Piera Degli Esposti
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bologna, Italy
Birthday: March 12, 1938
Deathday: August 14, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Anima bella
Overview: Gioia has just turned 18. She lives with her father Bruno in a small country village where she works as a shepherdess. They live very simply yet harmoniously with the villagers. Their lives are disrupted when Bruno gives in once again and once too many to his gambling addiction, in spite of his efforts to quit. Gioia will have to follow him to a faraway town, where he will be treated in a specialized center. This will radically change her existence, forcing her to abandon the safety of the village, her friends and her habits. She will be all by herself to support her father, in his journey for a better life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-04-28
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The Unknown Woman
Overview: Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-09
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The Trojan Women
Overview: In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater. He does not use costume or set design, but is based only on the simple performance of the actors, highlighted by the shooting technique. The absolute sense of tragedy is perceived by the public through emotional engagement and imagination. So, the Trojan war is all the wars and the pain of the Trojan women is the pain of all the victims of any war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-17
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Il Divo
Overview: Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-05-28
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Senza Lucio
Overview: The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they met and how he grew on a human, professional, and artistic level standing by Dalla’s side. And much more: daily and deeper aspects of his life, his love for Southern Italy, his passion for cinema, his relationship with music, his bulimic curiosity of launching himself into new artistic adventures, his mercurial energy and his boundless sense of humor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-03-04
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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Overview: Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-02-26
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Giulia Doesn't Date at Night
Overview: Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor, who is hiding a secret from her past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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Ghosts, Italian Style
Overview: Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-23
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David's Birthday
Overview: Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?
Genres: Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-08
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The Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirlwind of Sex and Politics
Overview: During the general elections of 1994, Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism fears that his party is about to lose, so he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble. He isn't there long before he is arguing with a beautiful hairdresser. Their debate is fiery as is his growing and impossible-to-disguise passion for her. She too is intrigued with him, but their disparate ideologies threaten to keep them apart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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My Mother's Smile
Overview: A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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Run to You
Overview: Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-03-17
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I baci mai dati
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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Il vestito da sposa
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Hospitals: The White Mafia
Overview: A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-25
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Giocare d'azzardo
Overview: While desperately looking for a change, the 40yo Anna - a bored housewife - decides to start gambling. Luck is not on her side though: she loses everything she had, she's almost broke. Caught up by a moment of madness, she steals her daughter’s lifetime savings. She even pawns her own car - , she’s willing to do anything to try to win… Her only wish is for her lotto number to be the winning one… She tries, and tries, and tries… Till the day when that lotto number gets drawn - is it the truth or has the gambling driven her crazy and she can’t distinguish between reality and a dream anymore?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Pulce non c'è
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-04-01
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Oplà, noi viviamo
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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Don Bosco
Overview: This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-01-31
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Principessa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-05-08
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A Holy Venetian Family
Overview: Gualtiero Cecchin, the son of an entrepreneur must find a new way to make money after squandering his huge family fortune. With an idea and a good dose of recklessness Gualtiero must find a way to fund his new business while navigating the shady world of the Neapolitan mob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-02-05
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4B Movie
Overview: Some images come out from the darkness, fragments from ’Steamboat jr.", “Film”, “Persona” and “Nostra Signora dei Turchi”.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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La California
Overview: Two young twins grow up in the Emilia province, expressing the two faces of an era and the adolescent nature that clashes with traditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-10
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Chlorine
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-24
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Johnny Belinda
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Other Half
Overview: It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of her granddaughter. The woman, with the complicity of a nurse, escaped from there, determined at all costs to attend the wedding of her granddaughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-12-03
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Le Case del Vedovo
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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Somewhere Amazing
Overview: Asti, third millennium. Lucia, mother and wife on the verge of boredom, opens up to friendship with the immigrant Ahmed, looking for an escape from the routine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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The Malady of Love
Overview: Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-03
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Assolo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-05
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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
