The Passenger
(1975) [M]

The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the compelling psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson, in one of his finest performances, plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North...  More

Christ Stopped At Eboli (2 Tape Set)
(1979) [PG]

The story follows a real life anti-fascist intellectual, Carlo Levi, into his forced exile in small, isolated village in a remote region of Southern Italy. The village is populated by inhabitants who barely survive on the meager harvest of the unyielding land. Eboli, the closest train station, is...  More

Caro Diario (Dear Diary)
(1994) [M]

CARO DIARIO (Dear Diary) is a warm, charismatic and intimate semi-autobiographical travelogue by Italian cult director Nanni Moretti. The story is split into three separate tales, all of which beautifully encapsulate Moretti’s penchant for whimsical observations and wry humour. The journey...  More

The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
(1970) [M]

Dominique Sanda plays the daughter of a cultured Italian Jewish family of immense wealth, languishing in aristocratic privilege on their estate, oblivious, until the end, to the danger that Fascism poses for their precious world.

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
(1966) [MA]

By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming with two...  More

The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994
(1994) [G]

On July 16, 1994, the moon shines down on Los Angeles to reveal an astounding sight: Dodger Stadium is transformed from ballpark to concert hall, where some of the most gifted artists of our time gather to enthrall an audience. The conjunction of these stellar performers in concert creates a kind...  More

The Tree Of Wooden Clogs
(1978) [G]

Olmi gathered together an ensemble cast of peasants from the area as actors, used direct sound and shot in almost documentary style. The result is a wonderfully authentic film whose characters exist so naturally that you are immediately transported to another time and place. A testament to the...  More

Before The Revolution
(1964) [M]

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself...  More

Dark Eyes
(1987) [PG]

Marcello Mastroianni, in an Oscar-nominated role, is Romano, a romantic with a wife, a mistress and a deep yearning to find a Russian woman he met at a spa. Based on several short stories by Chekhov.  More

The Legend Of The Holy Drinker
(1988) [PG]

Rutger Hauer gives the performance of his life as Andreas, an ex-miner jailed for an accidental murder, now released and living as a down-and-out in Paris. The film is set in an indeterminate era, neither 30's nor modern-day, in a magically photographed Paris that comes as a revelation even to...  More