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Series
Criterion collection volume 49
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The story of a Roman prostitute who tries to bear up as best she can under the humiliating and dangerous conditions in which she must ply her trade.
Series
Criterion collection volume 595
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
Italiano
Description
A visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelín. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring's action, as close to death as possible. ... This is a not just an electrifying drama but also a profound and moving inquiry into a violent world and...
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Seduction of Mimi: Mimi, a Sicilian laborer, refuses to vote for the Mafia's candidate and consequently loses his job, his wife, and his home. He revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor--an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.
Love and anarchy:...
Publisher
RaroVideo
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage (from the 1950's) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini,...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children in an Alpine village. Years later, the estranged...
9) Umberto D
Series
Criterion collection volume 201
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
Italiano
Description
Caterina, a beautiful young nun, is about to take her final vows. But her life changes when she takes in an abandoned baby. As she seeks the baby's family, she meets Ernesto. Together, they seek the truth about the baby, and re-evaluate their own lives.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A family struggles to go on after a devastating loss. Giovanni is a psychiatrist whith a successful practice. He has a warm relationship with his wife, Paola and they have a daughter, Irene and a son, Andrea. The family's calm is shattered when Andrea is unexpectedly killed in an accident.
Series
Criterion collection volume 333
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
Italiano
Description
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A young Italian boy, the son of a brutal kidnapper, is the only survivor when his family is killed by a rival gang. The boy flees, pursued by the police and the killers, and searches for a new life with a loving family unlike his own and an end to his family's history of criminal behavior.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 333
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions, in this astonishing debut from Marco Bellocchio. Characterized by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, it was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema....
20) Bellissima
Publisher
E 1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
Italiano
Description
Dreaming of a better life for her family, a star struck mother invests everything, including her last penny, into the dream that her daughter will be discovered at an open casting.
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