Anna Bonaiuto
Also Known As: Anna Buonaiuto
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Latisana, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: January 28, 1950
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Female
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Appassionate
Overview: Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago, and Caterina, who murdered a man who wronged her as he left the church following his wedding. Caterina winds up in prison alongside Maddalena, a prostitute who witnessed the murder and was inspired to kill a man in her own life who had hurt her. The incidents from these women's lives are interspersed with another story, set in 1929 and filmed in black-and-white, about a man who shoots his wife in a movie theater and must run to avoid the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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Il Divo
Overview: Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-05-28
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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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Brothers and Sisters
Overview: After twenty years of marriage, Gloria discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. It' a terrible trauma and she decides to stay with her sister in USA in St. Louis. She takes with her Matteo and Francesco, her two sons. Matteo wastes no time in settling into his new life, but Francesco find it more difficult, being shy and full of complexes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Love and Anarchy
Overview: Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Troubling Love
Overview: When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged parent's secret life, she'll face the hidden memories that shaped her family history.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-12
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A Brighter Tomorrow
Overview: An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Black and White
Overview: Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Overview: Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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Giovanni Falcone
Overview: The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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The Worst Christmas of My Life
Overview: Paolo needs to reach the castle of Alberto Caccia, where he was invited to spend Christmas with his family and Margherita, the ninth month of pregnancy. With them there will also be blessed, daughter of Alberto and childhood friend of Margherita, who was also pregnant. Among various mishaps and blunders, Paolo will combine another of his, coming to make everyone believe, because of a misunderstanding, that Alberto's died for his fault.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-12-22
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Long Live Freedom
Overview: Elections are approaching and things don't look too good for the opposition. Their leader can't stand the pressure and disappears. To avoid a scandal, the upper echelons of the party concoct a risky plan: to replace him with his identical twin, a philosopher with BPD, whose eclectic ideas and direct approach unexpectedly make the party surge in the polls.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-02-13
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Rehearsals for War
Overview: A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Teresa the Thief
Overview: Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns to pick-pocketing. Despite her questionable thieving skills, the bumbling crook tries scheme after scheme, pilfering from strangers and dodging the law as she searches for a way to fund an adequate meal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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Virility
Overview: A Sicilian (Turi Ferro) feels his masculinity threatened when his son returns with an androgynous girlfriend whom everyone else assumes to be male.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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The Belt
Overview: Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-04-22
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Volare
Overview: One day, Annabì decides it’s enough. Her whole life has been affected by her fear of flying and so has her career. She is a successful actress but has turned down many roles abroad because flying is an insurmountable obstacle for her. Now, her daughter Serena has decided to study in California. Obsessed with the idea of not being a good mother, Annabì forces herself to cross the dreaded threshold of Fiumicino airport and to head to a secluded area where a course will take place. Other mysterious travelers are heading to the same place, all of them with their own baggage of fears and willing to overcome their aerophobia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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Atelier Fontana
Overview: The drama recounts the life and career of unparalleled three sisters Fountain. Micol is just a dressmaker with 500 pounds in his pocket when she arrives in Rome with her sisters Giovanna and Zoe. The effort of the beginnings is compensated by a passion for fashion that never fails, until the day when the whole world notices them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-02-27
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The Postman
Overview: Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-04-07
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Basta! Adesso tocca a noi
Overview: The friendship between two high school friends is tested when they are forced to separate because of university.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-07
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Good for Nothing
Overview: Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day's work, he sets about finding a way to achieve a quiet life
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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Un silenzioso imbroglio
Overview: Documentary about Andrea Molaioli's film La Ragazza del Lago.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Banana
Overview: Giovanni, known as "Banana" because of his mania for wearing a Brazil jersey, is a 14-year-old boy trying not to give up on his dreams in a world of frustrated, giving up and courageless people. Out of Competition "Sezione Cinema al parco" Giffoni 2015
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-15
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Saturday, Sunday & Monday
Overview: Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of individual members of the family, especially the father, Peppino, who gets angry with anyone who happens to shoot: with their children, Juliana and Roberto, and his sister, aunt Meme. Meanwhile, his wife Rosa is dedicated to the preparation of the sauce, which she will serve for Sunday's lunch, to which she invited the neighbors, the accountant Ianniello and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Dall'alto di una fredda torre
Overview: Elena and Antonio discover that their parents have a very rare disease. Their only hope for survival is a stem cell donation that must occur in a very short time, and their children are the only suitable candidates for this particular procedure. Elena and Antonio prepare for the operation, but Antonio discovers that he's not a match for the donation, and Elena's stem cells are not enough for both of them: it's not possible to cure both parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-06-13
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Notte senza fine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-11-19
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Ladies' Doctor
Overview: Dr. Lo Bianco, debt load, flees abroad and the headquarters avviatissimo study gynecological colleague Giovannaldi. These are adept at gaining the trust of high society and, thanks to the relationship established with the wife of a wealthy manufacturer (enough to get her pregnant), she becomes finance, own the cuckolded husband, a luxury clinic. And there will be a prize for Lobianco.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-13
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All at Sea
Overview: Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After being assured that his attendants, and Khaled Omar, they did a good job, going to hoist the Italian flag, which stands on top of building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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Mom or Dad?
