Gianfranco Barra
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Gianfranco Barra was born on April 5, 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Le talentueux Mr. Ripley (1999), Heaven (2002) and Avanti! (1972).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: April 06, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Banana Joe
Overview: Island farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana processing plant, Joe kicks them out, but the mob boss discovers that Joe is operating without a license. After the mob tips off the authorities and Joe's boat is impounded, he ventures into a big city for the first time to seek help.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Ravanello pallido
Overview: Gemma works as an employee in the office of an agency that is responsible for launching novice models into their first career steps. However, Gemma does not work in a peaceful atmosphere due to her particularly demanding employer and the harassment she suffers from her own clients. Equally unhappy is her love life, which is why her only friend, as well as her trusted hairdresser, dyes her hair pink. It is from that moment that her life changes radically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-02-13
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Screw Loose
Overview: The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and bring him to his deathbed. He does so and finds the man in a sanitarium and must deal with his hijinks all the way back to Milan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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Ma che ci faccio qui!
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
Overview: The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Prickly Pears
Overview: Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survives but, forced to total rest, remains at the mayor's house. The result is an endless series of gags and misunderstandings, due to the stratagems devised by Lorenzo to avoid that the situation becomes the subject of gossip by fellow citizens ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-09
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Desirable Teacher 2
Overview: Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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Gian Burrasca
Overview: Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-11-18
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Love and Anarchy
Overview: Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Policewoman
Overview: A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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Giggi il bullo
Overview: Giggi is a city boy convinced that "in life you must always hit first". And, good or bad, he gains a certain popularity between beatings, dates and blows taken.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-20
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The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn
Overview: Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic affair help Gianni see the error of his ways? Luciano Martino directs this saucy comedy that also stars Aldo Maccione, Alvaro Vitali and Olga Bisera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Overview: Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer
Overview: Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports Lazio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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Classe mista 3ª A
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-12-30
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Heaven
Overview: Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug overdoses. Philippa has repeatedly contacted the police with information about Turin's biggest drug dealer but, complicit in his dealings, they have completely ignored her. So Philippa decides to dole out her own form of justice with a homemade bomb -- setting her off on a journey from young widow to fugitive on the run.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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Giovanni Falcone
Overview: The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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On the Dark Continent
Overview: In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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Scorpion with Two Tails
Overview: An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Vola sciusciù
Overview: by joseph sargent
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-30
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School Teacher in the House
Overview: Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's dirty old men. The resourceful boys drill a well-concealed hole in the wall between Signorina Luisa's flat and the bedroom of the landlord's son, Marcello Busatti, allowing them a spectacular view of their spectacular neighbor. Marcello quickly becomes infatuated with Luisa, but is also conflicted regarding her supposed profession. Eventually Luisa learns of Fernando's philandering nature, and after a vigorous misunderstanding, satisfies Marcello's unrequited lust/love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-28
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Playing the Field
Overview: A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-23
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The New Monsters
Overview: A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-15
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Execution Squad
Overview: Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-25
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Overview: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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The Jokes
Overview: In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-02-06
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School Days
Overview: When the local science teacher hurts herself during a failed experiment and ends up in hospital, she is replaced by young and sexy Stevania Marini. Barely out of school herself, Stefania finds herself the object of affection for several men, including a young baron and and even most of her male students. One of these, Andrea Balsamo is part of the family with whom Stefania is staying and as such has a stronger foothold than most of the other men in town
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-10
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Alice
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-06-25
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-28
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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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It's Happening Tomorrow
Overview: 1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.
Genres: Adventure Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-18
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Up at the Villa
Overview: Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-14
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L'altra metà del cielo
Overview: Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-04
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The Baron's Mazurka
Overview: A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Po valley has for many centuries been the subject of worship. The baron, crippled and an atheist, one day sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the Saint Who was martyred there in the Middle Ages. Immediately the aristocrat converts and decides to give his belongings to a religious institute. In fact, he was a victim of a cheating and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-22
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Sugar, Honey and Pepper
Overview: Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Be Sick… It's Free
Overview: Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-24
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Good Like Bread
Overview: Lisetta (Carmen Russo) a high-priced call-girl, that entertained her eccentric clients in her apartment and in empty theaters over opera! She met Filippo (Saverio Marconi), a bumbling astronomer , and after a series of mishaps, they got married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-02-06
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Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Overview: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-31
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A Bear Called Arthur
Overview: A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan, she is a secret agent who has her own reasons for wanting to meet him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-02-14
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Tigers in Lipstick
Overview: 8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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Taste of the Sea
Overview: A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Miracolo italiano
Overview: 7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-21
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A Dinner for Them to Meet
Overview: Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout Europe, each with a different mother, come to his side. The sisters meet to decide what to do with their father, establishing a genuine tie for the very first time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Il pranzo della domenica
Overview: The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-04-29
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The Seduction of Mimi
Overview: Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer – but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-19
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Why
Overview: Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Dirty Linen
Overview: The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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Come tu mi vuoi
Overview: Giada is a overachieving student who works to pay for college. Riccardo is a spoiled brat who answers her tutoring ad in order to improve his abysmal grades. She's shy and homely. He's handsome and brazen. As they say, opposites attract.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-10-09
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Silent Action
Overview: A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-05
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Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later
Overview: More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-02
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The Suspicious Death of a Minor
Overview: Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he decides to go after her killers. During his investigation, he enters a world of intrigue and obfuscation that leave an endless trail of blood.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-12
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The Boss and the Worker
Overview: Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-20
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Gole ruggenti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-06-01
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Shadows Unseen
Overview: When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-24
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Two Brothers in Trinity
Overview: Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-26
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Lion of the Desert
Overview: This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-17
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Eccezzziunale... veramente
Overview: Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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The Invisible Wall
Overview: June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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La passione
Overview: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Bread and Chocolate
Overview: An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-05
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Dirty Weekend
Overview: A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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The Gamble
Overview: When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost everything to a German countess while gambling.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-28
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Zero in condotta
Overview: Sixties. A group of kids are in their last year of high school. Renato, a young student, is in love with the beautiful Manuela but she does not reciprocate her feelings. One day Renato, on the occasion of his parents' departure, decides to hold a party at his house to which he invites Manuela and two other companions, but a few days later he ends up being suspended from school after having peeked into the girls' gym. So the protagonist plans to leave for Sweden in search of easy conquests but on the train he meets a beautiful lady who intends to betray her husband. Renato is unaware that she is the wife of one of her professors and the situation gets complicated.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-11-03
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Love in 4 Easy Lessons
Overview: Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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The Union
Overview: A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-29
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Avanti!
Overview: A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-17
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Don't Torture a Duckling
Overview: A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Double Murder
Overview: Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Only You
Overview: Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to marry podiatrist Dwayne in 10 days, Faith receives a phone call from Dwayne's old classmate named Damon Bradley who is on his way to Venice. Faith tries to catch him at the airport but just misses him so she impulsively decides to fly to Venice hoping to finally encounter the man of her dreams; accompanying her on the trip is her sister-in-law and childhood best friend, Kate, who has just left her husband, Faith's brother Larry.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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Flight of the Innocent
Overview: The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Il lumacone
Overview: A struggling chef and a kind-hearted thief form an unlikely bond on the streets of Rome, finding hope and a chance to rebuild their lives together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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Tre donne - La sciantosa
Overview: La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-26
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Overview: Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Overview: Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-13
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Terapia Roosevelt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-06-01
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18.000 giorni fa
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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