Fandango (Firm)
1) Gomorrah
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the "system," the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a "normal" life. Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel world, and one that is deeply rooted in reality.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Barney Panofsky is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. With his father, Izzy as his sidekick, Barney reflects on the many highs, and a few too many lows, of his long and colorful life. Not only does Barney turn out to be a true romantic, he is also capable of all kinds of sneaky acts of gallantry, generosity, and goodness when it is least expected. His gloriously full life is played out on a grand scale all the way through the...
3) The bank
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young mathematician is on the verge of discovering a formula that could predict the fluctuations of the stock market and he is quickly taken under the wing of a corrupt CEO at Centrabank. Together these two men will play a deadly game of deception and revenge, while initiating one of the largest banking scandals in history.
Series
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Tommaso visits his family in Southern Italy, planning to announce his new plans to be a writer rather than take over the family's pasta-making business -- as well as tell his family that he's gay. But his older brother, Antonio, beats him to the punch[.]--Container.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barney Panofsky is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. With his father, Izzy as his sidekick, Barney reflects on the many highs, and a few too many lows, of his long and colorful life. Not only does Barney turn out to be a true romantic, he is also capable of all kinds of sneaky acts of gallantry, generosity, and goodness when it is least expected. His gloriously full life is played out on a grand scale all the way through the...
7) Ten canoes
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Australian
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a parable of forbidden love from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong.
Series
Criterion collection ; 628
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Albanian
Formats
Description
In northern Albania a teenage brother and sister are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father's entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land.
9) Respiro
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Grazia is a carefree mother of three, who soon becomes the focus of her neighbors' gossip. While her fellow Lampedusians work and live hard - oblivious to their native paradise - Grazia alone is courageous enough to blissfully embrace life's treasures. Her wild, sensual and free-spirited behavior reflects the unrivaled beauty of her heavenly seaside village. She is not understood or accepted by the social conventions of the town, nor its strict tribal...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Italiano
Description
A young Italian boy, the son of a brutal kidnapper, is the only survivor when his family is killed by a rival gang. The boy flees, pursued by the police and the killers, and searches for a new life with a loving family unlike his own and an end to his family's history of criminal behavior.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
12) Gomorra
Series
Criterion collection ; 493
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Italiano
Description
Five disparate tales of Naples' mafia underworld, where men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Adapted from the best-selling exposé by undercover Italian reporter, Roberto Saviano.
Series
Film Movement ; 1, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Danny has just moved into his 47th shared house, this time in Brisbane, and the flatmates have not improved. One lives in a closet, another in a tent in the living room and, before Danny takes off for shared house no. 48 in Melbourne, he will have endured satanic worshipers, skinheads and the perennially ubiquitous cane toad. No wonder he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
14) Habemus papam
Series
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square wait in vain for the new Pope to step out on the balcony. Behind the thick walls of the Vatican panic has set in. After uttering a terrible howl of fear, the Cardinal refuses the office. The officials do everything to try to reason with Melville, including a psychoanalyst, appointed by the...
15) Dust
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the 20th century, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. When she chooses the younger of the two, the embittered older brother travels to Europe where he becomes a ruthless mercenary. But a revolution takes a personal twist with one brother hanging on the edge of life and death.