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Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this next chapter following the 2014 hit, legendary hit man John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.
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.
3) Spectre
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
4) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption.
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Judah Ben-Hur [is] a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ"--Container.
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2007]
Language
Italiano
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Paris, wine and romance: Isabella, the owner of her family's Oregon winery, takes a big leap and enters a prestigious wine competition in Paris. There she meets her biggest competitor, Jacques, from one of the world's foremost winemaking families.
Rome in love: An unknown actress lands the role of a lifetime in Rome and discovers love and life in the eternal city.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in the romantic city of Rome. The intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers.
11) 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.
12) Angels & demons
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Pope's death, symbologist Robert Langdon follows ancient clues in a race through Rome to find the four cardinals favored for the succession. They have been kidnapped by the Illuminati, a secret society whose members have long hated the Catholic Church and who plan to execute the cardinals and destroy the Vatican.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Angela (Chabert) is an independent-minded American tour guide who gets fired from her job in Rome just before Christmas. She crosses paths with an American executive named Oliver (Page), who wants to buy a high-end ceramics company. Oliver hires Angela to be his tour guide around the Eternal City, As the owner of the ceramics company won't sell it to him until he learns "the heart and soul of Rome." But is there another heart and soul that he may...
14) Tommaso
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter is disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem. He wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film.
15) Quo vadis
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about this situation, but she falls in love with Marcus anyway....
16) When in Rome
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment :
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter, and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?
17) Evil eye
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"While vacationing in Italy, a young woman with a passion for crime fiction witnesses a brutal murder. With the help of a handsome young doctor, she launches her own investigation and uncovers a series of crimes known as the 'Alphabet Murders, ' only to realize that she may be next on the killer's list. This Kino Classics edition includes both the original Italian-language version (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) as well as the American cut (Evil Eye)"--Container...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Gaius Claudius Glaber and his Roman troops are sent to Capua to crush the growing band of freed slaves that Spartacus leads before it can inflict further damage. Spartacus is presented the choice of satisfying his personal need for vengeance against the man who condemned his wife to slavery and eventual death or making the larger sacrifices necessary to keep his budding army from breaking apart.
20) The last ember
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonathan Marcus, a young American lawyer and a former doctoral student in classics, has become a sought-after commodity among antiquities dealers, but when he is summoned to Rome to examine a client's fragment of an ancient stone map, he stumbles across a startling secret: a hidden message carved inside the stone itself. The discovery propels him on a perilous journey from the labyrinth beneath the Colosseum to the biblical-era tunnels of Jerusalem...
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