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Series
Criterion collection volume 1043
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi2s 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.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
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...
Publisher
Yash Raj Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Hindi
Description
Movie is based on Philip Meadows Taylor's 1839 novel Confessions of a Thug, the movie tells about a thug named Ameer Ali and his gang, whose nefarious ways posed a serious challenge to the British Empire in India between 1790 and 1805.
4) Luca
Series
Publisher
Disney/Pixar
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Italiano
Description
Dramatic retelling of the story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old Sicilian girl whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims) who break the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino. Her days are numbered from that moment on. She only has nine months to live.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Madigan knows all the first three Jack Slater movies in and out. The fourth one is just about to be released, too, and with a magical ticket Danny really gets to know that movie in and out, literally speaking. During one of the action climaxes, Danny is transported into the movie, into a world following other rules than the real one. Benedict, one of the evil guys, gets ahold of the ticket and escapes out to the real world, a world where evil...
7) Nomadland
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.
8) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version and special features.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, this film follows fifteen-year-old Nicola who lives with his mother and younger brother in a neighborhood of Naples that has been controlled by the Camorra mafia for centuries. Dreaming of a life luxurious with designer clothing and elite nightclub bottle service, Nicola and his gullible group of friends begin selling drugs, a door into the violent, power-hungry world of crime that begins to threaten their innocence,...
10) Pinocchio
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
11) Otello
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Music & Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Italiano
Description
The Met's production of Verdi's Otello from 1995, with Placido Domingo in one of his greatest roles opposite the stunning Renee Fleming in her first breakaway Met success.
12) Il buco
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Italiano
Description
During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe's highest building is being built in Italy's prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe's deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders' venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighboring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino...
13) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy's history, [this film] is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin ... is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student ... . The dissatisfactions of working-class...
14) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Italiano
Description
A woman ends a relationship with her overly intellectual boyfriend only to begin a doomed relationship with another man.
Publisher
Ignite
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On a dark and stormy night, a young boy observes what appears to be a flying saucer crash-landing in his town. Shortly after, the grown-ups begin acting strange. Convinced there's a link between this bizarre behavior and what he witnessed that night, he turns to a local health official for help. But can these two unlikely heroes withstand the might of a full-blown invasion from outer space?
16) La notte
Series
Criterion collection volume 678
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
During one evening, an author and his wife begin to explore their deteriorating marriage and the indifference that they feel towards their circle of friends.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
Introduces a ragtag team of detectives who take over the small precinct police station in the aftermath of a scandal. Led by Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono, a brilliant investigator with a checkered past, the new squad includes Lt. Francesco Romano, Alessandra Alex Di Nardo, Ottavia Calabrese, and special agent Marco Aragona. Together, these misfits and outcasts are thrown in the deep end as they find themselves investigating a series of high-profile...
Series
Criterion collection volume 702
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
19) Mafia!
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The sidesplitting epic saga of disorganized crime's most dysfunctional family. As the story of the Cortino family unfolds over nearly a century, young and innocent Vincenzo Cortino is driven from his home in Sicily and forced to swim to America.
20) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
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