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Benvenuto, Reverendo! (1950)

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi Lianella Carell Vittorio Duse Marianne Hold Giovanni Grasso, Jr.   

Length: 89min

Actor Aldo Fabrizi did double duty as star and director of the Italian seriocomedy Benevuto, Reverendo! Fabrizi plays a ne'er-do-well who robs a church collection box. To avoid detection, he dons the robes of a priest and slips out right under the...

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Il Sole sorge ancora (1949)

Cast: Giuseppe de Santis Carlo Lizzani Aldo Tonti Lea Padovani Massimo Serato   

Tags: War Drama Action Drama War 

Length: 89min

Originally Il Sole Sorge Ancora, Outcry is a neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II. The scene is the tiny village of Lombardy, just outside Milan. The villagers have suffered four years of humiliation and exploitation...

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Caccia Tragica (1947)

Cast: Giuseppe de Santis Massimo Girotti Folco Lulli Andrea Checchi Carla Del Poggio   

Tags: Rural Drama Drama 

Length: 86min

Set amongst the Italian peasantry of WW2, Caccia Tragica (Tragic Chase) is set in motino when a truck loaded with money targetted for farming projects is stolen by bandits. The local villagers set aside their petty political and personal differences,...

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Ossessione (1943)

Cast: Luchino Visconti Massimo Girotti Giuseppe de Santis Aldo Tonti Mario Serandrei   

Tags: Crime Drama Drama 

Length: 135min

Often considered one of the first examples of Italian neorealism, Luchino Visconti's first film was this adaptation of James M. Cain's steamy novel -The Postman Always Rings Twice, which would also be made twice in the U.S., first in 1946 with Lana...

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