Tonino Guerra — Playwright (45)
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Dismissed on His Wedding Night (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sissignore
director: Ugo Tognazzi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Maria Grazia Buccella …
other title: Sissignore / El fiel servidor
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
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Good Morning, Babylon (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Good Morning, Babilonia
director: Paolo Taviani / Vittorio Taviani actor: Vincent Spano / Joaquim de Almeida …
other title: Good Morning, Babilonia / Good morning Babilonia
After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood, designing sets for D.W. Griffith, and marry beautiful actresses. However, tragedy strikes with the arrival of World War I, which finds the brothers fighting on opposite sides...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cronaca di una morte annunciata
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Rupert Everett / Ornella Muti …
other title: Cronaca di una morte annunciata / Crônica de Uma Morte Anunciada …
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.
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The Palermo Connection (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dimenticare Palermo
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Jim Belushi / Mimi Rogers …
other title: Dimenticare Palermo / Palermo vergessen …
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
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The Empty Canvas (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
La noia
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Horst Buchholz / Catherine Spaak …
other title: La noia / L'Ennui et sa diversion, l'érotisme …
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
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More Than a Miracle (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
C'era una volta
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Sophia Loren / Omar Sharif …
other title: C'era una volta... / Schöne Isabella …
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.
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Night Sun (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Il sole anche di notte
director: Paolo Taviani / Vittorio Taviani actor: Julian Sands / Nastassja Kinski …
other title: Il sole anche di notte / Nachtsonne …
Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King's mistress, Sergio turns his back on society and becomes a monk. While at the hermitage he tries to resist all sexual temptations before him and soon becomes known as a miracle worker. Eventually he succumbs to a young seductress and knowing he is undeserving of the adulation, leaves the hermitage to travel around as a homeless beggar.
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Especially on Sunday (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La domenica specialmente
director: Giuseppe Tornatore / Marco Tullio Giordana … actor: Philippe Noiret / Ornella Muti …
other title: La domenica specialmente / Especialmente ao Domingo …
Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed son and daughter-in-law; a German tourist tries to seduce a younger nurse. The fourth segment was cut in the US by its distributor Miramax.
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Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Un papillon sur l'épaule
director: Jacques Deray actor: Lino Ventura / Claudine Auger …
other title: Morti sospette / Mord in Barcelona …
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
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His Days are Numbered (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
I giorni contati
director: Elio Petri actor: Salvo Randone / Franco Sportelli …
other title: I giorni contati / Les jours comptés …
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
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The Dust of Time (2009) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Η σκόνη του χρόνου
director: Theodoros Angelopoulos actor: Willem Dafoe / Bruno Ganz …
other title: 时光之尘 / Η σκόνη του χρόνου …
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.
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Lucky Luciano (1973) [Movie] TMDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
Lucky Luciano
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Gian Maria Volonté / Edmond O'Brien …
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
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The Assassin (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
L'assassino
director: Elio Petri actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Micheline Presle …
other title: L'assassino / O Assassino …
Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?
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The Mattei Affair (1972) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Il caso Mattei
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Gian Maria Volonté / Luigi Squarzina …
other title: Il caso Mattei / O Caso Mattei …
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
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Illustrious Corpses (1976) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Cadaveri eccellenti
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Lino Ventura / Tino Carraro …
other title: Cadaveri eccellenti / Cadáveres Incómodos …
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
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The 10th Victim (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
La decima vittima
director: Elio Petri actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Ursula Andress …
other title: La decima vittima / Det tiende offer …
In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.
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Marriage Italian-Style (1964) [Movie]
Matrimonio all'italiana
director: 维托里奥·德西卡 actor: 索菲娅·罗兰 / 马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 …
other title: 意大利式结婚 / Matrimonio all'italiana …
一次意外中，多米尼克（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰）救下了美丽的女子费鲁美娜（索菲娅·罗兰 Sophia Loren 饰），两人一见钟情很快陷入了热恋之中，可惜多米尼克是一个花花公子，随着时间的流逝，他不再专情与费鲁美娜，转而投入了别的女人的怀抱。
费鲁美娜虽然身份卑微，却是专情之人，为了能够成为多米尼克的妻子，她甚至不惜使用了一些欺骗的手段。不幸的是，多米尼克识破了费鲁美娜的谎言，费鲁美娜再度面临着和爱人分离的处境。费鲁美娜有三个孩子，她告诉多米尼克，这其中有他的亲生骨肉，直到这时才良心发现的多米尼克回到了费鲁美娜的身边，但他始终不知道自己的亲生儿子究竟是哪一个。