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RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Bicycle Thieves
1948
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
BD
8 1/2
1963
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
BDS
La Dolce Vita
1960
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
BDS
The Conformist
1970
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
BDS
L'Avventura
1960
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Italy
/
France
BD
Rome Open City
1945
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
BD
La Strada
1954
Fellini, Federico
Italy
BDS
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
1964
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
France
/
Italy
D
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
Visconti, Luchino
France
/
Italy
DS
Cinema Paradiso
1988
Tornatore, Giuseppe
Italy
/
France
BDS
Amarcord
1973
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
BDS
Nights of Cabiria
1957
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
BDS
Umberto D.
1952
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
BD
L'Eclisse
1962
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Italy
/
France
BD
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
/
West Germany
Y
Paisan
1946
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
BD
Lamerica
1994
Amelio, Gianni
Italy
/
France
DS
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
1978
Olmi, Ermanno
Italy
/
France
BD
Ossessione
1943
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
Y
Night of the Shooting Stars
1982
Taviani, Paolo
/
Taviani, Vittorio
Italy
BD
Life Is Beautiful
1997
Benigni, Roberto
Italy
BD
1900
1976
Bertolucci, Bernardo
France
/
Italy
/
West Germany
BDS
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
BYS
Europa '51
1952
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
BD
Fellini Satyricon
1969
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
BDS
La Notte
1961
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Italy
/
France
BD
La Terra Trema
1948
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
D
Red Desert
1964
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Italy
/
France
BD
The Spider's Stratagem
1970
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Italy
Y
The Damned
1969
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
/
Switzerland
/
West Germany
YS
Divorce Italian Style
1961
Germi, Pietro
Italy
Y
Dark Eyes
1987
Mikhalkov, Nikita
Italy
YS
The Son's Room
2001
Moretti, Nanni
Italy
/
France
Y
Swept Away
1974
Wertmüller, Lina
Italy
D
Journey to Italy
1954
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
/
France
Y
Seven Beauties
1975
Wertmüller, Lina
Italy
D
Shoe-Shine
1946
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
D
The Best of Youth
2003
Giordana, Marco Tullio
Italy
D
Gomorrah
2008
Garrone, Matteo
Italy
BD
Two Women
1960
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
/
France
D
Il Postino
1994
Radford, Michael
France
/
Italy
/
Belgium
D
Miracle in Milan
1951
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
Y
The Great Beauty
2013
Sorrentino, Paolo
Italy
BDS
I Vitelloni
1953
Fellini, Federico
France
/
Italy
BYS
Fists in the Pocket
1965
Bellocchio, Marco
Italy
BDS
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
Rosi, Francesco
France
/
Italy
D
Caro diario
1994
Moretti, Nanni
Italy
/
France
S
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
1963
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
/
France
BD
Il Generale della Rovere
1959
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
/
France
BD
Teorema
1968
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
BDS
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
Monicelli, Mario
Italy
Y
The Stolen Children
1992
Amelio, Gianni
France
/
Switzerland
/
Germany
/
Italy
La Traviata
1982
Zeffirelli, Franco
Italy
Y
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970
Petri, Elio
/
Kresel, Lee
Italy
BDS
L'Innocente
1976
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
/
France
BD
Ginger and Fred
1986
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
D
I Am Love
2009
Guadagnino, Luca
Italy
BDS
The Hand of God
2021
Sorrentino, Paolo
Italy
Black Sunday
1960
Bava, Mario
Italy
BDS
Marriage Italian Style
1964
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
/
France
BY
