Anita Ekberg
Also Known As: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg , Anita Kersten , Ms. Anita Ekberg, Anita Edberg, Anita Eckberg, آنیتا اکبرگ
Biography: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015), known as Anita Ekberg, was a Swedish actress who worked in European and American films. She started work as a fashion model and successfully transitioned to films in mid-1950s. Known for her voluptuous figure, she is best known for playing Sylvia in La Dolce Vita (1960), with its iconic scene where she cavorts in a fountain.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Malmö - Skåne län - Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: September 29, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 11, 2015
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Ciao Anita
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-09-29
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The Alphabet Murders
Overview: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-26
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War and Peace
Overview: Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Genres: War Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-21
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Overview: A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-24
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The Golden Blade
Overview: Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Overview: Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-06
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Paris Holiday
Overview: Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-05
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Federico Fellini - Through the Eyes of Others
Overview: Documentary about Federico Fellini
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Girl in the Fountain
Overview: Alternating archive footage of Anita Ekberg with the story of a quintessential diva as Monica Bellucci who is offered the chance to play Anita in a movie, digging through this woman’s story, she retraces her exceptional life, frailties and chooses, reflecting on what it feels like to be an icon. What key decisions a contemporary diva faces in order not to fall into oblivion?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-29
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Fangs of the Living Dead
Overview: A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants include a strange nobleman and a bevy of beautiful women she suspects may be vampires.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Killer Nun
Overview: A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-05-09
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Blood Alley
Overview: An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-01
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The Clowns
Overview: Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-27
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Teatro 11
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-18
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Hollywood or Bust
Overview: The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Artists and Models
Overview: A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-07
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Woman Times Seven
Overview: Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-29
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The Conjugal Debt
Overview: Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner of a small service station. Tired of supporting his despotic and demanding wife, Romolo searches for a way out and finds it when Orazio, a former fellow soldier, who lives by his wits, invites him to roam freely with him around the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-28
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Screaming Mimi
Overview: A blonde night club dancer is being stalked. Will anyone believe her?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-25
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Interpol
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Boccaccio '70
Overview: An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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Back from Eternity
Overview: A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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Man in the Vault
Overview: A locksmith is pressured into crime when the mob makes him perform an elaborate bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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The French Sex Murders
Overview: After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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4 for Texas
Overview: In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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1960
Overview: By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy during the 1960s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-05
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The Cobra
Overview: A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium and turning everyone into addicts. Along the way he manages to bed junkie Lou, get into various fights and destroy the refinery that is ending out the drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-25
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Valerie
Overview: After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Genres: Western Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-01
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Bambola
Overview: Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another one of her boyfriends, Settimio. While visiting Settimio in jail, she meets a sadistic man named Furio, and they begin a relationship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-01
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The Red Dwarf
Overview: Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-12-23
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Sign of the Gladiator
Overview: Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-03-05
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Way... Way Out
Overview: A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Night of Hate
Overview: Fulgencio and Scott fled the place where they have just committed a robbery. As Fulgencio scapes, Scott is captured by the police. After serving years in prison, Scott looks for his former partner who fled to Mexico and, with the money, bought a bar. Scott's plan is to force Fulgencio, under threat of denouncing him, to work with him in another robbery.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-08
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Das Liebeskarussell
Overview: An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-30
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Call Me Bwana
Overview: A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—thinking he's an expert on the region—when in fact he's no such thing. However, a foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba to try and acquire the capsule for itself and, when Matthew and Luba reach their destination, they find that the tribe believes the capsule to be sacred and won't give it up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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Death Knocks Twice
Overview: When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-25
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La villa dei misteri
Overview: Young woman falsely suspected of murder, flees, adopts an alternate identity and tries to find the real killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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Deadly Trackers
Overview: Jeff sets out to murder each one of the five outlaws who robbed, raped and killed his poor sister. He lays a fragment of her poncho on each of his victims' dead bodies as a mark of his revenge in a gripping, exciting tale.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Gold of the Amazon Women
Overview: An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-06
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The Man Inside
Overview: A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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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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Il divorzio
Overview: Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-20
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The Mongols
Overview: During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-31
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A Candidate for a Killing
Overview: A traveler becomes a target for various crime syndicates when it turns out he's a dead ringer for a wanted mercenary.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-22
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S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Overview: Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-23
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Zarak
Overview: A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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How I Learned to Love Women
Overview: An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-02
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Intervista
Overview: Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Rat Pack
Overview: In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-11
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Fatty Girl Goes to New York
Overview: An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a trip to New York, where she sheds 80+ pounds and then returns home to take revenge on her tormentors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-11-28
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The Dam on the Yellow River
Overview: Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist reporting from the Nationalists' side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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Dov'era lei a quell'ora
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-27
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Anita of Sweden
Overview: When Anita Ekberg celebrated her 75th birthday, she visited Filmhuset in Stockholm. Three filmmakers documented the visit, which became a unique encounter with the Swedish film icon one and superstar.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-01-26
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Bad Girls
Overview: The Italian erotic thriller Cattive ragazze (Bad Girls) was directed by gossip columnist Marina Ripa Di Meana, and stars Eva Grimaldi as a recently divorced woman falling in love with a male stripper, alongside a cast of big names such as Anita Ekberg and Burt Young.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Fellini dice...
