Massimo Girotti
Publisher
NoShame Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
Groundlessly jealous of his wife's romantic past, Enrico Fontana hires a private detective to finally determine whether she is fathful or not. Ironically, his suspicious attitude unconsciously brings his wife, Paola, together with Guido, a man with whom she had once been in love. Paola and Guido's past was clouded in tragedy. Giudo had been involved with Paola's close friend's death. Their passion rekindled once again, the lovers even get to the point...
3) Teorema
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Italiano
Description
A handsome stranger enters the lives of a bourgeois Italian family and proceeds to seduce each member, including the maid.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
Giovanna is a young working-class wife and mother, who has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers the stranger's secrets, it unlocks a freedom within her heart she never expected; a freedom that will lead her to the arm of a neighbor she secretly adores, and to fulfillment her husband and family cannot provide.
5) Mr. Klein
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Français
Description
Set in Nazi-occupied France 'Mr. Klein' is the riveting story of one man's search for another who shares his name, and who has stolen his identity.
6) Medea
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Italiano
Description
To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge.
7) Baron Blood
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
American professor Peter Kleist travels to Austria on summer holiday to learn more about his family roots. By reciting an incantation on a piece of ancient parchment, he succeeds in scaring up a genuine ancestor; Baron Otto von Kleist, a 16th century sadistic nobleman whose appetite for cruelty earned him the nickname 'Baron Blood.' Before Peter can reverse the incantation, the parchment burns.
8) Teorema
Series
Criterion collection volume 1013
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger, perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil, who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle, blocked from an exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy, is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and...
9) Ossessione
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter, who arrives by chance at a roadside restaurant and filling station, and Giovanna, the beautiful young wife of the fat old man who owns the place. Gino leaves, only to return because he can't get her out of his blood. They kill her husband but his death haunts the guilt-ridden Gino.
10) Senso
Series
Criterion collection volume 556
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Italiano
Description
In Venice, during the spring of 1866, it is the last month of the Austrian occupation of the Veneto. The Italian government has forged a pact with Prussia, and another war of liberation in the ongoing Risorgimento is imminent. Countess Livia Serpieri, unloved by her collaborator-husband but sympathetic to the cause of freedom espoused by her patriotic cousin Roberto, meets Austrian officer Franz Mahler as she begs him to call off a duel with Roberto....
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
Italiano
Description
Paola is the beautiful and jealously guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana. In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise.
12) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...