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L'aquila a due teste DVD(1948)
Also known as: L'aigle à deux têtes DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Edwige Feuillère, Silvia Monfort, Jean Marais, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes, Ahmed Abdallah, Gilles Quéant, Maurice Nasil, Edward Stirling, Yvonne de Bray
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.
Arabesque DVD (1966)
Also known as: Arabesque DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Romance
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore, Carl Duering, John Merivale, Duncan Lamont, George Coulouris, Ernest Clark, Harold Kasket
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Professor David Pollock is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to infiltrate the organization of a man named Beshraavi, who is involved in a plot against the Prime Minister. The nature of the plot is believed to be found in a hieroglyphic code. Beshraavi's mistress, Yasmin Azir is a mystery intertwined in the plot. Pollock needs her help, but when she repeatedly seems to double cross him in one escapade after another, he can't decide on whose side she is working. Ultimately working together, Pollock and Yasmin decipher the plot and set out to stop an assassination of the Prime Minister.
Aragosta a colazione DVD (1979)
Also known as: Gib Vollgas - komm rüber DVD (German title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Giorgio Capitani
Cast: Enrico Montesano, Claude Brasseur, Janet Agren, Claudine Auger, Silvia Dionisio, Roberto Della Casa, Geoffrey Copleston, Letizia D'Adderio, Cesare Gelli, Adriana Innocenti, Renato Mori, Renzo Ozzano, Franca Scagnetti, Greta Vlietinck, Francesco Parisi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old school mate and hapless salesman who shows up to beg Mario to buy toilets so he won't lose his job...
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Federico Curiel
Cast: Blue Demon, Blanca Sánchez, Martha Elena Cervantes, Ramón Bugarini, Sergio Virel, Jessica Munguía, Fernando Osés, Nathanael León, René Barrera, Enrique Ramírez, Vicente Lara, Juan Garza, Marco Antonio Arzate, José Luis Fernández, Octavio Muñoz
Subtitles: english
Medium: DVD R/RW
Arancia meccanica DVD (1971)
Also known as: A Clockwork Orange DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Sci-Fi, Crime
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Protagonist Alex is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.
L'araucana massacro degli dei DVD (1971)
Also known as: La araucana DVD (original title)
Country: Chile
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Drama, War, History
Director: Julio Coll
Cast: Víctor Alcázar, Antonio Alfonso, Roberto Cruz, Alberto Dalbés, Beni Deus, Eduardo Fajardo, Erika López, Elsa Martinelli, José Martín, Carlos A. Matamala, Elisa Montés, Manolo Otero, Ricardo Palacios, Joaquín Pamplona, Julio Peña
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'arbitro DVD (1974)
Also known as: Football Crazy DVD (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Cast: Lando Buzzanca, Joan Collins, Gabriella Pallotta, Ignazio Leone, Marisa Solinas, Massimo Mollica, Daniele Vargas, Umberto D'Orsi, Dante Cleri, Gianfranco Barra, Carla Mancini, Orazio Stracuzzi
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'arca di Noè DVD (1928)
Also known as: Noah's Ark DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, War
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul McAllister, Myrna Loy, Anders Randolf, Armand Kaliz, William V. Mong, Malcolm Waite, Nigel De Brulier, Noble Johnson, Otto Hoffman
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: After a short split prologue showing riches as the root of evil in ancient and modern times, the film settles into 1914 France, where the Orient Express is about to be wrecked when a bridge washes out. Among those on board are Al and Travis, Americans who are traveling Europe spending Travis' money, and Marie, a German girl. The boys save Marie after the wreck and Travis falls in love with her...
L'arca di Noè DVD (1945)
Also known as: The Naughty Nineties DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Romance
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier, Joe Sawyer, Joe Kirk, Rainbow Four
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Arcana DVD (1972)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Horror, Drama, Mystery
Director: Giulio Questi
Cast: Lucia Bosé, Maurizio Degli Esposti, Tina Aumont, Renato Paracchi, Gianfranco Pozzi, Giovanni Ricci, Dario Vigano
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.
