Umberto Orsini
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Biography: Umberto Orsini (born 2 April 1934, in Novara) is an Italian stage, television and film actor. Born in Novara, Orsini gave up his career as notary to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. In the late 1950s, he emerged as a talented stage actor, and in 1960, for the theatrical representation of L'Arialda, he worked for the first time with Luchino Visconti. After a few secondary roles (that include Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita), Orsini debuted in a leading role in 1962 with the film Il mare, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. In 1969, he was awarded with the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Visconti's The Damned. In 2008, he was nominated to David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca. Source: Article "Umberto Orsini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Novara, Piedmont, Italy
Birthday: April 02, 1934
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Gender: Male
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Cesar and Rosalie
Overview: A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to reconsider her choice. Ultimately, one man's actions force a resolution to her dilemma.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-11
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Ludwig
Overview: Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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Esther
Overview: Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-29
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Saint Paul
Overview: A biblical epic from the Book of Acts and Paul's epistles covering his conversion from Saul of Tarsus to his ministry to the Gentiles.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-03
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Jury of One
Overview: A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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Casanova & Co.
Overview: While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-01
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A Woman at Her Window
Overview: Greece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself falling for a political activist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-10
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Battle of the Worlds
Overview: Dr. Fred Steele (Umberto Orsini) and Eve Barnett (Maya Brent) work together at an astronomical station on a bucolic island. The station's scientists learn they must deal with a rogue planet -- "The Outsider" -- that has entered the solar system. which must be controlled by an alien intelligence… Professor Benson's(Claude Rains) expedition discovers a race of humanoid creatures dead...
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-30
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Violent City
Overview: A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman
Overview: Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very puzzled by their openness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Overview: Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Mademoiselle
Overview: A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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Bali
Overview: The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-29
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The Assassination of Matteotti
Overview: How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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A Big Grey-Blue Bird
Overview: Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Beyond Good and Evil
Overview: The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-05
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Don't Tempt the Devil
Overview: A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-17
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Il viaggio della sposa
Overview: 17th-century noblewoman Porzia leaves the cloister she was raised in to marry, but an ambush leaves her with only humble coachman Bartolo by her side. While venturing into dangerous and unknown lands, the two grow increasingly close despite their opposite backgrounds.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Love in Rome
Overview: A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
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Puzzle
Overview: In London, A man who has amnesia attempts to uncover the truth about his identity. A menacing individual accuses him of betrayal, and soon more pieces of his puzzling past begin to fall in place.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-23
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Solomon
Overview: David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-15
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Other People's Money
Overview: Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank. Then, one day, his entire world collapses. In the wake of a high-profile financial scandal, he is summoned into his director's office and accused of negligence. Rainier has no choice but to resign, but he soon realises that he has been made a scapegoat. He begins his own investigation in an attempt to clear his name and discover who is responsible for the enormous hole in the bank's finances. It soon becomes apparent that he is up against a very powerful and dangerous opponent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-09-27
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The Antichrist
Overview: An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Story of a Cloistered Nun
Overview: Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-09
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Roma bene
Overview: A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-08
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Primo Levi's Journey
Overview: In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
Genres: Documentary War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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Love in the Strangest Way
Overview: Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-13
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I Kiss... You Kiss
Overview: Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young people go to his house to play and sing. Marcella, Cocchi's daughter, who has a beautiful voice, goes to visit Leopoldo and falls in love with Paolo. They have an idea: open a night-club called "Io bacio... tu baci"...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-09
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Manhunt
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Marcel!
