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21) Tainted souls
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in a working-class apartment building in Rome, the lives of a bisexual former body builder, his wife, his male lover, and a pair of ambitious criminals intersect against a backdrop of crime, confused sexual feelings, and tainted relationships. Soon these lost souls will come to find that the hunger for power is an unstoppable disease from which there is no cure. Nominated for a Queer Lion and a Fedeora Award at the **Venice Film Festival**. *"TAINTED...
Series
Criterion collection volume 286
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A man falls in love with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife.
24) Padre padrone
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
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.
25) Madame Butterfly
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Italiano
Description
An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
Italiano
Description
Three tales of terror hosted by Boris Karloff: The telephone: A prostitute is threatened by the pimp she helped send to prison. The wurdalak: A returning patriarch to an Eastern European family may be a Wurdalak--a vampire who thirsts for the blood of his loved ones. A drop of water: A nurse steals a diamond ring from the finger of a dead clairvoyant, and is haunted that night by the woman's ghost.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Story of a love affair (1950) is the legendary Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature, a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by a passionate love. This deeply tragic romance already exhibits the astonishing formal control and penetrating insights into the human condition that would later make him famous in films like Il Grido, L'Avventura and Blow-up.
28) I vitelloni
Series
Criterion collection volume 246
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Italiano
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Description
This film compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives.
29) Sky is falling
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Two sisters move in with their aunt and uncle after their parents are killed in a car crash. Their lives in the small Italian villa are near-perfect, until the horrors of WWII come crashing down upon them.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
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...
31) The War is Over
Publisher
MHz
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
In this touching real-life Italian drama, an engineer and a group of educators care for Jewish orphans after World War II. Adapted from Aharon Megged's "The Story of the Selvino Children: Journey to the Promised Land."
32) Skies of Lebanon
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
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Davide is unlike most teenagers his age and his father constantly berates him over these differences. Finally, feeling driven from home, 14-year-old Davide takes to the streets and finds a hidden world the rest of the city has turned its back on. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Naples, 1904: Eduardo Scarpetta risked everything by staging a parody of the great Italian poet, Gabriele D’Annunzio. Despite legal troubles and familial strife, Scarpetta fought for his legacy as one of the greats of Italian theater.
35) Nostalgia
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.
36) A Chiara
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
In this furiously paced drama, Chiara, a teenager living in Calabria with her close-knit family, investigates her father’s disappearance just one day after her oldest sister’s birthday. As she gets closer to the difficult truth about her mysteriously missing father – and the crime syndicates that control her region – Chiara is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.
37) We Have a Pope
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
A comic and fictional exploration of the emotional struggles of a newly-elected pope coming to terms with the demands of his position.
39) A bay of blood
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
One of the most influential horror films of all time, Mario Bava's A bay of blood (1971, aka Twitch of the death nerve) is the spurting artery from which all future slasher films would flow. When crippled Countess Federica is murdered at her isolated mansion, a gruesome battle ensues to secure the rights to her valuable property around the bay. Everyone, from illegitimate children to shady real estate agents, stakes a claim, only to be killed in increasingly...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the code of silence and collusion that surrounds her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance. Only their indestructible love will be able to bring her back along.
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