Giulietta Masina
Also Known As: Giulia Anna Masina, Джульетта Мазина
Biography: Giulietta Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively. Masina won the Best Actress award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival for the later film. She was the wife and muse of the Italian film director Federico Fellini, in whom she found an artistic equal and collaborator. Owing to her intense performances of naïve characters dealing with cruel circumstances, Masina is often called the "female Chaplin". Description above from the Wikipedia article Giuletta Masina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Giorgio di Piano, Italy
Birthday: February 22, 1921
Deathday: March 23, 1994
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Gender: Female
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La Strada
Overview: When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-23
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
Overview: Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand jobs before acting in a Cecil B. DeMille film…
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-10
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100 Years of Love
Overview: Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Paisan
Overview: During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American soldiers and Italian civilians as they navigate their way through language barriers and cultural differences.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-10
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Europe '51
Overview: A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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The Swindle
Overview: Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-07
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The Feather Fairy
Overview: A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evil desires.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Ginger and Fred
Overview: Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-01-13
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The White Sheik
Overview: In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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Variety Lights
Overview: In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Nights of Cabiria
Overview: Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-10-03
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Juliet of the Spirits
Overview: Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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Position Wanted
Overview: Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-03
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Good night… lawyer!
Overview: A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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At the Edge of the City
Overview: Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
Overview: An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-12
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Sette ore di guai
Overview: Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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Fellini nel cestino
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Without Pity
Overview: A struggling woman and a black American soldier fall in love in post-World War II Italy.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-09-18
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Don't Sting the Mosquito
Overview: Rita, a vivacious co-ed flees her boarding school with her music teacher, who is also engaged to her. She wants to take part in a singing contest but her father who is dead against it has her kidnapped. He finally gives in when his wife threatens to sing in the contest herself.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-24
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Jons und Erdme
Overview: Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Hell in the City
Overview: A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-29
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
Overview: A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Fellinopolis
Overview: Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) in his personal and creative intimacy, to capture the gears of his great circus, his fantastic lies and his crazy inventions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-06-10
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The High Life
Overview: Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-02-16
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Ciao, Federico!
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Fils de Punk
Overview: A director is interested in the punk movement and outsiders. Following a meeting with a music group, he plans to make a documentary about it.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: fr
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We Are Cinema
Overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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Lo scocciatore
Overview: A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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Angels of Darkness
Overview: When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-27
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Fellini dice...
Overview: A story about the mythical film director
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
Overview: Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During this film viewers go with him to the Colisseum at night, on a subway ride past Roman ruins, to the Appian Way, to a slaughterhouse, and on a visit to Marcello Mastroianni's house. Fellini also is seen in his own office interviewing a series of unusual characters seeking work or his help.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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Stars Meet in Moscow
Overview: Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-08-30
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Wanda the Sinner
Overview: Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-16
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Fortunella
Overview: A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
Overview: Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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A Day to Remember
Overview: Bertille is an old woman who lives in the countryside. Her relatives reunite there with her as she is about selling the property. They don't take long to out their true intentions which are merely material on her estate. Also, Bertille is afflicted by her youngest son who has been in prison for a decade. Decades of fighting over Einstein's stick of truth has made Bertille very frail and easy to come down on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-03-20
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Second Look: Fellini
Overview: A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His Childhood, His Beginnings; Episode 2: His First Films; Episode 3: His Films with Giulietta Masina; Episode 4: "La dolce vita" and Neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Overview: A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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The Feather Fairy - Two Worlds
Overview: Lukáš, Alžbetka's son, takes off into the world looking for happiness and love. His godmother, the celestial Lady Winter, keeps an eye on him. He arrives late in the fairy-tale land that she leads him to. Fear reigns where once cakes grew on trees. The miraculous ram has disappeared and the royal town is cursed. Lukáš has to decide what is closer to his heart: a fortune or love?
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Il romanzo della mia vita
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-18
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Overview: A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-04-02
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Reporter’s Diary: 'Zoom on Fellini'
Overview: Documentary about the making of Federico Fellini's film JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, with behind the scenes footage and interviews with the director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Behind Closed Shutters
Overview: Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-08
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Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile
Overview: Documentary about the actress who was Federico Fellini's wife and frequent collaborator.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Overview: Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-09-05
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