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Due detectives quasi privati DVD (1980)
Also known as: The Private Eyes DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy, Mystery

Director: Lang Elliott

Cast: Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Trisha Noble, Bernard Fox, Grace Zabriskie, John Fujioka, Stan Ross, Irwin Keyes, Suzy Mandel, Fred Stuthman, Mary Nell Santacroce, Robert V. Barron, Patrick Cranshaw, Russi Taylor (voice)

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: This spoof of the Sherlock Holmes stories finds Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart investigating a strange death in a possibly haunted mansion, while dealing with the beautiful heiress and the crazed staff which live therein.

E poi non ne rimase nessuno DVD (1974)
Also known as: Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Peter Collinson

Cast: Charles Aznavour, Maria Rohm, Adolfo Celi, Stéphane Audran, Alberto de Mendoza, Richard Attenborough, Gert Fröbe, Herbert Lom, Elke Sommer, Oliver Reed, Orson Welles (voice), Teresa Gimpera, Rik Battaglia, Nasser Malekmotei, Sepedeh

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A group is invited, under false pretenses, to an isolated hotel in the Iranian desert. After dinner, a cassette tape accuses them all of crimes that they have gotten away with. One by one they begin to die, in accordance to the Ten Little Indians Nursery rhyme. After a search is made of the hotel, they realize that the murderer is one of them. A few members of the group attempt to trust each other, but the question still remains, who can one trust? and who will leave the hotel alive?

E tanta paura DVD (1976)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Paolo Cavara

Cast: Corinne Cléry, Michele Placido, Quinto Parmeggiani, Edoardo Faieta, John Steiner, Jacques Herlin, Cecilia Polizzi, Greta Vayan, Sarah Ceccarini, Enrico Oldoini, Tom Skerritt, Eli Wallach, Giorgio Gargiullo, Eleonora Vivaldi, Guidarino Guidi

Medium: DVD R/RW

É tardi per piangere DVD (1949)
Also known as: Too Late for Tears DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: Byron Haskin

Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller, Barry Kelley

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon, the Palmers are traced by one Danny Fuller, a sleazy character who claims the money is his. To hang onto it, Jane will need all the qualities of an ultimate femme fatale...and does she ever have them!

Edgar Wallace a Scotland Yard DVD (1963)
Also known as: Der Zinker DVD (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Director: Alfred Vohrer

Cast: Heinz Drache, Barbara Rütting, Günter Pfitzmann, Jan Hendriks, Inge Langen, Agnes Windeck, Wolfgang Wahl, Siegfried Wischnewski, Siegfried Schürenberg, Albert Bessler, Heinz Spitzner, Erik von Loewis, Stanislav Ledinek, Winfried Groth, Eddi Arent

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

Edgar Wallace e l'abate nero DVD (1963)
Also known as: Der schwarze Abt DVD (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb

Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Grit Boettcher, Dieter Borsche, Charles Regnier, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Werner Peters, Alice Treff, Harry Wüstenhagen, Friedrich Schoenfelder, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.

L'elegante giustiziere DVD (1931)
Also known as: The Public Defender DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: J. Walter Ruben

Cast: Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Ruth Weston, Edmund Breese, Frank Sheridan, Alan Roscoe, Boris Karloff, Nella Walker, Paul Hurst, Carl Gerard, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Phillips Smalley

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement scandal. Using meticulous planning and split-second timing, Pike, along with his associates, the erudite 'Professor' and tough-guy scrapper 'Doc', attempt to find proof that will clear Gerry and identify the real culprits.

L'enigma dell'orchidea rossa DVD (1962)
Also known as: Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee DVD (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Director: Helmut Ashley

Cast: Christopher Lee, Adrian Hoven, Marisa Mell, Pinkas Braun, Christiane Nielsen, Eric Pohlmann, Fritz Rasp, Wolfgang Büttner, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Günther Jerschke, Sigrid von Richthofen, Hans Paetsch, Edgar Wenzel, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

Enigma rosso DVD (1978)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Alberto Negrin

Cast: Fabio Testi, Christine Kaufmann, Ivan Desny, Jack Taylor, Fausta Avelli, Bruno Alessandro, Carolin Ohrner, Silvia Aguilar, Taida Urruzola

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves "The Inseparables."

