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Assassino di fiducia (1956)
Also known as: The Green Man (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Director: Robert Day

Cast: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley, Colin Gordon, Avril Angers, Eileen Moore, Dora Bryan, John Chandos, Cyril Chamberlain, Richard Wattis, Vivien Wood, Marie Burke, Lucy Griffiths

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another.

L'assassino di pietra (1973)
Also known as: The Stone Killer (original title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Michael Winner

Cast: Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Paul Koslo, Norman Fell, David Sheiner, Stuart Margolin, Ralph Waite, Alfred Ryder, Walter Burke, Kelley Miles, Eddie Firestone, Charles Tyner, Byron Morrow, Lisabeth Hush

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sicilian mafiosi were all killed on a single day. Torrey gets various clues that something big is about to happen but will he discover what is planned before the big day ?

L'assassino di Rillington Place n.10 (1971)
Also known as: 10 Rillington Place (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Richard Fleischer

Cast: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Miss Riley, Phyllis MacMahon, Ray Barron, Douglas Blackwell, Gabrielle Daye, Jimmy Gardner, Edward Evans, Tenniel Evans, David Jackson, George Lee

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'assassino è perduto (1956)
Also known as: The Killer Is Loose (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Noir

Director: Budd Boetticher

Cast: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Alan Hale Jr., Michael Pate, John Larch, Dee J. Thompson, John Beradino, Virginia Christine, Paul Bryar, Frank Gerstle

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. About three years later, Poole (until then a model prisoner) abruptly takes his chance to kill a guard and escape. It's clear during the ensuing manhunt that Poole is obsessed in pursuit of a single end; but not quite the end everyone supposes.

Un assassino per un testimone (1969)
Also known as: Stiletto (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Noir

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast: Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Patrick O'Neal, Joseph Wiseman, Barbara McNair, John Dehner, Titos Vandis, Eduardo Ciannelli, Roy Scheider, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Louie Elias, Luke Andreas, Dominic Barto, James Tolkan, Amaru

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.

L'assassino sul tetto (1957)
Also known as:: Appointment with a Shadow (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Noir

Director: Richard Carlson

Cast: George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, Virginia Field, Frank DeKova, Stephen Chase

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'asso di picche (1945)
Also known as: The Power of the Whistler (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Lew Landers

Cast: Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Loren Tindall, Tala Birell, John Abbott

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A man who stops in at a fortune teller's as a joke is shocked to have the fortune teller predict his imminent death.

L'asso nella manica (1951)
Also known as: Ace in the hole (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Billy Wilder

Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict, Ray Teal, Lewis Martin, John Berkes, Frances Dominguez, Gene Evans, Frank Jaquet, Harry Harvey, Bob Bumpas, Geraldine Hall

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in a mine. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth.

L'assoluzione (1978)
Also known as: Absolution (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: Anthony Page

Cast: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connolly, Andrew Keir, Willoughby Gray, Preston Lockwood, James Ottaway, Brook Williams, Jon Plowman, Robin Soans, Trevor Martin, Sharon Duce, Brian Glover, Dan Meaden

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher's pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. In confession, Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend Blakey and buried him in the forest...

Attacco: piattaforma Jennifer (1980)
Also known as: Noprth sea hijack(original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Adventure

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast: Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Jeremy Clyde, David Wood, Faith Brook, Lea Brodie, Anthony Pullen Shaw, Philip O'Brien, John Westbrook, Jennifer Hilary

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A terrorist holds an offshore drilling rig and production platform for ransom in the North Sea. Ffolkes a wealthy mysogynistic eccentric, volunteers to send his crack team of soldiers in to stop the terrorists. With few other options available, the British Government reluctantly accepts his help.

L'attentato (1972)
Also known as: L'attentat (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Yves Boisset

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Piccoli, Jean Seberg, Gian Maria Volonté, Michel Bouquet, Bruno Cremer, Daniel Ivernel, Philippe Noiret, François Périer, Roy Scheider, Jacques François, Jean Bouise, Denis Manuel, Marc Mazza, Jacques Richard

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Sadiel, rebel leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Aware of the threat posed by Sadiel, the ruthless Colonel Kassar contacts the French security services to help in capturing the political activist. A police informer, Darien, is forced to lure Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to make a television coverage about the Third World. Arriving in Paris, Sadiel is captured and delivered to his opponents. Disgusted by the way he has been manipulated, Darien tries to turn back the clock, unknowing who's dealing with.

