RAREFILMS - Drama - Crime films on DVD
Il covo dei contrabbandieri DVD (1955)
Also known as: Moonfleet DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley, Liliane Montevecchi, Melville Cooper, Sean McClory, Alan Napier, John Hoyt, Donna Corcoran, Jack Elam, Dan Seymour, Ian Wolfe, Lester Matthews
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Somewhere in the 18th century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet, to put himself under the protection of a certain Jeremy Fox. The boy discovers that Fox is both a former lover of his mother and the leader of a gang of buccaneers. A strange friendship grows as their adventures go on.
Il covo dei gangsters DVD (1951)
Also known as: I'll Get You for This DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Cast: George Raft, Coleen Gray, Enzo Staiola, Charles Goldner, Walter Rilla, Martin Benson, Peter Illing, Hugh French, Peter Bull, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Constance Smith, Greta Gynt, Margot Grahame, Donald Stewart, Jack la Roc
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he receives from the management of the casino until he finds he has been framed on a charge of murdering a U.S. Treasury Agent...
Creature del male DVD (1956)
Also known as: L'homme et l'enfant DVD (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: Raoul André
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Juliette Gréco, Folco Lulli, Jacqueline Ventura, Grégoire Aslan, Pascale Roberts, Jean d'Yd, Béatrice Altariba, Georges Lannes, Jeff Davis, Jean Lefebvre, Michèle Philippe, Nadine Tallier, Tanya Constantine, Diana Bel
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il Credo della violenza DVD (1967)
Also known as: Wild Rebels DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: William Grefe
Cast: Steve Alaimo, Willie Pastrano, John Vella, Bobbie Byers, Jeff Gillen, Walter R. Philbin, Robert Freund, Seymour A. Eisenfeld, Nora Alonzo, Art Barker, The Birdwatchers Band, Nick Bontempo, Gary Brady, Aaron Deaton, Emil Deaton
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: After one crash too many, race car driver Rod throws in the towel only to be recruited by a motorcycle gang to be a getaway driver for their next bank robbery.
Crepa padrone tutto va bene DVD (1972)
Also known as: Tout va bien DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Elizabeth Chauvin, Castel Casti, Éric Chartier, Louis Bugette, Yves Gabrielli, Pierre Oudrey, Jean Pignol, Anne Wiazemsky, Marcel Gassouk, Didier Gaudron, Michel Marot, Hugette Mieville
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cria cuervos DVD (1976)
Also known as: Cría cuervos DVD (original title)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Carlos Saura
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall, Florinda Chico, Ana Torrent, Héctor Alterio, Germán Cobos, Mirta Miller, Josefina Díaz, Conchita Pérez, Mayte Sanchez, Juan Sánchez Almendros
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.
Crimen DVD (1960)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime
Director: Mario Camerini
Cast: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Dorian Gray, Franca Valeri, Georges Rivière, Bernard Blier, Silvana Mangano, Sylva Koscina, Lamberto Antinori, Bianca Castagnetta, Basilio Consalvo, Jacques Francel, Mario Meniconi, Georges Montax
Medium: DVD R/RW
Criminal face - Storia di un criminale DVD (1968)
Also known as: Ho! DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Robert Enrico
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Joanna Shimkus, Raymond Bussières, Paul Crauchet, Stéphane Fey, Alain Mottet, Tony Taffin, André Weber, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Ermanno Casanova, Jackie Sardou, Stan Dylik, Corinne Gorse, Bob Ingarao, Jacques Lalande
Medium: DVD R/RW
Criminal sexy DVD (1961)
Also known as: Jungle Street DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Charles Saunders
Cast: Jill Ireland, David McCallum, Kenneth Cope, Brian Weske, Vanda Hudson, Edna Doré, Thomas Gallagher, Howard Pays, Joy Webster, Martin Sterndale, John Chandos, Meier Tzelniker, Larry Burns, Fred Griffiths, Julie Shearing
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Terry Collins mugs an old man, who subsequently dies. Joe Lucas finds out about it and blackmails him, threatening to turn him in to the police if he doesn't give him money. Terry then plans to rob the safe at a night club with his friend Johnny. However, Terry double-crosses him by taking off with the money and also Johnny's girl friend Sue. Finally as the police close in, he kills a tailor, and then is caught as he attempts to run.
