Italian Feature Films

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• 1900
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  

• 8 1/2
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Italian with English subtitles
  

• L'albero degli zoccoli; The tree of wooden clogs
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• All screwed up
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Magnetic Video, 1980
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Story of a group of young immigrants in Milan--where everything is in its place but nothing is in order
  Language: English dudded
  

• Amarcord
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1985]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Presents the director's memories of love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's
  Language: Dubbed into English from Italian
  

• Amarcord
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• L'amore
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• L'Avventura
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection [distributor], 1988, c1960
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (145 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Description: Story about the search for a girl lost on an island. Gradually, the searchers become pre-occupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found
  Language: In Italian, with English subtitles
  

• La bataille d'Alger; The battle of Algiers
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
  Description: A dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962
  Language: French and Arabic dialogue, English subtitles
  

• Battle of Algiers
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : Rhino ; [New York, N.Y.] : Axon Video, [1993]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Description: A dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962
  Language: In French and Arabic with English subtitles
  

• The bicycle thief
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: New York : Corinth Video, 1988, c1972
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Description: An unemployed man gets work for which his bicycle is essential. Its theft and the man's desparate attempt to recover it evoke a story of deep poignancy
  Language: Italian dialogue with English subtitles
  

• Il bidone; The swindle
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Big deal on Madonna Street; I soliti ignoti = Persons unknown
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• The black hand; the birth of the Mafia
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Dubbed into English from Italian
  

• Brother sun, sister moon
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  

• Burn!
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  

• The Canterbury tales
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In English dubbed from Italian
  

• Caro diario; Dear diary
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Closed-captioned
  

• Christopher Columbus
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  

• Ciao, professore!
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian, with English subtitles
  

• Il cittadino si ribella
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian
  

• The conformist
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: English dubbed version
  

• The Damned; La Caduta degli dei
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  

• Death in Venice
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1984
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A world-famous composer and conductor, on a solitary rest holiday, spies an innocent young boy and becomes obsessed over him. This secret passion carries him to his doom
  

• Death in Venice
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Soundtrack in English with subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
  

• Il Decameron
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Il Deserto rosso; Red desert
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Italian with English subtitles
  

• Divorce Italian style
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: English language version
  

• La dolce vita
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Los Angeles, CA : NTA Home Entertainment, [1982]
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (174 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Description: A tabloid reporter sees his life in shallow Rome society as worthless, but he can't change
  Language: In Italian with some French and English dialogue and English subtitles
  

• La dolce vita
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Italian and English soundtracks; English or Spanish subtitles
  

• Enrico IV; Henry IV
  Location: General
  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
  Language: Italian with English subtitles
  

• Everybody's fine
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Fellini satyricon
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Film d'amore e d'anarchia; Love and anarchy
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Fiorile
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• The garden of the Finzi-Continis
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  

• The garden of the Finzi-Continis
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Il gattopardo; The leopard
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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.
  Language: In Italian with optional English subtitles
  

• General della Rovere
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Italian with English subtitles
  

• Gianni Amelio's Lamerica
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Giulietta degli spiriti; Juliet of the spirits
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: In Italian with optional English subtitles
  

• The Gospel according to St. Matthew
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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.
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Ladri di saponette; The icicle thief
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  

• I sent a letter to my love
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Dubbed in English
  

• The immortal bachelor
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Dubbed in English
  

• Io non ho paura; I'm not scared
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Italian dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles
  

• Johnny Stecchino
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Juliet of the spirits
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Ladri di biciclette; The bicycle thief
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Dialogue in Italian or dubbed English with optional English subtitles
  

• Ladri di biciclette; The bicycle thief
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Allied Artists Entertainment, 1996
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Description: An unemployed man gets work for which his bicycle is essential. Its theft and the man's desparate attempt to recover it evoke a story of deep poignancy
  

• Last tango in Paris
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Dialogue in English and French with English subtitles, and with optional English and French subtitles;Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
  

• Le corsa dell innocente; The flight of the innocent
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Love in the city
  Location: General
  Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 198-]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Language: English narration and Italian dialogue with English subtitles
  

• Malena
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Italian or French dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles;Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
  

• Mamma Roma
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Medea
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  Publication information: Costa Mesa, CA : Vanguard Cinema, c2002
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
  Description: Medea, high priestess of the Golden Fleece, falls in love with Jason, and stealing the prized articles, flees with him to Corinth. Jason eventually betrays her, however, when he falls in love with the daughter of Creon. In a heat of anger, Medea murders Creon, his daughter, and finally her two sons by Jason. She flees and leaves Jason to face a wifeless, childless future
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Miracle in Milan
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Il Mostro; The monster
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Italian with optional English soundtrack; subtitles: English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
  

• Nights of Cabiria
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Nostalghia
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• La Notte di San Lorenzo; The night of the shooting stars
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Italian with English subtitles;Closed-captioned
  

• Nuovo cinema paradiso
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Soundtrack in Italian with subtitles in English (side A); Soundtrack in French and Italian with subtitles in English; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired (side B)
  

• Open city
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian, with English subtitles
  

• The organizer
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Ossessione; Obsession
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: [New York] : International Film Forum [distributor], c1989
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (140 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Padre, padrone ; My father, my master
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Paisan
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In English and Italian with English subtitles
  

• Pane e cioccolata; Bread and chocolate
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Pane e tulipani
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Italian dialogue; English subtitles; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
  

• Pasqualino Settebellezze
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: English and Italian language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English
  

• Il Postino; The Postman
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1995
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: The postman, Mario, enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Il postino; The postman
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: In Italian with optional French soundtrack and optional English subtitles
  

• Il principe di Homburg; The prince of Homburg
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: Italian dialogue, English subtitles
  

• Riso amaro; Bitter rice
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Rocco e i suoi fratelli; Rocco and his brothers
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Roma
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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)
  Language: Italian and English dialogue, English subtitles
  

• Sacco & Vanzetti
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In English and Italian with English sub-titles
  

• Le salaire de la peur; Wages of fear
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In French with English subtitles
  

• Lo Sceicco bianco; The white sheik
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Seduced and abandoned
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Italian with English subtitles
  

• Seven beauties
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: English soundtrack
  

• Shoeshine; Sciuscià
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• La stanza del figlio; The son's room
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: In Italian or French with English subtitles; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
  

• Strategia del ragno
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Il tetto; The roof
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Traviolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto; Swept away
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Italian dialogue, English subtitles
  

• Two women
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Italian dialogue with English subtitles
  

• La vita è bella; Life is beautiful
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS),gnrve
  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
  Language: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired;In Italian with English subtitles
  

• La vita è bella; Life is beautiful
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  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
  Language: In Italian, Italian with English subtitles, or English;Closed captioned in English for the hearing impaired
  

• Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D.
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Home Vision/Janus Films : Distributed by Public Media Inc., [199-?]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Description: A retired civil servant struggles to live on a meager pension. Evicted from his boarding house, Umberto maintains his diginity, in isolation except for the priceless companionship of his dog
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Yesterday, today and tomorrow
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Burbank, Calif. : Hollywood's Attic, [1996]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Tales of three women and the men in their lives. Adelina is wearing her husband to death by having a child every year in order to stay out of prison. Anna is a wealthy, arrogant socialite who uses and discards men. Mara is a beautiful prostitute who struggles with her conscience when a young seminary student falls in love with her
  Language: In English, dubbed from Italian
  

• The young and the passionate; Vitelloni
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  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
  Language: Italian dialogue; English subtitles
  

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