Attenti a quei due napoletani (1980)
Also known as: Sabotaggio a Napoli (alternative title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Mario Gariazzo

Cast: Patrizia Albano, Giuseppe Curia, Gabriella Di Luzio, Mario Garbetta, Franco Marino, Pino Mauro, Marisa Reichlin

Medium: DVD R/RW

Atterraggio zero (1980)
Also known as: Ekipazh (original title)

Country: Soviet Union

Spoken Languages: Russian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama

Director: Aleksandr Mitta

Cast: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoli Vasilyev, Leonid Filatov, Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Yuri Gorobets, Ekaterina Vasileva, Irina Akulova, Komaki Kurihara, Aleksandr Pavlov, Galina Gladkova, Ivan Agafonov, Vladimir Aleksandrov, Larisa Barabanova, Leonid Chubarov, Guranda Gabunia

Medium: DVD R/RW

Un attico sopra l'inferno (1967)
Also known as: The Penthouse (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Peter Collinson

Cast: Suzy Kendall, Terence Morgan, Tony Beckley, Norman Rodway, Martine Beswick

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Three thugs--Tom, Dick and Harry (a woman)--break into the penthouse apartment of an adulterous couple and proceed to terrorize them, but as it turns out, things aren't exactly what they seem to be.

Atto eroico di un agente dello spionaggio (1947)
Also known as: Podvig razvedchika (original title)

Country: Soviet Union

Spoken Languages: Russian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, War

Director: Boris Barnet

Cast: Pavel Kadochnikov, Amvrosi Buchma, Viktor Dobrovolsky, Dmitri Milyutenko, Sergei Martinson, Mikhail Romanov, Pyotr Arzhanov, Boris Barnet, Yelena Izmailova, Vera Ulesova, Sergey Petrov, Viktor Khalatov, V. Draga, Aleksandr Bykov

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: Soviet agent Fedotov is air-dropped into Nazi occupied land. He changes over into Mr. Ekhert, a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of eastern worker slave labor in occupied Ukraine. Ekhert (Fedotov) enters into a partnership with a German entrepreneur who's son, Willi, is a high ranking Nazi. Together they go to Vinnitsa, Ukraine and start a factory. Fedotov begins seeking contacts with headquarters, but faces problems when a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator manages to infiltrate the Soviet partisans.

Atto di violenza (1948)
Also known as: Act of Violence (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger, Taylor Holmes, Harry Antrim, Connie Gilchrist, Will Wright

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something that happened in a German POW camp, and when a frightened Enley suddenly leaves for a convention in L.A., Parkson is close behind.

Autostop rosso sangue (1977)
Also known as: Death Drive (English title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Drama, Adventure, Crime

Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile

Cast: Franco Nero, Corinne Clery, David Hess, Joshua Sinclair, Carlo Puri, Ignazio Spalla, Leonardo Scavino, Mónica Zanchi, Benito Pacifico, Angelo Ragusa, Luigi Birri, Robert Sommer, Ann Ferguson, Fausto Di Bella

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'autostrada della morte (1979)
Also known as: Death Car on the Freeway (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

Director: Hal Needham

Cast: Shelley Hack, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves, Harriet Hilliard, Barbara Rush, Dinah Shore, Abe Vigoda, Alfie Wise, George Hamilton, Robert F. Lyons, Tara Buckman, Morgan Brittany, Nancy Stephens, Gloria Stroock, Hal Needham

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A woman is badly shaken when she is run off the freeway and nearly killed by a crazy van-driver. Her story is not taken too seriously by TV or the police - until another woman is killed in similar circumstances, also by a dark van. The police seem to have no leads, so a TV reporter starts investigating the similarities between the cases. As the deaths mount, she takes hazard-driving lessons. When she finally locates the driver's whereabouts, he's missing, but chases her onto the freeway...

