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1931: ONCE UPON TIME NEW YORK
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Set in New York City 1931, this Italian crime thriller was actually filmed in Farmington, West Virginia. Tony Anthony plays a petty hood offered a fortune stuffed in a dead man's corpse, but goes on a rampage of revenge when he's double-crossed. The film's international cast includes Aldolfo Celi, Irene Papas, Richard Conte and Lionel Stander. Dubbed in English. Luigi Vanzi---Italy---1972---90 mins.
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ADUA E LE COMPAGNE (ADUA AND HER FRIENDS)
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Four prostitutes attempt to go legit by opening a restaurant. The business is met with success...until its owners' pasts come back to haunt them.
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ALFREDO, ALFREDO
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Dustin Hoffman, who had worked in Italy on the film Madigan's Millions prior to his breakout success in The Graduate, returned to the country to star in this comedy from the director of Divorce, Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned. Hoffman plays the title character, a timid young man who marries an outgoing, very sexy woman and lives to regret it. In Italian with English subtitles.
Pietro Germi---Italy---1972---98 mins.
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ALL'ITALIANA BOX SET
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Luc Merenda (Gambling City) stars in a pair of stellar '70s crime films. In A Man Called Magnum (Michele Massimo Tarantini, 1977, 99 mins.), a child's cryptic doodlings are the key to stopping a turf war between an aging Mafioso and a lone gunmen. Merenda stars alongside Giancarlo Badessi, Ferdinando Murolo, Claudio Gora, and Enzo Cannavale. The Last Round (Stelvio Massi, 1976, 112 mins.) is a bloody reimagining of Hammett's Red Harvest, starring Merenda as a stranger at odds with rivaling crime syndicates and bent on violent revenge. Skillfully shot by legendary cinematographer Franco Delli Colli. In Italian with English subtitles. Michele Massimo Tarantini/Stelvio Massi---Italy---1976-1977---211 mins.
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ALMOST HUMAN
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This first-rate polizia thriller boasts all the right ingredients--gritty direction by Umbero Lenzi, a haunting Ennio Morricone score, a script by Ernesto Gstaldi (My Name is Nobody), and expert performances by Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, and Anita Strindberg. The melodramatic plot follows a petty thief (Milian) as he hatches a brazen scheme to kidnap a Patty Hearst-like heiress and use the ransom to pay his dues. Ruthlessly brutal and often very funny, this is 70's euro crime at its shocking best. In Italian Umberto Lenzi---Italy---1974---90 mins.
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ASSASSINATION ROME/ ESPIONAGE
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Pull-up and enjoy two international thrillers. Cyd Charisse (Brigadoon) and Hugh O'Brien (The Shootist) star in Assassination in Rome (Silvio Amadio, Italy/Spain/France, 1965, 104 mins.), an intrigue-filled suspense tale about an American woman whose husband disappears while vacationing in Rome. In Espionage in Tangiers (Gregg C. Tallas, Spain/Italy, 1965, 92 mins.), Luis Davila plays Mike Murphy, a classy special agent hot on the trail of a stolen raygun. It's filled with hammy action a nd Silvio Amadio/Greg Tallas---Italy/Spain/France---1965---196 mins.
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ATTACK AND RETREAT
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Filmed in the Ukraine, this portrayal of the Italian forces during the attack on Stalingrad stars Arthur Kennedy and Peter Falk. The drama portrays the levels of power and relationships among the soldiers and civilians. From veteran Italian director Giuseppe De Santis (Bitter Rice). Dubbed in Giuseppe De Santis---Italy/USSR---1965---104 mins.
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BATTLE OF ALGIERS
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Internationally acclaimed, the staggering newsreel-like authenticity of the staged street riots and vital performances of the actors give Battle of Algiers a unique dramatic impact on this detailing of the Algerian revolt against the French. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1965 Venice International Film Festival. "Probably the most emotionally stirring revolutionary epic since Eisenstein's Potemkin (Pauline Kael). In French/Arabic with English subtitles. Gillo Pontecorvo---Italy---1967---125 mins.
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BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET 20 YEARS LATER
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The trio of ex-hoods from Mario Monicelli's hit caper comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street return for an inspired sequel. Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, and Renato Salvatori now sport a touch of grey in their hair, but they're still the same charming, bumbling burglars of old. In Italian with English subtitles. Amanzio Todini---Italy---1985---101 mins.