Equus DVD (1977)
Also known as: Equus DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Director: Sidney Lumet

Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews, Eileen Atkins, Jenny Agutter, Kate Reid, John Wyman, Elva Mai Hoover, Ken James, Patrick Brymer

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

El espectro de la novia DVD (1943)
Country: Mexico

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Director: René Cardona

Cast: Julio Ahuet, David T. Bamberg, Narciso Busquets, Mimí Derba, Cuquita Escobar, Josefina Escobedo, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Manuel Medel, José Pidal, Ángel T. Sala, Agustín Sen, Hernán Vera

Medium: DVD R/RW

Facce per l'inferno DVD (1968)
Also known as: P.J. DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Mystery

Director: John Guillermin

Cast: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jason Evers, Coleen Gray, Susan Saint James, Severn Darden, Jane Van Duser, George Furth, Barbara Dana, Herb Edelman, John Qualen, Bert Freed

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Private eye P.J. is reluctant when he gets a new job: he shall protect Maureen Preble, mistress of millionaire Orbeson, mainly from attacks by his wife and her greedy family. In truth Orbeson plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile P.J. falls in love with Maureen and Orbeson's money.

Il Falco a Hollywood DVD (1944)
Also known as: The Falcon in Hollywood DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Gordon Douglas

Cast: Tom Conway, Barbara Hale, Veda Ann Borg, John Abbott, Sheldon Leonard, Konstantin Shayne, Emory Parnell, Frank Jenks, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday, Walter Soderling, Useff Ali, Robert Clarke, George DeNormand, Nancy Marlow

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: Vacationing in Hollywood doesn't free the Falcon from investigating murder. The victim is an actor whose fashion designer wife has been having an affair with a director.

Il Falco a San Francisco DVD (1945)
Also known as: The Falcon in San Francisco DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward Brophy, Sharyn Moffett, Fay Helm, Robert Armstrong, Carl Kent, George Holmes, John Mylong, Esther Howard

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot Outlin: On vacation, Tom Lawrence--The Falcon--and his Brooklyn-born sidekick 'Goldie' Locke meet cute with a little girl named Annie whose nurse has just been murdered. Accompanying Annie home, The Falcon is arrested for kidnapping, but bailed out of jail by a mysterious woman...

Il Falco colpisce ancora DVD (1943)
Also known as: The Falcon Strikes Back DVD (origianal title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Cast: Tom Conway, Harriet Hilliard, Jane Randolph, Edgar Kennedy, Cliff Edwards, Rita Corday, Erford Gage, Wynne Gibson, André Charlot, Richard Loo, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, The Velma Dawson Puppets

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.

Il Falco e le studentesse DVD (1943)
Also known as: The Falcon and the Co-eds DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: William Clemens

Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday, Amelita Ward, Isabel Jewell, George Givot, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, Barbara Brown, Nita Hunter, Ruth Álvarez, Nancy McCollum, Patti Brill, Olin Howland

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: Tom Lawrence, the Falcon, is called to the Bluecliff School for young ladies to look into the murder of one of its professors (and hopefully cover up the scandal such a murder will entail). After his arrival murder strikes again.

Il Falco galante DVD (1941)
Also known as: The Gay Falcon DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Irving Reis

Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Nina Vale, Gladys Cooper, Edward Brophy, Arthur Shields, Damian O'Flynn, Turhan Bey, Eddie Dunn, Lucile Gleason, Willie Fung, Florence Bates

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: The Falcon investigates jewel thieves who are working with hard up socialites to defraud insurance companies. First of the Falcon series.

Il Falco in Messico DVD (1944)
Also known as: The Falcon in Mexico DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Director: William Berke

Cast: Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha Vickers, Nestor Paiva, Mary Currier, Cecilia Callejo, Emory Parnell, Joseph Vitale, Pedro de Cordoba, Fernando Alvarado, Bryant Washburn

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: An artist's daughter becomes suspicious when new paintings by her supposedly dead father begin turning up in New York. When a gallery owner is murdered, the Falcon and Miss Wade head for Mexico City to investigate.

