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THRILLER/NOIR

Colpo su colpo DVD (1967)  
Also known as: The Naked Runner DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Sidney J. Furie

Cast: Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Nadia Gray, Toby Robins, Inger Stratton, Cyril Luckham, Edward Fox, J.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann, Michael Newport, Roy Hanlon

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.

Un commissario accusa DVD (1975)  
Also known as: Un comisar acuza DVD (original title)

Country: Romania

Spoken Languages: Romanian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast: Mihai Adrian, Manea Alexandru, Nita Anastase, Mircea Anghelescu, Ion Apahideanu, Valeriu Arnautu, Constantin Baltaretu, Ion Barbu, Ion Besoiu, Andrei Bursaci, Ion Bîrloiu, Benone Carmazan, Ioana Ciomârtan, Jean Constantin, Dumitru Craciun


Subtitles: English, French

Medium: DVD R/RW

Complesso di colpa DVD (1976)  
Also known as: Obsession DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: Brian De Palma

Cast: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Wanda Blackman, J. Patrick McNamara, Stanley J. Reyes, Nick Kreiger, Stocker Fontelieu, Don Hood, Andrea Esterhazy, Thomas Carr, Tom Felleghy, Nella Simoncini Barbieri, John Creamer

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.

Complotto di famiglia DVD (1976)  
Also known as: Family Plot DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Crime

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, William Devane, Karen Black, Ed Lauter, Cathleen Nesbitt, Katherine Helmond, Warren J. Kemmerling, Edith Atwater, William Prince, Nicholas Colasanto, Marge Redmond, John Lehne, Charles Tyner, Alexander Lockwood

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The trickster Madam Blanche Tyler lures the elder millionaire Julia Rainbird that believes she is a spiritualist. After a séance, she discovers that Julia is tormented by her past, when she forced her sister and single mother Harriet to deliver her baby for adoption to avoid a family scandal. Julia promises the small fortune of ten thousand-dollar...

Con la rabbia agli occhi DVD (1976)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime

Director: Antonio Margheriti

Cast: Yul Brynner, Barbara Bouchet, Martin Balsam, Massimo Ranieri, Giancarlo Sbragia, Salvatore Borghese, Giacomo Furia, Loris Bazzocchi, Rosario Borelli, Luigi Bonos, Renzo Marignano, Tommaso Palladino, Gennaro Beneduce, Domenico Di Costanzo, Gilberto Galimberti

Medium: DVD R/RW

Con le mani pulite DVD (1974)  
Also known as: Cu mîinile curate DVD (original title)

Country: Romania

Spoken Languages: Romanian

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast: Nita Anastase, Ion Apahideanu, Corina Chiriac, Ilarion Ciobanu, George Constantin, Stelian Cremenciuc, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Dobrescu, Dorin Dron, Jean Lorin Florescu, Monica Ghiuta, Corneliu Gîrbea, Aimee Iacobescu, Mihai Mereuta, Adrian Mihai

Medium: DVD R/RW

Concorde Affaire '79 DVD (1979)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime

Director: Ruggero Deodato

Cast: James Franciscus, Mimsy Farmer, Venantino Venantini, Fiamma Maglione, Edmund Purdom, Francisco Charles, Francesco Carnelutti, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Aldo Barberito, Roberto Santi, Maria D'Incoronato, Renzo Marignano, Renato Cortesi, Giovanni Battista Felici, Maria D'Alessandro

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Reporter Moses Brody receives a phone-call from his ex-wife, a fellow reporter, who says he has a big story in the Antilles. When he arrives, she has been killed. While investigating her death, he comes across the case she was working on: a crashed Concorde airliner, sabotaged by an airline company whose South American business is jeopardized by the new Concorde airplanes. He digs deeper and finds that the stewardess survived the crash into the ocean but...

Condannato DVD (1950)  
Also known as: Convicted DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Henry Levin

Cast: Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone, Carl Benton Reid, Frank Faylen, Will Geer, Martha Stewart, Henry O'Neill, Douglas Kennedy, Roland Winters, Ed Begley, Wilton Graff

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Joe Hufford gets involved in a nightclub brawl, kills a man in self defense, and is sent to prison for manslaughter, to the dismay of district attorney George Knowland who realizes Joe had an incompetent lawyer who should have gotten him off by proving self-defense. Later, Knowland becomes warden of the prison Joe is in, and makes him a Trusty and his chauffeur...

Condannato a morte DVD (1940)
Also known as: Doomed to Die DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Mystery, Film-Noir

Director: William Nigh

Cast: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, William Stelling, Catherine Craig, Guy Usher, Henry Brandon, Melvin Lang, Wilbur Mack, Kenneth Harlan, Richard Loo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.