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BIG RACKET
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Hard-edged and brutally violent, Enzo G. Castellari's 1976 thriller is "a superior example of the 70s Italian crime film" (DVD Maniacs). Tough guy Fabio Testi stars as a defiant police investigator trying to put the screws to thugs who run a protection racket in his isolated Italian village. When a young woman is raped as punishment for her father approaching the police, the investigator takes up arms to clean the streets once and for all. Vincent Gardenia (Death Wish) co-stars. In Italian with English subtitles. Enzo G. Castellari---Italy---1976---106 mins.
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BLACK PIRATE (TERENCE HILL)
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Terence Hill plays Blackie the Pirate in this Italo-Spanish swashbuckler about two rival captains (the other being Bud Spencer) out for the same booty (gold and Silvia Monti). Full of buccaneer backstabbing and laughs on the high seas. With George Martin. Lorenzo Gicca Palli---Italy/Spain---1971---99 mins.
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BOMBER ( BUD SPENCER )
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Ever-pugnacious Italian action comedy star Bud Spencer plays a former heavyweight boxer who loses a match to an Army sarge, joins the Navy, and seeks a way for revenge by training an up-and-coming natural. Dubbed in Michele Lupo---Italy---1982---96 mins.
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BREAD & CHOCOLATE
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Nino Manfredi stars as an Italian immigrant struggling to make a life in the difficult Teutonic world of Switzerland. This comic everyman finds himself forced into degrading situations, but he never gives up. The result is a comedy with an intense feeling of pathos. "An amusing and touching illustration of culture clash, and a graphic depiction of a complacent and condescending Switzerland" (Faber Companion to Foreign Films.) With Anna Karina. In Italian with English subtitles. Franco Brusati---Italy---1974---109 mins.
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BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON
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Lavish costume epic depicts the story of St. Francis of Assisi, a man so gentle wild animals would eat from his hand, as he rejects the pomp of the Catholic Church. With some interesting characters working on this production, including Alec Guinness as the Pope, Lina Wertmuller in screenwriting capacity and 60's pop star Donovan supplying the music. English dialogue. Franco Zeffirelli---Italy/USA---1973---121 mins.
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BURN!
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Marlon Brando plays Sir William Walker, a cynical freelance secret agent and adventurer hired by the British government to dismantle Portugal's sugar trade monopoly in its Caribbean island colony of Quiemada. Like his most famous film, Battle of Algiers, political director Gillo Pontecorvo's film "soars with the imaginative force of art" (Pauline Kael). Dubbed in English. Gillo Pontecorvo---Italy---1970---112 mins.
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BURNING OF ROME
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The artist Benvenuto Cellini becomes a soldier, ultimately organizing Rome's defense forces against invading mercenaries. Brett Halsey plays the hero with conflicted motivations in this historical action film, skillfully directed by genre film veteran Riccardo Freda (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, Giants of Thessaly). Dubbed in English. Riccardo Freda---Italy/Spain/France---1962---93 mins.
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BYE BYE MONKEY
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Marco Ferreri's first English-language film is set in Manhattan and sardonically addresses the changes in society's sexual roles, the downfall of the nuclear family and the breakdown of contemporary urban life. Gerard Depardieu stars as a lighting technician who is abused by the members of the feminist theatrical group he works for. When he finds a baby chimpanzee inside the remains of a mammoth gorilla prop (presumably left over from Dino De Laurentis' 1976 remake of King Kong), the dissatisfied laborer decides to treat it as his daughter. The monkey sets off very different feelings for a lonely, elderly man (Marcello Mastroianni) and a wax museum owner (James Coco). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Marco Ferreri---France/Italy---1978---94 mins.
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CADAVERI ECCELLENTI
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An excellent murder mystery from Francesco Rosi (Christ Stopped at Eboli). A serial killer targeting judges from Italy's highest courts has plunged Italy into chaos. Inspector Amerigo Rogas (Lino Ventura) is called in to investigate the slayings, and he soon uncovers a plot that reaches deep into the Italian government and beyond. Also stars Max von Sydow. In Italian with NO English subtitles. Francesco Rosi---Italy---1976---116 mins.
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CAFE EXPRESS
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Nino Manfredi (Bread and Chocolate) stars in this witty comedy from the director of Where's Piccone? A struggling coffee vendor, illegally selling espresso on the trains, tries to keep a step ahead of conductors and other authorities who want to shut his business down. Dubbed in English. Nanni Loy---Italy---1980---87 mins.
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CALIGULA
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Producer and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione's epic of debauchery in Caligula's Rome was a disaster, but nevertheless has achieved cult status.
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