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Gli assassini sono tra noi DVD (1946)
Also known as: Die Mörder sind unter uns DVD (original title)
Country: Germany
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, War, Romance
Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Cast: Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, Hildegard Knef, Arno Paulsen, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi, Marlise Ludwig, Ursula Krieg, Robert Forsch, Albert Johannes, Wolfgang Dohnberg, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Subtitles: Italian
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he drinks a lot of alcohol. Susanne asks him to go but he doesn't want to, so they share Susanne's apartment and even discover their sympathy and then their love for each other. That encourages him a little, of course. But then he hears that Ferdinand Brückner is still alive and also lives in Berlin. Brückner was his Captain during WW2, he gave the order to kill more than 100 innocent people, many children and women among them, on Christmas 1942 in Poland.
Assassinio a 45 giri DVD (1960)
Also known as: Meurtre en 45 tours DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
Director: Etienne Périer
Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Jean Servais, Raymond Gérôme, Mathilde Casadesus, Jacqueline Danno, Julien Verdier, Bernard Musson, Madeleine Barbulée, Ada Lonati, Henri Guisol, Bernard La Jarrige, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Prince, René Lamar
Medium: DVD R/RW
Assassinio a bordo DVD (1964)
Also known as: Murder Ahoy DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn, Joan Benham, Stringer Davis, Nicholas Parsons, Miles Malleson, Henry Oscar, Derek Nimmo, Gerald Cross, Norma Foster, Terence Edmond, Francis Matthews, Lucy Griffiths
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Miss Marple investigates the murder of one of her fellow trustees of a fund which rehabilitates young criminals. To investigate she goes aboard the ship used to train the juveniles, much to the distress of the Captain. She soon stumbles onto more murders, and a ring of thieves.
Assassinio al galoppatoio DVD (1963)
Also known as: Murder at the Gallop DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Gordon Harris, Robert Urquhart, Katya Douglas, James Villiers, Noel Howlett, Finlay Currie, Duncan Lamont, Kevin Stoney
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The old and wealthy Mr. Enderby dies of a heart attack but the ever suspicious Miss Marple has her doubts. Who or what gave him a heart attack? Enderby's poor relatives gather at the The Gallop, a combined boarding-house and riding school. Miss Marple also gets there to find out if any of them had any particular reasons to see him dead.
Assassinio al sole DVD (1974)
Also known as: Le hasard et la violence DVD (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama
Director: Philippe Labro
Cast: Yves Montand, Katharine Ross, Antonio Casagrande, Catherine Allégret, Sergio Fantoni, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Giuseppe Addobbati, Riccardo Mangano, Massimo De Rossi, Corinne Puccar, René Morard, Dan Vieru, Jean-Pierre Mette, H. Raynaud, Pierre Dominique
Medium: DVD R/RW
Assassinio al terzo piano DVD (1967)
Also known as: Games DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller
Director: Curtis Harrington
Cast: Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross, Don Stroud, Kent Smith, Estelle Winwood, Marjorie Bennett, Ian Wolfe, Anthony Eustrel, Eloise Hardt, George Furth, Peter Brocco, William O'Connell, Ena Hartman, Joanne Medley
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A bored art-collecting Manhattan couple invite an interesting aging cosmetics saleswoman to enliven their dull lives by directing sex and death "games." Featuring a corpse encased in plaster and displayed in the living room as art, and a triple-cross ending.
Assassinio all'acquario DVD (1932)
Also known as: Penguin Pool Murder DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, Mystery
Director: George Archainbaud
Cast: James Gleason, Mae Clarke, Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, Donald Cook, Edgar Kennedy, Clarence Wilson, James Donlan, Gustav von Seyffertitz, William Le Maire, Joe Hermano, Guy Usher, Rochelle Hudson, Wilfrid North
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: The body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. Naturally, suspicion falls on his wife and her boyfriend, who were present. Inspector Piper investigates with the unsolicited aid of teacher Hildegard Withers, a witness who's taken an interest in the case; Piper develops a grudging respect for Miss Withers' acumen (and sharp tongue), as they search among the red herrings for the aquarium killer...