Gli arcangeli DVD (1963)
Also known as: The Archangels DVD (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director(s): Enzo Battaglia
Cast: Roberto Bisacco (as Roberto), Paolo Graziosi (as Paolo), Maria Virginia Onorato (as Diana), Graziella Polesinanti (as Anna Maria), Stefano Satta Flores
Medium: DVD R/RW
Archimede le clochard DVD (1959)
Also known as: Archimède le clochard DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
Director: Gilles Grangier
Cast: Jean Gabin, Darry Cowl, Bernard Blier, Dora Doll, Paul Frankeur, Gaby Basset, Sacha Briquet, Guy Decomble, Albert Dinan, Bernard La Jarrige, Pierre Leproux, Jacqueline Maillan, Jacques Marin, Paul Mercey, Gaston Ouvrard
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Bum Archimede wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get their proves not to be that easy.
L'arcidiavolo DVD (1966)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Ettore Scola
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Claudine Auger, Mickey Rooney, Ettore Manni, Annabella Incontrera, Sherill Mogan, Liana Orfei, Luigi Vannucchi, Giorgia Moll, Gabriele Ferzetti, Milena Vukotic, Marco Tulli, Ugo Fangareggi, Elena Fabrizi, Franco De Rosa
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'arciere del Re DVD (1955)
Also known as: Quentin Durward DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure, Romance, History
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, George Cole, Alec Clunes, Duncan Lamont, Laya Raki, Marius Goring, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Eric Pohlmann, Harcourt Williams, Michael Goodliffe, John Carson, Nicholas Hannen, Moultrie Kelsall
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In 1465 Quentin Durwood travels to France to meet Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, on behalf of his elderly Scottish uncle whom, for political reasons, the Duke of Burgundy intends she marry. A man of honour who may have sworn too many oaths, Durward finds he and Isabelle being used as pawns in a deadly game by the Duke and devious King Louis XI. One look at Isabelle has convinced Durward this is where he and his heart have to be.
L'arciere delle mille e una notte DVD (1962)
Also known as: A Flecha Dourada DVD (Spanish title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Tab Hunter, Rossana Podestà, Umberto Melnati, Mario Feliciani, Dominique Boschero, Renato Baldini, Giustino Durano, Franco Scandurra, Gloria Milland, Renato Montalbano, Rosario Borelli, Calisto Calisti, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, José Jaspe, Gian Paolo Rosmino
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'arciere di fuoco DVD (1950)
Also known as: The Flame and the Arrow DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Romance, History
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon, Frank Allenby, Nick Cravat, Lynn Baggett, Gordon Gebert, Norman Lloyd, Victor Kilian, Francis Pierlot, Robin Hughes
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the pretty wife of young archer Dardo who, cynical rather than embittered, still has little interest in joining the rebels. But this changes when his son, too, is taken from him. The rest is lighthearted swashbuckling, plus romantic interludes with lovely hostage Anne.
