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L'angelo perduto DVD (1943)
Also known as: Lost Angel DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Roy Rowland

Cast: Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill, Donald Meek, Keenan Wynn, Alan Napier, Sara Haden, Kathleen Lockhart, Walter Fenner, Howard Freeman, Elisabeth Risdon, Robert Blake

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.

L'angelo scarlatto DVD (1952)
Also known as: Scarlet Angel DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure

Director: Sidney Salkow

Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning, Whitfield Connor, Bodil Miller, Amanda Blake, Henry O'Neill, Henry Brandon, Maude Wallace, Dan Riss, Tol Avery

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In 1865 New Orleans, sea captain Truscott goes to the notorious Scarlet Angel saloon, where he meets rapacious Roxy McClanahan, as rough and tough as he is. Despite his best efforts, Roxy manages to make off with Truscott's bankroll, and flees with war widow Linda Caldwell. Luck favors Roxy with a chance to slip into Linda's identity, and luckier still, Linda proves to have had wealthy in-laws in San Francisco, who are happy to give their new relation a chance to become a "lady." But inevitably, Truscott re-appears...

L'angelo scatenato DVD (1970)
Also known as: Angel Unchained DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama

Director: Lee Madden

Cast: Don Stroud, Luke Askew, Larry Bishop, Tyne Daly, T. Max Graham, Jean Marie Ingels, Bill McKinney, Jordan Rhodes, Peter Lawrence, Pedro Regas, Linda Smith, Nita Michaels, J. Cosgrove Butchie, T.C. Ryan, Alan Gibbs

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.

L'angelo sterminatore DVD (1962)
Also known as: El ángel exterminador DVD (original title)

Country: Mexico

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery

Director: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Antonio Bravo, Jacqueline Andere, César del Campo, Rosa Elena Durgel, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique García Álvarez, Ofelia Guilmáin, Nadia Haro Oliva, Tito Junco, Xavier Loyá

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals...

L'angelo ubriaco DVD (1948)
Also known as: Yoidore tenshi DVD (original title)

Country: Japan

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita, Noriko Sengoku, Shizuko Kasagi, Eitarô Shindô, Masao Shimizu, Taiji Tonoyama, Yoshiko Kuga, Chôko Iida, Ko Ubukata, Akira Tani, Sachio Sakai

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster's tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin treatment for it. The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss is released from prison and seeks to take over his gang once again. The ailing young man loses his status as gang boss and becomes ostracised, and eventually confronts his former boss in a battle to the death.

Un angolo di paradiso DVD (1935)
Also known as: Our Little Girl DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Family, Romance

Director: John S. Robertson

Cast: Shirley Temple, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot, Rosemary Ames, Erin O'Brien-Moore, J. Farrell MacDonald, Poodles Hanneford, Margaret Armstrong, Rita Owin, Leonard Carey

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are having on their daughter Molly. When Elsa announces plans to remarry, Molly runs away from home.

Angoscia DVD (1944)
Also known as: Gaslight DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian, English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: George Cukor

Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes, Tom Stevenson, Heather Thatcher, Lawrence Grossmith, Jakob Gimpel

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Paula's aunt Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. Paula, who lives with her aunt finds the body. Police fail to find the killer and Paula is sent away to school. Ten years later, Paula returns to London with her new husband. They take up residence in her aunt's house, which she has inherited. Paula is increasingly isolated by her husband but does come to the attention of an admirerer of her aunt, Mr. Brian Cameron.

Angoscia nella notte DVD (1947)
Also known as: Fear in the night (DVD original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir

Director: Maxwell Shane

Cast: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran, Kay Scott, Charles Victor, Robert Emmett Keane, Jeff York, Joey Ray, Loyette Thomson


Subtitles: Spanish

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Bank teller Vince Grayson wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but Vince finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story...until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing that mirrored room. Is doom closing in on Vince?

Un'anguilla da 300 milioni DVD (1971)
Also known as: An Eel Worth 300 Million DVD (German title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director: Salvatore Samperi

Cast: Ottavia Piccolo, Lino Toffolo, Mario Adorf, Rodolfo Baldini, Gabriele Ferzetti, Senta Berger, Daniele Dublino, Ricky Gianco, Sergio Cesca, Carla Mancini, Luciano Spadoni, Franco Marletta

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An heiress fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents and hides in the river Po's delta among eel fisherman and is helped by a small time smuggler.

