rare films on dvd
Il buio macchiato di rosso DVD (1974)
Also known as: Craze DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Horror, Comedy
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Jack Palance, Diana Dors, Julie Ege, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith, Trevor Howard, Michael Jayston, Suzy Kendall, Martin Potter, Percy Herbert, David Warbeck, Kathleen Byron, Venicia Day, Dean Harris, Marianne Stone
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice. His methods are fairly creative, ranging from impalement, slashing and burning, to scaring people to death with an ooga-booga fright mask.
Il buio oltre il sole DVD (1968)
Also known as: The Mercenaries DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, War
Director: Jack Cardiff
Cast: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten, Jim Brown, Kenneth More, André Morell, Olivier Despax, Guy Deghy, Bloke Modisane, Calvin Lockhart, Alan Gifford, David Bauer, Murray Kash, John Serret, Danny Daniels
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through the Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to rescue $25 million in uncut diamonds.
Il buio oltre la siepe DVD (1962)
Also known as: To Kill a Mockingbird DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Brock Peters, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix, Collin Wilcox Paxton, James Anderson, Alice Ghostley, Robert Duvall, William Windom, Crahan Denton, Richard Hale
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial tension in the town ?
Buio Omega DVD (1979)
Also known as: Blue Holocaust DVD (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Horror
Director: Joe D'Amato
Cast: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto, Anna Cardini, Lucia D'Elia, Mario Pezzin, Walter Tribus, Klaus Rainer, Edmondo Vallini, Simonetta Allodi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals.
Bulldog Drummond in Africa DVD (1938)
Also known as: Bulldog Drummond in Africa DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure, Mystery
Director: Louis King
Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, Anthony Quinn, Michael Brooke, Matthew Boulton, Neil Fitzgerald, Fortunio Bonanova, Leonard Carey, Forrester Harvey, Rudolf Myzet, Paul Porcasi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: On the eve of his wedding Captain Hugh Drummond is off to Morocco when Scotland Yard's Colonel J.A. Nielson is kidnapped by international criminal Richard Lane. With his fiancée Phyllis Clavering, friend 'Algy' Longworth and his trusty valet 'Tenny' Tennyson, Bulldog flies his own plane 1200 miles only to find the local British Consul ordering him home without delay. Drummond isn't an easy man to get rid of however and they soon mount their rescue plan.
Bulldog Drummond - Situazione pericolosa DVD (1938)
Also known as: Arrest Bulldog Drummond DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Adventure
Director(s): James P. Hogan
Cast: John Howard (as Captain Hugh C. Drummond), Heather Angel (as Phyllis Clavering), H.B. Warner (as Colonel Nielsen), Reginald Denny (as Algy Longworth), E.E. Clive (as Tenny), Jean Fenwick (as Lady Beryl Ledyard), Zeffie Tilbury (as Aunt Meg), George Zucco (as Rolf Alferson), Leonard Mudie (as Richard Gannett), Evan Thomas (as Smith), Clyde Cook (as Constable Sacker), David Clyde (as Constable McThane), George Regas (as Soongh), Neil Fitzgerald (as Sir Malcolm McLeonard), Claud Allister (as Sir Basil Leghorne), Frank Baker (as Cop , uncredited), Kathryn Bates (as Tourist , uncredited), Billy Bevan (as Aquarium Guard , uncredited), Dolores Casey (as (uncredited), Steve Clemente (as Native Buying Rifle , uncredited), Neil Craig (as Tourist , uncredited), Sheila Darcy (as (uncredited), John Davidson (as Gumba - Bird Seller , uncredited), Harold Garrison (as Native Boy with Message , uncredited), Forrester Harvey (as Constable at Gannett House , uncredited), Grace Hayle (as Tourist , uncredited), Olaf Hytten (as Island Police Arresting Sergeant , uncredited), Eugene Jackson (as Hotel Page Boy , uncredited), Frank Lackteen (as Native Selling Rifle , uncredited), Joyce Mathews (as (uncredited), Hercules Mendez (as Foreign Agent , uncredited), Ferdinand Munier (as Old Maj. Trumleigh , uncredited), Gerald Rogers (as Island Police Desk Sergeant , uncredited), John Rogers (as Guggins - Scrawny Henchman , uncredited), Ruth Rogers (as Maid , uncredited), Sam Savitsky (as Foreign Agent , uncredited), John Sutton (as Inspector Tredennis , uncredited)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Captain Hugh C."Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) and his ever-loving and patient fiancée, Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel). are about to wed but he becomes involved in a plot to steal an atomic disintegrator with a range of half-a-mile. Madman Rolf Alferson (George Zucco)has control of the weapon but Drummond is suspected of the theft and follows the clues to an island colony.