L'arciere di fuoco DVD (1970)
Country: Italy, Spain
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure, Peplum
Director: Giorgio Ferroni
Cast: Giuliano Gemma, Mark Damon, Silvia Dionisio, Mario Adorf, Daniele Dublino, Valerie Forques, Nello Pazzafini, Manuel Zarzo, Lars Bloch, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Valerio Colombaioni, Pierre Cressoy, Luis Dávila, Pupo De Luca, Giulio Donnini
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'arciere nero DVD (1959)
Also known as: De zwarte boogschutter DVD (German title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Peplum
Director: Piero Pierotti
Cast: Jolanda Addolori, Gianni Baghino, Sandro Baranger, Stelio Candelli, Erno Crisa, Marisa Cucchi, Franco Fantasia, Tom Felleghy, Fulvia Franco, Ivy Holzer, Gérard Landry, Ignazio Leone, Livio Lorenzon, Nino Marchesini, Terry Mason
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'arciere verde DVD (1961)
Also known as: Der grüne Bogenschütze DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Giallo
Director: Jürgen Roland
Cast: Klausjürgen Wussow, Karin Dor, Eddi Arent, Harry Wüstenhagen, Wolfgang Völz, Heinz Weiss, Stanislav Ledinek, Hans Epskamp, Georg Lehn, Edith Teichmann, Hela Gruel, Gert Fröbe
Medium: DVD R/RW
Gli arcieri di Sherwood DVD (1960)
Also known as: Sword of Sherwood Forest DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure, History
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Richard Greene, Sarah Branch, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Nigel Green, Niall MacGinnis, Jack Gwillim, Edwin Richfield, Oliver Reed, Patrick Crean, Vanda Godsell, Dennis Lotis, Derren Nesbitt, James Neylin, John Franklin
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The sheriff of Nottingham plots to confiscate the estate of the Lord of Bortrey, who has died on Crusade. The Archbishop of Canterbury speaks against this plot, and the sheriff plans to eliminate him. Robin Hood pretends to undertake the assassination of the Archbishop for the plotters; Maid Marion, meeting him thinks him the leader of a gang of murderers, and leads him into a trap.
Arco di trionfo DVD (1948)
Also known as: Arch of Triumph DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, War, Romance
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Louis Calhern, Ruth Warrick, Roman Bohnen, J. Edward Bromberg, Ruth Nelson, Stephen Bekassy, Curt Bois, Art Smith, Michael Romanoff
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgement, they become involved in a doomed affair; matters come to a crisis on the day war is declared.
Area maldita DVD (1980)
Country: Colombia
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Horror
Director(s): Jairo Pinilla
Cast: Lupe Blanco, Gustavo de la Hoz, Júlio del Mar, Esteban Diaz, Saíd González, Alberto Lozano, Yolima Pérez, Alfonso Rodriguez, Genoveva Saldarriaga, Ana Linda Zago
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A Drug gang in Colombia have planted Marijuana in a remote part of the countryside unaware of the curse that has been placed on the land. A snake attracted by the sweet smell of burning ganja attacks all who partake.
L'Aretino nei suoi ragionamenti sulle cortigiane le maritate e i cornuti contenti DVD (1972)
Also known as: Aretino's Blue Stories DVD (English title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy, Sexy
Director: Enrico Bomba
Cast: Joyce Geraldine Stewart, Karin Well, Marisa Traversi, Franca Gonella, Fiorella Masselli, Giuliana Giuliani, Luciano De Ambrosis, Giancarlo Badessi, Claudia Magli, Giorgio Favretto, Silvio Spaccesi, Nino Scardina, Pier Maria Rossi, Vinicio Sofia, Diego Della Valle
Medium: DVD R/RW
Argento vivo DVD (1934)
Also known as: Spitfire DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Martha Sleeper, Louis Mason, Sara Haden, Virginia Howell, Sidney Toler, Will Geer, John Beck, Therese Wittler, Irene Rich
Medium: Unknown
Plot: Mountain girl Trigger Hicks, a fierce loner equally handy with a rock or a prayer, is in danger of having her faith-healing mistaken for witchcraft by the neighbors. She shows a vulnerable side when John Stafford, a philandering engineer working on a new dam, is attracted to her. Matters come to a head when Trigger "rescues" an abused baby from its parents, and seeks help from the engineers.
Gli argonauti DVD (1963)
Also known as: Jason and the Argonauts DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Don Chaffey
Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Douglas Wilmer, Jack Gwillim, Honor Blackman, John Cairney, Patrick Troughton, Andrew Faulds, Nigel Green, Eva Haddon (voice)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Jason has been prophesied to take the throne of Thessaly. When he saves Pelias from drowning, but does not recognize him as the man who had earlier killed his father, Pelias tells Jason to travel to Colchis to find the Golden Fleece. Jason follows his advice and assembles a sailing crew of the finest men in Greece, including Hercules. They are under the protection of Hera, queen of the gods. Their voyage is replete with battles against harpies, a giant bronze Talos, a hydra, and an animated skeleton army, all brought to life by the special effects wizardry of Ray Harryhausen.
