Summary: A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. This unpredictable journey careers from slapstick to tragedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SORSummary: Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE QUASummary: "The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors -- a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIOSummary: Tells the saga of the ill-fated 1928 Arctic expedition headed by Italian Unberto Nobile. After the crash of their dirigible, Italia, the survivors huddle in their makeshift red canvas dwelling, desperately sending out S.O.S. signals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REDSummary: A man travels to Italy to claim his dead father's body, and discovers he has been conducting an affair there for years. Things get complicated when he falls for the woman's daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AVASummary: Based on a true story of a daring young girl who will stop at nothing and fear no one. In 1943, thirteen-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these eleven...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FANSummary: Set in the early 1900's. "[The film] tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVSummary: 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: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPESummary: Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOUSummary: "A Japanese film crew interviews Fellini about his career as he films the memories of his life as a young journalist walking into his beloved studio Cinecitta for the first time"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INTSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Films 1999
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIF RATED PG-13Summary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation, it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With intuition and a cadre of police officers, Montalbano solves crimes in the fictional small city of Vigata. This work brings him across the paths of unforgettable characters who could only come from Sicily. He also wages a personal war with his own demons, which fight against his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DETSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JULSummary: "In a seaside village on the outskirts of an Italian city, where the only law seems to be survival of the fittest, Marcello is a slight, mild-mannered man who divides his days between working at his modest dog grooming salon, caring for his daughter Alida, and being coerced into the petty criminal schemes of the local bully Simoncino, an ex-boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOGSummary: Features a trio of stories about sex, each starring Loren and Mastroianni). In the first vignette (Adelina of Naples), a woman avoids jail time by pumping out babies with a willing accomplice. In the second vignette (Anna of Milan), a pair of lovers are forced to work out their problems in a car. The third vignette (Mara of Rome) is the story of a prostitute who quits her best john for a man of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YESSummary: 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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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FANTASY GUISummary: Emma travels to Italy to teach and research a wedding veil said to bring its owner love. While there, she meets Paolo, the son of a local lace-making family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark, Cinedigm 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALSummary: 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