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Italian cinema: 1980s

Cento giorni a Palermo (1984)
Giuseppe Ferrara

In the spring of 1982, General Dalla Chiesa gives up his plans of early retirement and instead assumes the responsibilities of police chief in one of the most crime-ridden places in Europe, the Sicilian town of Palermo...   [More...]

Fantasma d'amore (1981)
Dino Risi

Whilst travelling in a bus in his home town of Pavia, Nino Monti, a successful lawyer, encounters an old woman who bears a striking resemblance to Anna Brigatti, a woman he was once madly in love with...   [More...]

Le Grand bleu (1988)
Luc Besson

Jacques Mayol and and Enzo Molinari are two men who have shared an intense passion for the sea since their childhood. Molinari, the current world free diving champion, coerces Mayol into competing against him in the next tournament...   [More...]

La Nuit de Varennes (1982)
Ettore Scola

June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital...   [More...]

Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
Giuseppe Tornatore

A successful film maker, Salvatore, receives a telephone call from his estranged mother, informing him that his childhood friend, Alfredo, has just died...   [More...]

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