Dino De Laurentiis
1) Mandingo
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the hugely successful novel by Kyle Onstott, MANDINGO takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. Heavyweight boxer Ken Norton makes his screen debut in the title role, with Perry King (Possession of Joel Delaney) as his white owner, friend, and eventual nemesis.
2) La strada
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
Series
Criterion collection volume 49
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Restored version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cabiria, a prostitute, throws herself into endless love affairs with the frantic persistence of a trapped bird, dashing body and soul against the vain hope of securing marriage and a happy family life.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when the troupe discovers it must put on a special command...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1985
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the secret heart of New York's Chinatown lies a criminal menace a thousand years old, the triad, a network of ruthless corruption and power. As the new godfather of the organization, Joey Tai decides it's time to war on the entrenched interests, both Italian and Oriental, in the lucrative drug trade. A confrontation ensues between Joey Tai and police Captain Stanley White and only one will survive.
6) Red dragon
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
7) Hannibal
Series
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the asylum in Baltimore, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, moves to Florence, Italy where he has become one of the curators of the Palazzo Vecchio. His cover is broken when a cop, for money, turns Dr. Lecter over to his old patient, Mason Verger. FBI agent Clarice Starling finds out about Mason's evil plot to feed Dr. Lecter to a bunch of man-eating hogs and will do anything to make sure that Mason doesn't succeed.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 1 hr., 34 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy caper set in Monte Carlo about a valuable dog, its murdered owner, and suspects including an unemployed actor and his girlfriend, a compulsive gambler, the world's worst tourist and his wife, and a gigolo.
9) Hurricane
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sat in the 1920s, an American painter has an affair with a Samoan chief, against her father, the Governor of the island's will, as a devastating hurricane is set to destroy the island and those who inhabit it.
10) Barbarella
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An erotic science fiction fantasy in which a female adventurer travels through space vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters and rewarding the men who assist her.
11) War and peace
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, the film centers around disenchanted aristocrat and unhappily married Pierre and Prince Andrei, who both are in love with an innocent young woman, Natasha.
12) La Strada
Series
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
This academy award-winning film tells of the slow-witted innocent who falls for an abusive circus strongman.
13) U-571
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1942 and Hitler's U-boats have brought war to the United States. On a top-secret assignment, a U.S. Navy captain and his crew must disguise themselves as Nazis and infiltrate a severely damaged Nazi U-boat. Once on board, they are to steal the Nazis' top-secret decoding device and sink the sub before the Germans catch on to what's happening. Their mission is more dangerous and frightening than anything they could have ever imagined, but one which...
14) Mafioso
Series
Criterion collection volume 424
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen special ed
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 p. : col. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Italiano
Description
Nino is an auto-factory foreman who takes his proper, modern wife and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to the antiquated, rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots. Nino gets more than he bargained for when he discovers some harsh truths about his ancestors and himself
Series
Criterion collection volume 792
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out-insert.
Language
Italiano
Description
During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence.
16) The last legion
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 460 A.D. Aurelius Antonius finds himself recalled to Rome and is assigned the Commander of new Caesar, Romulus Augustus' retinue of personal bodyguards. Romulus is destined to be crowned the last emperor of Rome. His reign lasts for one day and ends with Rome being run over by the savage Goths. In the resulting invasion, most of Aurelius's men are killed and the young Caesar is captured and imprisoned in the forbidding Isle of Capri. Aurelius,...
17) Ulysses
Publisher
Lionsgate Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ulysses' return from the Trojan Wars sets him upon a legendary adventure. He and his crew sail under the curse of Cassandra, and encounter Circe, the sirens and the cyclops.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the first 22 chapters of Genesis on an epic scale, including the story of man's creation, his fall, his survival, and his indomitable faith in the future.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Conan the barbarian: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom.
Conan the destroyer: Conan is asked by the evil Queen Taramis to accompany a beautiful young princess to find a magic treasure. If he returns with the treasure and the virgin, the Queen promises to bring Conan's...
20) Dune
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the year 10191. Arrakis is a desert planet, which contains the only source of 'Melange, ' which is necessary for space travel. Two rival families, the Atreides and the Harkonnens, fight to control of the mining operations. When Duke Leto Atreides is assassinated by the evil Baron Harkonnen, his son Paul and Leto's wife, Lady Jessica, flee deep into the desert and are befriended by natives of Arrakis. Paul learns that he has special powers and...