Stefania Sandrelli
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
"After being evicted from his long-time apartment in Rome, retired professor Astolfo returns to his childhood village of Abruzzo, where a distinguished yet run-down estate has been passed down in his family for generations. Any plans for a quiet retirement are derailed when he discovers a squatter living on his family's estate and begins to clash with the community in a series of brilliant comedic misadventures. But as Astolfo builds unlikely friendships...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother's diary.
Series
Criterion collection volume 286
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A man falls in love with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife.
6) Jamón jamón
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Traces the romantic entanglements of the beautiful and pregnant underwear factory worker Silvia; Jose Luis, the father of her child and heir to the factory fortune; Raul, underwear model, seducer, and would-be-bullfighter; and Conchita, Jose Luis' doting mother, family matriarch, and Raul's lover.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state. He uses his honeymoon with his wife as a cover, but he becomes entranced by his former teacher's wife, and begins to question the fascist tenants he has accepted all of his life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 350
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
An Italian girl is seduced by her sister's boyfriend, setting in motion a chain of events which looks with tongue in cheek at the Sicilian code of honor, as the patriarch of the family tries to get the scoundrel to do right by his daughter.
Series
Criterion collection volume 801
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
The prismatic portrait of the days and nights of a party girl in sixties Rome is a revelation. It follows the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana as she dallies with a wide variety of men, attends parties, goes to modeling gigs, and circulates among the rich and famous. Despite its often light tone, though, the film is a stealth portrait of a suffocating culture that regularly dehumanizes people, especially women.
13) The conformist
Publisher
Raro
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
A weak-willed young follower of Mussolini must arrange the assassination of his former teacher, who is now a political threat.
14) 1900
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
15) Jamoń, jamón
Publisher
Olive Films,]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Hilarious, sexy, and complex story of two young lovers, the pregnant Sylvia and her lover José Luis. When they announce their plan to wed, his mother hires the town's sexiest man to break up the marriage. Naturally, nothing goes as planned.