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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (179 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Presented by Martin Scorsese and featuring an operatic score by Nino Rota, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS is a timeless story of modernity, class tension, and family drama spun across an epic canvas by director Luchino Visconti. Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan, finding fame in the boxing ring and love in the same woman. Famously labeled by Scorsese as “one of the most sumptuous black-and-white pictures,” ROCCO...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1970.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
In director Vittorio De Sica's Oscar®-winning masterpiece (1972, Best Foreign Language Film), an aristocratic Jewish family retreats behind the walls of its lush, Italian country estate to take refuge from the approaching fascist storm of the 1930s. Meanwhile, daughter Micol (Dominique Sanda) rebuffs the advances of Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), a friend who's joined them at the estate. Helmut Berger also stars in this moving drama, based on...
3) Swept away
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1974.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
As the mystery of a tragic hit and run is slowly unraveled, the relationship between a wealthy family and a struggling middle-class one is exposed, revealing treachery and deceit. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
7) Sin
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
8) Beate
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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,...
9) Piranhas
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in a fishing village off Italy's Dalmatian coast, under a brilliant, turquoise sky, Yves Montand plays Squarcio, a rogue fisherman who manages to feed his family (his wife played by the exquisite Alida Valli) by tossing bombs into the water to kill the maximum number of fish. When a new chief of police puts Squarcio's illegal and dangerous exploits under closer scrutiny, his livelihood is threatened. Montand's unforgettable, complex character...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Lucia must stay behind under the care of her stern and overbearing grandmother in 1960's Sicily, while her parents and younger brother emigrate to France to find work. The girl is distraught and bitter about being left behind, and mopes the days away as the relaionship with her grandmother grows more and more contentious. Lucia grows increasingly curious about her grandmother's hatred towards other members of the family on the island, and begins to...
12) Farinelli
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
The incredible story of the world famous opera singer - who was castrated during childhood in order to preserve his voice - comes to life in this Oscar-nominated drama of high notes and even higher passions.
13) Indivisible
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
INDIVISIBLE is an award-winning Italian drama about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. Dasy and Viola (Angela and Marianna Fontana) are conjoined twin sisters living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and, thanks to their performances at local weddings, communions and baptisms, have become the breadwinners for their entire family. Kept isolated from the world by their exploitative father, their lives are turned upside...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, THE CONFRONTATION is a story of protest and rebellion. Set in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power, dancing, singing Communist students debate Catholic seminary students at a People's college, all the while worrying their words will escalate into a fight. Jancsó’s first color film is a virtuoso...
15) A Ciambra
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
17) Sunflower
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1970.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
In another of Sophia Loren’s great collaborations with director Vittorio De Sica (*The Bicycle Thief*), Loren plays Giovanna, a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the WWII battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling overland journey years after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man. This heart-wrenching reunion will forever...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1964.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
One of the most famous, and funniest, Italian comedies of all time, MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE received nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Actress for Sophia Loren, at the **Academy Awards**. Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren’s Filumena as a young prostitute and keeps her as his mistress and confidante. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
This **Oscar-winning**, sparklingly original comedy casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto...
20) Mostly Martha
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Martha is a single woman who lives for cooking. The head chef at a restaurant, she has no time for anything, or anyone else. But her solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter to her doorstep. Winner of Best Actress (Martina Gedeck) at the **German Film Awards**. Winner of Best Actor (Sergio Castellitto) at the **European Film Awards**. *"Nettlebeck serves the tastiest film about food and sex since...
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