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Rome, Open City
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Based on true the story of Don Morosi, a priest and Resistance worker shot by the Germans in wartime Rome, Roberto Rossellini's first feature after the Mussolini era has become synonymous with Italian neo-realism. Shot on the locations where the events actually happened, using hand-held cameras, ..read more »
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Journey To Italy
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Leslie Daniels
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman play Alexander and Katherine Joyce, a bored married couple in Naples, waiting around for an inherited house to be sold. With time on their hands the cracks begin to show in their marriage. Rejecting Hollywood norms, Rossellini uses periods of pure cinematography, ..read more »
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Death In Venice
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Luchino Visconti's striking adaptation of Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE follows the sickly composer, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde). As the film begins, Aschenbach is arriving by steam boat in Venice from Munich. He is deeply distracted, nervous, uncomfortable, and conflicted. Nonetheless, he ..read more »
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The Damned
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger
Director: Luchino Visconti
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A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti. The Essenbeck family runs the German steel industry and the nervous patriarch attempts to appease the Nazis by appointing a ..read more »
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Rocco And His Brothers
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Acclaimed director Luchino Visconti's (DEATH IN VENICE) powerful epic is one of the most internationally adored Italian films in history. The story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS stars the gorgeous French actor Alain Delon as Rocco, a soft-spoken, idealistic ..read more »
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The Exterminating Angel
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera
Director: Luis Bunuel
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The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have ..read more »
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La Regle Du Jeu
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Roland Toutain
Director: Jean Renoir
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a ..read more »
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Bonnie And Clyde
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman
Director: Arthur Penn
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Based on the true-life exploits of the notorious depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, BONNIE AND CLYDE has become a part of popular American culture and is recognized as one of the most violent films to come out of mainstream Hollywood. Bonnie is bored with life and wants a ..read more »
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