Anima e corpo DVD (1947)
Also known as: Body and Soul DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Sport, Film-Noir

Director: Robert Rossen

Cast: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad, Joseph Pevney, Lloyd Gough, Canada Lee, Art Smith, James Burke, Virginia Gregg, Peter Virgo, Joe Devlin, Shimen Ruskin

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he wins fight after fight, but soon an unethical promoter named Roberts begins to show an interest in Charley, and Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

L'anima e il volto DVD (1946)
Also known as: A Stolen Life DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan, Charles Ruggles, Bruce Bennett, Peggy Knudsen, Esther Dale, Clara Blandick, Joan Winfield

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Nantucket lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson. Patricia and Bill are married. To forget, Kate returns to painting. Bill goes to Chile; Kate and Patricia go sailing; Patricia is washed overboard and drowned. Kate's boat capsizes and, when she recovers consciousness ashore, she (believed to be Patricia) is told that Bill is returning from Chile.

L'anima e la carne DVD (1957)
Also known as: Heaven Knows Mr. Allison DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, War

Director: John Huston

Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In 1944, in South Pacific, the castaway Marine Corporal Allison drifts in a raft to the Tuasiva Island, where he meets Sister Angela. She tells him that she is the only person in the island and was left behind by the runaway boat to Fiji Island while seeking the local priest. Stranded in the island, but with water, fish and fruits, their paradisiacal life ends when the Japanese arrive to build a base, forcing Allison and the nun to hide in a cave...

Anima nera DVD (1962)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director(s): Roberto Rossellini

Cast: Vittorio Gassman (as Adriano Zucchelli), Nadja Tiller (as Mimosa), Annette Stroyberg (as Marcella), Yvonne Sanson (as Olga Manfredi), Tony Brown (as Guidino, Marcella's brother), Rina Braido (as Lucia), Giuliano Cocuzzoli (as Sergio), Daniela Igliozzi (as Giovanna), Chery Million (as Ballerina del night club), Armando Suscipi (as Il cavaliere)

Medium: DVD R/RW

Storyline: A man with a past gets married and it seems that he will be able to start a new life, but an unexpected inheritance gets in the way and deteriorates the relationship with his wife.

Anima persa DVD (1977)
Also known as: Almas perdidas DVD (Spanish title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Director: Dino Risi

Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina, Ester Carloni, Michele Capnist, Gino Cavalieri

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Animal crackers DVD (1930)
Also known as: Animal crackers DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Comedy, Musical

Director: Victor Heerman

Cast: The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Lillian Roth, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Sorin, Hal Thompson, Margaret Irving, Kathryn Reece, Robert Greig, Edward Metcalf, The Music Masters

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. A painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marxes help recover it. Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was looking for--this is the Marx Brothers, after all...

L'animale DVD (1977)
Also known as: L'animal DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French, English

Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Romance

Director: Claude Zidi

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Dany Saval, Raymond Gérôme, Jane Birkin, Johnny Hallyday, Yves Mourousi, Charles Gérard, Claude Chabrol, Mario David, Henri Génès, Julien Guiomar, Aldo Maccione, Jacques Alric, Henri Attal

Medium: DVD R/RW


Subtitles: English

Plot: A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancée wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari. Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike...

L'animale femmina DVD (1958)
Also known as: The female animal DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director(s): Harry Keller

Cast: Hedy Lamarr (as Vanessa Windsor), Jane Powell (as Penny Windsor), Jan Sterling (as Lily Frayne), George Nader (as Chris Farley), Jerry Paris (as Hank Galvez, not Lopez), Gregg Palmer (as Piggy), Mabel Albertson (as Irma Jones), James Gleason (as Tom Maloney), Richard H. Cutting (as Dr. John Ramsay), Ann Doran (as Nurse), Yvonne Peattie (as Hairdresser), Max Showalter (as Charlie Grant), Douglas Evans (as Al The Director), Aram Katcher (as Mischa Boroff), Richard Avonde (as Pepe, Lily's Gigolo , uncredited), Robert Brubaker (as Bartender , uncredited), Isabel Dawn (as Masseuse , uncredited), Hal K. Dawson (as Eddie, Assistant Director , uncredited), William Henry (as Delivery Man , uncredited), Walter Kelley (as Assistant Director , uncredited), Kenner G. Kemp (as Stagehand , uncredited), William Meader (as Barnes - Chauffeur , uncredited), Laurie Mitchell (as Manicurist , uncredited), Almira Sessions (as Mabel , uncredited), Frank Sully (as Taxicab Driver , uncredited), Sailor Vincent (as Observer at Lighting Accident , uncredited), Robert Wegner (as Coffee-Wagon Attendant , uncredited)

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...

