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Adolescenza torbida (1951)
Also known as:: Susana - Carne y Demonio (original title)

Country: Mexico

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Fernando Soler, Rosita Quintana, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Matilde Palou, María Gentil Arcos, Luis López Somoza, Rafael Icardo, Enrique del Castillo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the members of the household, until they are virtually fighting with each other.

L'adultera (1975)
Also known as:: To agistri (original title)

Country: Greece

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Director: Erricos Andreou

Cast: Jessica Dublin, Barbara Bouchet, Günther Stoll, Robert Behling, Sofia Roubou, Giorgos Kyritsis, Dinos Karidis, Giorgos Vakouletos, Kyriakos Danikas, Litsa Gallou, Dionysis Prionas, Giannis Tsiknis, Spyros Voutsinas

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Kostas is an all-powerful tycoon, in love with his beautiful wife, Iro, who, however, is cheating on him with a young playboy, Nikos. The two lovers are planning to kill Kostas, and believe that the opportunity arises during a yachting regatta, where the crime can appear as an accident. Nikos, however, falls into the sea, and his body is never found...

L'affare Blindfold (1965)
Also known as:: Blindfold (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Director: Philip Dunne

Cast: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter, Anne Seymour, Alejandro Rey, Hari Rhodes, Vito Scotti, Angela Clarke, John Megna, Paul Comi, Ned Glass, Mort Mills, Jack De Mave

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Dr. Bartholomew Snow, a psychiatrist, is treating a man with emotional problems who, it turns out, is a brilliant scientist being pursued by different international powers and their operatives. Snow soon finds himself caught in the middle and out of desperation, he falls in with a mysterious and beautiful woman named Vicky Vincenti. But is she helping him, or is she yet another sinister figure out to manipulate him?

L'affare della Sezione Speciale (1975)
Also known as:: Section spéciale (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, History

Director: Costa-Gavras

Cast: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani, François Maistre, Jacques Spiesser, Henri Serre, Heinz Bennent, Hans Richter, Pierre Dux, Jacques François, Claudio Gora, Michel Galabru, Claude Piéplu, Hubert Gignoux

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'affare Dominici (1973)
Also known as: L'affaire Dominici (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director: Claude Bernard-Aubert

Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jeanne Allard, Max Amyl, Michel Bertay, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Paul Crauchet, Gérard Darrieu, Colin Drake, Alberto Farnese, Geneviève Fontanel, Pierre Forget, Annick Fougery, Jean Gabin, Nicole Giroux, Rafael Hernández

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'affascinante straniero(1947)
Also known as:: Love from a Stranger (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Richard Whorf

Cast: John Howard, John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, Isobel Elsom, Ernest Cossart, Philip Tonge, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Frederick Worlock

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiancé Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.

Afyon oppio (1972)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Ferdinando Baldi

Cast: Ben Gazzara, Silvia Monti, Fausto Tozzi, Jess Hahn, José Greci, Malisa Longo, Mario Pilar, Luciano Catenacci, Steffen Zacharias, Luciano Rossi, Teodoro Corrà, Corrado Gaipa, Ezio Sancrotti, Carlo Gaddi, John Bartha

Medium: DVD R/RW

Agente confidenziale (1945)
Also known as:: Confidential Agent (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Herman Shumlin

Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Wanda Hendrix, George Coulouris, Katina Paxinou, John Warburton, Holmes Herbert, Dan Seymour, Art Foster, Miles Mander, Lawrence Grant, Ian Wolfe, George Zucco

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side. Support comes from an unlikely if attractive quarter.

Agenti speciali ONU missione Eiffel (1980)
Also known as:: The Hostage Tower (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Director: Claudio Guzmán

Cast: Peter Fonda, Maud Adams, Billy Dee Williams, Britt Ekland, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Keir Dullea, Rachel Roberts, Celia Johnson, Jack Lenoir, André Oumansky, Daniel Perche, Jacques Maury, Nicolas Vogel, Hubert Noël, Michel Bardinet

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Criminal takes hostages on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Aggressione armata (1955)
Also known as:: Interdit de sejour (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Maurice de Canonge

Cast: Daniel Cauchy, Claude Laydu, Joëlle Bernard, Pierre Destailles, Renaud Mary, Liliane Bert, Henri Crémieux, Robert Dalban, Arlette Merry, Michel Piccoli, Clara Tambour, Jean Clarens, Isabelle Eber, René Havard, Robert Le Béal

Medium: DVD R/RW

Agguato sul rapido (1942)
Also known as:: Suspected Person (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Lawrence Huntington

Cast: Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc, David Farrar, Anne Firth, Robert Beatty, Eric Clavering, Leslie Perrins, Eliot Makeham, John Salew, William Hartnell

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An innocent man discovers the money stolen from an American bank and is then chased by the robbers and by the Police.

