Raoul Bova
Also Known As: Рауль Бова, رائول بووا
Biography: Raoul Bova (born 14 August 1971) is an Italian actor. Bova was born in Rome to Calabrian parents. At the age of 16 he became a local champion in the 100 meter backstroke. At the age of 21 he joined the Italian Army and performed his military duty in the Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) corps. He enrolled in the ISEF, the Italian Institute of Physical Education, but dropped out to pursue a career in acting. He studied at the school Beatrice Bracco in Rome and also studied acting with Michael Margotta. In March 2000, he married Chiara Giordano. They have three children, Alessandro Leon, Francesco and Sophia. On 15 October 2010, Raoul Bova was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Description above from the Wikipedia article Raoul Bova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma
Birthday: August 14, 1971
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Gender: Male
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
Overview: When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-12
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Overview: After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-20
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Sbirri
Overview: "Sbirri", Italian slang for the police, is the story of a well-known TV journalist who after the death of his son through ecstasy, decides to follow the drug squad in their fight against drug trafficking in Milan. The film takes us on his "real" journey in the world of drugs and his desperate search to find a valid reason, someone to blame for his son's pointless death and at the same time, for his sense of inadequacy as a parent. It's a journey in this incredible underworld where people from all social classes and thousands of young people are being constantly entrapped and where unknown heroes every day put their lives at risk in their battle against crime. All that is shown in the film is true.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-04-10
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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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Sorry if I Love You
Overview: Alex Belli is a 37 year old advertising executive whose fiancée Elena has just left him, and who is having difficulty at work trying to think of a good advertising campaign for a new Japanese product. Niki is a bubbly 17 year old student. She has three best friends with whom she shares all her problems, and an annoying ex-boyfriend Fabio who is set on getting her back, but Niki's not interested. One day on his way to work, Alex collides with Niki on a city street. They soon begin a romance, despite their 20-year age gap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-25
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Avenging Angelo
Overview: A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. She's aided by his faithful bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in love.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Sorry if I Want to Marry You
Overview: Second part of the film "Sorry if I love you". Alex (Raoul Bova) and Niki (Michela Quattrociocche) are more in love than ever. They have just returned from the lighthouse on the island Blu where they have lived unforgettable days. Niki returns to see his friends, but a number of important changes in their lives will test the friendship of the girls. Alex also resume life with his old friends. All of them, Flavio, Enrico and Pietro, are no longer serene and safe husbands due to certain difficulties that have compromised their marriages.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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Milan – Palermo: The Return
Overview: Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily to get revenge on his former associates – something the authorities indulge to seize a large stash of Mafia money he claims to have access to.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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Palermo – Milan One Way
Overview: A mob accountant accepts to be witness for the prosecution at a trial involving Mafia higher-ups. Seven cops are tasked with escorting him and his family alive from Sicily to the courtroom in the North, but it won't be easy.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Facing Windows
Overview: Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-02-27
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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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Knights of the Quest
Overview: In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-04-06
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Aspettando il sole
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte da manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo
Overview: Friedberg/Seltzer-like spoof about popular Italian teen romance movies of the aughts (such as Tre metri sopra il cielo, Come tu mi vuoi, Ho voglia di te, Notte prima degli esami, Melissa P., etc).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-11-28
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La bella società
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-05-21
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Still Fabulous
Overview: Stuck in a dead-end career and on a string of terrible dates, the life of 30-something Maddalena is a total mess until one day, she meets an unlikely imaginary friend who comes to her in the form of real-life porn star Valentina Nappi. Her mission? To teach Maddalena everything she needs to know about life, sex, and love. Also starring Raoul Bova and Alessandro Tiberi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-02-12
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Our Life
Overview: Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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Pretty Princess
Overview: A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-12-03
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Treasure Guards
Overview: On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old temple. It is encrypted with the location of the long lost Seal of Solomon, which, according to legend, was given to King Solomon by God himself. But this mighty treasure is also being sought by, amongst others, Victoria’s estranged father, renowned archaeologist Teddy Carter, who’s soon hot on its trail.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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The Immature
Overview: Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-01-21
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The Immature: The Trip
Overview: After the events of the first movie, the "immatures" go on a trip to the Greek island of Paros.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-01-04
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Meet My Friend
Overview: Marco Ferretti is an Italian manager who is young and beautiful, but he cannot stand the presence of women after a difficult affair. When Marco goes to London for an appointment, he meets four beautiful girls who disrupt his life with love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Escort in Love
Overview: 35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time is by resorting to the oldest job in history.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-03-18
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I, the Other
Overview: Giuseppe, a Sicilian fisherman, and Yousef, an exiled Tunisian, share a friendship, a fishing business and "Medea," the vessel on which they ply their trade. Then, while they are at sea, the fears of the post-9/11 world shatter their idyllic relationship. Giuseppe hears a radio broadcast about a wanted terrorist with Yousef's name. The Italian locks his friend in the hold. But when Yousef escapes, the former friends' boat becomes their battleground.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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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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The Nymph
Overview: Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished village in Southern Italy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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Terra bruciata
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Out of the Blue
Overview: Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be just perfect... until the day he comes home and finds there Layla, a teenage girl who claims to be his daughter. Alongside Layla is her grandfather Enzo, a former rockstar and the father of Andrea's first fleeting and forgotten conquest. And they've come to stay!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-03-14
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Killer Couple
Overview: Newlyweds Dario and Luciana discover that their quiet neighbors are hired assassins who killed a politician – and become their next target.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-20
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Rewind
Overview: Terrorist Paul Mansart, imprisoned in a maximum security prison, overcomes initial reluctance and agrees to experiment in “virtual reality” in order to restore the identity of the mysterious criminal who prepared the assassination attempt that cost Paul his arrest and, possibly, a number of recent terrorist attacks in Europe.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-07-07
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Francesca and Nunziata
Overview: At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Loren), adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love Federico (Bova), her adoptive brother, son of Francesca.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Indovina chi viene a Natale?
