Domenico Procacci
1) Mia madre
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
2) Respiro
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Italiano
Description
Grazia is a carefree mother of three, who soon becomes the focus of her neighbors' gossip. While her fellow Lampedusians work and live hard - oblivious to their native paradise - Grazia alone is courageous enough to blissfully embrace life's treasures. Her wild, sensual and free-spirited behavior reflects the unrivaled beauty of her heavenly seaside village. She is not understood or accepted by the social conventions of the town, nor its strict tribal...
3) Silk
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Herve Joncour is a married silkworm smuggler in 19th century France. He travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo after his original shipment was destroyed. While in Japan, he spots a beautiful Japanese woman who is the concubine of a local baron. He immediately becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins...
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
It's Steve's birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch.
5) Gomorrah
Series
Criterion collection volume 493
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Don Ciro is a timid middleman, who distributes money to the families of imprisoned clan members. One day he is ambushed by two angry clan members with an obvious grudge against their fellows. He later offers to defect to their side and leads them to the location where he is given the money for distribution. Totò is a 13-year-old grocery delivery boy who observes some drug dealers ditching some drugs and a gun when running from the police. He returns...
6) Gomorrah
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the "system, " the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a "normal" life. Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel world, and one that is deeply rooted in reality.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Italiano
Description
"Tommaso visits his family in Southern Italy, planning to announce his new plans to be a writer rather than take over the family's pasta-making business -- as well as tell his family that he's gay. But his older brother, Antonio, beats him to the punch[.]--Container.
8) Reality
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
A darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show Big Brother leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, Luciano's own reality begins to spiral out of control.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Italiano
Description
At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square wait in vain for the new Pope to step out on the balcony. What is going on? Behind the thick walls of the Vatican panic has set in. After uttering a terrible howl of fear, the Cardinal refuses the office. The officials do everything to try to reason with Melville, including a psychoanalyst,...
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Italiano
Description
A young Italian boy, the son of a brutal kidnapper, is the only survivor when his family is killed by a rival gang. The boy flees, pursued by the police and the killers, and searches for a new life with a loving family unlike his own and an end to his family's history of criminal behavior.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square wait in vain for the new Pope to step out on the balcony. Behind the thick walls of the Vatican panic has set in. After uttering a terrible howl of fear, the Cardinal refuses the office. The officials do everything to try to reason with Melville, including a psychoanalyst, appointed by the...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she is pregnant. So now, with a wife, a child, a house ... it all seems like just too much responsibility for a guy who's afraid to grow up! But Carlo is not alone. All of his buddies are suffering with their own growing pains and none of them seem to be ready to settle down without a fight. As the romantic entanglements tighten, this self-centered group of guys will...
13) Eros
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Three award-winning directors take a look at eroticism, sex, and love in different ways.
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