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8 1/2 (1963)

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8 1/2 2010-01-12 2001-12-04 2011-11-15

Dog-tired movie director Guido Anselmi retreats to thoughts of yesteryear when his producers, his wife and his mistress all pressure him to start making another movie in director Federico Fellini's rumination on the joys and rigors of filmmaking.

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Suspiria (1977)

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Suspiria - 2004-05-04 -

This horror gem follows Susan, a young American girl whose talents have brought her to an illustrious European ballet school. But once she gets there, she realizes there's something strange going on as she's faced with a cluster of freaky happenings, from a shower of maggots to poison in her food. What she soon learns is that the school has been a meeting place for witches for many years.

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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

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Once Upon a Time in the West 2011-05-31 2003-11-18 2013-01-01

This Sergio Leone classic, a tribute to Hollywood Westerns, stars Henry Fonda as Frank, a deft gunslinger hired by the powerful owner of a railroad conglomerate to kill anyone who derails the project. But Frank contends with the wrong person when he murders Brett (Frank Wolff), a landowner, prompting Brett's wife (Claudia Cardinale) to hire two renegades (Charles Bronson and Jason Robards) to go after Frank.

a.k.a. C'era una volta il West
Hasta que llegó su hora
Il était une fois dans l'Ouest
Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)

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Cinema Paradiso 2011-10-04 2003-02-18 2013-01-01

Giuseppe Tornatore's Oscar-winning film follows Salvatore, a Sicilian boy who is mesmerized by the movies shown at the local theater. He befriends projectionist Alfredo, who mentors him and ultimately tells him to leave home to pursue his dreams. Now a famous film director, Salvatore returns home for the first time 30 years later for Alfredo's funeral and is overcome with warm memories of his childhood even as the town has changed.

a.k.a. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
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Deep Red (1975)

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Deep Red - 2002-08-06 2011-08-02
2012-08-02

In Dario Argento's horror classic jazz pianist Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) witnesses the murder of his neighbor, a psychic who had read the mind of her killer. Marcus soon teams up with a resourceful reporter (Daria Nicolodi), and the two set out to find the killer. After the professor (Glauco Mauri) Marcus called on for help turns up dead, Marcus realizes that he'll be the next to die if he can't track down the killer.

a.k.a. Profondo rosso
The Hatchet Murders
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2009-05-12 1997-11-18 -

While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

a.k.a. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Zwei glorreiche Halunken
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Love and Anarchy (1973)

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Love & Anarchy - - 2013-05-01

In pre-World War II Italy, the employees of a popular Roman bordello learn that a new arrival is planning to assassinate Mussolini. When one of the girls falls in love with the man, she's torn between saving him and saving her country.

a.k.a. Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza...
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City of Women (1980)

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Director Federico Fellini's love of women and thoughts on feminism form the focus of this visually stunning work. Frequent Fellini thespian Marcello Mastroianni stars as Snaporaz, a traveler who awakens on a train to meet a lovely young woman. His pursuit of her begins a dreamlike journey that brings him to a feminist convention where he finds himself surrounded by modern women.

a.k.a. La cité des femmes
La città delle donne
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The Leopard (1963)

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The Leopard (Italian Version) 2010-06-29 2004-06-08 -

In this war drama set in 1860s Sicily, Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) attempts to hold onto the glory he once knew, while his nephew, Tancredi Falconeri (Alain Delon), has joined opposition forces and is being heralded as a war hero. As Falconeri begins to fall for Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the daughter of the town's new mayor, Don Calogero Sedara (Paolo Stoppa), Salina must learn to accept his changing political status.

a.k.a. Der Leopard
Il Gattopardo
Le Guépard
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Amarcord (1973)

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Amarcord - 1998-04-03 -

Awarded both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, acclaimed Italian director Frederico Fellini's Amarcord is a richly visual film about Rimini, a traditional seaside village during the uncertainty of Mussolini's fascist rule. Fellini drew from personal experience to bring the small town and all its colorful characters to life in this story about the escapades of a boy on the cusp of becoming a man.

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