Summary: Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAMSummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMSummary: Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE VONSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMSummary: A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DEASummary: A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CONPantoliano, Joe
Summary: A burned-out business executive from Toronto travels back to his family farm in rural Italy to reconnect with his roots and find new meaning in life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FROSummary: Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DECSummary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The son of an Italian professor forms a relationship with his father's summer research assistant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CALSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN EIGSummary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GUISummary: Three American women working in Rome, Italy, share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage, each experiencing a few bumps in their journeys to romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRSummary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARMSummary: "Maleficent ... sends the kingdom's beloved Princess Aurora into an enchanted sleep ... [and the] Good Fairies arm brave Prince Phillip to defeat a fearsome fire-breathing dragon and rescue Aurora"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SlSummary: During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decal Releasing 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FERSummary: Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EQUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER EQU3 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: An American mom inherits her grandfather's mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm's consigliere, she hilariously defies everyone's expectations as the new head of the family business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAFSummary: Three films featuring Audrey Hepburn. In Breakfast at Tiffany's she plays Holly Golightly, the girl on a quest to marry a millionaire, in Roman Holiday, she's a rebellious modern-day princess who inadvertently falls in love with an American newspaperman, in Sabrina, she returns home from Paris all grown up and ready to beguile the Larrabee brothers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRESummary: Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HAUHuston, Jack
Summary: Having spent years in slavery after false accusation of treason, Jewish nobleman Ben-Hur returns home seeking revenge but his life transforms when he meets a Nazarene named Jesus Christ.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2016