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Il bambino della domenica (2008)

Actors: Luca Barbareschi (producer), Anita Caprioli (actress), Andrea Purgatori (writer), Beppe Fiorello (actor), Babak Karimi (editor), Claudio Gaeta (producer), Louis Siciliano (composer), David Coco (actor), Alessandro Pondi (writer), Aureliano Lalli-Persiani (producer), Susanna Bolchi (producer), Maurizio Marchetti (actor), Vittoria Piancastelli (actress), Camilla Sergenti Castellani (miscellaneous crew), Riccardo Nicolosi (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Luisa Sanfelice (2004)

Actors: Guido De Angelis (producer), Nicolas Traube (producer), Johannes Silberschneider (actor), Steffen Wink (actor), Riccardo Tozzi (producer), Cecilia Roth (actress), Mariano Rigillo (actor), Roberto Nobile (actor), Jean-Yves Berteloot (actor), José Ángel Egido (actor), Carmelo Gómez (actor), Glauco Onorato (actor), Margarita Lozano (actress), Paolo Taviani (writer), Alexandre Dumas père (writer),

Plot: Set at the close of the 18th century, the fictionalized love story based on real characters centers on a Naples aristocrat and her romance with a fellow rebel during a bid to overthrow the monarchy and establish a Neapolitan Republic.

Keywords: based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, luisa-sanfelice, mutiny, neapolitan, overthrow
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Streghe verso nord (2001)

Actors: Valeria Cavalli (actress), Giancarlo Giannini (miscellaneous crew), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Alessio Doglione (editor), Giovanni Veronesi (director), Giovanni Veronesi (writer), Luis Molteni (actor), Vittorio Cecchi Gori (producer), Paul Sorvino (actor), Vittorio Amandola (actor), Emmanuelle Seigner (actress), Daniele Liotti (actor), Bianca Guaccero (actress), Mauro Marchese (actor), Dario Bandiera (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy,

Marianna Ucrìa (1997)

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau (actor), Sandro Petraglia (writer), Laura Morante (actress), Roberto Perpignani (editor), Rita Rusic (producer), Franco Piersanti (composer), Leopoldo Trieste (actor), Roberto Herlitzka (actor), Vittorio Cecchi Gori (producer), Laura Betti (actress), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (actor), Philippe Noiret (actor), Raffaele Vannoli (actor), Maurizio Pastrovich (producer), Roberto Faenza (director),

Plot: Sicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, but at 16 years she already gives him three daughters. During her 20s she is instructed by a French tutor, which teaches her philosophy and all the new ideas that tour around Europe. She also has to manage, after Pietro's death, a relationship with her servant's brother (and following scandal). In her mature age she finally discovers and understands the terrible secret behind his handicap.

Keywords: 1740s, based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, childhood-trauma, country-estate, deaf-mute, death-of-loved-one, italy, loveless-marriage, mute
Genres: Drama,

Per odio per amore (1991)

Actors: Serena Grandi (actress), Laura del Sol (actress), Gerardo Amato (actor), Alfredo Miserocchi (miscellaneous crew), Marco Landolfi (miscellaneous crew), Vincenzo Crivello (actor), Nelo Risi (director), Mimmo Mignemi (actor), Paolo Vasile (composer),

Genres: Crime,

Kaos (1984)

Actors: Nicola Piovani (composer), Vittorio Taviani (writer), Margarita Lozano (actress), Paolo Taviani (writer), Luigi Pirandello (writer), Tonino Guerra (writer), Ciccio Ingrassia (actor), Tony Sperandeo (actor), Franco Franchi (actor), Claudio Bigagli (actor), Omero Antonutti (actor), Regina Bianchi (actress), Massimo Bonetti (actor), Paolo Taviani (director), Lina Nerli Taviani (costume designer),

Plot: The film consists of four stories plus epilogue, set in 19th-century Sicily. THE OTHER SON - A mother spends her life waiting for news from her two sons (emigrated to America) while ignoring her third, because he is the reincarnation of the bandit who raped her. MOON SICKNESS - a newly-wed peasant girl discovers that her husband goes mad every full moon. She arranges for a male friend to protect her, but they end up in bed together just as the moon emerges from behind a cloud. THE JAR - a rich landowner hires a master craftsman to repair a giant olive jar, but the craftsman gets trapped inside. REQUIEM - villagers band together in an attempt to force their landlord to let them bury their dead. CONVERSATIONS WITH MOTHER - the writer Luigi Pirandello talks with his aged mother about a story he always wanted to write, but which he never managed to capture in words.

Keywords: amphitheater, animal-abuse, anthology, based-on-novel, beach, bell, bird-nest-full-of-eggs, bocci-ball, burial, cactus
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Batà: Madonna! Help me! I am dying! I am dying!

Sidora: I'll never ask you for anything again - never again! Make me happy just for one time! Just once... just for tonight!

Zi' Dima: It's not my hunch that's big! It's the mouth of your jar that's narrow!

Don Lollò: [Seeing his precious giant jar broken] Oh, my poor jar! What have they done to you? It was envy or infamy!

Con la zia non è peccato (1980)

Actors: Gino Pagnani (actor), Carlo Reali (editor), Marina Hedman (actress), Alex Partexano (actor), Salvatore Puntillo (actor), Mauro Vestri (actor), Catherine Zago (actress), Giuseppe Rosati (writer), Giacomo Dell'Orso (composer), Antonella Antinori (actress), Giuseppe Pulieri (writer), Elio Stefanizzi (actor), Giuseppe Pulieri (director), Vanessa Vitale (actress), Ferruccio Mosca (producer),

Genres: Adult, Comedy,

La smania addosso (1963)

Actors: Carla Calò (actress), Harriet Medin (actress), Gérard Blain (actor), Ignazio Balsamo (actor), Mariangela Giordano (actress), Lando Buzzanca (actor), Tano Cimarosa (actor), Attilio Dottesio (actor), Vittorio Gassman (actor), Nino Castelnuovo (actor), Gino Cervi (actor), Alfredo Varelli (actor), Umberto Spadaro (actor), Leopoldo Trieste (actor), Giuseppe Mangione (writer),

Genres: Comedy,

Agostino (1962)

Actors: Mauro Bolognini (writer), Nino Baragli (editor), Mauro Bolognini (director), Renato Terra (actor), Ingrid Thulin (actress), Alberto Moravia (writer), Carlo Rustichelli (composer), John Saxon (actor), Luigi Rovere (producer), Maurizio Chiari (costume designer), Goffredo Parise (writer), Fernanda Ventimiglia (miscellaneous crew), Franco Schiorlin (actor), Gennaro Mesfun (actor), Roberto Mancia (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Anush (1931)

Actors: Ivane Perestiani (director), Ivane Perestiani (writer), Nikoloz Sanishvili (actor), Hovhannes Tumanyan (writer), Nina Manucharyan (actress), Levon Isahakyan (actor), Vladimir Bestaev (actor), N. Aganbekova (actress), E. Arzumanyan (actress), S. Safaryan (actress), V. Aristakesyan (actor), V. Ter-Hakobyan (actor), K. Stepanyan (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,