RAREFILMS - Giallo - Mystery films on DVD
I 2 gattoni a nove code... e mezza ad Amsterdam (1972)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Comedy
Director: Osvaldo Civirani
Cast: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Enzo Andronico, Luigi Bonos, Umberto D'Orsi, John Harwich, Luciano Pigozzi, Gianni Pulone, Elisabeth Sennfors, Luca Sportelli, Enzo Vitaliano
Medium: DVD R/RW
24 ore di terrore (1964)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller
Director: Gastone Grandi
Cast: A.V. Belfast, Pino Colizzi, Paul Janning, Lauren Madison, Stephen Mason, Dean Moor, Rex Robertson, Sergio Rossi, Annie Stuart
Medium: DVD R/RW
3 casi di assassinio (1955)
Also known as:: Three Cases of Murder (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Horror, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: David Eady
Cast: Orson Welles, Peter Burton, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Emrys Jones, Alan Badel, André Morell, Hugh Pryse, Leueen MacGrath, Eddie Byrne, Helen Cherry, Eamonn Andrews, Philip Dale, Christina Forrest, Evelyn Hall, Ann Hanslip, David Horne, John Humphry, Maurice Kaufmann, Jack Lambert, Zena Marshall, John Salew, Harry Welchman, Colette Wilde, Arthur Wontner
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day...
4 mosche di velluto grigio (1971)
Also known as:: Four Flies on Grey Velvet (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bud Spencer, Aldo Bufi Landi, Calisto Calisti, Marisa Fabbri, Oreste Lionello, Fabrizio Moroni, Corrado Olmi, Stefano Satta Flores, Laura Troschel, Francine Racette, Dante Cleri, Guerrino Crivello
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders...
I 4 volti della vendetta DVD (1964)
Also known as: Victim Five DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Director: Robert Lynn
Cast: Lex Barker, Ronald Fraser, Ann Smyrner, Véronique Vendell, Walter Rilla, Dietmar Schönherr, Percy Sieff, Gustel Gundelach, Gert van den Bergh, Howard Davis, Sophia Kammara
Medium: DVD R/RW
5 donne per l'assassino (1974)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller
Director: Stelvio Massi
Cast: Francis Matthews, Pascale Rivault, Giorgio Albertazzi, Howard Ross, Katia Christine, Catherine Diamant, Gabriella Lepori, Maria Cumani Quasimodo, Tom Felleghy, Lia Bresciani, Carla Mancini, Lorenzo Piani, Ennia Rossetto, Alessandro Quasimodo, Milva Bonamone
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead. The baby isn't his, the reporter learns from his doctor friend Lydia Franzi, as he is quite sterile. Reporter Giorgio and Lydia soon become lovers, and she narrowly escapes the brutal hands of the murderer...
Le 5 vittime dell'assassino DVD (1964)
Also known as: Der hexer DVD (original title)
Country: WestGermany
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Drache, Sophie Hardy, Siegfried Lowitz, Carl Lange, Margot Trooger, Jochen Brockmann, Siegfried Schürenberg, Karl John, Kurt Waitzmann, Anneli Sauli, Hilde Sessak, Petra von der Linde, Eddi Arent, René Deltgen
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.
7 giorni di fifa (1966)
Also known as:: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Comedy, Family, Romance, Mystery
Director: Alan Rafkin
Cast: Don Knotts, Charles Lane, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Jesslyn Fax, Nydia Westman, George Chandler, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Begg
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot Outline: Luther Heggs aspires to being a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that, 20 years before, was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. The case has aroused local interest not only because of the anniversary but due to the fact that the family heir, Nick Simmons, has returned to Rachel aiming to tear the mansion down. Luther's account of his wild, ghost-ridden night in the house leads Simmons to sue for libel, but with the aid of his friend Kelsey they determines what exactly happened that night long ago and the identity of the real killer.
