The Dreamers
(2003) [R]

Set among the rebellious currents of 1968 Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci's THE DREAMERS centers on three university students who adore the Cinematheque Francaise, and are fascinated by '60s culture--the music of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, the films of Jean-Luc Godard, and the writings of Susan...  More

Facing Windows
(2003) [M]

Giovanna has been married to her devoted husband for nine years. She carries the responsibility for the family and the strain begins to show when they come across a lost and amnesiac elderly gentleman. Irritated by her husband's softness, her fantasies of the ideal are projected onto the...  More

Conversation Piece
(1974) [MA]

Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent to them an apartment on upper floor of his palazzo. From this point his quiet...  More

The Leopard: Director's Suite (2 disc set)
(1963) [PG]

Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento—when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic...  More

1900 (2 disc set)
(1976) [R]

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (De Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by...  More

Besieged
(1998) [PG]

A young African woman takes lodgings with a reclusive English pianist in the heart of Rome. She is slowly drawn into his life within the elegant and delapidated house and alive with the music of Bach, Mozart and Grieg.  More

Last Tango In Paris
(1972) [R]

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their...  More

The Sheltering Sky (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]

From director Bernardo Bertolucci comes this epic dramatisation of Paul Bowles' novel. Starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger, this is an extraordinary voyage of vision, redemption and love. Yearning for adventure and an escape from a suffocating, repressive society, Port and his wife Kit...  More

The Decameron
(1971) [R]

The first of Pasolini's colourful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story cycles (to be followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights, The Decameron contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Capturing the...  More

Padre Padrone
(1977) [M]

The first film to win both the Golden Palm and the Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this haunting tale of a peasant boy's brutal coming-of-age in rural Italy established the reputation of acclaimed fraternal filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.

It tells the story of Gavino,...  More