Three Brothers
1981
Rosi, Francesco
France
/
Italy
BD
Mamma Roma
1962
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
Y
Stromboli
1950
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
BD
Cabiria
1914
Pastrone, Giovanni
Italy
D
Salvatore Giuliano
1962
Rosi, Francesco
Italy
Y
Federico Fellini's Roma
1972
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
BDS
Amore
1948
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
V
Salò
1975
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
/
France
BD
Otello
1986
Zeffirelli, Franco
Italy
/
Netherlands
Y
Il Posto
1961
Olmi, Ermanno
Italy
D
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
Argento, Dario
Italy
/
West Germany
BDS
The Mattei Affair
1972
Rosi, Francesco
Italy
Padre Padrone
1977
Taviani, Paolo
/
Taviani, Vittorio
Italy
BD
Le Amiche
1955
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Italy
BD
Mondo cane
1962
Jacopetti, Gualtiero
/
Cavara, Paolo
/
Prosperi, Franco
Italy
D
The Four Days of Naples
1962
Loy, Nanni
Italy
Bread, Love, and Dreams
1953
Comencini, Luigi
Italy
Y
Bread and Chocolate
1973
Brusati, Franco
Italy
Y
La Signora di tutti
1934
Ophüls, Max
Italy
Y
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
Scola, Ettore
Italy
D
Before the Revolution
1964
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Italy
YS
Il Divo
2008
Sorrentino, Paolo
Italy
/
France
BD
The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
1981
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Italy
A Special Day
1977
Scola, Ettore
Italy
/
Canada
BD
For a Few Dollars More
1965
Leone, Sergio
Italy
/
Spain
/
West Germany
/
Monaco
BDS
The Clowns
1971
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
YS
Seduced and Abandoned
1964
Germi, Pietro
Italy
/
France
D
Martin Eden
2019
Marcello, Pietro
Italy
/
France
/
Germany
BD
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
1965
Germi, Pietro
France
/
Italy
Malèna
2000
Tornatore, Giuseppe
Italy
/
USA
DS
Alfredo, Alfredo
1972
Germi, Pietro
Italy
/
France
D
A Brief Vacation
1973
De Sica, Vittorio
Spain
/
Italy
Y
Accattone
1961
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
Y
The Life Ahead
2020
Ponti, Edoardo
Italy
S
Hands Over the City
1963
Rosi, Francesco
Italy
/
France
D
Boccaccio '70
1962
De Sica, Vittorio
/
Fellini, Federico
/
Monicelli, Mario
/
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
/
France
BS
Bellissima
1951
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
D
Mediterraneo
1991
Salvatores, Gabriele
Italy
Y
The Flowers of St. Francis
1950
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
D
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Illustrious Corpses
1976
Rosi, Francesco
Italy
/
France
Open Doors
1990
Amelio, Gianni
Italy
Y
Scipione l'africano
1937
Gallone, Carmine
Italy
Y
Kapò
1959
Pontecorvo, Gillo
France
/
Italy
D
The Road a Year Long
1958
De Santis, Giuseppe
Italy
/
Yugoslavia
Il Bidone
1955
Fellini, Federico
Italy
/
France
BYS
White Nights
1957
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
/
France
Y
To Live in Peace
1947
Zampa, Luigi
Italy
The Star Maker
1995
Tornatore, Giuseppe
Italy
YS
Two Pennyworth of Hope
1952
Castellani, Renato
Italy
The Wide Blue Road
1957
Pontecorvo, Gillo
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
D
The Little World of Don Camillo
1952
Duvivier, Julien
France
/
Italy
Y
Happy as Lazzaro
2018
Rohrwacher, Alice
Italy
/
Switzerland
/
France
/
Germany
Dogman
2018
Garrone, Matteo
Italy
/
France
D
The Great War
1959
Monicelli, Mario
Italy
/
France
Bread and Tulips
2000
Soldini, Silvio
Italy
/
Switzerland
D
Don't Tell
2005
Comencini, Cristina
Italy
/
UK
/
France
/
Spain
D
The Consequences of Love
2004
Sorrentino, Paolo
Italy
S
Django
1966
Corbucci, Sergio
Italy
/
Spain
BDS
I'm Not Scared
2004
Salvatores, Gabriele
Italy
/
Spain
/
UK
D
La scorta
1993
Tognazzi, Ricky
Italy
DS
Allegro non troppo
1977
Bozzetto, Bruno
Italy
DS
1860
1934
Blasetti, Alessandro
Italy
V
Gerusalemme liberata
1910
Guazzoni, Enrico
Italy
Hercules
1958
Francisci, Pietro
Italy
/
Spain
D
Hercules Unchained
1959
Francisci, Pietro
Italy
/
France
/
Spain
D
La Caduta di Troia
1910
Borgnetto, Luigi Romano
/
Pastrone, Giovanni
Italy
L'Illustre attrice Cicala Formica
1920
D'Ambra, Lucio
Italy
L'Inferno
1911
Bertolini, Francesco
/
Padovan, Adolfo
/
de Liguoro, Giuseppe
Italy
/
UK
D
Outcry
1946
Vergano, Aldo
Italy
Quo Vadis?
