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31
8.5
/223/
84
/14/
87
/68/
3.9
/618/

Christmas at the Cupiello Household (1977)
Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.
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80
31
8.5
/44/
71
/18/
88
/48/
3.8
/731/

Christmas at the Cupiello House (1962)
Luca Cupiello lives with the wife Concetta, the son Tommasino, and a brother, Pasquale. The son is wild, living by gimmicks and stealing from his uncle; the daughter Ninuccia does not get along with her husband Nicolino and plans to run away with her lover Vittorio; the wife tries to hide her family's troubles from her husband. Luca, who silently suffers the family situation, takes refuge in setting up the Nativity scene.
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57
24
6.3
/310/
40
/3/
59
/14/
67
/288/

The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
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72
23
7.4
/394/
70
/17/
74
/39/
3.6
/318/

Side Street Story (1950)
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
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51
16
6.2
/372/
10
/1/
64
/28/
3.4
/233/

Kiss the Other Sheik (1965)
Italian comedy film in three segments
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7.8
/53/
25
/2/
80
/3/

Il sindaco del rione Sanità (1964)
Antonio Barracano is an old Camorra member who administers justice according to his own unique criteria. Magnanimous and tough, severe and affectionate, he is recognized as the 'mayor' by all the dispossessed of the Sanità district. His particular brand of justice towards the poor leads him to sacrifice his own life in order to solve the financial problems of Rafiluccio and Rita, a couple expecting a child and overwhelmed by debt.
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10
/1/

Monologo (1950)
A man talks about the Marshall plan.
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74
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8.5
/27/
60
/6/
88
/19/

Napoli milionaria (1962)
In Naples, during World War II, Amalia Jovine, in order to survive, smuggles food and coffee in her crowded and dilapidated basement, in partnership with Settebellizze. Her husband Gennaro disapproves, but does not prevent Amalia from continuing her trafficking...
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7.0
/20/
50
/1/

'Na Santarella (1975)
Happy Sciosciammocca has a double life: he plays sacred music in the convent of Rondinelle and teaches music to the educators, at night he goes to Naples where he is known as the actor.
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10
/1/
71
/5/

Non ti pago (1964)
N/A
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60
/1/
60
/1/

Lu Curaggio De Nu Pumpiero Napulitano (1975)
Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for his stepdaughter Virginia and does not recognize the brothers of his wife, Rosina and Michele, even after the latter has saved the his house from a fire. Virginia does not like her promised Marchese Alberto, but Felice Sciosciammocca, a shy and poor master of calligraphy, who reciprocates her. But when Felice learns that the girl will soon marry another, out of spite he accepts the court of the late Marquise Zoccola, Alberto's mother.
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10
/1/

La chiave di casa (1956)
On his way home, Don Simone meets his friend Ciccillo, who asks him for a favor: to entertain the husband of a woman, his lover, until they find the keys to her house. Simone accepts the task and his friend points out a man sitting in a pizzeria as the lover's husband. After a series of mishaps, however, poor Simone discovers that the man had nothing to do with it and that the person Ciccillo wanted to entertain was actually him.
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7.6
/23/
80
/1/
73
/3/

L'arte della commedia (1978)
Oreste Campese is the leader of a traveling troupe of actors—made up of his family—who find themselves in the middle of winter in an unspecified town in central Italy. During the prologue, Campese recounts the events leading up to the present: the troupe has suffered the misfortune of losing their "shed," a mobile theater structure that was destroyed by an accidental fire. The flames spared only the boxes of props and costumes, which were opportunely saved.
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6.5
/21/
10
/1/
60
/1/

L'abito nuovo (1964)
In Naples, where the modest clerk Michele Crispucci lives with his daughter Assuntina, his ex-wife arrives with her circus. The young Concettino confides to a friend that he wants to give up his marriage to Assuntina, because twenty years earlier the girl's mother had abandoned the family and become rich by giving herself to wealthy lovers.
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6.8
/12/
70
/1/
70
/3/

'o Tuono 'e Marzo (1975)
Sofia, Don Saverio's sister, confesses to her brother that she was the victim of a fateful event: while she accompanied her brother to Rome, while he was resting at a hotel, a terrible storm broke out during the night, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Frightened, she left her room to seek refuge in her brother's, when, after the lights went out, she accidentally entered a stranger's room in the darkness and fainted from fear of a violent clap of thunder. The unknown individual seized the opportunity and took advantage of her. From that turbulent encounter, Don Felice Sciosciammocca was born, Sofia's illegitimate son, now engaged to Marietta, Don Saverio's daughter.
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10
/1/
70
/2/

