Gian Maria Volonté
Series
Publisher
Rialto Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
A master thief is fresh out of prison. Instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being pursued by a police superintendent.
Series
Criterion collection volume 218
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Français
Description
A master thief is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being persued by a police superintendent.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This Italian crime drama is a bio-pic of infamous Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962. Screened as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 **Cannes Film Festival**. "*Francesco Rosi's brilliantly staged and photographed portrait of the infamous Mob boss, played with brass-knuckles ingratiation by Gian-Maria Volonte.*" - Michael Sragow, ***The New Yorker***
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi₂s sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi discovers an Italy he never knew existed.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Three "spaghetti westerns" featuring Clint Eastwood's nameless anti-hero. A fistful of dollars: Borrowing the plot of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Eastwood plays a gunfighter who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rival gangs. For a few dollars more: Western drama in which two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader. The good, the bad and the ugly: Three gunmen set out to find a hidden fortune in this tale...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the 'quick-draw', the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang. But his loyalty cannot be bought; he accepts both jobs ... and sets in motion a plan to destroy both groups of criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated set-ups,...
11) Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto =: investigation of a citizen above suspicion
Series
Criterion collection volume 682
Language
Italiano
Description
Elio Petri's acclaimed Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector investigating a heinous crime-which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A lean, cold-eyed, cobra-quick gunfighter arrives in a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers terrorize the impoverished citizens. Though he receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang, his loyalty cannot be bought. He accepts both jobs and sets in motion a deadly plan to destroy the criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated setups, showdowns and deadly confrontations.
15) Uomini contro
Publisher
Distributed by RaroVideo
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
"On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops"--IMDb.
16) Le cercle rouge
Series
Criterion collection volume 218
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An ex-con fresh out of prison, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a heist against impossible odds as a relentless inspector pursues them.
17) Le cercle rouge
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A master thief is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being persued by a police superintendent.
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The good, the bad & the ugly: The inimitable "Man With No Name" teams up with two gunslingers to pursue a fortune in stolen gold, but they soon discover their greatest challenge is to stay alive.
Django unchained: Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie,...
Series
Godard + Gorin five films 1968-1971 volume 2
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Le vent d'est: A loosely conceived leftist-western that moves through a series of practical and analytical passages into a finale based around the process of manufacturing homemade weapons.
Lotte in Italia: The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With this film, the genre of "spaghetti western" was born. A lean, cold-eyed, cobra-quick gunfighter arrives in a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers terrorize the impoverished citizens. Though he receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang, his loyalty cannot be bought. He accepts both jobs and sets in motion a deadly plan to destroy the criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated...