Renato Salvatori
1) Burn!
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Sir William Walker is sent to secure a plantation at a Portuguese colony. While there be befriends Jose and Teddy, and plants the seeds of revolution in their heads. Years later he must go back and stop the revolution that he helped begin.
Series
Criterion collection volume 113
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On the bleak, storm-tossed southern tip of South America, a lonely lighthouse guards the world's most treacherous, and lucrative, shipping lane. However, beyond the forces of nature, the lighthouse keepers must also face an even more formidable foe, and soon the turbulent waters become the bloody battleground of two men who fight for control of the cruel Cape Horn and the pleasures of a helpless, shipwrecked beauty.
5) Z
Series
Criterion collection volume 491
Language
Français
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Series
Criterion collection volume 610
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, brimming with humor and honesty.
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film and Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family faces many unexpected challenges, financially and emotionally.