Riccardo Cucciolla
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Biography: Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco & Vanzetti. Born in Bari, in southern Italy, Cucciolla gained a degree in law, then made his stage debut in an amateur production in his home city. From 1946, he started working in radio as a voice actor and as the narrator of documentaries; at the same time, he started working in cinema, as a dubber and a voice actor. Cucciolla made his film debut in 1953, in Anton Giulio Majano's Good Folk's Sunday. After some minor roles, he had his first important role in Italiani brava gente (1965), followed by a further significant role in Giuliano Montaldo's Grand Slam (1967). Cucciolla came to national and international recognition with the leading role in Montaldo's Sacco e Vanzetti, for which he was awarded best actor at Cannes and won a Silver Ribbon. In the wake of that sudden popularity, he intensively worked throughout the decade, alternating notable films with others of more modest quality and ambition. Starting from eighties he thinned out his appearances, mainly focusing on dubbing and television roles. As a dubber, he provided voice-overs for Roger Moore, Claudio Villa, Erland Josephson, John Cazale, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Egan, James Caan, Robert Duvall and more. On 17 September 1999, Cucciolla died in Rome at the age of 75. He is survived by his wife, the poet Alida Sessa; their son Riccardo; and two children by his first wife, Francesco and Lietta. Source: Article "Riccardo Cucciolla" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bari, Puglia, Italy
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Birthday: September 05, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 17, 1999
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The Last Day of School Before Christmas
Overview: Directed by Gian Vittorio Baldi
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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Rabid Dogs
Overview: Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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Pizza Colonia
Overview: Italian Francesco ( Mario Adorf ) runs a restaurant in Cologne , partnership is the brewer Zach ( Willy Millowitsch ) . Francesco has problems : a " Godfather" makes Zach an offer he can not refuse , the wedding between Francesco's daughter and Zach son bursts , and his wife threatened behind his affair to come up with kiosk owner Hilde , which lasts at least 18 or older to ...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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Farewell the Last Man
Overview: A Castiglioni Brothers mondo film about the practices and rites of several native African tribes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-14
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A Cop
Overview: A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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Borsalino and Co.
Overview: Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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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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The Sensual Man
Overview: The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of all classes. He, however, feels dissatisfied with a life of only the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. But is it too late for him?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Overview: Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-16
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Rain over Santiago
Overview: A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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In Calabria
Overview: Vittorio De Seta's documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-04-01
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Grand Slam
Overview: Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-28
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La quieta febbre
Overview: A documentary based largely on images of violence, abuses, crimes and genocide that occurred in the world, accompanied by the poems of Dylan Thomas ( “Hands have no tears to shed”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-11
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The Kid From Ebalus
Overview: During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups, but comes to realize that he has to get away from those circles as he's hunted by both his former comrades and the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Secret Africa
Overview: Documentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum in the jungle; new-born tattooing in Haussa tribe; Muslim Tabaski tribe's rites; blood rites.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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Al Fatah - Palestina
Overview: A documentary about the birth of the palestinian liberation movement Al Fatah, lead by the young Yasser Arafat.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Son of Hercules vs. Medusa
Overview: To avenge his father's death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon -- and the monster Medusa, whose steely gaze has cast the kingdom's best soldiers into stone.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-07
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The Seven Cervi Brothers
Overview: The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.
Genres: War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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Vanille fraise
Overview: Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-29
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Francis of Assisi
Overview: A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student protests. Praised and condemned, the film sparked controversy for its bold, dissenting portrayal of faith.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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The Sicilian Checkmate
Overview: Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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Attack and Retreat
Overview: Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-16
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L' ultima faccia di Medusa
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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No, the Case Is Happily Resolved
Overview: When the eyewitness to a brutal murder decides not to testify, the actual murderer chooses to finger him as the murderer and claim eyewitness status for himself.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Lucky Punch
Overview: Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a logger that Abel Ginoux and his Italian partner Zipolino, a crooked doctor, discover during a fight in a woodland town. The logger, Passe Partout, is in a fight with Ginoux's best fighter and ends up accidentally killing the pugilist. Ever the opportunist, Ginoux lures Partout into the ring to replace the late fighter. Partout proves to be the classic provincial innocent with high, rugged ideals and little knowledge about the modern world. Ginoux takes him to town for the first time and the logger is delighted to discover amenities such as electricity and silent films. He soon falls in love with the beauteous Camille who works in her late father's cafe with her mother. Her father made many of the films, most of which are boxing matches, because he believed that the presence of a camera rendered a fight unfixable.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-07-24
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Badoglio: generale e uomo di stato
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-14
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Good Folk's Sunday
Overview: In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-25
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Africa Uncensored
Overview: Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Overview: Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Overview: Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-06
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La via del petrolio
Overview: La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-02
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Rascel-Fifì
Overview: Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ruin his competitors. To begin with, he induces his friend Barbara, a vamp, to perform in a hot number in Renato and Gedeon's joint, so that the police intervene and close the club. The move fails, so Gionata decides to have Renatino, Renato's son, kidnapped by his men, which proves another flop. To make matters worse for Gionata, Michaela, his own daughter, has fallen in love with Renato, and sides with him and his partner...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-10-09
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Six Days a Week
Overview: Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deception by impersonating her roommate Silvana who is a real life airline hostess. She lies to the count and the dentist about her flight schedules and her whereabouts so she can spend three days a week with each of them. She spends the remaining day of the week with the student who thinks she is a fellow student. One day surprising news of the real Silvana break out. Comedy and confusion ensure when Maria is forced to come up with a more elaborate scheme to cover her tracks and keep her boyfriends happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-22
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Il processo di Savona
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Women of the Resistance
Overview: Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-24
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Massacre in the Black Forest
Overview: In the first half of the first century A.D., the Teutonic tribes, led by Arminius The Terrible, rebel against the cruel and conquering Roman Empire. In raging torments and blood curdling battles, the barbarian tribes and Roman Legions fight a war of attrition, so brutal and terrible that Arminius becomes a legend throughout the empire. Only Augustus, Emperor of Rome is evil and treacherous enough to enslave the Teuton barbarian and halt his murderous uprisings.
