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1) Tommaso
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Willem Dafoe delivers a career-best performance as the title character, an older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marina and Federica have lived together as a couple for five years in their gorgeous Rome apartment. Beautiful, funny, and independent, Marina has no doubts about her sexuality or her love for Federica. Federica, a respected architect with a marriage behind her and a grown son, has never declared herself a lesbian and is discreet about her relationship with Marina. When Federica runs into a man she once had a crush on, she starts asking what she really...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the romantic city of Rome. The intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
Pub. Date
19uu
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sil., black and white & color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Erstwhile childhood friends meet again as adults, this time as Roman conqueror, Messala, and conquered Israelite, Judah. An accident nearly destroys Judah and his family and leads to a confrontation between the two men and final redemption.
9) Ben-Hur
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie is an uptight, single mother who, in an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, takes her to the Tuscan village where she used to visit in her youth. There Maggie runs into her former lover Luca and his mother, Carmen. When Summer and Carmen impulsively steal Luca's car and race off to Rome, Maggie and Luca follow in close pursuit.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (556 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gaius Claudius Glaber and his Roman troops are sent to Capua to crush the growing band of freed slaves that Spartacus leads before it can inflict further damage. Spartacus is presented the choice of satisfying his personal need for vengeance against the man who condemned his wife to slavery and eventual death or making the larger sacrifices necessary to keep his budding army from breaking apart.
12) Rome: season 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 character guide ([8] p. : col. ill., col. ports. ; 17 cm.)
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
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