Agli ordini del del Fuhrer e al servizio di Sua Maestà (1966)
Also known as:: Triple Cross (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure, War

Director: Terence Young

Cast: Christopher Plummer, Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Gert Fröbe, Claudine Auger, Georges Lycan, Jess Hahn, Harry Meyen, Gil Barber, Jean-Claude Bercq, Jean Claudio, Robert Favart, Bernard Fresson, Clément Harari

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Loosely based on a true story, Christopher Plummer plays British bank robber Eddie Chapman who finds himself caught between the waring parties in WW2, the British and the Germans. working as a spy for both sides he tries to play the 3rd reich and the British against each other. the real life Chapman described himself as a completely 'amoral' person, which adds a nice philisophical touch to this somewhat colourful spy-flic. Is there any moral in making war ? Even if you're the 'good' fighting 'evil' ?

Ai confini del delitto (1951)
Also known as:: Two of a Kind (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Henry Levin

Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Terry Moore, Lizabeth Scott, Alexander Knox, Griff Barnett, Robert Anderson, Virginia Brissac

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son. Kathy, the McIntyre's niece, who likes Lefty, introduces him to the McIntyres who soon become convinced he is their son, but the old man refuses to change his will. Lefty balks at killing McIntyre and exposes Mailer's attempted swindle. Brandy and Lefty end up together as "two of a kind."

Airport (1970)
Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: George Seaton

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Dana Wynter, Gary Collins, Barry Nelson, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Hale, John Findlater, Jessie Royce Landis, Karen Black

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Mel Bakersfeld is the hard-charging manager of Lincoln International Airport, trying to keep his airport open despite a raging Midwestern snowstorm and an angry wife. Meanwhile, his antagonistic brother-in-law, Vernon Demerest, may have his plans for a placid layover in Italy disturbed by unexpected news from Gwen Meighen, and by the plans of the D.O. Guerrero, the loose cannon on board.

Airport 75 (1974)
Also known as:: Airport 1975 (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama

Director: Jack Smight

Cast: Charlton Heston, Gloria Swanson, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Linda Blair, Roy Thinnes, Dana Andrews, Nancy Olson, Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy, Larry Storch, Susan Clark, Barry Nelson, Helen Reddy, Brenda Vaccaro, Ed Nelson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A mid-air collision involving a a small plane and a commercial jetliner leads to potential disaster, as a plane loaded with passengers and no pilot becomes the worst nightmare for a flight attendant tasked with flying the craft.

Airport '77 (1977)
Also known as:: Airport '77 (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama

Director: Jerry Jameson

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, James Stewart, Darren McGavin, George Kennedy, Robert Foxworth, Christopher Lee, Robert Hooks, Monte Markham, Kathleen Quinlan, Gil Gerard, James Booth, Barry Nelson, Alain Delon

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A luxury 747 carrying valuable art work is hijacked and lands in the ocean, submerged in shallow water. Will the crew and passengers make it off before the plane floods with water?

Airport '80 (1979)
Also known as:: The Concorde... Airport '79 (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama

Director: David Lowell Rich

Cast: Susan Blakely, Sylvia Kristel, Robert Wagner, Charo, George Kennedy, Eddie Albert, Andrea Marcovicci, Cicely Tyson, Martha Raye, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge, Barry Nelson, Bibi Andersson, John Davidson, Jimmie Walker, Nehemiah Persoff

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: American based Federation World Airlines has just acquired a Concorde jet, which will make its inaugural commercial flight from Washington D.C. to Paris and then to Moscow as a goodwill gesture prior to the 1980 Olympic Games...

Al di là del ponte (1957)
Also known as:: Across the Bridge (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Ken Annakin

Cast: Rod Steiger, Bernard Lee, Eric Pohlmann, Barry Nelson, David Knight, Noel Willman, Ingeborg von Kusserow, Alan Gifford, Marianne Deeming, Bill Nagy, Faith Brook, Karin Kernke

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Corporate executive Carl Schaffner is a German-born British industrialist in New York on business. After he gets word that Scotland Yard is investigating a $3,000,000 embezzlement he has committed, the imperious, mean-spirited Schaffner thinks he has sufficient time to take an inconspicuous train to Mexico where he can escape extradition. He miscalculates, and his crime has become headline news before he can cross the border...

