Alberto Grimaldi
Language
English
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits, " organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
Series
Criterion collection volume 17
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Special edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
A transposition of the Marques de Sade's eighteenth century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy. A thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Just prior the the Civil War and after years in prison, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns to lower Manhattan's lawless, corrupt Five Points section seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But before long, Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of an erupting wave of full-blown gang warfare.
11) Man of la mancha
Series
Language
English
Description
Man of La Mancha: This musical version is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of the author of the book, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures.
The Fantasticks: Follows the scheming of two neighboring parents who try to spark a romance between their children by faking a feud. Loosely based on the novel Les romanesques by Edmond Rostand.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A collection of four Clint Eastwood classics. In A fistful of dollars, an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain. For a few dollars more is the sequal to 'A fistful of dollars, ' in which two bounty hunters join forces...
14) 1900
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Three-disc collector's edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
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