Un criminale asservito alla polizia DVD (1973)
Also known as: Detroit 9000 DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime
Director: Arthur Marks
Cast: Hari Rhodes, Alex Rocco, Vonetta McGee, Ella Edwards, Scatman Crothers, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Robert Phillips, Rudy Challenger, Sally Baker, Richard Bourin, Council Cargle, Bob Charlton, Regis Cordic, Jerry Dahlmann, June Fairchild
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Cops go after jewel thieves...
Criminali DVD (1943)
Also known as: Criminals Within DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): War, Crime
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Eric Linden, Ben Alexander, Donald Curtis, Ann Doran, Constance Worth
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A scientist is murdered by foreign agents after having developed a powerful new explosive. The scientist's brother, an army corporal, goes AWOL to discover the identities of the killers. Army intelligence officers are looking for him, as they believe he has a list of scientists who helped his brother develop the new weapon, putting them in danger. The spy ring is also after him, but they want the list for a different reason.
Criminali contro il mondo DVD (1955)
Also known as: Mad at the World DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: Harry Essex
Cast: Frank Lovejoy, Keefe Brasselle, Cathy O'Donnell, Karen Sharpe, Stanley Clements, Paul Bryar, Paul Dubov, James Delgado, Joe Turkel, Aaron Spelling, Terence de Marney, Estes Kefauver
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The infant baby of Sam and Anne Bennett is critically hurt after been hit by a bottle thrown by a gang of juvenile-delinquent hoodlums known as the Wolf Pack. Police Detective Tom Lynn takes charge of the investigation and orders shakedown of youth gangs in the city's toughest section, but this fails to locate members of the Wolf-Pack gang. A savage beating is given an innocent witness by Bennett, who takes matters in his own hands in the belief that the law authorities are too slow.
I criminali della metropoli DVD (1965)
Also known as: Fango sulla metropoli DVD (alternative title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Gino Mangini
Cast: Tony Kendall, Dorian Gray, Vassili Karis, Greta Polyn, Enzo Tarascio, Maddalena Gillia, Germano Longo, Giancarlo Giannini, Silla Bettini, Roger Beaumont, Claudio Biava, Calisto Calisti, Angelo Dessy, Attilio Dottesio, Gianni Solaro
Medium: DVD R/RW
Criminali nella notte DVD (1980)
Also known as: Le bar du téléphone DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime
Director: Claude Barrois
Cast: Daniel Duval, François Périer, Raymond Pellegrin, Julien Guiomar, Georges Wilson, Valentine Monnier, Christopher Lambert, Richard Anconina, Patrick Laurent, Marc-Michel Bruyat, Philippe Brigaud, Henri Viscogliosi, Guy Régent, Jacques Ferrière, Pierre Julien
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il crimine dei Kruppak DVD (1936)
Also known as: Sein bester Freund DVD (original title)
Country: Germany
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Harry Piel
Cast: Harry Piel, Edna Greyff, Henry Lorenzen, Alfred Haase, Jochen Hauer, Ernst Legal, Trude Hesterberg, Lissy Arna, Paul Westermeier, Willi Schur, Erich Teske, Eva Tinschmann, Gerhard Dammann, Gertrud Wolle, Aribert Grimmer
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il Cristo di bronzo DVD (1955)
Also known as: Seido no Kirisuto DVD (original title)
Country: Japan
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Minoru Shibuya
Cast: Eiji Okada, Kazuko Okada, Osamu Takizawa, Shinobu Araki, Akira Ishihama, Kyôko Kagawa, Kinzô Shin, Isuzu Yamada
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cristo fra i muratori DVD (1949)
Also known as: Give Us This Day DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan, Charles Goldner, Bonar Colleano, William Sylvester, George Pastell, Philo Hauser, Sid James, Karel Stepanek, Ina De La Haye, Rosalie Crutchley, Ronan O'Casey, Robert Rietty, Charles Moffat
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cristo negro DVD (1963)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Ramón Torrado
Cast: René Muñoz, Jesús Tordesillas, María Silva, Charo del Río, María Antonieta Hernández, Eusebio Aba, Leandro Bomio, José Bódalo, M. Campbell, José Castells, Wilhem P. Elie, Pedro Formentar, Juan Luis González, Rosario González, Rafael Hernández
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il Cristo proibito DVD (1951)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, War, Mystery
Director: Curzio Malaparte
Cast: Raf Vallone, Rina Morelli, Alain Cuny, Anna Maria Ferrero, Elena Varzi, Gino Cervi, Ernesta Rosmino, Philippe Lemaire, Luigi Tosi, Gualtiero Tumiati, Lianella Carell, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giulia Sabatini
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Back in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager. But nobody wants to give him the name of the culprit. At long last, Antonio, a joiner, reveals the informer but this comes at a cost.
