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The Last Days of Pompeii
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyIn Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...
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Shadow of the Eagle
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturyDuring the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
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The Red Danube
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sBeautiful Maria...the four lives that touched hers were never the same again! — A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
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Prince of Foxes
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th Century The 14th CenturyKing of Romantic Epics! — In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
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The Walls of Malapaga
🇮🇹 ItalyA French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
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Les amants de Vérone
🇮🇹 ItalyAngelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Raffaele, the Maglia family's dubious tout...
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Bride of Vengeance
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyA female Borgia is sent out to live up to the family name by killing someone, but falls in love with her intended victim. [IMDB]
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The Pirates of Capri
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturyA group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
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Heaven Over the Marshes
🇮🇹 Italy The 1900sUnlike most Italian films of the 1940s, Augusto Genina's Cielo Sulla Palude opened in Venice rather than Rome. The film's American title was Heaven Over the Marshes, and indeed most of the story is set in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes on the outskirts of Rome. This was the home of Maria Goretti, a pious young girl who was murdered by her would-be seducer. For reasons elucidated in the course of the film, Maria's short time on earth made her worthy of Sainthood, which was actually bestowed upon her shortly after the release of this film. Maria Goretti is well-played by Ines Orsini. Cielo Sulla Palude served as the comeback feature for director Augusto Genina, whose previous pro-fascist films had caused him to be blacklisted after WW II.
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The Glass Mountain
🇮🇹 Italy The 1930sAn aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
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That Dangerous Age
🇮🇹 ItalySet on the beautiful Isle of Capri, a neglected long-suffering wife of workaholic, Brian, and by his neglect he has thrown her into the arms of Michael Barcleigh. Brian falls ill and Cathy breaks off her relationship with Michael to stay at his side. In hopes of avoiding a scene, Cathy passes Michael along to her stepdaughter, Monica.
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The Golden Madonna
🇮🇹 ItalyPatricia (Phyllis Calvert) throws away a painting members of her Italian village consider to be extremely lucky. She goes to great lengths in her attempts to locate it again and bring it back.
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Sicilian Uprising
🇮🇹 Italy The 13th CenturySicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.
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Bicycle Thieves
🇮🇹 ItalyThe Prize Picture They Want to Censor! — A working man's livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle.
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La Terra Trema
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sIn rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
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Appointment with Murder
🇮🇹 ItalyThe Hottest Date Mr. Suspense EVER HAD With Miss Mystery — The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert. This one has the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
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That Lady in Ermine
🇮🇹 Italy The 1860sGAY, MUSICAL COMEDY...SPARKLING WITH SPICY SITUATIONS! — Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...
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Toto Tours Italy
🇮🇹 ItalyA professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
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Under the Sun of Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sA lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.
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Snowbound
🇮🇹 ItalyGood and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
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Without Pity
🇮🇹 ItalyThe Story of a Negro G.I. and a Girl Campfollower! — An Italian sex worker falls in love with a black American soldier during World War II.
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Assunta Spina
🇮🇹 Italy The 1900sAssunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
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Lost Youth
🇮🇹 ItalyIn impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to find out more. He falls for a pretty fellow student, Luisa, but she is the sister of the gang leader...
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Sleeping Car To Trieste
🇮🇹 ItalyA Thousand Miles of Thrills, Drama and Excitement! — Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
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Adventures of Casanova
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturyAdventure! Romance! — Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one of the patriots, Lorenzo, and desires to escape from the palace. Her lady-in-waiting, Zanetta, enlists the aid of Casanova and he rescues them and takes them to the partisan's camp. The rebels are victorious. Lady Bianca makes plans to marry Lorenzo, and Casanova and Zanetta have similar plans.
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Guaglio
🇮🇹 ItalyOn his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...
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I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturySicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.
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The Beast with Five Fingers
🇮🇹 ItalyIt walks like a spider... it stalks like a cobra! — Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
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The Lost Moment
🇮🇹 ItalyIn a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.
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Angelina
🇮🇹 ItalyA rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.
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Escape Me Never
🇮🇹 ItalyRomantic quadrangle involving two burgeoning musically gifted brothers- one respectable, hard working and hard working, while the other irresponsible, selfish and a rascal, a willful heiress and a waif.
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To Live in Peace
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sVivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.
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Tragic Hunt
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sSet amongst the Italian peasantry of WW2, Caccia Tragica (Tragic Chase) is set in motion when a truck loaded with money targetted for farming projects is stolen by bandits. The local villagers set aside their petty political and personal differences, banding together to capture the outlaws and recover the loot. The story takes a romantic detour by concentrating on the romance between two young people caught in the middle between the pursuers and the pursued. At the time of its release, Caccia Tragica was perceived as a Communist tract (it was produced by the left-leaning National Association of Italian Partisans). This didn't prevent the film from winning an award at the 1947 Venice Film Festival, quite a coup for first-time director Giueseppe De Santis.
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A Man About the House
🇮🇹 Italy The 1900sHandsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.
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Sinfonia fatale
🇮🇹 ItalyAn American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.
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Malaspina
🇮🇹 ItalyWhile a man is imprisoned for attempted murder, his girlfriend becomes a prostitute and gets acquainted with a smuggler.
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Fiamme sul mare
🇮🇹 ItalyA former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.
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Paisan
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sSix vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
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Shoeshine
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sAt a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...
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Cloak and Dagger
🇮🇹 ItalyThe moment he fell in love was his moment of greatest danger! — In Fritz Lang's compelling World War II espionage thriller, Gary Cooper stars as Alvah Jasper, a shy and retiring physics professor at a midwestern university. When government agents press Jasper into joining them in an effort to curtail the Nazis' efforts to attain atomic secrets, his life takes a dramatic turn.
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The Bandit
🇮🇹 ItalyA searing drama of moral and social chaos! — Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest living.
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Desire
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sThere's a girl like her in every town! — Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
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