Catherine Spaak
Also Known As: Катрин Спаак, کاترین اسپایک
Biography: Catherine Spaak (3 April 1945 – 17 April 2022) was a French-Italian actress, singer, model, and media personality. A member of the Spaak family, she was known as an iconic "It girl" in Italy during the 1960s, becoming a star of commedia all'italiana films, before later becoming prominent as a talk show host and media personality. Description above from the Wikipedia article Catherine Spaak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Birthday: April 03, 1945
Deathday: April 17, 2022
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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I più grandi di tutti
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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For Love and Gold
Overview: A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-07
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Il Sorpasso
Overview: Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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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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Take a Hard Ride
Overview: After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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Te lo leggo negli occhi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-09-03
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Circle of Love
Overview: In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Made in Italy
Overview: A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Catherine and I
Overview: Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him the key to solving all of his problems: Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than any human.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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The Libertine
Overview: A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Sweet Deceptions
Overview: Francesca, a seventeen-year-old Roman, is finally sure she has found love. Almost sure. She spends the day observing other lovers' behaviors and considering whether she is ready to jump. Her age notwithstanding, this movie is more about coming of age than about improper or illegal romantic relationships.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-15
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La calda vita
Overview: Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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My Darling Slave
Overview: Demetrio Cultrera, is a young rich car dealership Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful and rich Rosalba Giordano. After their wedding, Rosalba's attitude changes when she decides to try turning Demetrio into the modern husband she'd like. This causes a problem, as Demetrius prefers sticking to what he sees as more traditional gender roles. Despite her attempts, Rosalba's persistent attempts to convert him to the rituals of high society, enlightened, or feminine tastes do little more than annoy him. Strongly determined to build a stable relationship with a woman who can fulfill his visions of peaceful married life, he leaves for the Amazon, where he is offered the opportunity to choose and buy a new wife as a slave. The choice falls on the beautiful and docile Manua that he trains to act the way he'd like, then proudly shows to friends and to his former wife, attracting curiosity, envy, and his ex-wife's resentment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-04
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Dear Parents
Overview: An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-09
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Overview: In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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The Empty Canvas
Overview: An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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Kiss the Other Sheik
Overview: Italian comedy film in three segments
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-28
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Story of a Cloistered Nun
Overview: Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-09
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The Precarious Bank Teller
Overview: The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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Burnt By A Scalding Passion
Overview: Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina" on TV. They commute every day from a little town in Lombardy to Milan and during the journeys they meet and fall in love. They suffer from being unable to realize their love without hurting their marriages but they don't know their respective spouses share a hot relationship...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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Crazy Desire
Overview: A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-15
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L'uomo privato
Overview: Between Turin and Pisa unfolds the life of a socially and professionally successful university professor of law. Endowed with great intelligence and an elusive charm, the man and the professor lead a “withdrawn” existence that occasionally borders on the beds of casual lovers. Determined to control reality and keep it carefully at arm's length, he becomes involved despite himself in the suicide death of a student. The boy, obsessed with the professor's life, has painstakingly recorded his lectures, his behavior, his habits...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-02-21
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Adultery Italian Style
Overview: A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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Eighteen in the Sun
Overview: An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-11
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Diary of a Telephone Operator
Overview: Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-06
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With What Love, With What Love
Overview: After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andrea discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best friend. Andrea decides to forgive them, but as time passes he realizes that he wants to win Francesca back and decides to play all his cards during his rival's absence...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-29
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Mademoiselle de Maupin
Overview: Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-13
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The Girl from Parma
Overview: Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-13
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The Boxer
Overview: Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-02
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Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi
Overview: For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a supposed extraterrestrial who is actually a young Swedish man who "works" for certain American psychologists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Cause of Divorce
Overview: A couple is short of money and got marital problems. Sylverte knows Enrica and intent to marry her but before he needs divorce from his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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Promessa d'amore
Overview: Three orphans that grew up in an institution and refused to be separated by adoption meet again after becoming adults at the wedding of one of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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A Murder Is a Murder
Overview: Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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The Man with the Balloons
Overview: Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-08
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The Little Nuns
Overview: Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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Three Nights of Love
Overview: Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-08
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Hotel
Overview: This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-19
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Six Days a Week
Overview: Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deception by impersonating her roommate Silvana who is a real life airline hostess. She lies to the count and the dentist about her flight schedules and her whereabouts so she can spend three days a week with each of them. She spends the remaining day of the week with the student who thinks she is a fellow student. One day surprising news of the real Silvana break out. Comedy and confusion ensure when Maria is forced to come up with a more elaborate scheme to cover her tracks and keep her boyfriends happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-22
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Horse Fever
Overview: Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Honey
Overview: A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-05-08
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The Birds of Baden-Baden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-05-02
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Alice
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-06-25
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Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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The Way of the Baboons
Overview: In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On the death of it, rather than return to Italy, Fiorenza decides to spend some time there, and met the extravagant Getulio, determined to make him discover Africa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-27
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Three Faces of Sin
Overview: Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
Overview: As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but his lover at home, Anna, daughter of Karl's general manager Dr. Werner. Christian has a bad eye in Veronica, the woman who became Karl's much younger lover 'by travel fate', the first thing soon proved untrue. But by then, the Schneibel firm and estate have been taken over according to an elaborate conspiracy, which Christian takes on with some help from his friends.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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Secret Scandal
Overview: Marguerite receives as a gift from a filmmaker friend: a very modern, automatic camera, complete with remote control. Her life will change dramatically, as the machine reveals to her not only her husband's betrayal with her best friend, but also the desolation of her own existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Overview: Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Ti sposo ma non troppo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-04-20
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Tandem
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-30
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La vacanza
Overview: An upcoming film directed by Enrico Iannaccone. Valerio (Antonio Folletto) is a thirty year old man who leads a self-destructive life. The still beautiful Carla (Catherine Spaak) is an ex-magistrate, who begins to show the first signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's. Contrary to Valerio she has an overwhelming desire to live. These two tormented souls become friends and together they find the strength to confront the pains and secrets of their past. They are both related to a mysterious woman, Anneke (Veruschka von Lehndorff ). This is a journey of two people who are so different and yet so similar, sharing their most painful emotions. It will lead them to the discovery of a new way of loving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-09-03
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Sex Can Be Difficult
Overview: A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-24
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La Martingale
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-13
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Le Trou
Overview: Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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The Cat o' Nine Tails
Overview: A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-01
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E se poi se ne vanno?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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A Rather Complicated Girl
Overview: Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Overview: Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
Genres: Romance Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-10
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Dalla parte giusta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Night Is Made for Stealing
Overview: A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of violating one. A wealthy jeweler's new safe is targeted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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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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Cyrano
Overview: Italian musical adaptation of the french play "Cyrano de Bergerac" featuring Domenico Modugno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Joy - Scherzi di gioia
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-09-24
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