Overview: The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves her mother immensely, but her mother loves Marcel more than anything else. Will an unpredictable event allow those circles of love to reconnect?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-06-01
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Candy
Overview: A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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Copenaghen
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-04-20
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Violence and Love
Overview: The nature of love and marriage is studied in two episodes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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Playgirl
Overview: Alexandra is a model who comes to Berlin to rekindle an affair she started in Rome with businessman Joachim Steigenwald. But he pretends to be too busy for her and has his employee take Alexandra sightseeing. He, too, immediately falls under her enchantment. When they encounter Steigenwald, she finds herself between the two men, as someone who is always up for flirting with men …
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-06-23
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La Tosca
Overview: Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped from prison and the chief of police is on his tail. Angelotti is being helped by a painter, lover of "La Tosca", a famous singer. The police chief suspects the truth and tries to arouse the jealousy of "La Tosca" to catch the escapee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Cinque giorni di tempesta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-02
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Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe
Overview: Son of a poor Sicilian sharecropper committing suicide (he owed half a million lire to Baron Lamia), 35-year-old Carmelo Macaluso returns to the Sicilian town, after 15 years of hard work in Germany, with a Mercedes, 100 million in his briefcase and the ambitious plan to buy the respect of the villagers ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-13
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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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Maddalena
Overview: The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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The Outside Man
Overview: A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Summer Night
Overview: Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan bourgeoisie during the time between two Saint John's eve festivals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-03
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Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Overview: An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-23
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Gangbusters
Overview: Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen paintings, between the boss Peseti and the engineer Farnese, who plots kidnappings unsuspectedly. After he cashed from Farnese three hundred millions of lire to deliver to Peseti, Mario lets money be robbed by four pickpockets, which he is naturally in cahoots with and which he will share out it with. Money cannot be used since it comes from a kidnapping and it was marked. The lawyer will be able to make the boss get arrested.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-21
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Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Smiling Maniacs
Overview: During an inquest, an ambitious judge finds out that a lot of high-rank politicians are corrupt to the core.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-16
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Trifole
Overview: In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, Dalia travels to Piedmont to care for her aging grandfather Igor, an expert forager. Armed with his field notes and loyal dog Birba, she searches for a prizewinning truffle to save his home.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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Emmanuelle 3
Overview: Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-14
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Why
Overview: Italian drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-23
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Une fille cousue de fil blanc
Overview: A young girl dies in an accident just before her wedding. But when her sister starts to look into it, she discovers the truth about her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-26
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The Girl and the General
Overview: A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-30
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The Sea
Overview: A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a young man. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can get off the ground, an alluring woman with a spontaneous sexuality and care free attitude joins the triangle and the boy is slowly pushed out of the picture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-08
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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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The Guest
Overview: Giulia works for her father's law film and still lives in her parents' luxurious home. However, she soon realizes the young man from Thailand who is their new houseguest is not just a family friend -- he is Guilia's mother's lover, and almost half her age. Father, however, has an even bigger secret -- he's been having an affair with a man young enough to be his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-06-04
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The Sailor from Gibraltar
Overview: Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Fantastic Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Overview: Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Originally made for Italian TV.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-11
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Lourdes
Overview: The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-29
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Shadows Unseen
Overview: When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-24
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The Damned
Overview: In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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The Early Bird Catches the Worm
Overview: Marco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates between his job at Radio Deejay and his gambling addiction, that slowly consumes his life, his relationship with his girlfriend and his work skills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-11-25
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Agadah
Overview: A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over ten days. A range of situations in stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provide entertainment on an epic scale. The two men's destiny intertwined, it is difficult to know who's real between the two and who belongs to the other's mind. This is a journey for both of them which Alphonse will continue, uncertain in the end, if his experiences were real or a dream.
Genres: Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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Sin
Overview: The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-11-14
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Tony Arzenta
Overview: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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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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The Steps
Overview: An artist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past and her present.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Fifth Commandment
Overview: A notorious gang of robbers threaten the Ruhr region of Germany in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-08-24
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Notti e nebbie
Overview: Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist resistance.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-11-28
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Trastevere
Overview: A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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La Dolce Vita
Overview: Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-05
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Interrabang
Overview: Fabrizio, a fashion photographer, Maregalit, a nympho model; Anna, Fabrizio's wife and Valeria, her sister, land on deserted islet for a photo-shoot. When Fabrizio temporarily leaves the women alone to buy some fuel for their yacht, a young man, Marco, joins the trio. The women are diffident: Marco could be a fugitive from a penitentiary and the body of a policeman is hidden somewhere. He seduces all three and eventually kills Maregalit and Anna; he and Valeria are then joined by Fabrizio. The three had planned to murder Anna for her money but there's another surprise for Fabrizio, because he is in turn killed by his accomplices (who are long-time lovers). All over? Not at all, because there's a nice sting at the end...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan
Overview: Cathrine has been sentenced to the gas chamber but Police Lieutenant Sheridan does not believe she is guilty of the murder she has been accused of. He has twenty-four hours to prove her innocence.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Hannover
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Il Ludwig di Visconti, storia del film e della sua ricostruzione
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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