rare films on dvd
L'evaso di San Quintino DVD (1957)
Also known as: House of Numbers DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir
Director: Russell Rouse
Cast: Jack Palance, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt, Barbara Lang, Frank Watkins
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder, devises a daring plan with his wife and his brother Bill to help him escape, part of which involves Bill and Arnie's wife posing as a married couple and moving to a house near the prison. Although the plan appears to go smoothly at first, it soon runs into a few snags--the couple move next door to a suspicious prison guard who knows Arnie and, more importantly, Bill and his brother's wife begin to find themselves attracted to each other.
Un evaso ha bussato alla porta DVD (1942)
Also known as: The Talk of the Town DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Charles Dingle, Emma Dunn, Rex Ingram, Leonid Kinskey, Tom Tyler, Don Beddoe
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot Outline: When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson (and murder; one man was lost). Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley ...which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap. As Lightcap's unwelcome guests, Nora and Leopold drag the professor, willy-nilly, from theory to practice.
Evdokia DVD (1971)
Country: Greece
Spoken Languages: Greek
Genre(s): Drama, Romance
Director: Alexis Damianos
Cast: Maria Vassiliou, Giorgos Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou, Christos Zorbas, Vassilis Panayiotopoulos, Paulos Roussos, S. Douligerakis, Nasos Katakouzinos, Maria Koutokaki, Spyros Kyriakopoulos, Kostas Rigas, Yannis Savatianos
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay together and overcome their inner conflicts, but the social environment crushes them.
An evening of Edgar Allan Poe DVD (1970)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Vincent Price (as Narrator)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Vincent Price recites four Edgar Allen Poe stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
The evictors DVD (1979)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Charles B. Pierce
Cast: Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper, Sue Ane Langdon, Dennis Fimple, Bill Thurman, Jimmy Clem, Harry Thomasson, Twyla Taylor, Mary Branch, John R. Meyer, John Milam, Roxanne Harter, Foster Litton, Owen Guthrie
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A young couple just being married rents a house in a village in Louisiana. But they are not welcome because the inhabitants of the village look at them with distrust - in the house they rented were happening strange things in the past...
Eviration bramosia dei sensi DVD (1973)
Also known as: Los cachorros DVD (original title)
Country: Mexico
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Erotic
Director: Jorge Fons
Cast: José Alonso, Helena Rojo, Carmen Montejo, Augusto Benedico, Gabriel Retes, Arsenio Campos, Dunia Saldívar, Cecilia Pezet, Pedro Damián, Silvia Mariscal, Pancho Córdova, María Rojo, Ivonne Govea, Eduardo Cassab, Luis Torner
Medium: DVD R/RW
Evviva il pericolo! DVD (1929)
Also known as: Welcome Danger DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young, Charles Middleton, Will Walling, Grady Sutton
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.
Evviva la libertà DVD (1969)
Also known as: Mr. Freedom DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director: William Klein
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, John Abbey, Donald Pleasence, Jean-Claude Drouot, Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Lefebvre, Rufus, Sabine Sun, Rita Maiden, Colin Drake, Pierre Baillot, Raoul Billerey, Philippe Noiret, Sami Frey, Catherine Rouvel
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Mr. Freedom is a pro-American Right superhero who fights for God and country by beating, robbing, raping, and killing anyone who looks like they might disagree with him. When he hears that France is in danger of falling to the Commies, Mr. Freedom heads overseas to set things right. When the welcome he receives isn't quite as warm as he expected, he gives up hope of steering the French away from the Reds and decides to salvage what he can by destroying the entire country.
Excitação DVD (1976)
Country: Brazil
Spoken Languages: Portuguese
Genre(s): Thriller, Erotic
Director(s): Jean Garret
Cast: Kate Hansen (as Helena), Flávio Galvão (as Renato), Betty Saady (as Arlete), Zilda Mayo (as Lu), João Paulo Ramalho (as Paulo), Liana Duval, Abrahão Farc, Carlos Meni
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house, far from all their previous complications when the wife started to suffer with strange visions. But their problems are from over when all the electronic objects of the new house seem to have a life of their own, scaring the woman and making her look more insane each day goes by. Her husband and neighbors don't believe her stories of being attacked by such objects but a mystery about the death of the previous owner might explain the truth behind the strange occurrences at this residence.
