Claudia Cardinale
Language
English
Description
Maggie is an uptight, single mother who, in an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, takes her to the Tuscan village where she used to visit in her youth. There Maggie runs into her former lover Luca and his mother, Carmen. When Summer and Carmen impulsively steal Luca's car and race off to Rome, Maggie and Luca follow in close pursuit.
Language
English
Description
As a young girl, Princess Dala is given the largest diamond in the world by her father. If you stare into it, you can see a 'Pink Panther.' Now she is a young woman. Rebels in her home country have seized power and are demanding the return of the jewel. Dala relaxes at an exclusive skiing resort. Noted British playboy, Sir Charles Lytton is in town. He is secretly 'The Phantom,' an infamous jewel thief who has eyes on the Pink Panther. Charles's playboy...
Language
Italiano
Description
Violent summer: In the final days of Mussolini's reign, Carlo, the hedonistic son of a high-ranking Fascist, falls in love with a Navy officer's widow. Fleeing the wrath of the Anti-Fascists for the safety of Southern Italy, the lovers are stranded by the masses of the dead and dying and must confront the horrors of war previously kept from them by a life of privilege.
Girl with a suitcase: 16-year-old Lorenzo falls in love with cabaret singer Aida,...
Language
English
Description
The bumbling, hilarious Inspector Clouseau is back on the case in this collectable collection boasting five classic comedies, a bonus DVD and the incomparable comic genius of Peter Sellers.
The Pink Panther (1964 ; 115 min.): "The bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as 'The Phantom' before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as 'The...
Language
Français
Description
Summer of 1943. In occupied France, not far from the Spanish border, a famous old sculptor, who is tired of life and wars, finds the desire to work again on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France.
6) Fitzcarraldo
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Language
English
Description
May 1915. At his sister's wedding, Andreas meets Francesca, a stunning seventeen-year-old Italian girl, but their blossoming love is interrupted when Italy declares war against Austria, and his is sent off to front lines. As the conflicts tears families apart and turns neighbors into enemies, Andreas fight his way through the mountainous battleground of the Alps, determined to return to Francesca and recuse her from impending danger.
8) Cartouche
Language
Français
Description
The exploits of Cartouche, an eighteenth-century swordsman, and his band who steal things from the rich and give them to the poor. Earning the sympathies of the people and the love of the beautiful bandit Venus, he must escape the traps set for him by the police.
9) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
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.
Language
Arabic
Description
The year is 1967 in La Goulette, a small harbor town in the suburbs of Tunis where various cultures have lived together for ages in effortless harmony. Youssef, Jojo, and Giuseppe are as inseparable as their three 16-year-old daughters, Meriem, Gigi, and Tina. In a fit of teenage provocation, the three girls swear that they will lose their virginity by the day of the procession of the Madonna. To make matters worse, each of them has her eyes on a...
Language
English
Description
A film about the tempestuous yet legendary working relationship berween two creative giants of the film industry - Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. --- Case cover.
A chain of coincidences brings the 13-year-old schoolboy Werner Herzog together with Klaus Kinski to the same apartment in Munich. In an unabated, 48-hour fit of rage Kinski immediately proceeds to lay waste to all the furniture, only one of such fits to come. Herzog therefore knows what...
Language
Français
Description
Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira offers a foreboding fable of familial unrest. Gebo lives a quiet life in a European port city with his wife, Doroteia. and his daughter-in-law, Sofia. But the family is haunted by the absence of Joao, Gebo₂s son and Sofia's husband. Rumors are circulating of robberies and even darker dealings in neighboring ports. Is Joõ responsible? One night, he arrives home and all is brought to light.
14) The skin
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the short stories of Curzio Malaparte, The Skin is Liliana Cavani's controversial look at the aftermath of the German occupation of Italy during WWII and the equally difficult results of life during the Allied liberation. Marcello Mastroianni stars as writer Malaparte, who chronicled the desperate measures taken by his countrymen in order to survive. Burt Lancaster co-stars as the liberating American General unable to understand the devastation...
16) My best friend
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
Herzog was transfixed by an early Kinski performance. From the chaos of sharing an apartment where Kinski completely destroyed a bathroom in a forty-eight hour rage, a volatile and creative partnership was born. Herzog documents the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.
17) Burden of dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 287
Language
English
Description
Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
18) Blindfold
Language
English
Description
Dr. Bartholomew Snow is a respected New York psychologist recruited to meet with scientist Arthur Vincenti who suffered from a mental breakdown, while the scientist completes a top secret military project. Due to the level of the classified work, Snow must be blindfolded when taken to Vincenti's location. When a group of enemy agents gets to the troubled scientist, Snow is the only one who can find him, and he may have to wear a blindfold.
19) Don't make waves
Series
Language
English
Description
In this satire of Southern California beach life, an East Coast tourist is stranded in Malibu after his sportscar is wrecked by a reckless resident, and he becomes involved in various romantic entanglements.
20) A fine pair
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Esmeralda Marini pays a surprise visit to NYC police captain Mike Harmon, the uptight cop agrees to help her as a favor to her father, an old friend he hasn't seen in years. She explains that she wants to break into an Austrian villa and return gems stolen by a friend, but Mike has no idea it's all a con to rob the house herself. As the thrill of adventure loosens him up and he offers to become her partner, Mike must find a way to keep Esmeralda...