eve of his wedding with Laura, the girl he met in college and with whom he built a life together. Andrea starts waking up everyday in a different life and a different self, in realities where he and Laura never got together in the first place. Exploring the many paths his life could have lead him on to, from unapologetic womanizer to acclaimed musician, Andrea will have to face the void Laura’s absence left in his many different “iterations”. Will he try to break the spell?
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-04-04
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The Island of the Fallen Angel
Overview: In 1924, a young police commissioner is relocated to a small island near Sicily. Adaptation of Carlo Lucarelli's novel of the same name, directed by Lucarelli himself in his directorial debut, which went unreleased after its lukewarm premiere at the Rome Film Festival.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-11-11
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Overview: Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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All the things that remain
Overview: In a hidden corner of Cinecittà there is a magical place that no one knows about and that was about to disappear. It is STUDIO EL founded in 1983 by Ettore Scola and Luciano Ricceri. A creative space, a sort of Renaissance workshop, a factory. A place where the two great friends prepared their great films in Cinecittà, but where they gave the opportunity to many young people to grow and improve their professionalism. After the passing of Ettore Scola and Luciano Ricceri, time at Studio E.L stopped along with many objects that are the memory of almost 40 years of history of our cinema. Before Studio EL closes forever, becoming a museum space inside Cinecittà, we would like to give the objects it contains the value they deserve and tell their stories.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-03-16
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You Laugh
Overview: Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-06
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Man on Fire
Overview: Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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K2 - La montagna degli Italiani
Overview: TV movie that tells the story of 12 Italian mountaineers and their dreams of being the first to reach the summit of K2.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-18
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Different from Whom?
Overview: Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele. Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Il colore nascosto delle cose
Overview: Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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Women Vs Men
Overview: Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, Marcello and Paola are a divorced couple who, from time to time, pretend they are still together to avoid problems. They are victims of a relentless war of sexes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-02-04
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Excellent Cadavers
Overview: Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
Genres: Drama Thriller History TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-16
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Looking for Jesus
Overview: An average Joe becomes the poster boy for a book about Jesus due to his Christ-like appearance, but his meek and good-hearted nature ends up clashing with the publisher's earthly-minded motives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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Occhei, occhei
Overview: A 1983 Italian film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Promised Land
Overview: The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the last he ever starred in. He drives around in a car that's one big ad for himself and occasionally makes the local news with some freak incident. When the film starts he has just burned down his trailer and caused a traffic jam. He then hits the road with a DV cam to capture real life. A friend promised him he could sell such material to an Italian TV station. When he meets a famous singer on the way and gets drawn into her story things get interesting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-10
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A Soul Split in Two
Overview: Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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The Man with the Lantern
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-01-22
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Johnny the Partisan
Overview: After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders
Overview: Go inside the building that has been the source of some of the greatest moments in music, ballet and opera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-11-24
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Hammamet
Overview: The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-01-09
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Il lungo inverno
Overview: A movie from Ivo Barnabò Micheli.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-02-22
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Non avere paura - Un'amicizia con Papa Wojtyla
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Love Burns
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-09-12
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Cielo e terra
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Provvisorio, quasi d'amore
Overview: Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-04-13
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Giulia in ottobre
Overview: Giulia has a one-night stand with a stranger to forget a heartbreak. Aimlessly walking through October city streets to let off steam, she meets a woman who came from Turin seeking an explanation from her partner, who doesn't even want to see her. The two join forces and settle accounts with him. Neither of them feels like going home and being alone, so they spend the whole night wandering around Milan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-31
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Bidoni
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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The American Bride
Overview: Edoardo meets and immediately falls in love for Edith. They soon decide to marry. During the wedding Edoardo knows Anna, Edith's best friend and wife of her brother. This last is a fake marriage since Sacha is homosexual. Incredibly Edoardo loses his mind for Anna, and they become soon lovers. The two couples spend time together in Venezia. Edoardo is continuously shared between Edith and Anna. But this won't take long.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-09
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