Overview: A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a panettone factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-12-19
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Ancora un'altra storia
Overview: The problem of parental alienation told through three stories of children involved in conflictual separations and divorces.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-07
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Political Target
Overview: The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Especially for the families of the victims killed: professors D'Antona and Biagi, and subsequently the police superintendent Petri.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-22
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Il testimone
Overview: Italian thriller
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-05-30
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Capitano Ultimo - Le ali del falco
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Quando eravamo repressi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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Unique Brothers
Overview: A funny story about two brothers, Pietro and Francesco, and what happens with them and their families after Petro loses his memory.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Do You See Me?
Overview: Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she will struggle to find a job that she truly loves and is passionate about. Along the way she will meet Francesco a gay man who will help and support her throughout her journey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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The Fourth King
Overview: Alazar, a simple farmer who is also a beekeeper, meets the Three Wise Men Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, who have set off to celebrate the arrival on earth of the Messiah. Alazar's magic bees become magically transformed into the tail of the bright comet which leads the four of them to the manger. At first, the brave young farmer's son is on the point of leaving the Wise Men to their fate because he has been forced against his will by their magic powers to leave his pregnant wife Izirah behind. He only very reluctantly agrees to the Kings' request to accompany them. Although the Three Wise Men make it very clear to him how important the Messiah's arrival on earth is, the relationship between the four men remains very tense. Nevertheless, despite all disagreements, our travelling companions soon become firm friends -and after several exciting adventures they finally succeed in locating the manger. The Three Kings then allow Alazar to return home to his loving wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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All Roads Lead to Rome
Overview: Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a journey to a Tuscan village where she frequented in her younger days. Upon arrival, Maggie runs into Luca a handsome former lover who is still a bachelor and lives with his eighty-year-old mother Carmen. Summer (missing her “bad boy” boyfriend in NYC) and Carmen (secretly planning a wedding against Luca’s wishes to MARCELINO, her one true love in Rome) impulsively steal Luca’s car and race off to Rome. Maggie and Luca quickly pursue allowing the two mismatched couples to spend some time together and develop a new understanding of each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-14
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Ever Been to the Moon?
Overview: Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in life—true love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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Cominciò tutto per caso
Overview: A middle class couple crisis. A love story between a young blue collar guy an a Philippine girl. The lives of four people get closer in nowadays Rome.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-03-11
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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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Torno indietro e cambio vita
Overview: Marco is married to a gorgeous woman, has a child and a great job. Everything seems perfect, at least until his wife of 25 years announces that she has another man and wants a separation. Marco is forced to leave home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-06-18
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Come un delfino
Overview: A man is forced to retire from competitive swimming due to a heart condition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-03-01
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The Tourist
Overview: American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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Madame De...
Overview: The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed cash. She decided to sell the family jeweler Remy earrings — a gift from her husband…
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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La fiamma sul ghiaccio
Overview: A sick young man lives an intense love story with a female tramp.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Francesco
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Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-10-05
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Crazy Underwear
Overview: Four ambitious women are ready to do anything to make a name in show business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-02-04
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Stasera lo faccio!
Overview: The loves and jealousies of a group of teens emerge during a birthday party.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-07-01
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Il Sindaco
Overview: The Mayor (Italian: Il sindaco) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ugo Fabrizio Giordani. It is based on the Eduardo De Filippo's play Il sindaco del Rione Sanità.[1][2]
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-10
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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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Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Overview: The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-08-15
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In love with an angel
Overview: Claudio is a selfish 40 year-old man who enjoys all the pleasures in life. With a limitless bank account at his disposal and a charming appearance, he jumps from one girl to the next . . . until he falls in love with Luisa.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-08
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Calabria, terra mia
Overview: A loving couple spends a vacation among the beauty of Calabria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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The Christmas Show
Overview: Sofia and her two sons, Ricky and Alice, lead a disenchanted life amid the many difficulties of everyday life, but for the Rovati family this will be an extraordinary Christmas. Their unexpected participation in the following reality Christmas Show, will lead them to live overwhelming situations and the arrival of the mysterious neighbor, the charming Pierre, will return to make Sofia’s heart beat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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La frontiera
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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Ultima gara
Overview: United by the dream of setting a new world record as a relay team, five competitive swimmers reveal their lives, hopes and histories.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-06-03
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Greta e le favole vere
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
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Io sono un po' matto... e tu?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-07
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