Assassinio all'aeroporto DVD (1975)
Also known as: Friday Foster DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romance
Director: Arthur Marks
Cast: Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala, Eartha Kitt, Jim Backus, Scatman Crothers, Ted Lange, Tierre Turner, Paul Benjamin, Jason Bernard, Ed Cambridge, Julius Harris, Rosalind Miles, Carl Weathers
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
Assassinio all'opera DVD (1965)
Also known as: Die Geißel des Fleisches DVD (original title)
Country: Austria
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
Director: Eddy Saller
Cast: Herbert Fux, Hermann Laforet, Hanns Obonya, Peter Janisch, Josef Loibl, Thomas Hörbiger, Hans Baldauf, Johannes Ferigo, Richard H. Lenau, Rudi Schippel, Edith Leyrer, Ingrid Malinka, Elisabeth Terval, Sieglinde Koch, Birgit Pawlik
Medium: DVD R/RW
Assassinio allo specchio DVD (1980)
Also known as: The Mirror Crack'd DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Wendy Morgan, Margaret Courtenay, Charles Gray, Maureen Bennett, Carolyn Pickles, Eric Dodson, Charles Lloyd Pack, Richard Pearson, Thick Wilson, Pat Nye, Peter Woodthorpe, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox
Medium: DVD R/RW
Assassinio allo stadio DVD (1977)
Also known as: Murder at the World Series DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Sport
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Lynda Day George, Murray Hamilton, Karen Valentine, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Michael Parks, Janet Leigh, Hugh O'Brian, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Seven, Tamara Dobson, Joseph Wiseman, Bruce Boxleitner, Larry Mahan, Cooper Huckabee, Maggie Wellman
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A disturbed young man, who had tried out for the Houston Astros baseball team and been rejected, plots to take his revenge by a series of kidnappings.
L'assassinio del dott. Hichtckok DVD (1963)
Also known as: Autopsia de un criminal DVD (original title)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Ricardo Blasco
Cast: Mercedes Borqué, Ángel Calero, Rafael Corés, Félix Dafauce, Ketty de la Cámara, Sun De Sanders, Manuel Díaz Velasco, Pedro Fenollar, Danielle Godet, Manuel Gómez Luque, Guillermo Hidalgo, Lola Lemos, Nita López, Amy Marquet, Antonio Martínez
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'assassinio di Fred Hampton DVD (1971)
Also known as: The Murder of Fred Hampton DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Crime, Documentary, Biography
Director: Howard Alk
Cast: Rennie Davis, Fred Hampton, Edward Hanrahan, Don Matuson, Bobby Rush
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.
L'assassinio di Papà Natale DVD (1941)
Also known as: L'assassinat du Père Noël DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Mystery
Director: Christian-Jaque
Cast: Harry Baur, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Raymond Rouleau, Robert Le Vigan, Fernand Ledoux, Jean Brochard, Jean Parédès, Héléna Manson
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'assassinio di Sister George DVD (1968)
Also known as: The Killing of Sister George DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser, Patricia Medina, Hugh Paddick, Cyril Delevanti, Sivi Aberg, William Beckley, Elaine Church, Brendan Dillon, Mike Freeman, Maggie Paige, Jack Raine, Dolly Taylor
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can get is the voice of a cow in a children's tv programme. Her life begins to fall apart as Childie has an affair with a predatory tv producer.
L'assassinio di Trotsky DVD (1972)
Also known as: The Assassination of Trotsky DVD (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, History, Biography
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno, Luigi Vannucchi, Jean Desailly, Simone Valère, Duilio Del Prete, Peter Chatel, Jack Betts, Michael Forest, Carlos Miranda, Joshua Sinclair, Pierangelo Civera
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with the politics. Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jacson. Jacson befriends a young communist and gets an invitation to Trotsky's house.
Assassinio di un allibratore cinese DVD (1976)
Also known as: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips, Morgan Woodward, John Kullers, Al Ruban, Azizi Johari, Virginia Carrington, Meade Roberts, Alice Fredlund, Donna Gordon, Haji, Carol Warren, Derna Wong Davis
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Cosmo Vitelli owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in California. He's laconic, a Korean War vet, and a gambler. When we meet him, he's making his last payment on a gambling debt. Then, he promptly loses $23,000 playing poker at an illegal local casino. The guys he owes this time aren't so friendly, pressuring him for immediate payment. Then they suggest that he kill a Chinese bookie to wipe off the debt. Vitelli and the film move back and forth between the double-crossing, murderous insincerity of the gamblers and the friendships, sweetness, and even love among Vitelli, the dancers, a dancer's mother, and the club's singer, Mr. Sophistication.
