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Inspector Montalbano - Volume 1
[ HiGloss DVD / 3 DVD - released 12/Apr/2018 ] Set in a fictitious Sicilian seaside town called Vigata, Inspector Montalbano is a series of feature length films based on the writings of Andrea Camilleri. Salvo Montalbano is a brilliant character who stands alone in the history of detective... |
Inspector Montalbano - Volume 3
[ HiGloss DVD / 2 DVD - released 12/Oct/2017 ] Based in the Sicilian town of Vigata, Montalbano is a character developed by writer Andrea Camilleri. 4 brand new feature length episodes. There's no-one else quite like Montalbano - he's a gourmand, he's terrified of flying, he dresses elegantly,... |
Loro
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 5/Dec/2019 ] Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction, and who else to deliver it than Paolo Sorrentino, the Academy Award-winning director of... |
Mia Madre (My Mother)
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 13/Oct/2016 ] Margherita (Buy) is directing a new social drama, set against the backdrop of an industrial dispute. Try as she may to remain professional, the emotional turmoil of her private life is taking a toll: an affair with one of her actors (Enrico... |
My Big Gay Italian Wedding
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 7/Nov/2019 ] When baby-faced Antonio (Cristiano Caccamo) pops the question to his boyfriend Paolo (Salvatore Esposito) in their Berlin apartment just before Easter, things take an awkward turn... it becomes apparent that Antonio hasn't come out to his parents.... |
Where Am I Going?
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 13/Apr/2017 ] Not many films can boast the near equivalent of Star Wars: The Force Awakens' three-week ticket sales in its first weekend, but that's exactly what WHERE AM I GOING? achieved when it opened in Italy earlier this year. Indeed, this hilarious comedy... |
ENNIO MORRICONE / NINO ROTA / PAOLO SILVESTRI / GATO BARBIERI
Postcards From Italy: Italian Music For Film Marco Albonetti (saxophone), Roma Sinfonietta, Paolo Silvestri [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] For his third album for Chandos, the saxophonist Marco Albonetti turns to the rich tradition of film music from his native Italy. Marco writes: 'Film music has been described as the defining new genre of classical music in the twentieth century. It... |
Agatha and the Storm
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 21/Aug/2008 ] As the proprietor of a bookstore in Genoa, the warm and intelligent Agatha (Licia Maglietta) dispenses literary wisdom to her adoring customers. When a younger man heeds her advice on books and falls madly in love with her, Agatha revels in the... |
Angela
[ Palace Films Collection / DVD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] "I already knew the story: I like the world of delinquents, for me they were like heroes... Maybe because I came from a world of respectable people, who had steady jobs. I wanted to see the violence... I wanted to see what was behind it all..."... |
Angels Of Evil
[ Madman / DVD - released 13/Jun/2013 ] In the tradition of GOMORRAH and THE GODFATHER comes ANGELS OF EVIL, the true story of Italy's most notorious gangsters. Renato Vallanzasca graduated from petty larceny as a teenager growing up in the 70s and 80s to become one of Milan's most... |
Eva
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] Starring Jeanne Moreau (Diary of a Chambermaid, The Immortal Story) as the man-eating title character, Eva is the story of one man's downfall at the hand (and body!) of a poisonous femme fatale. Set in the glorious surrounds of 1960s Venice, Eva... |
God Willing
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 9/Mar/2017 ] The #1 smash-hit comedy success of the 2015 Lavazza Italian Film Festival (where it premiered as the Opening Night Gala), this wildly entertaining and multi award-winning debut feature from writer-director Edoardo Falcone is the story of an almighty... |
Inspector Montalbano - Volume 6
[ HiGloss DVD / 2 DVD - released 14/Nov/2013 ] For nearly a decade, Luca Zingaretti has played the gruff, yet very stylish Police Inspector from Vigata on the Southern coast of Sicily. As always, the viewer can expect complex crime detection, some exotic locations, and some unbelievably good... |
Inspector Montalbano - Volume 9
[ HiGloss DVD / 2 DVD - released 14/Jun/2018 ] The tale begins with an imaginary wedding, but more on that later....the first hint of crime is a sad, blind man touring Vigata calling out plaintively for the return of his missing daughter Michela. Her life has been a harsh one, and she ends up... |
Inspector Montalbano - Volume 4
[ HiGloss DVD / 2 DVD - released 12/Oct/2017 ] Based in the Sicilian town of Vigata, Montalbano is a character developed by writer Andrea Camilleri. 4 brand new feature length episodes. There's no-one else quite like Montalbano - he's a gourmand, he's terrified of flying, he dresses elegantly,... |
Murders At Barlume
[ HiGloss DVD / 3 DVD - released 12/Jan/2017 ] Murders At Barlume is a charming new series by the creators of Inspector Montalbano. Adapted from the novels by Marco Malvadi, the story takes place in Pineta, a beautiful seaside Tuscan village. The warm, witty stories involve crime, detection, and... |
Palio
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/Mar/2016 ] The Palio is the oldest horse race in the world, and turns the Italian city of Siena into a high-stakes battleground of strategy, intrigue, and simmering machismo. In the eye of the storm stand the jockeys adored if they succeed, despised if they... |
Quiet Chaos
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] Quiet Chaos is what Pietro Paladini has felt in his heart ever since his wife's sudden death. Pietro is a successful executive, happily married and father of a 10 year-old daughter, Claudia. One day, after having saved the lives of two women who were... |
Respiro
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 17/Apr/2008 ] For some, village life can be as cruel as it is heartwarming, as suffocating as it is charming...Grazia is the affectionate young mother of a teenage girl and two boys. She sings along to Patti Bravo hits and finds ways to amuse herself and her... |
Lo Scopone Scientifico
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 11/Feb/2010 ] The Countess (Bette Davis), a wealthy American with an addiction to card games and a large real estate portfolio, has become an expert on the card games of all the countries where she owns houses. The regional favourite in Rome is a card game called... |
The Wait
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 12/Jan/2017 ] Academy-Award winner Juliette Binoche gives one of the finest performances of her career in this dazzling and emotionally rich debut feature from Italian wunderkind Piero Messina, who previously worked as the assistant director on Paolo Sorrentino's... |