Bullet un proiettile per amare DVD (1968)
Also known as: Sogeki DVD (original title)
Country: Japan
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: Hiromichi Horikawa
Cast: Yûzô Kayama, Ruriko Asaoka, Masayuki Mori, Shin Kishida, Shoichi Ozawa
Medium: DVD R/RW
Bullitt DVD (1968)
Also known as: Bullitt DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland, Norman Fell, Robert Duvall, Georg Stanford Brown, Justin Tarr, Carl Reindel, Felice Orlandi, Vic Tayback, Robert Lipton, Ed Peck, Pat Renella
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: High profile San Francisco Police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt is asked personally by ambitious Walter Chalmers, who is in town to hold a US Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime, to guard Johnny Ross, a Chicago based mobster who is about to turn evidence against the organization at the hearing. Chalmers wants Ross' safety at all cost, or else Bullitt will pay the consequences...
Il bunker DVD (1973)
Also known as: The Blockhouse DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, War
Director: Clive Rees
Cast: Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Per Oscarsson, Peter Vaughan, Nicholas Jones, Leon Lissek, Alfred Lynch
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: During D-day several people become trapped while hiding in a bunker, when heavy shelling collapses it. They have plenty of food and water so they decide to wait for rescuers. And so they wait year, after year, after year.
Bunny Lake è scomparsa DVD (1965)
Also known as: Bunny Lake Is Missing DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Martita Hunt, Anna Massey, Clive Revill, Finlay Currie, Lucie Mannheim, The Zombies, Noel Coward, Adrienne Corri, Megs Jenkins, Delphi Lawrence, Jill Melford, Suzanne Neve
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl's first day at school, no one has any record of Bunny having been registered. When even the police can find no trace that the girl ever existed, they wonder if the child was only a fantasy of Ann's. When Ann's brother backs up the police's suspicions, she appears to be a mentally-disturbed individual. Are they right?
Un buon prezzo per morire DVD (1963)
Also known as: The Running Man DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield, Allan Cuthbertson, Harold Goldblatt, Noel Purcell, Ramsay Ames, Fernando Rey, Juanjo Menéndez, Eddie Byrne, Colin Gordon, John Meillon, Roger Delgado
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. But when the insurance investigator from the claim also turns up Rex starts a game of cat-and-mouse.
Buona parte di Paolina DVD (1973)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Sexy, Comedy
Director(s): Nello Rossati
Cast: Antonia Santilli (as Paolina), Ernesto Colli, Rossana Di Lorenzo, Checco Durante, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Nella Gambini, Carlo Giordana, Claudio Gora, Enzo Liberti, Tiziano Longo, Ettore Manni, Elio Pandolfi, Renato Pinciroli, Umberto Raho, Piero Vida
Medium: DVD R/RW
Buonasera signora Campbell DVD (1968)
Also known as: Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas, Lee Grant, Janet Margolin, Marian McCargo, Naomi Stevens, Renzo Palmer, Giovanna Galletti, James Mishler, Dale Cummings, Philippe Leroy
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Twenty years after their initial war-time visit three U.S. servicemen hold a reunion at an Italian village. They all have fond memories, especially of local girl Carla. But she has been telling each of them that they are the father of her daughter Gia, so they have all been paying well for her upbringing. As this dawns on the threesome old rivalries surface, but times have changed and complications such as wives, middle-age, and the need to protect Gia's future start to surface.
Buone notizie DVD (1979)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
Director: Elio Petri
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Ángela Molina, Paolo Bonacelli, Aurore Clément, Ombretta Colli, Ritza Brown, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Iavarone, Filippo De Gara
Medium: DVD R/RW
Buongiorno elefante DVD (1952)
Also known as: Sabù principe ladro DVD (alternative title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Gianni Franciolini
Cast: Vittorio De Sica, María Mercader, Nando Bruno, Sabu, Gisella Sofio, Michele Sakara, Ciro Berardi, Giuseppe Chinnici, Antonio Nicotra, Piero Mastrocinque, Pasquale De Filippo, Teresa Fimiani, Fausto Guerzoni, Sofi Fort, Stefano Carnetta
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife, and kids. An Indian prince visits Italy, is assisted by the teacher, and gives him a baby elephant as a reward. This upsets the landlord, the other tenants and the neighborhood . He takes the elephant away but, like Lassie, it comes home.
Burke and Hare i mercanti di carne umana DVD (1972)
Also known as: Horrors of Burke and Hare DVd (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian, English
Genre(s): Horror
Director: Vernon Sewell
Cast: Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce, Françoise Pascal, Yutte Stensgaard, Robin Hawdon, Alan Tucker, Dee Shenderey, Joan Carol, Paul Greaves, David Pugh, James Hayter, Thomas Heathcote, Duncan Lamont
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Bushido la spada del sole DVD (1980)
Also known as: The Bushido Blade DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Drama, History
Director: Tsugunobu Kotani
Cast: Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Mike Starr, Sonny Chiba, James Earl Jones, Mako, Timothy Patrick Murphy, Frank Converse, William Ross, Bin Amatsu, Iwae Arai, Mayumi Asano, Laura Gemser, Kin Omae, Tetsurô Tanba
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.
