Sophia Loren
Also Known As: 소피아 로렌, Софі Лорен, Софія Лорен, Sofia Lazzaro, Sofia Scicolone, Sofia Loren, София Лорен, Софи Лорен, Σοφία Λόρεν
Biography: Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress. In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50 international awards, including an Oscar, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her other films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), A Special Day (1977). She has received critical and commercial success in movies for home box-office such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination in 1995. The same year she received the Cecil B. de Mille award for lifetime achievements. In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars as #21 of 25 American female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as "Italy's Most Awarded Actress". In 1991, the Republic of France awarded her a Distinction of la Légion d'honneur (the Legion of Honor) with the grade of Chevalier (Knight). In 1997, Loren was invested Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic). In 2010, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Imperial Family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sophia Loren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: September 20, 1934
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Gender: Female
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Houseboat
Overview: An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-19
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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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Sunflower
Overview: After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-14
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The Millionairess
Overview: When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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Prêt-à-Porter
Overview: During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Overview: With a maddening sensuality, the unforgettable actress of the film "A Special Day" embodies the golden age of Italian cinema. From the suburbs of Naples to Hollywood, this biographical documentary looks back at the flamboyant career and destiny of Sophia Loren.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-24
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Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Overview: Rosa, a mature mother of several children, is concerned that her beloved husband Don Peppino is losing interest in her, and does his best to provoke some jealousy in him. She is a masterful cook, and if her romantic charms are fading, her culinary skills are not. By one means and another, and after some amusing confrontations, she succeeds in keeping her husband from taking her for granted and harmony is restored.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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A Countess from Hong Kong
Overview: A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-05
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Jury of One
Overview: A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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Arabesque
Overview: When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
Genres: Thriller Comedy Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-04
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The Pride and the Passion
Overview: During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
Genres: War History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-10
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Two Women
Overview: A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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The Cassandra Crossing
Overview: Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-18
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Legend of the Lost
Overview: American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Operation Crossbow
Overview: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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A Special Day
Overview: Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-11
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Overview: Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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Heller in Pink Tights
Overview: Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys clothes. In Cheyenne, they meet with applause, so they hope to stay awhile: the theater owner likes Angela, and she keeps him on a string. She's also the object of the attentions of Mabry, a gunslinger who's owed money by the richest man in Bonanza.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-01
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More Than a Miracle
Overview: A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-19
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I'll See You on the Balcony
Overview: Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Boy on a Dolphin
Overview: Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-19
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Grumpier Old Men
Overview: A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Five Miles to Midnight
Overview: Immediately after Lisa declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert, he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor, Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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It Started in Naples
Overview: Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-06
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Aida
Overview: This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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Ghosts, Italian Style
Overview: Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-23
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Boccaccio '70
Overview: An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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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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Too Bad She's Bad
Overview: When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Man of La Mancha
Overview: In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They're accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other inmates gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, staging a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense—the story of Don Quixote.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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El Cid
Overview: Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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Between Strangers
Overview: Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Overview: Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Firepower
Overview: A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
Overview: In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-24
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Untouchable
Overview: The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquired and protected his power even when scandal threatened to engulf him. Former colleagues and accusers detail the method and consequences of his alleged abuse, hoping for justice and also to inspire change.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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Tab Hunter Confidential
Overview: Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Marriage Italian Style
Overview: During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Gina, Sophia, Claudia, trois symboles de la féminité à l'italienne
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-13
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Algeria in Flames
Overview: These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the Aurès-Nementchas are intended to be the basis of a dialogue between French and Algerians for peace in Algeria, by demonstrating the existence of an armed organization close to the people. Three versions of Algeria in Flames are produced: French, German and Arabic. From the end of the editing, the film circulates without any cuts throughout the world, except in France where the first screening takes place in the occupied Sorbonne in 1968. Certain images of the film have circulated and are found in films, in particular Algerian films. Because of the excitement caused by this film, he was forced to go into hiding for 25 months. After the declaration of independence, he founded the first Algerian Audiovisual Center.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-01-02
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Two Nights with Cleopatra
Overview: Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Overview: A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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Running Away
Overview: Remake of the famous 1960 "La Ciociara" movie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-04-09
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A Day in Court
Overview: A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-28
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A Breath of Scandal
Overview: A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-16
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Lady L
Overview: Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-17
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Brass Target
Overview: General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Along the Coast
Overview: Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