Avalanche Express (1979)
Also known as: Avalanche Express (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller

Director: Mark Robson

Cast: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Joe Namath, Horst Buchholz, Mike Connors, Claudio Cassinelli, Kristina Nel, David Hess, Günter Meisner, Sylva Langova, Cyril Shaps, Vladek Sheybal, Arthur Brauss

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When a senior Russian official, Gen. Marenkov, decides to defect to the west, CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to lead the team to get him out. Malenkov reveals that the Russians are trying to develop biological weapons...

L'avventuriera di San Francisco (1945)
Also known as: Allotment Wives (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Director: William Nigh

Cast: Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael, Teala Loring, Bernard Nedell, Anthony Warde, Matty Fain, Jonathan Hale, Selmer Jackson, Terry Frost, Reid Kilpatrick, Doris Lloyd, Marcelle Corday, Evelyn Eaton

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.

Gli avventurieri di Londra (1936)
Also known as: Seven Sinners (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Director: Albert de Courville

Cast: Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings, Thomy Bourdelle, Henry Oscar, Felix Aylmer, Joyce Kennedy, O.B. Clarence, Mark Lester, Allan Jeayes, Anthony Holles, David Horne, Edwin Laurence, James Harcourt

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: US private eye sorts out European crime wave. With female sidekick in tow, wisecracking private eye follows a trail of corpses around Europe, shaking up a sinister criminal network which will stop at nothing, even causing major train wrecks to cover their crimes.

Avventurieri per una rivolta (1967)
Also known as: Estouffade à la Caraïbe (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller

Director: Jacques Besnard

Cast: Frederick Stafford, Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg, Maria-Rosa Rodriguez, Mario Pisu, Paul Crauchet, Fernand Bellan, Vittorio Sanipoli, César Torres, Marco Guglielmi, Karamoko Cisse, José Noguéro

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'avventuriero degli abissi (1975)
Also known as: The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Adventure

Director: Virginia L. Stone

Cast: Stephen Boyd, David Ladd, Chuck Woolery, Roosevelt Grier, Darby Hinton, Cheryl Ladd, Art Metrano, Clive Trenchard, Derek Rhoen, Gunter Perezak, Edsel Keith, Herbie Round, Mark Trenchard

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot Outline: A suspense filled adventure-drama about the search for a treasure-laden Spanish Galleon that sank over 200 years ago.

L'avventuriero di Burma (1955)
Also known as: Escape to Burma (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller

Director: Allan Dwan

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye, Lisa Montell, Robert Warwick, Reginald Denny, Robert Cabal, Peter Coe, Alex Montoya, Anthony Numkena, John Mansfield, Gavin Muir, Wag Bessing, Joe Ferrante

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A local prince in British Burma has been killed, apparently by his prospecting partner Jim Brecan. The bereaved father wants Brecan's head, no questions asked, but Captain Cardigan of the colonial police hopes to find him first for a fair trial. Meanwhile, Brecan finds refuge on the teak plantation of wealthy colonial Gwen Moore, where mutual attraction soon makes him indispensable...

L'avventuriero di Macao (1952)
Also known as: Macao (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Adventure, Film-Noir

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez, Gloria Grahame, Brad Dexter, Edward Ashley, Philip Ahn, Vladimir Sokoloff, Everett Glass

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A sultry night club singer, a man who has also traveled to many exotic ports and a salesman meet aboard ship on the 45-mile trip from Hong Kong to Macao. The singer is quickly hired by an American expatriate who runs the biggest casino in Macao and has a thriving business in converting hot jewels into cash. Her new boss thinks one of her traveling companions is a cop. One is -- but not the one the boss suspects.

Azione di controspionaggio (1952)
Also known as: Escape Route (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Seymour Friedman

Cast: George Raft, Sally Gray, Frederick Piper, Reginald Tate, Clifford Evans, Patricia Laffan, June Ashley, John Warwick, Roddy Hughes

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.

Baby sitter un maledetto pasticcio DVD (1975)
Also known as: La baby sitter (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: René Clément

Cast: Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Vic Morrow, Robert Vaughn, John Whittington, Nadja Tiller, Carl Möhner, Clelia Matania, Marco Tulli, Armando Brancia, Georg Marischka, Renato Pozzetto

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy movie producer. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.