Overview: A story about the mythical film director
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Seduction of Angela
Overview: Naive, orphaned maiden Angela leaves her small town for 19th- century London, where she quickly learns the ways of the world. She begins work at a brothel, where she gets a quick education in life. On her first "job," she is rescued by Rocco, a traveling thief who happens to be going from room to room, robbing the patrons. Rocco and Angela fall in love, but Rocco must flee the inn at which they have taken residence, when the police arrive at the door...
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-18
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Little Girls and High Finance
Overview: A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-30
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The Temptation of Dr. Antonio
Overview: Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo obsessively fights against what he perceives as immorality in Rome, only to be driven mad by a seductive billboard of Anita Ekberg that haunts him with hallucinations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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The Glass Sphinx
Overview: An archaeologist is in danger because of his discoveries.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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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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Becoming Anita Ekberg
Overview: BECOMING ANITA EKBERG is an exploration of how the construct of "Anita Ekberg" became an internationally famous sex goddess as a result of the careful cultivation of her image in various movies, both in Hollywood, by Frank Tashlin, and in Europe, by Federico Fellini. It's an exploration of the texts and subtexts of commercial films and the subterranean and complicated ways that they affect us and can be read.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-07
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Il Conte Max
Overview: Alfredo is a crude Roman motorcycle repairman who is a friend of Count Max, a gentleman and ex-pleasure lover. The latter invites Alfredo to his residence in Campo dei Fiori and teaches him etiquette, French and how to play poker. The laughter will begin when Alfredo meets and chases the beautiful model Isabell Bellissima in Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-26
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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 Sweet Algorithm
Overview: As digital multiples and shuffles of Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni wade through the Trevi Fountain from LA DOLCE VITA, THE SWEET ALGORITHM continues Gregg Biermann's series of films dissecting and repurposing classic film scenes into pulsating, almost hypnotic collage works.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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A porte chiuse
Overview: The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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Northeast of Seoul
Overview: Three adventurers--at times competing with each other, at other times allied with each other--search South Korea for a magical sword that is supposed to imbue its owner with wealth and power.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-05
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Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa
Overview: A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-29
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Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Overview: In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-26
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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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The Magic of Fellini
Overview: Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-27
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Ambrogio
Overview: A woman wants to graduate to the Italian Naval Academy in the 60s. She has to fight her family, her friends and a world not ready to accept her.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-12-30
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Terras fönster 5
Overview: The fifth edition of "Terras fönster" reporting from Oslo 900 years. Two episodes with Povel Ramel that sings and spits together with Martin Ljung and Brita Borg. Miss Sweden 1951, Anita Ekberg, visits Stockholm, inaugurates Children's Day in Humlegården. Art, the sculptor Einar Luter card in his studio, and fashion. Report from the factory community Harg in Nyköping municipality, with Lars Johansson, who played a guard post in Nyköping's guest ban, and his wife Marianne. Musical cavalcade with Povel Ramel, Brita Borg and Martin Ljung.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-15
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Zwischen Glück und Krone
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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