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Amore e rabbia (1969)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: various directors

Cast: Tom Baker, Julian Beck, Jim Anderson, Judith Malina, Giulio Cesare Castello, Adriano Aprà, Fernaldo Di Giammatteo, Petra Vogt, Ninetto Davoli, Rochelle Barbini, Aldo Puglisi (voice), Christine Guého, Nino Castelnuovo, Catherine Jourdan, Paolo Pozzesi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

Amore grande amore libero (1976)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Luigi Perelli

Cast: Fausta Avelli, Al Cliver, Enzo Colajacono, Gilles Kohler, Marco Lucantoni, Paola Tedesco

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amore in agguato (1919)
Also known as: Victory (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Maurice Torneur

Cast: Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Wallace Beery, Ben Deeley, Lon Chaney, Bull Montana

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Axel Heyst, an uncommitted wanderer, has settled on an island in the South Seas. He takes pity on a troubled young woman, Lena, and gives her refuge on her island. But the piratical Mr. Jones, who believes Heyst has treasure buried on his island, leads his cohorts in an invasion of Heyst's haven.

Amore in quarantena (1964)
Also known as:: La cigarra no es un bicho (original title)

Country: Argentina

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Daniel Tinayre

Cast: Maria Antinea, Amelia Bence, Elsa Daniel, Mirtha Legrand, Malvina Pastorino, José Cibrián, Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Ángel Magaña, Luis Sandrini, Enrique Serrano, Teresa Blasco, Guillermo Bredeston, Diana Ingro, Myriam de Urquijo, Leda Zanda

Medium: DVD R/RW

Amore maledetto (1945)
Also known as: Bugambilia (original title)

Country: Mexico

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Emilio Fernández

Cast: Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Julio Villarreal, Alberto Galán, Paco Fuentes, Arturo Soto Rangel, Elba Álvarez, Conchita Sáenz, Maruja Grifell, Roberto Cañedo, Víctor Velázquez, Lupe del Castillo, José Elías Moreno, Estela Inda

Medium: DVD R/RW

Amore o qualcosa del genere (1968)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Dino B. Partesano

Cast: Monica Strebel, Angelo Infanti, Manlio Busoni, Arnaldo Bellofiore, Mirella Pamphili, Annamaria Mion, Antoinette Weynen, Franca Dominici

Medium: DVD R/RW

Un amore oggi (1970)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Edoardo Mulargia

Cast: Juliette Mayniel, Gino Lavagetto, Mirella Pamphili, Ugo Adinolfi, Ferruccio Fregonese, Osvaldo Peccioli, Shirley Kahler, Walter Donorascenzi

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amore più grande (1952)
Also known as: My Son John (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Leo McCarey

Cast: Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger, Robert Walker, Minor Watson, Frank McHugh, Richard Jaeckel, James R. Young, Lee Aaker, David Bond, Gail Bonney, Russ Conway, Bill McLean, Frances Morris, Erskine Sanford

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amore scotta a Yokohama (1964)
Also known as:: Sanpo suru reikyusha (original title)

Country: Japan

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director: Hajime Sato

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Masumi Harukawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Kô Nishimura, Meichô Soganoya

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amore uccide a Hong Kong (1973)
Also known as:: Das Mädchen von Hongkong (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Action, Crime

Director: Jürgen Roland

Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Li Paelz, Véronique Vendell, Eva Garden, Arthur Brauss, Grégoire Aslan, Pierre Vernier, Ann Peng, Jimmy Shaw

Medium: DVD R/RW

Gli amori di una bionda (1965)
Also known as:: Lásky jedné plavovlásky (original title)

Country: Czechoslovakia

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Director: Milos Forman

Cast: Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík, Ivan Kheil, Jirí Hrubý, Milada Jezková, Josef Sebánek, Josef Kolb, Marie Salacová, Jana Novaková, Jarka Crkalová, Tána Zelinková, Zdena Lorencová, Jan Vostrcil, Antonín Blazejovský

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A working-class young woman (Andula) in a hick Czech town sleeps with one of the band members of a group from Prague. "You are a Mondrian, not a Picasso," he tells her. When she doesn't hear from him again, she packs up and arrives on his doorstep in the big city, throwing his household (he lives with his parents) into chaos.

