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1) Il bidone
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
An aging swindler, ringleader of a trio of petty thieves who impersonates priests to cheat peasants, finally realizes the futility of his life.
2) Suspiria
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Horror film about an American student enrolled in a German dance academy. A series of bizarre incidents and brutal murders puts the academy in chaos.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma falls deeply in love with Antonio and begins a passionate...
4) Mediterraneo
Publisher
Cinema TV
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1941 eight Italian soldiers are left on an apparently abandoned Greek island in order to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. When they lose all touch with the world outside, the hidden Greeks reappear and incorporate them into village life.
Publisher
International Classic Films LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In post WWII Italy, Giuseppe and Pasquale work on the street shining the shoes of American troops. But when the boys are falsely accused of a crime, they are sent to a brutal state juvenile detention center.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A man is bereft when his married lover of seven years decides suddenly to leave him when her husband dies. He takes their child and wanders for a year, but realizes he can love only her.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of seven sexy stories of love and adultery set against a Paris backdrop. Widow, seductress, model wife, or passionate lover, Shirley Maclaine stars in the seven roles of a woman's life in seven sketches.
Series
Criterion collection volume 329
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome and its lack of concern with human dignity and obsession with perverse sex. The film is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern society.
10) Cosmopolis
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
Series
Criterion collection volume 759
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (138 minutes) : color, sound.
Language
Français
Description
"The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying"
12) Vincere
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
About fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and the woman he loved. Ida Dalser was scorned, denounced, and then written out of history. Mussolini's rise to power and Dalser's descent into an insane asylum are tragic counterpoints in a doomed romance. Dalser may have been written off at the time, but Bellocchio and Mezzogiorno allow her a final, unexpected triumph in this cinematic masterwork.
Publisher
Duncan Scott Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (174 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In the chaotic years following the Russian revolution, three individuals courageously defy an oppressive, state-controlled society. Kira, torn between two men, struggles with them for the right to live their own lives.
Series
Mesrine saga volume pt. 1
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The first of two parts charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine, the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and the Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings, and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His daughter, a right-to- life activist, falls in love with an advocate for assisted suicide. A famous actress turns towards faith and miracle cures in the hope of bringing her daughter out of an irreversible coma. And the beautiful Rossa is saved by the young doctor Pallido and reawakens to life....
Series
Criterion collection volume 610
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, brimming with humor and honesty.
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
In a railway coach Snàporaz wakes from a nap and seduces a beautiful stranger. Then he follows her through a forest to a weird hotel where a feminist convention is being held. He is so unnerved by the vociferous hostility of the militants that he hides in the mansion of a female killer who has wooed and won a thousand hearts. Snàporaz will be forced to run the gauntlet before waking up and realizing that his adventure was only a crazy nightmare....
Series
Criterion collection volume 646
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Eleven-year-old Cyril is living in a group home and refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach his father, either by the phone or on his bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, a stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on with his life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 506
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
DVD special edizione.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
A famous gas mask designer, trying to deal with his pill-addicted wife and the maid he is having an affair with, finds a gun that might have belonged to the famous John Dillinger.
20) Tickets
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
Italiano
Description
In this anthology film, an elderly businessman finds solace and a new insight into life when he meets a younger woman who arranges his train ticket after his flight is canceled. A young man is torn between an older woman who controls him and a younger one that attracts him. And three Scottish youths on their way to the football match of their dreams are forced to open their eyes and see the bigger picture when they meet an Albanian family. In each...
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