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- 1900
- Publication information: Hollywood, CA : Paramount, [1991]
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (255 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A story of the conflicts between two boys, one a peasant and the other a landowner, as they pass through the upheavals of the modern world
Format: VHS
- 8 1/2
- Publication information: [Oak Forest, Ill.?] : MPI Home Video, [1988]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (138 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. Much of the story is told in flashback sequences
Format: VHS
- L'albero degli zoccoli: The tree of wooden clogs
- Publication information: New York, NY : Distributed by Fox Lorber Home Video, c1978
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (185 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A deceptively simple tale of a small community of peasants in Italy at the turn of the century. It follows four families through the seasons, and shows the seemingly small events that influence their lives and the love they feel for the land and their families
Format: VHS
- L'albero degli zoccoli: The tree of wooden clogs
- Publication information: Port Washington, NY : KOCH Lorber Films, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (177 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A deceptively simple tale of a small community of peasants in Italy at the turn of the century. It follows four families through the seasons, and shows the seemingly small events that influence their lives and the love they feel for the land and their families
Format: DVD
- Amarcord
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Janus Films [Ill.] : Distributed by Public Media Home Vision, [199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's
Format: VHS
- L'amore
- Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (78 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Presents two episodes. In the first part, a woman talks on the phone to the man who has forsaken her. In the second part, a peasant woman is seduced and is convinced she will give birth to a new Messiah
Contents: pt. 1. Una voce umana = The human voice / di Jean Cocteau -- pt. 2. Il miracolo = The miracle / soggetto di Federico Fellini ridotto da Tullio Pinelli, Roberto Rossellini
Format: VHS
- Angels & demons
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2009
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival
Format: DVD
- L'avventura
- Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2001]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (1 folded sheet)
Description: Story about the search for a girl lost on an island gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found
Format: DVD
- L'Avventura
- Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, [1991]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (145 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A wealthy young woman disappears on a yachting cruise near Sicily. Her current boyfriend and others search for her without success. The search continues in Sicily itself with leads pursued by the man and another friend of the missing woman, who become lovers
Format: VHS
- La bataille d'Alger: The battle of Algiers
- Publication information: Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection Chicago, IL : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 3 videodiscs (ca. 125 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in.
Description: A dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962
Contents: [v. 1.] Disc 1: new high-definition transfer of film Return to Algiers (1992, 55 min.) -- Disc 2: The making-of The battle of Algiers The dictatorship of truth a 37-min. documentary -- [v. 2.] Disc 3: documentary The battle of Algiers and history États d'armes 30-min. excerpt from 'L'ennemi intime' How to win the battle, but lose the war of ideas a conversation
Format: DVD
- The belly of an architect
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: An American architect travels to Rome to set up an exhibition. As he is increasingly obsessed with his wife's adultery and his own failing health, the beauty of Rome becomes the backdrop to his erratic and self-destructive behavior
Format: VHS
- Bertolt Brecht's Galileo
- Publication information: [New York] : Kino on Video, 2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., b&w, col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Format: DVD
- Bicycle thieves: Ladri de biciclette
- Publication information: Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection Santa Monica, Calif. : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2007]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in.
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
Format: DVD
- Il bidone: The swindle
- Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (92 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An aging swindler, ringleader of a trio of petty thieves who impersonate priests to cheat peasants, finally realizes the futility of his life
Format: VHS
- Big deal on Madonna Street: I soliti ignoti = Persons unknown
- Publication information: Los Angeles, CA. : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (91 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home
Format: VHS
- The black hand: the birth of the Mafia
- Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Magnum Entertainment, c1985
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Antonio, a hopeful young immigrant from Italy, finds himself drawn into a web of murder and betrayal when he begins doing odd jobs for the family
Format: VHS
- Brother sun, sister moon
- Publication information: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Video, 1982
Physical description: 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The story focuses on the early years of St. Francis of Assisi
Format: VHS
- Burn!
