Film Index
Italian cinema: 1990s
Le Bossu (1997)
Philippe de Broca
Philippe the Duke of Nevers is in love with Blanche de Caylus, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, and he is over the moon when he learns that she has given him a child outside wedlock...
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Philippe de Broca
Farinelli (1994)
Gérard Corbiau
In the 18th century, under the sobriquet Farinelli, Carlo Broschi became the world's most famous castrato. Accompanied by his older brother Riccardo, who writes his music and helps to consummate his amorous entanglements, he is received by the courts of Europe...
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Gérard Corbiau
Nikita (1990)
Luc Besson
Nikita is the sole survivor of a bloody shoot out between police and a band of drug-crazed social dropouts. Violently aggressive and mentally unstable, the young woman is taken into police custody, but soon find herself a prisoner in a secret government department...
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Luc Besson
Par-delà les nuages (1995)
Michelangelo Antonioni
An American film director visits exotic locations in Europe, recalling tales of love and desire. On his travels, he meets and is instantly attracted to young woman who admits to having murdered her father......
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Il Postino (1994)
Michael Radford
In the 1950s, Mario lives with his father on a small Italian island in the Mediterranean. Not wishing to follow his father's own profession as a fisherman, Mario decides instead to become the island's postman...
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Michael Radford
La Reine Margot (1994)
Patrice Chéreau
Paris, August, 1572 - a troubled time in the history of France, a country scarred by interminable religious wars. To appease the Protestants, the Catholic queen mother Catherine de Medici arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and the King of Navarre, Henri... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
Paris, August, 1572 - a troubled time in the history of France, a country scarred by interminable religious wars. To appease the Protestants, the Catholic queen mother Catherine de Medici arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and the King of Navarre, Henri... [More...]
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Franco Zeffirelli
Florence, Italy, 1935. A group of harmless old English ladies, known by the locals as the Scorpioni, live in happy exile, meeting up to take tea together every afternoon... [More...]
Franco Zeffirelli
Florence, Italy, 1935. A group of harmless old English ladies, known by the locals as the Scorpioni, live in happy exile, meeting up to take tea together every afternoon... [More...]
La Vita è bella (1997)
Roberto Benigni
Italy, 1939. Leaving his home in the country, Guido Orefice moves to a town in Tuscany to get a job as a waiter. There he meets and falls in love with a young schoolteacher, Dora, but she is already betrothed to another man... [More...]
Roberto Benigni
Italy, 1939. Leaving his home in the country, Guido Orefice moves to a town in Tuscany to get a job as a waiter. There he meets and falls in love with a young schoolteacher, Dora, but she is already betrothed to another man... [More...]