Giancarlo Giannini
23) Darkness
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English
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A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
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Italiano
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Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote foe Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor - an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences....
26) Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero, Stamattina alle 10 in via dei fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza
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Italiano
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A country peasant goes to Rome with a plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini. His underground contact in the network of anarchists offers him a hideout in her brothel where he falls in love with a young prostitute.
28) New York stories
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English
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A trilogy about life in the big city. "Life lessons" is the tale of a passionate painter (Nolte) torn between his obsession for his art and his infatuation with his sultry assistant (Arquette). "Life without Zoe" is a whimsical fantasy of a very grown-up 12-year-old who brings charm and magic to life in New York. "Oedipus wrecks" is the story of a neurotic lawyer (Allen) who cannot escape the influence of his mother.
29) Casino Royale
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English
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With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
30) L'innocente
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Italiano
Description
Gabrielle d'Annunzios passionate novel is brought to life in the final masterpiece from acclaimed director Luchino Visconti. In late nineteenth-century Italy, Tullio, an insatiable aristocrat, grows bored with his timid wife Giuliana and neglects her for his more exciting mistress, the wealthy widow Countess Teresa Raffo. After learning that Giuliana is having a torrid affair of her own, he becomes tormented by her infidelity and descends into madness....
31) Mimic
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English
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Scientists engineer a miracle cure that stops the spread of a horrific disease, then discover that their cure has the ability to take on its own life and mimic every predator it encounters, including humans.
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Italiano
Description
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer but he just can't shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover, and love child, under wraps. That's when his wife announces she's pregnant.
34) Time to kill
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English
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A soldier stationed in Africa meets a beautiful woman, and later is responsible for her killing; he then embarks upon a desperate search for rescue and redemption.
35) Anzio
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English
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" ... After landing with Allied troops in Anzio Italy in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead ..."
38) CQ
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English
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A fledgling filmmaker, whose day job is as a film editor, abandons all reality to follow his sultry lead actress into the exciting futuristic fantasy life of her super-spy character in the film he is working on.
Series
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Italiano
Description
Mimi, a Sicilian laborer, refuses to vote for the Mafia's candidate and consequently loses his job, his wife, and his home. He revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor--an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.
40) Dracula's curse
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English
Description
Investment banker Jonathan Harker has earned a great deal of money by speculating in historic real estate. He has now settled in Budapest with his fiancée Mina Murray. At a charity ball organized by Dr. Seward, Jonathan surprises his fiancée with a proposal of marriage. The delighted Mina accepts, and right at that moment some friends invited by Jonathan enter the hall. But Jonathan has to leave the party because he has been recalled to see a client....