1913
Guazzoni, Enrico
Italy
The Seduction of Mimi
1972
Wertmüller, Lina
Italy
BD
Sperduti nel buio
1914
Martoglio, Nino
Italy
Tosca
1940
Koch, Carl
/
Renoir, Jean
Italy
/
France
Ulysses
1955
Camerini, Mario
/
Bava, Mario
Italy
D
Un Colpo di pistola
1942
Castellani, Renato
Italy
Without Pity
1948
Lattuada, Alberto
Italy
We the Living
1942
Alessandrini, Goffredo
Italy
Amici per la pelle
1955
Rossi, Franco
France
/
Italy
/
Spain
Oedipus Rex
1967
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
/
Morocco
Y
The Walls of Malapaga
1949
Clément, René
France
/
Italy
Baarìa
2009
Tornatore, Giuseppe
Italy
/
France
BD
The Hundred Steps
2000
Giordana, Marco Tullio
Italy
China Is Near
1967
Bellocchio, Marco
Italy
Scent of a Woman
1974
Risi, Dino
Italy
Y
To Forget Venice
1979
Brusati, Franco
France
/
Italy
Viva Italia!
1977
Monicelli, Mario
/
Risi, Dino
/
Scola, Ettore
Italy
From the Clouds to the Resistance
1979
Huillet, Danièle
/
Straub, Jean-Marie
Italy
/
West Germany
/
UK
/
France
India
1959
Rossellini, Roberto
France
/
Italy
Sabata
1969
Parolini, Gianfranco
Italy
BD
Arabian Nights
1974
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
/
France
BD
The Organiser
1963
Monicelli, Mario
Italy
/
France
/
Yugoslavia
Reality
2012
Garrone, Matteo
Italy
/
France
BD
The Wonders
2014
Rohrwacher, Alice
Italy
/
Switzerland
/
Germany
D
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1971
Petri, Elio
Italy
S
Africa addio
1966
Jacopetti, Gualtiero
/
Prosperi, Franco
Italy
Y
The Basileus Quartet
1984
Carpi, Fabio
Italy
/
France
La Bohème
1965
Zeffirelli, Franco
West Germany
Y
Mediterranea
2015
Carpignano, Jonas
Italy
/
France
/
USA
/
Germany
/
Qatar
D
The Roof
1956
De Sica, Vittorio
Italy
/
France
Strange Deception
1950
Malaparte, Curzio
Italy
Y
Domenica d'agosto
1950
Emmer, Luciano
Italy
Quattro passi fra le nuvole
1942
Blasetti, Alessandro
Italy
The Hawks and the Sparrows
1966
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
YS
The Best Man
1997
Avati, Pupi
Italy
Y
Climax
1967
Germi, Pietro
France
/
Italy
Flight of the Innocent
1993
Carlei, Carlo
Italy
/
France
Y
Like Two Crocodiles
1994
Campiotti, Giacomo
France
/
Italy
/
UK
Luna e l'Altra
1996
Nichetti, Maurizio
Italy
Mafioso
1962
Lattuada, Alberto
Italy
D
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974
Comencini, Luigi
Italy
Y
To Bed... Or Not to Bed
1963
Polidoro, Gian Luigi
Italy
From the Pole to the Equator
1987
Gianikian, Yervant
/
Lucchi, Angela Ricci
West Germany
/
Italy
La ricotta
1963
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy
/
France
Y
The Lady Without Camelias
1953
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Italy
/
France
Operai, contadini
2001
Straub, Jean-Marie
/
Huillet, Danièle
France
/
Italy
Où gît votre sourire enfoui?
