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61) Like crazy
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled billionaire countess who likes to believe she's on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. The film tells the story of the unpredictable and moving friendship that develops between the two women as they flee a mental institution in search of love and happiness in the open-air nuthouse; the world of sane people.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
63) L'attesa
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
When the seductive Jeanne arrives at her boyfriend's childhood home, she is greeted by his brooding mother Anna. As the two women await him, a mysterious secret looms over the household, ready to boil over.
64) Nostalghia
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Nostalghia is Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. It was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return. Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian...
65) Reality
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
A darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show Big Brother leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, Luciano's own reality begins to spiral out of control.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Italiano
Description
Three retirees decide to move away from Rome to find a better standard of living in a country where their meager pensions will go that much further. Planning for the trip sees the trio trawl the pubs and restaurants of the sun saturated Rome and discover that even at old age they can still learn one or two lessons about themselves and life. Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy's laconic answer to Larry David, returns to the humanist comic territory of arthouse...
68) Spring
Series
Drafthouse Films volume 30
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Evan is a young American fleeing to Europe to escape his past. While back-packing along the Italian coast, everything changes during a stop at an idyllic Italian village, where he meets and instantly connects with the enchanting and mysterious Louise. A flirtatious romance begins to bloom between the two; however, Evan soon realizes that Louise has been harboring a monstrous, primordial secret that puts both their relationship and their lives in jeopardy....
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Super assassin John Wick has a fourteen million dollar price tag on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassins' guild. Now excommunicado, and with an army of the world's most ruthless hit men and women on his trail, John must find a way to survive in this third chapter of the adrenaline-fuelled action series.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1043
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi2s sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi discovers an Italy he never knew existed.
71) Benedetta
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
72) Tenebrae
Publisher
Synapse Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
American mystery author Peter Neal comes to Italy to promote his newest novel, Tenebrae. Unfortunately, a razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, taunting Neal and murdering those around him in gruesome fashion just like the character in his novel.
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
Gigi and Carletto, two southern country boys, travel north to get work in Milan. Arriving with nothing but the clothes on their backs, they join the labor movement and live in a communal home with other migrant workers, including some combative love interests. Their dreams of wealth devolve into a series of slapstick adventures, from an uproarious attempt at petty crime to the daily indignities of life in a restaurant kitchen.
74) Death in Venice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A composer falls in love with a young boy and becomes obsessed with his perfection.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children in an Alpine village. Years later, the estranged...
76) The traitor
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the '80s.
77) Le amiche
Series
Criterion collection volume 817
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
A young woman returns to her home town of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.
78) The Salt Of Life
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
In his warm and witty follow-up to *Mid-August Lunch,* writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedy-this time with a dash of the bittersweet. In THE SALT OF LIFE, Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic mother, a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner, a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom...
79) Pasolini
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara's retelling of the final days in the life of the fifty-year-old filmmaker and writer, in a lovely, haunting film that draws on his last interview and envisages scenes from an unmade final film and his incomplete novel, Petrolio. Willem Dafoe, regally exhausted, is the spitting image of the murdered director, and Pasolini's beloved muse Ninetto Davoli returns...
80) Don't look now
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Psychic terror in a Gothic setting in Venice provides the chilling backdrop in this tale of a couple's search for the ghost of their dead daughter.
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