Il Falco in pericolo DVD (1943)
Also known as: The Falcon in Danger DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Director: William Clemens

Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard, Amelita Ward, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, Clarence Kolb, Felix Basch, Richard Davies, Richard Martin, Erford Gage, Eddie Dunn, Ian Wolfe

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.

Il Falco nel West DVD (1944)
Also known as: The Falcon Out West DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Western, Mystery

Director: William Clemens

Cast: Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Joan Barclay, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, Minor Watson, Donald Douglas, Lyle Talbot, Lee Trent, Perc Launders

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.

Il fantasma DVD (1945)
Also known as: The Unseen DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: Lewis Allen

Cast: Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks, Isobel Elsom, Norman Lloyd, Mikhail Rasumny, Elisabeth Risdon, Tom Tully, Nona Griffith, Richard Lyon

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il fantasma del circo DVD (1927)
Also known as: Was ist los im Zirkus Beely? DVD (original title)

Country: Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Mystery

Director: Harry Piel

Cast: Harry Piel, Charly Berger, Eugen Burg, Fritz Greiner, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Ilona Karolewna, Max Ralph-Ostermann, Hanni Weisse

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il fantasma della città DVD (1940)
Also known as: Phantom of Chinatown DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime, Romance, Mystery

Director: Phil Rosen

Cast: Keye Luke, Grant Withers, Lotus Long, Charles Miller, Huntley Gordon, Virginia Carpenter, John Dilson, Paul McVey, John Holland, Richard Terry, Robert Kellard, Willy Castello, Lee Tung Foo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on. Win Lee, Benton's secretary, reveals the doctor's dying words refer to a scroll which tells the location of rich oil deposits. Wong and Street then begin the search for the killer among Benton's associates.

Il fantasma della quarantaduesima strada DVD (1945)
Also known as: The Phantom of 42nd Street DVd (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Mystery

Director: Albert Herman

Cast: Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge, Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks, Edythe Elliott, Jack Mulhall, Vera Marshe, Stanley Price, John Crawford, Cyril Delevanti, Paul Power

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An actor is killed during the performance of a play and critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) undertakes to solve the crime. Claudia Moore (Kay Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves, is suspected, but when two more deaths occur, she is also threatened by the Phantom Killer. During a production of "Julius Caesar" the killer makes a final attempt.

Il fantasma della radio DVD (1933)
Also known as: The Phantom Broadcast DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Mystery

Director: Phil Rosen

Cast: Ralph Forbes, Vivienne Osborne, Arnold Gray, Gail Patrick, Paul Page, Pauline Garon, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Rockliffe Fellowes, Harland Tucker, Carl Miller, Mary MacLaren, George Nash, Althea Henley, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame. The two men fall for the same girl, and when the singer turns up dead, suspicion falls upon his assistant and the girl.

Il fantasma di Crestwood DVD (1932)
Also known as: The Phantom of Crestwood DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Director: J. Walter Ruben

Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise, Pauline Frederick, H.B. Warner, Mary Duncan, Sam Hardy, Tom Douglas, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Aileen Pringle, Ivan F. Simpson, George E. Stone, Robert McWade, Hilda Vaughn, Gavin Gordon

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Jenny Wren coerces banker Priam Andes to have a dinner party at his shorefront estate Crestwood, and instructs him to invite three other men, each of whom she plans to extort money from. Jenny plans to retire to Europe after a life of involvement with wealthy and influential men. Also at the party, among others, are Jenny's sister Esther and her fiance, scion of the Andes' family. But death also attends and Jenny's plans are thwarted.

Il fantasma di Londra DVD (1967)
Also known as: Der Mönch mit der Peitsche DVD (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Alfred Vohrer

Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Uschi Glas, Grit Boettcher, Konrad Georg, Harry Riebauer, Tilly Lauenstein, Ilse Pagé, Siegfried Rauch, Claus Holm, Günter Meisner, Hans Epskamp, Heinz Spitzner, Jan Hendriks, Rudolf Schündler, Narziß Sokatscheff

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas.

