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1) Teorema
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A handsome stranger enters the lives of a bourgeois Italian family and proceeds to seduce each member, including the maid.
2) Valmont
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats, and the havoc they wreck when they decide to play sexual games with people's lives.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Pasqualino is a lady's man living off his sisters' money until he is arrested and sent to the army. He is captured by the Germans and taken to a concentration camp where he plots his escape by seducing a German officer.
4) Love crime
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a face-off. Isabelle is a young executive under the orders of Christine, a powerful woman she absolutely idolizes. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination. A dangerous game that goes too far, to the point of no return.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to Chicago, where she ensnares her next conquest, insurance man Mike Swale (Peter Berg). After getting a job at his insurance company, Bridget convinces Mike to run a scam -- but things take a deadly turn when she...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered unnumbered pages : color illustrations)
Language
Français
Description
It is the story of Louise, a young interior designer bored with her life in the sleepy suburbs with her live-in boyfriend Remi, an architect by trade and a homebody by nature. Eager to lead the life of an independent socialite in the city, Louise arranges to move back into her Paris apartment during the week.
7) Roger Dodger
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at the male ego and the art of manipulating women. Roger, a sharp-witted Manhattan advertising copywriter can talk his way into any skirt, which is exactly why his nephew, Nick, pays him a visit. With Nick's virginity at stake, Roger takes him out for a one-night crash course in seduction, only to realize he still has something to learn about women himself.
8) Wild orchids
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a ocean voyage with her husband to Java, Lillie falls for the handsome Prince de Gace. When her husband learns of his wife's liaison, the film moves to its suspenseful climax: a tiger hunt charged with conflicting emotions of love, betrayal and revenge.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Finnish
Description
The tale of Koistinen, a handsome, but lonely nightwatchman who becomes entranced and seduced by the ultimate femme fatale, who leads him down the unwitting path of crime and punishment. Koistinen is left to face the consequences.
10) Cordelia
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia, a young woman living in London, meets her mysterious and alluring neighbor Frank for the first time but quickly becomes suspicious of his motives. With her twin sister away for the weekend, Cordelia is left alone and overcome with paranoia. She begins to unravel and sink back into past traumas the more that Frank tries to charm his way into her life, becoming a danger to herself and others.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A provocative adaptation of the classic novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Updated to present-day France by director Roger Vadim, the film follows Valmont and Juliette as they manipulate each other into having extra-marital affairs. Juliette points Valmont towards the sixteen-year-old Cecile, since she has eyes on Cecile's prospective fiance Court. Sex becomes sport in this deliciously backstabbing drama.
Series
Criterion collection volume 416
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Swedish
Description
"Miss Julie" takes place one Midsummer Night, during the festival when all Sweden celebrates the midnight sun and a full day of light. At a posh country estate, the servants sing, dance, and drink the day away. The Count is celebrating elsewhere, only his daughter Julie remains. She is ready to dance and drink with the lower class, especially her handsome footman Jean. Both are trapped by the repressive society, rigid class system, and strict gender...
13) Teorema
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger, perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil, who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle, blocked from an exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy, is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont display the petty jealousies and jaded insouciance of life in France's royal court in the 18th century, casually ruining the lives of de Merteuil's young romantic rival, the music teacher for whom she secretly pines and the upstanding Madame de Tourvel. But when actual romantic feelings begin to surface, their games take on a more treacherous air.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George, not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George's lawyer, Archie Leach."--www. imdb. com.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 810 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The changeling: Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to one man, but loves another. She hires her father's servant to kill her betrothed, but is then horrified at what she has done.
The apple cart: The king must match wits with an unruly mistress and a cabinet wanting a constitutional monarchy.
Caesar and Claretta: The story of Mussolini and his lover, Claretta Petacci on their last night together.
The philanthropist: A circle of friends talks of unimportant...
17) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
9 Blu-rays (approximately 951 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (95 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...
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