Giancarlo Giannini
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration...
2) Swept Away
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is Lina Wertmuller's most famous and controversial film about sex, love and politics. On an elegant yacht cruising off the coast of Sardinia, Raffaella (Mariangela Melato), a rich and stunning capitalist, enjoys tormenting Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini), a Communist sailor. Fate weaves a different scenario and roles become reversed when the two find themselves stranded together on...
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI is a raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away).
Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato),...
4) L'innocente
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Gabrielle d'Annunzio's passionate novel is brought to life in the final masterpiece from acclaimed director Luchino Visconti. In late-nineteenth century Italy, Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini), an insatiable aristocrat, grows bored with his timid wife Giuliana (Laura Antonelli) and neglects her for his more exciting mistress, the wealthy widow Countess Teresa Raffo (Jennifer O'Neill). After learning that Giuliana is having a torrid affair of her own, he...
Author
Language
English
Description
Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini star as two people from very different worlds who fall in love in A Night Full of Rain. When romantic Italian journalist Paolo (Giannini) rescues American photographer Lizzy (Bergen) from a scuffle in an Italian village, his efforts at romance lead nowhere. But when the couple meet again in San Francisco, Paolo does succeed in wooing Lizzy. Now, can their love overcome the differences between the traditional Italian...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy with the captured Mr. White his car's luggage compartmentr. Bond is attacked by chasing henchmen, but evades them. Bond and M interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. Bond learns that a was sent to kill Camille Montes, but does not succeed. When a bodyguard to the British Prime Minister is accidentally killed, M has Bond's passports and credit cards revoked. Bond and Camille discover Quantum...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
Language
English
Formats
Description
After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both...
12) Man on fire
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life. That is until his friend Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos. Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, and ultimately presumed to be dead, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible.
14) Hannibal
Series
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the asylum in Baltimore, Dr. Hannibal Lector, 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.
16) American dreamer
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A housewife wins a trip to Paris as a prize from a mystery writing contest. Silly from a blow on the head, she begins living the fictional life of her favorite literary adventure.
17) L'innocente
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
After becoming bored with his timid wife, a wealthy aristocrat begins an exciting affair. Upon learning that his wife is having a torrid affair of her own, he is tormented by her infidelity and commits a cruel and horrifying act.
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Italiano
Description
"A wealthy upper-class capitalist and the proletariat deckhand on her yacht are marooned together on an uninhabited island for several weeks. The woman becomes totally dependent on the man for survival, falls in love with him, and the two temporarily reverse their roles." --
19) Joshua
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Everyone in Auburn is talking about Joshua, a woodcarver who has come to the village and seems to be able to perform miracles.
20) Seven beauties
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
Pasqualino is a lady's man living off his sisters' money until he is arrested and sent to the army. He is captured by the Germans and taken to a concentration camp where he plots his escape by seducing a German officer.