Il fantasma di Parigi DVD (1931)
Also known as: The Phantom of Paris DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Director: John S. Robertson

Cast: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith, Natalie Moorhead, Ian Keith, Alfred Hickman

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him. Max has killed Bourrelier before he was removed from the will so that he will be rich when he marries Cecile. Together with Vera, they put the blame on Bibi, who is a romantic rival to Max, and he is sentenced to death. But Bibi escapes before his execution and hides in Herman's secret cellar. When he learns that Max is dying, Bibi goes to his house for his confession, but Max dies before it is told to anyone else. So Bibi, has just one chance, and he goes to Dr. Gorin who will make him look like Max so that he can clear his name and put the blame where it belongs - on Max, even in death.

Il fantasma di Soho DVD (1964)
Also known as: Das Phantom von Soho DVD (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb

Cast: Dieter Borsche, Barbara Rütting, Hans Söhnker, Peter Vogel, Helga Sommerfeld, Werner Peters, Hans Nielsen, Stanislav Ledinek, Otto Waldis, Hans W. Hamacher, Emil Feldmann, Harald Sawade, Kurt Jaggberg, Elisabeth Flickenschildt

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Sgt. Halan and Chief Ins. Patten of Scotland Yard are called in to investigate several murders which have taken place near the Sansibar, a Soho nightclub. They soon discover the true story of the hooded killer in a grisly skull mask and golden gloves killing off the survivors of the shipwrecked "Yolanda".

Il fantasma maledetto DVD (1961)
Also known as: Die seltsame Gräfin DVD (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Director: Josef von Báky

Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Marianne Hoppe, Rudolf Fernau, Richard Häussler, Edith Hancke, Eddi Arent, Fritz Rasp, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Alexander Engel, Klaus Kinski, Lil Dagover

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il fantino di Kent DVD (1936)
Also known as: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Mystery

Director: Stephen Roberts

Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore, Robert Armstrong, Lila Lee, Grant Mitchell, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ralph Morgan, Lucile Gleason

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Relations between Dr. 'Brad' Bradford and ex-wife Paula are surprisingly romantic. They divorced because Brad hated being dragged into murder mysteries, to which mystery writer Paula is addicted. But through horse trainer Mike North, Brad is embroiled in the case of a jockey who died of "heart failure" during a race. As they pursue clues, Paula pursues Brad for remarriage, and assorted hoods pursue the Bradfords.

Fantomas DVD (1947)
Also known as: Fantômas DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Mystery

Director: Jean Sacha

Cast: Marcel Herrand, Simone Signoret, Alexandre Rignault, Lucienne Le Marchand, Renaud Mary, Georges Gosset, Françoise Christophe, Paul Amiot, Allain Dhurtal, Paul Faivre, Robert Moor, Pierre Labry, Robert Berri, Jacques Dynam, Marcel Lestan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Fantomas all'ombra della ghigliottina DVD (1913)
Also known as: Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French, Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Louis Feuillade

Cast: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl, Jane Faber, Volbert, Naudier, Maillard, Yvette Andréyor, Edmund Breon

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Fantômas makes it as the emperor of Crime. First is the robbery at the Royal Palace Hotel. Then he abducts Lord Beltham. As Fantômas' fame increases actor Valgrand creates the rôle of public enemy No.1 on stage. Eventually Inspector Juve, with a little help from Fandor, arrests Fantômas and he is soon sentenced to die on the guillotine. But...

Fantomas contro Fantomas DVD (1914)
Also known as: Fantomas contre Fantomas DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French, Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Director: Louis Feuillade

Cast: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Laurent Morléas, Renée Carl, Jane Faber, Yvette Andréyor, Naudier

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: As inspector Juve seems to be unable to put Fantômas behind bars the Press comes up with the idea Juve must be Fantômas himself! Juve is soon jailed as an attempt to ease the stress on his case. But Fantômas is free and having his old archrival convicted is certainly an evil dream he wants to come true.

