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41) Loro
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Sex, drugs, power, and vice: a dazzling, audacious plunge into the scandalous world of Silvio Berlusconi.
42) The Dive
Publisher
Stray Dogs
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Italiano
Description
It is Thursday and another war is hitting the northern part of Israel hard. Three brothers reunite in their childhood kibbutz to bury their father. The youngest is to go to war two days later. While he seeks guidance from his older brothers, who have both experienced the battlefield, the homecoming soon spins out of control. Winner of a Jury Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival**. Winner for Best Israeli Debut Film at the **Jerusalem...
43) Tori and Lokita
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...
45) 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.
46) Casanova '70
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, Casanova '70 is a raucously funny sex romp starring Marcello Mastroianni at his charismatic peak. Packed with bed-hopping hijinks, a parade of gorgeous actresses, and Mastroianni's hilariously dry wit, Casanova '70 is a colorfully ribald gem from the Golden Age of Italian comedy.
47) 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...
48) 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.
50) L'Oro di Napoli
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...
51) 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.
52) Discipline
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
This brilliant dark comedic short screened in more than 270 festivals, receiving critical acclaim and winning many international prizes. It’s 9:30pm in a grocery store in Lausanne, Switzerland. The place is run by Egyptians. In a moment of anger, a father looses patience and disciplines his disobedient child. A shocked customer immediately intervenes to express her concern. Other customers join the conversation, they each put in their two cents...
54) Otello
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Film adaptation (1986) of Giuseppe Verdi's operatic version of Shakespeare's play Othello.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Referenced in Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2, Uomini Si Nasce Poliziotti Si Muore (Live like a cop, die like a man, 1976) opens with an insane motorcycle chase that was filmed in rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission from the local authorities. To top it off, this is one of the most violent and unconventional Italian style action films of its time. The credit goes to the director, Ruggero Deodato, best known for his infamous and censored film...
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
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, Paul ends up killing more people. It isn't long before the entire police force...
58) Dormant Beauty
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...
59) 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.
60) Swept away
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, SWEPT AWAY is Lina Wertmuller's most famous and controversial film about sex, love and politics. On an elegant yacht cruising off the coast of Sardinia, Raffaella (Mariangela Melato), a rich and stunning capitalist, enjoys tormenting Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini), a Communist sailor. Fate weaves a different scenario and roles become reversed when the two find themselves stranded together on...
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