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Key Features:
Circus, Superpowers, World War II, Nazis, Survival, Found family, Historical drama, Oppression, Resilience, Otherness, Violence-moderate
Tone:
serious, dramatic, stylized
Target Audience:
Fans of historical dramas, Viewers interested in unique superhero stories, Those seeking emotional and thought-provoking films, Fans of fantasy
Emotional Arc:
Hope → Despair → Resilience

Freaks Out

2021-10-28
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Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis.

Genres
Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
Cast
Claudio Santamaria, Aurora Giovinazzo, Pietro Castellitto, Giancarlo Martini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Max Mazzotta, Franz Rogowski, Éric Godon, Emilio De Marchi, Anna Tenta
Crew
Nicola Guaglianone, Gabriele Mainetti, Nicola Guaglianone, Gabriele Mainetti
Rating
7.267(935 votes)
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City Under Siege
5.1

Sunny is a naïve circus performer who dreams of inheriting his father's knife-throwing skills. However, his hostile colleagues continue to bully him, relegating him to a lowly clown. On a tour to Malaysia, Cheung and other performers discover a cave occupied by the Japanese army during World War II. Instead of finding treasure, the performers - including Sunny - are sprayed with a mysterious chemical that turns them into superhuman mutants...



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The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.



La Strada
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7.91

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.



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Naked Among Wolves
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L'immensità
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Locked Out
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Giovanna's Father
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Fox and His Friends

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Castle Freak
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John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.



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Gladiator
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The Four Days of Naples

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Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into his father's schemes to bring him back into polite society.



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Behind the Line: Escape to Dunkirk

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The Bunker
6.114

A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon shattered, when it becomes apparent that both the parents and their son have a screw loose.



The Truce
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6.1

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.



Bent
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Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.



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5.8

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Dunkirk
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6.8

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Great Freedom
7.2

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Happily Mixed Up
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Pan's Labyrinth
7.757

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Ugly Nasty People
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Unlikely Revolutionaries

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The Last Circus
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Santa Sangre
7.1

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The Man Who Cried
6.1

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Circus Kane
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