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Cronaca di Anna Magdalena Bach DVD (1968)
Also known as: Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach DVd (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Drama, Music, History, Biography

Director: Danièle Huillet

Cast: Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini, Ernst Castelli, Hans-Peter Boye, Joachim Wolff, Rainer Kirchner, Eckart Bruntjen, Walter Peters, Kathrien Leonhard, Anja Fahrmann, Katja Drewanz, Bob van Asperen, Andreas Pangritz, Bernd Weikl

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A chronicle of Johann Sebastian Bach's life, eschewing drama to focus almost entirely on his music. Narrated by his wife Anna in voiceover, it consists largely of static scenes of Bach conducting and/or playing his brilliant compositions.

Cyrano e d'Artagnan DVD (1963)
Also known as: Cyrano et d'Artagnan DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Adventure

Director: Abel Gance

Cast: José Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sylva Koscina, Daliah Lavi, Rafael Rivelles, Laura Valenzuela, Julián Mateos, Michel Simon, Philippe Noiret, Gabrielle Dorziat, Enrique Ávila, Jacinto San Emeterio, Jesús Puente, Barta Barri, Fernando Cebrián

Medium: DVD R/RW

D'Artagnan contro i tre moschettieri DVD (1964)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure

Director: Fulvio Tului

Cast: Fernando Lamas, Gloria Milland, Roberto Risso, Walter Barnes, Franco Fantasia, Folco Lulli, Andreina Paul, Gabriele Antonini, Renzo Palmer, Piero Lulli, Ugo Sasso, Carla Calò, Ignazio Leone, Romano Ghini, Carlo Lombardi

Medium: DVD R/RW

D'Artagnan e i tre moschettieri DVD (1939)
Also known as: The Three Musketeers DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Adventure, Musical

Director: Allan Dwan

Cast: Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers, Binnie Barnes, Gloria Stuart, Pauline Moore, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Lionel Atwill, Miles Mander, Douglass Dumbrille, John 'Dusty' King, Russell Hicks, Gregory Gaye, Lester Matthews, Egon Brecher

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

I Daci DVD (1966)
Also known as: Dacii DVD (original title)

Country: Romania

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, War, History

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast: Pierre Brice, Marie-José Nat, Georges Marchal, Amza Pellea, Mircea Albulescu, Alexandru Herescu, György Kovács, Geo Barton, Emil Botta, Ilarion Ciobanu, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Nicolae Secareanu

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus a young roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choose between his blood origins and the culture he was raised to.

Dal peccato alla gloria DVD (1961)
Also known as: Fray Escoba DVD (original title)

Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Biography

Director: Ramón Torrado

Cast: René Muñoz, Esther Zulema, Mariano Azaña, Barta Barri, Xan das Bolas, Joaquín Burgos, José Bódalo, Juan Calvo, Juan Cazalilla, Félix Dafauce, Rodolfo del Campo, Miguel Del Castillo, Luis Domínguez Luna, José A. Dorronsoro, Marta Ducal

Medium: DVD R/RW

Dalla mangiatoia alla Croce DVD (1912)
Also known as: From the manger to the Cross DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Biography

Director: Sidney Olcott

Cast: Robert Henderson-Bland, Percy Dyer, Gene Gauntier, Alice Hollister, Sidney Olcott, Samuel Morgan, James D. Ainsley, Robert G. Vignola, George Kellog, J.P. McGowan, Helen Lindroth, Sidney Baber, Montague Sidney, Jack J. Clark, George Hollister Jr.

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An account of the life of Jesus Christ, based on the books of the New Testament: After Jesus' birth is foretold to his parents, he is born in Bethlehem, and is visited by shepherds and wise men. After a stay in Egypt to avoid King Herod, his family settles in Nazareth. After years of preparation, Jesus gathers together a group of disciples, and then begins to speak publicly and to perform miracles, inspiring hope in many of his listeners, but also arousing some dangerous opposition.

Dauriya DVD (1971)
Country: Soviet Union

Spoken Languages: Russian

Genre(s): Drama, War, Romance, History

Director: Viktor Tregubovich

Cast: Arkadi Trusov, Petr Shelokhonov, Vera Kuznetsova, Vitali Solomin, Vasili Shukshin, Yefim Kopelyan, Mikhail Kokshenov, Yuri Solomin, Viktor Pavlov, Svetlana Golovina, Boris Arakelov, Yevgeni Malyantsev, Fyodor Odinokov, Lyubov Malinovskaya, Yuriy Nazarov

Medium: DVD R/RW


David e Betsabea DVD (1951)
Also known as: David and Bathsheba DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History

Director: Henry King

Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice, Jayne Meadows, John Sutton, Dennis Hoey

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Though David has all the wealth, power, wives & children inherent for the King of Israel he does not have what he craves most: the true love of a woman who loves him as a man instead of as King. He is attracted to Bathsheba, the wife of one of his soldiers who is more devoted to army duty than to his wife. David & Bathsheba succumb to their feelings. Their affair, her resulting pregnancy, & David's resolve to have her husband killed so Bathsheba will be free to marry, bring the wrath of God upon the kingdom. David must rediscover his faith in God in order to save Bathsheba from death by stoning, his kingdom from drought & famine, & himself from his many sins...

