Luigi Maria Burruano
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Birthday: October 20, 1948
Deathday: September 10, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Gasoline
Overview: Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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Quo Vadis, Baby?
Overview: A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-05-27
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One Hundred Steps
Overview: Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me
Overview: The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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...e se domani
Overview: Mimì reunites after many years with Caterina, with whom he has always been secretly in love. When her husband dies, Mimì decides to become part of her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-04-14
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Te lo leggo negli occhi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-09-03
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Dirty War
Overview: Army colonel Gabriele Moresco and twelve of his soldiers occupy a hospital in Sicily, Italy, taking every patient and doctor as hostages and giving an ultimatum to the government: if they won't admit their role in hiding proof of the use of depleted uranium in the Balkan Wars and the subsequent countless cases of cancer among Italian soldiers in 56 hours, all the hostages will be killed. Negotiator Paolo Manfredi is called to save the hostages, not knowing that his wife and daughter are among them.
Genres: Drama Thriller War Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Nati stanchi
Overview: Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Break Free
Overview: Directed by Gian Tavarelli, Liberi (Break Free) centers on the freckle-faced Vince (Elio Germano), whose life in a Roman mountain village is unfulfilling, to say the least. His father Cenzo (Luigi Maria Burruano) lost his job after a local chemical plant closed; shortly afterward, Cenzo's wife Paola (Anita Zagaria) dumped him for a politician. Fed up, Vince travels to the beach town of Pescara and lands a job as a junior cook at a tourist resort. While there, he falls in love with Genny (Nicole Grimaudo), a waitress plagued by a phobia of traveling. Just as the romance begins to take off, Cenzo appears at Vince's doorstep demanding that his son help him get Paola back. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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The Return of Cagliostro
Overview: In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Nowhere
Overview: In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Il trasformista
Overview: The Turin area is devastated by floods: the Pô River has overflown and toxic waste from a local dump is now being carried by the stream. Which is why Augusto Vigano, the co-owner of a pub and a dedicated environmentalist, blocks, in the company of a group of friends, the train on which minister Antonelli is traveling. The politician, agrees to listen to the protesters'complaints and , filmed by television cameras, follows Vigano all the way to the dump. It is on this occasion that Vigano is noticed by a politician who sees at once the interest he can derive in having him elected. Augusto, who thinks that being elected to parliament is the best way to protect the environment more effectively, accepts his offer, without realizing that the cynical politician intends to manipulate him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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The Whores
Overview: Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and young man Maurizio, they all share something: they're "buttane", hookers, who spend the day between the streets and home; some got children, some got problems with the pimps, some with the clients...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-08-01
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Luna e l'altra
Overview: Luna is an endearingly prudish teacher in Milan, who lives with her grumpy father. Often teased by students and co-workers alike, her only ally is the janitor, Angelo, who harbors a secret crush on Luna. When a carnival comes to town, Luna meets a man who possesses a magic lamp, which he uses to free her "shadow self." This doppelganger is Luna's polar opposite, whose presence poses both a problem and an opportunity for Luna.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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The Wait
Overview: A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries back together in Sicily 40 years after their departure. Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he'll chose to change his life and complete the destiny of the other one.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-07
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Saint Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua
Overview: Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-04-01
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Tre giorni di anarchia
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-12
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The Ideal City
Overview: Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-11
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Italiani
Overview: 1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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At the End of the Sea
Overview: Todor, a Serbian smuggler in Trieste, Italy, earns his daily bread by smuggling fake brand cigarettes. He sails out in a small boat to collect his freight if there is enough mist to make his illegal mission possible. One day he reluctantly accepts a much larger cargo. In the crate he finds a wounded and drugged woman. Todor decides not to deliver the freight and takes the woman home with him. He takes a chest full of stones to his client and it soon becomes apparent that he has got himself into big trouble with this manoeuvre. Todor takes care of the woman, who slowly but surely overcomes her fear of him. By the time he manages to get her a passport, an unbreakable bond has silently grown between them and he asks her to go away with him. Fate decides otherwise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-01-18
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La madre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Overview: Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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L'assalto
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-02-03
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Cuore scatenato
Overview: In Sicily, in a time not yet forgotten, in the heart of a small secluded town populated by cicadas, ticks and venomous snakes, that which made a man a real man was not riches or power, but his honor. He had to defend his dignity against insults and village gossip. It took little to stoke the fire once lit, and no one was immune. One of the worst humiliations a man can suffer was to have an adulterous wife. A man so disgraced would bear the mark of shame, with all eyes of the community upon him. It was said that "his horns were sticking out" for all to see.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-04
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The Sicilian Connection
Overview: An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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Everything Everything Nothing Nothing
Overview: Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other characters: Rodolfo Favaretto and Frengo Stop
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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K@biria Noir
Overview: Giovanni, a father, widower, and well-known Sicilian politician does not comprehend his son's homosexuality or his passion for acting. A family drama is born, made up of quarrels and distance from each other. Loneliness pushes the father to seek, through the Internet, a soul mate, hoping that it will fulfill his need for love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-05-03
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Sins
Overview: David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life amidst the violent Cortello family in Sicily ââ'¬Â¦ a family he ultimately betrayed. And the wages of sin are deadly.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-05
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Uomo di rispetto
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-08-28
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Acla's Descent into Floristella
Overview: Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-10
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Concorso di colpa
Overview: The chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son, investigates the suicide of a trade unionist that may be connected to an unsolved political murder of the '70s.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-08-25
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Amore a prima vista
Overview: A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Baciami piccina
Overview: 7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-09-29
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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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Milan – Palermo: The Return
Overview: Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily to get revenge on his former associates – something the authorities indulge to seize a large stash of Mafia money he claims to have access to.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago
Overview: In 71 BC in Rome, utter disorder reigns in the form of political corruption and bribery involving the senator Cynic (Leslie Nielsen). The situation is claimed to be similar to the “Tangentopoli” situation in Italy in the 1990s: one of the politicians involved was Bettino Craxi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-15
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Un santo senza parole
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Original Language: it
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The Star Maker
Overview: The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-21
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And now sex
Overview: Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this kind of reality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-03-02
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Whatsoeverly
Overview: Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-01-21
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This and That
Overview: Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-21
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L'attentatuni
Overview: The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-20
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The Escort
Overview: The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-04-15
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Boys on the Outside
Overview: Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Bakunin's Son
Overview: Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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La fame e la sete
Overview: Alex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-03-19
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Conjugal Love
Overview: In a well appointed villa in Bagheria, near Palermo, a couple, Silvio and Leda Pataneo, spend their days attempting to complete a novel, making love, and caring for a citrus grove that the local townfolk want to acquire. All framed against a political backdrop of class and cultural differences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-26
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Delitto di mafia - Mario Francese
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-01-21
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Blood of the Losers
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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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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Mary Forever
Overview: A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-05-04
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Ginostra
Overview: An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-29
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Operazione Odissea
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Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-02-01
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Oltremare - Non è l'America
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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On the Dark Continent
Overview: In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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Quel bravo ragazzo
Overview: On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue is an idiotic manchild.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Miracolo a Palermo!
Overview: One day in Palermo and in the life of young boy Toto who is madly in love with the beautiful teenager Lina.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Pochi giorni per capire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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