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli DVD (1979)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, War, History
Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas, François Simon, Luigi Infantino, Francesco Callari, Antonio Allocca, Enzo Vitale, Maria Antonia Capotorto, Pietro Peragine, Vito Caraccia, Antonio Di Leva, Accursio Di Leo
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
La croce di diamanti DVD (1952)
Also known as: Mara Maru DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Adventure, Drama
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr, Paul Picerni, Richard Webb, Dan Seymour, Georges Renavent, Robert Cabal, Henry Marco
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Greg Mason, salvage diver in the Philippines, finds his partner Andy drunk and raving about treasure. Whatever it is, somebody wants it badly enough to kill Andy and frame Mason for murder. Cleared by an insinuating private eye, Mason is immersed in intrigue, with detective Rainier, sinister Benedict, mysterious Orgega, and Andy's comely widow all somehow involved. Soon various parties, not really trusting each other, are on a sea voyage to dive for they know not what...
La croce di fuoco DVD (1947)
Also known as: The Fugitive DVD (original title)
Country: Mexico
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo, Ward Bond, Robert Armstrong, John Qualen, Fortunio Bonanova, Chris-Pin Martin, Miguel Inclán, Fernando Fernández
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. A priest who is The Fugitive is trying to getaway from the authorities who have denounced Christianity and want anyone linked to it dead...
La crociera del terrore DVD (1960)
Also known as: The Last Voyage DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cast: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, Jack Kruschen, Joel Marston, George Furness, Richard Norris, Marshall Kent, Andrew Hughes, Robert Martin, Bill Wilson, Tammy Marihugh
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Cliff Henderson and his family are traveling aboard the SS Claridon en route to Japan. The Claridon is an old ship, on its last voyage before heading to the scrap heap. An explosion in the engine room weakens the hull and the ship is now taking on more water that the bilge pumps can deal with. The Captain seems to have difficulty accepting that his ship will sink...
La cronaca degli scandali DVD (1932)
Also known as: Blessed Event DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Emma Dunn, Edwin Maxwell, Ned Sparks, Walter Walker, Frank McHugh
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk to Alvin. But Al has the confession of Frankie on cylinders so Frankie becomes his own bodyguard and information line...
Cronaca di un amore DVD (1950)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Romance
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Gino Rossi, Marika Rowsky, Rosi Mirafiore, Rubi D'Alma, Anita Farra, Carlo Gazzabini, Nardo Rimediotti, Renato Burrini, Vittorio Manfrino, Vittoria Mondello, Franco Fabrizi, Gino Cervi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Paola is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana. In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion.
Cronaca familiare DVD (1962)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Sylvie, Salvo Randone, Valeria Ciangottini, Serena Vergano, Marco Guglielmi, Franca Pasut, Miranda Campa, Nino Fuscagni, Marcella Valeri
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cronache di poveri amanti DVD (1954)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Carlo Lizzani
Cast: Anna Maria Ferrero, Cosetta Greco, Antonella Lualdi, Marcello Mastroianni, Bruno Berellini, Irene Cefaro, Adolfo Consolini, Giuliano Montaldo, Gabriele Tinti, Eva Vanicek, Wanda Capodaglio, Mimmo Maggio, Andrea Petricca, Garibaldo Lucii, Mario Piloni
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. When Campolmi is beaten by the fascists, Mario meets Milena, Campolmi's wife, at the hospital and falls in love with her leaving Bianca. Then Maciste is killed...
