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Siden deres barndom har Jacques og Enzo konkurreret i at dykke længst og dybest, og som voksne fortsætter de denne dyst. Enzo er blevet...

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences...

Efter at have tilbragt hele sit liv og opvækst i kirkens børnehjem forlader Toto en dag de trygge rammer for at begive sig ud i den...

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Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

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After doing the jump from comic-artist to standup comedian, Simon finds himself forced to return to the world of comics, after a line of surprising...

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Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and...

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.