David e Golia DVD (1960)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, History

Director: Ferdinando Baldi

Cast: Orson Welles, Ivica Pajer, Hilton Edwards, Massimo Serato, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Giulia Rubini, Pierre Cressoy, Furio Meniconi, Kronos, Dante Maggio, Luigi Tosi, Umberto Fiz, Ugo Sasso, Emma Baron, Fabrizio Capucci

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The story of the film is adapted from the Old Testament: The Philistines declare war on the Israelites and wrench the Arch of the Allience from them. Saul, the king of Israel, listens meanwhile to the words of the prophets who tell him that the new king will be a young shepard called David. But still David has to fight the enemy in form of their mighty giant Goliath.

Davide Copperfield DVD (1935)
Also known as: David Copperfield DVD (original title)

Country: USA,

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Romance

Director: George Cukor

Cast: Edna May Oliver (as Aunt Betsey), Elizabeth Allan (as Mrs. Copperfield), Jessie Ralph (as Nurse Peggotty), Harry Beresford (as Dr. Chillip), Freddie Bartholomew (as David - the Child), Hugh Walpole (as The Vicar), Basil Rathbone (as Mr. Murdstone), Herbert Mundin (as Barkis), John Buckler (as Ham), Fay Chaldecott (as Little Em'ly - the Child), Una O'Connor (as Mrs. Gummidge), Lionel Barrymore (as Dan Peggotty), Violet Kemble Cooper (as Jane Murdstone), Elsa Lanchester (as Clickett), Jean Cadell (as Mrs. Micawber), W.C. Fields (as Micawber), Lennox Pawle (as Mr. Dick), Renee Gadd (as Janet), Roland Young (as Uriah Heep), Lewis Stone (as Mr. Wickfield), Marilyn Knowlden (as Agnes - the Child), Frank Lawton (as David - the Man), Madge Evans (as Agnes), Hugh Williams (as Steerforth), Maureen O'Sullivan (as Dora), Florine McKinney (as Little Em'ly - the Woman), Ivan F. Simpson (as Littimer), Mabel Colcord (as Mary Ann), Bobby Callahan, Marion Ballou (as Dora's Aunt , uncredited), Lionel Belmore (as Old Bailey Warden , uncredited), Dennis Chaldecott (as Micawber's Son , uncredited), E.E. Clive (as Sheriff's Man , uncredited), Eileen Ingles (as David Copperfield as an Infant , uncredited), Norman Phillips Jr. (as Mealy , uncredited), Sonny Ray (as Mickey Walker , uncredited), Margaret Seddon (as Dora's Aunt , uncredited), Yorke Sherwood (as Mr. Quinion , uncredited), Arthur Treacher (as Donkey Man , uncredited)

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from grief, Murdstone sends David to London to work for a living. When David escapes to his aunt Betsey his life starts to get better.

Delirio d'amore DVD (1942)
Also known as: La symphonie fantastique DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Drama, Biography

Director: Christian-Jaque

Cast: Renée Saint-Cyr, Lise Delamare, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jules Berry, Bernard Blier, Gilbert Gil

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il destino di un'imperatrice DVD (1957)
Also known as: Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin DVD (original title)

Country: Austria

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History

Director: Ernst Marischka

Cast: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth, Uta Franz, Walter Reyer, Vilma Degischer, Josef Meinrad, Senta Wengraf, Erich Nikowitz, Hans Ziegler, Sonia Sorel, Klaus Knuth, Albert Rueprecht, Peter Neusser

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The Austrian empress enjoys traveling trough Hungary, where she ultimately finds the politically priceless affection of local count Andrassy too intimate, but it's only temporary relief from the frustrations of court life in Vienna, where dutiful Franz remains chained to his desk and leaves his chillingly strict mother Sophie interfering, even in the upbringing of their daughter. When Sissi is diagnosed with plausibly fatal tuberculosis and Franz has to allow Sophie to remove their daughter on doctor's warning...