Argos alla riscossa DVD (1961)
Also known as: Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro DVD (original title)
Country: Mexico
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Horror
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake
Cast: Santo, Lorena Velázquez, María Duval, Jaime Fernández, Augusto Benedico, Xavier Loyá, Ofelia Montesco, Fernando Osés, Guillermo Hernández, Nathanael León, Ricardo Adalid, Cavernario Galindo, Ray Mendoza, Alejandro Cruz, Bobby Bonales
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The vampire women in Mexico have awakened from their sleep, commanded by their master, The Evil One, to find him a bride. They choose as their target the beautiful daughter of a local professor. To rescue his daughter, the professor calls El Santo (Samson in some US versions), a silver-masked wrestler for justice.
Argos contro le 7 maschere di cera DVD (1963)
Also known as: Santo en el museo de cera DVD (original title)
Country: Mexico
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Horror, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake
Cast: Santo, Claudio Brook, Norma Mora, Rubén Rojo, Roxana Bellini, José Luis Jiménez, Víctor Velázquez, Jorge Mondragón, Fernando Osés, Nathanael León, Concepción Martínez, Myron Levine, Cesáreo Cruz, Salvador Castro, Juan Garza
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
Argos il fantastico superman DVD (1970)
Also known as: Santo contra los asesinos de la mafia DVD (original title)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Manuel Bengoa
Cast: Santo, Johana Aloha, Frank Braña, Elsa Cárdenas, Ramiro Corso, Mara Cruz, Nelson Cuéllar, César del Campo, William Gavin, Jimeno González, Antonio Granados, Ángel Menéndez, Luciano Merchan, Guillermo Morales, Fernando Osés
Medium: DVD R/RW
Arianna DVD (1957)
Also known as: Love in the Afternoon DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Van Doude, Lise Bourdin, Olga Valéry, The Gypsies
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.
L'arma DVD (1978)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Director: Pasquale Squitieri
Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Stefano Satta Flores, Benedetta Fantoli, Clara Colosimo, Dario Ghirardi, Giuseppe Morabito, Salvatore Billa, Viviana Polic, Mario Granato, Paolo Bonetti
Medium: DVD R/RW
Arma bianca DVD (1936)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure
Director(s): Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Cast: Mimi Aylmer, Nerio Bernardi, Oreste Bilancia, Enzo Biliotti, Antonio Centa, Andrea Checchi, Romolo Costa, Leda Gloria, Tina Lattanzi, Guglielmo Morresi, Giuseppe Pierozzi, Mauro Serra, Lidia Simoneschi, Gino Viotti, Cesare Zoppetti
Medium: DVD R/RW
Arma da taglio DVD (1972)
Also known as: Prime Cut DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek, Janit Baldwin, William Morey, Clint Ellison, Howard Platt, Les Lannom, Eddie Egan, Therese Reinsch, Bob Wilson, Gordon Signer, Gladys Watson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.
L'arma del delitto DVD (1957)
Also known as: The Weapon DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Steve Cochran, Lizabeth Scott, Herbert Marshall, Nicole Maurey, Jon Whiteley, George Cole, Laurence Naismith, Stanley Maxted, Denis Shaw, Fred Johnson, John Horsley
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
L'arma del ricatto DVD (1956)
Also known as: Over-Exposed DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna, Isobel Elsom, Raymond Greenleaf, Constance Towers, James O'Rear, Donald Randolph, Dayton Lummis
Medium: DVD R/RW
L'arma l'ora il movente DVD (1973)
Also known as: Die Waffe die Stunde das Motiv DVD (German title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
Director: Francesco Mazzei
Cast: Renzo Montagnani, Bedy Moratti, Eva Czemerys, Salvatore Puntillo, Claudia Gravy, Alcira Harris, Arturo Trina, Adolfo Belletti, Arnaldo Bellofiore, Francesco D'Adda, Maurizio Bonuglia, Gina Mascetti
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A sexually-promiscuous priest is stabbed to death inside a church.