Tre Calzoni Fortunati (1959)
Don Felice Sciosciammocca, a poor and simple man, goes to the day, hoping that sooner or later will come the right opportunity to change his life. A nice day at Don Felice comes a parcel from a dear cousin, which contains three pairs of old trousers. Apparently only common value objects, but they will create great surprises.
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10
/1/

I morti non fanno paura (1954)
Enrico, a traveling salesman who lives in a room in Amalia's house, returns from a long trip to find that his room has been turned into a funeral chamber for the death of Gennaro, the woman's husband. Shocked, the man confides his fears to a doctor, who replies that the only real fear is that of the living, not the dead.
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10
/1/

Il dono di Natale (1956)
Attilio and Emilia are two newlyweds who love each other madly despite the extreme poverty in which they live. Their relationship is contrasted by that of Domenico and Sofia, the owners of their house, who live in constant conflict. When Christmas arrives, despite their poverty, the two young people decide to give each other gifts: Emilia agrees to cut and sell her long hair to buy a chain for her husband's watch, while Attilio sells his watch to buy a hair clip for his wife.
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8.4
/18/
10
/1/
75
/1/

Il contratto (1981)
Geronta Sebezio is revered by his fellow villagers for his miraculous ability to bring the dead back to life. However, anyone who wishes to benefit from this gift must sign a contract.
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7.8
/26/
35
/2/

Il berretto a sonagli (1981)
Donna Beatrice is determined to expose her husband's alleged affair with the beautiful wife of the scribe Ciampa. The woman, heedless of her own family peace and the reputation of the scribe, who tries in vain to stop her, carries out a plan that does not confirm the adultery but, on the contrary, causes a huge scandal. Ciampa finds himself "forced," finding no other solution, to kill the two alleged lovers, driven by Beatrice's "madness." It is precisely from this "madness," however, that Ciampa will find a way to free himself from dishonor and a crime committed lightly.
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6.7
/8/
48
/2/

Li nepute de lu sinneco (1975)
N/A
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7.3
/32/
40
/1/
89
/7/

Uomo e galantuomo (1975)
Guests of the wealthy young Don Alberto De Simone, the ramshackle troupe of actors known as "L'eclettica," led by Gennaro De Sia, rehearse a new play in an attempt to redeem themselves after the fiascos of their previous performances. The "rehearsals" are interrupted by the arrival of Salvatore, brother of Viola, an actress who is expecting Gennaro's child and who wants to force the man to act like a gentleman and marry her.
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7.4
/30/

Quei figuri di tanti anni fa (1978)
Two wise guysmanage a messed up underground casino and brothel. A "hunting club" as a cover up. The place is frequented by all kind of characters, from the Neapolitan upper class to the petty criminals, who use it as a base and such is the turmoil that it will not take much to blow the cover up.
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4.5
/26/
10
/1/

These Phantoms (1954)
A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises.
poster
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6.5
/43/

Ti conosco, mascherina! (1943)
An unscrupulous theatrical agent introduces his latest "discovery" to an elderly baron who becomes infatuated with her.
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6.6
/58/
30
/2/
63
/4/

Ragazze da marito (1952)
Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.
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7.7
/12/
60
/9/
90
/2/

Filumena Marturano (1962)
Filumena Marturano is a former prostitute who has been living for years with Domenico Soriano, a wealthy Neapolitan pastry chef who was once her client. To force Soriano into marriage, the woman pretends to be dying in order to invoke a "deathbed" wedding, but the charade fails and Don Domenico tries everything he can to annul the sacrament. Filumena is forced to come clean.
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61
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7.4
/151/
10
/1/
88
/5/
3.7
/201/

Filumena Marturano (1951)
Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.
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8.1
/40/
50
/1/
85
/6/

Le voci di dentro (1978)
Having withdrawn his complaint from the police station, Alberto now finds himself in trouble: the public prosecutor, suspicious, believes that he acted in this way out of fear or something else.
poster
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7.4
/19/
40
/2/

Mia famiglia (1964)
Television adaptation of the three-act play of the same name written in 1955.
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6.8
/15/
10
/1/
80
/2/

La paura numero uno (1964)
Exasperated by her husband Matteo, who lives with the nightmare of an imminent third world war, Virginia asks her brother Arturo for help. He decides to indulge the man's phobia by creating a fake newspaper announcing the outbreak of the conflict. The ploy works and Matteo seems to calm down, but the fear of the return of war reawakens fears and concerns in those around him that were thought to be buried.
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6.6
/20/
10
/1/

