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Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma falls deeply in love with Antonio and begins a passionate...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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 is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world.
4) The wonders
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in the world, and Rohrwacher conveys her adolescent sense of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 323
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Italiano
Description
A four-year-old boy is trapped in a loveless family with his suicidal father and his adulteress mother.
6) Sicilia!
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Italiano
Description
Something as simple as a herring roasting on a hearth, or a meal of bread, wine and winter melon, takes on the humble aura of a Caravaggio painting in this masterful film. A tragicomedy involving an orange peddler, an Italian recently returned from America, two 'stinky' police officers, a guilt-stricken landowner, a traveling knife sharpener and, perhaps most unforgettably, an indomitable peasant mother who reminisces about meals of snails and wild...
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.
8) 1900
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2012
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Italiano
Description
The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors. It is a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal.
Series
Criterion collection volume 424
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Italiano
Description
Nino is an auto-factory foreman who takes his proper, modern wife and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to the antiquated, rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots. Nino gets more than he bargained for when he discovers some harsh truths about his ancestors and himself.
12) La terra trema
Publisher
E 1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Italiano
Description
In a poor Sicilian village, where the fishermen have been exploited for generations, a young soldier returns home from war convinced that by working together the townspeople can change the system to overcome their adversities.
13) Two women
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Seeking escape from city bombing, an Italian mother and daughter travel war-torn Italy during World War II trying to survive near-starvation, rape by wandering soldiers and other horrors of war.
Publisher
RARO Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
About a lonely art collector who lives in Rome and how his life is changed when the wife of a rightist industrialist, Marchesa Bianca Brumonti, her gigolo Konrad, her precocious daughter and her daughter's boyfriend Stefano end up renting the upper portion of his luxurious apartment. He gets involved in the affairs of complete strangers much against his will and ends up being even lonelier than before.
15) Chains =: Catene
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Italiano
Description
Matarazzo's breakthrough melodrama concerns the virtuous wife of a mechanic whose happy family is torn asunder when a former flame reenters her life by chance and pursues her relentlessly.
Publisher
Acefilms
Pub. Date
[20--?]
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.
Series
Film Movement volume 13, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
With a lavish home and beautiful wife, hedge-fund manager Giovanni Bernaschi seemingly has it all Meanwhile, real-estate agent Dino Ossola struggles to maintain his family's middle-class existence and faces even worse financial straits when his wife announces that she is pregnant with twins. Leveraging his daughter's relationships with Giovanni's son, Dino deceives the bank and manipulates his way into the Bernaschi hedge fund. As the destinies of...
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