La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998)

Actors: Ennio Morricone (composer), Maurizio Millenotti (costume designer), Giuseppe Tornatore (writer), Pruitt Taylor Vince (actor), Peter Vaughan (actor), Anita Zagaria (actress), Marco Chimenz (producer), Bryan Pringle (actor), Nicola Di Pinto (actor), Clarence Williams III (actor), Tim Roth (actor), Bill Nunn (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), Giuseppe Tornatore (director), Heathcote Williams (actor),

Plot: Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max, which he relates both to the shopkeeper and later to the official responsible for the doomed vessel, for Max is a born storyteller. Though now down on his luck and disillusioned by his wartime experiences, the New Orleans-born Max was once an enthusiastic and gifted young jazz musician, whose longest gig was several years with the house band aboard the Virginian, a posh cruise ship. While gaining his sea legs, he was befriended by another young man, the pianist in the same band, whose long unlikely name was Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, though everyone just called him 1900, the year of his birth. Abandoned in first class by his immigrant parents, 1900 was found and adopted by Danny, a stoker, and raised in the engine rooms, learning to read by reading horseracing reports to his adoptive dad. After Danny's death in an accident, 1900 remained on the ship. Increasingly lured by the sound of the piano in the first-class ballroom, he eventually became a gifted pianist, a great jazz improvisationist, a composer of rich modern music inspired by his intense observation of the life around him, the stories passengers on all levels of the ship trusted him enough to tell. He also grew up to be a charming, iconoclastic young man, at once shrewd and oddly innocent. His talent earned him such accolades that he was challenged by, and bested Jelly Roll Morton in an intense piano duel that had poor Max chewing paper on the sofa in agonies of suspense. And yet for all the richness and variety of his musical expression, he never left the ship, except almost, once, in the aftermath of his infatuation with a beautiful young woman immigrant who inspired the music committed to the master Max discovers in the pawnshop. Max realizes that 1900 must still be on the ship, and determines to find him, and to find out once and for all why he has so consistently refused to leave.

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Chiari di luna (1988)

Actors: Nicola Piovani (composer), Ernesto Mahieux (actor), Tatiana Casini Morigi (editor), Franco Angrisano (actor), Tosca D'Aquino (actress), Gianna Gissi (costume designer), Julia Nickson (actress), Tommaso Bianco (actor), Rosalia Maggio (actress), Lello Arena (actor), Lello Arena (writer), Lello Arena (writer), Lello Arena (director), Maria Pia Calzone (actress), Nuccia Fumo (actress),

Il canto dell'emigrante (1956)

Actors: Carlo Campanini (actor), Claudio Gora (actor), Edoardo Toniolo (actor), Marina Berti (actress), Carla Calò (actress), Anna Campori (actress), Olga Solbelli (actress), Franco Fraticelli (editor), Bruno Smith (actor), Maria Pia Casilio (actress), Franco Silva (actor), Ubaldo Lay (actor), Luciano Taioli (actor), Mario Terribile (writer), Andrea Forzano (director),

Un americano a Roma (1954)

Actors: Amalia Pellegrini (actress), Dino De Laurentiis (producer), Pina Gallini (actress), Leopoldo Trieste (actor), Ursula Andress (actress), Galeazzo Benti (actor), Ciccio Barbi (actor), Marcello Giorda (actor), Carlo Delle Piane (actor), Ignazio Leone (actor), Charles Fawcett (actor), Giulio Calì (actor), Lucio Fulci (actor), Carlo Ponti (producer), Alberto Sordi (actor),

Plot: Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early '50s Roma. He is completely crazy for everything that comes from the States. He tries to speak American-English (the most funny ever), to wear like he thinks Americans do, to walk like John Wayne (!), trying to eat cornflakes with ketchup... His life is a complete parody of the real American way of life, which he couldn't ever get. Nando's, not so secret, dream is to go to the USA. To get it he goes to the Coliseum and threats to suicide if American Embassy don't give him the visa. But at this point Nando is very well known as a 'crazy-for-USA' boy and the troubles he provoked in the past, couldn't help him.

Tonight We Sing (1953)

Actors: Lester Sharpe (actor), Pedro Regas (actor), Mikhail Rasumny (actor), Joe Ploski (actor), Gregg Martell (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), Dudley Dickerson (actor), Maurice Marsac (actor), Walter Woolf King (actor), Steven Geray (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Bert Stevens (actor), Bert Stevens (actor),

Verginità (1951)

Actors: Fortunato Misiano (producer), Otello Toso (actor), Arnoldo Foà (actor), Franca Marzi (actress), Clara Bindi (actress), Mario Siletti (actor), Eleonora Rossi Drago (actress), Guglielmo Barnabò (actor), Leonardo Cortese (actor), Tamara Lees (actress), Checco Durante (actor), Ciro Berardi (actor), Mario Ferrari (actor), Giorgio Prosperi (writer), Diego Fabbri (writer),

Plot: Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman. When she loses out in the contest, she is approached by Giancarlo and Rene, pulp magazine publishers, to be an illustrations model. She is excited but Franco is suspicious and keeps a paternal eye on her. Gina shares a room with Mara, who is Giancarlo's mistress. Mara notices that Giancarlo's attentions to her are wandering, but she does not realize he has become attracted to Gina. However, the publishing occupation is just a cover for Giancarlo's real business, which is white slavery---a pimp---and his interest in girls is merely procurement. He begins to get rid of Mara by giving her a passport and a false contract for a theater in Brazil, telling her he will meet her there later. Mara catches on to Giancarlo's activities, and when Gina hears she is only a victim in the squalid scheme, she goes to Giancarlo's house seeking revenge.

Unfinished Business (1941)

Actors: Fortunio Bonanova (actor), William Haade (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), George Davis (actor), Neal Dodd (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Paul Everton (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Dick Foran (actor), Preston Foster (actor), Reed Hadley (actor),

Plot: Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother, a mismatch which eventually grows into real love.

Dreaming Lips (1937)

Actors: Felix Aylmer (actor), George Carney (actor), Charles Carson (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), Cyril Raymond (actor), Ronald Shiner (actor), J. Fisher White (actor), Sydney Fairbrother (actress), Paul Czinner (producer), Paul Czinner (director), David Lean (editor), Donald Calthrop (actor), Joe Strassner (costume designer), Elisabeth Bergner (actress), Carl Mayer (writer),

The Great Lover (1920)

Actors: Frank Lloyd (director), Gino Corrado (actor), John Davidson (actor), Tom Ricketts (actor), John St. Polis (actor), Richard Tucker (actor), Frederick Vroom (actor), Claire Adams (actress), Rose Dione (actress), Alice Hollister (actress), Samuel Goldwyn (producer), Frank Lloyd (producer), Frederic Hatton (writer), Lionel Belmore (actor), Fanny Hatton (writer),

Koningin Elisabeth's dochter (1915)

Actors: Frederick Vogeding (actor), Frederick Vogeding (actor), Alex Benno (actor), Alex Benno (actor), Paula de Waart (actress), Paula de Waart (actress), Johan Gildemeijer (director), Johan Gildemeijer (producer), Johan Gildemeijer (writer), August Van den Hoeck (actor), Julia Cuypers (actress), Martijn de Vries (actor), Martijn de Vries (actor), Jopie Tourniaire (actress), Hesje de Vries (actress),