Il cronista lampo DVD (1936)
Also known as: The Speed Reporter DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime, Romance
Director: Bernard B. Ray
Cast: Richard Talmadge, Luana Walters, Richard Cramer, Frank Hall Crane, Robert Walker, John Ince, Earl Dwire, George Chesebro, Ed Cassidy, James Sheridan
Medium: DVD R/RW
La cucaracha DVD (1959)
Also known as: La cucaracha DVD (original title)
Country: Mexico
Spoken Languages: Italian, Spanish
Genre(s): Drama, War, Romance
Director: Ismael Rodríguez
Cast: María Félix, Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernández, Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Ignacio López Tarso, Cuco Sánchez, Irma Torres, Miguel Manzano, Lupe Carriles, Humberto Almazán, Alicia del Lago, Emma Roldán, Tito Novaro, Manuel Trejo Morales
Medium: DVD R/RW
La cuccagna DVD (1962)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Luciano Salce
Cast: Donatella Turri, Luigi Tenco, Umberto D'Orsi, Franco Abbiana, Emilio Barrella, Anna Baj, Liù Bosisio, Fernando Cerulli, Elvira Cortese, Gianni Dei, Consalvo Dell'Arti, Tony Di Mitri, Vera Drudi, Jimmy il Fenomeno, Loretta Gagliardini
Medium: DVD R/RW
IL cucciolo DVD (1946)
Also known as: The Yearling DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Family
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills, Clem Bevans, Margaret Wycherly, Henry Travers, Forrest Tucker, Donn Gift
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: After the American Civil War, a rebel soldier and his wife become pioneer farmers in Florida. Their son Jody is 11 years old; he gets along well with his warm and affectionate pa, but his ma is haunted by the death of her other children, so she's somber, even cold. The boy wants a pet: the dad is sympathetic, the mom obdurate. When a rattler bites pa, pa kills a doe...
La cugina Angelica DVD (1974)
Also known as: La prima Angélica DVD (original title)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Carlos Saura
Cast: José Luis López Vázquez, Fernando Delgado, Lina Canalejas, María Clara Fernández de Loaysa, Lola Cardona, Pedro Sempson, Julieta Serrano, Encarna Paso, Josefina Díaz, María de la Riva, Marisa Porcel, Antonio Canal, Pedrín Fernández, José Villasante, José Luis Heredia
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter...
I cugini DVD (1959)
Also known as: Les cousins DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble, Geneviève Cluny, Michèle Méritz, Corrado Guarducci, Stéphane Audran, Paul Bisciglia, Jeanne Pérez, Françoise Vatel, André Chanal, Gilbert Edard, Clara Gansard, Jean-Louis Maury
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ?
La culla di cristallo DVD (1976)
Also known as: Le berceau de cristal DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Philippe Garrel
Cast: Nico, Dominique Sanda, Anita Pallenberg, Margareth Clémenti, Philippe Garrel, Frédéric Pardo, Pierre Clémenti
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cuore DVD (1947)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Duilio Coletti
Cast: Vittorio De Sica, María Mercader, Lamberto Picasso, Giorgio De Lullo, Luigi Pavese, Ave Ninchi, Carlo Ogliotti, Gino Leurini, Luciano De Ambrosis, Gualtiero Tomiselli, Sergio Serardi, Amerigo Martufi, Vito Chiari, Geiogio Guglielmo, Francesco Lengo
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il cuore DVD (1955)
Also known as: Kokoro DVD (original title)
Country: Japan
Spoken Languages: Japanese
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Cast: Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Shôji Yasui, Tanie Kitabayashi, Akiko Tamura, Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru, Tsutomu Shimomoto, Masami Shimojô, Akira Hisamatsu, Tomoko Naraoka, Zenji Yamada, Keiji Itami, Kiyoshi Kamoda, Nobuo Kawakami
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: English
Cuore DVD (1973)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Romano Scavolini
Cast: Chris Avram, Guerrino Casamonica, Renato Cestiè, Duilio Cruciani, Maria Cumani Quasimodo, Davide Mastrogiovanni, Domenico Santoro, Alessandra Sepe
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cuore di mamma DVD (1969)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Salvatore Samperi
Cast: Carla Gravina, Philippe Leroy, Beba Loncar, Yorgo Voyagis, Paolo Graziosi, Mauro Gravina, Monica Gravina, Massimiliano Ferendeles, Valentino Orfeo, Sara Di Nepi, Massimo Monaci, Rossano Jalenti, Nicoletta Rizzi, Roberto Bruni, Rina Franchetti
Medium: DVD R/RW