Assassinio made in Italy DVD (1965)
Also known as: Il segreto del vestito rosso DVD (alternative title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Giallo
Director: Silvio Amadio
Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Cyd Charisse, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Alberto Closas, Memmo Carotenuto, Alberto Dalbés, Juliette Mayniel, Franco Giacobini, Manuel Alexandre, Antonio Casas, Carlos Casaravilla, Gina Rovere, Philippe Lemaire, Mario Feliciani, José María Seoane
Medium: DVD R/RW
Assassinio per cause naturali DVD (1979)
Also known as: Murder by Natural Causes DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Hal Holbrook, Katharine Ross, Richard Anderson, Barry Bostwick, Jeff Donnell, Bill Fiore, Victoria Carroll, Phil Leeds, Judith-Marie Bergan, Vivian Brown, Rosanna Huffman, Dany Marrou, Lloyd McLinn, Eve McVeagh, Margery Nelson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist tries to kill him by literally scaring him to death.
Assassinio per contratto DVD (1958)
Also known as: Murder by Contract DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, Film-Noir
Director: Irving Lerner
Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel, Michael Granger, Kathie Browne, Joseph Mell, Frances Osborne, Steven Ritch, Janet Brandt, Davis Roberts, Don Garrett, Gloria Victor
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Claude is a young man with a regular job, no history of trouble with the law and no chance of making any real money. He also has the brains and emotional detachment to make the big bucks as a hit man, and that becomes his new job title. A string of successful hits gets him sent to Los Angeles for his latest job. There he is accompanied by two goons: one who is perpetually nervous and the other who quickly worships the young man as a hero. The cold, ruthless hit man finally becomes unglued when he finds out that his latest target is a woman...
Assassinio premeditato DVD (1953)
Also known as: A Blueprint for Murder DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips, Freddy Ridgeway
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with the same mystery symptoms that killed her father. The kids' visiting uncle, Whitney Cameron, is warned that the symptoms match strychnine poisoning, but that poisoners are seldom detected and rarely convicted. Sure enough, no case can be made against the obvious suspect; so what can Whitney do to save the next victim?
Assassinio su commissione DVD (1979)
Also known as: Murder by Decree DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Bob Clark
Cast: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud, Frank Finlay, Donald Sutherland, Geneviève Bujold, Chris Wiggins, Tedde Moore, Peter Jonfield, Roy Lansford, Catherine Kessler, Ron Pember
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot Outline: Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. As he investigates, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places.
Assassinio sul Nilo DVD (1978)
Also known as: Death on the Nile DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Jon Finch, Olivia Hussey, I.S. Johar, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Simon MacCorkindale, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Jack Warden, Harry Andrews
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port ?
Assassinio sul palcoscenico DVD (1964)
Also known as: Murder Most Foul DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank, Megs Jenkins, Dennis Price, Ralph Michael, James Bolam, Stringer Davis, Francesca Annis, Alison Seebohm, Terry Scott, Pauline Jameson, Maurice Good, Annette Kerr
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Adaption of Agatha Christie's "Mrs. McGinty's dead". Miss Marple is the only jury member who believes that an accused is innocently charged with murder, so she joins a local acting troupe and tries to figure out who the real murderer is.
Assassinio sul ponte DVD (1975)
Also known as: Der Richter und sein Henker DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Maximilian Schell
Cast: Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Calderoni, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Willy Hügli, Norbert Schiller, Guido Cerniglia, Otto Ryser, Margarete Schell Noé, Rudolf Hunsperger, Rudolf Hubacher
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: While investigating a high-profile murder case, a savvy but unorthodox veteran police inspector has to cope with a bad conscience, bad health, an overzealous partner, a timid superior and interference from political interests. This is an existential whodunit, but a good one, and like any good whodunit, ends with a very surprising conclusion, which will be spoiled for you if you read much of anything at all about the movie.