Genres: Action Adventure War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-02-03
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The Last Fistful of Land
Overview: 'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the lower classes in a destitute Sardinia. Originally commissioned by the Sardinian regional government as a celebratory piece on the 'miraculous' effects of the 'Piano di Rinascita della Sardegna' (Sardinia's Rebirth Plan), the film instead shows an island still 'standing still in time', barely affected by the painful oxymoron of the inevitable changes taking place.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-11-01
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Overview: This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-26
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Il segreto dell'uomo solitario
Overview: Christian, well-off of a certain age, lives alone in a house between the moors and the sea on the Sardinian coast, she loved dearly by Ghiana, a peasant married. The arrival in the farmhouse near the young and charming Sara, who takes care of the mentally ill husband, upsets the life of Christian and his relationship with Ghiana, arousing in him love and anguish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Overview: A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-24
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C.I.A. Secret Story
Overview: Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-21
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Incontro con Maria Carta
Overview: In this 1972 film, Maria Carta, considered one of the most beautiful voices in the folk music scene and one of the most gifted artists in Sardinia, interacts with the actor Riccardo Cucciolla. Maria Carta recites verses and sings songs of the Sardinian tradition and conveys in her art the essential lines of Sardinian identity and culture.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Bandits in Rome
Overview: After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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Il coraggio di parlare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-05-02
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Meet Him and Die
Overview: Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly infiltrates the ranks of the underworld figure serving a sentence. Eventually a breakout is planned and Massimo is to be included. Just about as soon as they hit the street an attempt is made on the boss' (Martin Balsam) life. Massimo acts quickly in helping to save him and that's the in he has been waiting for
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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The Sexual Revolution
Overview: Fourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to carry out an experiment inspired by the theories of an Austrian psychoanalyst. The creator - Professor Emilio Missiroli - wants to show that only a thousand breaking taboos' that stifle the sexual life can liberate man from his existential malaise. Every night, so, for a whole week, men and women of the group will couple through a draw, without giving any importance to their feelings, thus demonstrating that these can and should do without. Based on Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-21
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High School Girl
Overview: A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-08
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Il pane dei pastori
Overview: Filming took place in the fall of 1962 in various locations in Barbagia, Sardinia, but above all in Oliena, where the entire carasau bread processing cycle was filmed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-30
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Tomboy - I misteri del sesso
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-02
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The Last Concert
Overview: Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the diagnosis of Stella. Stella cheerfully follows the man. He is reluctant at first but after some shaky moments the two develop a relationship. The two fall in love in the short period of time left to experience.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-07-15
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32nd of December
Overview: Three episodes about the relativity of time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-01-28
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Blinde Augen klagen an
Overview: Bosch witnesses a theft: German publishing house lawyer Petra Jansen's handbag is stolen from a street café. Together, the two set off in pursuit of the thief.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-04-06
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The Assisi Underground
Overview: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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L'antimiracolo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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La fantarca
Overview: The operetta, which was introduced from the headlines and a preamble, is initiated by a particular ballet, which then gives way to the development of the plot, in the form of operetta-musical.
Genres: Music Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-31
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Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo
Overview: With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants, Liuzzo participated in the march led by Martin Luther King. As she returned home, she was accosted and murdered by four members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Life of Dante
Overview: 3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante's public life with readings of his poems, expository narration, footage of modern-day Florence and images of old paintings and documents.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-12
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I Vitelloni
Overview: Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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24 Hours... Not a Minute More
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)
Overview: In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Malamondo
Overview: This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-30
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Stream Line
Overview: Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-06
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One on Top of the Other
Overview: A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-15
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Lost in the City of Sarzana
Overview: The film is set in the period of fascism and is represented through the story of the general inspector Vincenzo Trani.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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Our God's Brother
Overview: In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-08
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Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-07
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One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future
Overview: The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-25
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The Seducer
Overview: Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Tottering in the Dark
Overview: An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to live with him. Maria tries to get Teo to marry her friend so she can receive Italian citizenship. The three do their best to live in harmony in this bittersweet drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-31
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Sardegna terra di contrasti
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Il fratello
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Morte di una ragazza perbene
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Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-11-08
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Down With Uncle
Overview: Three kids climb over the wall of an old cemetery in the Piacenza countryside and reach a boy their age, who is praying in front of a tomb. Then, they all run out and reach an ancient abandoned cemetery. Here they amuse themselves by destroying votive statues and uncovering tombstones from which they extract bones and teeth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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