Claudio Amendola
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Biography: Claudio Amendola (born 16 February 1963) is an Italian actor, director and television presenter. He starred in the 1993 film The Escort, which was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Born in Rome and the son of actors and voice dubbers Ferruccio Amendola and Rita Savagnone, Amendola started his movie career during the 1980s, playing comic roles in some Italian comedies directed by Carlo Vanzina. In 1987 he played his first dramatic role in Soldati - 365 all'alba, directed by Marco Risi, and in the following decade he confirmed his dramatic skills in some movies like Ultrà (1990) and The Escort (1993), both directed by Ricky Tognazzi. During the 2000s Amendola became a very popular television actor, acting in the popular fiction I Cesaroni, the Italian version of Los Serrano. Amendola is married to actress Francesca Neri and they have a son together, Rocco. He also has two daughters from a previous marriage. One of them is voice actress Alessia Amendola. Source: Article "Claudio Amendola" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: February 16, 1963
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Gender: Male
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Jesus
Overview: Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-05
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Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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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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Christmas Holidays
Overview: Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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Soldati - 365 all'alba
Overview: Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Ho visto le stelle
Overview: The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-12-19
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Vacanze in America
Overview: A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially trouble making ex-student Peo, and finds himself distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Overview: Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac, who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina. He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella.
Genres: History Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-10-31
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Il ritorno del Monnezza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-04-15
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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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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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The Venetian Woman
Overview: Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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Amarsi un po'...
Overview: In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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La fisica dell'acqua
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-04-30
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Ultrà
Overview: The "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail a few days before. He has to realize that his best friend Red has not only taken over control of the group, but also has started an affair with his girlfriend. The rivalry between the hot-blooded Principe and the sensible Red causes an anxious mood within the group. When Smilzo, a member of the group, dies during a street fight with another fan group, Red knows that Principe is to be blamed for this catastrophe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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La mia generazione
Overview: Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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L'attentatuni
Overview: The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-20
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La carbonara
Overview: Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecilia believes she lost her husband in a fatal accident, and has made a new lover: Fabrizio, who is also a patriot. One day the guy's saved by a monk, when he is about to be imprisoned by the soldiers of Cardinal Rivarola. The monk is the husband of Cecilia, not dead in the accident, and now he helps her to fight against the power of Rome with the Carbonari.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Cefalonia
Overview: Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command and also refused to surrender their weapons. The local German force, supported by Stuka dive-bombers and additional troops, attacked the Italians and after several days of combat the Italians surrendered, having lost 1,300 men. As punishment, the German High Command ordered that all surviving Italians should be executed. Some 5,000 were executed during a week of killings. A handful were rescued by locals and the Greek guerrilla, while the rest were shipped off as prisoners, whereof 3,000 drowned when their ships hit mines. The film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is based on a novel about the Italian occupation of Cefalonia, but the massacre was much toned down in the Hollywood version.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-10-29
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Poliziotti
Overview: When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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La caccia
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-16
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Lontano da dove
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Cha cha cha
Overview: An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-06-20
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Fratella e sorello
Overview: The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser who has ruined him; and the Snake, a male strip-teaser who has traveled all over the world on cruising boats, a tough guy made tougher after a treachery by one of his friends. They meet in jail, where they are kept for different reasons and a strong, brotherly link is born between them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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Il colore della vittoria
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Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Overview: A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-20
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Marcinelle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-23
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Domenica
Overview: Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together along the streets of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he has to take Domenica to the morgue, to identify a man who might have raped her. To Domenica, Sciarra is a father she never had, to him she is the daughter he couldn't have.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-02-02
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The Horseman on the Roof
Overview: In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Genres: Adventure Romance History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-20
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Il grande botto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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I 400 giorni - Funamboli e maestri
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-11-27
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Un'altra vita
Overview: Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
Overview: Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Suburra
Overview: A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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Steno
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-27
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Strong Arms
Overview: This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-04-09
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Queen Margot
Overview: Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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An Eyewitness Account
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Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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Caterina in the Big City
Overview: When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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The Furlough
Overview: The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with realism, with their contradictions, their desperation, the temptation of an escape, but the cornerstone of the movie is the sincerity of the positive feelings of each and everyone of them: the love of a father for his son, the love for a woman, for friends, and most of all the pursuit of a lost (if ever had) personal dignity and pride. Four characters of different ages and extractions, three man and a woman: Luigi, Donato, Rossana and Angelo.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-03-30
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Open Sea
Overview: For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Sottovento
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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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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Bar Sport
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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L'ombra nera del Vesuvio
Overview: Two families of the neapolitan camorra fight for the power.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-22
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Who Killed Pasolini?
Overview: November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-03
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Like a Cat on a Highway
Overview: The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-12-28
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Hotel Gagarin
Overview: An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-05-24
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Johnny the Partisan
Overview: After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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Santo Stefano
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-08-28
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Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-04-12
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Abbi fede
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-01-15
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Like a Cat on a Highway 2
Overview: Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-08-14
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Fuori la verità
Overview: New film by Davide Minnella.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2025-03-27
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Un Paradiso di Bugie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-04-13
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