- Publication information: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (113 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: This story of political greed and social upheaval will take you on a journey deep into the heart of darkness of a 19th century Caribbean island, where men rise up in bitter and bloody rebellion against the wealthy nations seeking to enslave them
Format: VHS
- The Canterbury tales
- Publication information: New York, NY : Water Bearer Films, [1988]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (111:45) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Pasolini's startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust
Format: VHS
- Caro diario: Dear diary
- Publication information: [S.l.] : New Line Home Video : Turner Home Entertainment, c1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Nanni Moretti stars as himself in this whimsical comedy about a man who takes off on his motorcycle across Italy in search of the true meaning of life
Format: VHS
- Christopher Columbus
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (135 min.) : sd., col., 1/2 in
Description: Story of Christopher Columbus and his attempts to get permission from the Spanish court to sail to the New World. Recounts the explorer's desperate quest for funding, of near mutiny and sudden discovery, of pillage and warfare, and of triumph and treachery
Format: VHS
- Ciao, professore!
- Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment, [1994]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A conservative teacher from Northern Italy finds himself teaching not upper crust students, but scrappy students, at a ramshackle school in the South
Format: VHS
- Il cittadino si ribella
- Publication information: Trento, Italy : Domovideo Ridgewood, N.Y. : Distributed by Ital Video Productions, Inc., [1985?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Attacked by a group of gangsters, an engineer seeks revenge and takes justice into his own hands
Format: VHS
- The conformist
- Publication information: [Hollywood, CA.] : Paramount Home Video, 1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state
Format: VHS
- The Damned: = La Caduta degli dei
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Warner Home Video, 1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (146 min.) : bsd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the Night the long knives and the rise of Nazism
Format: VHS
- Dangerous beauty
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c1997
Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The true story of the woman, a poet and courtesan, who used looks, wit and seduction to defy the conventions of 16th century Venice
Format: DVD
- Death in Venice
- Publication information: Burbank, Ca. : Warner Home Video, 2004
Physical description: 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A world-famous composer and conductor, on a solitary rest holiday, spies an innocent young boy and becomes obsessed over him
Format: DVD
- Il Decameron
- Publication information: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment [distributor], [1998]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes the seducing nuns, the 3 jealous brothers who murder their sister's lover, the wizard who could change his wife into a burro and the story of a false saint
Format: DVD
- Il Deserto rosso: Red desert
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1989, c1964
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (120 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Antonioni's first color film. A woman traumatized by an auto accident finds herself permanently alienated in her urban milieu
Format: VHS
- Divorce Italian style
- Publication information: Las Cruces, N.M. : HTV, c1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (104 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An Italian baron who is tired of his clinging wife, fantasizes about killing her as there is no divorce in Italy. He falls madly in love with his innocent young niece and begins to plan in earnest to kill his wife in a fit of passion when he finds her unfaithful to him. First he must arrange for his wife to have a lover so that she may be unfaithful
Format: VHS
- La dolce vita
- Publication information: [United States] : Koch Lorber Films, [2004]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 167 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned
Format: DVD
- E la nave va: And the ship sails on
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, c1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Allegorical film set aboard a passenger liner populated by eccentric characters ranging from Serbian peasant refugees to an Austrian duke to members of Italy's world of opera and theater
Format: VHS
- The English patient
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1997
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (162 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: During World War II, a mysterious stranger is rescued from a fiery plane crash. The American allies care for him and the dangerous secrets from his past come to light
Format: VHS
- Enrico IV: Henry IV
- Publication information: [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Xenon Home Video, 1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Thrown from a horse, a modern aristocrat proclaims he is the 11th century king of the Holy Roman Empire. For 20 years he lives out this delusion until his former love visits with a plan to shock the madman back to reality
Format: VHS
- Everybody's fine
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A retired Sicilian bureaucrat who has seen the best and the brightest, including his own five children, leave his island for success on the Italian mainland, is determined to reunite the family. He travels to Italy to surprise his children but is forced to realize that his children are hiding a wrenching family secret
Format: VHS
- Farinelli, il Castrato
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The true story of a world famous castrato in the 18th century is told. With charisma, talent, drive and success, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women, and the voice of an angel. He becomes obsessed with earning the respect of his brother's rival, the composer Handel
Format: DVD
- Fellini satyricon
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: An adaptation of the Petronius classic recreating the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome. It is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern history
Format: VHS
- Film d'amore e d'anarchia: Love and anarchy
- Publication information: New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, [1997], c1973
Physical description: 1 videocassette (129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Tells the story of a shy country peasant who goes to the city with a plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini. Shows how his underground contact in the network of anarchists offers him a hideout in her brothel where he meets a young prostitute and falls in love
Format: VHS
- Fiorile
- Publication information: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : New Line Home Video : Turner Home Entertainment, 1994
Physical description: 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their grandfather, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious and magical story of their ancestors
Format: VHS
- Francesco, giullare di Dio: The flowers of St. Francis
- Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (32 p. : ill. 19 cm.)
