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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, this film follows fifteen-year-old Nicola who lives with his mother and younger brother in a neighborhood of Naples that has been controlled by the Camorra mafia for centuries. Dreaming of a life luxurious with designer clothing and elite nightclub bottle service, Nicola and his gullible group of friends begin selling drugs, a door into the violent, power-hungry world of crime that begins to threaten their innocence,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 702
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
[Criterion collection].
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 finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the lavish nightclubs, parties, and cafes to find Rome itself,...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
Luciano is a wandering outcast in a remote, late nineteenth-century Italian village. His life becomes undone by alcohol, forbidden love, and a bitter conflict with the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. When the quarrel escalates, Luciano is exiled to the distant Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego where, with the help of ruthless gold-diggers, he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption....
4) La strada
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children in an Alpine village. Years later, the estranged...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
Rocco Tasca is a hot-shot lawyer for a firm that's made a fortune advancing the interests of corporate clients. He's also a man in the process of losing his soul. When he looks into the eyes of a bereaved mother after winning an acquittal for the hit-and-run driver who killed her son, he realizes he's gone too far. A shaken Rocco leaves the firm as well as his ambitious girlfriend, and starts arguing cases on behalf of the underdogs who dare to stand...
8) Il Buco
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe's highest building is being built in Italy's prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe's deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders' venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighboring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino...
9) Beate
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, the...
10) Sin
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...
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.
12) A Ciambra
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.
13) Dormant Beauty
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...
14) Piranhas
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...
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.
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' enduring...
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.
18) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"In his carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nino Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score."--Container.
19) Caro diario
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Director Nanni Moretti plays himself in this beloved comedy, told as three chapters from the filmmaker's diary: musing on cinema atop a Vespa, exiling himself to the Aeolian Islands to work on a new screenplay, and mourning his ailing health. Winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and two David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film.
20) Deep Red
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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