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Luna nova (1955)
Character: N/A
A young man leaves the countryside and falls for the owner of a nightclub.
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Il conte di Matera (1957)
Character: Greta Tramontana
Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.
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Les Galets d'Étretat (1972)
Character: Alny
Following a car breakdown, Miss Annie, director of a weight loss center, meets a certain Mr. Kelvo, a car champion. But instead of helping her, he rapes her. She decides to take revenge and follows him.
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Un dono semplice (2000)
Character: 主演
Following the death of his wife, Thomas, a cynical executive at a multinational corporation, travels to India to join his daughter Beatrice, who is there on a volunteer mission, to inform her of her mother's passing. During his stay, confronted with the shocking reality of the place, Thomas will rethink his company's market strategies.
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Pietro Germi - Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo (2009)
Character: Self
This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. His favorite actresses such as Clau
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La rossa (1955)
Character: Maria
Amelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper. To her father and her fellow villagers, she gives the impression that she is married to a rich gentleman. In reality she is only the friend of Pierre Dupont, an elegant Parisian bandit. Dupont, however, actually gives the girl a certain economic comfort. Later Pierre arrives in the country incognito, being wanted for a large theft of jewels in Paris, and Amelia, her lover and accomplice, helps him to hide.
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Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)
Character: Claire de Beaulieu
Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.
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Ripudiata (1955)
Character: N/A
A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her name.
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Donne sbagliate (2007)
Character: Anna Miglio
Silvia Soriani, widow of a merchant associated with the Camorra, is arrested by the police. The commissioner and the judge Puglisi Corelli accuse her of collaborating with the mobster Franco Maresco. In jail meet three dams, Anna, Giulia and Elvira, who have been victims of Maresco. From this moment the four women join forces to find and kill the brawler.
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Bugie bianche (1981)
Character: Luisa Herrighe
A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him.
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...e Napoli Canta! (1953)
Character: Maria
Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two.
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Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale (1999)
Character: Sanna
Old Sanna lives in the mountain village of Gschaid. At Christmas, she receives a long-awaited visit: Sanna's son with his wife and children. At the same time, mountaineers make a gruesome discovery. The body of a man is recovered from the ice of the Alpine glacier. It is Martin, who saved the lives of Sanna and her brother many years ago. Sanna's grandchildren are eager to hear the whole story. And so Sanna tells them about the two hostile villages of Gschaid and Millsdorf and a miraculous rescue from the ice and snow at Christmas.
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I Love N.Y. (1987)
Character: Anna Cotone
Photographer Mario Cotone is hired to cover a big N.Y. actor. When his pretty daughter Nicole Yeats (N.Y.) and Mario fall in love, this angers her father and hurts Mario's work which further infuriates his boss. Will love prevail?
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Occhi Verde Veleno (2001)
Character: Contessa Marta Dandolo
Federica Felici is a lawyer who has always been involved in cases of small marginalized, but one day is to defend Laura Conti, which is part of one of the most important families of the city, from the charge of murder.
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Amarsi un po'... (1984)
Character: Principessa Cellini
In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident...
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Not With My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
Character: Julie Ferris
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
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Beautiful Like a Poem (2020)
Character: Self (archive footage)
I have a lot of interest and respect for classic cinema. I tried to make a film with at least 20 portraits of classical actresses whose films I'm familiar with. Difficult choices from all over the world. They each have their own beauty.
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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Character: Mrs. Ford
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.
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Un beau monstre (1971)
Character: Nathalie Revent
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
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Le Regard de Charles (2019)
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
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Vite perdute (1959)
Character: Anna
A gang of violent criminals holds captive a group of young women and men in an abandoned mining complex.
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Lettera napoletana (1954)
Character: Anna Esposito
Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship with "Anna"?
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Le Temps des loups (1970)
Character: Stella Menzoni
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.
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Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna (1959)
Character: Caterina Sforza
Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life.
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Les Hussards (1955)
Character: Elisa
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.
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Le Bambole (1965)
Character: Luisa (segment "La Telefonata")
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.
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Il vetturale del Moncenisio (1954)
Character: Jeanne Thibaud
During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.
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Arabella (1967)
Character: Arabella
A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother.
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Bluebeard (1972)
Character: Elga
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
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Giuochi particolari (1970)
Character: Claude
Forty-year-old Sandro is married to Claude. Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self-confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark enters their life.
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La cicala (1980)
Character: Wilma Malinverni
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
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Casanova '70 (1965)
Character: Gigliola
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
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Latin Lover (2015)
Character: Rita
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
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Le diciottenni (1955)
Character: Maria Rovani
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
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The Statue (1971)
Character: Rhonda Bolt
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?
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Signore e signori (1966)
Character: Milena Zulian
An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.