L'armata a cavallo DVD (1967)
Also known as: Csillagosok katonák DVD (original title)
Country: Hungary
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, War
Director: Miklós Jancsó
Cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák, Jácint Juhász, Anatoli Yabbarov, Sergey Nikonenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Bolot Beyshenaliyev, Tatyana Konyukhova, Krystyna Mikolajewska, Viktor Avdyushko, Gleb Strizhenov, Vladimir Prokofyev, Valentin Bryleyev
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other. Captives are executed or sent running naked into the woods. Neither side has a plan, and characters the camera picks out soon die. A White Cossack officer kills a Hungarian and is executed by his own superiors when he tries to rape a milkmaid. At the hospital, White officers order nurses into the woods, dressed in finery, to waltz. A nurse aids the Reds, then they accuse her of treason for following White orders. Red soldiers walk willingly, singing, into an overwhelming force. War seems chaotic and arbitrary.
L'armata Brancaleone DVD (1966)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy, Adventure
Director: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli, Gian Maria Volonté, Maria Grazia Buccella, Barbara Steele, Enrico Maria Salerno, Carlo Pisacane, Ugo Fangareggi, Gianluigi Crescenzi, Pippo Starnazza, Luigi Sangiorgi, Fulvia Franco, Tito García, Joaquín Díaz
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Armi contro la legge DVD (1961)
Also known as: Armas contra la ley DVD (original title)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Ricardo Blasco
Cast: Renato Baldini, Alfredo Mayo, Moira Orfei, Manuel Zarzo, Elena María Tejeiro, Mara Berni, Antonio Garisa, María Luisa Merlo, Ricardo Valle, Fernando Montes, Ángel Álvarez, Jesús Aristu, Agustín González, Santiago Rivero
Medium: DVD R/RW
Le armi della vendetta DVD (1964)
Also known as: Hardi Pardaillan! DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Comedy, Adventure, Romance, History
Director: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Gérard Barray, Valérie Lagrange, Christiane Minazzoli, Jacqueline Danno, Isa Miranda, Caroline Rami, Sophie Hardy, Philippe Lemaire, Yvan Chiffre, Jean Topart, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Guy Delorme, Robert Berri, Jacques Castelot, Francis Claude
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vied for the the throne, these new adventures of Pardaillan have the gallant musketeer defend the rightful king Henri III.Jean gives his full to thwart the Duke of Guise's attempts to have the king assassinated. A heartthrob more than ever, Pardaillan will awake serious interest in many a girl, at times becoming their prey like with Bianca Farnese, De Guise's agent...
Le armi di Eva DVD (1934)
Also known as: Fashions of 1934 DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Musical
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Verree Teasdale, Reginald Owen, Henry O'Neill, Phillip Reed, Gordon Westcott, Dorothy Burgess, Etienne Girardot, William Burress, Nella Walker, Spencer Charters, George Humbert
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices. His assistant Lynn poses as An American interested in a dress and Snap conceals a camera in his cane. When they try to steal the latest Baroque designs hidden cameras capture them. Threat and counterthreat lead to the suggestion of putting on a legitimate show.