Diana la cortigiana DVD (1956)
Also known as: Diane DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History

Director: David Miller

Cast: Lana Turner, Pedro Armendáriz, Roger Moore, Marisa Pavan, Cedric Hardwicke, Torin Thatcher, Taina Elg, John Lupton, Henry Daniell, Ronald Green, Sean McClory, Geoffrey Toone, Michael Ansara, Paul Cavanagh, Melville Cooper

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il diario di Anna Frank DVD (1959)
Also known as: The Diary of Anne Frank DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, War, History, Biography

Director: George Stevens

Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, Diane Baker, Douglas Spencer, Dodie Heath, Ed Wynn

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot Outline: Based on Anne Frank's diary, and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland, Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding, because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms...

Il Diavolo nero DVD (1957)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Peplum

Director: Sergio Grieco

Cast: Gérard Landry, Milly Vitale, Nadia Gray, Leonora Ruffo, Maurizio Arena, Andrea Aureli, Giulio Battiferri, Nino Crisman, Ughetto Bertucci, Mariangela Giordano, Enrico Olivieri, Giorgio Ubaldi, Renato Montalbano, Gino Scotti

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Duke Ubaldo of (fictitious) Roccamontana wants to overpower neighboring Italian states by concluding an alliance with the mighty Spaniards. The barons of his council are frightened or bribed to agree, except two. The old count of Archidosso is killed, his daughter Laura told her hand was promised to the duke. The other, count Riccardo d'Argentari, is beaten up and thrown in the river, presumed dead. But friends save him, so he can become the masked 'black captain' of a rebellion movement. Ubaldo's equally ruthless mistress, donna Violenta, is courteously kidnapped while bringing a message to the Spanish commander, don Diego Espinosa, which the rebels manage to substitute. She maintains an earlier pretense to be on Riccardo's side. When that fails, the tyrant couple kidnaps and tortures Laura.

Il Diavolo zoppo DVD (1948)
Also known as: Le diable boiteux DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): History

Director: Sacha Guitry

Cast: Sacha Guitry, Lana Marconi, Émile Drain, Henry Laverne, Maurice Teynac, Philippe Richard, Georges Spanelly, Renée Devillers, Georges Grey, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, José Noguéro, Maurice Escande, Jean Debucourt, Pierre Bertin, Roger Gaillard

Medium: DVD R/RW

I dieci comandamenti DVD (1956)
Also known as: The Ten Commandments DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, History

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Cast: Charlton Heston (voice), Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch, Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Olive Deering, Douglass Dumbrille

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri...

I dieci della legione DVD (1951)
Also known as: Ten Tall Men DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Adventure

Director: Willis Goldbeck

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias, John Dehner, Nick Dennis, Mike Mazurki, Gerald Mohr, Ian MacDonald, Mari Blanchard, Donald Randolph, Robert Clary, Henry Rowland, Michael Pate

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla...

I dieci gladiatori DVD (1963)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Adventure

Director: Gianfranco Parolini

Cast: Dan Vadis, José Greci, Roger Browne, Franca Parisi, Mimmo Palmara, Gianni Rizzo, Giuliano Dell'Ovo, Milton Reid, Ivano Staccioli, Giancarlo Bastianoni, Salvatore Borghese, Aldo Canti, Mirko Ellis, Veriano Ginesi, Vassili Karis

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Rocca and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.

Dimensione giganti DVD (1978)
Also known as: Cuibul salamandrelor DVD (original title)

Country: Italy/Romania

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Adventure

Director: Mircea Dragan

Cast: Stuart Whitman, Gheorghe Dinica, Radu Beligan, Woody Strode, Tony Kendall, Florin Piersic, William Berger, Jean Constantin, Gordon Mitchell, Valentin Platareanu, Roberto Messina, Mircea Diaconu, Mihai Boghita, Paola Senatore, Ioana Dragan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il dittatore folle DVD (1960)
Also known as: Den blodiga tiden DVD (original title)

Country: Sweden

Spoken Languages: German, Russian

Genre(s): Drama, War, Documentary

Director: Erwin Leiser

Cast: Claude Stephenson, Louis Arbessier (voice), Heinrich Brüning, Friedrich Ebert, Alfred Frauenfeld, Adolf Hitler, Paul Klinger, Jean-Claude Michel (voice), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, Walther Rathenau, Marinus van der Lubbe, Franz von Epp

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: "Mein Kampf" presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life Hitler, which is told since he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of artist living in slums in Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being the responsible for the death of million of people, and the destruction of Europe. All the footage is real and belonged to a secret file of Goebbels, inclusive with many very strong scenes filmed by Goebbels himself.

