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3) La Strada
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a poor woman who is sold to the strong man in a circus. She falls in love with him, but her love isn't returned until it is too late.
4) Sin
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist’s loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
The issue of assisted suicide made national headlines in Italy when the decision was made to end the life of Eluana Englaro, after she spent seventeen years in a vegetative state. DORMANT BEAUTY shows how assisted suicide affects the lives of four characters struggling with their own beliefs. A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His...
7) Indivisible
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
INDIVISIBLE is an award-winning Italian drama about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. Dasy and Viola (Angela and Marianna Fontana) are conjoined twin sisters living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and, thanks to their performances at local weddings, communions and baptisms, have become the breadwinners for their entire family. Kept isolated from the world by their exploitative father, their lives are turned upside...
8) Beate
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
A timely and relevant story of revolt against greed and apathy for the working class, BEATE shows how different walks of life can come together and unite against a common enemy. After receiving notification via group text message that they are being laid off, the hardworking female employees of the Veronica garment factory decide to “borrow” some of the factory’s equipment to produce their own line of lingerie. Lead by factory forewoman Armida,...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Lucia must stay behind under the care of her stern and overbearing grandmother in 1960's Sicily, while her parents and younger brother emigrate to France to find work. The girl is distraught and bitter about being left behind, and mopes the days away as the relaionship with her grandmother grows more and more contentious. Lucia grows increasingly curious about her grandmother's hatred towards other members of the family on the island, and begins to...
10) Piranhas
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano (Gomorrah), PIRANHAS follows fifteen year-old Nicola (newcomer Francesco Di Napoli) who lives with his mother and younger brother in the Sanità neighborhood of Naples, a place that has been controlled by the Camorra mafia for centuries. Dreaming of a life lush with designer clothing and elite nightclub bottle service, Nicola and his group of friends begin selling drugs, an entryway into the violent, power-hungry...
11) A Ciambra
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
A teenage boy must grow up fast to survive life on the margins of Southern Italy in this bracing work of raw realism from executive producer Martin Scorsese.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1526, the 28-year-old Giovanni de' Medici, knight of the noble art of war, was captain of the Papal army in the campaign against Charles V's Lanschenets. He was a living myth, fought over by princes for his great experience in the PROFESSION OF ARMS. Smiled on by fortune and desired by women, he was ruined by the introduction of firearms. A young man's death is a curse against fate; often it reveals the stupidity of human behavior.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Three retirees decide to move away from Rome to find a better standard of living in a country where their meagre pensions will go that much further. Planning for the trip sees the trio trawl the pubs and restaurants of a sun saturated Rome and discover that even at an old age they can still learn one or two lessons about themselves and life.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese reveals the story of a single performance in 1826 that changed America’s cultural landscape with the introduction of Italian opera to New York City. Taking place in Scorsese’s childhood church where successive waves of immigrants have been embraced, this watershed event was lost to history for almost 200 years but has been rediscovered and the “lost oratorio” will be restaged.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To reconnect with her Libyan heritage, Italian artist Martina Melilli befriends a young Tripoli man named Mahmoud on social media. She asks for his help to gather and send images of her grandparents’ former neighborhood and home—which they left after the country’s 1970 military coup. As Mahmoud and Melilli exchange pictures, videos and texts, a deep cross-border friendship grows—until war interrupts yet again. A poignant portrait of politics’...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Italiano
Description
Guido's gifted imagination and sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loved and created a beautiful life for his young family. When the life is threatened by WW II, Guido must rely on those very same strengths to save his beloved wife and son from an unthinkable fate.
18) La dolce vita
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Italiano
Description
A journalist investigates the life-styles of Roman high society and is sickened and fascinated by what he discovers.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
Italiano
Description
One of the most controversial Italians films of the '80s, DEVIL IN THE FLESH takes Raymond Radiguet's classic novel and updates it to modern times. Dealing with the legacy of Italy's "leaden years" and the aftermath of the social struggles headed by left wing revolutionary groups, DEVIL IN THE FLESH caused a critical uproar upon its release due to its highly-charged political and sexually frank subject matter. Maruschka Detmers (THE MAMBO KINGS)...
20) Deep Red
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems…
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