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Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
Alba Rohrwacher plays Alice, a Swiss woman who moved to Beirut in the 1950s and falls in love with a Lebanese astrophysicist with dreams of sending his fellow citizens into space, and who is the object of Alice’s affection. Joseph and Alice appear to lead the perfect life until their bliss is ripped apart by the civil war and nothing will be the same again.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants—from Cameroon and Benin, respectively—whose sibling-like bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The inseparable pair work as performers in a trattoria, dealing drugs on the side for the restaurant’s abusive cook, while balancing the demands of an indifferent...
5) Bell'Antonio
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Italiano
Description
A newly wedded and extremely handsome young bourgeois Antonio faces a scandal in a city of Sicily in 1950's when the public and her family hears that his beautiful wife is still "untouched" after their 12-month long marriage.
6) The Boom
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Italiano
Description
Giovanni lives far beyond his means to provide for his wife's bodily needs. In return, she fully satisfies his sexual desires. Nearly insolvent and terribly worried at the idea of losing his wife, he thinks of committing suicide when an ad gives him hope again : a rich man offers anyone able to give him one of his eyes a big amount of money...
7) Liza
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
Italiano
Description
Giorgio decides to leave society and goes to live on a desert island with a dog as his only companion. But his hermit's life is disturbed by the arrival of a beautiful blonde who kills his dog out of jealousy. In revenge, he forces her to take the animal's place.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
Italiano
Description
In Naples, a mysterious voice foretells that "the last judgment will begin at 6 p.m". First of all, it is seen as hype, then as the hour approaches, panic sweeps across the town. Everyone reacts in their own individual way but once the threat is apparently past, normal life resumes. For good or bad, it is as if nothing has happened.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Description
An anthology of films depicting various aspects of Neapolitan life. The Big Chief: A district big wig settles down in a family he reduces to slavery. The Players : A ruined gambler nobleman has no other partner than his caretaker's son. Theresa : A rich man marries a prostitute to punish himself for a young girl's suicide. Pizza on Credit : A nice-looking pizza salesgirl has forgotten her ring at her lover's house. Her husband thinks she has lost...
10) Nazi Hunters
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1945 and 1946, the men of the British "War Crimes Investigation Unit" drove through northern Germany on the hunt for Nazi criminals. One of them is Captain Anton Walter Freud, grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
11) Vincere
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Italiano
Description
Italian master Marco Bellocchio’s stunning political melodrama tells the virtually unknown story of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s (Filippo Timi) secret first marriage. An ambitious and ruthless young man, he woos and then abandons the woman who launched his career—and gave him his first child — as he plots his rise to power.
13) L'Immensita
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions. L'IMMENSITA is a creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.
14) Django
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Description
Franco Nero delivers a career-defining performance as the enigmatic loner, Django. Dragging a coffin behind him, Django arrives in a lawless border town and gets caught in a violent conflict between a racist gang and Mexican revolutionaries. Director Sergio Corbucci pushes the boundaries of sadism and sensationalism, showcasing machine-gun massacres, mud-fighting prostitutes, and brutal mutilations.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
Italian actor-director Gianni di Gregorio returns to filmmaking with NEVER TOO LATE FOR LOVE, a tender and lighthearted romantic comedy set against the backdrop of Italy's southern countryside. After being evicted from his long-time apartment in Rome, retired professor Astolfo returns to his childhood village in southern Italy, where a distinguished yet run-down estate has been passed down in his family for generations. Any plans for a quiet retirement...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fifteen years after four vicious bandits massacred his family while executing a {dollar}200,000 robbery, a young man (John Phillip Law) seeks revenge. The men responsible for the murders all hold positions of power, but now the outlaw (Lee Van Cleef) they had framed for the murders is due to be released from prison. He’s ready to exact bloody reprisals and forms an unholy alliance with the vengeance-seeking young man! This Spaghetti Western classic...
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