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Plot Summary:
Michele Apicella is a young film and theater director, who lives his troubles as an artist. In Italy reach the Eighties, and Michele, who was contestant in the Sixties, now finds himself in a new era full of crisis of values and ignorance. So Michele, with his works, meants to represent the typical outcast and left indifferent intellectual outcast who establishes a breach between him and the world of ordinary people.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Splendor (1989)
Plot Summary:
Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi (Troisi) and ushurette Chantale (Vlady). However, Jordan is finally forced to sell the Splendor to businessman Lo Fazio (Piperno), which plans to transform it in some kind of furniture store. When Jordan leaves the theater for the last time (the very first scene), he recalls the glorious days of Splendor and movies in general.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional
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La rabbia (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)
Plot Summary:
A film director unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces divorce from his producer wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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I Am Self Sufficient (1976)
Plot Summary:
Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an experimental theater company under the artistic direction of his friend Fabio.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, surreal, independent film
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Ein irres Feeling (1984)
Plot Summary:
Tina, Julie and Alfa simply turn the tables on love: they don't wait for the guys to come on, they throw themselves into the action when they meet the bowling clique around Tim, Freddy and Rolf. Although their goal is actually only the bowling competition in St. Tropez, they let the party go on. And then it turns out that Tina's father has a plane that might take the boys to St. Tropez.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: avant garde, grotesque, fake documentary
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Wild Innocence (2001)
Plot Summary:
A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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Everything for Sale (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated teacher (Glenda Jackson) tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, dark comedy
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Red Wood Pigeon (1989)
Plot Summary:
Michele is the leader of the Italian communist party and a professional water polo player. On this day he's just lost his memory following a (very stupid) car accident. So he has to discover the intricacies of his life again, and he does so through the naive eyes of the anxious child he used to be - through an improvised psychoanalytic trip symbolized by the friendships and adversities of a water polo game.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Stefano Quantestorie (1993)
Plot Summary:
La storia di Stefano (Maurizio Nichetti) sembra molto "normale" ma cosa sarebbe successo nella sua vita se... Le molte vite possibili di Stefano si intrecciano in modi imprevedibili.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, thought provoking, intellectual, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, surreal, harsh, dark fantasy
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The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
Plot Summary:
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial review by fiscal authorities drive the firm to ruin. Ada, his wife, starts to be unfaithful and this is another strong hit to his life. But it isn't still enough, a tragedy is waiting Mombelli behind the corner.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Factotum (1991)
Plot Summary:
Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti), a young and corrupted minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli (Silvio Orlando).
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Caiman (2006)
Plot Summary:
A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, meta, metafiction, cult classic, surreal, controversial, splatter
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Il minestrone (1981)
Plot Summary:
Rome,1960.Four different people meet each other on Olympic games.They follow games and become friends talking about their sad lifes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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Surviving Gilligan's Island (2001)
Plot Summary:
It was as funny and as cartoonish as the series with three survivors (Gilligan, Mary-Anne, and the Professor) telling their favorite anecdotes and having some of them acted out. The host segments were wonderful, and the flashbacks were done very well by actors who looked similar to the castaways.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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The Woodsman and the Rain (2011)
Plot Summary:
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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We Have a Pope (2011)
Plot Summary:
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, clever, humorous, witty, tragicomedy, philosophical, sad, buddy comedy, sentimental
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The Best Man (1997)
Plot Summary:
Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her marriage and marry the best man. And although she is able to dissolve her marriage, because she has never consummated it, the best man leaves... only to return to her many months later.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, erotic, sentimental, romantic, sexy, enigmatic
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Interview (1987)
Plot Summary:
Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: art house, neorealism, mockumentary, sentimental, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, semi serious, meta
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The Queen of Spain (2016)
Plot Summary:
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to “The Girl of Your Dreams,” 1998.).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Plot Summary:
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, thought provoking, humorous, realistic, contemplative, stylized, semi serious, art house, cult classic, experimental
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Bianca (1983)
Plot Summary:
Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins between the two. Where is this relationship heading, and will Michele be able to help the police catch the murderer?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychological, sentimental, bleak, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surreal, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Mass Is Ended (1985)
Plot Summary:
Onetime campus radical Nanni Moretti renounces his past to become a priest. Returning to his home village, Moretti is appalled at the lack of religious reverence amongst the townsfolk. Unable to communicate with any of his old friends, who've all gleefully succumbed to the Deadly Sins, Moretti cannot even count on solace from his own family, a screwed-up aggregation which gives the word "dysfunctional" several new meanings.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spiritual, cult classic, sincere, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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April (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: metafiction, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, masterpiece
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Roma (1972)
Plot Summary:
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, stylized, non-linear, visual, colorful, neorealism, visually appealing, cerebral, surreal
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The Rest is Silence (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, "Restul e tacere" tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, breathtaking, touching
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The Passion (2010)
Plot Summary:
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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The Son's Room (2001)
Plot Summary:
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, emotional, depressing, sad, meditative, lyrical, psychological, realistic, philosophical
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Dear Diary (1993)
Plot Summary:
Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, intellectual, melancholic, satirical, clever, humorous, witty, road movie, mind bending, psychedelic