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2) True love
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 1989 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner that helped jumpstart the '90s indie movement, Nancy Savoca's True Love is a seminal work of Italian American cinema. A humorous yet unflinching look at the realities of love and marriage, the film follows Michael and Donna, a young couple preparing for their wedding in an Italian enclave of the Bronx. Through revealing moments in dive bars, pizzerias, and living rooms, the film offers a nuanced meditation...
3) Moonstruck
Series
Criterion collection volume 1056
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air: One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement...
5) Big night
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a restaurant run by two Italian immigrants, the tables sit empty despite the extraordinary talents of Primo the chef, and the ambitious efforts of his brother Secondo. But a chance to invite local celebrities promises not only to turn their business around but to change their lives.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who "wins" his wife Catherine in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When the old lady dies, her spirit is channeled into her granddaughter...
8) A Bronx tale
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A devoted father battles a local crime boss for the life of his son. Growing up on the racially divided mean streets of 1960s New York, 11-year-old Italian-American Calogero, known as 'C,' idolizes sophisticated local mob boss Sonny, despite stern warnings from his working-class father. When 'C' gets older and defies his dad in order to join Sonny's dangerous gang, he finds that life is never black and white.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A teenager growing up in Brooklyn, NY is sent to a new neighborhood middle school, in a predominantly Italian neighborhood, and is faced with many new challenges. This year, growing up means girl and bully problems. And his dysfunctional family problems grow wilder than ever.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
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