Animali pazzi DVD (1939)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Comedy

Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Cast: Totò, Luisa Ferida, Calisto Bertramo, Lilia Dale, Dina Perbellini, Bianca Stagno Bellincioni, Claudio Ermelli, Raffaele Giachini, Cesare Polacco, Pina Gallini, Enrico Gozzo, Giuseppe Pierozzi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Animatrice per coppie particolari DVD (1980)
Also known as: Maîtresse pour couple DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Adult

Director: Jean-Claude Roy

Cast: Julia Perrin, Brigitte Lahaie, Dominique Aveline, Christine Lodes, Guy Bérardant

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anime buie DVD (1916)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director(s): Emilio Ghione

Cast: Hesperia, Kally Sambucini

Medium: DVD R/RW

Storyline: The love between the apache Za la Mort, here in his fourth film, and Hesperia, the woman Who has killed his girlfriend...

Anime in delirio DVD (1947)
Also known as: Possessed DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, John Ridgely, Moroni Olsen, Erskine Sanford, Peter Miles, Jakob Gimpel, Isabel Withers, Lisa Golm, Douglas Kennedy, Monte Blue, Don McGuire

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David as a result of borderline personality disorder which ultimately leads to murder.

Anime in tumulto DVD (1942)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director(s): Giulio Del Torre

Cast: Gina Falckenberg (as Elena von Kreuser), Carlo Tamberlani (as Il professore Alberto Ferrari), Leda Gloria (as Anna), Teresa Franchini (as Teresa, la governante), Sergio Tofano (as Perego), Emilio Petacci (as Giuseppe, il maggiordomo), Fedele Gentile (as Il dottor Marini), Galeazzo Benti (as Un amico di Elena), Aris Valeri (as Arturo, L'autista)

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anime nel deserto/ Il giardino di Allah DVD (1936)
Also known as: The Garden of Allah DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Richard Boleslawski

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Alan Marshal, Lucile Watson, Henry Brandon, Tilly Losch

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Domini, an heiress who has led a cloistered life, visits the North African desert for spiritual renewal. There she meets Boris, recently escaped from a Trappist monastery. Their friendship ripens into love, but he conceals his past from her. Then in a remote oasis, they meet a man who knows his secret.

Anime nere DVD (1968)
Also known as: The Glory Stompers DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Action, Drama

Director: Anthony M. Lanza

Cast: Dennis Hopper, Jody McCrea, Jock Mahoney, Chris Noel, Robert Tessier, Tony Acone, Sandra Gale Bettin, Ed Cook, Lindsay Crosby, Peter Fain, Casey Kasem, Paul Prokop, Al Quick, Jim Reader, Astrid Warner

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Chino is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get violent when Darryl comes back for revenge.

Anime sporche DVD (1962)
Also known as: Walk on the Wild Side DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Cast: Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck, Joanna Moore, Richard Rust, Karl Swenson, Don 'Red' Barry, Juanita Moore, John Anderson, Ken Lynch, Todd Armstrong, Sherry O'Neil, John Bryant

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: At the Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he travelled from Texas and who is now the Doll House newest recruit.

Anime sul mare DVD (1937)
Also known as: Souls at Sea DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure

Director: Henry Hathaway

Cast: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey, Olympe Bradna, Robert Cummings, Porter Hall, George Zucco, Virginia Weidler, Joseph Schildkraut, Gilbert Emery, Lucien Littlefield, Paul Fix, Tully Marshall

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.

