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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Teorema AKA Theorem (1968)

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:06:00 +0000

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A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

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A handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and successively seduces the son, the mother, the daughter and the father, not forgetting the maid. Then, as abruptly and mysteriously as he arrived, he departs. Unable to endure the void left in their lives, the father (Massimo Girotti) hands over his factory to the workers, the son (Andrs Jos Cruz) abandons his vocation as a painter, the mother (Silvana Mangano) abandons herself to random sexual encounters, and the daughter sinks into catatonia. The maid (Laura Betti, winner Best Actress, Venice 1968), however, becomes a saint. In this cool, richly complex and provocative political allegory, Pasolini uses his schematic plot to explore family dynamics, the intersection of class and sex, and the nature of different sexualities. After winning a prize at the Venice Festival, Teorema was subsequently banned on an obscenity charge, but Pasolini later won an acquittal on grounds of the film’s ‘high artistic value’.

Teorema.1968.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 38 min
Size: 	2.66 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x552 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 500 kb/s
BPP: 	0.258
Audio
#1:  	Italian 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 160 kb/s (Commentary by film scholar Robert S. C. Gordon)

https://nitro.download/view/448338EEBAF2527/Teorema.1968.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

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Alberto Lattuada – Lettere di una novizia AKA La novice (1960)

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:43:07 +0000

‘A young novice is about to take her vows upon entering a convent when her recent past comes back to haunt her. Her priest has received an anonymous letter which suggests she is far from capable of pursuing the life of a nun. Distraught, the novice reveals the tragic tale that drove her to her present predicament. Previously, the novice, Rita, lived with her mother on a vast farm estate that she had inherited from her father. Unable to sell the farm until she came of age, Rita could only watch her mother become more miserable by the struggle to keep the farm running. To speed things up, Rita decides to get married. Unfortunately, the man she has in her sights also happens to be her mother’s lover…’
– Films de France

La novice (1960).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 24mn
Size: 	1.99 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1280x720
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	30.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 747 Kbps
BPP: 	0.099
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 62 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/A149827407CD0C6/La_novice_(1960).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Vincent for this copy

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Silvio Amadio – Lupi nell’abisso AKA Wolves of the Deep (1959)

admin — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:02:00 +0000

Italian submariners trapped in their damaged boat on the ocean floor.

Lupi.nell.abisso.1959.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-zk7.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 31mn
Size:	1.38 GiB
Video
Codec:	h264
Resolution:	640x480
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 000 kb/s
Audio
Italian 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/543760C7CB067B0/Lupi.nell.abisso.1959.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-zk7.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:none

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Roberto Rossellini – Un Pilota ritorna aka A Pilot Returns (1942)

admin — Wed, 08 May 2024 07:42:37 +0000

Un Pilota ritorna (1942)

A Fascist pilot, Lt. Gino Rossati (Massimo Girotti), is flying a bombing run from Italy to Greece in the early spring of 1941. He is shot down by British aircraft and becomes a prisoner of war, first of the British and later the Greeks. In one of the prison camps, he falls in love with Anna (Michela Belmonte), the teenage daughter of an Italian doctor. During a bombardment by the Italians, he is able to escape by stealing a British plane. He returns home, although wounded, and lands in time to hear the reports of Greece’s surrender.

Un.Pilota.Ritorna.1942.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 20mn
Size:	1.70 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	706x568 ~> 757x568
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 820 Kbps
Audio
Italian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 128 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/9B12A3C78CBF522/Un.Pilota.Ritorna.1942.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Italian, English, Greek
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Italian

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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Medea (1969) (HD)

admin — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:16:18 +0000

Medea (1969) (HD)

it’s a movie about a woman who beheads her brother, stabs her children, and sends her lover’s wife up in flames. For Maria Callas, it’s a natural.

Based on the plot of Euripides’ Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

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A mythical tale of love, betrayal and revenge, Medea is a fascinating collision of Freudian and Marxist themes from Italy’s most controversial director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Adapted from the Euripides drama, Pasolini’s disturbing vision of personal and national conflicts stars operatic legend Maria Callas in the title role, offering an extraordinary performance as the high priestess Medea whose love is threatened by corrupt political ambition. A vivid and aesthetically challenging vision, Medea is a complex blend of classical mythology and contemporary social criticism.

Medea.1969.CC.1080p.BluRay.x264.FLAC.1.0-ADE.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 51 min
Size: 	11.9 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1036 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	15.0 Mb/s
BPP: 	0.315
Audio
#1:  	Italian 1.0ch FLAC @ 219 kb/s (Italian)

https://nitro.download/view/A5E228DBC5E49F4/Medea.1969.CC.1080p.BluRay.x264.FLAC.1.0-ADE.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, Chinese

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Luigi Zampa – Anni difficili AKA Difficult Years (1948)

admin — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:27:54 +0000

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

Anni.Dificili.1948.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 49mn
Size: 	2.31 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	716x568 ~> 757x568
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 758 Kbps
BPP: 	0.271
Audio
#1:  	Italian 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps (Mono)

https://nitro.download/view/8877E7E0B292DD8/Anni.Dificili.1948.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):German, English, Italian
Subtitles:English, French, German, Italian

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Daniele D’Anza – Il segno del comando (1971)

admin — Thu, 11 May 2023 06:55:00 +0000

From teledico.com:
In 1968, Flaminio Bollini, Giuseppe D’ Agate, Dante Guardamagna and Lucio Mandarà, met to write a story between truth and magic, daily life and mystery. The starting idea was about a university professor of English literature engrossed with the translation of a diary of Lord Byron, written during a roman stay in 1817. During the translation, the university professor comes invited, right in Rome, from a mysterious painter who challenges him to find an imaginery public square.

File name......................Il segno del comando
Runtime........................5 episodes, 1 hour each apprx.

Video Codec.................DIVX
Frame size....................640X488
FPS...............................25.000
FAR..............................1.311 (21:16)
PAR..............................1000
DAR..............................1.311 (21:16)

Program........................DVD Decrypter
Interleave: 1 vid frame (40 ms), preload=504
Audio frames: Aligned on interleaves
File Length Correct

Audio Codec................0x0055
Sample rate..................48.000 Hz
Bitrate rate...................130 Kb/s (2 channels).

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

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