Tony Sperandeo
Also Known As: Gaetano Sperandeo
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palermo, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: May 08, 1953
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Male
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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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Dreamland: The Land of Dreams
Overview: Giacomo, a boy from Puglia, leaves immediately after the war for the United States of America, where, after a few years, he will be known by the name of "James". The young man, however, enters the gang scene. Following a fight, he will be put back on the right path by the former boxer, now carpenter, Frank!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-07-08
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Palermo – Milan One Way
Overview: A mob accountant accepts to be witness for the prosecution at a trial involving Mafia higher-ups. Seven cops are tasked with escorting him and his family alive from Sicily to the courtroom in the North, but it won't be easy.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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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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Kaos
Overview: Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-11-23
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L'uomo di vetro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-06-16
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Altri uomini
Overview: In 1985 in Milan Michele Croce is now in prison and decides to answer the magistrate's questions, telling how in the seventies he became the ruler of the Milanese underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-08-29
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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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Night Sun
Overview: Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King's mistress, Sergio turns his back on society and becomes a monk. While at the hermitage he tries to resist all sexual temptations before him and soon becomes known as a miracle worker. Eventually he succumbs to a young seductress and knowing he is undeserving of the adulation, leaves the hermitage to travel around as a homeless beggar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-05-15
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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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Segreto di Stato
Overview: A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours Ravida, the chief of the Secret Service, knows the name of the killer and that of his chief.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-03-24
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The Heroes
Overview: Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah. To find underground access to the store, they get help from a sewage worker. An obese trapeze artist is called for disarm the store alarms. The clever Mrs. Motta, old hotelier, is also involved. Will they succeed?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-02-18
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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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A Simple Story
Overview: After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth bringing up the past? A difficult Sicilian history against the backdrop of the mafia and drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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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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Qui non si muore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Lui è mio padre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-08-09
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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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Bandits: Love and Liberty
Overview: In 1838 in the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, Malacarne, gamekeeper of Baron San Germano, kills the bandit Caruso, whose widow gives birth to Giovanni and at the same time becomes the nurse of Costanza, San Germano’s orphaned daughter. Thirteen years later, Giovanni and Costanza fall in love to the jealousy of her uncle, who shuts her in a convent, ordering Giovanni to be killed by Malacarne who has meanwhile become a bandit. Barely alive, Giovanni is taken away by Bourbon soldiers. After Garibaldi’s arrival in Sicily and its union with Italy, Costanza is freed from the convent and returns to San Germano. She is visited by Giovanni and although still loves him, rejects him since she wishes to become a nun. In the meantime, Giovanni kills Malacarne and takes his place. Costanza marries the rich Lo Turco and the next day departs for Naples, but during the journey the carriage is attacked by Giovanni’s band. Costanza flees with him and they leave for America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-10-23
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Suffocating Heat
Overview: On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-08-26
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Il ragioniere della mafia
Overview: Based on Donald Vergari Best Seller Book. In the middle of the crisis a man loses his job, starts gambling but cannot pay back his debts, the only way out is to accept an offer that he cannot refuse, his next job will be the bookkeeper of a new mafia organization - and his challenge is to get out from it...what a risky work for Mr Angelo Bianco.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-10-10
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Prigioniero di un segreto
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-07-15
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Il testimone
Overview: Italian thriller
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-05-30
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The Tailor's Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-05-14
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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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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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Enzo, domani a Palermo!
