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Night of the shooting stars
(1982)
La notte di San Lorenzo
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Director:
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Paolo Taviani
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Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano
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As a bedtime story, Cecilia tells her son about a night in 1944 when the residents of her small Tuscan hometown struggled against Nazi oppression during the final days of WWII.
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Nights of Cabiria
(1957)
Notti di Cabiria
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Director:
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Federico Fellini
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Giulietta Masina, François Perier
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Cabiria, a simple-minded prostitute, searches Rome for true love but finds only heartache.
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Open city
(1945)
Roma, città aperta
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Director:
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Roberto Rosselini
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| Starring:
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Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
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During the Nazi occupation of Rome, a resistance leader is chased by the Gestapo.
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Paisan
(1946)
Paisà
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Director:
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Roberto Rosselini
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| Starring:
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Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon
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Six stories deal with Italian and American soldiers meeting under battle conditions during WW II.
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Pizzicata
(1996)
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Director:
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Edoardo Winspeare
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| Starring:
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Cosimo Cinieri, Fabio Frascaro
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An Italian-American pilot shot down during WWII assumes the identity of a cousin to the rural peasant family who protects him.
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Salò, or, the 120 days of Sodom
(1975)
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
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Director:
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenagers and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
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Seven beauties
(1975)
Pasqualino settebellezze
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Director:
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Lina Wertmüller
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| Starring:
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Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey
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A lady's man in the Italian army is captured and sent to a German concentration camp, where he plots his escape by seducing a German officer.
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Spider's stratagem
(1970)
Strategia del ragno
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Director:
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli
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A son revisits the village where his father, an anti-Fascist hero, was murdered in 1936, and learns the man was a traitor executed by his own men.
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Swept away
(1974)
Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto
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Director:
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Lina Wertmüller
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| Starring:
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Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
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A rich woman and her Communist servant end up stranded together in the middle of the sea when their boat breaks down.
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The best of youth
(2003)
La meglio gioventù
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Director:
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Marco Tullio Giodana
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| Starring:
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Alessio Boni,Luigi Lo Cascio
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Italian brothers Nicola and Matteo find their paths intersecting through tumultuous events from 1966-2000.
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The conformist
(1970)
Il conformista
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Director:
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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| Starring:
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Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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A man becomes a fascist flunky who arranges the asassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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The leopard
(1963)
Il gattopardo
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Director:
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Luchino Visconti
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| Starring:
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Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster
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In 1860s Italy, the aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against an increasingly powerful middle class.
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The postman
(1994)
Il postino
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Director:
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Michael Radford
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| Starring:
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Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi
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Mario the postman enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice.
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Variety lights
(1950)
Luci del varietà
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Director:
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Federico Fellini
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| Starring:
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Peppino De Filippo, Giulietta Masina
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A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and causes jealousy and emotional crises.
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