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Les Bonnes Causes (1963)
Character: Gina Bianchi, nurse
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
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Zanna Bianca (1973)
Character: Sister Evangelina
The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.
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L'Arbre de Noël (1969)
Character: Catherine Graziani
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.
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Sapore di mare (1983)
Character: Adriana Balestra
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.
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Assault on a Queen (1966)
Character: Rosa Lucchesi
A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.
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Lo scapolo (1955)
Character: (uncredited)
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
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Die Jungen von der Paulstraße (2003)
Character: Edit Horváth
Coming from a modest background, little Nemecsek faces a tough test in life at an early age: his mother has to leave home after his father discovers her affair with the wealthy merchant Kovacs. At the same time, Nemecsek is fighting for a playground on Paul Street. But the property belongs to old Jan. Only with the help of Edit, his friend's grandmother, who recognizes Jan as her old childhood sweetheart, can the property be won as a playground. Soon, the beloved playground is in danger of being lost not only to a rival youth gang, but also to Julia, Janos' ex-wife. She has big construction plans for the property. The leader of the "Boys of Paul Street" is Boka. His father is a gambler and cannot fight his addiction. One day, Boka has to watch as his father narrowly escapes death in a duel. Nemecsek fights to the bitter end. Will he win the battle...?
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La ragazza e il generale (1967)
Character: Ada
A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
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Un militare e mezzo (1960)
Character: Anita Rossi
Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.
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La Reine Margot (1994)
Character: Catherine de Médicis
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
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La donna del giorno (1957)
Character: Liliana Atteni
A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.
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Deserto di fuoco (1997)
Character: Christine Duvivier
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.
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Le Serpent (1973)
Character: Mrs. Annabel Lee
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
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Made in Italy (1965)
Character: Virginia (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 1")
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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La Vingt-cinquième Heure (1967)
Character: Suzanna Moritz
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
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Tenderly (1968)
Character: Yolanda
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.
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Meglio Vedova (1968)
Character: Rosa Minniti
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.
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Le dolci signore (1967)
Character: Luisa
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
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La donna del lago (1965)
Character: Tilde
While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
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Il mondo dei miracoli (1959)
Character: Laura Damiani
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
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Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
Character: Self - in Cannes
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
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Balzac (1999)
Character: Madame de Berny
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.
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I ragazzi di via Panisperna (1989)
Character: Signora Maiorana
The enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys.
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Marcello, una vita dolce (2006)
Character: Self (archive footage)
After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.
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Coplan prend des risques (1964)
Character: Ingrid Carlsen
In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.
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Eva (1962)
Character: Francesca Ferrara
Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.
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Al di là del bene e del male (1977)
Character: Elizabeth Nietzsche
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.
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Il cardinale Lambertini (1954)
Character: Maria di Roccasibalda
Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.
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Miss Right (1982)
Character: Anna
After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one.
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Ernesto (1979)
Character: Ernesto's Mother
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.
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Buon Natale, buon anno (1989)
Character: Elvira
In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment. Absence, in this case, refreshes their memory of the love they have shared, and they take to meeting one another furtively in hotel rooms for sex and affection. One summer, as each of their daughters families takes them on separate vacations, they have had enough, and elope, finding contentment as lighthouse keepers off the coast of Sicily.
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Una vergine per il principe (1965)
Character: Giulia
Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity
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5 marines per 100 ragazze (1961)
Character: Grazia
Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.
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La Tulipe noire (1964)
Character: Caroline 'Caro' Plantin
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
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Va' dove ti porta il cuore (1996)
Character: Olga
The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.
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Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore (2014)
Character: N/A
No other country in the world has the same kind of affection and admiration toward Walt Disney and his art and characters as Italy. His movies are legendary and his stories belong to the collective imagination of generations of Italians who grew up with his world of dreams and hopes. This documentary explores this love story.
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Romolo e Remo (1961)
Character: Julia
Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.
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Il ritorno di Zanna Bianca (1974)
Character: Sister Evangelina
Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada.
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Roma bene (1971)
Character: Silvia Santi
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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Le ali della vita (2000)
Character: N/A
The end of the 1950s: Rosanna returns as a music teacher to the claustrophobic confines of the convent boarding school from which she escaped as a young girl. Her happy, understanding ways, unconventional teaching methods and deep love of music soon win her the hearts of her girl pupils. Vithold, a nice young doctor, is also fascinated by Rosanna and gradually manages to convince her of his deep feelings for her. Rosanna encounters rejection and hatred from Alberta, the Mother Superior, who has a deep belief in strict discipline and order, as well as from her close associate Sister Federica, who is severe to the point of inhumanity.
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Il giorno più corto (1963)
Character: Naja, una spia austriaca
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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