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War and Peace

War and Peace (1956) more movies like this

directed by King Vidor
featuring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg

War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences ...

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Sleepers

Sleepers (1996) more movies like this

directed by Barry Levinson
featuring Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Billy Crudup, Dustin Hoffman, Bruno Kirby, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Vittorio Gassman

Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called "Shakes," a nickname courtesy of his three childhood pals from Hell's Kitchen -- Michael (Brad Pitt), John (Ron Eldard), and Tommy (Billy Crudup). As kids, all four were sent to reform school after ...

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Barabbas

Barabbas (1961) more movies like this

directed by Richard Fleischer
featuring Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Harry Andrews, Vittorio Gassman, Ernest Borgnine

This 1962 Biblical epic was adapted by Christopher Fry from the novel by Pär Lagerkvist. Anthony Quinn stars as Barabbas, the thief who was pardoned in place of Jesus. For the rest of his life, the guilt-ridden criminal tries to justify his existence and to determine his place in the scheme of things. Along the way he encounters the self-righteous ...

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Sharky's Machine

Sharky's Machine (1981) more movies like this

directed by Burt Reynolds
featuring Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Brian Keith

A William Diehl novel was the source of the noirish nailbiter Sharky's Machine. Sharky (Burt Reynolds) is an undercover cop who fouls up an assignment and is kicked downstairs to the vice squad -- a rough-shod bunch of hellraisers who make life miserable. Soon, however, Sharky's life does a 180 when he encounters Dominoe (Rachel Ward) a prostitute ...

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Tempest

Tempest (1982) more movies like this

directed by Paul Mazursky
featuring John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman, Raul Julia

This comedy is set upon a remote Greek island and is very loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play. The tale centers on a middle-aged New York architect who abandons his wife and moves to the island with his teen-age daughter and his new lover, a Greek singer, in hopes of finding meaning in his life. The only resident of the island is an old ...

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Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) more movies like this

directed by Mario Monicelli
featuring Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Renato Salvatori, Rosanna Rory

Mario Monicelli's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) features Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni as a pair of thieves who head a group of criminals in a break-in attempt. Their plan involves digging an underground tunnel from an apartment that leads to a neighboring business and drilling their way inside. In ...

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La Famiglia

La Famiglia (1987) more movies like this

directed by Ettore Scola
featuring Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli, Andrea Occhipinti, Alberto Gimignani

A family history is recalled by the venerable patriarch Carlo (Vittorio Gassman) as he prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday. Young Carlo (Andrea Massimo) marries Beatrice (Stefania Sandrelli) in 1926 but later has an illicit affair with her bohemian artist sister Adriana (Fanny Ardant). Fascism, World War II, and the raising of children and ...

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Rhapsody

Rhapsody (1954) more movies like this

directed by Charles Vidor
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Michael Chekhov

Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled daughter of millionaire Nicholas Durant (Louis Calhern). Accustomed to getting whatever she wants, Louise sets her sights on violin student Paul Bronte (Vittorio Gassman). Before long, however, she tires of Paul's all ...

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Quintet

Quintet (1979) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey

Perhaps the least seen but most talked about film of Robert Altman's career, Quintet is a somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age. A man named Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant wife Vivia (Brigitte Fossey) are wandering the desolate, frozen landscape and attempting to find ...

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Le Désert des Tartares

Le Désert des Tartares (1976) more movies like this

directed by Valerio Zurlini
featuring Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin

With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked the fort years ago. One young soldier (Jacques Perrin), however, can't wait for the boredom to end and the fighting to begin. Ennio Morricone provided the musical score. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Riso Amaro

Riso Amaro (1949) more movies like this

directed by Giuseppe de Santis
featuring Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Checco Rissone

Originally released as Riso Amaro, Bitter Rice was one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement. Silvana Mangano portrays one of hundreds of women toiling slavishly in the Po Valley rice fields. She is courted by two men: respectable Raf Vallone and no-good fugitive from justice Vittorio Gassman. Mangano chooses Gassman, a ...

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La Vie Est Un Roman

La Vie Est Un Roman (1983) more movies like this

directed by Alain Resnais
featuring Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi

With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French directors, each of whom defined a particular era in his country's cinema Melies (the first French filmmaker to use narrative--his most famous film is A Trip to the Moon), the impressionist L'Herbier (most famous for his ...

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Mambo (1954) more movies like this

directed by Robert Rossen
featuring Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters, Katherine Dunham

Unable to find work in Hollywood due to the Blacklist, director Robert Rossen filmed his 1954 production Mambo in Italy. Silvana Mangano stars as Silvia, who hopes someday to become a famous dancer. In the meantime, Silvia is torn between two lovers: Count Enrico (Michael Rennie), who hasn't much longer to live, and Mario Rossi (Vittorio Gassman), ...

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Il Sorpasso (1962) more movies like this

directed by Dino Risi
featuring Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Luciana Angiolillo, Linda Sini

Regarded by many as Dino Risi's finest film, The Easy Life (Il Sorpasso) casts Vittorio Gassman as Bruno, a jaded, aging roue, who introduces young Roberto Mariani Jean-Louis Trintignant to his hedonistic lifestyle.. Previously a man with a purpose in life, Roberto soon becomes as wanton and wastrelly as Bruno. The older man is proud of his ...

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Lo Scatenato (1967) more movies like this

directed by Franco Indovina
featuring Vittorio Gassman, Martha Hyer, Gila Golan, Karin Skorreso, Massimo Serato

Vittorio Gassman stars in this uneven blend of sex and comedy where animals attempt to take over the world. Satirical jabs are taken at the advertising, politics and heroes. Gassman plays a model who makes his career by appearing on billboards and loses a battle of wits with a gorilla in a zoo. Our hero watches a striptease through a telescope in ...

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Anna (1951) more movies like this

directed by Alberto Lattuada, Dino Risi, Giuseppe Berto
featuring Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Vittorio Gassman, Gaby Morlay, Patrizia Mangano

Silvana Mangano portrays a fickle club chanteuse who must choose between the love of two men (Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman). She chooses neither, entering a convent for the sake of convenience. This overwrought drama was produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and reworked by five screenwriters including such respected names as Dino Risi and Franco ...

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Brancaleone Alle Crociate (1970) more movies like this

directed by Mario Monicelli
featuring Vittorio Gassman

This is an episodic Italian comedy, which follows the Quixotic adventures of the gentle and extremely naive character, Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman). Set in the middle ages, we first see Brancaleone on a quest for the Holy Grail. As his adventures proceed, he picks up an entourage including a dwarf, an endangered witch, and a masochist who emits ...

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Big Deal On Madonna Street...20 Years Later (1985) more movies like this

directed by Amanzio Todini
featuring Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Tiberlo Murgia, Francesco de Rosa, Giorgio Gobbi

The vast differences 27 years makes between Italian comedy, the city of Rome, the stars in this film, and filmmaking itself are apparent in this 1985 sequel to the 1958 I Soliti Ignoti. Clips from the earlier film highlight the changes. Returning to reprise their roles are Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, and Tiberio Murgia. Tiberio (the ...

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