Il dominatore dei 7 mari DVD (1962)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Adventure

Director: Rudolph Maté

Cast: Rod Taylor, Keith Michell, Edy Vessel, Terence Hill, Basil Dignam, Anthony Dawson, Gianni Cajafa, Irene Worth, Arturo Dominici, Marco Guglielmi, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Rossella D'Aquino, Umberto Raho, Aldo Bufi Landi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Sir Francis Drake goes on an expedition to the New World and steals gold from the Spaniards. After making a daring getaway, he returns to England where he protects Queen Elizabeth I from a network of spies who are plotting to overthrow her.


Il dominatore dei barbari DVD (1945)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, War, History

Director: Giuseppe Maria Scotese

Cast: Fosco Giachetti, Adriana Benetti, Liliana Laine, Nino Pavese, Alfredo Varelli, Manoel Roero, Virgilio Tomassini, Anna Maria Padoan, Walter Grant, Giampaolo Montesi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il dominatore del deserto DVD (1964)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Adventure

Director: Tanio Boccia

Cast: Kirk Morris, Rosalba Neri, Hélène Chanel, Paul Muller, Aldo Bufi Landi, Ugo Sasso, Furio Meniconi, Rinaldo Zamperla, Geneviève Audry, Edda Ferronao, Franco Pechini, Nadir Moretti, Rina Mascetti, Luigi Scavran, Wladimiro Tuicovich

Medium: DVD R/RW

Dominique DVD (1966)
Also known as: The Singing Nun DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Music, Comedy, Biography

Director: Henry Koster

Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson, Agnes Moorehead, Chad Everett, Katharine Ross, Ed Sullivan, Juanita Moore, Ricky Cordell, Michael Pate, Tom Drake, Larry D. Mann, Charles Robinson, Monique Montaigne, Joyce Vanderveen

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Spanish

Plot Outline: Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is enthusiastic, progressive but naive, all which irks one of the senior sisters, Sister Cluny, especially the fact that Sister Ann has a prized material possession...

Don Bosco DVD (1936)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Biography

Director: Goffredo Alessandrini

Cast: Gian Paolo Rosmino, Maria Vincenza Stiffi, Ferdinando Mayer, Roberto Pasetti, Vittorio Vaser, Felice Minotti, Cesare Gani Carini, Arturo Zan

Medium: DVD R/RW


Don Cesare di Bazan DVD (1942)
Also known as: La lama del giustiziere DVD (alternative title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Comedy, Adventure

Director: Riccardo Freda

Cast: Gino Cervi, Anneliese Uhlig, Paolo Stoppa, Enrico Glori, Enzo Biliotti, Giovanni Grasso, Carlo Duse, Antonio Marietti, Alfredo Robert, Sandrino Moreno, Anna Maria Dionisi, Ermanno Donati, Antonio Acqua, Armando Francioli, Alfredo Martinelli

Medium: DVD R/RW

Don Giovanni e Lucrezia Borgia DVD (1926)
Also known as: Don Juan (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Adventure, Romance

Director: Alan Crosland

Cast: Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor, Montagu Love, Josef Swickard, Willard Louis, Nigel De Brulier, Hedda Hopper, Myrna Loy, Mary Astor, John Barrymore

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family...

Don Juan la spada di Siviglia DVD (1950)
Also known as: Don Juan DVD (original title)

Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Peplum

Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

Cast: Antonio Vilar, Annabella, María Rosa Salgado, Enrique Guitart, José Ramón Giner, Santiago Rivero, Mario Berriatúa, Fernando Fernández de Córdoba, María Asquerino, Mary Lamar, Manolo Morán, Nicolás D. Perchicot, Honorina Fernández, Mercedes Castellanos, Carlos Agostí

Medium: DVD R/RW

La donna dei faraoni DVD (1960)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Adventure, Romance, History

Director: Viktor Tourjansky

Cast: Linda Cristal, Pierre Brice, Armando Francioli, John Drew Barrymore, Lilli Lembo, Nerio Bernardi, Guido Celano, Andreina Rossi, Ugo Sasso, Nando Angelini, Nadia Brivio, Enzo Fiermonte, Luciano Francioli, Fedele Gentile, Nino Marchetti

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a dejected woman gets her revenge, and the couple's destruction.

Una donna si ribella DVD (1936)
Also known as: A Woman Rebels DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History

Director: Mark Sandrich

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allan, Donald Crisp, Doris Dudley, David Manners, Lucile Watson, Van Heflin

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The story revolves around Pamela, as a woman in late-1800's England who has no intention of marriage and wishes to be her own person. After a great deal of difficulty in finding a job, she finally lands a position at a "woman's" magazine, which covered topics such as sewing and cooking...