La confessione DVD (1970)  
Also known as: L'aveu DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Costa-Gavras

Cast: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold, Jean Bouise, László Szabó, Monique Chaumette, Guy Mairesse, Marc Eyraud, Gérard Darrieu, Gilles Ségal, Charles Moulin, Nicole Vervil, Georges Aubert, André Cellier

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. Will be shown the mental tortures during the investigations and how a faithful top-ranking civil servant is made to confess to treason. Based on the true story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London, this is not an anticommunist film but a plea against totalitaism.

La confessione della signora Doyle DVD (1952)  
Also known as: Clash by Night DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Fritz Lang

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, J. Carrol Naish, Keith Andes, Silvio Minciotti, Tony Martin (voice), Paul Finnegan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

La congiura DVD (1970)
Also known as: The Brotherhood of the Bell DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Paul Wendkos

Cast: Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth, Dean Jagger, Maurice Evans, Will Geer, Eduard Franz, William Conrad, Robert Pine, William Smithers, Logan Field, Dabney Coleman, Scott Graham, James McEachin

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.

La congiura degli innocenti DVD (1955)  
Also known as: The Trouble with Harry DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers, Royal Dano, Parker Fennelly, Barry Macollum, Dwight Marfield, Shirley MacLaine

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is found in the woods. The problem is that almost everyone in town thinks that they had something to do with his death.

La congiura di Barovia DVD (1947)  
Also known as: Where There's Life DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Cast: Bob Hope, Signe Hasso, William Bendix, George Coulouris, Vera Marshe, George Zucco, Dennis Hoey, John Alexander, Victor Varconi, Joseph Vitale, Harry von Zell, Anthony Caruso, Norma Varden, Harland Tucker, Roy Atwell

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Bob Hope. After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Bob is not happy with becoming the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.

Congiura di spie DVD (1967)
Also known as: Peau d'espion DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Edouard Molinaro

Cast: Louis Jourdan, Senta Berger, Edmond O'Brien, Maurice Garrel, Bernard Blier, Fabrizio Capucci, Giuseppe Addobbati, Gamil Ratib, Patricia Scott, Blandine Ebinger, Gerhard Bormann, Peter Martin Urtel, Jean Rupert, Anna Gaël, Charles Millot

Medium: DVD R/RW

Conta solo l'avvenire DVD (1946)  
Also known as: Tomorrow Is Forever DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Irving Pichel

Cast: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood, John Wengraf, Sonny Howe, Michael Ward, Ian Wolfe, Joyce Mackenzie, Tom Wirick, Lane Watson, Henry Hastings

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Elizabeth and John say good-bye as John leaves to go to war. When the war ends, Elizabeth receives a telegram that John has been killed in action. She finds comfort in Larry and they marry. John returns 20 years later, disfigured, with a new identity, Erik, and an adopted daughter, Margaret. John/Erik and Elizabeth accidentally meet and he learns that he has a son, Drew. John must then decide whether or not to reveal his true identity.

Il contrabbandiere DVD (1958)  
Also known as: Thunder Road DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Arthur Ripley

Cast: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, Keely Smith, Trevor Bardette, Sandra Knight, James Mitchum

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison.

Contrabbando a Shanghai DVD (1947)  
Also known as: Intrigue DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian,. English

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Edwin L. Marin

Cast: George Raft, June Havoc, Helena Carter, Tom Tully, Marvin Miller, Dan Seymour, Jay C. Flippen, Philip Ahn, Charles Lane, Marc Krah, Nancy Hsueh, Nan Wynn, Peter Chong, Michael Ansara

Medium: DVD R/RW

Contro la legge DVD (1950)
Country:Italy

Spoken languages:Italian

Genres:Crime, Thriller

Director(s):Flavio Calzavara

Cast:
Marcello Mastroianni (as Marcello Curti), Fulvia Mammi (as Maria), Renato Malavasi (as Peppino), Mario Terribile (as Il venditore di uccelli), Manlio Busoni (as Il maresciallo (as Manilio Busoni)), Tino Buazzelli (as Il commissario), Angelo Canova (as Grigio), Paolo Panelli (as Tremolino), Miranda Campa (as La signora Curti), Giulio Battiferri, Pia De Doses, Celeste Marchesini, Marina Bonfigli, Giovanni Reali, Roberto Paoletti, Alfredo Petroni, Angelo Dessy, Orazio Costa, Andrea Petricca, Attilio Dottesio, Maria Teresa Albani, Gianni Bonagura, Alba Cuomo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Contronatura DVD (1969)  
Also known as: The unnaturals DVD (alternative title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian, Catalan