Overview: While silent-film star Charlie Chaplin may have charmed American audiences with the onscreen antics of his lovable "Tramp" character, the actor's private life was marred by a series of public scandals that eventually pushed him into exile. In addition to his penchant for much younger women, Chaplin was unjustly hounded by Senator Joe McCarthy's notorious anti-Communist witch hunts, for which the U.S. revoked his visa in 1952. A bitter and disenchanted Chaplin responded by moving his family to Switzerland, where he remained until his death in 1977. This documentary chronicles Chaplin's life and career during those so-called "forgotten years" (during which he became a prolific and highly respected film-score composer) through previously unreleased archival footage and intimate interviews with his friends and family, including his children Geraldine, Michael, and Eugene.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-18
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The Gold of Naples
Overview: A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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Blood Feud
Overview: In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country's politics ultimately take all three on a journey across the ocean to New York City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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Scandal in Sorrento
Overview: Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Attila
Overview: Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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The Sign of Venus
Overview: Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-12
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The Black Orchid
Overview: An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-12
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Poverty and Nobility
Overview: Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-04-17
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Hollywood Blue
Overview: A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and newsreel footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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Desire Under the Elms
Overview: Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned most of the farm, and who feels who should be sole heir. When the old man brings home a new wife, Anna, she becomes a fierce contender to inherit the farm. Two of the sons leave when Eben gives them the fare in return for their shares of the farm. Meanwhile, Anna tries to cause some sparks by rubbing up against Eben.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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The Key
Overview: In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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Great Women: Sophia on Loren
Overview: Sophia Loren's story told by Loren herself. The greatest Italian movie star of all time describes her life and career through a selection of the materials dating from between the fifties and the present day preserved in the archives of the Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Rai. An exploration of the myth of a "unique" actor, relying exclusively on precious and sometimes rare archive footage, with a commentary in Loren's own words drawn from over half a century of interviews and firsthand accounts of the most important moments in her private life and her career. A documentary made to celebrate this great actor's eighty years and her immense charm and talent.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-20
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Gun Moll
Overview: A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-21
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Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
Overview: After a long marriage, Maria and Jeffrey are now in crisis. Trying to keep the family together, she tries to convince their children to attend the birthday of the old grandmother Assunta, owner of the beautiful house in which they live. But their children are going through a rough patch. Francesco is a writer who is ashamed of having achieved fame with a book of literary shoddy, why his wife has lost respect. Marco is a doctor and is happy with his family, but his wife is determined to throw it all away for that to become an actress. Meanwhile, Miriam, a young emancipated, discovers she is pregnant, but does not know which of her lovers is the father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-06-16
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The Voyage
Overview: The charming Adriana gets sick after her husband's death. Her brother-in-law takes her on a journey to meet a doctor, while love overwhelms them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-11
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Good Folk's Sunday
Overview: In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-25
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Brief Encounter
Overview: Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-12
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Courage
Overview: A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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The Condemned of Altona
Overview: A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-30
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The Priest's Wife
Overview: After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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With Love, Sophia
Overview: Sophia puts the spotlight on her life with music. At her Rome villa, Peter Sellers is WWII Axis officer and Jonathan Winters a 16th century sculptor. Sophia sings "Out of Town" to children and animals. Tony voices "Summertime in Rome."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-25
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Girlfriend in a Coma
Overview: Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West. The decline has occurred amid a collapse of moral values and the victory of “Mala Italia” over “Buona Italia”. It has been lauded as being ground-breaking in its creative combination of animation, interviews and hard facts, and has caused fierce controversy in Italy.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-26
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Judith
Overview: A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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Madame
Overview: Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-21
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That Kind of Woman
Overview: A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-11
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The Dream of Zorro
Overview: An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-26
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Soleil
Overview: During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes back to him, and in particular his childhood, enlightened by a loving and beloved mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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Sophia Loren in Rome
Overview: Sophia Loren, who was born in Rome and lived there as a child, returns to the city that will forever be in her blood and gives her impressions of and reactions to the mosaic of Rome and the people she encounters there during her visit. She meets Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio de Sica as she visits the sights, affectionately commenting on the grandeur of the Eternal City and the irrepressible nature of its people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-12
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Lady Liberty
Overview: An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Woman of the River
Overview: When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side in the funeral procession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Aurora
Overview: A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-01
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Francesca and Nunziata
Overview: At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Loren), adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love Federico (Bova), her adoptive brother, son of Francesca.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity
Overview: We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration and subsequent release, then re-incarceration and her ultimate release once again-left us submerged knee-deep in the twists and turns of her life. Famous for doing nothing, she's the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-29
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
Overview: A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
Overview: Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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Showman
Overview: Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-02
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La Rabbia di Pasolini
Overview: An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Human Voice
Overview: Based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one-woman play of the same name; set against the backdrop of 1950 Naples, Angela is a woman in her twilight years, who rides the emotional rollercoaster of her last telephone conversation with the man she loves as he is leaving her for another woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-04-21
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Looking for Sophia
Overview: Looking for Sophia is a documentary about Loren's remarkable life and career, featuring rare newsreel footage, highlights from her films, and insights from her friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Neapolitan Carousel
Overview: Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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Sophia!