2001
Costa, Pedro
/
Lounas, Thierry
France
/
Portugal
Salomé
1972
Bene, Carmelo
Italy
The White Sheik
1952
Fellini, Federico
Italy
BYS
Giulietta e Romeo
1964
Freda, Riccardo
Italy
/
Spain
Caesar Must Die
2012
Taviani, Paolo
/
Taviani, Vittorio
Italy
D
Italian for Beginners
2000
Scherfig, Lone
Denmark
/
Sweden
D
The Traitor
2019
Bellocchio, Marco
Italy
/
France
/
Germany
/
Brazil
D
Carosello napoletano
1954
Giannini, Ettore
Italy
Cronache di poveri amanti
1954
Lizzani, Carlo
Italy
The Eight Mountains
2022
van Groeningen, Felix
/
Vandermeersch, Charlotte
Italy
/
Belgium
/
France
T
The Lost Continent
1954
Bonzi, Leonardo
/
Gras, Enrico
/
Moser, Giorgio
Italy
Le Quattro Volte
2010
Frammartino, Michelangelo
Italy
/
Germany
/
Switzerland
BD
Passione
2010
Turturro, John
Italy
/
USA
S
Sacco and Vanzetti
1971
Montaldo, Giuliano
Italy
/
France
S
Shun Li and the Poet
2011
Segre, Andrea
Italy
/
France
D
Vincere
2009
Bellocchio, Marco
Italy
/
France
D
We Have a Pope
2011
Moretti, Nanni
Italy
/
France
D
The Cat o'Nine Tails
1971
Argento, Dario
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
BD
Rails
1929
Camerini, Mario
Italy
La Corona di ferro
1941
Blasetti, Alessandro
Italy
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...
1965
Visconti, Luchino
Italy
Abuna Messias
1939
Alessandrini, Goffredo
Italy
Bengasi
1942
Genina, Augusto
Italy
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Casta Diva
1935
Gallone, Carmine
Italy
L'Assedio dell'Alcazar
1940
Genina, Augusto
Italy
/
Spain
Luciano Serra pilota
1938
Alessandrini, Goffredo
Italy
Sacro GRA
2013
Rosi, Gianfranco
Italy
B
Squadrone bianco
1936
Genina, Augusto
Italy
Teresa Confalonieri
1934
Brignone, Guido
Italy
The Way We Laughed
1998
Amelio, Gianni
Italy
Y
A domani
1999
Zanasi, Gianni
Italy
America Latina
2021
D'Innocenzo, Damiano
/
D'Innocenzo, Fabio
Italy
/
France
Ammore e malavita
2017
Manetti, Antonio
/
Manetti, Marco
Italy
S
Appassionate
1999
De Bernardi, Tonino
Italy
Banditi a Orgosolo
1960
De Seta, Vittorio
Italy
BirdWatchers
2008
Bechis, Marco
Italy
/
Brazil
Y
Black Souls
2014
Munzi, Francesco
Italy
/
France
BD
Blood of My Blood
2015
Bellocchio, Marco
Italy
/
France
/
Switzerland
Caccia tragica
1947
De Santis, Giuseppe
Italy
Capri-Revolution
2018
Martone, Mario
Italy
/
France
Chiara
2022
Nicchiarelli, Susanna
Italy
/
Belgium
Cielo sulla palude
1949
Genina, Augusto
Italy
Denti
2000
Salvatores, Gabriele
Italy
Dormant Beauty
2012
Bellocchio, Marco
Italy
/
France
D
È stato il figlio
2012
Ciprì, Daniele
Italy
El Maestro
1957
Fabrizi, Aldo
/
Brochero, Eduardo Manzanos
Spain
/
Italy
Freaks Out
2021
Mainetti, Gabriele
Italy
/
Belgium
T
Giro di lune tra terra e mare
1997
Gaudino, Giuseppe M.