Overview: Ciprì and Maresco's delicious documentary portrays Sicilian super-agent Enzo Castagna, a man with some 20,000 extras on his books, who has worked with the likes of Loren, Pasolini, Rosi, Coppola and Cimino (indeed, virtually anyone who's ever chosen to film in Palermo). It's typically weird, witty and wonderful, partly due to its subject, a self-styled 'little big man' who consents to be described as 'almighty' and 'the greatest contributor to Italian cinema in the last 35 years'. The local favourite has also done time for bribery, but refuses to comment on Cosa Nostra. The film is as astonishing as its subject. Shot in luscious b/w, it's driven forward by an offscreen interrogator who alternates between ludicrously hyperbolic flattery and forthright questions about corruption and crime. It also serves as a study of the way ethics get abandoned in the unending pursuit of fame, wealth and self-esteem.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-09-01
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Roma nuda
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-12-01
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The Broken Crown
Overview: A crime drama directed by Ruben Maria Soriquez.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-11-27
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Vi perdono ma inginocchiatevi
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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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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I siciliani
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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Il ragazzo della Giudecca
Overview: The life of singer Carmelo Zappulla is disrupted by the testimony of a repentant who accuses him of being involved in a murder. This is just the beginning of a long legal ordeal that will force Carmelo to fight to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-05-12
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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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The Sicilian
Overview: Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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A Beautiful Wife
Overview: Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good looks — offers Miranda a one-time modelling job. Albeit hesitant, the couple eventually accepts his invitation to the Seychelles...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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L'uomo della fortuna
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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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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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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Il mondo di mezzo
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-05-04
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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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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: 2009-09-25
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La stanza dello Scirocco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-10-25
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The Repenter
Overview: A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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Tre colonne in cronaca
Overview: Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Miracolo italiano
Overview: 7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-21
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Vesna Goes Fast
Overview: Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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Arresti domiciliari
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-08-21
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7 and 8
Overview: 6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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It’s the Law
Overview: A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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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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Il caso Enzo Tortora - Dove eravamo rimasti?
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-30
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Un giudice di rispetto
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-09-09
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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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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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Piedipiatti
Overview: The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old friend who, to celebrate his freedom, invites him to eat fish at Fiumicino.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-10-03
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La settima onda
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-05-24
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The Invisible Wall
Overview: June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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To Fly!
Overview: 1950s. Gege (Giuseppe Cristofaro) is a delicate child who lives in a hard world that does not accept it. He thus takes refuge in the dream to escape the many small daily harassment. His desire would be to become an airplane pilot and for this the notes of "Volare" by Domenico Modugno accompany his days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-16
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Un neomelodico presidente
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-05-24
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Mò vi mento: Lira di Achille
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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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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Amare Amaro
Overview: Gaetano decided that he would bury his deceased brother with his family at all costs, even if it meant defying the laws of his Sicilian village and putting himself and his family in danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-10-02
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Il delitto Mattarella
Overview: January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in cold blood, killing him. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty that day is Pietro Grasso, future General Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Italian Senate. His investigations are continued by Giovanni Falcone, who uncovers dangerous connections between the Mafia, the ruling Christian Democratic Party, neo-fascist terrorists, and secret services.
Genres: History Drama Crime Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-07-02
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Amo la tempesta
Overview: A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kidnapping and smuggling their children out of Germany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-08-06
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Blindati
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Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-06-10
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School of Mafia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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Once Upon a Time in Sicily
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-05-02
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Breathless
Overview: In the DR, hardened cop Manolo tries to take down an infamous drug cartel; meanwhile, his daughter has fallen in love with Lorenzo, a construction worker who's unwittingly gotten embroiled in the drug cartel's dealings.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-08-11
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The Dark Sun
Overview: After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-04
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The Garbage Man
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-11-28
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Johnny Stecchino
Overview: Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-10-24
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Il Latitante
Overview: A Police Inspector hunts him down: Nicola, supported by the boss Cantalamessa, and protected by some criminal families, moves away from Naples, leaves his wife and children and becomes one of the many fugitives forced between hiding places and constant movements.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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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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Medium
Overview: A gang of robbers steals thousands of euros in a provincial bar without imagining that the owner of the business is Cagliostro (Tony Sperandeo), a shady individual linked to the criminal underworld. He tracks down the gang of robbers, offering them the opportunity to collaborate with him, by sneaking into the mansion of the elderly Chinese businessman Hung (Hal Yamanouchi), where they will have to steal a green jade pendant for him. In exchange for the success they will be able to keep all the money stolen from the bar, but they will discover that the medallion is around the neck of Hung's daughter, Sofia (Martina Angelucci), in a coma and kept alive through a mysterious ritual. And it is only the beginning of a long night of blood and violence.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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The Repenter
Overview: A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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Chi sono io
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Original Language: it
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