Overview: A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-02-14
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A Spiral of Mist
Overview: The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-08
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We Believed
Overview: 1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Me, Them and Lara
Overview: A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above all meets a young lady who will make him doubt both himself and his faith.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-01-05
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My Brother Is an Only Child
Overview: Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-03-28
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Where Are You? I’m Here
Overview: A deaf man rebels against his controlling mother by dating a high-school drop-out who shares his disability.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-09-22
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The Vesuvians
Overview: Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Naples in Veils
Overview: In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-12-28
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The Girl by the Lake
Overview: A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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The Passion of Joshua the Jew
Overview: Born in Spain in 1492 at the time all Jews and Muslims were ordered out of the country, Joshua (Leonardo Cesare Abude) is declared the next messiah by an elder. Eventually settling in Italy with his family, Joshua grows into a man and becomes fascinated with Catholicism, much to the dismay of local religious leaders. Pasquale Scimeca's religious drama exploring the nature of prejudice and intolerance also stars Anna Bonaiuto and Toni Bertorelli.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Loro 1
Overview: "Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-04-24
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Loro 2
Overview: "Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-05-10
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The Story of Boys and Girls
Overview: At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Little Horrors
Overview: A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tower waiting for the end of the world. And many other stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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Prima la musica, poi le parole
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-04-14
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Hit Squad
Overview: A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Three Floors
Overview: Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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The Dog Snatch
Overview: On their first day of work as dog sitters, Rana and Marti suffer the theft of the French bulldog who was entrusted to their care by a wealthy lady. A fast-paced comedy full of hair-raising situations with cult potential that has plenty of surprises in store. The very own world of the Roman suburbs, which is rarely honored in cinemas, is also captured convincingly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Loro
Overview: Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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All Human Rights for All
Overview: Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-12-01
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Donna d'ombra
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-01-09
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Divine
Overview: While reporting on the election of the Pope in Rome, the completely atheistic journalist Gregory falls in love with Maria of all people, who is about to become a nun and is therefore actually promised to God. Gregory faces an accumulation of mysterious obstacles as he tries to get closer to Maria. He has to find out that he is dealing with a supernatural competitor. However, Gregory is determined to take up the fight against the big enemy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-13
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Blu cobalto
Overview: Docu-drama about cancer patients. An elderly farmer, believed to be mad by his family, dispenses wisdom to the other patients; an actress takes advantage of the hospitalization to shed light inside herself; a young doctor lives with schizophrenia his condition as a patient.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Blackout Love
Overview: Valeria is a woman who never looks back, passing from one man to another. But one day everything changes: an ex who made her feel bad in the past reappears in her life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-13
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Fiabe metropolitane
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-06-05
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The Caiman
Overview: Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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Orestea
Overview: The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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30 notti con il mio ex
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2025-04-17
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Chopin
Overview: A small town has its placid waters rocked when a 120-piece orchestra is slated to visit on a regular basis to offer special concerts to the community and its environs. The honor of conducting the orchestra seems like it will fall to Francesco (Michele Placido), the community's most well-established music teacher, and to insure his success, his ambitious wife starts sleeping with one of the organizers of the future concerts. Meanwhile, a disgruntled member of the organizing committee decides to muddy the waters by suggesting that another conductor (Andrea, a friend of Francesco's) be hired. Andrea is also a native son who went to the big city to find conducting work but ended up doing television jobs instead. When he receives the call about the prestigious job opportunity, he enthusiastically goes to the town but his wife refuses to join him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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City of Women
Overview: The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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The King's Whore
Overview: Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-14
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