Al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1943)
Also known as:: Above Suspicion (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Richard Thorpe

Cast: Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, Daria Nicolodi, Richard Ainley, Cecil Cunningham, Ann Shoemaker, Felix Bressart, Sara Haden, Bruce Lester, Johanna Hofer, Lotte Palfi Andor, Madam Borget, Ludwig Donath, Marcel Cerdan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Oxford Professor Richard Myles and new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't your typical honeymoon though, for they are on a spying mission for British intelligence on the eve of World War 2.

Al pappagallo verde/ La morte grigia (1937)
Also known as:: The Green Cockatoo (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: William Cameron Menzies

Cast: John Mills, René Ray, Charles Oliver, Bruce Seton, Julian Vedey, Robert Newton, Allan Jeayes, Frank Atkinson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A young girl is traveling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.

L'albergo degli assenti (1939)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast: Paola Barbara, Maurizio D'Ancora, Camillo Pilotto, Dria Paola, Carlo Tamberlani, Elio Steiner, Guglielmo Barnabò, Franco Coop, Pina Gallini, Enzo Gainotti, Eugenio Duse, Renato Chiantoni, Dina Romano, Alfredo Martinelli, Paul Hörbiger

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A young lady is employed by a millionaire. She is kidnapped instead of the rich woman by a gang, on behalf of people who were interested in the rich woman's disappearance. She is brought to a special hotel, where the guests are people who are imprisoned because their families wanted to get rid of them. The rich woman is finally able to convince a police officer to investigate the strange vanishing. A prisoner goes mad and sets fire to the prison, which could not have been detected otherwise, freeing the disappeared at last.

L'alibi di Satana (1947)
Also known as:: The Unsuspected (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Michael Curtiz

Cast: Harry Lewis, Constance Bennett, Joan Caulfield, Danny Lloyd, Audrey Totter, Hurd Hatfield, Ted North, Ray Walker, Fred Clark, Jack Lambert, Walter Baldwin, Nana Bryant, Charles Horvath, Joan Fontaine

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Her uncle hosts a radio murder mystery show called "The Unsuspected". Who killed the girl? Why? And who is this mystery husband?

L'alibi era perfetto (1956)
Also known as:: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Fritz Lang

Cast: Dana Andrews, Arthur Franz, Danny Lloyd, Sidney Blackmer, Philip Bourneuf, Shepperd Strudwick, Edward Binns, Robin Raymond, William F. Leicester, Barbara Nichols, Rusty Lane, Dan Seymour, Joyce Taylor, Trudy Wroe, Carleton Young, Ruth Leuwerik

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot Outline: Writer sets himself up to take murder rap to show the errors of circumstantial evidence. With a friend holding back evidence so he can prove his innocence at the last minute, he goes to trial. But during the trial, his friend is killed in a car accident.

L'alibi sotto la neve (1957)
Also known as:: Nightfall (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Cast: Brian Keith, Aldo Ray, Danny Lloyd, Jocelyn Brando, Frank Albertson, James Gregory, Rudy Bond, Peter Sellers

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

All'alba non sarete vivi (1948)
Also known as:: The Dark Past (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Rudolph Maté

Cast: William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb, Lois Maxwell, May Clark, Stephen Dunne, Steven Geray, Berry Kroeger, Wilton Graff, Robert Osterloh, Kathryn Card, Stéphane Audran

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When a detective scoffs at his suggestion that an 18 year-old criminal be referred for psychiatric examination Dr. Andrew Collins, the police psychiatrist, tells him the story of his encounter with Al Walker. Walker had a history of violence and killed the prison warden during an escape. He and his gang took the Collins family and their friends hostage but when Dr. Collins learns that Walker has a violent recurring dream, he offers to help him decipher the dream and determine exactly what has driven him to a life of crime and violence.

All'ombra del delitto - Hallucination (1970)
Also known as:: La rupture (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Claude Chabrol

Cast: Annie Cordy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Drouot, Mario Beccara, Serge Bento, Jean Carmet, Louise Chevalier, Marguerite Cassan, Suzy Falk, Harry Kümel, Pierre Gualdi, Pierre Le Rumeur, Daniel Lecourtois, Robert Culp

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: English

Plot: Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene's reputation and then her very life.

