Radiotelevisione italiana
Language
Italiano
Description
"A famous Italian filmmaker, haunted by the memories of his first love, returns to his hometown after an absence of 30 years. Upon his return, he reconnects with the community and remembers the highlights and tragedies that shaped his life and inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker. Includes Theatrical and Director's Cut versions of the film." --
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Italiano
Description
When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordian. But her solo journey does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who hires an amateur detective...
4) Coco Chanel
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Charts the rise of one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. From her humble childhood and early days as a young dressmaker's assistant, to her passionate love affair with a dashing Englishman and ultimate success as a pioneering fashion icon.
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Italiano
Description
It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar night in 1944, when she was six years old, and the residents of San Martino, her small Tuscan hometown, struggled against Nazi oppression during the final days of WWII.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Emperor Tiberius calls for Tito Valerio Tauro, a Roman investigator, to find out what caused a solar eclipse and earthquakes at the same time throughout the Roman Empire. What he finds is a mystery that could bring down the empire.
7) Nostalghia
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Italiano
Description
A homesick Russian poet, Gorchakov, researching in Italy with the aid of a beautiful interpreter, Eugenia, arrives at a Tuscan spa, while there he encounters the local mystic, who sets him on a challenging task.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Italiano
Description
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation ... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad, he solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints. All the while he confronts his personal demons, which war against his professional ideals, his commitment to his beautiful long-distance girlfriend and his constant flirtation...
9) I clowns
Publisher
Rarovideo
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The Clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a 'docu-comedy', this film explores deeper human conditions such as authority, poverty, humility and arrogance.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
Depicts the final days of World War II in Italy, seen mostly through the eyes of a six-year-old girl. It is a mythic recollection by the protagonist of life on the run when a group of Italian villagers flee from brutal Nazi occupiers in the summer of 1944.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Italiano
Description
Rising quickly from within the ranks of the socialist party, Benito Mussolini became local chief of the Italian Socialist Party at a young age, where he developed his instinct for power and his talent for intrigue as he played off various sections of the left against each other. His dangerous rise to power ultimately played out against the backdrop of World War I and gave rise to a new and frightening government--Facism.
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Italiano
Description
"Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad, he solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints. All the while he confronts his personal demons, which war against his professional ideals, his commitment to his beautiful long-distance girlfriend and his constant flirtation...
15) La traviata
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a beautiful courtesan dying of consumption and her love for a poor nobleman.
16) Dracula's curse
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Investment banker Jonathan Harker has earned a great deal of money by speculating in historic real estate. He has now settled in Budapest with his fiancée Mina Murray. At a charity ball organized by Dr. Seward, Jonathan surprises his fiancée with a proposal of marriage. The delighted Mina accepts, and right at that moment some friends invited by Jonathan enter the hall. But Jonathan has to leave the party because he has been recalled to see a client....
17) Padre padrone
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a son's development under an oppressive father. Gavino lives in solitude as an illiterate Sardinian shepherd. Finally he revolts against his father and his own illiteracy, studies and earns a degree and finds his identity through his newly-found ability to communicate.
Series
Criterion collection ; 50
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1914, a colorful melange of celebrities embark on a funeral voyage for a dead opera star. An allegorical film blending spectacle, humour, poignance and grotesquerie.
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Includes in-depth interviews of U.S. President Richard Nixon by Sir David Frost in May, 1977 regarding the infamous Watergate scandal. Features footage from 2007 of Frost discussing the impact this interview had on history, his reactions, and more.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The dramatic life story of Josephine Bakhita, who was taken by Arab slave traders at a young age and sold to an Italian merchant to be nanny to his daughter. She later discovered her Catholic faith, became a nun, and was declared a saint by Pope John Paul II in the year 2000.
