Adriana Asti
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
Divided by politics but bonded by blood, Italian brothers Nicola and Matteo find their paths intersecting through some of the most tumultuous events in recent history. Produced for Italian television, but never broadcast; released theatrically instead.
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini collection volume 2
Publisher
Waterbearer Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
This first of Pasolini's films presents a vivid picture of the slums of Rome through a story of a pimp, his friends, his enemies and his girls.
3) Caligula
Publisher
General Media Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From the moment he ascends to the throne as Emperor, Caligula forces a reign like no other as power and corruption transform him into a deranged beast.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
Francis is a successful crime writer who moves to Venice to work on his next novel. When he meets model-turned-real-estate-agent Judith, he is instantly infatuated. Francis and Judith eventually marry and move to a remote house on Torcello Island but Francis' newfound happiness hinders his writing. Obsessing over what Judith does while at work, he hires a young ex-convict to investigate. As Judith's sexual past is revealed both men become increasingly...
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Italiano
Description
A moving, artistic portrayal of the life of Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and Carmelite martyr, Edith Stein, capturing the interior struggles of this extraordinary woman, as well as the great conflicts from her decision to convert to Catholicism.
Series
Criterion collection volume 290
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
A perverse, playfully absurd comedy with a series of surreal sequences touching on many of the themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
Series
Criterion collection volume 102, 143, 290
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
More than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel capped his career with three final provocations in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its endgame. -- adapted from back of container.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: An upper-middle class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events...
8) Caligula
Publisher
Penthouse Films International
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tormented by the murder of his family, the young, wary Caligula eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather Tiberius and seizes control of the declining Roman Empire as it descends into a spiral of depravity, destruction, and madness. Restoring the complete performances of McDowell and O'Toole along with fellow film legends Helen Mirren and John Gielgud, this extensive reconstruction of the notorious 1980 spectacle, based on the original narrative...