Two episodes, both focused on a middle-aged married couple in crisis.
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91m
Io so che tu sai che io so
A bank clerk rethinks his life after he learns the results of the surveillance of his family.
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112m
Il tango della gelosia
Lucia has been married for 10 years with Julius, who is fond of horses and seems to prefer them to his wife.
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100m
Camera d'albergo
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.
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105m
Non ti conosco più amore
On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.
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102m
Il mistero di Oberwald
A hunted man breaks into the castle at Oberwald to kill the Queen, but faints before doing so. He is Sebastian, the splitting image of the King who was assassinated on his wedding day. The Queen discovers that Sebastian once wrote a subversive poem that she liked, even though it was attacking her. The Queen dares Sebastian to kill her, otherwise she vows to kill him.
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129m
Letti selvaggi
An Italian comedy about a heist involving a princess's necklace and a cast of characters who are not what they seem. They do about anything they can to get the necklace from one another.
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106m
A smalltime US filmmaker goes to Cannes to try to get his movie in the limelight. A wife of one of the producers there gets interested in his story and they begin an affair.
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93m
For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a supposed extraterrestrial who is actually a young Swedish man who "works" for certain American psychologists.
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115m
La raison d'état
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Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions between the French government, in the face of its high official Leroi, and two African countries. Before making the public statement, Marrot finds himself under surveillance. In the critical circumstances his Italian friend and partner Angela takes action and the game continues.
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95m
Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone.
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100m
Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger.
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105m
Qui comincia l'avventura
Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.
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100m
L'anatra all'arancia
When facing a request of divorce, Livio accepts, but sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover.
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105m
A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere
Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. The lone female jury member compares her life to Tina's and, believing her to be innocent, sets out on her own to find a missing witness that can prove Tina's innocence.
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100m
Le fantôme de la liberté
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A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
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104m
Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped from prison and the chief of police is on his tail. Angelotti is being helped by a painter, lover of "La Tosca", a famous singer. The police chief suspects the truth and tries to arouse the jealousy of "La Tosca" to catch the escapee.
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104m
Mimmo Adami and Dea Dani are local professional dancers in the impoverished Italy of World War II. Their lives change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style.
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Teresa la ladra
Teresa Numa in Nardecchia, an orphan of a mother and daughter of a peasant and heartless Lazio peasant, then a war widow and a mother constantly looking for new jobs, she is often forced to steal in order to live.
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125m
Noi donne siamo fatte così
The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
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112m
Comedy about a man (Tognazzi) who is sentenced to life imprisonment mainly because of a woman's (Vitti) testimony, but she later marries him during his sentence.
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104m
La pacifista - Smetti di piovere
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A journalist is preparing a story on extremist youth and falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to commit a political assassination.
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85m
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing.
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94m
Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca)
A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
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107m
Le coppie
Three ordinary couples dealing with surreal situations: buying a refrigerator, celebrating the anniversary in a luxury hotel and co-living with a lion escaped from a zoo.
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111m
La femme écarlate
Comedy about self-made woman (Vitti) in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
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90m
Amore mio aiutami
Romantic comedy-drama about a husband (Sordi) who is jealous of his wife's (Vitti) infatuation with a Professor.
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100m
La ragazza con la pistola
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
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100m
La cintura di castità
The knight Guerrando is forced to leave for the crusades without having had time to consummate his marriage with the beautiful Boccadoro. According to the custom of the period, Guerrando applies the chastity belt to the bride.
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93m
Ti ho sposato per allegria
Pietro is a bourgeois young lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty but slightly unbalanced girl he met at a party full of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.
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100m
Fai in fretta ad uccidermi... ho freddo!
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Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe. In their travels, they come across the beautiful Christina, a girl who is being threatened by her brother, Sergio, in order to get the family fortune. But as Giovanna and Franco delve into their story, the double-crossing begins, and no one is sure who is getting tricked.
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99m
Stylish ex-con Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin are tasked by the British Secret Service with preventing her rival Gabriel from stealing diamonds that are to be delivered to her adoptive father, a Sheikh.
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119m
Le fate
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Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.
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114m
Le bambole
Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film.
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109m
Il disco volante
An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer and its female occupant.
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94m
Il deserto rosso
In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
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117m
Alta infedeltà
Four episodes satirising modern marriages and the lack of affection which leads to infidelity.
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90m
Dragées au poivre
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
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93m
Château en Suède
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
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103m
L'Eclisse
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
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126m
Les quatre vérités
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
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101m
La Notte
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A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
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115m
L'Avventura
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
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143m
The affected clothing merchant Ofelia, the naive housewife Rina and the outspoken nurse Edna meet randomly at a police station and discover they share a failed sentimental life.
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96m
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.