Buster Keaton nella Luna DVD (1946)
Also known as: El moderno Barba Azul DVD (original title)
Country: Mexico
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Comedy
Director: Jaime Salvador
Cast: Buster Keaton, Luis G. Barreiro, Guillermo Bravo Sosa, Pedro Elviro, Ángel Garasa, Ramón G. Larrea, Jorge Mondragón, José Elías Moreno, Ignacio Peón, Óscar Pulido, Enriqueta Reza, Virginia Serret, Fernando Soto, José Torvay
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In the final days of WWII, an earnest but somewhat dense sailor is lost at sea. Months later, he makes a landing, but, not realizing that the war is over and thinking that he is in Japan, he surrenders to Mexican police, who mistake him for a serial killer. Thrown in a jail cell with an American thug, he is to be hanged next morning, when suddenly a rocket scientist offers him and his cellmate a chance to avoid execution if they pilot an experimental atomic rocket to the Moon...
Buttati Bernardo! DVD (1966)
Also known as: You're a Big Boy Now DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn, Michael Dunn, Tony Bill, Julie Harris, Karen Black, Dolph Sweet, Michael O'Sullivan, Ronald Colby, Rufus Harley, Frank Simpson, Nina Varela, Len De Carl
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. Her name is Barbara Darling, an inscrutable go-go dancer. More than a few obstacles keep Bernard from his dream world...
Butterfly erotica DVD (1975)
Also known as: Butterflies DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Adult
Director: Joseph W. Sarno
Cast: Marie Forså, Harry Reems, Eric Edwards, Heidi Kappler, Irene Wendlin, Marius Aicher, Nadia Henkowa, Zoe
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A beautiful young country girl tires of life on the farm and her handsome but boring boyfriend. She dreams of a glamorous life as a fashion model in the big city, so one day she leaves the farm to pursue her dream. While in the city she meets up with Frank, a rich nightclub owner, who shows her a life she never knew existed. She discovers, however, that she's not the only woman in Frank's life. Hurt and angry, she turns for comfort to Frank's lover, who is more than willing to give it to her.
Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto DVD (1975)
Also known as: Coronel Agente Secreto DVD (Spanish title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Mino Guerrini
Cast: Jacques Dufilho, Gianni Cavina, Franco Diogene, Gianni Agus, Mino Guerrini, Raf Luca, Karin Field, Guerrino Crivello, Francesco D'Adda, Cheng Chin Li, Nicola Morelli, Aldo Maria Pennacchini, Neil Robinson, Guido Sagliocca, Giorgio Scardovi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Bwana Devil DVD (1952)
Also known as: Bwana Devil DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Adventure, Drama
Director: Arch Oboler
Cast: Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill, Paul McVey, Hope Miller, John Dodsworth, Patrick O'Moore, Patrick Aherne, Edward C. Short, Bhogwan Singh, Paul Thompson, Bhupesh Guha, Bal Seirgakar, Kalu K. Sonkur
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.
By the sun's rays DVD (1914)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Western, Short
Director: Charles Giblyn
Cast: Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon, Richard Rosson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A company detective goes undercover to expose a gang that uses inside information to rob gold shipments.
Bye bye Brazil DVD (1980)
Also known as: Bye bye Brasil DVD (original title)
Country: France/Brazil
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Carlos Diegues
Cast: José Wilker, Betty Faria, Fábio Júnior, Zaira Zambelli, Príncipe Nabor, Emmanuel Cavalcanti, José Márcio Passos, Carlos Kroeber, Joffre Soares, Rodolfo Arena, Aderbal Junior, Carlos Lagoeíro, Catalina Bonakie, Rinaldo Gines, Marcus Vinícius
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe. Television is their enemy as they go from the coast deep into the Amazon. Salomé lets the accordion player sleep with her once, with Dasdô's knowledge. He's moon-struck. Then, after Dasdô's baby is born and financial disaster hits the troupe, and the accordionist must choose between seeing his wife a prostitute and leaving the caravan.
Byleth il demone dell'incesto DVD (1971)
Also known as: Les démons sexuels DVD (French title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Horror, Drama
Director: Leopoldo Savona
Cast: Mark Damon, Claudia Gravy, Aldo Bufi Landi, Franco Jamonte, Tony Denton, Fernando Cerulli, Silvana Pompili, Marzia Damon, Franco Marletta, Antonio Anelli, Carla Mancini, Alessandro Perrella, Bruna Beani, Karin Lorson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A boy is possessed by Byleth, the demon of the incest. He wants to madly love his sister, but his tragic end will be the natural epilogue of this morbid tale.