Description: In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of humility, faith, and sacrifice of the People's Saint--Container
Format: DVD
- The garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, c1980
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: In Italy in 1938, Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts begin to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them are the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden
Format: VHS
- The garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: In Italy in 1938, Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts begin to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them are the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden
Format: VHS
- Il gattopardo: The leopard
- Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 3 videodiscs (185 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide
Description: Recounts the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy.
Contents: Special features: (Disc one) new high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with restored image and sound and presented in the original Super Technirama aspect ratio of 2.21:1 audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie new and improved English subtitle translation optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition (Disc two) A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, a new hour-long documentary featuring interviews with actress Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, director of photography Giuseppe Totunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others Interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo an exclusive video interview with professor Millicent Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania on the history behind The Leopard original theatrical trailers and newsreels stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos (Disc three) new transfer of the 161-minute American release, with English-language dialogue (including Burt Lancaster's actual voice) plus: a new essay by author and film historian Michael Wood
Format: DVD
- General della Rovere
- Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (130 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A story of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. A con man is persuaded to impersonate a dead general, and becomes so imbued with the latter's code of honour that he goes before a firing squad rather than expose a partisan
Format: VHS
- Gianni Amelio's Lamerica
- Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1998
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Two Italians in post-Communist Albania seek to buy a former state-run workshop at a good price, but they need an Albanian partner. The most likely candidate, an eccentric old man, disappears on the eve of concluding the contract
Format: VHS
- Ginger and Fred
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Amelia and Pippo, who wowed crowds with recreations of the dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers decades ago, are reuniting for a nationwide TV special that features a list of guest stars that is both long and bizarre
Format: DVD
- Giulietta degli spiriti: Juliet of the spirits
- Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, 2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies
Format: DVD
- The Gospel according to St. Matthew
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Vanguard Video, 1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (136 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: The film, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Venice Film Festival, is different from other cinematic depictions of the life of Christ in that there is no screenplay per se. Pasolini limited himself to the account by Matthew only words written by the Saint are employed no additional dialogue was written and only scenes described by Matthew are shown. Pasolini used no professional actors (his mother played the older Mary) and he dedicated his film to the dear familiar memory of John XXIII.
