Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
Boccaccio ’70 storyline. Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970 Decameron. Working-class lovers Renzo and Luciana marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room.
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A Place for Lovers (1968)
A Place for Lovers movie storyline. Julia (Faye Dunaway), a divorced American fashion designer, is dying of a tragic, incurable disease. With only ten days to live, she spends her time vacationing in an Italian villa and watching television.
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Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Bicycle Thieves movie storyline. The unemployment rate is high in postwar Italy. Antonio Ricci has been workless for two years, when he at last is offered a job as a poster. There is only one condition: he must have a bike of his own. At the moment his bicycle is at the pawn-shop, but Antonio’s wife Maria says they can pawn their six sheets instead.
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow movie storyline. An original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica was the 1964 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. This is the lightest of any De Sica film I had seen up until this point and interestingly enough it was split up into three narratives.
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If It-s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
If It-s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium movie storyline. Womanizing Brit Charlie Cartwright (Ian McShane) is about to conduct Worldwind Tour #225, a nine country, eighteen-day bus trip from London to Rome. He uses these tours in large part to catch up with his vast stable of casual girlfriends located in each of the visited cities.
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A Farewell to Arms (1957)
A Farewell to Arms movie storyline. Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson) is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. While recovering from a wound in a British base hospital in northern Italy.
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It Started in Naples (1960)
It Started in Naples movie storyline. Mike Hamilton (Clark Gable), a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged “black sheep” brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old little boy named Nando, who is being raised by Michael’s sister-in-law Lucia Curcio (Sophia Loren).
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Two Women (1960)
Two Women movie synopsis. To flee from yet another devastating attack during the Allied bombing of Rome on July 19, 1943, the widowed mother, Cesira, and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, leave behind the capital to find shelter in the rugged and mountainous region of Ciociaria; Cesira’s birthplace.
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Blood for Dracula (1974)
Blood for Dracula storyline. Count Dracula knows that if he fails to drink a required amount of pure virgin’s blood, it’s time to move into a permanent coffin.
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Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
Bread, Love and Jealousy storyline. Maria De Ritis is engaged to Lieutenant Pietro Stelluti. Stelluti’s superior officer, Marshal Antonio Carotenuto, is contemplating marriage to Annarella Mirziano.
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