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21) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Language
English
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
22) Othello
Language
English
Description
A version of Shakespeare's drama about Othello, and the jealousy of his mentor Jago, set in modern day London.
23) Death in Venice
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann₂s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema₂s most exalted literary adaptations.
25) Don't look now
Series
Criterion collection volume 745
Language
English
Description
Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don't Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Death at La Fenice : After a famous conductor dies from cyanide poisoning during the intermission of his concert, Brunetti probes into the maestro's past, and uncovers a shocking picture of immorality and ruthlessness, as well as a legion of bitter enemies, some of whom have held a grudge for many decades. Based on Donna Leon's first Comissarrion Brunetti novel which introduced Guido Brunetti to crime fiction fans worldwide.--Container.
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28) Othello
Series
Language
English
Description
In Venice during 1570, Desdemona, daughter of a powerful nobleman, elopes with Othello, a proud Moor celebrated as the city's most awesome warrior. Iago, who has served alongside Othello for a decade, is angered when the general chooses another lieutenant, Cassio, as his second in command. In retribution, Iago sabotages Cassio's promotion and convinces Othello that the handsome officer is cuckolding him. Othello writhes under the tortures Iago has...
32) Don't look now
Language
English
Description
A married couple takes an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.
35) Othello
Series
Criterion collection volume 870
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.
37) Othello
Author
Series
Letras universales volume 30
Language
Español
Description
One of the most often staged of all of Shakespeare's plays, this is a tale of love and betrayal, secrets, passions, and intrigue. Psychology and wit pit strength and virtue against jealousy and evil agendas. The results leave no winners, only tragedy.
Language
English
Description
Macbeth: The Tragedy of a King so blinded by ambition and paranoia that he senselessly murders those in this path eventually leading to his own demise.
King Lear: The renowned story of mistaken love, familial deceit and murder.
Othello: Shakespeare's keen understanding of jealousy in love results in perhaps his greatest triumph as a stage play, and his prime example of the tragic hero Othello.
39) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Language
English
Description
In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn embodies the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her deep-seated insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper amid the ancient city's canals and piazzas.
40) Othello
Language
English
Description
Desdemona defies her father to marry the Moor of Venice, the mighty warrior, Othello. But Othello's old lieutenant, Iago, doesn't like Othello, and is determined to bring about the downfall of Othello's new favorite, Cassio, and destroy Othello in the process, by casting aspersions on Othello's new bride.