Le 10 lune di miele di Barbablù (1960)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Mystery
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Cast: George Sanders, Corinne Calvet, Jean Kent, Patricia Roc, Maxine Audley, Harold Berens, George Coulouris, Selma Vaz Dias, Ian Fleming, Dino Galvani, Greta Gynt, Ingrid Hafner, Peter Illing, Sheldon Lawrence, Jack Melford, Keith Pyott, Robert Rietty, Mark Singleton, Milo Sperber, C. Denier Warren, Paul Whitsun-Jones
Medium: DVD R/RW
A tutte le auto della polizia DVD (1975)
Also known as: Calling All Policecars DVD (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Giallo
Director: Mario Caiano
Cast: Antonio Sabato, Luciana Paluzzi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gabriele Ferzetti, Elio Zamuto, Ettore Manni, Marino Masé, Bedy Moratti, Adriana Fiore, Franco Ressel, Margherita Horowitz, Tino Bianchi, Valentino Macchi, Andrea Lala, Benedetto Benedetti
Medium: DVD R/RW
AA criminale cercasi DVD (1951)
Also known as: Dear Brat DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Comedy, Mystery
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Mona Freeman, Billy De Wolfe, Edward Arnold, Lyle Bettger, Mary Philips, Natalie Wood, William Reynolds, Frank Cady, Lillian Randolph, Irene Winston, Patty Lou Arden
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Mirian Wilkins, teen-age daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rahabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of the Senator, elects him to the position of honorary president. When a new gardener, Bacter, of the family turns out to be an notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins is about to fire him...
Accidenti che ragazza! DVD (1950)
Also known as: The Fuller Brush Girl DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Giallo, Comedy
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins, Jeff Donnell, Jerome Cowan, John Litel, Fred Graham, Lee Patrick, Arthur Space
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Scatterbrained Sally Elliott gets a job as a Fuller brush girl and, as expected, her attempts at selling cosmetics door-to-door are disastrous. Things get worse when one of her customers is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect. She and her poor fiancé Humphrey find themselves dodging the police while trying to catch the real killer.
L'accusa del passato DVD (1958)
Also known as: El pasado te acusa DVD (Spanish title)
Country: Italy/Spain
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Crime
Director: Lionello De Felice
Cast: Gino Cervi, Alberto Closas, Rafael Durán, Lina Rosales, Ángel Calero, Mara Cruz, Maruja García Alonso, José Marco, Luz Márquez, María Isabel Pallarés, Luis Peña, Carlos M. Tejada, Alfonso Vidal
Medium: DVD R/RW
Accusa di omicidio DVD (1961)
Also known as: Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Giallo, Mystery, Drama
Director: Harald Philipp
Cast: Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Leon Askin, Eva Bartok, Claus Holm, Wolfgang Reichmann, Werner Peters, Susanne Cramer, Alfred Balthoff, Rudolf Fernau, Gudrun Schmidt, Ralf Wolter, Heinz Weiss, Jochen Blume, Kurd Pieritz
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'accusa è violenza carnale e omicidio DVD (1974)
Also known as: Verdict DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Drama
Director: André Cayatte
Cast: Sophia Loren, Jean Gabin, Julien Bertheau, Muriel Catalá, Michel Albertini, Gisèle Casadesus, Henri Garcin, Daniel Lecourtois, Mario Pilar, Umberto Raho, Jean-François Rémi, Michel Robin, Pierre Tabard, François Vibert, Jean Vigny
Medium: DVD R/RW
Acqua alla gola DVD (1958)
Also known as: Chase a Crooked Shadow DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom, Richard Todd, Faith Brook, Alexander Knox, Alan Tilvern, Thelma D'Aguilar
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A man shows up at Kimberley Prescott's villa claiming to be her brother. But Ward Prescott died in a car accident a year ago, so how can this man be him? Despite Kim's protests that the stranger isn't her brother, everyone else accepts him, including their uncle. Kim begins to fear for her sanity and her life.
Ad ogni costo DVD (1967)
Also known as: Grand Slam DVD (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Cast: Janet Leigh, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Hoffmann, Klaus Kinski, Riccardo Cucciolla, George Rigaud, Adolfo Celi, Jussara, Miguel Del Castillo, Luciana Angiolillo, Valentino Macchi, Anny Degli Uberti, Aldo Bonamano
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro and run in to an unanticipated problem: a new alarm system called Grand Slam 70.
L'affittacamere (1962)
Also known as:: The Notorious Landlady (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy, Mystery
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood, Maxwell Reed, Philippa Bevans, Henry Daniell, Ronald Long, Richard Peel, Doris Lloyd
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: When William Gridley arrives from the US in London, he rents part of Carly Hardwicke's house from her and promptly begins to fall in love. Gridley doesn't know that many people think she killed her husband but his boss, the American ambassador, knows and doesn't take this "lapse of judgement" lightly. Since Carly is also American, Gridley saves his job by introducing her to the ambassador, who is promptly smitten and promises to help her. So when a Scotland Yard detective arrives, wanting to get to the truth one way or another, they say they'll help him. And then the comedic complications really begin.
