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and the Wild Wild Women 1959 A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non coed, totally female prison environment Story concerns a young girl who comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissi

Ginger Fred 1986 Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music hall act imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on a TV variety show Its both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in pa

Giulietta Masina La forza di un sorriso 2004 NA

Variety Lights (1950) When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas. He falls in love with the ingenue, Liliana, and ignores his companion of several years, Melina Amour. (

Il Bidone (1955) Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso, who has a wife and daughter and wants to paint. Augusto avoids the personal entanglements, spending money at clubs

Juliet of the Spirits (1965) Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious and naive woman. She visits a psychic seer who tells her she must follow the sex trade in order to be happy. Not lon

La Strada (1954) Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Zampano is a traveling showman who exhibits feats of strength by breaking a chain wrapped around his chest. He performs in village squares and then passes the hat for whatev

The White Sheik (1952) Moments after the newlywed couple of the fastidious office employee Ivan and his young and pure wife Wanda arrive at a hotel in Rome for their honeymoon and a formal meeting with Ivan's uncle, the bride decides to sneak out of the room and leave unnoticed. Wanda, obsessed with

The Nights of Cabiria (1957) Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may