Monica
1) Malèna
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething, Malena.
2) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Language
Italiano
Appears on list
Description
Concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover and best friend. Antonioni's controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation. Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative in its own right.
3) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Language
Italiano
Description
Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative in its own right, concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover and best friend. Antonioni₂s controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation.
4) La notte
Series
Criterion collection volume 678
Language
Italiano
Description
During one evening, an author and his wife begin to explore their deteriorating marriage and the indifference that they feel towards their circle of friends.
6) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Language
Italiano
Description
Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; the searchers gradually become preoccupied with their own problems.
Series
Criterion collection volume 522
Language
Italiano
Description
A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Language
Italiano
Description
Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
9) Malena
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1941, Renato was 13 years old and although the world was at war, nothing ever happened in this sleepy village in Sicily. Until the day he discovered something that would change his life forever-- Malena, the beautiful young war widow who was the obsession of every man and the envy of every woman. Because of her, Renato will come to learn all of life's lessons and find himself in places he never could have imagined.
Language
Italiano
Description
Three stories intertwine in a realm haunted by a bloodthirsty Beast. The lord of the castle must think about the survival of his people, already decimated by the monster, when his daughter, just a child, is infected with a mysterious disease. In the woods, two brothers share a dark secret, and the time of truth has finally come. A mysterious warrior from afar is on a mission to find the Beast and Vork is his name. He knows that he will have to sacrifice...
11) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Language
Italiano
Description
A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
Language
Italiano
Description
Antonio and Paolo live happily together in Berlin and are finally getting married. They decide to celebrate in the small village in Italy where Antonio grew up. While his mother immediately supports his intentions, her husband Roberto, the town mayor, is much more reluctant. Paulo, who has not spoken to his conservative mother in a long time, must get her to the wedding as a condition of the marriage.
13) Gasoline
Language
Italiano
Description
Stella and Eleonora are from opposite ends of the social spectrum, but in love. When Eleonora's mom is killed by accident, the two must flee and dispose of the body in order to stay together.
Language
Italiano
Description
Emanuelle, that 1970s siren of filmic sensuality, returns in this erotic thriller about exploitation, abuse and vengeance. A rich Lothario sets his eyes on a beguiling college student and part-time model. But when she refuses his advances, he punishes her. Enter Emanuelle, a writer who plays a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with him.
Language
Italiano
Description
A young woman who has contracted a mysterious and contagious disease is forced by her village to take a trip, accompanied by only her father, to a hermit healer who is said to be her only hope of salvation. A long journey awaits the pair across a wildland, fighting against time, and they find out against their will that the girl's illness is not the only threat hanging over them.
16) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Language
Italiano
Description
The concluding chapter of Michalangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L'Avventura and La Notte) tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover and drifts into a relationship with another.
17) Red desert
Language
Italiano
Description
A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
18) La Notte
Language
Italiano
Description
An emotionally estranged couple faces heartache, desperation, and personal loss all in the course of one night.
19) Baarìa
Language
Italiano
Description
Baarìa is Sicilian slang for Bagheria. This film is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where the writer and director Giuseppe Tornatore was born.