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Il Gioco della Notte (1993)
Character: N/A
Nemi (Roma). Some girls are killed and bear a mark on their bodies. Is it perhaps the work of a mad painter?
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L'amore in città (1953)
Character: (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale")
Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
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Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956)
Character: The Nun as a Car Driver
This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
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Infelici e contenti (1992)
Character: N/A
Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a cheat who’s in trouble.
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Ritorno a casa Gori (1996)
Character: Ida
Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.
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La leggenda di Faust (1949)
Character: N/A
Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
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Non ci resta che piangere (1984)
Character: Parisina
Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
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I Vicerè (2007)
Character: N/A
In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.
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La strada (1954)
Character: La Suorina
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
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Moglie per una notte (1952)
Character: N/A
A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
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Mortacci (1989)
Character: N/A
Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.
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