All'ultimo sangue (1946)
Also known as:: Below the Deadline (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: William Beaudine

Cast: Jan Wiley, Ramsay Ames, Paul Maxey, John Harmon, Philip Van Zandt, Bruce Edwards, Clancy Cooper, George Meeker, Cay Forrester, Al Bridge, George Eldredge, William Ruhl, Georges Géret

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.

Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Director: Luciano Salce

Cast: Lila Kedrova, Antonino Faa Di Bruno, Eleonora Giorgi, Guido Cerniglia, Renato Chiantoni, Orchidea de Santis, Carmine Ferrara, Enzo Spitaleri, Carla Mancini, Jimmy il Fenomeno, Vera Drudi, Vittorio Fanfoni, Farley Granger

Medium: DVD R/RW

Alla ricerca del piacere (1972)
Also known as:: Amuck (English title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Romance, Mystery

Director: Silvio Amadio

Cast: Petar Martinovitch, Barbara Bouchet, Rosalba Neri, Dino Mele, Nino Segurini, Umberto Raho, Patrizia Viotti, Shirley Temple

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Greta Franklin, a beautiful American blonde, arrives on an island near Venice and rings the door-bell of Richard Stuart, a famous novelist who lives in a beautiful house with his wife Elonora. She manages to be hired as Richard's new secretary, the former one having disappeared without a trace. What Richard and Eleonora do not know - yet- is that Greta has a secret motive for taking the job: not only did she know Sally, her predecessor, but she was her lover...

L'allucinante notte di una baby-sitter (1971)
Also known as:: Fright (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Crime

Director: Peter Collinson

Cast: Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen, Dennis Waterman, Susan George, John Gregson, George Cole, Tara Collinson, Maurice Kaufmann, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Michael Brennan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.

Alta tensione (1977)
Also known as:: High Anxiety (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Director: Mel Brooks

Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Lee Delano, Richard Stahl, Darrell Zwerling,

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high anxiety," in order to clear his name. An homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock; contains many parodies of famous Hitchcock scenes from THE BIRDS, PSYCHO, and VERTIGO.

Alto tradimento (1949)
Also known as:: Conspirator (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Victor Saville

Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Honor Blackman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Marjorie Fielding, Thora Hird, Marie Ney, Jack Allen, Helen Haye, Cicely Paget-Bowman, Karel Stepanek, Nicholas Bruce, Cyril Smith

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a dashing but solitary and lonely English major, Michael Curragh, and he with her. His aged aunt, his only family, urges him to marry her, and he does. The trouble is, he's an agent for the Soviets. His control is unhappy that he's married without the Party's consent. Melinda figures out he's a spy and a traitor, and she develops some backbone and maturity when he tries to convince her to go along with him. She demands that he cease spying at about the same time that his control orders him to kill her. Is she safe? Is there any way he can satisfy conflicting loyalties?

L'altra faccia di mezzanotte (1977)
Also known as:: The Other Side of Midnight (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Romance

Director: Charles Jarrott

Cast: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Michael Lerner, Sorrell Booke, Marisol, Raf Vallone, Christian Marquand, Antony Ponzini, Charles Cioffi, Dimitra Arliss, Louis Zorich, Josette Banzet, John Chappell, Jan Arvan, Adriano Celentano, Venantino Venantini

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Beautiful Noelle Page meets dashing WWII American pilot Larry Douglas in France and falls in love. She expects him to marry her, but instead Larry abandons her. In the United States, successful Catherine Alexander meets Larry Douglas and they marry. But Noelle hasn't forgotten Larry even as she's become a successful actress. She maneuvers to have Larry hired as the private pilot of her wealthy and powerful lover Constantin Demiris so she can seek revenge on him, but instead she and Larry rekindled their passion. Desperate to be together, Larry and Noelle make deadly plans. But soon the lovers face a terrible fate determined by the jealous Demiris using Catherine as his pawn.

L'amante (1950)
Also known as:: A Lady Without Passport (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Cast: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready, Steven Geray, Bruce Cowling, Nedrick Young, Steven Hill, Robert Osterloh, Trevor Bardette, Charles Wagenheim, Renzo Cesana, Esther Zeitlin, Carlo Tricoli, Marta Mitrovich

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amante della morte (1945)
Also known as:: Latin Quarter (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Vernon Sewell

Cast: Derrick De Marney, Frederick Valk, Beresford Egan, Joan Greenwood, Joan Seton, Lily Kann, Martin Miller, Valentine Dyall, Gerhard Kempinski, Espinosa, Margaret Clarke, Bruce Winston, Anthony Hawtrey, Rachel Brodbrar, Sybille Binder

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.

