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5.6
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3.0
/812/
31
/135/

The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
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3.7
/12/

Papà per una notte (1939)
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5.5
/16/

Che distinta famiglia! (1945)
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5.0
/35/
50
/3/

Der Ruf des Nordens (1929)
Peter Helling, the only survivor of a polar expedition, returns once more to the eternal ice. Why he calls his fate out again, what has happened? At that time he had set out with his best friend Svensson, to search for the missing friend of the woman they both love and for which they fought. In desperation, the men drag through the deep snow and the icy Arctic storms.
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4.2
/9/
10
/1/

The Last Sentence (1951)
Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate.
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6.9
/19/

Fra Diavolo (1931)
Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.
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10
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I figli non si vendono (1952)
I figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard
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4.5
/11/

Cinque a zero (1932)
Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.
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4.7
/8/

Marco Visconti
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6.2
/26/
30
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No Women (1932)
Professor Branck invented Fortuna a machine providing absolute luck, fortune and success, to whoever uses it, provided they are a virgin. Trying the experiment, Lucien Lepur, a street vendor who has never known a woman before, becomes the man of all successes. But he soon regrets Micheline his fiancée and finds himself under the influence of Professor Branck. Helped by Casimir, Micheline snatches Lucien from Professor Branck. Falling into her arms, Lucien loses all his powers but wins love.
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5.2
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50
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I, His Father (1939)
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
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6.6
/32/
40
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Il feroce saladino (1937)
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6.0
/11/

The Knights of the Mountain (1930)
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6.0
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The Last Performance (1928)
The impressive cast is headed by the great Heinrich George as Boris Stroganoff, an opera composer and conductor who’s also a notorious lothario. Albani is ballet dancer Viola Suroff, who’s put her career aside to look after her partner Maxim Sadi, a baritone with unspecified health issues that have kept him off stage. Stroganoff sets his sights on Viola and offers her a job in the corps de ballet for his new opera The Boyar, which she accepts provided Maxim is also hired. However, dancer Margot (called Myrra in the French version) maintains a seething passion for Stroganoff, as does Countess Geschow (called Countess Ziska on this print), both of whom are resentful when watching his interactions with Viola. Jealousies run high on opening night between all the characters and Stroganoff is shot mid-performance, but who is the killer: Maxim, Margot, or Geschow?I
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6.0
/18/
60
/1/

The Golden Abyss (1927)
An eccentric millionaire brings together four men who, under different circumstances, wanted to commit suicide. The proposal made to them is the following: they will travel to an islet that, according to legend, emerged from the sea when Atlantis sank and that houses a fabulous treasure buried by the Incas. But that territory is populated by the worst band of pirates and evildoers the world has ever known.
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3
/3/

Stasera sciopero (1951)
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
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6.0
/53/
60
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48
/6/

The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
A Tyrolean mountain guide comes under suspicion of killing a tourist.
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5.8
/9/

The Marble Faun (1920)
The film, a swirling drama of love and death, is loosely adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1860 novel The Marble Faun. Princess Maria (Elena Sangro) is married to the Duke of Helgoland (Ugo Bazzini), the leader of an anti-government plot about to be exposed by their house guest Count Giorgio (Carlo Gualandri). Giorgio tries to involve Maria, and in his fatal fight with Helgoland, her husband is killed using the knife that Maria hands to Giorgio. Forced to flee, they meet up again in Rome, where Maria has changed her name to Myriam and Giorgio has become a monk. Giorgio still desires Myriam, who rejects his advances, and she convinces her suitor Donatello (Giorgio Fini) to kill him.
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6.8
/10/

I Sing for You Alone (1933)
Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while Marcello dubs him behind the scenes. The scam is successful but after a while Marcello summons the courage to go on stage himself.
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7.0
/9/

Fra Diavolo (1931)
A sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.
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6.2
/22/

Rossini (1942)
The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.
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5.9
/36/
10
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Frine cortigiana d'Oriente (1953)
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4.8
/11/

L'albero di Adamo (1936)
Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.
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6.6
/9/
10
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Tormento del passato (1952)
A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.
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6.1
/21/
10
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43
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Margaret of Cortona (1950)
A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
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5.6
/26/
10
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La ladra (1955)
Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.
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5.6
/35/
15
/2/

Rome, 1585 (1961)
The leader of a gang of Spanish mercenaries falls for a beautiful princess. Thing get dicey, however, when an imprisoned leader is freed and comes calling.
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5.8
/29/

30 Seconds of Love (1936)
A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
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5.3
/26/
50
/1/

Il ponte dei sospiri (1940)
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5.3
/10/

La gerla di papà Martin (1940)
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6.3
/41/
40
/3/
65
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I Don't Know You Anymore (1936)
After an argument with her husband, an unsatisfied wife suffers from selective amnesia. She doesn't recognize the man she married and calls her doctor husband instead.
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5.5
/80/
10
/1/
56
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The Promise (1950)
During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.
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6.5
/164/
25
/4/
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/13/

Mi permette babbo! (1956)
While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
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5.7
/93/
30
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90
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Night of Love (1954)
Brigitte Bardot stars in this romantic thriller about love and high treason in WWI-era Italy. Matinee idol-turned-filmmaker Mario Bonnard directs this opus.
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7.1
/62/
90
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The Fight for the Matterhorn (1928)
Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.
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69
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6.8
/106/
70
/2/

There's Room Up Ahead (1942)
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
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6.8
/225/
65
/6/
73
/13/

The Peddler and the Lady (1943)
Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
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50
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6.2
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40
/4/
57
/10/

Gastone (1960)
During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
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55
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6.1
/127/
45
/7/
60
/22/

The Rape of the Sabine (1945)
Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...
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7.0
/25/
76
/4/

The Betrothed (1922)
Based on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy, Northern Italy, during the Spanish domination, the film displays the marriage between two young textile workers, Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is one of the most ambitious and spectacular films in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that sparked controversy.
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46
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5.6
/151/
10
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72
/4/

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love (1958)
The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.
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6.1
/32/
50
/1/

The King's Jester (1941)
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
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61
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6.6
/139/
63
/3/
54
/7/

City of Pain (1949)
The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Yugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that Communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.
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La gerla di Papà Martin (1924)
An ageing couple, Papa Martin and his wife Genovieffa, live modestly while their son Armando and goddaughter Amelia complete their studies away from home. When the young pair return to celebrate Armando’s law degree, a debt collector exposes that his qualification is forged and demands repayment. To protect his son’s honour, Papa Martin sacrifices his own comfort, returning to work and sending Armando away to start anew. As time passes, the family’s love, guilt, and redemption intertwine in a heartfelt story of sacrifice and moral reckoning.
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Die Flucht in den Zirkus (1926)
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La fanciulla di Portici (1940)
During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
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Le masque qui tombe (1934)
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Die Sünderin (1928)
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