Marcello Mazzarella
Also Known As: Марчелло Мацарелла
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Erice, Sicilia, Italy
Birthday: October 18, 1963
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Gender: Male
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Baaria
Overview: Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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The Sicilian Girl
Overview: Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Night Bus
Overview: Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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I Prefer the Sound of the Sea
Overview: This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ones of his son Matteo. Rosario lives in a "commune" and Matteo in a beautiful, comfortable house. They're both introverted and shy and find a common ground: they meet, go out together, become friends and show each other a completely different way of living their lives as teenagers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-03-24
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Time Regained
Overview: In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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Placido Rizzotto
Overview: As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-10-20
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The Scent of the Night
Overview: A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Viktor
Overview: After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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The Treadmill
Overview: A tormented Emma, runs on her treadmill while doing online counseling, deluding herself to escape from her past. This balance will break when, after twenty-six years, her younger sister bursts in with an unsustainable request.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-05-05
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La Strada Di Paolo
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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A Breath of Fresh Air
Overview: Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father - whom he has not seen in many years - Salvo returns to his native Sicily. He intends to convince his brother Lillo to sell the family farm and save his pizzeria, which is about to go bankrupt - a secret that he has kept even from his wife and children. But things will not be easy and Salvo will have to come to terms with his choices. A bittersweet comedy about family relations and how one never stops growing up, not even at fifty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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Like the Wind
Overview: The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-10
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Made in Italy
Overview: French writer Luca Morandi was born in Italy. He is forty years old and finds himself at a crossroads in his life. He doesn't know where to turn: France, his adopted home where he was raised, or Italy, the country of his birth, perfect, wonderful and ideal, like a child’s dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-02
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Giorni Felici
Overview: Margherita is an international actress with a career full of successes and awards. Suddenly, she is stricken by physical problems. Antonio, her former partner arrives to assist her and to rebuild their relationship.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Una preghiera per Giuda
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Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-07-23
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Biagio
Overview: It is the true story of a man called Biagio Conte, a Sicilian who was looking for God and ended up founding a mission to help the homeless and the poorest immigrants of his city. His story starts in the mountains as a shepherd and continues on a long trip to reach Assisi, the home of Saint Francis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-25
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L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi
Overview: The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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What Are You Looking For
Overview: The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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My Name Is Vendetta
Overview: After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-30
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Fuga con Marlene
Overview: A middle aged woman, recently released from prison robs a jewellery store and takes off with her long lost teenage son
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-14
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I Am Alive
Overview: A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off 'nightwatchman' job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre -- and complex -- than he expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-10-19
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The Lithium Conspiracy
Overview: In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-27
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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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Melissa P.
Overview: An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-11-18
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Il traduttore
Overview: Italy, third millennium. Andrei, a Romanian university student, ends up embroiled in an intrigue linked to the disappearance of a German antiquarian.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-05-26
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L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères
Overview: The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-04
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Rosso Malpelo
Overview: A look at the difficult living conditions in two small mining villages in Bolivia as seen through the eyes of the young children who are forced to work there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-19
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Fort Apache Napoli
Overview: The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
Overview: A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-07
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The Passion of Joshua the Jew
Overview: Born in Spain in 1492 at the time all Jews and Muslims were ordered out of the country, Joshua (Leonardo Cesare Abude) is declared the next messiah by an elder. Eventually settling in Italy with his family, Joshua grows into a man and becomes fascinated with Catholicism, much to the dismay of local religious leaders. Pasquale Scimeca's religious drama exploring the nature of prejudice and intolerance also stars Anna Bonaiuto and Toni Bertorelli.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Convitto Falcone
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-05-23
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Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Undesirables
Overview: USA, 1951. When a group of Italian immigrants suspected to have connections with the Mafia are sent back to Italy with the brand of "undesirable", a journalist decide to inquire about the story.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-12-14
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Il pendolo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
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Nirvana
Overview: Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-01-24
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La trattativa
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Genres: Crime Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Everybody's Fine
Overview: Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-09-19
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Walking to Paris
Overview: The 27-year-old sculptor Constantin Brancusi walked from Bucharest to Paris in 1903 and 1904 as a preparation and prelude to becoming the most important sculptor of the twentieth century.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
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Signs of Life
Overview: There were four friends. Now there are only three – one of them has just died in Sicily in a stupid road accident. Fifteen years earlier, Tomas, a young French filmmaker, had made the group the subject of a documentary. He had become their friend, their brother from Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
Overview: Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-09
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La scuola è finita
Overview: Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to have no future, two of his teachers take the challenge to help him discover the motivation he lacks. The teachers, a couple in the middle of their divorce, will fight to impose the best way to make Alex a promising student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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The Island
Overview: A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-01
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Des gens qui passent
Overview: Wonderful piece of film noire. Great acting, París, well, as beautiful as ever. Love the plot gaps, force you to thunk. To imagine. The whole story is never revealed. Highly recommended. Marie is delicious.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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