Afrika (1973)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Drama
Director: Alberto Cavallone
Cast: Ivano Staccioli, Andrea Traglia, Maria Pia Luzi, Kara Donati, Debebe Eshetu, Zawdit Asta, Peter Belphet, Gianni Basso
Medium: DVD R/RW
Agente 373 police connection (1973)
Also known as:: Badge 373 (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Crime
Director: Howard W. Koch
Cast: Robert Duvall, Luis Avalos, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Eddie Egan, Felipe Luciano, Tina Cristiani, Marina Durell, Chico Martínez, Jose Duvall, Louis Cosentino, Nubia Olivero, Sam Schacht, Edward F. Carey, 'Big' Lee
Medium: DVD R/RW
Agente 4K2 chiede aiuto (1967)
Also known as:: Warning Shot (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Mystery
Director: Buzz Kulik
Cast: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Keenan Wynn, Lillian Gish, Steve Allen, Carroll O'Connor, Joan Collins, Walter Pidgeon, Sam Wanamaker, Stefanie Powers, Eleanor Parker, George Grizzard, George Sanders, Vito Scotti, David Garfield
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A police sergeant kills a man who pulls a gun on him during a stakeout. The man's gun disappears, and the sergeant is charged with manslaughter. The sergeant works to clear his name and determine where the gun went and why the man was there at all.
Agente federale X3 (1954)
Also known as:: Dangerous Mission (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir
Director: Louis King
Cast: Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Dennis Weaver, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, Betta St. John, Harry Cheshire, Steve Darrell, Walter Reed, Marlo Dwyer
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Witness to a mob killing and afraid to testify, young Louise Graham flees to Montana where she hopes to disappear working in the gift shop at Glacier National Park. Staying at the park are vacationers Matt Hallett, ex-marine, and Paul Adams, amateur photographer, both obviously very interested in Louise and both vying for her attention. Louise is unaware that one is a mob hitman, hired to kill her to prevent her from testifying, and the other is a cop working for the New York D.A.'s office, sent to protect her.
Agenzia Riccardo Finzi praticamente detective (1979)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Comedy
Director: Bruno Corbucci
Cast: Renato Pozzetto, Olga Karlatos, Silvano Tranquilli, Enzo Cannavale, Elio Zamuto, Massimo Belli, Franco Caracciolo, Barbara De Bortoli, Lory Del Santo, Fausto Di Bella, Adriana Facchetti, Maurizio Gueli, Simona Mariani, Bruno Rosa, Luca Sportelli
Medium: DVD R/RW
Al piacere di rivederla (1976)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller
Director: Marco Leto
Cast: Miou-Miou, Claudio Bigagli, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Lionello, Franco Graziosi, Biagio Pelligra, Maria Monti, Philippe March, Cesarina Gheraldi, Lia Tanzi, Lino Coletta, Angelo Botti, Francesco Comenio, Shirley Corrigan, Francoise Fabian
Medium: DVD R/RW
Al tropico del cancro (1972)
Also known as:: Tropic of Cancer (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo
Director: Giampaolo Lomi, Edoardo Mulargia
Cast: Anthony Steffen, Anita Strindberg, Gabriele Tinti, Umberto Raho, Stelio Candelli, Gordon Felio, Kathryn Witt, Richard Osborne, Alfio Nicolosi, Bob Lemoine, Pierre Richard Merceron, Fred Ade
Medium: DVD R/RW
Alcuni lo chiamano omicidio DVD (1971)
Also known as: They call it murder DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Mystery
Director: Walter Grauman
Cast: Jim Hutton, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Asner, William Elliott, Miriam Colon, Jessica Walter, Carmen Mathews, Leslie Nielsen, Nita Talbot, Vaughn Taylor, Vic Tayback, Michael Pataki, Lloyd Bochner, Harry Townes
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
Alibi (1937)
Also known as:: Alibi (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Mystery
Director: Pierre Chenal
Cast: Albert Préjean, Jany Holt, Véra Flory, Louis Jouvet, Made Siamé, Foun-Sen, Génia Vaury, Philippe Richard, Roger Blin, Jean Témerson, Pierre Labry, Maurice Baquet, Max Dalban, Florence Marly, O.E. Hasse
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
L'alibi del falco DVD (1946)
Also known as: Falcon's Alibi DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
Director: Ray McCarey
Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett, Jane Greer, Elisha Cook Jr., Emory Parnell, Al Bridge, Esther Howard, Jean Brooks, Paul Brooks, Jason Robards Sr., Morgan Wallace, Lucien Prival, Bonnie Blair
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: A wealthy woman's secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer's jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. The Falcon is blamed when the jewels are stolen and murders ensue.
