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  • Nightmare in Venice

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    A brilliant surgeon and millionaire, married to a beautiful woman, and highly regarded in the society of Venice, wants more from life and searches for new sensations. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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    In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues…

  • The Comfort of Strangers

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    An Italian diplomat’s son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

  • Night Train to Venice

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    The Orient Express, on its night trip from Munich to Venice, is full because of the beginning of the carnival in Venice. Between the passengers are a young writer, an actress, and her daughter, an elderly dancer, five neo-nazi punks, and a strange man that seems to have some kind of influence over them through…

  • Italian for Beginners

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    Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner’s course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

  • Bread and Tulips

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    An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

  • The Wings of the Dove

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    Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate’s deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up…

  • Dangerous Beauty

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    Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica’s mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to…

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

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    Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and…

  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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    To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.

  • Just Married

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    Although Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney come from different worlds, they are both unexpectedly swept off their feet after their first meeting. They quickly fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah’s uptight, rich family. After their wedding, the happy couple sets off – with the highest of hopes and ideals…

  • The Italian Job

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    Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn’t plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los…

  • The Merchant of Venice

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    Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.

  • Chasing Liberty

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    The President’s daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working undercover for her father.

  • The Thief Lord

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    A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic leader, the Thief Lord. From their home base…

  • Brideshead Revisited

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    Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Based on the classic British novel by Evelyn Waugh.

  • The Tourist

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    American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there’s more to her than meets the eye.

  • The Last Prosecco

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    The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.

  • Murder on the Orient Express

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    Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

  • We Are Who We Are

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    Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.

  • A Haunting in Venice

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    Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.