Amori di una calda estate (1965)
Also known as:: Los pianos mecánicos (original title)

Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Juan Antonio Bardem

Cast: Melina Mercouri, James Mason, Hardy Krüger, Didier Haudepin, Renaud Verley, Sophie Darès, Keiko Kishi, Maurice Teynac, Karin Mossberg, José María Mompín, Luis Induni, Io Apolloni, Rafael Luis Calvo, María Dalbaicín, Sabine Sun

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Vincent, a young man from Paris, arrives at the small Spanish village of Caldeya. where his has been loaned a home by his friend, Reginald. He meets Pascal Regnier, a novelist engaged in pursuits of drinking and love affairs, who spends his summers in Caldeya with his son, Daniel. Regnier introduces Vincent to Jenny, local nightclub owner...

Gli amori di una spia (1934)
Also known as:: Stamboul Quest (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Romance

Director: Sam Wood

Cast: Myrna Loy, George Brent, Lionel Atwill, C. Henry Gordon, Rudolph Anders, Mischa Auer

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Constantinople to secure the proof. En route she becomes involved with Douglas Beall, a footloose American. Complications ensue, requiring Annemarie to engage in some dangerous improvisations.

Gli amori finiscono all'alba (1953)
Also known as:: Les amours finissent à l'aube (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Henri Calef

Cast: Georges Marchal, Franç;oise Christophe, Nicole Courcel, Suzanne Dehelly, Jacques Castelot, Louis Seigner, Jacques Morel, René Blancard, Margo Lion, Jacques Dynam, Olivier Hussenot, Micheline Gary, Pierre Sergeol, Paul Azaïs, Maurice Jacquemont

Medium: DVD R/RW

Gli amori impossibili (1972)
Also known as:: Le rempart des Béguines (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Guy Casaril

Cast: Anicée Alvina, Nicole Courcel, Venantino Venantini, Jean Martin, Ginette Leclerc, Harry-Max, Yvonne Clech, Elizabeth Teissier, Nadia Barentin, Axelle Abbadie, Janine Mondon, Clément Michu

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The young Helene searching for love because of missing her dead mother is falling in love with her fathers bisexual girlfriend Tamara who has a strong personality and knows exactly how to manipulate the people under her influence. Tamara involves Helene in a lesbian relationship but still follows her aim to marry Helene's father, a rich citizen in a little French town.

Gli amorosi (1964)
Also known as:: Älskande par (original title)

Country: Sweden

Spoken Languages: Swedish

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Mai Zetterling

Cast: Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré, Anita Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Jan Malmsjö, Lissi Alandh, Bengt Brunskog, Anja Boman, Åke Grönberg, Margit Carlqvist, Heinz Hopf, Märta Dorff, Jan-Eric Lindquist

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Three expectant mothers think back over their sex lives.

L'amour violé (1978)
Also known as:: Das Ende der Nacht (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Yannick Bellon

Cast: Nathalie Nell, Alain Fourès, Michèle Simonnet, Pierre Arditi, Daniel Auteuil, Bernard Granger, Alain Marcel, Gilles Tamiz, Tatiana Moukhine, Lucienne Hamon, Guylène Péan, Marianne Epin, Franç;ois Lalande, Marco Perrin, Andrée Damant

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she decides to file a lawsuit.

Amsterdam operazione diamanti (1959)
Also known as: Operation Amsterdam (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, War, History

Director: Michael McCarthy

Cast: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox, Malcolm Keen, Christopher Rhodes, Alfred Burke, Tim Turner, Carl Jaffe, John Horsley, Keith Pyott, Melvyn Hayes, Oscar Quitak, George Pravda, Arnold Marlé

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues play cat and mouse with the Dutch army, knowing that one of their number may be a traitor.

