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. The story centers on the love of Bassanio, a young Venetian nobleman, who wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia of Belmont. Having squandered his estate, Bassanio turns to Antonio, the titular Merchant of Venice, for a loan. However, since Antonio has his money invested in merchandise at sea, Bassanio must turn to Shylock for the loan. Shylock, after much reluctance, agrees to make the loan on the condition that if it cannot be...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatic retelling of the story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old Sicilian girl whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims) who break the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino. Her days are numbered from that moment on. She only has nine months to live.
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
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.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (206 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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"The year is 1929 and dictator Benito Mussolini is still faced with the 20-year long war waged by Bedouin patriots to combat Italian colonization in Africa. Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani governor of Libya, confident that he can crush the rebellion and restore the glories of Imperial Rome. Inspirational in the Bedouin resistance toward the oppressors is the leadership of one man--Omar Mukhtar. A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation,...
7) Gomorrah
Series
Criterion collection volume 493
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Don Ciro is a timid middleman, who distributes money to the families of imprisoned clan members. One day he is ambushed by two angry clan members with an obvious grudge against their fellows. He later offers to defect to their side and leads them to the location where he is given the money for distribution. Totò is a 13-year-old grocery delivery boy who observes some drug dealers ditching some drugs and a gun when running from the police. He returns...
Publisher
Miracle Pictures Division of PMC Corp. DE
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A schizophrenic beautiful spinster travels from her home in London to Rome on a twisted agenda to find romance with any man, whom she hopes will eventually murder her."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A naive army private is assigned to assist a blinded, embittered ex-army captain on his journey from Turin to Naples. The captain is rude and eccentric, prone to say and do the unexpected. Their hilarious yet heartrending misadventures with prostitutes, clerics, and others they encounter along the way bring these odd companions to a deeper understanding of each other and their own shortcomings.
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar night in 1944, when she was six years old, and the residents of San Martino, her small Tuscan hometown, struggled against Nazi oppression during the final days of WWII.
14) Chains
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) Shelter me
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Lesbian couple Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that a young Moroccan immigrant has managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. They decide to take him in, leading to unexpected consequences for their family."--Container.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A middle-aged man living with his elderly mother finds the best way to pay for their debts is to take care of the building manager's mother during the biggest festival of the year. Soon he finds himself with not two but four mothers to keep fed and happy.
17) Ciao, professore
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of an upper-class teacher from conservative Northern Italy who, due to a computer error, finds himself teaching third-grade truants at a ramshackle school in the south.
18) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
Series
Criterion collection volume 189
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ivan Cavalli brings his new wife Wanda to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history--a rigid schedule of family meetings and an audience with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photo-strip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy.
20) The thief lord
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel for Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
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