Michele Placido
Also Known As: Mike Placido, Микеле Плачидо
Biography: Michele Placido was born on May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor, director and screenwriter, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy
Birthday: May 19, 1946
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Gender: Male
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Moses the Lawgiver
Overview: The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-22
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The Unknown Woman
Overview: Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-09
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Basilicata, una regione tra due mari
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-05-01
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Isolation
Overview: A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic. Among them, “Two Fathers”, directed by Julia von Heinz (20’). After the death of his father, Hans-Michael von Heinz, the director finds out the truth about her parent true sexual identity. In order to know more, she starts emailing persons who got to know him over the last years, among them his closest friend, director Rosa von Praunheim.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-30
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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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Burning Hearts
Overview: Puglia. Burnt by the sun and by hatred, the promontory of Gargano is contested by criminals who seem to come from a remote past governed by the law of the jungle. An archaic land reminiscent of the Far West, in which blood is washed away with blood. An old feud between two rival families is rekindled by a forbidden love: the one between Andrea, reluctant heir of the Malatesta, and Marilena, beautiful wife of the boss of the Camporeale clan. A fatal passion that sets the two clans at war again. But Marilena, banished by the Camporeale and prisoner of the Malatesta, disputed and abused, will oppose a fate already written with a mother’s strength.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-22
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Arnoldo Mondadori - I libri per cambiare il mondo
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-12-21
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Big Business
Overview: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-10
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2061 - Un anno eccezionale
Overview: In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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The Goodbye Kiss
Overview: Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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The Sicilian Connection
Overview: An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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Piano, Solo
Overview: A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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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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Three Brothers
Overview: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-19
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Focaccia Blues
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-04-17
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Orlando
Overview: After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-12-01
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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Overview: Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-02-26
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La lupa
Overview: She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men were obsessed with her but one day the she-wolf fell madly in love with young Nanni.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-16
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Victory March
Overview: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-12
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The Pyjama Girl Case
Overview: Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together?
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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The Scent of Blood
Overview: A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-04-02
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Commediasexi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-12-14
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Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Overview: Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path and life full of unpredictable events of an actress both introverted and sunny are recalled, through excerpts from her films and television programs, testimonies of friends and colleagues, leading exponents of Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and costume experts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-20
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The Roses of the Desert
Overview: A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Plot of Fear
Overview: Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director has secrets of his own to hide.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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The Wings of the Dove
Overview: A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-06
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Come Home and Meet My Wife
Overview: 50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-29
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The Divine Nymph
Overview: In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-16
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Department Store
Overview: A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)
Overview: Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedian, and a murderer. The film starts literally with a bang and ends with a strangulation. In between there are numerous events both strange and unpredictable involving drugs and homosexuality, a deaf-mute and a potential suicide. The odd characters assembled in this movie are each in their own way in search of sexual gratification.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-05
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Just Married
Overview: Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-23
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Overview: SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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Lamerica
Overview: Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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Tigers in Lipstick
Overview: 8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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The Art of Love
Overview: Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy repeats itself in a few centuries ...
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-07
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A Leap in the Dark
Overview: Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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Via Paradiso
Overview: Via Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through intertwined stories which involves a dramatic romance that flourishes on a tranquil Christmas evening and disrupts everything, only to disappear as quickly as it arrived.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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La Orca
Overview: A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-01
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Volunteers for an Unknown Destination
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
Overview: The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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Del perduto amore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Beach House
Overview: Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-27
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The Big Dream
Overview: Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-11-11
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Eternal Visionary
Overview: In 1934, as playwright Luigi Pirandello travels to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, he begins reliving the drama and magic of the loved ones who have populated his life and inspired his art. Pirandello reminisces about the madness of his wife, his stormy relationship with his children, his controversial stance towards fascism, and his love for Marta Abba, the young actress who became his muse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-11-07
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Il posto dell'anima
Overview: Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-30
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Liberate i pesci!
Overview: Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-01-28
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And Agnes Chose to Die
Overview: After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-26
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Ages of Love
Overview: Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-02-25
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My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began
Overview: Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-03-16
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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno
Overview: A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.