Anastasia mio fratello (1973)
Also known as:: Anastasia mi hermano (Spanish title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime

Director: Steno

Cast: Alberto Sordi, Richard Conte, Luciano Pigozzi, Edoardo Faieta, Thomas Chu, Franco Angrisano, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Maria Tedeschi, Ugo Carboni, Mary Dolan, Enzo Monteduro, Umberto Travaglini, Nello Caruso, Joe Anile, Henry Ferrentino

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anch'io ho il diritto di nascere (1966)
Also known as:: El derecho de nacer (original title)

Country: Mexico

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Tito Davison

Cast: Aurora Bautista, Julio Alemán, Maricruz Olivier, Jorge Salcedo, Marilú Elízaga, Augusto Benedico, Hada Bejar, Irma Lozano, Alicia Rodríguez, Rafael Llamas, Tamara Garina, Juan José Laboriel, Lina Marín, Francisca López de Laboriel, Juan Antonio Edwards

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A pregnant single mother's baby in old Mexico is abandoned to die but he is saved and raised by a black slave woman and becomes a doctor. Years later, he meets his real mother who has become a nun.

Anche gli zingari vanno in cielo (1975)
Also known as:: Tabor ukhodit v nebo (original title)

Country: Soviet Union

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Musical

Director: Emil Loteanu

Cast: Grigore Grigoriu, Svetlana Toma, Barasbi Mulayev, Ion Sandri Scurea, Pavel Andrejchenko, Sergiu Finiti, Borislav Brondukov, Lyalya Chyornaya, Nelli Volshaninova, Nikolai Volshaninov, Mikhail Shishkov, Yelena Sadovskaya, Ye. Aleksandrovich, Zinajda Antonova, Takhir Bobrov

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Anche i boia muoiono (1943)
Also known as:: Hangmen Also Die! (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, War

Director: Fritz Lang

Cast: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Nana Bryant, William Roy, Margaret Wycherly, Dennis O'Keefe, Gene Lockhart, Tonio Selwart, Alexander Granach, Reinhold Schünzel, Ludwig Donath, Arno Frey, Sarah Padden

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anche i gangsters muoiono (1960)
Also known as: The Lawbreakers (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director: Joseph M. Newman

Cast: Vera Miles, Jack Warden, Arch Johnson, Ken Lynch, Jay Adler, David White, James Seay, Robert H. Harris, John Zaremba

Medium: DVD R/RW

Ancora una volta... a Venezia (1975)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Claudio Giorgi

Cast: Paolo Casella, Franco Dani, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Ugo Giorgetti, Raika Juri, Katiuscia, Loredana Nusciak, Frank O'Neil, Sven Valsecchi, Gianni Vannicola

Medium: DVD R/RW

Andate all'inferno e dite al Diavolo che vi manda Clegg (1969)
Also known as: Clegg (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director: Lindsay Shonteff

Cast: Gilbert Wynne, Gary Hope, Gilly Grant, Norman Claridge, A.J. Brown, Margery Mason, Michael Nightingale, Noel Davis, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Jenny Robbins, Valerie Shelton, Laura Beaumont, Sue Bond, Dave Carter, Carmen Dene

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anders als die Andern (1919)
Also known as: Différent des autres (Frenchl title)

Country: Germany

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Richard Oswald

Cast: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh, Ernst Pittschau, Fritz Schulz, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Clementine Plessner, Anita Berber, Reinhold Schünzel, Helga Molander, Magnus Hirschfeld, Karl Giese

Medium: DVD R/RW

Andrò come un cavallo pazzo (1973)
Also known as:: J'irai comme un cheval fou (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Fernando Arrabal

Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, George Shannon, Hachemi Marzouk, Marco Perrin, Franç;ois Chatelet, Marie-France, Gerard Borlant, Jean Chalon, Raoul Curet, Pierre Gernot, Luc Guérin, Yves le Moustre, Antoine Marin, Pedro Meca, Gilles Meyer

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When his mother dies, the police want to talk to Aden Rey, but Aden, a guilt-ridden epileptic, has left for the desert. There he comes upon Marvel, a noble savage. Aden, Marvel, and Marvel's goat become companions through travels, a wedding, an examination of Aden's role in his mother's passing, a trial, additional deaths, and various meals. There are also flashbacks to Aden's childhood and his relationship to his mother. Meanwhile, the police step up their efforts to find Aden.

