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'', directed by

Aurelio Grimaldi Aurelio Grimaldi (born 22 November 1957) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film '' The Whores'' was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival The 47th Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1994. The Palme d'Or went ...

(1994) * '' Oltremare - Non è l'America'', directed by Nello Correale (1998) * ''Quartetto'', directed by Salvatore Piscicelli (2001) * '' Rosa Funzeca'', directed by

Aurelio Grimaldi Aurelio Grimaldi (born 22 November 1957) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film '' The Whores'' was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival The 47th Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1994. The Palme d'Or went ...

(2002) * ''Alla fine della notte'', directed by Salvatore Piscicelli (2003) * '' Fratella e sorello'', directed by

Sergio Citti Sergio Citti (30 May 1933 – 11 October 2005) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, born in Rome. He often worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini, but also worked for others such as Ettore Scola. His own films include '' We Free Kings'', f ...

(2005) * '' Leone nel basilico'', directed by

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* '' Il marsigliese'' (1975) * ''Storie della camorra'', directed by Paolo Gazzara (1978) * ''L'altro Simenon'' (1979) * ''La mano sugli occhi'' (1979) * ''L'eredità della priora'', directed by

Anton Giulio Majano Anton Giulio Majano (5 July 1909 – 12 August 1994) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. His career spanned from 1937 to 1986. Selected filmography Director and screenwriter * '' The Eternal Chain'' (1952) * ''Good Folk's Sunday' ...

(1980) * ''L'indizio'' (1982) * ''L'amante dell'Orsa Maggiore'', directed by

Anton Giulio Majano Anton Giulio Majano (5 July 1909 – 12 August 1994) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. His career spanned from 1937 to 1986. Selected filmography Director and screenwriter * '' The Eternal Chain'' (1952) * ''Good Folk's Sunday' ...

(1983) * ''Sogni e bisogni'', directed by

Sergio Citti Sergio Citti (30 May 1933 – 11 October 2005) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, born in Rome. He often worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini, but also worked for others such as Ettore Scola. His own films include '' We Free Kings'', f ...

(1985) * ''Un'isola'', directed by

Carlo Lizzani Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Biography Born in Rome, before World War II Lizzani worked as a scenarist on such films as Roberto Rossellini's '' Germany Year Zero' ...

(1986) * ''Losberg'' (1986) * ''L'isola del tresoro'', directed by

Antonio Margheriti Antonio Margheriti (19 September 1930 – 4 November 2002), also known under the pseudonyms Anthony M. Dawson and Antony Daisies ("daisies" is "margherite" in Italian), was an Italian filmmaker. Margheriti worked in many different genres in th ...

(1987) * ''Quando ancora non c'erano i Beatles'' (1988) * ''Mit den Clowns kamen die Tränen'' (1990) * ''Morte a contratto'', directed by

Gianni Lepre Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (in ...

(1993) * ''Gioco perverso'', directed by

Italo Moscati Italo Moscati (born, August 22, 1937) is an Italian writer, film director, and screenwriter. He was born in Milan and, since 1967, has lived and worked in Rome. Moscati has collaborated with many notable figures in Italian cinema and television ...

(1993) * ''Alles Glück dieser Erde'' (1994) * ''L'ispettore Sarti'' (1994) * ''Morte di una strega'', directed by Cinzia TH Torrini (1995) * ''

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'', directed by Gianluigi Calderone (1996) * ''Un posto al sole'' (1996-1998, 2000) * ''

Il bello delle donne ''Il bello delle donne'' (Beauty of Women) is an Italian comedy-drama television series. The story is about the lives of different Italian women. Main cast *Stefania Sandrelli: Anna Borsi * Nancy Brilli: Vicky Melzi (1ª e 3ª Seasons) *Giulian ...

'', directed by

Lidia Montanari Lidia may refer to: * Lidia (given name) * ''Lidia'' (spider), a spider genus * Hurricane Lidia, multiple storms * ''Comoedia Lydiae'', a medieval Latin elegiac comedy from the late twelfth century * Spanish Fighting Bull, also known as ''toro ...

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Maurizio Ponzi Maurizio Ponzi (born 8 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic. Born in Rome, he wrote cinema reviews in several Italian magazines during the early 1960s. He worked as assistant director in Pier Paolo Pasolini's epi ...

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Giovanni Soldati Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * '' Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend ...

(2002) * ''Chiaroscuro'', directed by Tomaso Sherman (2003) * ''Madre come te'', directed by

Vittorio Sindoni Vittorio Sindoni (born 21 April 1939) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Capo d'Orlando, Sicily, Sindoni started his career on stage directing the theater group "Il Collettivo" ("The Collective") in Rome, and work ...

(2004) * ''Mannaggia alla miseria'', directed by

Lina Wertmüller Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films '' Seven Beauti ...

(2010) * ''Paura di amare'', directed by Vincenzo Terracciano (2010) * ''Paura di amare 2'', directed by Vincenzo Terracciano (2013)

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