Format: VHS
- Hamam: il bagno turco = The Turkish bath
- Publication information: [Calif.] : Strand Home Video, 2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Francesco, a successful designer from Rome, arrives in Istanbul to dispose of an inheritance left him by an aunt he never knew. Once there he discovers that the property is a hamam, a traditional Turkish steam bath, Mehmet, the beautiful son of the hamam's custodian, ushers Francesco into the sultry world of the baths. Enlightened and unbound, Francesco decides to remain in Istanbul and restore the hamam
Format: DVD
- Heaven
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Philippa is a British schoolteacher living in Italy, whose husband fell victim to a drug overdose. Vendice is a powerful local drug dealer who sold the dope which killed Philippa's husband. Disgusted with the inability of the police to bring Vendice to justice, Philippa takes the law into her own hands, planting a bomb which is intended to kill the dealer. Instead the bomb kills four innocent bystanders. Now with the help of her multilingual translator, Philippa escapes and continues to seek revenge on Vendice
Format: DVD
- Ladri di saponette: The icicle thief
- Publication information: New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, [1991], c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (84 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Satiric fantasy that blasts television by mingling the hyper reality of commercials with a bleak vintage drama
Format: VHS
- I sent a letter to my love
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Thorn EMI Video, 1981
Physical description: 1 videocassette (102 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The lives of Louise, her crippled brother and their friend, a gentle spinster, move toward a beautiful resolution when Louise puts an ad in the personal column and her brother answers it
Format: VHS
- The immortal bachelor
- Publication information: New York : VidAmerica, c1985
Physical description: 1 videocassette (94 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A lusty sex and pasta comdedy about a hot-blooded Italian lover, who cannot be satisfied by any one woman
Format: VHS
- In love and war
- Publication information: [Calif.] : New Line Home Video, c1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (113 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece A farewell To arms . A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury
Format: VHS
- Io non ho paura: I'm not scared
- Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: While playing outside one day in a wheat field, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town bad boy Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the tale to his closest friend. When Michele's parents learn of his discovery, they warn him to forget whatever he saw
Format: DVD
- Johnny Stecchino
- Publication information: [Burbank, Calif.] : New Line Home Video [s.l.] : Turner Home Entertainment, [1993]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The drop-dead gorgeous wife of the notorious mafioso Johnny Toothpick discovers a naive bus driver who's a dead-ringer for her husband who is on the lam and under the gun she schemes to switch the two men, creating one of the best comedies of the year
Format: VHS
- Juliet of the spirits
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Distributed by International Film Forum, [199-?]
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (115 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A journey into a world where sex and fantasy have no boundaries
Format: VHS
- Ladri di biciclette: The bicycle thief
- Publication information: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Simple story of an unemployed man and his family living in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters and signs, work requiring a bicycle on which to get around. When his bicycle is stolen the father and his son are forced to steal one in desperation and are caught. This version includes the original U.S. theatrical trailer
Format: DVD
- Last tango in Paris
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, c1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age
Format: DVD
- Le corsa dell ́innocente: The flight of the innocent
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 1999
Physical description: 1 videocassette (106 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young Italian boy, the son of a brutal kidnapper, is the only survivor when his family is killed by a rival gang. The boy flees, pursued by the police and the killers, and searches for a new life with a loving family unlike his own and an end to his family's history of criminal behavior
Format: VHS
- Luci del varieta: Variety lights
- Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2009]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (5 p. (folded) port.)
Description: When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas
Format: DVD
- Malena
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001], c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething, Malena
Format: DVD
- Mamma Roma
- Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Meridian Video Corp., [1995]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An ex-prostitute stuggles to begin a new life for herself and her teenage son, fighting to stay out of the clutches of her vicious pimp and to save her son from a life of petty crime
Format: VHS
- Mean streets
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2004
Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Charlie, a 27-year-old, tries to work his way up the bottom rungs of organized crime's ladder. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend Charlie's family declares unsuitable because she has epilepsy
Format: DVD
- Medea
- Publication information: New York, NY : Video Artists International, [199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Medea, high priestess of the Golden Fleece, falls in love with Jason, and, stealing the prized article, flees with him to Corinth. Jason eventually betrays her, however, when he falls in love with the daughter of Creon. In a white heat of anger, Medea murders Creon, his daughter, and finally her two sons by Jason, then flees, leaving him to face a wifeless, childless future
Format: VHS
- La meglio gioventù: The best of youth
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2006?]
