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3) Like crazy
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled billionaire countess who likes to believe she's on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. The film tells the story of the unpredictable and moving friendship that develops between the two women as they flee a mental institution in search of love and happiness in the open-air nuthouse; the world of sane people.
4) Mamma Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 236
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (29 p. : col ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.
Series
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
After an arranged marriage, King Ferdinando and Carolina allow themselves increasing indulgences in their sexual desires. The sovereigns begin to lapse in their reigning duties, becoming oblivious to the tide of revolution threatening to tear France apart.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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 breaks 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.
Publisher
Duncan Scott Productions
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In the chaotic years following the Russian revolution, three individuals courageously defy an oppressive, state-controlled society. Kira, torn between two men, struggles with them for the right to live their own lives.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set against the backdrop of a fourteenth century, black plague-stricken Florence, ten young men and women escape to a country estate where they spend their days telling stories of love, fate, and resurrection.
10) Bitter rice
Series
Criterion collection volume 792
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence.
11) Latin lover
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
On the tenth anniversary of fictional film star Saverio Crispo's death, his daughters, all of different nationalities, get together for a celebration of his career.
12) Baaria
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Follows the life of a man working as a shepherd in the Sicilian village of Bagheria as he experiences fifty years of passion, political revolution, and personal changes.
13) Caesar must die
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
As part of a rehabilitative prison program, inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar.' As they rehearse, the prisoners find that the classic play has both a striking resonance and contrast to their confined lives.
Publisher
Language Tree
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Language
Italiano
Description
Kids can learn Italian and connect with the culture through animation and interactive games. Marina and her puppy take a magical field trip to the park and learn action verbs, words, and common expressions. Includes a learning booklet.
15) I am love
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma falls deeply in love with Antonio and begins a passionate...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Elio Petri's acclaimed Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector investigating a heinous crime-which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable...
17) Cinema paradiso
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"Set in an Italian village, Salvatore finds himself enchanted by the flickering images at the Cinema Paradiso, yearning for the secret of the cinema's magic. When the projectionist, Alfredo, agrees to reveal the mysteries of moviemaking, a deep friendship is born. The day comes for Salvatore to leave the village and pursue his dream for making movies of his own. Thiry years later he receives a message that becons him back home to a secret, beautiful...
19) Don't be bad
Publisher
Uncork'D Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenty, act in search of their success.
Series
Criterion collection volume 792
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out-insert.
Language
Italiano
Description
During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence.
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