Genres: Drama Music History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-02-18
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Un marziano di nome Ennio
Overview: The story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico Fellini and his relationship with the famous producer of the "Dolce Vita" Peppino Amato, until he decides to write a dictionary of the 'verbal errors' committed by Peppino Amato.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-03-06
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Afghan Breakdown
Overview: During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, the son of a high-ranking officer.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Lookout
Overview: When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-05
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Senza malizia
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-07-05
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La voglia matta di vivere
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-03-17
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Viva l'Italia
Overview: The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-10-25
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Un uomo perbene
Overview: In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Tulpa - Demon of Desire
Overview: Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher consciousness. However, when her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways, Lisa can’t go to the police because the scandal would impact her day job. Foolishly she tries to unmask the assassin herself, with truly nightmarish consequences.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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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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Close Friends
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-05-16
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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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L'ultimo padrino
Overview: A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-13
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How Good the Whites Are
Overview: The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-20
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The Meadow
Overview: Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-06
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Lulu
Overview: Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Corleone
Overview: Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-10
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The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider
Overview: It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting his graduate movie on a motorcycle factory, in the small market-town of Český Šternberk, in then Czechoslovakia. Coming from a country that is completely isolated from the rest of Europe, he is fascinated by the lifestyle, society and "erotic exuberance" of the Czech golden youth, yet feeling strong links with his family in his homeland. He falls in love with a married woman (Anna Geislerová), the wife of a police superintendent (Paolo Buglioni) and is insecure about his future.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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SoloMetro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-07-20
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Scandal in the Family
Overview: The industrialist Carlo arrives at his villa in the Piacenza area to spend his holidays with his wife Piera and his daughter Francesca. They will soon be joined by their nephew Milo who will woo and seduce all the women of villa including the busty cook Doris lover of uncle Carlo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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Itaker
Overview: 2012 Italian drama; title is German slang for "Wop"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-05
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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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Ernesto
Overview: Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-12
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Padre e figlio
Overview: The father, Corrado, is a worker who left his peasant roots in southern Italy and moved to Genoa to find employment a worker. His son, Gabriele, is neurotic and feels a sense of rage for which he can find no outlet. Despite the strength and dignity with which he has met the difficulties in his life, Corrado doesn't know what to do when faced with his son's problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-11-27
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Aldo Moro - Il presidente
Overview: At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack. The terrorists kidnap Aldo Moro and kill all the men in his escort.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-05-09
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The Nanny
Overview: Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
Overview: A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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Quattro bravi ragazzi
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-07-12
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Fontamara
Overview: Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-12
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Oedipus Orca
Overview: Sequel to "La Orca" which follows the life of the kidnapped girl after she returns home to her boyfriend and family. After her kidnap ordeal Alice tries to return to her normal life, but her memories still haunt her and her way to see the world has been changed forever.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-04-04
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The Black Hand
Overview: Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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A Man on His Knees
Overview: Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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The Pisciotta Case
Overview: The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon finds himself struggling against a conspiracy of silence, which Scauri must therefore overcome in order to indict two powerful mafia bosses. His only hope comes for a brief moment from the testimony of the young prosecutor Lojacono. But The Organization is the most strong: the young prosecutor withdraws his deposition and the magistrate disappears in mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-23
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Il picciotto
Overview: Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1973
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-06
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Quick Trial
Overview: After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for interrogation to Sergeant Pendicò and special agents Lorusso and Spasiani, Stefano dies, after four days, in unclear circumstances. Doubting the official version of the police, the second time in which a young person died in custody, journalist Cristina Visconti tries, with the aid of the sister of Stefano, to discover the truth. They rub up against a conspiracy of silence that encircles the acts of Pendicò and his associates. Frustrated beyond reason, Cristina tries a desperate ploy: publishing a story without evidence in the newspaper, accusing the three agents of having caused the death of Stefano with their blows. Cristina is put on trial for defamation. Can she avoid going to jail and also reveal the facts surrounding Stefano's death?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-09
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Dirty Linen
Overview: The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Overview: This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infamous Medellin Cartel.
