Based on a book by Juan Carlo Onetti, the film tells the story of Ossario, a hunted revolutionary leader who sees his comrades die one after another.Read More »
Olga Karlatos
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Carlo Di Carlo – Per questa notte AKA This Is the Night (1977)
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Marcello Aliprandi – Senza buccia AKA Skin Deep (1979)
Marcello Aliprandi1971-1980ComedyEroticaItalyA group of young people want to have some fun in Aeolian islands. After they rescue two naked strangers, they decide to bare them all just like the two strangers do. The story is about the lifestyle of nudism, friendship and love.Read More »
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Jean-Louis Bertuccelli – Paulina 1880 (1972)
Drama1971-1980FranceJean-Louis BertuccelliRomanceIn 1880’s Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can just move.Read More »
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Enzo G. Castellari – Keoma (1976) (HD)
1971-1980Enzo G. CastellariEuro WesternsItalyWesternThe legendary Franco Nero (Django, The Fifth Cord) stars in the titular role as a half-breed gunfighter who returns from the killing fields of the civil war to find his hometown riddled with the plague, its inhabitants terrorized (with the help of Keoma’s own estranged half-brothers) by tyrannical gang leader Caldwell (Donald O’Brien, Zombie Holocaust). Keoma’s father (Willian Berger, Sartana in the Valley of Death) welcomes his prodigal son’s return, but when Keoma saves a vulnerable pregnant woman (Olga Karlatos, Zombie Flesh Eaters) from Caldwell’s thugs, the stage is set for a violent confrontation. With the help of his father and his friend, the freed slave George (Woody Strode, Spartacus), Keoma prepares to take a savage revenge on Caldwell and his gang.Read More »
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Nikos Panayotopoulos – Oi tembelides tis eforis koiladas AKA The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
1971-1980ComedyDramaGreeceNikos PanayotopoulosSynopsis:
A father moves with his three sons and their beautiful, hard working servant in a big, old house in the countryside, where a weird drowsiness seems to occupy the four men. Will it be possible for one of them to break free?Read More » -
Enzo G. Castellari – Keoma (1976)
1971-1980Enzo G. CastellariEuro WesternsItalyWesternQuote:
A half-breed ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant.Quote:
After the civil war’s conclusion, a half-breed returns to his home town only to discover that the ruthless gang is now in control and terrorize the locales.Keoma was co-written and directed by Enzo G. Castellari, who’s other notable films include Street Law, High Crime and The Inglorious Bastards. Key collaborators on Keoma include cinematographer Aiace Parolin (Seduced and Abandoned, Baba Yaga), composers Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis (Torso, Alien 2: On Earth) and screenwriter George Eastman (Rabid Dogs, Erotic Nights of the Living Dead).Read More »
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Lucio Fulci – Murderock – uccide a passo di danza AKA Murder Rock (1984)
1981-1990GialloItalyLucio FulciMysterySYNOPSIS
The brutal worlds of murder and dance school competitions are thrown together in yet another lurid Lucio Fulci giallo. When an insane hatpin murderer terrorizes a prestigious New York dance school, mercilessly poking nubile young women deep into their competitive little hearts. Is it one of the students, jealous of competitive placement? Is it the voyeuristic headmaster, who watches the students through his many lurid security cameras? Perhaps it’s even a jealous boyfriend? (DVDActive)Read More » -
Nikos Papatakis – Oi voskoi AKA The Shepherds of Calamity (1967)
Drama1961-1970ArthouseFranceNikos PapatakisSynopsis:
Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But when Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings and wants Despina to marry a more wealthy gentleman, named Yankos. The wealthy and spoiled Yankos plots to break up the romantic union between Thanos and Despina any way posible while the young lovers plot to run away in a futile attempt to being a new life for themselves.Read More » -
Nikos Papatakis – Gloria mundi aka Tortura (1976)
Drama1971-1980FranceNikos PapatakisPoliticsThe young actress Galai is hired by his friend and director Hamdias to interpret a film denouncing the torture of suspected terrorists during the war of Algeria. The woman, using audio recordings made during the torture, practices the worst violence on herself to make her own interpretation as realistic as possible, to confuse reality with fiction. Galai, as the character she plays, is a part, along with her lover, a subversive movement. In an attempt to rejoin Hamdias is forced to flee an exhausting marked by humiliation and betrayal that ends in an unpredictable finish.Read More »