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The Taming of the Shrew
Assistant Director
event1967 star_border 6.9
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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.
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Assistant Director
event1973 star_border 7.2
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A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
The Big Night
Assistant Director
event1959 star_border 6.1
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The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...
The Employee
First Assistant Director
event1960 star_border 5.8
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Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
Time of Indifference
First Assistant Director
event1964 star_border 6.1
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A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
My Wife's Enemy
First Assistant Director
event1959 star_border 5.2
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Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.
Hell in the City
First Assistant Director
event1959 star_border 7.4
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A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Neapolitan Carousel
First Assistant Director
event1954 star_border 6.5
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Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
First Assistant Director
event1960 star_border 6.5
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Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
Fontamara
First Assistant Director
event1980 star_border 6.2
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Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
Attention
First Assistant Director
event1985 star_border 4.1
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On the plane back to Rome, a well-known journalist indulges in an unbridled and somewhat melodramatic erotic fantasy involving his estranged wife and his stepdaughter.
The Head of the Family
First Assistant Director
event1967 star_border 6.7
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A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
First Assistant Director
event1976 star_border 6.7
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An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Watch Out, We're Mad
First Assistant Director
event1974 star_border 7.4
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After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
Christmas Holidays
First Assistant Director
event1983 star_border 6.2
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Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
Made in Italy
Co-Director
event1965 star_border 6
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A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Operation Snafu
First Assistant Director
event1970 star_border 5.5
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World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.
Rocco and His Brothers
First Assistant Director
event1960 star_border 8
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When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
The Leopard
First Assistant Director
event1963 star_border 7.7
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As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
Sandra
First Assistant Director
event1965 star_border 7
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Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
Dear Michele
First Assistant Director
event1976 star_border 5.4
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Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Lovers and Liars
First Assistant Director
event1979 star_border 4.4
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An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
Hurricane Rosie
First Assistant Director
event1980 star_border 4.2
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Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the bet, but his hand is broken, his career ruined. He starts working on a fair; there he meets Hurricane Rosy the first time. When he sees her the next time, she's star of Mike Fernando's women wrestling show. They passionately fall in love, but their their love must survive her rising fame and his violent jealousy
An Average Little Man
First Assistant Director
event1977 star_border 8
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A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.
The Swindlers
First Assistant Director
event1959 star_border 6.2
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Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
First Assistant Director
event1952 star_border 6
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The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
High School
First Assistant Director
event1954 star_border 6
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It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.
The Palermo Connection
First Assistant Director
event1990 star_border 6.2
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Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
Towards Evening
First Assistant Director
event1990 star_border 7.1
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Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
Montecarlo Gran Casinò
First Assistant Director
event1987 star_border 5.5
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The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.
Leoni al sole
First Assistant Director
event1961 star_border 5.2
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The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.
La Cage aux Folles II
Assistant Director
event1980 star_border 6
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In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
Romeo and Juliet
Assistant Director
event1968 star_border 7.4
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Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Bellissima
Continuity
event1952 star_border 7.8
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Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
Bread and Chocolate
First Assistant Director
event1974 star_border 7.3
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An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
The Most Wonderful Moment
First Assistant Director
event1957 star_border 5.8
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Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth
The Sleazy Uncle
First Assistant Director
event1989 star_border 5
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A businessman has trouble reuniting with his roguish con-artist uncle, especially when the uncle propositions school-age girls and comes on to his nephew's mistress.
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
First Assistant Director
event1968
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Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.
Burn!
Co-Director
event1969 star_border 6.8
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The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Camping
First Assistant Director
event1958 star_border 7
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Two young lovers, Tao and Valeria, decide to go and enjoy a beautiful holiday in privacy, away from the daily routine and their parents. After a journey full of adventures, aboard a sidecar, they find themselves in a campsite populated by Germans.
The Witches
Assistant Director
event1967 star_border 6.1
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Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
The Stranger
Assistant Director
event1967 star_border 6.8
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Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.
The Three Faces
Assistant Director
event1965 star_border 5.6
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Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini and Franco Indovina. First segment: Il Provino; second segment: Gli amanti celebri; third segment: Latin Lover.
Abandoned
Co-Director
event1955 star_border 6.8
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A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
Midnight Pleasures
First Assistant Director
event1975 star_border 5.7
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Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. The lone female jury member compares her life to Tina's and, believing her to be innocent, sets out on her own to find a missing witness that can prove Tina's innocence.
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