Genres: Crime Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-19
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The Choice
Overview: A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-04-02
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Portrait Of My Father
Overview: A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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Living Legends
Overview: Group of friends meet again, 13 years after their prom because of a problem of one of them, and face the opportunity to experience the things in life they have always put aside in life so far.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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Loving Only You
Overview: Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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Un eroe borghese
Overview: An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-03
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The Mongrel
Overview: The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a mother, live a different and better life.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-18
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Io sono mia
Overview: Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her husband Giacinto, he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-18
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Love Returns
Overview: Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-04-19
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Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Overview: The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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My Wife, A Body to Love
Overview: The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-26
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Kleinhoff Hotel
Overview: Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ex-girl-friend through a hole. Then she follows him to a questionable place where she is arrested by the police during a revolutionists raid. When she returns to the Kleinhoff Hotel, Pascale finds Karl crying, and enters his room to console him and they have a love affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-27
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Christmas Dinner
Overview: In Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness, pregnancy tests, lost rings and stuck lifts - what else can happen?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Karol: The Pope, The Man
Overview: This highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. Focusing on the papacy of John Paul and the tremendous impact he had on the Church and the world, Karol: The Pope, The Man stars actor Piotr Adamczyk in a deeply moving portrayal of the beloved pontiff. It is the powerful true story of a charismatic spiritual leader who helped bring down Communism, renewed the life of the Church, greatly impacted youth worldwide with love for Christ, and a Pope who reached out to other religions and world leaders with a message of peace and love. Also stars Raoul Bova (Saint Francis), Michele Placido (Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth) and Adriana Asti as Mother Teresa. The beautiful film score is by legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-02-27
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Il grande Torino
Overview: The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-25
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Uomo di rispetto
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-08-28
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7 Minutes
Overview: Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Private Affairs
Overview: Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-29
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
Overview: An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest moments of cinema, from the Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen, commented by prestigious figures of world cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Baaria
Overview: Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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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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Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
Overview: Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Romanesco dialect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-03-11
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Yerma
Overview: Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor prevent from surrendering to him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-11
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The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
Overview: In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-08-23
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Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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La missione
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-02-04
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Once Upon a Time in Sicily
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-05-02
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I Hate Summer
Overview: Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-01-30
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Blood of the Losers
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Notes from a Women Salesman
Overview: Set in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the company of his friend Daytona. Bravo defines himself as an entrepreneur. His business is women - because he sells them. The life of a women salesman is not an easy one, though. The meeting with Carla and a night in the town will change his life forever. Bravo will have to go through his painful past and fight the ultimate battle.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-06-25
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La vera vita di Antonio H.
Overview: This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Italy, and his early life in the Middle East and follows him through the highs and lows of his acting career, using a combination of interviews with real-life colleagues, archival footage and improvised scenes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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Caliber 9
Overview: Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, Nelly, has done everything in her power to raise him different from his father, a deplorable gangster.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-23
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Caravaggio's Shadow
Overview: The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-03
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Romanzo Criminale
Overview: After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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The Terrible Lovers
Overview: This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences in that setting. The couples are made up of a Parisian woman and her Slavic boyfriend out to spend some quality time together; a Frenchman (Jean-Noel Picq) searching for his sexually awakened teenage mistress; and a woman out to reunite with her Italian lover (Michele Placido). These people manifest different approaches to a romantic partnership that are tested in their brief encounters in Rome.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-16
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Run to You
Overview: Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-03-17
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What Do You Know About Me
Overview: Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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Falla girare - The Last Joint
Overview: A virus wipes out cannabis until an unlikely team of a social media influencer, journalist, cop and a drug dealer join against sinister forces working to keep the plant from being rediscovered.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-27
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Cargo
Overview: An Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as a whirlwind romance devolves Louise becoming a prisoner of passion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-02
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All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Overview: A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-08-31
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Un'Avventura Romantica
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Tomato
Overview: Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-25
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