Ugo Pirro

Ugo Pirro

Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist. His screenplays include films Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Garden of the Fizi-Continis, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film.

  • Title: Ugo Pirro
  • Popularity: 2.423
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1920-04-26
  • Place of Birth: Salerno, Campania, Italy
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  • Also Known As: Ugo Mattone
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Ugo Pirro Movies

  • 2005
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    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    6.7 2005 HD

    A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.

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  • 2004
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    Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

    Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

    6.5 2004 HD

    Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

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  • 1966
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    Navajo Joe

    Navajo Joe

    6.2 1966 HD

    The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

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  • 1970
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    Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli

    Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli

    6.2 1970 HD

    After a wave of arrests in 1969, Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli allegedly falls out of a police building window while being interrogated. The...

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  • 1979
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    Operation Ogre

    Operation Ogre

    6.833 1979 HD

    Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the...

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  • 1967
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    We Still Kill the Old Way

    We Still Kill the Old Way

    6.671 1967 HD

    A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to...

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  • 1994
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    Law of Courage

    Law of Courage

    6.8 1994 HD

    The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the...

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  • 1951
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    Attention! Bandits!

    Attention! Bandits!

    6 1951 HD

    During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of...

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  • 1957
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    Men and Wolves

    Men and Wolves

    6 1957 HD

    Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.

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  • 1967
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    The Wild Eye

    The Wild Eye

    6.4 1967 HD

    A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations.

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  • 1973
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    Property Is No Longer a Theft

    Property Is No Longer a Theft

    7.178 1973 HD

    A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business...

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  • 1996
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    The Nymph

    The Nymph

    5.4 1996 HD

    Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished...

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  • 1970
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    Metello

    Metello

    5.639 1970 HD

    The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic...

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  • 1987
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    A Boy from Calabria

    A Boy from Calabria

    6.478 1987 HD

    Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who...

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  • 1976
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    Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

    Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

    6.7 1976 HD

    An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

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  • 1976
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    Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

    Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

    6.7 1976 HD

    An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

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  • 1970
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    Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli

    Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli

    7.7 1970 HD

    The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969,...

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  • 1951
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    Attention! Bandits!

    Attention! Bandits!

    6 1951 HD

    During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of...

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  • 1965
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    The Camp Followers

    The Camp Followers

    6.571 1965 HD

    In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian...

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  • 1972
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    Chronicle of a Homicide

    Chronicle of a Homicide

    5.6 1972 HD

    Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The...

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  • 1972
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    Chronicle of a Homicide

    Chronicle of a Homicide

    5.6 1972 HD

    Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The...

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  • 1963
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    The Verona Trial

    The Verona Trial

    6.3 1963 HD

    This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her...

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  • 1963
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    The Verona Trial

    The Verona Trial

    6.3 1963 HD

    This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her...

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  • 1974
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    Il generale dorme in piedi

    Il generale dorme in piedi

    5.8 1974 HD

    A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is...

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  • 1957
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    The Most Wonderful Moment

    The Most Wonderful Moment

    5.8 1957 HD

    Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares...

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  • 1978
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    Child of the Night

    Child of the Night

    2 1978 HD

    Mystery thriller, based on a novel by G. J. Arnaud.

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  • 1973
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    One Russian Summer

    One Russian Summer

    6.8 1973 HD

    Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic...

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  • 1970
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    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

    6.929 1970 HD

    In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children,...

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  • 1976
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    The Inheritance

    The Inheritance

    6.9 1976 HD

    Rome, 1880. Gregorio Ferramonti (Anthony Quinn) has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo (Gigi Proietti),...

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  • 1962
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    Warriors Five

    Warriors Five

    1 1962 HD

    World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes...

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  • 1959
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    Cerasella

    Cerasella

    6.6 1959 HD

    Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.

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  • 1971
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    The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    7.815 1971 HD

    After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.

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  • 1971
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    The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    7.815 1971 HD

    After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.

