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Fall under the spell of screen divas that scorch. Ingrid, Gena, Monica and many more in performances throwing heat and light on life.
They evade the straitjacket of 'traditional' women's roles – undernourished characters that were cyphers for a male lead – to forge a new and daring path.
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Medea Medea

Drama 1970 111 mins Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini directs opera singer Maria Callas in a vivid adaptation of Euripides' Greek tragedy.

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That Hamilton Woman That Hamilton Woman

Biopic 1941 120 mins Director: Alexander Korda

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier bring Hollywood glitz to the love affair between Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton in the midst of political turmoil.

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A Woman Under the Influence A Woman Under the Influence

Drama 1974 146 mins Director: John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes' powerful drama stars Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk as a blue-collar couple struggling to cope with the wife's slide into mental illness.

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Stromboli, Land of God Stromboli, Land of God

Drama 1950 100 mins Director: Roberto Rossellini

In her first collaboration with Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman stars as a refugee who marries a fisherman and moves to a barren island.

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Rome, Open City Rome, Open City

Drama 1945 103 mins Director: Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini’s landmark of Italian neorealism often cited as one of the greatest films ever made.

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Red Desert Red Desert

Drama 1964 117 mins Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Antonioni's mid-career masterpiece stars Monica Vitti as an emotionally anguished young woman embarking on a tentative affair with a businessman (Richard Harris).

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Countess Dracula Countess Dracula

Horror 1970 94 mins Director: Peter Sasdy

An ageing countess finds that if she bathes in the blood of virgins her youth is restored.

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24 City 24 City

Drama-documentary 2008 107 mins Director: Jia Zhangke

Jia Zhangke mixes reminiscence and performance in his cool, measured, moving look at the changing fortunes of a Chinese factory-turned-shopping mall

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The Gigolos The Gigolos

Comedy 2007 94 mins Director: Richard Bracewell

A highly original comedy following a pair of professional male escorts and their interactions with their lonely, over-50s 'regulars'.

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Quest for Love Quest for Love

Romance 1971 87 mins Director: Ralph Thomas

This British sci-fi comedy, adapted from a John Wyndham story, follows a man’s search to find the ideal woman whom he briefly meets in a parallel universe.