Executive la donna che sapeva troppo DVD (1969)
Also known as: The Girl Who Knew Too Much DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Crime
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Adam West, Nancy Kwan, Robert Alda, Nehemiah Persoff, David Brian, Buddy Greco, Patricia Smith, Weaver Levy, John Napier, Mark Roberts, Steve Peck, Diane Van Valin, Chick Chandler, Lisa Todd
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned by Johnny Cain, a hard bitten former free-lance adventurer. The gang threatens to kill Johnny, unless he solves the murder. The CIA also investigates - because it turns out that the slaying was part of a long-range Communist plan to take over the crime syndicate. Cain's search for clues leads him into a maze of beautiful girls, mysterious Oriental statues and murderous spies.
Exhibition '80 DVD (1975)
Also known as: Exhibition DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Adult
Director: Jean-François Davy
Cast: Claudine Beccarie, Benoît Archenoul, Noëlle Louvet, Béatrice Harnois, Frédérique Barral, Michel Dauba, Ellen Earl, Patrick Segalas, Mandarine, Didier Faya
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A documentary about the French porn industry, focusing on French porn superstar Claudine Beccarie.
Exhibition blue DVD (1977)
Also known as: La grande baise DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Adult
Director: Claude Mulot
Cast: Karine Gambier, Guy Royer, Alban Ceray, Barbara Moose, Thierry de Brem
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: One year after they split up, Dolly and Jean-Jacques recall their memories as a couple... Reunited where they first met, love strikes again.
Exhibition strike DVD (1978)
Also known as: Gymno fotomodelo DVD (original title)
Country: Greece
Spoken Languages: Greek
Genre(s): Erotic, Crime
Director: Omiros Efstratiadis
Cast: Yiorgos Gintis, Sylvia Lueff, Samantha Romanou, Haris Tryfonas, Lakis Xanthis, Maria Vourna, Dimitris Tsaftaridis, Vicky Zikou, Kostas Papahristos, Tzina Sakka, Hristos Nomikos, Litsa Sakellariou
Medium: DVD R/RW
Exodus DVD (1960)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Drama, War, History
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer, David Opatoshu, Jill Haworth, Marius Goring, Alexandra Stewart, Michael Wager
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. An Intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. The second part of the film is about the situation in Israel as independence is declared and most of their neighbors attack them.
Exorcismo negro DVD (1974)
Country: Brazil
Spoken Languages: Portuguese
Genre(s): Horror
Director: José Mojica Marins
Cast: José Mojica Marins, Ariane Arantes, Geórgia Gomide, Luiz Karlo, Wanda Kosmo, Rubens Francisco Luchetti, Merisol Marins, Alcione Mazzeo, Marcelo Picchi, Joffre Soares, Adriano Stuart, Walter Stuart
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The director José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in the small farm where they live and write the story of his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force. Sooner he learns that the matriarch of the family had made a deal with a local witch Malvina to get pregnant and save her marriage. In return, Malvina should indicate who would marry the girl. However, her daughter Wilma is engaged of her beloved fiancé and Malvina wants her to get married with Eugenio, who is the son of Satan...
Exorcismus - Cleo la dea dell'amore DVD (1971)
Also known as: Blood from the Mummy's Tomb DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Horror
Director: Seth Holt
Cast: Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers, Hugh Burden, George Coulouris, Mark Edwards, Rosalie Crutchley, Aubrey Morris, David Markham, Joan Young, James Cossins, David Jackson, Jonathan Burn, Graham James, Tamara Ustinov
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: An archaelogical expedition brings back the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magic powers to London. Her spirit takes on the shape of a young girl and strange things starts to happen.
Expensive tastes DVD (1978)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Crime, Adult
Director: Joanna Williams
Cast: Joey Silvera, Fanie Essex, Elaine Wells, Phaery Burd, John Leslie, Eileen Welles, Ken Scudder, John Seeman, Dan Egan
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Home from a date, a couple is brutally attacked in the man's apartment. After the smoke clears, the ashamed woman pleads that the police not be told. A suspicious cop persuades a lady friend to date the same man, and a similar attack ensues. It's revealed that the seemingly innocent man was in on the act, as a clever method to violate women.