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Erotic

Director: Antonio Margheriti

Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Marianne Koch, Helga Anders, Claudio Camaso, Dominique Boschero, Luciano Pigozzi, Marianne Leibl, Giuliano Raffaelli, Marco Morelli, Gudrun Schmidt

Medium: DVD R/RW

Controspionaggio DVD (1954)  
Also known as: Betrayed DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, War, Romance

Director: Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, O.E. Hasse, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ian Carmichael, Niall MacGinnis, Nora Swinburne, Roland Culver, Leslie Weston, Christopher Rhodes, Lily Kann, Brian Smith, Anton Diffring

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy in Holland during WW2, although she is suspected of having cooperated with and taken help from the Nazis. Colonel Pieter Deventer of Dutch Intelligence agrees that she may train to join a team in the resistance movement. The team starts to suffer heavy losses after she has joined them. Is she a traitor?

La conversazione DVD (1974)  
Also known as: The Conversation DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth MacRae, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, Mark Wheeler, Robert Shields, Phoebe Alexander

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot Outline: Harry Caul is a devout Catholic and a lover of jazz music, he who plays his saxophone while listening to his jazz records. He is a San Francisco based electronic surveillance expert who owns and operates his own small surveillance business. He is renowned within the profession as being the best, he who designs and constructs his own surveillance equipment...

I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale DVD (1973)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Sergio Martino

Cast: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, John Richardson, Roberto Bisacco, Ernesto Colli, Angela Covello, Carla Brait, Conchita Airoldi, Patrizia Adiutori, Luciano Bartoli, Gianni Greco, Luciano De Ambrosis, Enrico DiMarco, Giorgio Dolfin

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Someone is strangling coeds in Perugia. The only clue is that the killer owns a red and black scarf, and police are stumped. American exchange student Jane and her friends decide to take a break from classes by going up to Danielle's uncle's villa in the country. Unfortunately the killer decides to follow, and the women begin suffering a rapid attrition problem

Corriere diplomatico DVD (1952)
Also known as: Diplomatic Courier DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: Henry Hathaway

Cast: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegard Knef, Karl Malden, James Millican, Stefan Schnabel, Herbert Berghof, Arthur Blake, Helene Stanley

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Department of State courier Mike Kelly ends up in postwar hotbed Trieste after failing to collect a package from a colleague. The Military Police are happy for him to get more involved, but things get a bit tough. After all, he is just a postman.

Corruzione DVD (1949)
Also known as: The Bribe DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak, Samuel S. Hinds, John Hoyt, Tito Renaldo, Martin Garralaga

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot Outline: In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief suspect Hintten and his wife Elizabeth, a sultry cafe singer; and is watched by Bealer, a "pie-shaped man" with sore feet. Rigby knows he's on the right track when Bealer offers him money to leave Carlota. When Rigby and Elizabeth are drawn to each other, the gang realizes there's more than one kind of bribe.

I corsari della strada DVD (1949)
Also known as: Thieves' Highway DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Jules Dassin

Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell, Joseph Pevney, Morris Carnovsky, Tamara Shayne, Kasia Orzazewski, Norbert Schiller, Hope Emerson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.

La corta notte delle bambole di vetro DVD (1971)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Aldo Lado

Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach, Fabijan Sovagovic, José Quaglio, Relja Basic, Piero Vida, Daniele Dublino, Sven Lasta, Luciano Catenacci, Michaela Martin, Vjenceslav Kapural, Jürgen Drews, Semka Sokolovic-Bertok

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.

La cortina del silenzio DVD (1951)
Also known as: Circle of Danger DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Cast: Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair, Naunton Wayne, Edward Rigby, Marjorie Fielding, John Bailey, Colin Gordon, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, David Hutcheson, Michael Brennan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Clay Douglas an American, comes to England, to find out the truth behind his brothers death during a commando operation in occupied France. After tracking down the surviving members of the raid, he confronts the killer, only to be told the truth about what really happened.

La cortina di bambù DVD (1968)
Also known as: The Bamboo Saucer DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Sci-Fi

Director: Frank Telford

Cast: Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton, Bob Hastings, Vincent Beck, Bernard Fox, Robert Dane, Rico Cattani, James Hong, Bartlett Robinson, Nick Katurich, William Mims, Nan Leslie, Andy Romano

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.