Fantomas contro Fantomas DVD (1949)
Also known as: Fantômas contre Fantômas DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Robert Vernay

Cast: Marcelle Chantal, Aimé Clariond, Alexandre Rignault, Robert Arnoux, Berthe Bovy, Yves Furet, Nora Costes, Antoine Balpêtré, Janine Marsay, Jean d'Yd, Sinoël, Jean Témerson, Paul Azaïs, Sabine André, Jean Aymé

Medium: DVD R/RW

Fantomas contro Juve DVD (1913)
Also known as: Juve contre Fantomas DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French, Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Louis Feuillade

Cast: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl, Yvette Andréyor, Jane Faber, Edmund Breon, Laurent Morléas, Marthe Vinot

Medium: DVD R/RW

Fantomas e il falso magistrato DVD (1914)
Also known as: Le faux magistrat DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French, Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Louis Feuillade

Cast: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Mesnery, Laurent Morléas, Jean-François Martial, Germaine Pelisse, Suzanne Le Bret, Jane Faber, Renée Carl

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Fantômas has been arrested and is jailed in Brussels, but inspector Juve wants him arrested and sentenced for all his crimes in France. Thus Juve settles Fantômas' escape so he can be traced to his gang's, in Saint-Calais - France, where apaches Paulet and Ribonard have just robbed the diamonds of the broke Marquis de Tergall. On his way Fantômas kills justice Pradier and decides to go under this disguise when he finds that Pradier had just been appointed to Saint-Calais' court.

Fantomas e il morto che uccide DVD (1913)
Also known as: Le mort qui tue (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French, Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Director: Louis Feuillade

Cast: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Luitz-Morat, André Luguet, Naudier, Renée Carl, Fabienne Fabrèges, Jane Faber, Edmond Bréon

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas finally be brought to justice?

La fenêtre DVD (1970)
Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Mystery

Director(s): Jacques Pierre

Cast: Michael Lonsdale (as Bracquemont), Jacqueline Danno (as Clarimonde), Hélène Dieudonné (as Mme Dubonnet), Alexandre Rignault (as Le commissaire), Mireille Perrey

Medium: DVD R/RW

Fermate l'Orient Express DVD (1978)
Also known as: Istanbul Express DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Adventure, Giallo

Director: Richard Irving

Cast: Gene Barry, John Saxon, Senta Berger, Mary Ann Mobley, Tom Simcox, Werner Peters, Donald Woods, Jack Kruschen, John Marley, Philip Bourneuf, Norma Varden, Émile Genest, Moustache

Medium: DVD R/RW

La finestra della morte DVD (1964)
Also known as: Constance aux enfers DVD (original title)

Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Director: François Villiers

Cast: Michèle Morgan, Dany Saval, Simón Andreu, Maria Pacôme, Claude Rich, George Rigaud, Carlos Casaravilla, Tota Alba, Antonio Casas, Matilde Muñoz Sampedro

Medium: DVD R/RW

Formula per un delitto DVD (1970)
Also known as: Along Came a Spider DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Giallo

Director: Lee H. Katzin

Cast: Suzanne Pleshette, Andrew Prine, Richard Anderson, Ed Nelson, Brooke Bundy, Wright King, Barry Atwater, Milton Selzer, Frank Ferguson, Virginia Gregg, Johnnie Collins III, Joe E. Tata, Howard Beckler, Lex Johnson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When Janet Furie's scientist husband dies during an experiment gone wrong, she suspects that he was murdered by another scientist, Dr. Martin Becker. She hatches a clever revenge plan. By changing her looks and assuming a new identity, she insinuates herself into the life of Dr. Becker, all the while plotting to destroy his life and career. But is Dr. Becker really guilty?

Le foto proibite di una signora per bene DVD (1970)
Country: Italy/Spain

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Luciano Ercoli

Cast: Dagmar Lassander, Pier Paolo Capponi, Simón Andreu, Osvaldo Genazzani, Salvador Huguet, Nieves Navarro

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A triangle of friendship, love, sex, and, perhaps, murder. Minou is newly married to Peter, a businessman in debt as he works to bring a new product to market. They met through Dominique, sexually voracious, Minou's best friend, and Peter's former (and possibly still) lover. A stranger accosts Minou one night on the beach while Peter is away. He tells her that Peter has murdered a business associate and blackmails her into sleeping with him. He compounds the blackmail with photos taken of their tryst. To Minou's surprise, this same stranger is in a pornographic photo Dominique has imported from Denmark. Is this all a game, and if so, who's behind it?

