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2) Mamma roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 236
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricte herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 801
Language
Italiano
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Description
The prismatic portrait of the days and nights of a party girl in sixties Rome is a revelation. It follows the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana as she dallies with a wide variety of men, attends parties, goes to modeling gigs, and circulates among the rich and famous. Despite its often light tone, though, the film is a stealth portrait of a suffocating culture that regularly dehumanizes people, especially women.
Language
Italiano
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Description
Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote foe Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor - an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences....
Language
Italiano
Description
A comic but poignant portrait of an Italian immigrant working odd jobs in prosperous Switzerland and trying desperately to fit in. Though his work becomes increasingly degrading, he tenaciously refuses to give up and go home. This hapless Everyman is eternally rejected yet ever-hopeful.
8) War trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 498
Criterion collection volume 499
Criterion collection volume 500
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Criterion collection volume 499
Criterion collection volume 500
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Language
Italiano
Description
Resistance thrives in Nazi-occupied Rome; Italians attempt to live their everyday lives and communicate with their American liberators at the end of World War II; twelve-year-old Edmund struggles to survive with his family in an almost completely destroyed Berlin.
Series
Criterion collection volume 778
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
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.
10) Umberto D
Series
Criterion collection volume 201
Language
Italiano
Description
This neorealist masterpiece by Vittorio De Sica follows the daily life of an elderly pensioner as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic recovery. Alone except for his dog, Umberto is determined to maintain his dignity in a city where human kindness seems to have been swallowed up by the forces of modernization. His simple quest to satisfy his most fundamental needs makes for one of the most heartbreaking stories ever filmed,...
Language
Italiano
Description
Journey across Africa to hear the stories of tragedy, turmoil, controversy, and hope. It is well-known that Africa is going through a very difficult transition, but who really understands the depths of wars, hunger and diseases that make up its everyday catastrophes? A look to see if the problems are close to being resolved, or just the beginning of a spiraling pandemic of a worldwide crises.
12) Futura
Language
Italiano
Description
Following in the footsteps of a long line of documentarians, a collective of three Italian filmmakers known for their politically acute cinema Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden), Francesco Munzi (Black Souls), and Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) set out to interview a cross-section of their nation's youth about their hopes, dreams, and fears for the future. With today's political divisions, socioeconomic unease, overreliance on technology, and global...
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