Le armi segrete del generale Fiascone DVD (1966)
Also known as: Martin Soldat DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Michel Deville
Cast: Marlène Jobert, Robert Hirsch, Véronique Vendell, Walter Rilla, Anthony Sharp, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Paul-Emile Deiber, Georges Chamarat, Wolfgang Sauer, Claude Bertrand, Louis Velle, Claude Vernier, Carl Studer, Jean Martin, André Weber
Medium: DVD R/RW
Arnold DVD (1973)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Comedy
Director: George Fenady
Cast: Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Shani Wallis, Farley Granger, Victor Buono, John McGiver, Bernard Fox, Patric Knowles, Jamie Farr, Norman Stuart, Ben Wright, Wanda Bailey, Steven Marlo, Leslie Thompson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Karen Llewelyn is the new gold-digging bride of a corpse. She marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
Aroused DVD (1966)
Also known as: L'explosion du désir DVD (French title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Horror, Crime, Sexy
Director: Anton Holden
Cast: Janine Lenon, Steve Hollister, Joanna Mills, Fleurette Carter, Ted Gelanza, Tony Palladino, Robert Barker, Adrienne Mann, Sharon Green, Marlene Stevens, Ann Rutherford, Lucy Becker, Art Miller, Stephanie Anders, Lisa Simpson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Dutch
Plot: In Manhattan, prostitutes are being murdered by a psycho. A detective is assigned to track him down and bring him in.
L'arpa birmana DVD (1956)
Also known as: Biruma no tategoto DVD (original title)
Country: Japan
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Music, War
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Cast: Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naitô, Shunji Kasuga, Kô Nishimura, Keishichi Nakahara, Toshiaki Ito, Hiroshi Tsuchikata, Tomio Aoki, Nobuteru Hanamura, Sanpei Mine, Takashi Koshiba, Tomoko Tonai, Tokuhei Miyahara
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: July, 1943: Japan's army is on the run. A platoon in Burma sings to keep its spirit up. Inspiration comes from their self taught lute player, Mizushima. At war's end, while they await repatriation at Mudon prison camp, Mizushima is sent to convince a Japanese company dug into a mountain that it must surrender. He fails, the British attack, many die, and his companions fear he's been killed. However, he has survived and disguised himself as a Buddhist priest. En route to Mudon to join his comrades, the frequent sight of dead Japanese soldiers overwhelms him. He vows to live a life of prayer, burying bones and bodies; his friends want him to return with them to Japan.
L'arpia DVD (1971)
Also known as: Harpy DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Gerald Seth Sindell
Cast: Elizabeth Ashley, Marlyn Mason, Hugh O'Brian, Mark Miller, Tom Nardini, Linda Watkins
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Architect's life is plagued by his ex-wife, a master manipulator, whose constant clawing is about to drive off his new love, and his clientèle. As a hobby, he enjoys training a rare harpy eagle, with a Native-American pal, who empathizes with his plight, and a plan of action coalesces.
Arrest! DVD (1968)
Also known as: Nobody Runs Forever DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Camilla Sparv, Daliah Lavi, Clive Revill, Lee Montague, Calvin Lockhart, Derren Nesbitt, Edric Connor, Burt Kwouk, Russell Napier, Ken Wayne, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Franchot Tone
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Rod Taylor plays a policeman sent to return a sensitive case; An Australian citizen, currently acting as high commissioner for peace talks who is wanted for an old charge -- of murder. The talks are too sensitive to be disturbed, so Taylor ends up watching Christopher Plummer as he conducts his talks, and discovers that some want the talks to fail enough to think that killing Plummer is an obvious way to stop them.
Arrestatela! DVD (1937)
Also known as: Murder in Greenwich Village DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Romance, Mystery
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Raymond Walburn, Wyn Cahoon, Scott Kolk, Thurston Hall, Marc Lawrence, Gene Morgan, Mary Russell, George McKay, Leon Ames, Barry Macollum, Marjorie Reynolds
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: An heiress uses a photographer as an alibi when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit.
Arrriva Dorellik DVD (1967)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Steno
Cast: Johnny Dorelli, Margaret Lee, Alfred Adam, Jean-Pierre Zola, Rossella Como, Riccardo Garrone, Piero Gerlini, Agata Flori, Didi Perego, Terry-Thomas, Valentino Macchi, Consalvo Dell'Arti, Emilia Della Rocca, Franco Gulà
Medium: DVD R/RW
