Jean Sorel
Also Known As: Жан Сорель
Biography: Jean Sorel (born 25 September 1934) is a French actor. He also worked in Italian cinema, and Spanish cinema with directors such as Luis Buñuel or Luchino Visconti. However since 1980 he has worked mostly in television. He is married to Italian actress Anna-Maria Ferrero. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Sorel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Birthday: September 25, 1934
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Gender: Male
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Belle de Jour
Overview: Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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The Day of the Jackal
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Overview: A portrait of the mythical Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-96), a unique performer who was one of the kings of European cinema.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-25
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The Grumpy
Overview: Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Murder in a Blue World
Overview: Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-08-22
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Overview: This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-06
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Overview: Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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Rosa la Rose, Public Girl
Overview: Rosa la Rose is the most beautiful prostitute of Les Halles. Every client wants her and she accepts everything. Her pimp is a sympathetic and generous man and there is not much to tell about Rosa’s life. Until one day she meets Julien, a young guy, and falls in love with him. But will it be worthy to leave her life for a madness love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-02
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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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The Four Days of Naples
Overview: September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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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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Short Night of Glass Dolls
Overview: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-28
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I Spit on Your Grave
Overview: Joe Grant, a light-skinned African American, heads to a small Southern town to investigate the lynching death of his brother. He draws the attention of a gorgeous heiress whom he learns may have been involved in the killing.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-26
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Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
Overview: A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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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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The Bronte Sisters
Overview: In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-09
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The Great Kidnapping
Overview: In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
Overview: Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic "Bonnie and Clyde."
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Sandra
Overview: Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-16
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Le Prochain voyage
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-11
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Germinal
Overview: Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-16
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Fils unique
Overview: Fils unique details the emotive relationship between a father and his son who can only communicate their mutual feelings via unspoken words or provocation. It's the confrontation of an adolescent looking for his limits and a father who, through love or cowardice, refuses to set him any. No one is taken in by their silent game in this place "at the end of the world" where apparently nothing could possibly happen to them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-07-07
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Gold of Rome
Overview: Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-26
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Desert of Fire
Overview: A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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A Quiet Place to Kill
Overview: A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-20
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In the Eye of the Hurricane
Overview: Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having a great time together, and then things start happening. The brakes of the car fail, and Ruth narrowly escapes death. The driving equipment goes faulty, and Ruth almost drowns. Michel turns up at their doorstep for an uninvited social call, and Paul asks him in. Ruth suspects Michel of being the person behind the mechanical faults of the car and the diving equipment, but Paul dismisses such a possibility - but he does suggest it to Michel. Then, the heat does go up.
Genres: Romance Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-23
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Highway Pick-Up
Overview: An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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Hypnosis
Overview: Erik, in love with Magda, the fiancée of Georg, his boss, secretly sends her roses every night.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-19
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A View from the Bridge
Overview: Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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Break of Day
Overview: A writer in her fifties spends the summer in her Saint-Tropez home, tending to her garden and animals while reflecting on her past. As nature thrives around her, a handsome young man and a restless woman draw near, bringing the uncertainties of desire and romance. Adapted from Colette's quasi-autobiographical novel.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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L'amica
Overview: The beautiful but neglected wife of a brilliant architect from Milan, betrayed by her husband and mocked by her friend who manages the amorous adventures that she dreams of having, decides to take vengeance of the two, seducing her friend's husband and her young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Weekend, Italian Style
Overview: Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-27
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and their meetings with the Borgias.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-20
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All About Loving
Overview: Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-28
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From a Roman Balcony
Overview: The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-29
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Death Haunts Monica
Overview: The marriage between Federico and Monica is on the rocks. Federico has a mistress named Eva. There is a conspiracy between Monica's friend Elena and Eva to take over the company Eurozone owned by Federico. The situation becomes complicating when Diego appears, Federico's former associate.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-02
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Overview: Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
Genres: History Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Les lionceaux
Overview: Patrice's good looks have made him a consummate womanizer but they also helped him win the heart of Juliette, the daughter of Blanche Eroli, an influential Parisian clothes designer. The latter doesn't want him as a husband for Juliette and would prefer to see her married to Vincent, her right hand man. To this end she offers Patrice a juicy check if he agrees to leave Juliette. He accepts the deal and leaves for the Riviera, where he discovers love in the person of pretty Caroline. But Juliette, who does not love Vincent, traces Patrice as far as Nice. Soon afterwards her dead body is found lying on her former fiancé's bed...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-27
