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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…
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…
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…
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…
Francesco, Giullare Di Dio
$25.95 | 87 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…
Good Morning, Night
$16.95 | 105 minutes
This brave, inventive, and controversial Italian film from director Marco Bellocchio imagines the events that followed the kidnapping of Aldo Moro (Roberto Herlitzka), the former Italian Prime Minister, in 1978. Moro's body was ultimately found in a car trunk two months later, and this film portrays the chaotic weeks in between, as the&hellip…
His Secret Life
$14.95 | 105 minutes
When Antonia (Margherita Buy) loses her husband Massimo in a terrifying car accident, she is devastated. Taking care of necessary business after his death, she runs across a painting, a gift to her husband with a note attached indicating that Antonia's partner of 15 years had been indiscreet for seven of them. She tracks down his lover&hellip…