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  • 1970
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    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    8.181 1970 HD

    Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him...

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  • 1973
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    Property Is No Longer a Theft

    Property Is No Longer a Theft

    7.178 1973 HD

    A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business...

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  • 1960
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    The Apartment

    The Apartment

    8 1960 HD

    A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.

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  • 1973
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    The Battle of Sutjeska

    The Battle of Sutjeska

    6.425 1973 HD

    The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the...

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  • 1974
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    Blood Brothers

    Blood Brothers

    6.4 1974 HD

    Set in Naples at the end of the 19th century, I Guappi tells the story of a strange friendship between the powerful and charismatic Camorra boss, Don...

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  • 1974
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    Blood Brothers

    Blood Brothers

    6.4 1974 HD

    Set in Naples at the end of the 19th century, I Guappi tells the story of a strange friendship between the powerful and charismatic Camorra boss, Don...

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  • 1953
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    Empty Eyes

    Empty Eyes

    7 1953 HD

    A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change...

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  • 1969
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    The Battle of Neretva

    The Battle of Neretva

    6.651 1969 HD

    In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western...

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  • 1968
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    Sardinia Kidnapped

    Sardinia Kidnapped

    6.2 1968 HD

    Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by...

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  • 1968
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    Sardinia Kidnapped

    Sardinia Kidnapped

    6.2 1968 HD

    Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by...

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  • 1960
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    The Hunchback

    The Hunchback

    5.9 1960 HD

    Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.

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  • 1993
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    Funes, a Great Love

    Funes, a Great Love

    5 1993 HD

    A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.

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  • 1966
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    Wake Up and Die

    Wake Up and Die

    5.8 1966 HD

    A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl...

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  • 1984
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    Nucleo Zero

    Nucleo Zero

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1984
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    Nucleo Zero

    Nucleo Zero

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1958
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    L'uomo dai calzoni corti

    L'uomo dai calzoni corti

    5 1958 HD

    Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a...

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  • 1979
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    The Return

    The Return

    4.8 1979 HD

    Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths...

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  • 1976
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    Colpita da improvviso benessere

    Colpita da improvviso benessere

    1 1976 HD

    Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.

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  • 1975
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    Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista

    Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista

    6.8 1975 HD

    The Milanese nudist professor Paolo Barca moved to the province of Catania; there he will succeed in changing something both in the school and in his...

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  • 1974
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    Somewhere Beyond Love

    Somewhere Beyond Love

    6.5 1974 HD

    Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional...

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  • 1974
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    Somewhere Beyond Love

    Somewhere Beyond Love

    6.5 1974 HD

    Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional...

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  • 1969
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    The Bandit

    The Bandit

    5.9 1969 HD

    Sicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of their field, which then the baron lets to...

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  • 1961
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    Italienisches Capriccio

    Italienisches Capriccio

    10 1961 HD

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  • 1960
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    Five Branded Women

    Five Branded Women

    6 1960 HD

    Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to...

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  • 1968
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    The Day of the Owl

    The Day of the Owl

    7.02 1968 HD

    Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction...

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  • 1977
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    I Am the Law

    I Am the Law

    7 1977 HD

    Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and...

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  • 1970
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    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    8.181 1970 HD

    Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him...

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  • 1970
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    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    8.181 1970 HD

    Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him...

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  • 1996
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    Celluloide

    Celluloide

    7 1996 HD

    June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on...

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  • 1996
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    Celluloide

    Celluloide

    7 1996 HD

    June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on...

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  • 1996
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    Celluloide

    Celluloide

    7 1996 HD

    June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on...

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  • 1955
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    Songs from all over Italy

    Songs from all over Italy

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1976
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    San Babila-8 P.M.

    San Babila-8 P.M.

    6.3 1976 HD

    A quartet of young neo-Fascists terrorise the Milanise locals while the Police mostly look the other way.

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