focus on films from Italy

Angela

$7.95 | 91 minutes

Saro (Parlagreco) owns and runs a successful shoe shop in Italy with the help of his incredibly attractive wife, Angela (Finocchiaro), and some other "family" members as a front for the buying and selling of large amounts of cocaine--a fact the police suspect and are monitoring with the hope of bringing down their operation. While unaware&hellip…

Bad Boy Bubby

$14.95 | 114 minutes

Australian director Rolf de Heer's bizarre parable of innocence and corruption, belief and redemption, paints a decidedly grim picture while allowing hints of optimistic humanism to filter through. Bad Boy Bubby (Nicholas Hope) is a 35-year-old manchild, confined his whole life by his domineering mother--who uses him for sex--to a two-room&hellip…

Bicycle Thieves

$34.95 | 89 minutes

The recipient of international acclaim, Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork, BICYCLE THIEVES, is a treasure of world cinema. After nearly two years of unemployment, Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the job. Unfortunately, he was forced to pawn his own bicycle long&hellip…

Cabiria

$23.95 | 123 minutes

During the war between Carthage and Rome, a girl is separated from her parents. In her odyssey through the world of ancient Rome, she encounters an erupting volcano, the barbaric splendor of Carthage, human sacrifice and Hannibal crossing the Alps. Silent film with piano score&hellip…

Comizi D'Amore

$17.95 | 90 minutes

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed people on the streets of Italy about their feelings and experiences with love and sex. Writer Alberto Moravia and psychologist Cesare Musatti provide commentary on Pasolini's findings&hellip…

Conquest

$10.95 | 93 minutes

The demon sorceress Ocron has shadowed the sun with the strength of her will, and the once peaceful Land of Cronos lies in darkness. Only two warriors, Ilias and Maxz, can save the world from her evil sorcery. Legendary Italian horror maestro Luco Fulci is at the helm, joined by equally revered composer Claudio Simonetti, best known for&hellip…

Devarim

$23.95 | 116 minutes

DEVARIM was the first film Amos Gitai made in Israel upon his return, after ten years of exile precipitated by his powerful documentary, FIELD DIARY (1983). Gitai was ready to take his filmmaking talent in a new direction. Always focused on the power of his images, he began using the talented Renato Berta as his Director of Photography&hellip…

Divorce, Italian Style

$34.95 | 104 minutes

Director Pietro Germi's hilarious and pointed satire of Italian marital conventions is the prototypical Italian sex comedy. Ferdinando Cefalu, a handsome Sicilian nobleman, longs to marry his beautiful nubile cousin Angela. There's only one problem: he's already married. Living in a society that frowns on divorce but forgives crimes of…

Farewell, Home Sweet Home

$23.95 | 117 minutes

French director Otar Iosseliani (MONDAY MORNING) continues his exploration of class issues through absurd situations and eccentric characters. Nicholas (Nico Tarielashvili) comes from a wealthy family, but prefers to pose as a poor man washing dishes in a restaurant. His mother is a businesswoman who is having an affair with a colleague&hellip…

Francesco, giullare di Dio

$25.95 | 84 minutes

An aesthetically spare, earnest dramatization of the life of St. Frances of Assisi, focusing on the founding of the Franciscan order of travelling, penniless monks, who led a life of enlightened simplicity. Co-scripted by Frederico Fellini, using predominantly non-professional actors&hellip…