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Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Formats
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordian. But her solo journey does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who hires an amateur detective...
Series
Formats
Description
Three films featuring Audrey Hepburn. In Breakfast at Tiffany's she plays Holly Golightly, the girl on a quest to marry a millionaire, in Roman Holiday, she's a rebellious modern-day princess who inadvertently falls in love with an American newspaperman, in Sabrina, she returns home from Paris all grown up and ready to beguile the Larrabee brothers.
5) Roma
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A film adaptation of Federico Fellini's reminiscences of Rome before World War II, as compared to the present as it was when the film was originally produced (1972).
6) The valet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of Franc?ois Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom in Ireland in 1920. As the Irish freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side find themselves pitted...
8) The duchess
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life of aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who became the style icon of late eighteenth-century England. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter...
9) Golden door
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Sicilian farmer falls in love with a worldly British woman while both are attempting to immigrate to America.
10) Cinema paradiso
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (299 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life.
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.
12) Chaplin
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
13) Tetro
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Naive, 17-year-old Bennie goes to Buenos Aires to search for his older brother whom he has not seen for ten years. With the success of their father Carlo, a renowned symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, Tetro, he is surprised to find that he is not the person he remembered. While staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world ravaged by revolution and violence, two strangers--a handsome renegade and a beautiful countess--find their only chance for survival in each other! Together they undertake a perilous cross-country journey where they will also discover unmatched danger, excitement ... and passion!
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legendary hit man John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.
16) The red violin
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An appraiser of rare musical instruments traces the history of a blood-red violin and everyone whose lives it touched.
17) Days and clouds
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a beautiful young girl is found murdered in an idyllic northern Italy village, Inspector Giovanni Sanzio is called in from the capital to investigate. In a small town where nobody is what they seem, anyone could be capable of homicide and everyone may be hiding a dark secret, including Inspector Sanzio.
19) Gabrielle
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
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.
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