Films are listed alphabetically by the title given on the film
box, but, where possible, the Italian or English equivalent is also
listed. If you cannot find what you are looking for, ask an LTC
employee for assistance. You can search for more information about
a particular film using a very helpful resource, the Internet
Movie Database. (Clicking will open it in a new window). Films
are subtitled in English unless otherwise noted. At the bottom is
a list of Italian films that are not in the LTC but are in Briggs
Library. To recommend a film that is not yet in the LTC collection,
send an email to Viktor Berberi, LTC Director: berberiv@morris.umn.edu
Title: 8 1/2
Director:
Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni,
Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimèe
Year: 1963
Run Time: 139 minutes
Summary:
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Format: DVD |
Title: L'Alber degli Zoccoli English:
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Director:
Ermanno Olmi
Starring: Luigi Ornaghi,
Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini,
Giuseppe Brignoli, Carlo Rota, Pasqualina Brolis, Massimo Fratus,
Francesca Villa, Maria Grazia Caroli, Battista Trevaini, Giuseppina
Langalelli, Lorenzo Pedroni, and Felice Cessi
Year:
1978
Run Time: 179 minutes
Summary: he life inside a farm in Italy at
the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live
there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of
the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him
to school instead of make him help them, although this represents
a great sacrifice. the boy has to wake up very early and walk
several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes
break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy
other. What can they do?
Format: DVD |
Title: Amaracordmarcor
Director:
Federico Fellini
Starring: Magalì
Noel, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio and Armando Brancia
Year:
1974
Run Time: 127 minutes
Summary: In this movie Fellini portrays his
hometown of Rimini as he remembered it in '30s, during his young
days.
Format: DVD |
Title: Bread and Tulips Italian:
Pane e Tulipani
Director: Silvio
Soldini
Starring: Giuseppe Battistion,
Antonio Catania, Marina Massironi, Vitalba Andrea, Caniela Piperno
and Tatiana Lepore
Year: 2002
Run
Time: 116 minutes
Acclaim/Award:
Winner of nine David Di Donatello Awards, Winner of Toronto
International Film Festival and Winner of Cannes Film Festival
Summary: A busy housewife is accidentally left
behind while on vacation with her family. She decides to take
a vacation of her own in Venice. Here she discovers the things
in life that make her happy. Will she return home to her husband
or stay in Venice?
Format: DVD |
Title: Caro Diario English:
Dear Diary
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring: Nanni Moretti, Giovanna Bozzolo,
Sebastiano Nardone andAntonio Petrocelli
Year:
1993
Run Time: 96 minutes
Summary: Nani Moretti directs himself playing himself
in this wry look at life. Presented in three chapters, Moretti
uses the experiences of travelling.
Format: DVD
|
Title: Caterina va in Città English:
Caterina in the Big City
Director:
Paolo Virzì
Starring: Sergio Castellitto
and Margherita Buy
Year: 2003
Run
Time: 105 minutes
Summary: When his Father Giancarlo (Castellitto) is
transferred to Rome Caterina (Alice Teghil), a 12 years old
girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world,
an ambient extremely divided politically. And developing her
friendship with the link (represented by Margerita (Carolina
Iaquaniello) and the right (Daniela (Federica Sbrenna)) side
of her class she will lose herself, without knowing who really
she is. However, maybe is Edward (Zach Wallen), the boy who
lives in the facing windows that can help her more that she
thinks.
Format: DVD |
Title: Ciao, Professore!
Director:
Lina Wertmuller
Starring: Isa Danieli,
Gigio Morra, Eser Carloni and Sergio Solli
Year:
1976
Run Time: 91 minutes
Acclaim Award: “Rambunctious comedy!”-Los
Angeles Times
Summary: A comedy about a
strict, no-nonsense teacher whose street-smart students teach
him the most valuable lessons of life.
Format:
VHS |
Title: Cinema Paradiso
Director:
Gruseppe Tornatore
Starring: Philippe Noiret,
Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili and Pupella Maggio
Year:
1989
Run Time: 174 minutes
Acclaim/Award:
Academy award winner of Best Foreign Language Film
Summary:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with
the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship
with the theater's projectionist.
Format:
DVD |
Title: Da Zero A Dieci
Director:
Luciano Ligabue
Starring: Massimo Dellinzoni,
Elisabetta Cavallotti, Pierfrancesco Favino, Barbara Lerici,
Stefano Pesce, Stefania Rivi, Fabrizia Sacchi, Stefano Sacchi,
Stefano Venturi, and Sergio Romano
Year:
2002
Run Time: 99 minutes
Format:
DVD |
Title: Le Fate Ignoranti English:
The Ignorant Fairies
Director: Ferazan
Ozpetek
Starring: Margherita Buy and Stefano
Accorsi
Year: 2001
Run Time:
106 minutes
Summary: AIDS doctor Antonia's
husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns
he had been cheating on her with a man.
