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Sempre più difficile (1943)
Character: Stella D'Azevegno
Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.
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Il mulino del Po (1949)
Character: L'Argìa
In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy.
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Una breve vacanza (1973)
Character: The mother in law
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
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Miracolo a Milano (1951)
Character: Marta, la signora altezzosa
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
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Café Chantant (1954)
Character: contessa Gerza
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
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Il cappotto (1952)
Character: Landlady
Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
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4 passi fra le nuvole (1942)
Character: The teacher on the bus
A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
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L'ultimo amante (1955)
Character: La portinaia (uncredited)
Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.
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La fuggitiva (1941)
Character: signora Tilde
In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a prominent role. In this sentimental drama, the little girl suffers for and rebels against the loneliness and neglect stemming from the lack of a mother and a loving family setting.
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Il maestro di Vigevano (1963)
Character: Drivaldi
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory.
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I girasoli (1970)
Character: Madre Antonio
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
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La fortuna di essere donna (1956)
Character: Brazilian billionaire
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
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La signora senza camelie (1953)
Character: Clara Manni's Mother
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.
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Totò e i re di Roma (1952)
Character: Armida, moglie di Ercole
An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
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Piccolo mondo antico (1941)
Character: Carlotta
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.
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Stasera niente di nuovo (1942)
Character: N/A
A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.
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