Nino Rota
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
Series
Criterion collection volume 637
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, this film stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf back to the United States; what initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder.
5) Amarcord
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Italiano
Description
In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of adolescent desires, male fantasies, rituals, sensations, and emotions.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet presents Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Love story "tells the heartbreakingly beautiful story of a couple who, despite their opposite backgrounds, share a chemistry they cannot deny and a love they cannot ignore"--Container.
Falling in love is the story of "two everyday people who first meet by chance, and later by choice, in this moving,...
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
1000 B.C. King Solomon sends his son, Prince Rehoboam to investigate the activities of the distant kingdom Sheba. He falls in love with Balkis, the ruler of Sheba. Frustrated that the pagan gods forbid this romance, the Queen of Sheba declares war on Jerusalem, pitting two powerful nations against one another in a battle that will determine the fate of history.
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate.
10) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
12) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
13) La Strada
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
This academy award-winning film tells of the slow-witted innocent who falls for an abusive circus strongman.