Drakut il vendicatore DVD (1961)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure

Director: Luigi Capuano

Cast: Burt Nelson, Wandisa Guida, Mario Petri, Moira Orfei, Maria Grazia Spina, Franco Fantasia, Ugo Sasso, Rosalia Maggio, Nando Tamberlani, Carla Calò, Alberto Lupo, Gianni Baghino, Walter Barnes, Massimo Carocci, Elio Crovetto

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The jealousy of a royal cousin which turns love into hate between a gypsy queen and a princess.

Il Duca nero DVD (1963)
Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Adventure, Romance

Director: Pino Mercanti

Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Conrado San Martín, Maria Grazia Spina, Gloria Milland, Franco Fantasia, Robert Dean, Silvio Bagolini, Antonio Casagrande, Manuel Castiñeiras, Alberto Cevenini, Lilly Darelli, Dina De Santis, Piero Gerlini, Raphael Kores, Giulio Maculani

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Cesar Borgia a cardinal in the Catholic church, a confidant of the Pope and a member of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in 16th-century Italy must deal with a host of political and personal crises. He is having problems with his mistress, and members of a secret society called The Black Carnation are out to assassinate him.

Le due città DVD (1935)
Also known as: A Tale of Two Cities DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History

Director: Jack Conway

Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Henry B. Walthall, Donald Woods, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, H.B. Warner, Mitchell Lewis, Claude Gillingwater, Billy Bevan, Isabel Jewell

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris.

Le due città DVD (1980)
Also known as: A Tale of Two Cities DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, War, Romance, History

Director: Jim Goddard

Cast: Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Barry Morse, Flora Robson, Billie Whitelaw, Alice Krige, Nigel Hawthorne, Norman Jones, George Innes, David Suchet, Bernard Hug, Valérie de Tilbourg, Robert Urquhart, Anna Manahan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.

I due gladiatori DVD (1964)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Adventure

Director: Mario Caiano

Cast: Richard Harrison, Moira Orfei, Alberto Farnese, Mimmo Palmara, Mirko Ellis, Piero Lulli, Enzo Fiermonte, Ivy Holzer, Giuliano Gemma, Álvaro de Luna, Adriano Micantoni, Gianni Solaro, Renato Montalbano, Nello Pazzafini, Fortunato Arena

Medium: DVD R/RW

I due Kennedy DVD (1969)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Documentary, History

Director: Gianni Bisiach

Cast: Al Capone, Fidel Castro, Ramsey Clark, Mickey Cohen, Jesse E. Curry, Richard Cushing, Johnny Dio, Allen Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jim Garrison, Sam Giancana, Jean Hill, Adolf Hitler, Hubert H. Humphrey, Barbara Hutton

Medium: DVD R/RW

E abitò fra noi DVD (1959)
Also known as: El Salvador DVD (original title)

Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Family, History, Biography

Director: Joseph Breen

Cast: Félix Acaso, Mariano Azaña, María Bassó, Dolores Cantabella, José Marco Davó, Félix de Pomés, Carlos Díaz de Mendoza, Enrique Macedo, Manuel Marques, Simón Ramírez, Jacinto San Emeterio, Luchy Soto, Luis Varela

Medium: DVD R/RW

E di Shaul e dei sicari sulle vie di Damasco DVD (1973)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, History

Director: Gianni Toti

Cast: Georges Wilson, Alessandro Haber, Brizio Montinaro, Jamil Amad, Imad Sef Eddim, Adib Kaddura, Abdel Latif Fathi, Laura De Marchi, Ann Odessa, Aldo De Jaco, Romano Moschini

Medium: DVD R/RW

E venne un uomo DVD (1965)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): History, Biography

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Cast: Rod Steiger, Adolfo Celi, Giorgo Fortunato, Ottone Candiani, Alfonso Orlando, Alberto Rossi, Giovanni Rossi, Fabrisio Rossi, Pietro Germi, Rita Bertocchi, Antonio Bertocchi, Antonio Ruttigni

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Rod Steiger, in the central role, acts as "intermediary" between the Pope and the audience, interpreting John's words, thoughts and actions. Steiger visits the actual places in which John lived, recreating the conditions, environment, and forces that affected his development. Through this unusual technique, we are brought close to an extraordinary man - one who's able to win the love of many people of all faiths.

Edgar Allan Poe DVD (1909)
Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Biography, Short

Director: D.W. Griffith

Cast: Herbert Yost, Linda Arvidson, Clara T. Bracy, Anita Hendrie, Arthur V. Johnson, James Kirkwood, David Miles, Charles Perley

Medium: DVD R/RW

 
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