Nino Rota
3) Amarcord
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Italiano
Description
"In this movie Fellini portrays his home town of Rimini as he remembered it in the 1930's, during his young days. Many bizarre but very warm and human characters and specific Mediterranean humor made this movie the most popular of all Fellini's works" --Internet Movie Database.
6) Roma
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"Travelogue, memoir and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director's young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family. Tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In a parallel story, Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
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 dominate her mate.
11) I Vitelloni
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
Character study of five aimless young men living in a small Italian town, based in part upon Fellini's own experiences and those of his acquaintances.
12) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection ; 733
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
Series
Criterion collection ; 189
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Ivan Cavalli brings his new wife Wanda to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history--a rigid schedule of family meetings and an audience with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photo-strip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy.
15) I clowns
Publisher
Rarovideo
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The Clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a 'docu-comedy', this film explores deeper human conditions such as authority, poverty, humility and arrogance.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world.
18) 8 1/2
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
19) Plein soleil
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
Français
Description
Small-time conman Tom Ripley travels to Italy to convince wealthy playboy Philippe Greenleaf to return to America, on behalf of Greenleaf's father. Greenleaf refuses, leading Ripley to undertake extreme measures in order to get what he wants.
20) Romeo and Juliet
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
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.