Ann and Eve DVD (1970)
Also known as: Ann och Eve - de erotiska DVD (original title)

Country: Sweden

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Erotic

Director: Arne Mattsson

Cast: Gio Petré, Francisco Rabal, Marie Liljedahl, Julián Mateos, Olivera Katarina, Bozidarka Frajt, Heinz Hopf, Nevenka Filipovic, Erik Hell, Zaim Muzaferija, Edo Perocevic, Duje Novakovic, Mirko Boman, Ignac Pavkovic, Agneta Prytz

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An erotic drama about a youthful bride-to-be who takes a holiday to Yugoslavia with a cynical and evil lesbian film critic (and murderess) that leads to debauchery, degradation with a dwarf, a dinner with naked entertainers and other highlights...

Anna DVD (1951)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Alberto Lattuada

Cast: Silvana Mangano, Gaby Morlay, Raf Vallone, Jacques Dumesnil, Vittorio Gassman, Patrizia Mangano, Natascia Mangano, Piero Lulli, Dina Romano, Rosita Pisano, Bianca Doria, Rocco D'Assunta, Lyla Rocco, Dina Perbellini, Emilio Petacci

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Anna, a former sexy nightclub dancer who has become a hospital nurse, is on the verge of taking the veil. One day, She recognizes Andrea, her former fiancé, among the patients. Her troubled past suddenly comes back to her. Though engaged to Andrea, she was attracted to Vittorio, the owner of the nightclub where she performed as a singer and dancer. After Vittorio attempted to rape her, Andrea killed him...

Anna DVD (1975)
Country:Italy, 225 minutes

Spoken languages:Italian

Genres:Documentary

Director(s):Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli

Storyline:
A 16 year old girl, 8 months pregnant, and on drugs, is taken off the streets into his apartment by an actor in Rome. The film reconstructs how they met and her past and how an attempt is then made to rescue her.

Cast:
Anna (as Self (uncredited)), Raoul Calabrò (as Self (uncredited)), Pilar Castel (as Self (uncredited)), Stefano Cattarossi (as Self (uncredited)), Jane Fonda (as Self (uncredited)), Alberto Grifi (as Self (uncredited)), Roland Knauss (as Self (uncredited)), Vincenzo Mazza (as Self (uncredited)), Annabella Miscuglio (as Self (uncredited)), Massimo Sarchielli (as Self (uncredited)), Ivano Urban (as Self (uncredited)), Louis Waldon (as Self (uncredited))

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anna al collo DVD (1954)
Also known as: Anna na shee DVD (original title)

Country: Soviet Union

Spoken Languages: Russian

Genre(s): Drama, History

Director: Isidor Annensky

Cast: Alla Larionova, Vladimir Vladislavsky, Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky, Mikhail Zharov, Aleksandr Vertinsky, Irina Murzayeva, Pyotr Maltsev, Aleksandr Metyolkin, Tatyana Pankova, Vladimir Shishkin, G. Zaichkin, N. Belyovtseva, Aleksei Gribov, Vera Donskaya, S. Gumilevsky

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anna Christie DVD (1930)
Also known as: Anna Christie DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Clarence Brown

Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack, Lee Phelps

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: It has been 15 years since Chris has sent 5 year old Anna to live with relatives in St. Paul, and now she is coming back. Anna needs rest and a place to stay so Chris moves Marthy off his barge. One night, going down the coast, they rescue 3 survivors of a boat sinking. The big strong Scot, named Matt, takes a liking to Anna and they go to Coney Island when they get back to land. Matt decides that he will marry Anna but Chris says no - as does Anna. Every male member of Chris's family has died at sea...

Anna dei mille giorni DVD (1969)
Also known as: Anna of the thousnad days DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, History

Director: Charles Jarrott

Cast: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos, Michael Hordern, Katharine Blake, Valerie Gearon, Michael Johnson, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph O'Conor, William Squire, Esmond Knight, Nora Swinburne, Vernon Dobtcheff

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Henry VIII of England discards one wife Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman, Anne Boleyn, whose one-thousand-day reign as Queen of England ends with the loss of her head on the block. Henry weds Ann and soon she gives him a child. The girl, Elizabeth, is a bitter disappointment to Henry, who desperately wants an heir. Anne promises Henry a son "next time," but Henry is doubtful...

Anna dei miracoli DVD (1962)
Also known as: The Miracle Worker DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Biography

Director: Arthur Penn

Cast: Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, Kathleen Comegys, Patty Duke

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.