Assassinio sul Tevere DVD (1979)
Also known as: Assassination on the Tiber DVD (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Giallo
Director: Bruno Corbucci
Cast: Tomas Milian, Marina Ripa di Meana, Roberta Manfredi, Alberto Farnese, Massimo Vanni, Bombolo, Enzo Liberti, Enrico Luzi, Angelo Pellegrino, Renato Mori, Marino Masé, Leo Gavero, Enzo Andronico, Andrea Aureli, Antonio Cascio
Medium: DVD R/RW
Assassinio sul treno DVD (1961)
Also known as: Murder She Said DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Thorley Walters, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Conrad Phillips, Ronald Howard, Joan Hickson, Stringer Davis, Ronnie Raymond, Gerald Cross, Michael Golden, Barbara Leake, Gordon Harris
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Old miss Marple is on a train ride when she witnesses a murder in a passing train. She reports it to the police but they won't believe her: since no body can be found there can't have been any murder, right? As always, she begins her own investigation. The murder was committed while passing Ackenthorpe Hall and miss Marple gets herself a job there, mixing cleaning and cooking while searching the house for clues.
Assassinio sull'Eiger DVD (1975)
Also known as:: The Eiger Sanction DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Adventure, Romance
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Brühl, Thayer David, Reiner Schöne, Michael Grimm, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Brenda Venus, Gregory Walcott, Candice Rialson, Elaine Shore, Dan Howard, Jack Kosslyn
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Jonathan Hemlock is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.
Assassinio sull'Orient Express DVD (1974)
Also known as: Murder on the Orient Express DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark, Michael York, Colin Blakely
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating.
Assassinio sulla Costa azzurra DVD (1961)
Also known as: Les bras de la nuit DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Giallo
Director: Jacques Guymont
Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Roger Hanin, Eva Damien, Georges Demas, Pierre Destailles, Carole Grove, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Pierre Larquey, Robert Le Béal, Michel Vocoret
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'assassino DVD (1961)
Also known as: El asesino DVD (Spanish title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
Director: Elio Petri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone, Andrea Checchi, Francesco Grandjacquet, Marco Mariani, Franco Ressel, Mac Ronay, Toni Ucci, Max Cartier, Bruno Scipioni, Giovanna Gagliardo, Liana Ferri, Carlo Egidi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot Outline: A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover, is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody wegetto see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback...
L'assassino abita al 21 DVD (1942)
Also known as: L'assassin habite... au 21 DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Mystery
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert, René Génin, Jean Despeaux, Marc Natol, Huguette Vivier, Odette Talazac, Maximilienne, Sylvette Saugé, Louis Florencie, André Gabriello, Raymond Bussières
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Dapper Inspector Vorobechik ('Wens' for short) is assigned the case of a serial killer who leaves a calling card on his victims; Monsieur Durand. Wens' mistress, struggling actress Mila Malou, determines to get publicity for herself by helping him. Learning that Durand is one of the eccentric tenants of a boarding house at No. 21 Avenue Junot, Wens takes a room in the guise of a Protestant minister; only to be followed by Mila who hardly seems like a minister's wife! Suspects are arrested, but while each is in jail, there's another murder...
L'assassino arriva di notte DVD (1951)
Also known as: The Long Dark Hall DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Giallo
Director: Reginald Beck
Cast: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Tania Heald, Henrietta Barry, Dora Sevening, Ronald Simpson, Raymond Huntley, William Squire, Ballard Berkeley, Anthony Dawson, Denis O'Dea, Anthony Bushell, Henry B. Longhurst, Patricia Cutts, Meriel Forbes
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Arthur Groome works in London and has a devoted family in Richmond. Shortly after he starts seeing a showgirl she is found murdered and the circumstantial evidence points to the innocent if naive Groome.
L'assassino arriva sempre alle 10 DVD (1971)
Also known as: The Night Visitor DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Giallo, Crime
Director: Laslo Benedek
Cast: Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies, Andrew Keir, Jim Kennedy, Arthur Hewlett, Hanne Bork, Gretchen Franklin, Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Lotte Freddie, Erik Kühnau
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and her husband forget that they were responsible for the murder of a farmhand and for his cruel imprisonment in the asylum.
L'assassino colpisce a tradimento DVD (1957)
Also known as: The Traitor DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Mystery
Director: Michael McCarthy
Cast: Donald Wolfit, Robert Bray, Jane Griffiths, Carl Jaffe, Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee, Oscar Quitak, Karel Stepanek, Frederick Schiller, Rupert Davies, John Van Eyssen, Colin Croft, Dennis Edwards, Fletcher Lightfoot, Rex Montgomery
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A German Jewish doctor, who is a former resistance fighter against the Nazis during the war, attends an annual reunion at the home of a former British officer. However, when he discovers that many of his former compatriots have mysteriously died, he begins to suspect that one of the "resistance" fighters may in fact have been a Nazi agent who is now trying to eliminate all the members of the unit.
