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1) Two women
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 pages ; 18 cm) in container.
Language
Italiano
Description
Realistic drama of an Italian widow who, along with her young daughter, are brutally raped by Allied soldiers in World War II.
2) 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.
3) Amarcord
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
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...
5) Mia madre
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
6) Beate
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A timely and relevant story of revolt against greed and apathy for the working class, this film shows how different walks of life can come together and unite against a common enemy.
8) Malena
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething, Malena.
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen edizione.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom, is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. Yet it is Agata's joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1043
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi discovers an Italy he never knew existed.
13) Killer cop
Publisher
Rarovideo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
One cop is determined to find the people behind the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan.
14) Intervista
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
"A Japanese film crew interviews Fellini about his career as he films the memories of his life as a young journalist walking into his beloved studio Cinecitta for the first time"--Container.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (557 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The Fourth Season continues with Genny, having lived through it all, needs to change his own life to save the family. As he turns into a businessman, he has to hand his kingdom over to Patrizia and entrust his own life to a mob crew with ties to Donna Imma.
16) In Viaggio
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
In the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made 37 trips visiting 53 countries, focusing on his most important issues: poverty, migration, the environment, solidarity and war.
17) 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.
18) Mamma roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 236
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special edizione.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricte herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of growing up and falling in love in the Mafia-ridden city of Palerma. Seen through the eyes of Arturo, a child brought up in a fascinating yet terrifying city, the story spans twenty years of life filled with passion and laughter.
20) Ricordi?
Publisher
Distrib Films US
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A love story, seen through the memories of one young couple: recollections altered by moods, different perspectives, and time itself. A journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love or in love with others, told in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
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