Films with: Visconti, Luchino

Boccaccio '70 : scherzo in quattro atti /

Four satires on morality, prudery, and hypocrisy.

DVD 7757

Damned Götterdämmerung /

The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night the long knives" and the rise of Nazism.

DVD 6449

Death in Venice

In Venice on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach encounters a young Polish boy and becomes obsessed with him, a secret passion that will lead to his doom.

DVD 7882

Death in Venice

Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema₂s most exalted literary adaptations.

DVD 13009

Gattopardo The leopard /

Set in Sicily in the 1800s, this film depicts Prince Salina, a great landowner, who watches the decrease of the aristocracy's power and influence during the 'Il Risorgimento', the unification of Italy under the royal House of Savoy. The upper class tries to ignore the nationalist movements, while the prince's rebellious nephew joins Giuseppe Garibaldi's revolutionaries.

DVD 5854

Ossessione Obsession /

The story of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter, who arrives by chance at a roadside restaurant and filling station, and Giovanna, the beautiful young wife of the fat old man who owns the place. Gino leaves, only to return because he can't get her out of his blood. They kill her husband but his death haunts the guilt-ridden Gino.

DVD 6632

Rocco e i suoi fratelli Rocco and his brothers /

"The story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world."--Container.

DVD 8500

Terra trema The earth will tremble /

Sicilian villagers plot to overthrow the tyranny of wholesalers depriving them of a decent living.

DVD 6364