Anna dei miracoli DVD (1968)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Davide Montemurri

Cast: Cinzia De Carolis, Clely Fiamma, Roldano Lupi, Anna Proclemer, Bianca Toccafondi, Sergio Tofano, Enrico Urbini

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anna ed Elisabetta DVD (1933)
Also known as: Anna und Elisabeth DVD (original title)

Country: Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Frank Wisbar

Cast: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Mathias Wieman, Maria Wanck, Carl Balhaus, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Roma Bahn, Dorothea Thiess, Carl Wery, Karl Platen, Robert Eckert, S. Elfeld, Margarete Kestra, Jossé Maria Lepanto, Sybil Smolova

Anna Karenina DVD (1935)
Also known as: Anna Karenina DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Clarence Brown

Cast: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, May Robson, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, Phoebe Foster, Reginald Denny, Gyles Isham, Joan Marsh, Ethel Griffies, Harry Beresford, Sarah Padden, Cora Sue Collins

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: This version of the Tolstoy classic lingers longer in Moscow during the weeks that follow the initial meeting of the starstruck lovers-to-be Vronsky and Anna Karenina. The story -- as it unfolds -- also focuses on Kitty, a young woman who is related to Anna's sister-in-law whose marital rift has brought Anna to Moscow. Until Anna shows up, Kitty had hopes of getting Vronsky, who is single and well connected, to propose to her. Ignored by Vronsky, Kitty turns her attention to another suitor, a man who seems to have a lot in common with Tolstoy.

Anna Karenina DVD (1948)
Also known as: Anna Karenina DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Julien Duvivier

Cast: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge, Marie Lohr, Frank Tickle, Sally Ann Howes, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gough, Martita Hunt, Heather Thatcher, Helen Haye, Mary Martlew, Ruby Miller

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.

Anna Karenina DVD (1967)
Also known as: Anna Karenina DVD (original title)

Country: Soviet Union

Spoken Languages: Russian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director: Aleksandr Zarkhi

Cast: Tatyana Samojlova, Nikolai Gritsenko, Vasili Lanovoy, Yuriy Yakovlev, Boris Goldayev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Iya Savvina, Maya Plisetskaya, Lidiya Sukharevskaya, Yelena Tyapkina, Sofiya Pilyavskaya, Andrei Tutyshkin, Vasili Sakhnovsky, Anatoli Kubatsky, Vera Burlakova

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.

Anna prendi il fucile DVD (1950)
Also known as: Annie Get Your Gun DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy, Family, Western, Romance, Biography, Musical

Director: George Sidney

Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised 'Doin' What Comes Naturally'. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in 'Colonel Buffalo Bill''s show, however, knows full well that's not how 'The Girl That I Marry' must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that 'My Defences are Down'. Though Annie defiantly says 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better', she realizes that 'You Can't Get a Man With a Gun'. The victor at the end is love; as you know, 'It's Wonderful'. After all, 'There's No Business Like Show Business'.

Anna quel particolare piacere DVD (1973)
Also known as: Ana ese particular placer DVD (Spanish title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Erotic

Director: Giuliano Carnimeo

Cast: Edwige Fenech, Corrado Pani, Richard Conte, John Richardson, Laura Bonaparte, Ettore Manni, Corrado Gaipa, Antonio Casale, Umberto Raho, Bruno Corazzari, Carla Calò, Aldo Barberito, Wilma Casagrande, Tom Felleghy, John Bartha

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Anna is quiet, living with her parents, cashiering at a café bar in Bergamo. She meets and falls for Guido, a Milanese gangster in town to lie low. He pursues her, but also warns her that he's no good. She goes to Milan with him anyway. When she witnesses a Mob hit, Guido's boss wants her compromised so she will never testify against them: Guido pushes her into prostitution. When she becomes pregnant and Guido wants her to have an abortion, she rebels. Can she escape "the life," or is death the only alternative? What about the child?

Annabelle Lee DVD (1921)
Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Director(s): William J. Scully

Cast: John B. O'Brien (as David Martin), Lorraine Harding (as Annabelle Lee), Florida Kingsley (as Mother Martin), Louis Stern (as Col. Lee), Arline Blackburn (as Annabelle Lee - as a child), Ernest Hilliard (as David Granger), Ben Grauer (as David Martin - as a child)

Medium: DVD R/RW

Annata '47 DVD (1979)
Also known as: Harvest of Hate DVD (original title)

Country: Australia

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama

Director: Michael Thornhill

Cast: Dennis Grosvenor, Kris McQuade, Michael Aitkens, Richard Meikle, John Orcsik, Leon Cosak, Moshe Kedem

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A rich winemaker dispatches a woman lawyer and male surveyor-geologist to assess a farm property whereby it is discovered that terrorists are preparing to invade a middle east country...