L'assassino colpisce all'alba DVD (1970)
Also known as: Le champignon DVD (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Giallo
Director: Marc Simenon
Cast: Mylène Demongeot, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Alida Valli, Philippe Monnet, Catherine Allégret, Jean Claudio, Georges Géret, Guy Grosso, Claude Para, François Simon, Gérard Carat, Jean Landier, Robert Favart
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms. When his wife is late for their anniversary celebration, he drinks and takes mushrooms with the artist. He wakes up to find she has died and is fearful he may have accidentally killed her.
L'assassino conosce la musica DVD (1963)
Also known as: L'assassin connaît la musique DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy
Director: Pierre Chenal
Cast: Maria Schell, Paul Meurisse, Sylvie Bréal, Yvonne Clech, Fernand Guiot, Christa Lang, Marcel Pérès, Paul Demange, Pierre Sergeol, Jean Luisi, André Badin, Jacques Dufilho, Noël Roquevert, Claude Mann
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what HE thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So he had better find a way to finish it. At long last, he comes across Agnes, a divorced woman who agrees to let him her quiet home. Lionel, full of hope, resumes work...
L'assassino della Sierra Nevada DVD (1956)
Also known as: A Strange Adventure DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
Director: William Witney
Cast: Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, Marla English, Jan Merlin, Nick Adams, Peter Miller, Paul Smith, Emlen Davies, Frank Wilcox, Thomas Browne Henry, John Maxwell, Steve Wayne
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
L'assassino dentro casa DVD (1975)
Also known as: Death Among Friends DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery, Giallo
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Kate Reid, John Anderson, A Martinez, Martin Balsam, Jack Cassidy, Paul Henreid, Pamela Hensley, William Smith, Lynda Day George, Denver Pyle, Robyn Hilton, Kathrine Baumann, Michael Evans, Joe George, Cec Linder
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murder of an international banker.
Assassino di fiducia DVD (1956)
Also known as: The Green Man DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley, Colin Gordon, Avril Angers, Eileen Moore, Dora Bryan, John Chandos, Cyril Chamberlain, Richard Wattis, Vivien Wood, Marie Burke, Lucy Griffiths
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another.
L'assassino di pietra DVD (1973)
Also known as: The Stone Killer DVD (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Paul Koslo, Norman Fell, David Sheiner, Stuart Margolin, Ralph Waite, Alfred Ryder, Walter Burke, Kelley Miles, Eddie Firestone, Charles Tyner, Byron Morrow, Lisabeth Hush
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sicilian mafiosi were all killed on a single day. Torrey gets various clues that something big is about to happen but will he discover what is planned before the big day ?
L'assassino di Rillington Place n.10 DVD (1971)
Also known as: 10 Rillington Place DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, Biography
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Miss Riley, Phyllis MacMahon, Ray Barron, Douglas Blackwell, Gabrielle Daye, Jimmy Gardner, Edward Evans, Tenniel Evans, David Jackson, George Lee
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'assassino è al telefono DVD (1962)
Also known as: L'assassin est dans l'annuaire DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Crime, Giallo
Director: Léo Joannon
Cast: Fernandel, Georges Chamarat, Henri Crémieux, Robert Dalban, Marie Déa, Paul Faivre, Gisèle Grimm, Jacques Harden, Léo Joannon, Bernard Lavalette, Céline Léger, Alice Leitner, Charles Lemontier, Claire Olivier, Noël Roquevert
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'assassino è al telefono DVD (1972)
Also known as: Telefon killer DVD (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Giallo
Director: Alberto De Martino
Cast: Telly Savalas, Anne Heywood, Osvaldo Ruggieri, Giorgio Piazza, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Rossella Falk, Antonio Guidi, Roger Van Hool, Ada Pometti, Alessandro Perrella, Marc Audier, Piet Balfoort, Georges Bossair, Sandra L. Brennan, Suzy Falk
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eliminate her as a potential witness. What he doesn't know is that the shock of his murder caused her to have amnesia, and she doesn't remember anything.