L'alibi dell'ultima ora (1957)
Also known as:: Time Without Pity (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Joan Plowright, Peter Cushing, Lois Maxwell, Michael Redgrave, Paul Daneman, Nigel Patrick, Alec McCowen, Renee Houston, Richard Wordsworth, George Devine, Peter Copley, Ernest Clark, Hugh Moxey, Dickie Henderson, Klaus Münster
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec's father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. Alec repudiates his father's attempts for a final reconciliation. David Graham, convinced of his son's innocence and, despite his preoccupation with himself and his own alcoholism, mounts a last-ditch effort to find the true murderer in the 24 hours remaining until the planned execution...
Alibi per un assassino (1963)
Also known as:: Ein alibi zerbricht (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Crime
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Charles Regnier, Peter van Eyck, Hannelore Elsner, Sieghardt Rupp, Dieter Klein, Michael Janisch, Fritz Schmiedel, Elisabeth Stiepl, Mario Kranz, Guido Wieland, Walter Regelsberger, Herbert Kersten, Elisabeth Epp, Anne Bancroft
Medium: DVD R/RW
Allarme a Scotland Yard: 6 omicidi senza assassino (1972)
Also known as:: Der Todesrächer von Soho (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery
Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: Dan van Husen, Jesus Franco, Horst Tappert, Fred Williams, Barbara Rütting, Elisa Montés, Luis Morris, Siegfried Schürenberg, Mara Laso, Eva Garden, Rainer Basedow, Ángel Menéndez, Wolfgang Kieling, Guillermo Méndez, Andrés Monales
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'
Alta marea (1947)
Also known as:: High Tide (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Mystery
Director: John Reinhardt
Cast: Anthony Warde, Argentina Brunetti, Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw, Douglas Walton, Regis Toomey, Francis Ford, Wilson Wood, George Ryland
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A reporter hires a bodyguard to protect him from a gang boss he has been investigating. After a car accident traps the two of them inside the car with the tide coming in, the reporter recounts for his bodyguard the circumstances leading up to their predicament.
L'amante sconosciuta DVD (1934)
Also known as: Evelyn Prentice DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Mystery
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Una Merkel, Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Frank Conroy, Isabel Jewell, Harvey Stephens, Edward Brophy, Henry Wadsworth, Cora Sue Collins, Ginger Rogers, Jessie Ralph
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: spanish
Plot: Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the attention she craves. She eventually finds herself a victim of blackmail and becomes involved in his murder. When another woman is accused of the crime, she begs her husband to defend her.
L'amante sconosciuto (1954)
Also known as:: Black Widow (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Mystery
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Gene Tierney, Van Heflin, Reginald Gardiner, George Raft, Connie Marshall, Virginia Leith, Otto Kruger, Cathleen Nesbitt, Hilda Simms, Skip Homeier, Harry Carter, Geraldine Wall, Mabel Albertson, Richard H. Cutting, Ulla Jacobsson, Stefania Sandrelli
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discovered that she has been murdered, and suspicion immediately falls on the producer. He begins his own investigation in order to clear his name, and one of the first things he finds out is that the young woman wasn't quite as naive and innocent as she appeared to be.
Gli amanti del sogno (1945)
Also known as:: Love Letters (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Mystery
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Cecil Kellaway, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Robert Sully, Gladys Cooper, Anita Louise, Reginald Denny, Byron Barr, Ernest Cossart, Franç;oise Arnoul, Dimitris Andreas
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder...
