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Terra madre (1931)
Character: Daisy
The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.
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Ragazzo (1934)
Character: Principessita
The film follows Giovanni, a working-class orphan living in Rome, who realizes that his criminal lifestyle is wrong and becomes a devout fascist.
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La figlia del forzato (1954)
Character: N/A
After many years, a widowed Countess meets a former lover who lives with his daughter and her tutor.
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Tre storie proibite (1952)
Character: Paola
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
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Furia (1947)
Character: Clara
Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.
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Sono stato io! (1937)
Character: Lisa
A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.
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Margherita da Cortona (1950)
Character: N/A
A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
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La Wally (1932)
Character: Afra
Old fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountain peak when she is separated from the man she loves. When he later attempts to rejoin her, disaster results.
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Amore e chiacchiere (1958)
Character: Signora Sonia Paseroni
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
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Acciaio (1933)
Character: Gina
In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
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La canzone dell'amore (1930)
Character: Anna
A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
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I bambini ci guardano (1943)
Character: Nina
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
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Cavalleria rusticana (1939)
Character: N/A
This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.
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La Regina di Saba (1952)
Character: Tabuia, leader of the handmaidens
The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
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La telefonista (1932)
Character: Clara Betti
Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
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