Bene mio e core mio (1964)
Lorenzo, a restorer, and Chiarina, his unmarried and God-fearing sister, live in their deceased parents' house. When Lorenzo returns from America, where he has been on a business trip, he finds Chiarina pregnant and intending to marry Filuccio, the child's father. The couple asks Lorenzo for four rooms and a warehouse as a wedding gift so they can start a fruit shop. Soon, however, the restorer realizes that the two are driven by greed and acts accordingly.
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7.9
/19/
80
/1/
85
/1/

Gennareniello (1978)
Gennareniello, a crazy inventor, is married to Concettina and lives at home with his son Tommasino, full of tics, his spinster sister and with Matteo, a drawing master who makes plans for his inventions. Driven by his friends, the man courts the young teacher Anna and when his wife notices it, he is forced to run away from home, overwhelmed by the scorn of derision of friends and acquaintances who come to disguise him as a dandy, thus offending his dignity.
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6.2
/29/

In campagna è caduta una stella (1939)
An American starlet inflames two Italian peasants who forget about their respective fiance's. One of them even thinks of marrying her and begins to plan for the engagement banquet. When the girl decides to live the countryside harmony reigns again.
poster
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35
/2/
70
/2/

Chi è cchiù felice 'e me (1964)
N/A
poster
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7.5
/14/
10
/1/
72
/5/

Ditegli sempre di sì (1962)
Michele, recently released from the asylum, returns home where his sister Teresa, the only one who knows about his past madness, is waiting for him.
poster
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7.0
/18/
40
/1/
72
/2/

De Pretore Vincenzo (1976)
Vincenzo De Pretore explains to his girlfriend Ninuccia, who threatens to commit suicide if they don't get married, that he wants to wait until he can give her a comfortable life, and tells her that he is the son of a rich man, raised by a poor couple. But to make a living, he is forced to steal and ends up in prison. On Ninuccia's advice, he chooses St. Joseph as his patron saint, and from then on his "work" goes from strength to strength.
poster
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6.7
/37/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Marito e Moglie (1952)
Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second episode a good-willed man tries to escpape from the grey of the world that surround him
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7.4
/27/

Il Cilindro (1978)
The comedy, centered on five characters (Rita, Rodolfo, Agostino, Bettina, and Don Attilio - "o viecchio pazzo"-), has as background the Italy of the 60s between the economic boom and the perennial unemployment crisis. The cylinder, well explained by "Agostino-Eduardo" in the comedy, is a representation of power, designed to intimidate the ignorant for its only evocative "power". It can also be seen as a sort of "Pirandellian mask", where the character of Augustine wears it to defend himself and represent something that he is not.
poster
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7.7
/17/
10
/1/
85
/2/

La grande magia (1964)
Amongst the guests of the Metropole Hotel there is Calogero Di Spelta ridiculed for his unnecessary jealousy towards Marta, his beautiful wife. The illusionist Otto Marvuglia during his show pretends to make her disappear, and this allows her to meet her lover Mariano D'Albino. But Marta definitively escapes while the magician makes Calogero believe that his wife's in a box, and that she could reappear only if he blindly believed in her loyalty.
poster
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6.2
/35/
40
/2/
78
/3/

Sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia (1959)
Pasquale Grifone, who lives in Naples with his family, receives in a dream the visit of Dante Alighieri. The poet suggests to the man, clouded by the fumes of alcohol, four numbers to play.
poster
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8.4
/7/
10
/1/
75
/2/

Il medico dei pazzi (1959)
N/A
poster
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78
/6/

The Mayor of Rione Sanità (1979)
Antonio Barracano is a man who enforces his own law in the Sanità district, which is why he is recognized as the neighborhood's "mayor." He dispenses advice and opinions and solves the problems of poor people.
poster
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7.2
/17/
45
/2/
75
/3/

Miseria e Nobiltà (1955)
N/A
poster
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7.7
/26/
50
/1/
92
/3/

Gli esami non finiscono mai (1976)
Guglielmo Speranza is a young man who, having just graduated from university, decides to ask his beloved to marry him, convinced that the most challenging period of his life is now behind him. This is how we meet the protagonist, who repeatedly addresses the audience directly to explain what is happening on stage. He always wears the same suit and, during the play, changes three beards, black, gray, and white (one for each act), symbolizing the transition from youth to old age.
poster
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7.8
/71/
25
/2/
81
/6/

Questi fantasmi (1962)
A husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted. But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover, who is stalking her on the premises.
poster
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7.1
/10/
45
/2/
60
/1/

La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola (1959)
In a miserable, freezing two-room apartment on the first floor of a building, the Ruòppolo family lives in complete poverty. Giovanni, a clerk, struggles against a thousand difficulties to make ends meet, while his wife, Cristina, takes care of the housework.
poster
61
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6.7
/113/
51
/5/
66
/6/

Neopolitans in Milan (1953)
Afterfive people die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages.


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