Frammenti di paura DVD (1970)
Also known as: Fragment of Fear DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

Cast: David Hemmings, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Adolfo Celi, Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, Roland Culver, Daniel Massey, Mona Washbourne, Arthur Lowe, Yootha Joyce, Derek Newark, Patricia Hayes, Mary Wimbush, Philip Stone, Glynn Edwards

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A young British author is plunged into a nightmare as he tries to solve his aunt's murder in Italy. When threats of violence, mysterious notes and deadly phone calls shatter his life, the police and his girlfriend doubt the story due to his past as a drug addict - even though his life is in danger.

Il fratello più furbo di Sherlock Holmes DVD (1975)
Also known as: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Musical

Director: Gene Wilder

Cast: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern, Roy Kinnear, Aubrey Morris, John Le Mesurier, Douglas Wilmer, Thorley Walters, George Silver, Nicholas Smith, John Hollis, Tommy Godfrey, Susan Field

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Sherlock Holmes' younger brother is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying success, to imitate Sherlock's deductive and observational tricks.

La freccia avvelenata DVD (1936)
Also known as: Charlie Chan at the Race Track DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sport

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast: Warner Oland, George Irving, Frankie Darro, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart, Gavin Muir, Gloria Roy, Jonathan Hale, G.P. Huntley, Frank Coghlan Jr., John Rogers, John Henry Allen, Harry Jans

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: While steaming from Honolulu to Los Angeles the owner of a prize racehorse headed for the Santa Anita Handicap is killed, apparently kicked to death by his stallion. Not so, deduces Charlie. Leter he exposes efforts to fix a race at the famous track.

La fuga di Bulldog Drummond DVD (1937)
Also known as: Bulldog Drummond Escapes DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Adventure, Mystery

Director: James P. Hogan

Cast: Ray Milland, Reginald Denny, Guy Standing, Heather Angel, Porter Hall, Fay Holden, E.E. Clive, Walter Kingsford, P.J. Kelly, Charles McNaughton, Clyde Cook, Frank Elliott, David Clyde, Doris Lloyd

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Captain High 'Bulldog' Drummond has just returned to England. As he is driving home in the dark, a young woman jumps out in front of his car. He misses her, but she falls to the ground. As he tries to revive her, he hears a shout for help, then gunshots. As he goes to investigate, the woman drives away with Drummond's car. He is soon able to trace her to nearby Greystone Manor, and when he goes there to meet her, she urges him to help her get out of a desperate situation.

Fumeria d'oppio DVD (1950)
Also known as: Ritorna Za La Mort DVD (alternative title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Mystery

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast: Emilio Ghione Jr., Mariella Lotti, Armando Francioli, Umberto Spadaro, Fedele Gentile, Enrico Glori, Emilio Cigoli, Paolo Stoppa, Domenico Serra, Ida Bracci Dorati, Fiore Davanzati, Adriana de Roberto

Medium: DVD R/RW

Fuoco alle spalle DVD (1950)
Also known as: Backfire DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Vincent Sherman

Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Gordon MacRae, Ed Begley, Sheila MacRae, Frances Robinson, Richard Rober, David Hoffman

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans' hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connelly, with whom he intended to buy a ranch, has disappeared under circumstance that indicate he may have been involved in a murder. Accompanied by his nurse, Julie Benson, with whom he has fallen in love, Bob follows a series of clues and incidents, including three more murders, that leads to a gambler, masquerading as an undertaker to avoid taxes on his illegal income, has a whole lot to do with his friend's predicament.

La furia dei Baskerville DVD (1959)
Also known as: The Hound of the Baskervilles DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Horror, Mystery

Director: Terence Fisher

Cast: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, David Oxley, Francis De Wolff, Miles Malleson, Ewen Solon, John Le Mesurier, Helen Goss, Sam Kydd, Michael Hawkins, Judi Moyens, Michael Mulcaster, David Birks

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Returning to his family's manor house on the lonely moors after his father dies under mysterious circumstances, Sir Henry Baskerville is confronted with the mystery of the supernatural hound that supposedly takes revenge upon the Baskerville family. The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson are brought in to investigate.

Futurismo DVD (1924)
Also known as: L'inhumaine DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Mystery

Director: Marcel L'Herbier

Cast: Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat, Fred Kellerman, Georgette Leblanc, Marcelle Pradot, Prince Tokio, Las Bonambellas, Rolf de Mare Ballets

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Claire Lescot is a famous prima donna. All men want to be loved by her. Among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself... But the story is much less important than the scenery : this movie intended to be a manifesto of the modern decorative arts.

