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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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The Wedding Director (2006)
Plot Summary:
Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, surreal, black and white, amateur 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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Dark Eyes (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's opulent home to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman whose marriage is a horror. He pursues her into the Russian heartland and returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love. His amazed and appreciative Russian listener then narrates a shorter story.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, surprise ending
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The Big Dream (2009)
Plot Summary:
Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and she leaves him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, touching, contemplative, hot
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Remember Me, My Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an average life. Their 19-year-old son, Paolo, is having trouble finding an identity, while their 18-year-old daughter, Valentina, has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage. The family goes through a crisis when Carlo begins having an affair, Giulia attempt to seduce the director of a local stage production she is in, and Valentina does what she does best to land an audition for a TV show.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, romantic, romantic drama, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Jewel (2011)
Plot Summary:
Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, thought provoking, realistic, tense, clever, factual
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Me and Mrs. Jones (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tabloid journalist Liam Marple, sets about to dig up dirt on Laura Bowden, the new British Prime Minister. Posing as a political fundraiser, Liam gains entrance into Number 10 Downing, where he promptly wins the confidence of the idealistic PM.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, sexual
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Contempt (1963)
Plot Summary:
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: art house, philosophical, erotic, grindhouse, visual, psychological, clever, witty, talky, cynical
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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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The Terrace (1980)
Plot Summary:
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky, cynical, non-linear
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Plot Summary:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, retro, psychotronic, metafiction, cult classic, serious, gloomy
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The Big Picture (1989)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, suspense, entertaining, melancholic, harsh, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, clever
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The Best of Youth (2003)
Plot Summary:
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 366 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, political, sad, talky, captivating, family saga
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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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Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' (2005)
Plot Summary:
An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sitcom
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Day for Night (1973)
Plot Summary:
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, tense, atmospheric, romantic, intense, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic
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Days and Clouds (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, contemplative, sexual
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Mistress (1992)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, light, captivating, cult classic, exciting, independent film, realistic, witty, talky
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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 Queen's Sister (2005)
Plot Summary:
An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal but she remained a stickler for protocol. She had many controversial romances and also infamously kissed the daughter of the US ambassador. Also the film gives some focus on what others thought of Margaret, from normal people of the era to a backbench MP opposed to her 1961 wedding. Written by Reece Lloyd.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, entertaining, period drama
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The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
Plot Summary:
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: cynical, humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, political, political thriller, cult classic, biting, soap opera
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See Arnold Run (2005)
Plot Summary:
This biographical docu-drama alternates between two parallel threads in the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger: his formative early years as the repeat winner of the Mr. Olympia body-building championship; and his modern foray into the world of politics, hitting the campaign trail and competing in the frenzied atmosphere that accompanied California's chaotic recall election.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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The Reagans (2003)
Plot Summary:
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in Hollywood, through his governorship of California until Reagan's last day in office as President in 1989.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, thought provoking, serious, controversial
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Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
Plot Summary:
This compelling story vividly recreates Hollywood's infamous 'Blacklist Era'. The witch-hunt has begun and director David Merrill can revive his stalled career by testifying against friends who are suspected communists. Merrill's ex wife shares a whirlpool of scandals that draws them closer together while his chances for ever making movies again slips further away.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Spinning Boris (2003)
Plot Summary:
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, political, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious
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Man of the Year (2006)
Plot Summary:
The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president and expose corruption in Washington. His stunt goes further than he expects when he actually wins the election, but a software engineer suspects that a computer glitch is responsible for his surprising victory.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, political, stylized, semi serious, sincere, realistic, hilarious, satirical, feel good, romantic comedy
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
Plot Summary:
The professional and personal life of actor and comedian Peter Sellers was a turbulent one. His early movie fame was based primarily on his comic characterizations, often of bumbling and foreign-accented persons, characters which he embodied. As his movie fame rose, he began to lose his own personal identity to his movie characters, leading to self-doubt of himself as a person.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, stylized, captivating, realistic, romantic, psychedelic, deep, cult classic, serious
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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
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The Candidate (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, witty, realistic, cynical, thought provoking, clever, talky, biting, entertaining, funny
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Power (1986)
Plot Summary:
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, clever, cynical, political, retro, talky