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (368 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A family epic spanning four decades of social unrest from the 1960s to the 1990s and incorporating such events in Italy's history as the hippy movement, the flood of Florence, the Red Brigades, Mafia scandals, kidnapping and political assassinations. The film focuses on Italian brothers Nicola and Matteo Carati, whose lives take very different paths, divided by politics but bonded by blood
Format: DVD
- Miracle in Milan
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Home Vision, [1990?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Comedy, satire, and realism are combined in a fantasy about the social conceits of man. An Italian orphan, with the aid of a miraculous dove, combats power and wealth and succeeds in bringing happiness to the inhabitants of a Milanese hobo camp
Format: VHS
- Il Mostro: The monster
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and provide evidence for his arrest - but things don't quite go according to plan
Format: DVD
- Nights of Cabiria
- Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, distributor, 198-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Cabiria, a prostitute, throws herself into endless love affairs with the frantic persistence of a trapped bird, dashing body and soul against the vain hope of securing marriage and a happy family life
Format: VHS
- Nostalghia
- Publication information: N.Y., N.Y. : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. and b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: A homesick Russian poet, Gorchakov, researching in Italy with the aid of a beautiful interpreter, Eugenia, arrives at a Tuscan spa, while there he encounters the local mystic, who sets him on a challenging task
Format: DVD
- La Notte di San Lorenzo: The night of the shooting stars
- Publication information: New York, N.Y. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (107 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Depicts the final days of World War II in Italy, seen mostly through the eyes of a six-year-old girl. It is a mythic recollection by the protagonist of life on the run when a group of Italian villagers flee from brutal Nazi occupiers in the summer of 1944
Format: VHS
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
- Publication information: New York, NY : HBO Video, c1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As he grows up he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies
Format: VHS
- Nuovo cinema paradiso
- Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (174 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies
Contents: Side A. New version (174 min.) -- Side B. Original 1990 theatrical cut version (123 min.)
Format: DVD
- Open city
- Publication information: Los Angeles : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 101 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Rossellini's classic is representative of neo-realistic cinema. The story takes place in Rome during the Nazi occupation where a priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS
Format: VHS
- The organizer
- Publication information: [U.S.] : Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video, c1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: In 19th century Turin, an itinerant professor unites a ragtag group of textile workers in a strike against their factory
Format: VHS
- Padre, padrone =: My father, my master
- Publication information: [New York] : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1982
Physical description: 1 videocassette (113 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A powerful story of a son's development under an oppressive father. Gavino Ledda lives in solitude as an illiterate Sardinian shephard. His father is the brutal instrument of that solitude. Year after year Gavino is isolated alone with his flock in the mountains separated from family, schools and the collectivity of his town. Finally, he rebels against his father and his own illiteracy. Studying by himself, Gavino earns his degree and writes a book about himself
Format: VHS
- Paisan
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Distibuted by Hen's Tooth Video, [1997]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Six stories dealing with Italian and American soldiers meeting under battle conditions during World War II
Format: VHS
- Pane e cioccolata: Bread and chocolate
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video, c1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (109 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A farce fashioned around the postwar dilema of the status and plight of migrant workers from Southern Europe working in more prosperous and modern northern lands
Format: VHS
- Pane e tulipani
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002], c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (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 to bring her back home
Format: DVD
- Pasqualino Settebellezze
- Publication information: New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1998
Physical description: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col 4 3/4 in
Description: The story of a small-time crook and lady-killer who shoots his sister's pimp to save the family honor. He is caught, tried, sent to an insane asylum, volunteers for the Italian army during World War II and ends up in a Nazi concentration camp
Format: DVD
- Pinocchio
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Video, 1985?
Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A puppet wants to be a boy. A fairy promises boyhood to Pinocchio if he can prove he is kind, honest and loving. A wayward huckster tries to lead the puppet astray but Pinocchio decides to perform a redeeming act of bravery and kindness
Format: VHS
- Pinocchio
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Video, [1993]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (88 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A puppet wants to be a boy. A fairy promises boyhood to Pinocchio if he can prove he is kind, honest and loving. A wayward huckster tries to lead the puppet astray but Pinocchio decides to perform a redeeming act of bravery and kindness
Format: VHS
- Plein soleil
- Publication information: [United States] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, [1997]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A handsome, wealthy bachelor has a sexy girlfriend, the finest things money can buy, and an envious friend who schemes to murder him and assume his identity
Format: VHS
- Il postino: The postman
- Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c1995
Physical description: 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The postman, Mario, enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice
Format: DVD
- Il principe di Homburg: The prince of Homburg
- Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, [2003], c1996
Physical description: 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The Prince of Homburg is a haunted, impetuous young German general. During the 17th century, the Germans are at war with the Swedes. The Prince is having trouble sleeping - he lusts after his commander's beautiful niece and frets over being on the battlefield. In a crucial battle, the Prince leads his troops into battle before being ordered. The Germans win the battle, but the Prince faces severe consequences
Format: DVD
- Quantum of solace
- Publication information: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2009
Physical description: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply
Format: DVD
- Riso amaro: Bitter rice
- Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema, c1999
Physical description: 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: In the rice fields of the Po Valley, a thief on the run meets a girl who tries to steal his loot
Format: VHS
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli: Rocco and his brothers
- Publication information: [Los Angeles, CA] : Connoisseur Video Collection, [1991]
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (170 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Spread over half-a-dozen years, each of five episodes concentrates on one of five peasant brothers who, with their widowed mother, Rosaria, migrate to industrial Milan from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. The story dissects the psychological impact of a society that presents its poor with only destructive opportunities
Format: VHS
- Roma
- Publication information: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 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)
Format: VHS
- Romeo and Juliet
- Publication information: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, c1980
Physical description: 1 videocassette (138 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Film version of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their own lives.
Format: VHS
- Romeo & Juliet
- Publication information: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Pictures, [2000?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Film version of Shakespeare's tragedy in which two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their own lives
Format: DVD
- A room with a view
- Publication information: [London] : BBC Video Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2004
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Based on the novel by E.M. Forster;All she wanted was a room with a view on her first trip to Florence. Little did she realize that her wish would lead her into impropriety, confusion, and passion
Format: DVD
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Publication information: [Tulsa, Okla.] : VCI Home Video : United Home Video, [2000]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: Drama about the 1927 Massachusetts trial and execution of two Italian-American immigrant anarchists
Format: VHS
- Le salaire de la peur: Wages of fear
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Home Vision : Voyager Company, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (148 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A study of courage and cowardice in the face of almost insurmountable odds. After establishing the characters of the protagonists in a long prologue, director Clouzot follows them as they transport a cargo of nitroglycerin over a primitive mountain road to a conclusion of high suspense and final irony
Format: VHS
- Lo Sceicco bianco: The white sheik
- Publication information: United States : Home Vision Distributed by Public Media Incorporated, [1995?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (86 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A provincial Italian plans a conventional honeymoon, including an audience with the Pope, until his bride sneaks off in pursuit of her fantasy hero. Unfortunately, her White Sheik is no more than an actor whose chivalry is matched by his lechery
Format: VHS
- Lo sceicco bianco: The white sheik
- Publication information: [New York] : Criterion Collection, c2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p. folded)
Description: A provincial Italian plans a conventional honeymoon, including an audience with the Pope, until his bride sneaks off in pursuit of her fantasy hero. Unfortunately, her White Sheik is no more than an actor whose chivalry is matched by his lechery
Format: DVD
- Seduced and abandoned
- Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, distributor, 1992?]