Italy
The Golden Door
2006
Crialese, Emanuele
France
/
Italy
D
Good Morning, Night
2003
Bellocchio, Marco
Italy
D
The Hole
2021
Frammartino, Michelangelo
Italy
/
France
/
Germany
I Giardini dell'Eden
1998
D'Alatri, Alessandro
Italy
I Giorni dell'abbandono
2005
Faenza, Roberto
Italy
I Piccoli maestri
1998
Luchetti, Daniele
Italy
I Vesuviani
1997
Capuano, Antonio
/
Corsicato, Pappi
/
Incerti, Stefano
/
Martone, Mario
/
de Lilllo, Antonietta
Italy
Il Brigante
1961
Castellani, Renato
Italy
Il Dolce e l'amaro
2007
Porporati, Andrea
Italy
Il giovane favoloso
2014
Martone, Mario
Italy
Il grande sogno
2009
Placido, Michele
Italy
/
France
Il Miracolo
2003
Winspeare, Edoardo
Italy
Il Muro di gomma
1991
Risi, Marco
Italy
Il papà di Giovanna
2008
Avati, Pupi
Italy
Il Partigiano Johnny
2000
Chiesa, Guido
Italy
Il seme della discordia
2008
Corsicato, Pappi
Italy
Il signore delle formiche
2022
Amelio, Gianni
Italy
The Keys to the House
2004
Amelio, Gianni
Italy
/
France
/
Germany
Y
The King of Laughter
2021
Martone, Mario
Italy
/
Spain
D
La doppia ora
2009
Capotondi, Giuseppe
Italy
La Forza del passato
2002
Gay, Piergiorgio
Italy
La Lingua del santo
2000
Mazzacurati, Carlo
Italy
La Lunga notte del '43
1960
Vancini, Florestano
Italy
/
France
La pecora nera
2010
Celestini, Ascanio
Italy
La Seconda notte di nozze
2005
Avati, Pupi
Italy
La Sfida
1958
Rosi, Francesco
Italy
/
Spain
La Stella che non c'è
2006
Amelio, Gianni
Italy
L'Albero delle pere
1998
Archibugi, Francesca
Italy
L'Amore necessario
1991
Carpi, Fabio
Italy
/
France
Lavorare con lentezza
2004
Chiesa, Guido
Italy
Light of My Eyes
2001
Piccioni, Giuseppe
Italy
D
L'immensità
2022
Crialese, Emanuele
Italy
/
France
T
L'intrepido
2013
Amelio, Gianni
Italy
Lo spazio bianco
2009
Comencini, Francesca
Italy
L'Onorevole Angelina
1947
Zampa, Luigi
Italy
L'Ora di punta
2007
Marra, Vincenzo
Italy
L'ultimo terrestre
2011
Pacinotti, Gian Alfonso
/
Gipi
Italy
S
Luna rossa
2001
Capuano, Antonio
Italy
The Macaluso Sisters
2020
Dante, Emma
Italy
The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be
2019
Maresco, Franco
Italy
The Mayor of Rione Sanità
2019
Martone, Mario
Italy
Nessuna qualità agli eroi
2007
Franchi, Paolo
Italy
/
Switzerland
/
France
Noi credevamo
2010
Martone, Mario
Italy
/
France
Nostra signora dei turchi
1968
Bene, Carmelo
Italy
Ovosodo
1997
Virzì, Paolo
Italy
Ovunque sei
2004
Placido, Michele
Italy
Padrenostro
2020
Noce, Claudio
Italy
S
Pasolini, un delitto italiano
1995
Giordana, Marco Tullio
Italy
/
France
S
The Passion
2010
Mazzacurati, Carlo
Italy
Per amor vostro
2015
Gaudino, Giuseppe M.
Italy
/
France
S
Piuma
2016
Johnson, Roan
Italy
Prima comunione
1950
Blasetti, Alessandro
Italy
/
France
Quando la notte
2011
Comencini, Cristina
Italy
Quei loro incontri
2006
Huillet, Danièle
/
Straub, Jean-Marie
Italy
/
France
/
Germany
Questi giorni
2016
Piccioni, Giuseppe
Italy
Romanzo di un giovane povero
1995
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/
France
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Y
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Italy
/
France
/
Germany
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/
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/
Switzerland
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2013
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/
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/
France
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Italy
/
France
BD
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2008
Ozpetek, Ferzan
Italy
S
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Italy
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S
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2002
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Italy
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1991
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1961
Rossellini, Roberto
Italy
/
France
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France
/
Italy
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Italy
/
France
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/
Straub, Jean-Marie
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/
France
/
Germany
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Antonioni, Michelangelo
Italy
/
USA
DS
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1992
Wertmüller, Lina
Italy
D
Madame Butterfly
1995
Mitterrand, Frédéric
France
/
UK
/
Germany
DS
The Second Time
1996
Calopresti, Mimmo
France
/
Italy
Ludwig
1972
Visconti, Luchino
France
/
Italy
/
West Germany
D
And the Ship Sails On
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Fellini, Federico
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/
Italy
BY
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/
USA
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Y
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T Theaters (US)
B
Blu-ray Disc
D DVD
V VHS
Y Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S Soundtrack