Format:
DVD |
Title: Gattopardo English:
The Leopard
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale,
Alain Delon, Sere Reggiani and Rina Morelli
Year:
1963
Run Time: 205 minutes
Summary: Sicily in the 1800s. Prince Salina, a great
landowner, has to watch the decrease of his power and influence
after 'Il Risorgimento'.
Format: DVD |
Title: Italian for Beginners
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring:
Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Stovelbaek and Ann Eleonora Jorgensen
Year: 2000
Run Time:
97 minutes
Acclaim/Award: “Fun and
filled with warm humor!”-Chicago Sun-Times
Summary:
A romantic comedy about seven perfect strangers and the shared
journey of discovery that changes each of their lives. A mismatched
collection of opposites sign up for an Italian class in hopes
of spicing up their lives.
Format: DVD
|
Title: Lamerica
Director:
Gianni Amerlio
Starring: Enrico Lo Verso,
and Michele Placido
Year: 1994
Run
Time: 115 minutes
Summary: Two
Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the
communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants.
Format: DVD |
Title: Life is Beautiful
Director:
Roberto Benigni
Starring: Roberto Benigni
and Nicoletta Braschi
Year: 1998
Run
Time: 116 minutes
Acclaim/Award:
Nominated for seven Academy Awards and Winner of three Oscars
Summary: A man’s life is threatened by
World War II and he must rely on his creativity and strength
to save his wife and son.
Format: DVD |
Title: Mille Bolle Blu
Director:
Leone Pompucci
Starring: Carla Benedetti,Matteo
Fadda and Giacomo Fadda
Year: 1996
Run Time: 83 minutes
Acclaim/Award:
Given four stars from the Toronto Sun Newspaper
Summary:
The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who
live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino.
Format: VHS |
Title: Mio padre è
innocente
Directed by: Vincenzo Verdecchi
Starring: Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa,
Emma Gramatica
Year: 1997
Run time: 112 minutes
Note: Stored with the Advanced Italian computer
program
Format: DVD |
Title: Miracle in Milan
Directed
by: Vittorio de Sica
Year: 1951
Starring: Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa,
Emma Gramatica
Acclaim / Awards: “The
rich vein of sly, compassionate humor that Chaplin used to mine
has been tapped by De Sica: the great director has brought up
purest gold.” --Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
Run time: 96 minutes
Summary:
The story of Toto, an abandoned newborn who is raised by a kindly
old lady to be a paragon of goodness.
Format:
VHS |
Title: Nirvana
Director:
Gabriele Salvatores
Starring: Christopher
Lambert, Diego Abtantuono and Sergio Rubini
Year:
1997
Run Time: 113 minutes
Summary:
Jimi, a successful computer game designer, finds that
his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given
consciousness to the the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented
by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo
to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who
can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete
his game before it is released.
Format:
DVD |
Title: La Notte English:
The Night
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau
Year: 1989
Run Time: 115
minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of the Golden
Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival
Summary:
Giovanni, a sucessful writer, and his wife Lydia visit their
friend Tommaso who is dying in hospital.
Format:
DVD |
Title: Open City
Director:
Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Anna
Magnani
Year: 1945
Run Time:
105 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner
of Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival
Summary:
Filmed on the streets of Rome in the first weeks of
the Allied liberation this film evokes the conflicting feelings
of despair and determination.
Format: DVD
|
Title: L’Ora Di Religione English:
The Religion Hour
Director: Marco
Bellocchio
Starring: Sergio Castellitto,
Jacqueline Lustig and Chiara Conti
Year:
2002
Run Time: 102 minutes
Summary:
A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's
assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Format: DVD |
Title: The Organizer
Director:
Mario Monicelli
Starring: Marcello
Mastroianni, Anne Girardot and Bernared Blier
Year:
1964
Run Time: 127 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of four International
Film Festival Awards
Summary: In 19th century
Turin, an itinerant professor unites a ragtag group of textile
workers in a strike against their factory.
Format:
VHS |
Title: Padre Padrone English:
My Father My Master
Director: Paolo
and Vittorio Taviani
Starring: Omero Antonutti,
SaverioMarconi, MarcellaMichelangelo and Fabrizio Forte
Year: 1977
Run Time: 117
minutes
Acclaim/Award: Grand and Critics
Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival
Summary:
The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian
shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh almost barbaric
existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition
from his brutal father.
