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Sandra Milo
1) The visitor
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Thirty-something stunning beauty Pina (Sandra Milo) takes out an ad in the personal column hoping to find a man to take her away from the tiny Italian village where she lives. For months now she has been trying to find the right one, a man with a solid career, a family in mind, and plenty of stamina. Adolfo (Francois Perier) lives in Rome running a profitable business. Looking to share his life with that special person willing to raise a family Adolfo...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
Français
Description
Lupin engages in a series of daring criminal schemes. His activities arouse the interest of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who offers Lupin a challenge: to steal a jewel of great value from a secret hiding place. Should Lupin accept the wager? Starring Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver and O.E. Hasse; directed by Jacques Becker (Casque d’or, Touchez pas au grisbi).
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires.
5) 8 1/2
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 149
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Italiano
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.
7) 8 1/2
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Author
Language
Français
Description
Lupin engages in a series of daring criminal schemes. His activities arouse the interest of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who offers Lupin a challenge: to steal a jewel of great value from a secret hiding place. Should Lupin accept the wager? Starring Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver and O.E. Hasse; directed by Jacques Becker (Casque d'or, Touchez pas au grisbi).
Series
Criterion collection volume 434
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Français
Description
After hiding out for nearly a decade, a former gangland chief sneaks back into Paris, along with his children and an appointed guardian. Bonus features include interviews; trailers; documentary; and more.
10) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009, ©1980
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's acclaimed semi-autobiographical film that wanders through his life and fantasies. Bonus features include rare photographs, interviews, documentaries, commentary, and a booklet featuring essays by critics Tullio Kezich and Alexander Sesonske and writings by Fellini.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
Speaking of murder (1957): A garage owner maintains his business as a front for his gang of criminals.
Back to the wall (1958): A wealthy industrialist discovers his wife is having an affair and decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.
Witness in the city (1959): Seeking vengeance on his wife's former lover and assassin, a man sets in motion a string of killings.
Publisher
RARO Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Italiano
Description
A wonderful example of Italian realism, this film tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome. They pool their savings to open a trattoria, but find they cannot get a license. A prominent fixer with connections obtains the license for them, on the condition that they conduct their old business upstairs and pay him an exorbitant monthly fee.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
