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8 1/2 Federico Fellini's Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. Full Synopsis: The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, the plot of which concerns a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis, it is a career benchmark for this magnificent Italian New Wave director. Beautifully…    more      A Brief Vacation From Italian master director Vittorio De Sica (THE BICYCLE THIEF, UMBERTO D.) comes this uplifting tale of woman who travels a long journey to find peace and romance. Clara (Florinda Bolkan) is an exhausted woman who works long hours in a local factory. When she returns home, she is tormented by her husband's bitter family. One day, Clara…    more      A Woman Is a Woman With A WOMAN IS A WOMAN, French director Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature, the critical and commercial smash hit BREATHLESS, did to American gangster films. The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina), a strip-tease artist who wants nothing more than to have a baby…    more      Accattone When the girlfriend he pimps winds up in jail, Roman hustler Accattone (Franco Citti) struggles against hunger and guilt in his search for redemption. Pasolini's brutally realistic first feature, assistant-directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, introduces his preoccupation with the marginalized segments of Italian bourgeois society that would…    more      Aenigma Lucio Fulci (THE BEYOND, ZOMBI), the "Godfather of Gore," helms this CARRIE inspired shocker about a girl named Kathy whose stint at St. Mary's School is cut short when the other girls play a prank on her that sends her into a coma. However, from within her coma, Kathy uses her powers of telekinesis to take over the body of Eva and exact…    more      Agatha and the Storm Director Silvio Soldini's lively, vibrant ensemble comedy follows--among other multifaceted and likeable characters--a kindhearted Genoan bookstore owner named Agata (Licia Maglietta), who suddenly finds her stable life shaken up when she's pursued by a much younger man…    more