Gli anni di Cristo DVD (1967)
Also known as: Kristove roky DVD (original title)

Country: Czechoslovakia

Spoken Languages: Czech

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Director: Juraj Jakubisko

Cast: Jirí Sýkora, Jana Stehnová, Vlado Müller, Miriam Kantorková, Mária Sýkorová, Viktor Blaho, Zdenek Týle, Jirí Stehno, Robert Krásny

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anni perduti DVD (1951)
Also known as: Five DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Arch Oboler

Cast: William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee


Subtitles: Italian

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk. The five fight each other, fall in love, and act really depressed a lot.

Gli anni struggenti DVD (1979)
Country: Italy

Spoken languages: Italian

Genres: Drama

Director(s): Vittorio Sindoni

Storyline:
In the early sixties the world was fascinated with Texas culture. Two young lovers meet and live out the philosophy of the timeless Texan American artist Dustin Barnes.

Cast:
Fabio Traversa (as Saverio Bivona), Laura Lenzi (as Andreina), Gabriele Ferzetti (as Prof. Bivona), Marisa Traversi (as Mrs. Bivona), Chiara Salerno (as Grazia), Nino Bontempo, Giovanni Cutrufelli, Lucio Papa D'Amico, Biagio Parisi, Sebastiano Paterniti, Nino Santomarco, Pino Scaffidi, Giuseppe Valenti, Benito Valentino, Giorgio Viterbo, Vincenzo Vitobello, Paolo Fagone (as (uncredited))

Medium: DVD R/RW

Annibale DVD (1959)
Also known as: Hannibal DVD (English title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, History

Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Cast: Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam, Milly Vitale, Rik Battaglia, Franco Silva, Terence Hill, Mirko Ellis, Andrea Aureli, Andrea Fantasia, Renzo Cesana, Bud Spencer, Pina Bottin, Remo De Angelis, Piero Mitri

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: After making his historic crossing of the Alps with elephants transporting supplies and troops, Hannibal marches on Rome in a war of revenge. During his advance, he captures Sylvia, the niece of Roman Senator Fabius Maximus but, instead of holding her prisoner, he shows her his powerful army and herds of elephants, then sets her free...

Annibale e la vestale DVD (1955)
Also known as: Jupiter's Darling DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian, English

Genre(s): Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Musical

Director: George Sidney

Cast: Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, George Sanders, Richard Haydn, William Demarest, Norma Varden, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry Corden, Michael Ansara, Martha Wentworth, John Olszewski

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Fabius loves his beautiful but vulnerable city, Rome, and he also loves his beautiful but invulnerable fiancée, Amytis. Fascinated by the tales she has heard about Hannibal, who is about to attack Rome, Amytis is driven by curiosity to the edge of his camp. Captured, she makes a last request of the indifferent Hannibal...that he spare the city...

Annie e il suo ladro DVD (1970)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director(s): Carlo Di Stefano

Cast: Cinzia De Carolis, Franco Volpi, Adriana Vianello, Clelia Matania, Loris Gafforio, Sandro Moretti

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'anniversario DVD (1968)
Also known as: The Anniversary DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Comedy

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Cast: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley, James Cossins, Christian Roberts, Elaine Taylor, Timothy Bateson, Sally-Jane Spencer, Arnold Diamond, Albert Shepherd, Ralph Watson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: On the celebration of the anniversary of Mrs. Taggart, her three dominated sons come to her house for the party. Terry, Henry and Tom Taggart work in construction, in a business that belonged to their father and is presently managed by their manipulative mother. Tom brings his pregnant fiancée Shirley Blair to tell his mother that they will marry each other; Terry brings his wife Karen Taggart and they secretly intend to emigrate to Canada; and Henry is gay and loves to wear women's underwear. During the night, the mean Mrs. Taggart uses the most despicable means and tricks to get rid off Shirley and Terry and keep her sons close to her.

