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Compagna di viaggio (1996)
Character: Pepe
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue.
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Il giardino dei ciliegi (1992)
Character: N/A
Livia returns to her lavish property and cherishes her cherry orchard as a symbol of changing times - she will have to sell her property and abandon her employees whose lives depend on the once flourishing estate.
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Di mamma non ce n'è una sola (1974)
Character: Marcello Giandomenico Filippo Maria, the son
Marcello, the scion of a noble and rich family, is morbidly obsessed with his mother, Countess Elisabetta di Tarcento. When she dies, things go haywire as people around him reveal their true identity and he gets a new motherly companion.
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Le tue mani sul mio corpo (1970)
Character: Andrea
Andrea, the only son of a rich publisher, is a neurotic young man obsessed by his mother. He is dominated by uncontrollable impulses and suicidal fantasies, while his regressive behaviour makes him lonely and frustrated. Incapable of having normal sexual relationships, he spies on his stepmother's adulterous affairs and is obsessed by Carol, a young American girl he secretly films (even when she's making love with her boyfriend), and whom he clumsily courts. Finally, Andrea wins Carol over but is still tormented by the fear of losing his own private world of memories and macabre games...
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Giuseppe De Santis (2008)
Character: Himself - Host
A brief tribute to the great director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.
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Càlamo (1976)
Character: Riccardo
Riccardo, belonging to an upper-middle class family from Puglia, studies religion in a Swiss boarding school. He has an incomplete relationship with his half-sister Stefania, who one day announces his engagement and the next marriage. Riccardo, wearing his cassock below, desperately tries to conquer the now reluctant half-sister.
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Il tempo dell'amore (1999)
Character: Doctor
Il Tempo Dell'Amore (A Time to Love) is an omnibus film of three different love stories that take place in three different eras and locations. The common element is the theme: love causes a lot of pain.
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L'ultimo giorno di scuola prima delle vacanze di Natale (1975)
Character: Erasmo
On the Apennines of Emilia in 1944 three fascists stop and seize a battered bus carrying several women, two men and a poor student named Athos, as well as the driver. The three republicans, who are collaborating with the Nazis, want to escape to Switzerland, but they begin to think that anyone who is not a fascist like them is a traitor and eventually cruelly kill all the passengers on the bus, while Athos is left naked and dying on the bank of a creek.
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Canto d'Amore (1982)
Character: Giulio
Man and woman wish to make room for the best feelings that move them and to guide their lives together in mutual love.
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L'accertamento (2001)
Character: Giacomo Toschi
It is the story of the meeting of two men, presumed childhood friends, of which one remembers every detail, with nostalgia and perhaps resentment, while the other pretends to remember only because he is distressed by a tax assessment and his friend is a tax official. Metaphor of two opposite ways of looking at one's roots, which one cannot free oneself from without risking losing one's identity.
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Fine Secolo (1999)
Character: Achille Rinaldi
Luca Magni investigates the atrocious murder of a girl, Benedetta. The young victim was the only daughter of Bruno Corti, driver of the Rinaldi family, owner of a large industrial group.
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Il signor Diavolo (2019)
Character: Don Dario Zanini
In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.
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Escalation (1968)
Character: Luca Lambertinghi
1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties, while his father wants him to take the reins of the family business. He plots to have him kidnapped and placed in a sanitarium, where the young man undergoes electroshock therapy until 'normalised'. Luca is then made to marry a woman who is actually a psychiatrist hired to turn him into a perfect businessman.
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Porzûs (1997)
Character: Galvano
In 1945, at the huts above Porzûs, a hundred partisans from the Garibaldi Brigade and the Gap massacred about twenty partisans from Osoppo. They were commanded by Geko, who later went around saying that the group was accused of treason and collusion with the fascists, all to avoid consequences. But at the end of the war, Storno, who had escaped the massacre, sentenced Geko and his men to life imprisonment in absentia.
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Lion of the Desert (1981)
Character: Captain Bedendo
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
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Fiorile (1993)
Character: Luigi
The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
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Vergogna Schifosi (1969)
Character: Carletto
An old pornographic photo and anonymous letters are sent to two men and a woman, who now enjoy a respectable social status, accusing them and questioning things they have done in their lives. Unique and amazing Morricone score
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Verdi (1982)
Character: Arrigo Boito
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem.
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Respiri (2018)
Character: Michele
Francis, a forty year old engineer, after a mysterious disgrace he retired to live in a village on Lake Iseo. With still little daughter occupies the former family villa, a magnificent Art Nouveau building on the lake shore. In the big house there is, however, another mysterious person, of which only perceives the echo of the respirator that keeps her alive. But other presences no less disturbing, and certainly more dangerous, they move around the villa. What happened to the man and his family? What secrets hide? Marta will know, childhood friend always in love with him, awaken Francis from the torpor in which he has fallen, and free him from the pain? And most importantly, how many succeed they gravitate around the house to escape the danger that threatens their lives? Breaths tells how the pain can profoundly transform a man crushed by memories, guilt, fears. He also wants to show the extent to which an individual is able to accept the existence paths without being a victim.
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Metti, una sera a cena (1969)
Character: Ric
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees where everyone's morals are challenged in the wake of the sexual revolution.
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Urla dipinte (2025)
Character: Sé stesso
A feature length documentary on the 1976 film 'The House with Laughing Windows' by Pupi Avati.
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Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970)
Character: Giorgio
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Mussolini - Ultimo atto (1974)
Character: Pedro
In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.
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Una sconfinata giovinezza (2010)
Character: Emilio
Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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Mio padre Monsignore (1971)
Character: Carlo Alberto Maggiolino
Against the backdrop of the Unification of Italy, two men have the dream of being recognized by their respective, illustrious, fathers: a bishop and the King.
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The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Character: Gregorio (uncredited)
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
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L'altro Adamo (2014)
Character: Adamo
An elderly man attempts to live out his fantasies by watching them in a film.
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Il giovane normale (1969)
Character: Giordano
Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a trio of Americans (an "open" couple and a homosexual) sightseeing in Italy. The husband is an older and worldly professor of archaeology while his wife is interested in exploring living things. The young hitchhiker is seduced by the beautiful wife, while her husband continues to gaze at ancient ruins.
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Noi tre (1984)
Character: Leopold Mozart
1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with “normal” boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.
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Solamente nero (1978)
Character: Stefano D'Archangelo
A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.
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Ultimo minuto (1987)
Character: Renzo DI Carlo
Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.
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Le strelle nel fosso (1979)
Character: Silvano
A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leading to an almost mythic ending.
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The Garden That Doesn't Exist (2022)
Character: Self
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.
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Fratelli e sorelle (1992)
Character: Aldo
After twenty years of marriage, Gloria discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. It' a terrible trauma and she decides to stay with her sister in USA in St. Louis. She takes with her Matteo and Francesco, her two sons. Matteo wastes no time in settling into his new life, but Francesco find it more difficult, being shy and full of complexes.
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Fuori Mira (2014)
Character: Carlo
The sun rises over a quiet residential neighborhood. Three gunshots shatter the peace and quiet of the residents. Who fired the shots? And why was an African man targeted? The search for the culprit gradually reveals the dark side of a community where integration seemed to be working perfectly. Misunderstanding turns into xenophobia and rejection, indifference into hatred and violence. The darkest traits of each individual come to the surface. With the balance broken, will this community be able to hold on until sunset?
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Corpo d'amore (1972)
Character: The Young Stranger
An estranged father and son on holiday bond over the beautiful foreign girl they find unconscious on the beach.
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