L'anello di fuoco (1961)
Also known as: Ring of Fire (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Crime

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Cast: David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin, Joel Marston, James Johnson, Ron Myron, Marshall Kent

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Frank Gorshin and his girlfriend, Joyce Taylor, are on the run from the law when apprehended and arrested by the Sherriff, David Janssen. During the transport to jail Gorshin escapes and in the ensuing chase a forest fire is started. The nearby small town is threatened and the only means of escape is by train, led by David Janssen.

Anello di sangue (1970)
Also known as: I Never Sang for My Father (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Gilbert Cates

Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons, Elizabeth Hubbard, Lovelady Powell, Daniel Keyes, Conrad Bain, Jon Richards, Nikki Counselman, Carol Peterson, Sloane Shelton, James Karen, Gene Williams

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.

Angeli all'inferno (1943)
Also known as: Cry 'Havoc' (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, War

Director: Richard Thorpe

Cast: Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ella Raines, Frances Gifford, Diana Lewis, Heather Angel, Dorothy Morris, Connie Gilchrist, Gloria Grafton, Fely Franquelli

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.

Angeli con la pistola (1961)
Also known as: Pocketful of Miracles (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Director: Frank Capra

Cast: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, Mickey Shaughnessy, David Brian, Sheldon Leonard, Peter Mann, Ann-Margret, Barton MacLane, John Litel, Jerome Cowan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.

Angeli del peccato (1940)
Also known as: Angels Over Broadway (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Music, Comedy, Adventure, Crime

Director: Ben Hecht

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, George Watts, Ralph Theodore, Eddie Foster, Jack Roper, Constance Worth

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Charles Engle has been caught embezzling. He writes a suicide note, and goes out wandering on the town. Small-time hustler Bill O'Brian sees him give a couple of big tips, figures he's rich, and plans to take him over to a big-time card game and fleece him. He enlists Nina Barone to help get Engle to the game. She goes along, but is more interested in O'Brien than in his schemes. Meanwhile, a perpetually drunk and none too successful playwright, Gene Gibbons, finds the suicide note. He cooks up a scheme (with the reluctant aid of O'Brien) to get the money Engle needs to pay back his employer and save his life.

Angeli dell'inferno sulle ruote (1967)
Also known as: Hells Angels on Wheels (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Richard Rush

Cast: Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf, Jana Taylor, Richard Anders, John Garwood, I.J. Jefferson, James Oliver, Jack Starrett, Bruno VeSota, Bob Kelljan, Kathryn Harrow, John 'Bud' Cardos, Tex Hall, Gary Littlejohn

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang "Hell's Angels" finally accepts him. But he's shocked when he learns how brutal they are - not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader's girlfriend falls in love with him - and he welcomes her approaches.

Angeli della notte (1940)
Also known as: Vigil in the Night (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director: George Stevens

Cast: Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Julien Mitchell, Robert Coote, Brenda Forbes, Rita Page, Peter Cushing, Ethel Griffies, Doris Lloyd, Emily Fitzroy

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr. Prescott, who is battling with Mr. Bowly, the chairman of the local hospital board, who also makes Anne's life miserable. But then a virulent epidemic begins...

Angeli della violenza (1969)
Also known as: Hell's Angels '69 (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Drama

Director: Lee Madden

Cast: Tom Stern, Jeremy Slate, Conny Van Dyke, Steve Sandor, Sonny Barger, John Tracy, Clifford Workman, Tiny Walters, Charles Tinsley, The Oakland Hells Angels, G.D. Spradlin, Bobby Hall, Bob Harris, Raymond Renard, Ric Henry

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Two brothers have a plan on how to rob the Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas. They join a motorcycle gang and while the others are drinking and partying outside of town, they change their clothes and head off to rob the casino. Of course, the police do not look for two well dressed criminals among the Hell's Angels.