Physical description: 1 videocasssette (115 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: An Italian girl is seduced by her sister's boyfriend, setting in motion a chain of events which explore the Sicilian code of honor
Format: VHS
- Serpico
- Publication information: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, c2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Adaptation of the true story of a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation
Format: DVD
- Seven beauties
- Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, c1980
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col 1/2 in
Description: The story of a small-time crook and lady-killer who shoots his sister's pimp to save the family honor. He is caught, tried, sent to an insane asylum, voluteers for the Italian army during World War II and ends up in a Nazi concentration camp
Format: VHS
- Shoeshine: Sciuscià
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Balzac Video Chicago : [Facets Multimedia distributor], [198-?], c1943
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Two orphaned shoeshine boys, abused by the state reform system in Nazi occupied Rome, become involved in black marketeering with tragic consequences
Format: VHS
- La stanza del figlio: The son's room
- Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Tragedy hits the family of a psychiatrist and they struggle with anger and grief until an unexpected visitor forces them to confront their feelings
Format: DVD
- La strada: The road
- Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion : Janus Films, 2003
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description: The story of a fragile girl who is sold by her mother into the employ of a brutal travelling circus performer
Format: DVD
- Strategia del ragno
- Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (97 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A young man returns to the provincial Italian town where his anti-fascist father was murdered in 1936, hoping to find out how his father died
Format: VHS
- The talented Mr. Ripley
- Publication information: [Hollywood, CA] : Paramount, c2000
Physical description: 1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back he playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder
Format: DVD
- Tea with Mussolini
- Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [1999], c1998
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli presents a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best: his mother has run off and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary, a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends enjoy the cultured, creative atmosphere of life in Italy, and their initial response to the rise of fascism is to arrange a polite meeting with Mussolini to make sure he and his soldiers mean well
Format: VHS
- Il tetto: The roof
- Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 1998]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Thoughtful, neorealist account of a simple young married couple in overcrowded post-World War II Rome. Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. Follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home
Format: VHS
- They call me Trinity
- Publication information: Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, 1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A drifter comes to town where his brother, Bambino, is masquerading as the sheriff so he can hide after shooting the real sheriff. They team up against the local land baron who is trying to get rid of the Mormon settlers in a valley he wishes to own
Format: VHS
- La traviata
- Publication information: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Home Video, 1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The story of a beautiful courtesan dying of consumption and her love for a poor nobleman. A film version of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Format: VHS
- Traviolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto: Swept away
- Publication information: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A rich capitalist woman taunts and teases her working-class, Communist deckhand during a sailing party. A boating accident leaves them stranded together on a deserted island, and it is the deckhand's turn to humiliate his employer, but her eventual submission to him seems to leave them in love with each other
Format: VHS
- Two women
- Publication information: [S.l.] : Nelson Entertainment, [1987?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (99 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Portrays an Italian mother who along with her daughter is raped by soldiers during World War II tells how they find their way back to life and survive the horror of war
Format: VHS
- Umberto D.
- Publication information: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization
Format: DVD
- Under the Tuscan sun
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life. Along the way she finds that sometimes what seems like a mistake is really a blessing
Format: DVD
- La vita è bella: Life is beautiful
- Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II
Format: VHS
- La vita è bella: Life is beautiful
- Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, [1999], c1997
Physical description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II
Format: DVD
- Walls of Malapaga
- Publication information: [S.l.] : International Film Festival [Chicago, IL : Facets, 1995]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: A French fugitive from justice and a sad Italian waitress meet in bombed-out post WW2 Genoa and bring much-needed happiness to each other's dreary lives
Format: VHS
- War and peace
- Publication information: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, the film centers around disenchanted aristocrat and unhappily married Pierre and Prince Andrei, who both are in love with an innocent young woman, Natasha
Format: DVD
- Who's that knocking at my door
- Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1991]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: This debut feature film of Martin Scorsese is the story of a young, unemployed man who is content to hang out with his equally unambitious buddies in New York's Little Italy. Then he falls in love with a college-educated girl and is forced to look at the neighborhood and life itself in a new way
Format: VHS
- William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice
- Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2005]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Shylock has grown wealthy through money-lending, the only profession open to Jewish businessmen of the time, but faces indignity and danger when he ventures beyond the Jewish quarter. In the same city, though in a different world, lives Antonio, a Christian merchant beset by worry over the fate of his trading vessels and his increasing isolation from his best friend Bassanio. The younger man has fallen in love with the beautiful Portia, and seeks to go abroad to win her hand. When Antonio takes a loan from Shylock, a bond is sealed, the risk of which is one pound of Antonio's flesh. So when Antonio goes into debt to Shylock, the angst-ridden moneylender demands a pound of his flesh
Format: DVD
- The wings of the dove
- Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1997
Physical description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A young society woman's love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution
Format: DVD
- The young and the passionate: Vitelloni
- Publication information: [Chicago : Distributed by Facets Multimedia, 199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (106 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Tells the story of five aimless young men in a small Italian town who behave irresponsibly, usually seeing no more in life than satisfying their animal desires
Format: VHS
Marianne Berger, Reference Librarian
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berger@cod.edu
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