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1) Pinocchio
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
2) Salvo
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia, SALVO is solitary, cold and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house on an assignment, he discovers Rita, an innocent young blind girl who must stand by powerlessly while her brother is assassinated. What follows is an intense exchange fueled by adrenaline and fear between the killer and his witness, one that changes their two lives in an instant. The darkness is lifted from Rita’s eyes just as SALVO decides, against...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 101 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
A forgotten classic, Crime of love is a story about two factory workers living in Northern Italy who form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job. The film gives a good idea of the north-south mentality clash in Italy. The workers from the...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds works together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it2s up to the cherubic orphan Tot ẉith...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 464 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A tale of best friends Lila and Elena, which started at the school in the 1950s. As an elderly woman, Elena tries to unravel the mystery of her brilliant friend, who also became her worst enemy.
6) Terraferma
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Set on and around a summer tourist island off the coast of Sicily, TERRAFERMA tells the story of two struggling, yet disparate families, whose members become fatefully intertwined. A well-intentioned, but illegal rescue of immigrant "boat people" forces the individuals of the indigenous family to choose between their economic survival and doing the morally right thing.
7) Amarcord
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
8) Roma
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life. EN
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Two very different families spend their holidays in the same house at the seaside: the aristocratic Castelvecchios, open-minded, eccentric, but quite selfish, and the working-class Petagnas, very tight-knit, and united around solid conservative values. What brought such distant worlds together? Only Tony and Carlo, the two middle-aged heads of the families, know! The unexpected announcement of their engagement will disrupt an apparently ordinary summer,...
10) Aria
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Ten of the world's greatest directors (including Derek Jarman, Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Russell, and Robert Altman) were commissioned to create short pieces based on the world's greatest opera music. The result is erotic, demented, funny, poignant, extravagant, outrageous, breathtaking and totally unique.
11) Kidnapped
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
A gang of thieves hijack a man's car after botching their getaway from a robbery. They take a woman prisoner and command the man to drive them to safety. The man must try to cope with the bad situation he is in as well as trying to get help for a sick child that he is caring for.
12) Caliber 9
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 102 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
In the first time of the Tirology, small-tiem gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he has {dollar}300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere. Caliber 9's stylized violence, fast-paced action sequence, tight editing and plot twists prefigure the...
13) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (129 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, MARTIN EDEN is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university...
14) 8 1\2
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 98 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Tired of his troubled marriage, an Italian businessman's life changes dramatically after he learns that an aunt has left him property in Istanbul. Francesco (Alessandro Gassman) arrives to the Turkish city hoping that he can take care of the matter swiftly and return to Italy. He is surprised to discover that the property is actually one of the last traditional hamams (old-fashioned bath houses) in Turkey. The family that has been running the Turkish...
16) The boss
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 112 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film- the final part of his Milieu Trilogy- is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi. Realizing that the instigator of the bomb attack is Daniello from another mafia family, Cocchi is determined to revenge. Lanzetta, a hired killed employed by Daniello...
17) Madness
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
After brutally killing two farmers with a pitchfork, an escaped murderer Joe Brezy (Joe Dallesandro: Andy Warhol's superstar) makes a bee-line for the holiday cottage where five years earlier he stashed a substantial amount of ill-gotten loot. But before he can retrieve his stash a vehicle pull up with the womanizing Sergio who has travelled up to his weekend retreat with his trusting wife Liliana and her flirty sister Paola. Joe pretends to torment...
18) Burned by Love
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Julien is a young street artist. He falls in love with teen prostitute Erika. Passion burns hot under the full moon in Rome.
19) Ride for Glory
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of Valeriano Falsini, a man full of dreams and expectations who, in the post-war period, wants to get out of the flat provincial life and become someone thanks to his sporting talent. His many amateur victories led him to join Costante Girardengo's team in 1950. During a training session he meets Fausto Coppi, who wants him in Bianchi the following year. But fate holds something different for him, that dream touches him without being able...
20) Drive Me Home
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations...
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