Angelitos negros (1948)
Also known as: Angelitos negros (original title)

Country: Mexico

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Joselito Rodríguez

Cast: Pedro Infante, Emilia Guiú, Rita Montaner, Titina Romay, Chela Castro, Nicolás Rodríguez, María Douglas, Antonio R. Frausto, Juan Pulido, Ramiro Gamboa, Óscar Pulido, Chimi Monterrey, Sidney Flyers, María Victoria Llamas, Pita Martínez

Medium: DVD R/RW

Angelo DVD (1937)
Also known as: Angel DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Herbert Marshall, Ernest Cossart, Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Mundin, Dennie Moore, Ivan Lebedeff

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

L'angelo bianco (1955)
Also known as: La femme aux deux visages (French title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Enrica Dyrell, Alberto Farnese, Flora Lillo, Philippe Hersent, Nerio Bernardi, Virgilio Riento, Emilio Cigoli, Olga Solbelli, Ignazio Balsamo, Franca Parisi, Oscar Andriani, Rina Franchetti, Silvana Jachino

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Guido Carani, an engineer of noble descent, has just lost his son born to him by a chorus dancer, who, desperate, has become a nun. After a while he also loses his wife and daughter in a car accident. Poor Guido is in despair, but soon he meets Lina, a woman who is a dead ringer for Luisa.

L'angelo del dolore (1946)
Also known as: Sister Kenny (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Biography

Director: Dudley Nichols

Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi, Charles Dingle, John Litel, Doreen McCann, Fay Helm, Charles Kemper, Dorothy Peterson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancée she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.

L'angelo del focolare DVD (1925)
Also known as: Du skal ære din hustru DVD (original title)

Country: Denmark

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast: Johannes Meyer, Astrid Holm, Karin Nellemose, Mathilde Nielsen, Clara Schønfeld, Johannes Nielsen, Petrine Sonne, Aage Hoffman, Byril Harvig, Viggo Lindstrøm, Aage Schmidt, Vilhelm Petersen

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida has to work as a slave for him and the rest of the family. She rises early to prepare everything for the day, she toils all day long, and she is often up also in the night, doing some sewing to earn extra money for the household. In daytime she is supported by an old woman called Mads...

L'angelo del male (1938)
Also known as: La bête humain (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Jean Renoir

Cast: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy, Gérard Landry, Jenny Hélia, Colette Régis, Claire Gérard, Charlotte Clasis, Jacques Berlioz, Tony Corteggiani, André Tavernier, Marcel Pérès, Jean Renoir, Julien Carette

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'angelo della morte (1971)
Also known as: Brother John (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: James Goldstone

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd, Ramon Bieri, Warren J. Kemmerling, Lincoln Kilpatrick, P. Jay Sidney, Richard Ward, Paul Winfield, Zara Cully, Michael Bell, Howard Rice, Darlene Rice, Harry Davis

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A mysterious man John Kane (Sidney Poitier) who, when he returns to his hometown in Alabama for his sister's funeral, is thought to be an outside labor agitator - until it's revealed that he's really a heavenly messenger. The plot revolves around a strike at the town's big factory.

L'angelo delle tenebre (1935)
Also known as: The Dark Angel (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Sidney Franklin

Cast: Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall, Janet Beecher, John Halliday, Henrietta Crosman, Frieda Inescort, Claud Allister, Cora Sue Collins, Fay Chaldecott, George P. Breakston

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.

L'angelo scarlatto (1952)
Also known as: Scarlet Angel (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure

Director: Sidney Salkow

Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning, Whitfield Connor, Bodil Miller, Amanda Blake, Henry O'Neill, Henry Brandon, Maude Wallace, Dan Riss, Tol Avery

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In 1865 New Orleans, sea captain Truscott goes to the notorious Scarlet Angel saloon, where he meets rapacious Roxy McClanahan, as rough and tough as he is. Despite his best efforts, Roxy manages to make off with Truscott's bankroll, and flees with war widow Linda Caldwell. Luck favors Roxy with a chance to slip into Linda's identity, and luckier still, Linda proves to have had wealthy in-laws in San Francisco, who are happy to give their new relation a chance to become a "lady." But inevitably, Truscott re-appears...

L'angelo ubriaco (1948)
Also known as: Yoidore tenshi (original title)

Country: Japan

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita, Noriko Sengoku, Shizuko Kasagi, Eitarô Shindô, Masao Shimizu, Taiji Tonoyama, Yoshiko Kuga, Chôko Iida, Ko Ubukata, Akira Tani, Sachio Sakai

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster's tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin treatment for it. The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss is released from prison and seeks to take over his gang once again. The ailing young man loses his status as gang boss and becomes ostracised, and eventually confronts his former boss in a battle to the death.