Storyline: An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was.Read More »
Italy
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Alberto De Martino – Una Magnum Special per Tony Saitta AKA Shadows in an Empty Room (1976)
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Giulio Questi – “I giochi del diavolo” L’uomo della sabbia AKA The Sandman (1981)
1981-1990Giulio QuestiHorrorItalyTVL’Uomo della sabbia (The Sandman) is the first episode of the 1981 RAI horror anthology series I Giochi del Diavolo (The Devil’s Games). It is based on the short story Der Sandmann (1816) by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Hotheaded, romantic student Nathaniel conceives a passion for the professor’s daughter, Olympia. Others, though, say she has no soul, even that her singing and dancing are mechanical. When he stumbles on the professor and his assistant fighting over the automaton’s disassembled body, Nathaniel becomes even more unhinged.Read More »
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Lucio Fulci – Paura nella città dei morti viventi AKA City of the Living Dead (1980) (HD)
1971-1980HorrorItalyLucio FulciSynopsis:
In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetery which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to rise. Peter, a New York City reporter, teams up with a young psychic, named Mary, to travel to the town where they team up with another couple, psychiatrist Jerry and patient Sandra, to find a way to close the gates before All Saints Day or the dead all over the world will rise up and kill the living.Read More » -
Enzo G. Castellari – La Polizia incrimina la legge assolve AKA High Crime (1973)
1971-1980ActionCrimeEnzo G. CastellariItalyDescription:
Franco Nero is Commissioner Belli, a tough cop going hard after a very large international narcotics ring. Naturally there are people who do not like what he is doing. Belli plays it cool until they mess with his family. Then it’s not only about bringing the pushers to justice, but getting revenge as well. With a truly mesmerizing score by Guido De Angelis & Maurizio De Angelis, High Crime is a truly great film experience that lives up to it’s hype.Read More » -
Roberto Rossellini – Idea di un’isola aka Idea of an island (1967)
1961-1970DocumentaryItalyRoberto RosselliniShort FilmA documentary about Sicily and its peculiar customs, with an emphasis on religious rites and the clash of modernity versus traditional values.
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Raffaello Matarazzo – La risaia (1956)
1951-1960DramaItalyRaffaello MatarazzoIn this heartwarming drama, the life of an Italian rice farmer involved in an unhappy marriage is chronicled. One day, he notices a familiar looking migrant in his field. Upon following the girl, he discovers that she is his illegitimate daughter. To quietly make up for his past indiscretion, he begins giving the girl many gifts, but he does not tell her who he is. Later the girl falls for an auto mechanic who gets jealous of her secret father’s attention to her. This causes the father to tell the mechanic the truth; the fix it man then decides to engineer a reunion. He then goes on to save the girl from getting raped by her father’s deadbeat nephew.
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Saverio Costanzo – Hungry Hearts (2014)
2011-2020DramaItalySaverio CostanzoThrillerHungry Hearts begins like a romantic comedy, then transformes into a moody relationship drama, until eventually to become something else entirely: a stylized thriller with a bit of Hitchcock’s Marnie thrown in…
After a chance encounter in the bathroom of a restaurant, Mina (Alba Rohrwacher) and Jude (Adam Driver) fall in love. Soon Mina is pregnant and after the baby’s birth, Jude gradually begins to grasp that their once welcoming home has been transformed into a den for Mina’s obsession and paranoia. As Mina slips farther down the rabbit hole, Jude is faced with a most dreaded realization…Read More »
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Sergio Sollima – Revolver aka Blood in the Streets (1973)
1971-1980ActionCrimeItalySergio SollimaQuote:
Known in America as ‘Blood in the Streets,’ Sergio Sollima’s ‘Revolver’ is an unsung classic of the European crime genre with great sets, and wonderful performances.Oliver Reed (Curse of the Werewolf, The Brood) plays Vito Capriani, a prison warden in Rome with a penchant for violence. When his wife Anna (Agostina Belli) is kidnapped, her abductors demand that Vito release one of his prisoners, Milo Ruiz (Fabio Testi of Once Upon a Time in the West and The Smuggler) or they’ll kill her.Read More »
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Giorgio Ferroni – Il mulino delle donne di pietra AKA Mill of the Stone Women [International Cut] (1960)
1951-1960GialloGiorgio FerroniHorrorItalyHans arrives in a town near Amsterdam to write a story on the reclusive sculptor, Professor Val, who lives on an island in the old mill house the locals call the Mill of the Stone Women. Hans meets the professor’s beautiful and seductive daughter, and begins feeling passion for her despite his true love for Lisa Lotta. Slowly he becomes aware of the nefarious experiments being conducted by Val and his furtive assistant Dr. Boles, and local women continue to disappear.Read More »