Cortina di spie DVD (1957)
Also known as: Five Steps to Danger DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romance

Director: Henry S. Kesler

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Ruth Roman, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines, Charles Davis, Jeanne Cooper, Peter Hansen, Karl Ludwig Lindt, John Mitchum, John Frederick

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When his car breaks down during a trip from Los Angeles to Texas John Emmett meets another motorist, Ann Nicholson, who offers him a lift. He learns that she is running away from her physician, Dr. Simmons, and the police, who want to question her about a murdered Central Intelligence Agent in Los Angeles...

Così scura la notte DVD (1946)
Also known as: So Dark the Night DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Cast: Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee, Egon Brecher, Helen Freeman

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?


I cospiratori DVD (1944)
Also known as: The Conspirators DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, War, Romance

Director: Jean Negulesco

Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Joseph Calleia, Carol Thurston, Vladimir Sokoloff, Eduardo Ciannelli, Steven Geray, Kurt Katch

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is forced to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis. There he meets a small band of underground conspirators. The group's leader, Ricardo Quintanilla, knows that one of their number is spying for the Nazis, and needs Van Der Lyn to help identify the traitor.

Il cranio e il corvo DVD (1963)
Also known as: The Mind Benders DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Basil Dearden

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig, Harold Goldblatt, Geoffrey Keen, Terry Palmer, Norman Bird

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn't know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.

Crescendo con terrore DVD (1970)
Also known as: Crescendo DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Director: Alan Gibson

Cast: Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire, Joss Ackland, Kirsten Lindholm

Medium: DVD R/RW

The crimes of Stephen Hawke DVD (1936)
Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: George King

Cast: Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Graham Soutten, Gerald Barry, George M. Slater, Charles Penrose, Norman Pierce, Flotsam and Jetsam

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.

Criminal story DVD (1967)
Also known as: La route de Corinthe DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Claude Chabrol

Cast: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Christian Marquand, Saro Urzì, Antonio Passalia, Paolo Giusti, Max Roman, Artemis Matsas, Zannino, Steve Eckardt, Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Michel Bouquet

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When US radar installations in Greece are jammed and an undercover NATO security man is killed, suspicion falls on his widow, who sets out to find the real culprits and prove herself innocent.

Il criminale DVD (1962)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Marcello Baldi

Cast: Jack Palance, Yvonne Furneaux, Andrea Checchi, Tina Di Carlo, Fanfulla, Salvo Randone, Franco Fabrizi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Criminale di turno DVD (1954)
Also known as: Pushover DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Richard Quine

Cast: Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone, E.G. Marshall, Allen Nourse

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. When she finds out Paul's a cop, to save herself she sets out to corrupt him. He's a pushover. But it won't be easy for Paul to get his hands on the money when he's part of a complex, peeping-tom stakeout. Soon, he's in much deeper than he'd planned, amid atmospheric night scenes.

Criminale sull'asfalto DVD (1956)
Also known as: Checkpoint DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian, English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Ralph Thomas

Cast: Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham, Michael Medwin, Paul Muller, Lee Patterson, Anne Heywood, Anthony Oliver, Philip Gilbert, MacDonald Hobley, Robert Rietty, Andreas Malandrinos, Dino Galvani

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Stanley Baker's character is sent to steal the plans from another company of their racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot.

I criminali della banda Dillinger DVD (1966)
Also known as: Die Rechnung - eiskalt serviert DVD (original title)

Country: Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Director: Helmut Ashley

Cast: George Nader, Yvonne Monlaur, Horst Tappert, Heinz Weiss, Ullrich Haupt, Walter Rilla, Helga Schlack, Christian Doermer, Birke Bruck, Arthur Brauss, Axel Scholtz, Ilija Ivezic, Rainer Brandt, Richard Münch

Medium: DVD R/RW

Criminali in pantofole DVD (1974)
Also known as: Homebodies DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Director: Larry Yust

Cast: Peter Brocco, Frances Fuller, William Hansen, Ruth McDevitt, Paula Trueman, Ian Wolfe, Linda Marsh, Douglas Fowley, Kenneth Tobey, Wesley Lau, Norman Gottschalk, Ireene Webster, Nicholas Lewis, Michael Johnson, Alma Du Bus

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.

Crimine silenzioso DVD (1958)
Also known as: The Lineup DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Don Siegel

Cast: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Richard Jaeckel, Mary LaRoche, William Leslie, Emile Meyer, Marshall Reed, Raymond Bailey, Vaughn Taylor, Cheryl Callaway, Robert Bailey, Warner Anderson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In San Francisco, two police inspectors are on the case when a rogue taxi driver, with the help of a rogue porter, manages to steal the suitcase of an antiques collector before running down a cop, whose dying gesture is to shoot the cabbie dead. The inspectors discover that a statuette in the suitcase contains heroin. Meanwhile, a psychopathic gangster...

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