Overview: The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-29
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The Journey
Overview: Bari, a city caught in the relentless economic crisis. Ivo is an agronomist, but the lack of opportunities pushes him to accept a job in the fertile region of Banat in Romania. Clara has just ended a relationship and is about to lose her job at the Bari harbor. Ivo and Clara meet by chance and seem to immediately understand each other. They spend only one night together before Ivo's departure, but that is enough to create a bond and wanting to meet again. When Clara visits him in Romania, they fall in love. But is exile their only way to happiness?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-04
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To Save Nine
Overview: Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed, impoverished mother of a huge farm family. The woman moves her nine children to Bologna, where their living conditions are deplorable. To avoid a hike in rent, she tells her landlady (Dominique Sanda) that she is living alone. Also known as To Save Nine (a curiously brief English-language title for a Wertmuller film!), IL Decimo Clandestino was expanded from 60 to 90 minutes for its theatrical release.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-03-25
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-10
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Under the Sign of Scorpio
Overview: An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is equally susceptible to such a catastrophe via its own volcano, but they are unable to convince the current inhabitants of Island #2 to flee with them to a mainland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-04
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Ears
Overview: A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Case Chiuse
Overview: February 20, 1958: the Italian Parliament approved Law No. 75, the "Merlin Law": the end of an institution of Italian society for ages: the brothel. The Italian writer Dino Buzzati likens the event to the fire in the library of Alexandria in Egypt. The brothel is an institution that has spanned the centuries,thru different aspects, different forms. It is an institution that, in Italy, at least officially no longer exists. But it is also an institution that in other countries, still exists. The doc offers a journey that will start from the ruins of Pompeii brothel to get to the lights of Artemis in Berlin, with its soft drinks and its attention to the well-being and to the erotic papyrus from the Egyptian Museum of Turin and the giant Paradise in Girona, that El Pais has called the biggest brothel in Europe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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Caro Lucio ti scrivo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-03-01
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4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
Overview: Four stories about football.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-18
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The Future Is Woman
Overview: In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-05
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-10
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Lievito madre – Le ragazze del secolo scorso
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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The Isle of Medea
Overview: On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-08-31
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Welcome Mr. President!
Overview: In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-03-21
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The Man Who Loves
Overview: A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Lettere dalla Sicilia
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-02-23
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Nerolio
Overview: This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. However, in his native Italy, he was at least as well known for his writing and poetry as for his filmmaking. In the first episode, Pasolini (Marco Cavicchioli) waxes poetic about the beauty of young men during a visit to Sicily. The second and more interesting segment concerns a meeting with a young man who visits Pasolini thinking that though he is an old has-been, Pasolini may be able to do him a favor. Pasolini twigs to the boy's intentions, and a sparring session ensues. The final episode shows him picking up a young man at Rome's train station and the events that led to his beating death in 1975.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-08-12
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Giuni Russo: La sua figura
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Fantasia, ma non troppo, per violino
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Tre donne morali
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Il pranzo di Natale
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-01-11
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I delitti del BarLume - Aria di mare
Overview: Sea Air - Massimo seeks help for his nightmares and depression. The uncles have it in for a blind choir conductor. Tizi find a dead body, which leads to Massimo and Vittoria, who wants her old job back.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-09
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L'appassionata
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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Fairytale
Overview: Two housewives in America in the 1950s, Mrs Fairytale and her best friend Mrs Emerald, meet every day to share their quiet and bourgeois lives, but the façade of perfection slowly crumbles to reveal terrible secrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-06-25
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Behind the White Glasses
Overview: It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-21
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A Nice Girl Like Me
Overview: Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-23
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Medea
Overview: Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-28
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Louise by the Shore
Overview: On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in the town, abandoned by everyone. As the weather turns for the worse and with no one to keep her company, louise must rely on her past to help her survive the present.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-23
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Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Overview: The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Trio
Overview: The lives of three young people in their teens are linked through their experiences in this drama from director Gian Franco Mingozzi. A girl wins a pop singing contest and begins a successful career, at the same time taking on various lovers, discarding them at whim with no regard to their feelings. A curious teenage boy spies on the lonely bachelor who lives across the street and observes that he always has a handful of bills, so the boy decides to rob him. When the boy can't go through with the crime, he seeks out the bachelor to teach him something about life that the teen feels he is missing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-12
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