Overview: A documentary crossing all aspects of Sophia Loren's life: cinema, entertainment, private life, triumphs, challenges, suffering. How was the star born? How was a cinematographic archetype built? Childhood during the war in Naples, a beloved family, her mother Romilda, her beginnings at Cinecittà, her triumphs of Hollywood and her great love with Carlo Ponti.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-20
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Vittorio D.
Overview: A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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White Sister
Overview: A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hospital wards where the nun is the head nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Girls Marked Danger
Overview: A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent this, he invites her into the police station and tells her a story.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-25
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Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Overview: Music documentary directed by Patrick T. Kelly.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-02
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
Overview: Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand jobs before acting in a Cecil B. DeMille film…
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-10
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La Favorita
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Overview: Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-16
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We Are Cinema
Overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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Behind the White Glasses
Overview: It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-21
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È arrivato l'accordatore
Overview: Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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Tototarzan
Overview: Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-31
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Anna
Overview: Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Overview: This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-26
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Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Overview: Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With interviews with the actress herself, as well as thoughts from colleagues and admirers, including Woody Allen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-10-21
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The Anatomy of Love
Overview: Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Overview: A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Angela
Overview: A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-10
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Bert Stern: Original Madman
Overview: The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue 'mad man', his images helping to create modern advertising. Ground-breaking photos of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy, coupled with his astonishing success in advertising, minted Stern as a celebrity in his own right.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-02
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Pellegrini d'amore
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-30
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L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-07
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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The Life Ahead
Overview: In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-03
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Il voto
Overview: During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-17
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Milano miliardaria
Overview: The Milanese Luigi Pizzigoni, photographer, and the Neapolitan barber Peppino Avallone, resident in Milan, are opponents in the sports field. The first is a proud Inter supporter, while the second is from Napoli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-08-04
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Il mago per forza
Overview: In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Africa Under The Sea
Overview: The troublesome daughter of an American millionaire accompanies him aboard his yacht on a deep sea diving expedition in the Red Sea and falls in love with the captain.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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La Rabbia
Overview: Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation", and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-13
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Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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What a Woman!
Overview: A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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Il padrone del vapore
Overview: A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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Cuori sul mare
Overview: Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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Io sono il capataz
Overview: The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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Lebbra bianca
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-01
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The Country of the Campanelli
Overview: A fake magician makes the inhabitants of a village believe that when one spouse betrays the other they will ring the bells.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-28
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Mademoiselle C
Overview: A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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What Would Sophia Loren Do?
Overview: Nancy Vincenza Kulik, an Italian-American grandmother from Fort Lee, New Jersey, has experienced many challenges and triumphs. But she always meets life's journey with love, resilience and joy, inspired in part by another Italian grandmother, movie star Sophia Loren.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-15
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Overview: In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-05
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A Prince Called Toto
Overview: Totò, the mythical comedian of Italian stage and screen, was the illegitimate child of a noble man in one of Naples's poorest neighborhoods. As a child, he enlisted in the army simply to eat three square meals a day. Later, his dizzying success in show business brought him riches he had never dreamed of, plus stories of love and jealousy, the most important being with 16 year old Diana who eventually became his wife, only to leave him and inspire the Italian classic torch song Malafemmina, meaning bad woman.
Genres: Documentary Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-05-15
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Overview: In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her on her journey to the wedding and covered the sensational event.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Marcello, una vita dolce
Overview: After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-21
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Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Overview: Edoardo Ponti interviews his mother, the Academy Award-winning actress Sophia Loren, in a show taped before a live audience at the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-24
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Monument
Overview: In the fall of 1967, intermedia artists Ture Sjölander and Lars Weck collaborated with Bengt Modin, video engineer of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation in Stockholm, to produce an experimental program called Monument. It was broadcast in January, 1968, and subsequently has been seen throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. Apart from the technical aspect of the project, their intention was to develop a widened consciousness of the communi - cative process inherent in visual images. They selected as source material the "monuments" of world culture— images of famous persons and paintings.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-17
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Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Overview: A portrait of the mythical Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-96), a unique performer who was one of the kings of European cinema.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-25
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Ciao Marcello, Mastroianni l'antidivo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-17
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