Films With Italian Dialogue

• Wuthering Heights
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  Publication information: [United States] : HBO Home Video [distributor], [1997]
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
  Description: A tortured love affair between Heathcliff and Cathy ends when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax
  Language: In English with optional soundtracks in Spanish, French or Italian; optional subtitles in English, Spanish or French; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
  

• Italiensk for begyndere; Italian for beginners
  Location: Rental Collection (DVD)
  Publication information: Burbank, CA : Buena Vista Home Video, 2002
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
  Description: Several students of an Italian language class find romance in their studies of the language of love
  Language: In Danish and 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
  

• Before the revolution
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1989
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A young man flirts intellectually with communism and incestuously with his young aunt. But eventually he realizes that, for him, life will always be before the revolution. Loosely based on Stendhal's The charterhouse of Parma
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Tosca's kiss; Il bacio di Tosca
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Switzerland : Video Arts International, 1985
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Visits Casa Verdi, a retirement home in Milan, Italy, which was founded by composer Giussepe Verdi for musicians who made their mark in the opera world. Observes the daily life of the residents, showing how they remain dedicated to their craft
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Madame Butterfly
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1997
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America
  Language: In Italian with English subtitles
  

• Tales of mystery and imagination, [or] Spirits of the dead
  Location: Rental Collection (VHS)
  Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Cinema, [1999]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelgänger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed
  Language: In French and Italian with English subtitles
  

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List generated on November 8th, 2005