La gang della città dei divorzi DVD (1957)
Also known as: Affair in Reno DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Director: R.G. Springsteen

Cast: Doris Singleton, Alan Hale Jr., Howard McNear, Richard Deacon, John Lund, John Archer, Angela Greene, Harry Bartell, Thurston Hall, Sailor Vincent, Eddie Foster

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Gloria Hall, an irresponsible heiress, is in Reno for her second divorce, and falls for Tony Lamarr, a fortune-hunting gambler and casino owner. J. B. Del Monte,her father in New York City, sends his public-relations man, Bill Carter, to buy off the gambler if Carter is not successful in convincing Glaoria that Lamarr is interested only in her money. When Bill is attacked at the Reno airport, Del Monte arranges, sight-unseen, for a bodyguard to go to Reno to look after Carter...and his $100,000. The bodyguard turns out to be Nora Ballard, an attractive girl and a Judo expert.

I gangsters non perdonano DVD (1956)
Also known as: Accused of Murder DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Mystery

Director: Joseph Kane

Cast: Sidney Blackmer, Warren Stevens, Lee Van Cleef, Elisha Cook Jr., Hank Worden, David Brian, Vera Ralston, Virginia Grey, Barry Kelley, Richard Karlan, Frank Puglia, Ian MacDonald, Greta Thyssen, Claire Carleton

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When gangland lawyer Frank Hobart is murdered there are two suspects, Ilona Vanve , beautiful nightclub singer, and a hood named Stan , who has been hired by underworld boss Chad Bayliss to kill Hobart. Attracted to Ilona, Lt. Detective Roy Hargis tries to protect her in spite of the growing evidence against her and the pressure put on him by his assistant, Sergeant Lackey. Hargis thinks the case has broken when a dance-hall girl, Sandra Lamoreaux , who saw Stan at the scene of the murder, tries to use this information to blackmail him, and is badly beaten. She manages to talk to Hargis, and her story brings about Stan's capture and conviction for murder. But he didn't do it. It is now up to Hargis to either clear or convict Ilona.

IL gatto il topo la paura e l'amore DVD (1975)
Also known as: Le chat et la souris DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Director: Claude Lelouch

Cast: Michèle Morgan, Serge Reggiani, Philippe Léotard, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valérie Lagrange, Michel Peyrelon, Christine Laurent, Philippe Labro, Jacques François, Arlette Emmery, Jean Mermet, Anne Libert, Judith Magre, Yves Afonso, Jack Berard

Medium: DVD R/RW

Gente di rispetto DVD (1975)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Director: Luigi Zampa

Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Franco Nero, James Mason, Orazio Orlando, Aldo Giuffrè, Claudio Gora, Luigi Bonos, Carla Calò, Gino Pagnani, Franco Fabrizi, Oreste Baldini, Alessandro Maugeri, Rosario Bonaventura, Lino De Agró, Fernando Jelo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets.

Gentiluomo ma non troppo DVD (1948)
Also known as: Alias a Gentleman DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Giallo

