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I think this is based on a novel!
The Hand of God
2021
Overview
In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
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I think this is based on a novel!
The Postman
1994
Overview
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
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I think this is based on a novel!
The Sucker
1965
Overview
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
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I think this is based on a novel!
The Leopard
1963
Overview
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
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I think this is based on a novel!
The Happy Prince
2018
Overview
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Welcome to the South
2010
Overview
Alberto (Claudio Bisio), post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...
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I think this is based on a novel!
The Knock Out Cop
1973
Overview
Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Journey to Italy
1954
Overview
This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Naples in Veils
2017
Overview
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Paisan
1946
Overview
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Love and Bullets
2017
Overview
A Camorra boss fakes his own death in order to start a new life elsewhere with his family, but a nurse happens to see him alive and well after the funeral. A hitman is promptly sent to get rid of her, only to find out that she's his first and unforgotten love. He decides to protect her, becoming himself a target.
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I think this is based on a novel!
It Started in Naples
1960
Overview
Mike Hamilton, 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 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Cinderella the Cat
2017
Overview
Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Scent of a Woman
1974
Overview
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
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I think this is based on a novel!
The Mayor of Rione Sanità
2019
Overview
Antonio Barracano, a man of honor distinguishing between “decent people and scoundrels” in the Napolitan underworld, is the "Mayor of Rione Sanità". Administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the State, he is faced with a difficult decision when Rafiluccio Santaniello, the baker's son, asks him for his benediction to kill his father.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Seven Beauties
1975
Overview
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
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I think this is based on a novel!
Sorry for the Delay
1983
Overview
Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.
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I think this is based on a novel!
That Hamilton Woman
1941
Overview
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
New Plot?
I think this is based on a novel!
Song'e Napule
2013
Overview
The police infiltrates an unemployed classically-trained musician into a wedding band in order to drive out an elusive Camorra boss.
New Plot?
I think this is based on a novel!
One Man Up
2001
Overview
The story of two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, who are on the decline and lead strangely parallel lives. One is a pop singer whose success ends after a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.