Format: DVD |
Title: Santa Maradona
Director:
Marco Ponti
Starring: Stegano Accorsi and
Anita Caparioli
Year: 2002
Run
Time: 96 minutes
Acclaim/Award:
Winner of two David Di Donatello Awards
Summary:
Andrea, 27 year old, just graduated from University with a useless
degree. He spends his days looking for a job and killing time
talking endlessly with room-mate Bart and Indo-Italian friend
Lucia. Everything changes when he meets Dolores, a beautiful
teacher and actress.
Format: DVD |
Title: The Seduction of Mimi
Director: Lina Wertmüller
Starring:
Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato and Agostina
Belli
Year: 1997
Run Time:
89 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner
of Cannes Film Festival, Best Director
Summary:
A Sicilian laborer decides not to vote for the Mafia’s
candidate and loses his job, wife and home. The predicaments
that arise throw his life into a pile of comical complexities.
Format: DVD |
Title: The Son’s Room
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring:
Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca and Giuseppe Sanfelice
Year: 2001
Run Time: 100
minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of Best Picture
from Cannes Film Festival
Summary: The
story of a man facing the greatest challenge of his life. A
tragedy hits home and turns his life upside down and he must
find the courage to deal with his own grief while giving strength
to those who need him most.
Format: DVD
|
Title: Blowup
Director:
Michelangelo Antonioni's
Starring: Vanessa
Redgrave, David Hemmings and Sarah Miles
Year:
1986
Run Time: 1hr 45minutes
Summary:
Peek in London's sexy, steamy fashion world where seduction
are as free as young girls' spiritand the music is devastating
as a drug.
Format: VHS |
Title: Two women
Director: Vittoria Di Sica
Starring: Jean Paul Belmond,Sophia Loren
Year: 1961
Run Time: 99minutes
Summary: A woman with her 14 year old daughter
became the focus of an attack by retreating German soldiers.
Format: VHS |
Title: 1900
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Robert
De Niro, Gerard Depardieu & Dominique Sanda.
Year:
1976
Run Time: 105 minutes
Summary:
It is both a vast of history of 20th Italy and an intimate
protrait of two families.
Format: VHS |
Title: Last Tango in Paris
Director: Bernardo Betolucci
Starring: Maria Schneiner, Jean-Pierre Leaud
& Massimo Girotti.
Year: 1972
Run Time: 128 minutes
Summary: American widower in Pari, desolate
at the unexpleained suicide of his wife, plunges into an erotic
affair with a young French girl half his age.
Format: VHS |
Title: L’Ultimo Bacio English:
The Last Kiss
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Starring: Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno
and Stefania Ssandrelli
Year: 2001
Run Time: 115 minutes
Summary:
Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend
Giulia announces she's pregnant.
Format:
DVD |
| Italian Films Located in the Library |
Title: Il Postino English:
The Postman
Directed by: Michael
Radford
Year: 1994
Starring:
Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Summary: The life of the fisherman Mario changes
dramatically when the famous Chilean writer Pablo Neruda settles
on his little Italian island. Living in exile becuase of his
political beliefs, Neruda needs a postman to deliver the huge
quantities of mail sent to him by his admirers and Mario takes
the job since he hates fishing anyway. The two become friends
and Neruda helps the shy and clumsy Mario to win the heart of
Beatrice, the beautiful waitress at the village's inn, by showing
him the beauty and power of poetry.
Run time: 108
min.
Format: VHS
Library Call
Number: PQ8098.29.K3 A73132 1995 |
Title: Blowup
Directed
by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Year: 1966
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David
Hemmings
Summary: A photographer who is
talented but aimless has photographed violence and pain without
feeling any involvement. When he takes pictures of a couple
in a park, he finds that he may have discovered a mystery, one
that insists on involving him.
Run time: 111
min.
Format: VHS
Library Call
Number: PN1995.9.F67 B56 1991 |
Title: Stragia del Ragno
English: The Spider’s Stratagem
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Year:
1970
Starring: Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli,
Pippo Campanini
Summary: Athos Magnani,
a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed
before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also
named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed
by a fascist in 1936 -- or so says Draifa (his mistress), the
town statue, and everyone in town. As the son untangles the
web of lies this story is constructed from, he finds himself
ensnared in the same web.
Run time: 100
min.
Format: VHS
Library Call
Number: PN1997.S82 |
