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1) The Godfather

Series

Language

English

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"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...

2) The Godfather: Part II

Series

Godfather DVD collection

Language

English

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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family which tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

3) Romeo and Juliet

Pub. Date

2000.

Physical Desc

1 videodisc (DVD)(138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, an iconic box-office record shattering adaptation, stars seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting as Romeo and fifteen-year-old Olivia Hussey as Juliet. The raw talent of these leads capture the youth and innocence of the legendary characters like never before in what has gone down in history as one of the most profitable film adaptations of Shakespeare ever produced. Winner of...

4) War and peace

Series

Widescreen DVD collection

Pub. Date

[2002]

Physical Desc

1 videodisc (208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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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.

5) The Godfather: the Coppola restoration

Pub. Date

2008

Physical Desc

4 videodiscs (870 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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Focuses on the Corleone family's rise and near fall from power, and the passage of rites from father to son.

6) Amarcord

Series

Criterion collection volume 4

Pub. Date

[2017]

Physical Desc

2 videodiscs (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

Italiano

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Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.

7) 8 1/2

Series

Criterion collection volume 140

Pub. Date

[2001]

Physical Desc

2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 238 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Language

Italiano

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Fellini's autobiographically-inspired film about a famous film director (Guido Anselmi) who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film, and retreats into his memories and fantasies.

8) The taming of the shrew

Pub. Date

1999.

Physical Desc

1 videodisc (DVD)(122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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Petruchio, a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona, journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After a honeymoon of mutual insults, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. But has Kate found a better way to dominate her husband?