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61) The Wonders
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside are disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenaged boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, Gelsomina (Maria Alexandra Lungu), who is struggling to find her footing in the world...Awards:.Grand Jury Prize - Cannes Film Festival.Cannes Award - International...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
An astute mix of classic Italian crime and giallo, Duccio Tessari's Death Occurred Last Night is a dark slow burning murder mystery. A mentally handicapped woman is kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery, sending her distressed father and a jaded police detective on the hunt for clues in Milan's underworld. Tessari (The Bloodstained Butterfly) keeps a tight rein on the action, focusing on the characters and their collective desire for justice and...
63) Eden and After
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Trans-Europe-Express) comes EDEN AND AFTER, a dreamlike fable in which a group of decadent French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman (Pierre Zimmer). Once they imbibe his "fear powder," the students experience a series of hallucinatory episodes: reminations on death, explorations of sexual curiosity, and striking tableaux of sadomasochistic...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Salvator Cangemi is a produce purveyor in Milan, Italy, but he also runs a profitable twin business moonlighting as a pimp. The appearance of a ruthless and greedy French gangster called Le Capitaine threatens Totos livelihood. Le Capitaine wants to unite the organized crime in Milan and take a large share of the profits for himself. Toto wants no part in Le Capitaines plan and wants to continue quietly running his own low-key ring, but no one says...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
A psychedelic trip with a social commentary. Bud Cort, in his debut performance, plays Massimo Monaldi, a student involved in political protests and juvenile delinquency. When Massimo steals a valuable tobacco box, he quickly becomes tangled in a dangerous web between the police and the mafia. Hallucination Strip excels with it's not-so-subtle mix of sex, drugs, religion, politics and corruption.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: Hatchet for the Honeymoon (Il rosso segno della follia)...Stephen Forsyth stars as John Harrington, the head of an affluent fashion house, who harbors an uncontrollable bloodlust for women in bridal veils. Only by murdering a succession of them, each in a grisly manner, can he delve deeper into...
67) Hitch Hike
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer (international superstar franco Nero of Django) and his beautiful wife (Corinne Clery, the Story of O and Moonraker) pick up a stranded motorist (David Hess of Last House on the Left infamy). But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath, their road trip takes a vicious detour into sex and savagery where the miles are marked in mayhem and vengeance is the ultimate rule of thumb. rarely...
68) Killer Cop
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
A great example of a Poliziotteschi (Italo-crime) the film's plot, based upon the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, begins with an explosion in a hotel killing dozens of innocent people. Police inspector, Matteo Rolandi is a witness to the massacre and the suspect, Franco Ludovisi is a young political activist. Ludovisi, even though the General Attorney Di Federico puts him under protection, is shot and killed. Behind this event there seems to...
69) Love in the City
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
Six top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City). The film is divided into five separate episodes. Michelangelo Antonioni's "Attempted Suicide", several would-be suicides discuss the reasons for their despair. Dino Risi's "Paradise for Three Hours" is a humorous glance at a provincial dance hall. Federico Fellini's "Marriage Agency" finds an investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be....
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
In a 15th-century feudal village a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows that the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter she too is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age a horrible deadly plague sweeps the land and she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Once established as a master of the Euro-erotic horror film, Jess Franco continued to explore more traditional modes of filmmaking, setting familiar genres on their ears with his singular brand of reckless creativity. Made during the living dead craze of the early 1980s, Oasis of the Zombies is one of only a handful of motion pictures to explore a most peculiar subgenre of the movement: the Nazi zombie film...In telling the story of a cache of German...
72) Stunt Squad
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Shopkeepers have been terrorized by a protection racket in Bologna, and the racketeers have found sneaky ways of planting explosives in the businesses of those who won't pay. Police Inspector Grifi (Marcel Bozzuffi, The French Connection) tries to get information from witnesses and criminal informants, but they're all brutally murdered before he makes any headway. Grifi has no choice but to form a special squad -- one not bound by the red tape that...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
74) The Conformist
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode--and murder--joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Stefania Sandrelli and lover Dominique Sanda dancing the tango in a working class...
75) Alleluia
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A murderous womanizer and his latest paramour, herself unhinged by desire, embark on a deadly odyssey amplified by wild sex, unbridled jealousy, and passionate forays into the dark arts in this smart, chilling tale from Fabrice du Welz...Festivals:..Austin Fantastic Fest - Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film, Best Director..Magritte Awards, Belgium - Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Production Design
76) The Tower
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, the educated few still enjoy some advantages under the system. The Hoffmans gather often with family and friends for warm dinner parties rich with derisive political banter, live classical music, and spirited discussions, holding out for a better future. ..But even...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Generally considered the first horror film produced in Spain, The Awful Dr. Orlof (L'horrible Docteur Orlof) launched the career of cult cinema's most colorful figure: Jesus "Jess" Franco. Cloaking the story in the visual style of the British gothic film, Franco injected Orlof with the kind of morbid eroticism that would quickly become his signature (and is presented here in the uncensored French release version)...Howard Vernon stars as a diabolical...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before. She lives in a rural area of central Italy. Her mother is pregnant again and Martina lives for the arrival of her new brother. Meanwhile, the war is getting closer and closer, forcing the people of the village to tread a difficult path, torn between the partisan brigades and the Nazi Army. ..On practically the same day as the birth of...
79) A Married Woman
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Legendary French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard reverses the standard love triangle and challenges the influence of consumer culture in one of his most provocative dissections of modern life. Charlotte (Macha Meril) aimlessly drifts between morning affairs with the artistic Robert (Bernard Noel) and mundane evenings with her paternalistic husband Pierre (Philippe Leroy). Unsure of whether she loves either man, Charlotte discovers she is pregnant...
80) City of Women
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Federico Fellini's epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro's delirious late period. A surrealist tour-de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and Fellini's own oeuvre), La citta delle donne [City of Women] taps into the era's restless youth culture, coalescing into nothing less than Fellini's post-punk opus...Marcello...
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