Director(s): Harry Beaumont

Cast: Wallace Beery (as Jim Breedin), Tom Drake (as Johnny Lorgen), Dorothy Patrick (as Elaine Carter), Gladys George (as Madge Parkson), Leon Ames (as Matt Enley), Warner Anderson (as Capt. Charlie Lopen), John Qualen (as No End), Sheldon Leonard (as Harry Bealer), Trevor Bardette (as Jig Johnson), Jeff Corey (as Zu), Marc Krah (as Spats Edwards), William Forrest (as Carruthers), Morris Ankrum (as O.K. , scenes deleted), George Chandler (as Curly Britt , scenes deleted), Henry Kulky (as Moving Man , scenes deleted), Lou Lubin (as Pickpocket , scenes deleted), Lee Phelps (as Mahaffy , scenes deleted), Harry Strang (as Detective , scenes deleted), Nan Bennett (as Saleswoman , uncredited), Basil Brigadier (as Assistant Decorator , uncredited), John Butler (as Gimp , uncredited), Cliff Clark (as The Warden , uncredited), Tom Daly (as Mug , uncredited), Fred Datig Jr. (as Rookie Cop , uncredited), Jerry De Castro (as Assistant Tailor , uncredited), Eddie Dunn (as Mug , uncredited), Sam Finn (as Waiter , uncredited), Pat Gleason (as Eddie , uncredited), John Goldsworthy (as Morton, the Butler , uncredited), Jane Green (as Dowager , uncredited), William Hall (as (uncredited), Dalonne Jackson (as Hat Check Girl , uncredited), Ann Lawrence (as Actress , uncredited), Jack Lee (as (uncredited), Allen Mathews (as (uncredited), Paul Maxey (as Party Guest , uncredited), Frank McGrath (as Murph , uncredited), Howard M. Mitchell (as Detective , uncredited), King Mojave (as Waiter , uncredited), Philip Morris (as (uncredited), Bill Neff (as Rookie Cop , uncredited), Jack Norton (as Charnell , uncredited), Robert Emmett O'Connor (as Doorman , uncredited), Barry Regan (as Thug , uncredited), Jeffrey Sayre (as Party Guest , uncredited), Charles Sullivan (as Waiter , uncredited), William Tannen (as Interne , uncredited), Laura Treadwell (as Dowager , uncredited), Charles Wagenheim (as Con , uncredited), Max Willenz (as Tailor , uncredited), Bud Wolfe (as Driver , uncredited)

Medium: DVD R/RW

The ghost camera DVD (1933)
Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Mystery

Director: Bernard Vorhaus

Cast: Ida Lupino, John Mills, Henry Kendall, Victor Stanley, George Merritt, Felix Aylmer, Davina Craig, Fred Groves

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.

The ghost of Rosy Taylor DVD (1918)
Country: USA

Spoken Languages:

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Director: Edward Sloman

Cast: Mary Miles Minter, Allan Forrest, George Periolat, Helen Howard, Emma Kluge, Kate Price, Anne Schaefer

Medium: DVD R/RW

Ghost parade DVD (1931)
Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy, Mystery, Short

Director: Mack Sennett

Cast: Marion Sayers, Andy Clyde, Marjorie Beebe, Harry Gribbon, Frank Eastman, Babe Stafford, Aline West, Charles Gemora

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When Mr. Martin and everyone else in Mosby Manor hears strange noises during the night, they fear that it might be the ghost of Martin's uncle, who died in the Civil War. But the next day, the local constable investigates, and he finds mice in the attic who are making the odd sounds by crawling across some musical instruments stored there. But their relief does not last long. As they are showing the house to some potential buyers, a new series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events begins.

The ghost walks DVD (1934)
Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Frank R. Strayer

Cast: John Miljan, June Collyer, Richard Carle, Henry Kolker, Johnny Arthur, Spencer Charters, Donald Kirke, Eve Southern, Douglas Gerrard, Wilson Benge, Jack Shutta, Harry Strang

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: On a stormy night, a theatrical producer, his secretary, and playwright Prescott Ames are stranded when their car skids off the road and gets stuck. The three take refuge in the nearby home of Dr. Kent, a friend of Ames. One of Kent's patients, who is staying at the house, is acting strangely, and the others in the house tell the newcomers that she is behaving this way because it is the anniversary of her husband's murder. At dinner, the group begins exchanging accusations about the murder, when suddenly the lights go out, and soon afterwards comes the first in a series of mysterious and fearful events.

Giallo DVD (1933)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Comedy, Giallo

Director: Mario Camerini

Cast: Assia Noris, Sandro Ruffini, Elio Steiner, Giulio Gemmò, Carlo Ranieri, Aronne Limardi, Carlo Lombardi, Vanda Barbini, Luigi Erminio D'Olivo, Giuditta Rissone

Medium: DVD R/RW

Giallo a Creta DVD (1964)
Also known as: The Moon spinners DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Family, Romance, Mystery

Director: James Neilson

Cast: Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Joan Greenwood, Irene Papas, John Le Mesurier, Sheila Hancock, André Morell, Peter McEnery, Paul Stassino, Michael Davis, George Pastell, Tutte Lemkow, Steve Plytas, Harry Tardios, Pamela Barrie

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.