L'amante infedele (1966)
Also known as:: La seconde veritè (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Christian-Jaque

Cast: Robert Hossein, Bernard Tiphaine, Pascale de Boysson, Jacques Castelot, Jean-Pierre Darras, Jean Marchat, Bernard Musson, Pierre-Louis, Jean-Claude Rolland, Malka Ribowska, Muriel Baptiste

Medium: DVD R/RW

Gli amanti del chiaro di Luna (1958)
Also known as:: Les bijoutiers du clair de lune (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Roger Vadim

Cast: José Nieto, Alida Valli, Stephen Boyd, Fernando Rey, Maruchi Fresno, José Marco Davó, Adriano Domínguez, Antonio Vico, Tosi, Mario Moreno, José Tasso Tena, Nicolás D. Perchicot, Rafael Torrobo, Antonio Prieto, Hugo Blanco

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Ursula leaves the convent where she was educated, to start living with her uncle, the count Ribera, and her aunt Florentine. When she arrives, she is confronted with a local drama: a youngman from the village, Lambert, whose sister took her own life, accuses the count of being responsible for his sister's death...

Amaro destino (1949)
Also known as:: House of Strangers (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Noir

Director: Frank Launder

Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Luther Adler, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Tito Vuolo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance against his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. But after remembering his past, especially his relationship with Irene Bennett, Max realizes that his father had caused all the tension within the family and makes peace with his brothers.

L'ambizioso (1975)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Pasquale Squitieri

Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Tony Askin, Leopoldo Buondonno, Angelo Corrieri, Stefania Casini, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Paolo De Lucia, Ugo Donadio, Bernard Farber, Antonella Fasano, Ranieri Ferrara, Marcello Filotico, Gregorio Gandolfo, Guido Giuseppone, Hannelore Schroth

Medium: DVD R/RW

Amburgo squadra omicidi (1964)
Also known as: Polizeirevier Davidswache (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Jürgen Roland

Cast: Wolfgang Kieling, Günther Ungeheuer, Günther Neutze, Jürgen Draeger, Silvana Sansoni, Günter Lüdke, Mario Adorf, Ingrid Andree, Fred Berthold, Linda Boyce, Harald Heitmann, Larry Hunter, Hans Irle, Johanna König, Mercedes Quadros

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The action is set in and around a police station in St Pauli, the docks area of Hamburg where prostitution and crimes of violence are rife. Glantz is the head of the uniformed officers, and does his best to keep order. Bruno Kapp has just got out of jail, and it looks as if he is going to seek revenge on Glantz for sending him down in the first place. Glantz doesn't take this seriously, and then suddenly he is alone on the roof with Kapp, and Kapp has got a gun ...

Un'americano tranquillo (1958)
Also known as:: The Quiet American (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, War, Romance

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Bruce Cabot, Giorgia Moll, Fred Sadoff, Kerima, Peter Trent, Richard Loo, Georges Bréhat, Clinton Anderson, Nguyen Long, Yoko Tani, C. Long Cuong, Tu An, Yves Montand, Will Rogers

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amerikano (1972)
Also known as: État de siège (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Costa-Gavras

Cast: Renato Salvatori, Maurice Teynac, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau, Yvette Etiévant, Evangeline Peterson, Harald Wolff, Nemesio Antúnez, Mario Montilles, André Falcon, Roberto Navarrete, Jerry Brouer, Douglas Harris, Lisa Gastoni, Will Rogers

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.

Gli amici di Eddie Coyle (1973)
Also known as:: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Peter Yates

Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Alex Rocco, Steven Keats, Joe Santos, Peter MacLean, Mitch Ryan, Kevin O'Morrison, Marvin Lichterman, Carolyn Pickman, James Tolkan, Margaret Ladd, Matthew Cowles, Helena Carroll, Isabella Biagini, Will Rogers

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?

Gli amici di Nick Hezard (1976)
Also known as:: Nick the Sting (original title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Fernando Di Leo

Cast: Luc Merenda, Lee J. Cobb, Gabriele Ferzetti, Luciana Paluzzi, Dagmar Lassander, Riccardo Salvino, Fred Williams, Mario Pisu, Jean-Claude Vernè, William Berger, Yvonne Furneaux, Rosario Borelli, Edoardo Faieta, Liselotte Pulver, Flora Carosello

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.