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The Double
Overview: A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-05
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The Protagonists
Overview: An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire from a group of armed citizens acting as police. Bullets fly and violence overtakes the criminal's two henchman, as the thrill-seeking group and the wanted criminal find themselves under attack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-06-07
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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Fifth Floor Neighbour
Overview: Pedro, a handsome gynecologist who lives in Toledo (Spain), does not have just a clientele due to the jealousy that his sex appeal causes in the husbands and boyfriends of his patients. To make matters worse, his mother still treats him like a child and the traditionalist members of his girlfriend's family don't look kindly upon Pedro. But on a trip to Madrid to attend a conference on medicine he meets Antón, his effeminate neighbor of the fifth floor, whose fashion boutique for women thrives thanks to the complicity he knows to establish with his customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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Amori pericolosi
Overview: Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits of victory. In the second (The patrol) a soldier of the Foreign Legion neglects his duties for running after a prostitute. The third segment has as its protagonist a general of the belle époque that goes on a date.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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Trader Horn
Overview: During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a source of platinum try to survive while fleeing British soldiers, dealing with German slavers and troops, natives and cannibals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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L'Herbe rouge
Overview: Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Millions
Overview: A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Love Problems
Overview: Italian drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-14
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Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
Overview: Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe. In their travels, they come across the beautiful Christina, a girl who is being threatened by her brother, Sergio, in order to get the family fortune. But as Giovanna and Franco delve into their story, the double-crossing begins, and no one is sure who is getting tricked.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-07
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
Overview: After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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Closet Children
Overview: A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy childhood secret: their mother committed suicide when their father had instructed Nicolas to keep it. Since the father chased him and forbade Juliette to see him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-12
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The Queens
Overview: Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-21
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Aimée
Overview: Cannes Film Festival 1981
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-06
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Der Mann im Schilf
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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Disorder
Overview: Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the working class Mario who dreams of social climbing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-16
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Amelie or The Time to Love
Overview: The vagaries of love are often tragic, as Amelie ou le Temps d'Aimer seems to say. Directed by Michel Drach in his second try at a feature-length film, the well-wrought romance revolves around the love that develops between Amelie (Marie-Jose Nat) and her cousin Alain (Jean Sorel). Amelie is an orphan who lives with Alain and his family on an island off the coast of France. Alain has dreams of working as a seaman, while Amelie works for Alain's father. The budding romance between the two takes a nose-dive when Alain falls for a glamorous actress who shows up on the island one day. Not mature enough yet to make a wise choice, Alain's betrayal of Amelie turns out to be a grievous mistake.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-01
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Strange Birds
Overview: Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to take refuge there to escape his past? These are two peculiar creatures indeed. Georges is cynical and no longer expects much from life, while Mavie is still brimming with expectation. Yet something magical happens between them, until Georges' dark secret suddenly catches up with him – and Mavie is caught up in something very different...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-31
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The Origin of Violence
Overview: A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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Adélaïde
Overview: A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-07
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Adorable Julia
Overview: A successful and married, although not quite young, stage actress falls for a young man, who is involved with a young actress who uses him to advance her career and upstage the leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-06-08
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L'ultimo Pulcinella
Overview: An Italian actor (Massimo Ranieri) and his son (Domenico Balsamo) stage a show in a Parisian theater.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Casablanca Express
Overview: It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-22
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The Wings of the Dove
Overview: A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-06
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La profanazione
Overview: Dr. Massimo Banti, a surgeon in a hospital, falls in love with Sister Angela, a nun nurse .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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Aspern
Overview: A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-11
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The Dolls
Overview: This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-01-27
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Speaking of the Devil
Overview: Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make it go bankrupt and purchase its land at a low cost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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The Sweet Body of Deborah
Overview: A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-20
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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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Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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One on Top of the Other
Overview: A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-15
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Shedding the Skin
Overview: Documentary giving brief history of the giallo and the background to the film UNA LUCERTOLA CON LA PELLE DI DONNA - featuring interviews with various cast members and special effects technicians of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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One Billion for a Blonde
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Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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À nous deux la vie
Overview: After returning from a long African exile, a sixty-year-old woman leaves her unfaithful husband and starts anew with her five-year-old granddaughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-07-15
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I colori della vita
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-05-16
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Un marito in condominio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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