Franco Castellano

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Intolerance
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Intolerance

Nov 11, 1996
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Drama
La donna della domenica
1
Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deals with the investigation of commissioner Santamaria about the murder of an architect of dubious fame, Garrone. Among the protagonists are Anna Carla Dosio, a beautiful and rich woman, and her friend Massimo Campi, a rich homosexual.
Drama
Puccini
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Puccini

Mar 01, 2009
Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.
History
Luisa Spagnoli
7.8

Luisa Spagnoli

Feb 01, 2016
This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is an amazing story of someone way ahead of her time.
Drama
Rita Levi-Montalcini
6.7

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Nov 26, 2020
In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini receives the Nobel Prize, but something is missing. After meeting a young violinist, the scientist faces a difficult choice: take refuge in fame or get back in the game.
History
Il mistero del cortile
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Rome. Paola Angeli, a young psychiatrist, following her recent separation from her husband Alberto Salvi, a crime reporter, moved to an apartment overlooking a large courtyard, overlooked by a series of other buildings. It is Christmas. The city is becoming depopulated. Even the courtyard that Paola sees from her windows during long sleepless nights seems uninhabited apart from the few remaining tenants. One morning, not far from Paola's condominium, the body of an unidentified blonde girl is found in a dumpster. Alberto investigates the mysterious crime on behalf of his newspaper. Paola has the impression of having seen a blonde girl with a pair of very showy earrings enter building C the previous night. but Romolo, the building's doorman, excludes him because the tenants are all away on holiday.
Thriller
L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi
5.4
The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state.
Drama
La Donna del Treno
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La Donna del Treno

Mar 02, 1999
A woman travels in a compartment of a train and a young man sits next to her with whom, almost immediately, sparks strike: once they arrive at their destination the boy realizes that the young lady has forgotten a book and so follows her to to return it. When the two are alone at home, without having even introduced themselves, they soon end up in each other's arms and spend an intense night of love. At dawn the man leaves. Also at dawn that same morning, a man is killed in his garage and it is soon discovered that he is the brother of the young man on the train.
Crime
Barabbas
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Barabbas

Dec 28, 2012
Barabbas ou Jésus Barabbas (littéralement « fils du père » ou « Jésus, fils du père », respectivement) est une figure dans le récit de la Passion du Christ, dans laquelle il est le insurrectionnels qui Pontius Pilate libéré à la fête de la Pâque en Jérusalem, au lieu de Jésus-Christ.
History
Mafalda di Savoia - Il coraggio di una principessa
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The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a concentration camp. Mafalda di Savoia was chosen to represent the decline of nobility and the errors of war, which separate and destroy even noble families. Mafalda is a victim of political strategies that overlook her, and her tragic death shows the levelling power of war, that forces poor and rich alike to share the same destiny.
Drama
Enrico Mattei
4.5

Enrico Mattei

May 03, 2009
Giorgio Capitani reconstructs in the Rai TV film the parable of the famous entrepreneur, in a product that in technical terms does not escape the logic of television, but still manages to offer an interesting picture of a key figure of postwar Italy.
Documentary
A rózsa énekei
6.3

A rózsa énekei

Mar 19, 2003
Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.
Drama
Un uomo perbene
5.8

Un uomo perbene

Oct 01, 1999
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Drama
Jérémie
6.7

Jérémie

Dec 14, 1998
L'histoire de Jérémie se situe au temps de l'exil, en Perse. Ce châtiment est infligé au peuple qui a préféré servir des idoles plutôt que le vrai Dieu...
Adventure
Anna e i cinque
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Anna e i cinque

Oct 05, 2011
Anna e i cinque is an Italian comedy television series starring Sabrina Ferilli about a woman who is a nanny for a wealthy family by day and stripper by night.
Un coin de Soleil
1

Un coin de Soleil

Sep 29, 1996
Uno di noi is an Italian television series, airing on Rai Uno in 1996. The series was rerun on Rai Premium during the summer of 2011.
Cime tempestose
8.4

Cime tempestose

Oct 05, 2004
New adaptation of Emily Brontë's famous novel, a story of love and uncontrollable passion, exploring the deepest feelings to the extremes to which love can lead us, especially when there are many obstacles to overcome. A Yorkshire melancholy story about a love stronger than death.
Drama
Orgoglio
6.5

Orgoglio

Apr 23, 2006
1912. The dramatic love story between Anna Obrofari e Pietro Pironi.
Drama
Tango per la Libertà
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Tango per la Libertà

Dec 12, 2016
Tango per la Libertà is a television miniseries broadcast on Rai1 on 12 and 13 January 2016. Freely inspired by Enrico Calamai's book No political asylum, it tells the story of an Italian diplomat in Argentina who managed to save more than 300 men and women persecuted by Jorge Rafael Videla's regime.
Drama
Perlasca - Un eroe italiano
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The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.
Drama
Faccia d'angelo
6.4

Faccia d'angelo

Mar 19, 2012
Dans la région de Vénétie des années quatre-vingt, Felice Maniero gère les activités de l'organisation criminelle qui a mis en place. Saisir les opportunités que la prospérité économique apporte dans le Nord, le Manoir est l'esprit criminel d'une économie souterraine qui se développe sur le trafic, braquages ​​de banques et véhicules blindés et des meurtres sanglants. Très attaché à sa mère, un amoureux du luxe et de belles femmes, il devient rapidement l'homme le plus recherché de l'équipe du commissaire Ricci.
Drama
Barabbas
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Barabbas

Mar 26, 2013
Billy Zane stars as Barabbas--the man whose life was spared because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Based on the Nobel Prize in Literature winning novel by Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas is a story rooted in the Bible which will come to life on REELZ as a four-hour miniseries and tells the ultimate story of redemption. Barabbas was shot on location in Tunisia and is directed by Emmy Award winner Roger Young.
Drama
La Mafia
7.9

La Mafia

Jan 17, 2001
Dans ce feuilleton, on suit d'abord le commissaire Corrado Cattani qui commence une lutte contre la mafia, puis on suit le commissaire Davide Licata. C'est le juge Conti qui termine l'histoire.
Drama