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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1997
Language
Italiano
Description
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world.
3) Don Quixote
Publisher
C Major Entertainment, GmbH
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
Description
Presents a filmed ballet performance about the adventures of Don Quixote and the young lovers Kitri and Basilio.
5) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001], c1960
Language
Italiano
Description
Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; the searchers gradually become preoccupied with their own problems.
7) Un prophète
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Malik el Djebena, who is condemned to six years in prison, cannot read or write, but soon figures out the politics of the prison. Though Malik is only 19-years-old, the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison corners him and gives him certain 'missions' to carry out. He quickly gains the confidence of the gang leader, as these assignments begin to toughen him up. But Malik soon develops some plans of his own.
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1989, [2008]
Language
English
Description
Africa 1942 - Special Agent Alan Cooper is assigned to protect a train carrying Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Casablanca for a top-secret meeting with Stalin and Roosevelt. The Nazis have discovered the plan and German paratroopers lead a brutal assault, slaughtering the commando guards and taking Churchill prisoner. Cooper manages to escape but is now faced with an almost impossible mission - to mount a counterattack that will free the captive...
9) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
10) Open city
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Italiano
Description
The loyalties of an impoverished mother-to-be and a parish priest are tested by the German forces which occupy their homeland during World War II.
12) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a five-star-hotel manager who uses his wits and persuasion in striving to save more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutus from being massacred by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
13) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
Italiano
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
14) Satyricon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001
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.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
Divided by politics but bonded by blood, Italian brothers Nicola and Matteo find their paths intersecting through some of the most tumultuous events in recent history. Produced for Italian television, but never broadcast; released theatrically instead.
16) Tristana
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
After the death of her mother, young Tristana goes to live with her guardian, Don Lope, an older man who eventually breaks through his facade of respectability and seduces her. She repays him a hundred fold, preying on his jealousy and taunting him with perverse whimsies.
17) Vincere
Publisher
MPI Media Group [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2010]
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) Blow-up
Series
Criterion collection volume 865
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
Series
The criterion collection volume 249
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
20) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A slightly darker version of the classic Charles Dickens tale. After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever.
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