Experiment Alcatraz DVD (1950)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Crime, Mystery
Director: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: John Howard, Frank Cady, Joan Dixon, Walter Kingsford, Lynne Carter, Robert Shayne, Kim Spalding, Sam Scar, Kenneth MacDonald, Dick Cogan, Byron Foulger, Ralph Peters, Lewis Martin, Harry Lauter, Raymond Largay
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: A doctor tests his theory that blood diseases can be cured by atomic radiation by using prison inmates as experiments.
Exploit bella sexy e ladra DVD (1966)
Also known as: Lange Beine - Lange Finger DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Senta Berger, Joachim Fuchsberger, Martin Held, Irene von Meyendorff, James Robertson Justice, Helga Sommerfeld, Walter Wilz, Tilo von Berlepsch, Lia Eibenschütz, Alexander Engel, Cora Roberts, Friedrich Schoenfelder, Rudolf Schündler, Hilde Sessak, Heinz Spitzner
Medium: DVD R/RW
Explosion DVD (1975)
Also known as: Tôkyô-wan enjô DVD (original title)
Country: Japan
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Katsumune Ishida
Cast: Tetsurô Tanba, Hiroshi Fujioka, Jô Shishido, Kei Satô, Kenji Sahara, Tetsuya Watari, Kazuya Aoyama, Ryôhei Uchida, Ken Sanders, Willy Dorcey, Yutaka Mizutani, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Akio Satake, Shigeo Katô, Kay Amoam
Medium: DVD R/RW
Exterminator DVD (1980)
Also known as: The Exterminator DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime
Director: James Glickenhaus
Cast: Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Robert Ginty, Steve James, Tony DiBenedetto, Dick Boccelli, Patrick Farrelly, Michele Harrell, David Lipman, Cindy Wilks, Dennis Boutsikaris, Roger Grimsby, Judy Licht, Stan Getz, George Cheung
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: When John Eastland's best friend, Michael Jefferson, is mugged and left permanently crippled, he decides to do something about it. Jefferson had saved Eastland's life in Vietnam and now it's time for Eastland to get revenge for his friend. Using his old Army gear he sets out on a crusade to clean up the streets of New York using the name "The Exterminator."
Extraconiugale DVD (1964)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Comedy
Director: Massimo Franciosa
Cast: Gastone Moschin, Liana Orfei, Lando Buzzanca, Lena von Martens, Enzo Cerusico, Giuliano Montaldo, Franca Rame, Enzo La Torre, José Calvo, Agata Flori, Mino Guerrini, Renato Salvatori, Maria Perschy, Turi Ferro, Barbara Nelli
El extraño caso del doctor Fausto DVD (1969)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy
Director: Gonzalo Suárez
Cast: Gonzalo Suárez, Alberto Puig, Olga Vidali, Gila Hodgkinson, Emma Cohen, José Arranz, Teresa Gimpera, Charo López, Rublo
Medium: DVD R/RW
Un extraño en la casa DVD (1968)
Country: Mexico
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Director: Alfredo Zacarías
Cast: Evita (as Evita), Joselo (as Joselo), Roy Jenson (as Walter), Rosenda Monteros (as Diana), Ofelia Montesco (as Lola, criada), René Cardona (as Don tomas), Arturo Castro 'Bigotón' (as Castro, editor), José Loza (as Chofer), John Kelly (as Policia Americano), Victor Eberg, Stillman Segar, Patricia Muniz (as Secretaria)
Medium: DVD R/RW
Gli extraterrestri torneranno DVD (1970)
Also known as: Erinnerungen an die Zukunft DVD (original title)
Country: West Germany
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Documentary, Sci-Fi
Director: Harald Reinl
Cast: Heinz-Detlev Bock (voice), Klaus Kindler (voice), Christian Marschall (voice), Hans Domnick, Thor Heyerdahl, Aleksandr Kazantsev, Hermann Oberth
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Documentary based on the book by Erich Von Daniken concerning the ancient mysteries of the world, such as the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico, ancient cave drawings, the monuments of Easter Island, etc. and the fact that these things and modern civilization could have been influenced by extra-terrestrial visitations hundreds(or perhaps thousands) of years ago.