Amo un assassino (1951)
Also known as: Appointment for Murder (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Baccio Bandini
Cast: Umberto Spadaro, Delia Scala, Andrea Bosic, Marco Vicario, Natale Cirino, Dorian Gray, Angelo Maggio, Marga Cella, Alma De Río, Fiorella Ferrero, Dina Perbellini, Amina Pirani Maggi, Diana Veneziani, Maria Zanoli
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot Outline: A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also. She had been extorting money from him and had threatened to kill herself if he didn't pay. The detective's daughter is in love with the husband and tries to provide an alibi for him. But when a genuine alibi is proved...
Anatomia di un omicidio (1959)
Also known as:: Anatomy of a Murder (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott, Orson Bean, Russ Brown, Murray Hamilton, Brooks West, Ken Lynch, John Qualen, Howard McNear, Alexander Campbell
Medium: DVD R/RW
Anche gli eroi sono assassini DVD (1956)
Also known as:: A Woman's Devotion (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Mystery
Director: Paul Henreid
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Janice Rule, Paul Henreid, Rosenda Monteros, Fanny Schiller, José Torvay, Yerye Beirute, Tony Carbajal, Jaime González Quiñones, Carlos Riquelme
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: After six months of marriage to Trevor Stevenson, well-known painter and much-decorated hero of World War Two, Stellahas found such complete fulfillment of all her romantic dreams that when he is accused or murdering a pretty cantina waitress, on their first night in Acapulco, she angrily defends him to Police Captain Henrique Montros,. nephew of Senora Reidl, owner of the pension where they are staying. But when the maid,. Maria, tries to blackmail her with sketches of the dead girl, made by TRevor on the night she was murdered, and found in the house by the husband and Maria's lover, Amigo Herrera , Stella begins to have second thoughts regarding the innocence of her husband. And his bouts of amnesia enforces her doubts.
L'anello cinese (1947)
Also known as:: The Chinese Ring (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Roland Winters, Warren Douglas, Mantan Moreland, Louise Currie, Victor Sen Yung, Philip Ahn, Byron Foulger, Thayer Roberts, Barbara Jean Wong, Chabing, George Spaulding
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'anello tragico (1936)
Also known as: Savoy-Hotel 217 (original title)
Country: Germany
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Mystery
Director: Gustav Ucicky
Cast: Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Alexander Engel, René Deltgen, Gusti Huber, Käthe Dorsch, Jakob Tiedtke, Aribert Wäscher, Hans Leibelt, Paul Westermeier, Carl Auen, Fritz Berghof, Hellmuth Bergmann, Paul Bildt, Horst Birr
Medium: DVD R/RW
Angela (1954)
Also known as: Angela, die Teufelin (German title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Giallo, Drama, Mystery
Director: Edoardo Anton
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Mara Lane, Rossano Brazzi, Arnoldo Foà, Galeazzo Benti, Enzo Fiermonte, Nino Crisman, Giovanni Fostini, Francesco Tensi, Maria Teresa Paliani, Gorella Gori, Aldo Pini, Yoka Berretty, Luciano Salce
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'angelo bianco DVD (1931)
Also known as: Night Nurse DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, Blanche Friderici, Charlotte Merriam, Charles Winninger, Edward J. Nugent, Vera Lewis, Ralf Harolde, Walter McGrail
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, but something much more sinister is going on.
Un angelo è caduto (1945)
Also known as:: Fallen Angel (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Crime, Romance, Mystery, Film-Noir
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere, Bruce Cabot, John Carradine, Percy Kilbride
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: Eric Stanton, thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats" , whose main attraction is a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella seems disinterested in Eric, he decides if he had money she would pay attention to his advances. He marries June Mills for her money, and stella is mysteriously murdered. Even though June Learns of Eric's dishonest plans, she still loves him. It is with her support that he investigates the killing on his own, eventually discovering the shocking identity of the real killer.
Anima persa (1977)
Also known as:: Almas perdidas (Spanish title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Mystery
Director: Dino Risi
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina, Ester Carloni, Michele Capnist, Gino Cavalieri
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
L'anno scorso a Marienbad (1961)
Also known as: L'année dernière à Marienbad (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Mystery
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Héléna Kornel, Françoise Spira, Karin Toche-Mittler, Pierre Barbaud, Wilhelm von Deek, Jean Lanier, Gérard Lorin, Davide Montemuri, Gilles Quéant, Gabriel Werner
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad.
Appuntamento con il Falco DVD (1942)
Also known as: A date with the Falcon DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Romance, Mystery
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Mona Maris
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
