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Plot Summary:
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and an interesting job: she has no motive to be troubled, but she decides to join him and to become his lover. She shares his destiny right up to its unexpected conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying
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Skeleton Locke (2017)
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A squalid encounter has many possibilities. How do they know each other? Is he the criminal or is she? Are they in it together. And can you believe a word they say? Each line and each version presents a new truth. But who is to say which one is real?.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 46 min
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Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea (1997)
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Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day Naples. The film's narrator introduces the ancient town of Pozzuloi, home to Nero, his mother Agrippina, the Sibyl of Cumae, and Christian martyr Artema. This historical drama is intertwined with a modern-day story of a poverty-stricken family, forced by earthquakes during the '70s to move to the country, a devastating blow to the close-knit family. After a 1997 Venice Film Festival screening at 125 minutes, the filmmakers announced their plans to re-edit to a shorter running time. Also known as Moonspins Between Land and Sea.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 101 min
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Endorphine (2015)
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Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mindfuck, psychological thriller
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To Love the Damned (1980)
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What happened to Italy during the absence of one young rebel. Svitol (Flavio Bucci) has been hiding out in South America. Then one day he gives up on his life in exile and decides to head back home. Everything has changed. The radical left is now in business or shooting up drugs, and Svitol finds he has no "home" left. Terrorists seem to set the stage for near anarchy and nothing is as he had imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
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Relativity (2019)
Plot Summary:
The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: crying
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Segreti segreti (1985)
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Laura participates in terrorist attack against a magistrate; a member of her commando is shot to death. Such begins the story of women: Maria and Rosa, the mother and sister of the killed terrorist; Gina, the old nanny of Laura; her mother Marta and Renata, her friend; and finally Giuliana, the magistrate before whom the terrorist will reveal her secret. And Laura will be the common thread that links each of the personal stories, determining their destiny, sometimes tragic, and discovering silence and complicity that does not seek.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Gli Invisibili (1988)
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At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker at the steelworks in Terni with a past in the student struggles, decided to abandon his job as a soldier in an extreme left-wing group.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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The Invisible Wall (1991)
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June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
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Secrets of the State (2003)
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On the first of May 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano conducted a raid to the mountain pass Portella della Ginestra, with a view to capturing Sicily's most prominent communist, Giacomo Licausi. What actually happened was a regular massacre, leaving fourteen people dead and more than thirty wounded. In 1951, about a year after Giulano's violent death, his men are tried in Viterbo. Unconvinced by the official version, Gaspare Pasciotta's lawyer, decides to travel to Sicily and starts investigating the facts.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: factual
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The Best Years (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of four friends Giulio, Gemma, Paolo, Riccardo, told over forty years, from 1980 to today, from adolescence to adulthood. Their hopes, their disappointments, their successes and failures are the intertwining of a great story of friendship and love through which Italy and the Italians are also told. A large fresco that tells who we are, where we come from and also where they will go and who our children will be. It is the great circle of life that repeats itself with the same dynamics despite the fact that years and even different periods pass in the background.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, talky
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Happily Ever After (2016)
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When Heather and Sarah Ann were growing up they told each other every secret. But Heather left their small town on the last day of high school vowing never to return. Forced to come back when her father becomes ill, the young documentary filmmaker is pressured into filming Sarah Ann's wedding video. Heather is convinced that the edgy filmmaker and bubbly pink-wearing bride have nothing in common, but as the big day approaches she finds that no one is quite what they seem – especially the old friend she thought she knew better than anyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 112 min
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Shooting the Moon (1998)
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Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal with his heroin-addicted mother Silvia (Valeria Golina). He occasionally gets a visit from his filmmaker father Massimo (Sergio Rubini), who left them years earlier. Silvia is involved with lawyer Roberto (Stefano Dionisi), and they have a child, four-year-old Domitilla (Francesca di Giovanni). She lives with her father but sometimes stays with Silvia and Siddhartha. One day Domitilla pricks her finger on a used needle belonging to her mother. Using the Internet to seek advice, Siddhartha is told to have Domitella tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Desperate, he sets forth but is soon stymied and frustrated by a medical bureaucracy. Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
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The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
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The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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The Second Time (1995)
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Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa Venturi who's currently in jail for having severely wounded Sajevo fifteen years before; he will finally and dramatically reveal himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
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In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
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Honey (1981)
Plot Summary:
A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Conviction (1991)
Plot Summary:
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: controversial
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The Cricket (1980)
Plot Summary:
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993)
Plot Summary:
Based on the earlier bombing attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The Intruder (2017)
Plot Summary:
Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Contrainte par corps (1988)
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A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police commissioner Castes. Accused for disturbing public order, and then in the drug trade, she gets to the women's prison. Vacation turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Marianne & Juliane (1981)
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Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: political, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, controversial, masterpiece
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Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, bleak, political, sincere, controversial
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The Hand of God (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing, surreal, stylized, semi autobiographical, rough, masterpiece, beautiful
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Desideria (1980)
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An overweight teenage girl walks in on her mother having a three-way. She later confronts her mother and gets her birthday cake shoved in her face. She then tries to commit suicide, but survives and loses a lot of weight. Now attractive to boys and men for the first time, she turns into a world-class tease, manipulating a smitten boy her age, her mother's middle-age jerk of boyfriend, an older would-be revolutionary, and so on.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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I, the Other (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending
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Beauty and the Beast (1977)
Plot Summary:
Decameron-style collection of entertaining short stories with such diverse themes as nymphomania, bestiality, and masochism.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, crying, psychotronic, sex comedy, freeze frame, sexploitation film
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Three Brothers (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
Plot Summary:
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, intellectual, crying, feel good
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
Plot Summary:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, disturbing, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, political, sincere, controversial, crying