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Blu cobalto (1985)
Character: N/A
Docu-drama about cancer patients. An elderly farmer, believed to be mad by his family, dispenses wisdom to the other patients; an actress takes advantage of the hospitalization to shed light inside herself; a young doctor lives with schizophrenia his condition as a patient.
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Le tecniche dell'assenza (1984)
Character: Self
Videotape produced by Ferruccio Marotti for Roma's University theatre students. A presentation of Carmelo Bene's "Performative matrix": not a performance yet, but it's not just text or ideas. Essentially, a work-in-progress on his Macbeth.
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Canto d'Amore (1982)
Character: N/A
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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Quando una donna non dorme (2000)
Character: Adriana
Sara, a quite librarian reluctant to enter into an affair following one that went wrong, and Bruno, a seemingly cynical guy looking for a one-night stand, become attracted to each other.
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Riccardo III (1981)
Character: Lady Anna Warwick
Riccardo III is a theatre play staged in 1977 and also edited for television and aired in 1981, which Carmelo Bene dedicated to his friend Gilles Deleuze, who wrote a book about it before even seeing it. Bene strips down the original Shakespeare play to the core, rejecting plot and characters, leaving on stage only Riccardo III and his ghosts, the female characters. The TV version is characterized by an exstensive use of close-ups and strong light contrast.
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Porci con le ali (1977)
Character: Carla
Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young people share age, political ideas, dissatisfaction with their parents. Moreover, by attending, they realize they have fallen in love. It is the discovery of sex and passion. After some time, however, their relationship goes into crisis.
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L'ultimo bacio (2001)
Character: Luisa
Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.
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La nottata (1975)
Character: Angela
Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver.
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Armaguedon (1977)
Character: Gabriela
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.
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Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù (1976)
Character: N/A
The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and they organize a celebration which becomes a wild orgy and culminates in death and tragedy.
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Ecce bombo (1978)
Character: Silvia
Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is her favorite, although he does not know what to do with the girl.
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Suspiria (1977)
Character: Sonia
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
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Action (1980)
Character: Doris / Ofelia
Z-movie actor Bruno Martel has hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets fellow actor Doris, who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot get any Shakespearean bookings. One day, during a nervous breakdown, Bruno 'rescues' Doris from the set, leaving town to encounter various absurd situations.
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Body Puzzle (1992)
Character: Mrs. Consorti
A homicide detective realizes that the brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer he's after have something to do with the late husband of a beautiful widow.
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