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Italiano
Description
Giovanna is a young working-class wife and mother, who has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers the stranger's secrets, it unlocks a freedom within her heart she never expected; a freedom that will lead her to the arm of a neighbor she secretly adores, and to fulfillment her husband and family cannot provide.
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.
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Italiano
Description
Groundlessly jealous of his wife's romantic past, Enrico Fontana hires a private detective to finally determine whether she is fathful or not. Ironically, his suspicious attitude unconsciously brings his wife, Paola, together with Guido, a man with whom she had once been in love. Paola and Guido's past was clouded in tragedy. Giudo had been involved with Paola's close friend's death. Their passion rekindled once again, the lovers even get to the point...
Series
Criterion collection volume 506
Language
Italiano
Description
A famous gas mask designer, trying to deal with his pill-addicted wife and the maid he is having an affair with, finds a gun that might have belonged to the famous John Dillinger.
5) 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
Giulia teaches swimming at a pool. One of her pupils is the young daughter of Guido, a successful and married writer grappling with feelings of futility about his profession. When they meet at the pool, Guido gets intrigued by this charming woman who keeps initially a certain distance, because Giulia hides a secret and a mysterious past. Their brief affair based on abdication, fragility, and selfishness will lead Giulia to an extreme decision.
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Italiano
Description
Andrea, a 50-year old architect and recent widower, is granted a new lease on life after meeting Rosanna, an anesthesiologist at the local hospital. Rosanna is married to the much younger Riccardo, an aspiring writer. Andrea introduces Riccardo to a restaurant owner and his lovely sister Hikma. Andrea soon discovers that Hikma is pregnant with Riccardo's child. Recognizing the difficulties Hikma and Riccardo face, Andrea offers to help the couple...
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Italiano
Description
Nevenka's ex-lover, who is her husband's brother, Kurt, has come back to claim her and he does so by engaging in a forbidden rendezvous. The next day Kurt is found dead, but his ghost comes back to haunt all those who live in the mansion, and to continue his love affair with Nevenka.
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 9
Language
Italiano
Description
Anna has everything she thought she could ever need: a respectable career, a caring family, and a loving partner, Alessio. But when she meets Domenico, a handsome, married waiter, her neatly ordered world begins to fall apart. They quickly fall into a heated affair, based on secret meetings, stolen caresses, cell phone fights, and endless lies. Anna's increasingly distant behavior goes unnoticed by Alessio, while Domenico's wife becomes steadily more...
11) L'innocente
Language
Italiano
Description
Tullio, an insatiable aristocrat, grows bored with his timid wife, neglecting her for his exciting mistress. After learning that she is having a torrid affair of her own, he begins to descend into madness.
12) Senso
Series
Criterion collection volume 556
Language
Italiano
Description
In Venice, during the spring of 1866, it is the last month of the Austrian occupation of the Veneto. The Italian government has forged a pact with Prussia, and another war of liberation in the ongoing Risorgimento is imminent. Countess Livia Serpieri, unloved by her collaborator-husband but sympathetic to the cause of freedom espoused by her patriotic cousin Roberto, meets Austrian officer Franz Mahler as she begs him to call off a duel with Roberto....