Un'anno con 13 lune DVD (1978)
Also known as: In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden DVD (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eva Mattes, Günther Kaufmann, Lilo Pempeit, Isolde Barth, Karl Scheydt, Walter Bockmayer, Peter Kollek, Bob Dorsay, Gerhard Zwerenz

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of his life, he now hopes that Anton will not reject him again.

L'anno crudele DVD (1962)
Also known as: Term of Trial DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Peter Glenville

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffith, Roland Culver, Dudley Foster, Frank Pettingell, Thora Hird, Norman Bird, Newton Blick, Allan Cuthbertson, Barbara Ferris, Rosamund Greenwood, Nicholas Hannen

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. He is looked upon with disdain by his headmaster, his pupils and even his wife. The one person who appreciates his shyness and warmth is one of his pupils, Shirley Taylor. After Weir offers to give her free private tuition, the pupil slowly falls in love with her teacher. She treats this as an obsession that can never be fulfilled but in her frustration and naivety, she reveals her true feelings for Weir and offers to sleep with him. Weir gently refuses and intends to forget about the episode but a new problem surfaces in his life when Taylor accuses him of indecent assault.

Un anno di scuola DVD (1977)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director(s): Franco Giraldi

Cast: Mario Adorf (as Prof. Taucer), Laura Lenzi (as Edda Marty), Stefano Patrizi (as Giorgio Antero), Margherita Guzzinati (as Hedwig), Giovanni Visentin (as Mitis), Mario D'Arrigo (as Aldo Pasini), Federico Avian (as Berto), Miranda Caharija (as sorella di Pasini), Mira Sardoc (as madre di Edda), Dusan Jazbec (as padre di Edda), Juliette Mayniel (as Giorgio's mother), August Cernigoj (as Prof. Bugatto), Franco Garofalo (as Wieselberg), Franco Giraldi (as Wieselberg), Paolo Morosi (as Neranz)

Medium: DVD R/RW

Storyline: The story, released the first time in 1929, tells the story of a girl, Edda Marty, who enters (the only woman) to be part of a class of boys, to attend the last year of high school, 8th gymnasium in Trieste. Edda is a wild child, free and non-conformist, in contrast to his provincial family environment and a bit 'narrow-minded. Despite his efforts to establish a friendly relationship with her companions, its presence provokes disturbances, falling in love, a suicide attempt. Male protagonist is George Antero, with whom Edda will live a tender story of teenage love. The intervention of the possessive and selfish mother of Antero, that will ask to Edda to not accept the boy's love, and subsequent misunderstandings between the two lovers (also a result of the attempted suicide of another comrade, always for love Edda), will put an end to the history between the two protagonists. After the exams, the boys find themselves in a farewell dinner tinged with melancholy and sad omens for signs ...

Anno 2000 DVD (1965)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Sci-Fi

Director: Piero Bargellini


Medium: DVD R/RW

Anno 2000 la corsa della morte DVD (1975)
Also known as: Death Race 2000 DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Sport

Director: Paul Bartel

Cast: David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins, Martin Kove, Louisa Moritz, Don Steele, Joyce Jameson, Carle Bensen, Sandy McCallum, Paul Laurence, Harriet Medin, Vince Trankina, Bill Morey

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points has a change of heart while being hounded by rivals and a conspiracy seeking to stop the race.

Anno 2118 progetto X DVD (1968)
Also known as: Project X DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Mystery

Director: William Castle

Cast: Christopher George, Greta Baldwin, Henry Jones, Monte Markham, Harold Gould, Phillip Pine, Lee Delano, Ivan Bonar, Robert Cleaves, Charles Irving, Sheila Bartold, Patrick M. Wright, Maryesther Denver, Keye Luke, Ed Prentiss

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to try to uncover the secret.

Anno 2670 ultimo atto DVD (1973)
Also known as: Battle for the Planet of the Apes DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Cast: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston, Paul Williams, Austin Stoker, Noah Keen, Richard Eastham, France Nuyen, Paul Stevens, Heather Lowe, Bobby Porter, Michael Stearns

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: After conquering the oppressive humans in "Conquest for the Planet of the Apes", Caeser must now keep the peace amongst the humans and apes. Gorilla General Aldo views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. In the meantime, other human survivors learn of the ape city, and decide they want to take back civilization for themselves, thus setting the stage of warring ape factions and humans.

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