Il bacio dell'assassino (1955)
Also known as: Killer's Kiss (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarrett, Mike Dana, Felice Orlandi, Shaun O'Brien, Barbara Brand, Skippy Adelman, David Vaughan, Alec Rubin, Ralph Roberts, Phil Stevenson, Arthur Feldman, Bill Funaro

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each other, which displeases Raphello. He sends men out to kill Davy, but they instead kill his friend. Gloria is soon kidnapped by Raphello and his men, and it is up to Davy to save her.

Il bacio della morte (1947)
Also known as: Kiss of Death (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: Henry Hathaway

Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes, Howard Smith, Karl Malden, Anthony Ross

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgings from well-meaning district attorney D'Angelo, refuses to rat on his partners and goes to jail, assured that his wife and children will be taken care of. Learning that his depressed wife has killed herself, Nick informs on his ex-pals and is paroled. Nick remarries, gets a job and begins leading a happy life when he learns one of the men he informed on, psychopathic killer Tommy Udo, has been released from custody and is out for revenge against Nick and his family.

Un bacio e una pistola (1955)
Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Robert Aldrich

Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Wesley Addy, Marian Carr, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Nick Dennis, Jack Lambert, Jack Elam, Jerry Zinneman, Leigh Snowden, Percy Helton

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her...

Bagliori sulla giungla (1950)
Also known as: The Lost Volcano (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller

Director: Ford Beebe

Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Donald Woods, Marjorie Lord, John Ridgely, Tommy Ivo, Elena Verdugo, Don C. Harvey, Grandon Rhodes, Robert Lewis

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Hunting guides have kidnapped David and will force him to lead them to a lost city hidden in the center of an active volcano. Bomba the Jungle Boy arrives to rescue David just as the volcano is about to erupt.

La ballerina dei gangsters (1937)
Also known as: Gangway (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Film-Noir, Musical

Director: Sonnie Hale

Cast: Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Nat Pendleton, Alastair Sim, Olive Blakeney, Noel Madison, Patrick Ludlow, Liane Ordeyne, Graham Moffatt, Danny Green, Edmon Ryan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

Bandiera gialla (1950)
Also known as:: Panic in the Streets (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Elia Kazan

Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss, Tommy Cook

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite official skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empty the city. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try...

Banditi senza mitra (1952)
Also known as: Loan Shark (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: Seymour Friedman

Cast: George Raft, Dorothy Hart, Paul Stewart, John Hoyt, Helen Westcott, Henry Slate, Russell Johnson, Margia Dean, Benny Baker, Lawrence Dobkin

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.

Il bandito senza nome (1946)
Also known as: Somewhere in the Night (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast: John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson, Fritz Kortner, Margo Woode, Sheldon Leonard, Lou Nova

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: George Taylor returns from the WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.

Barbablù (1951)
Also known as: Barbe-Bleue (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Director: Christian-Jaque

Cast: Cécile Aubry, Pierre Brasseur, Jean Debucourt, Robert Arnoux, Jacques Sernas, Reggie Nalder, Ina Halley, Henri Rollan, Denise Cormand, Carl Wery, Georges Chamarat, Elly Norden, Diane Lefort, Espanita Cortez, Geneviève Gérald

Medium: DVD R/RW

Barbablù (1972)
Also known as: Bluebeard (English title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Cast: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon, Marilù Tolo, Karin Schubert, Agostina Belli, Sybil Danning, Joey Heatherton, Edward Meeks, Jean Lefebvre, Erica Schramm, Doka Bukova, Mathieu Carrière, Karl-Otto Alberty

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women. When confronted with this slight oddity, Bluebeard explains to Anne that he found an easier alternative to divorce when he grew bored with his previous wives. In order to avoid being Bluebeard's next frozen bride, Anne must find a way to outwit her murderous hubby.

Base artica Zebra (1968)
Also known as: Ice Station Zebra (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama

Director: John Sturges

Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan, Alf Kjellin, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Ted Hartley, Murray Rose, Ron Masak, Sherwood Price, Lee Stanley, Joseph Bernard, John Orchard

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world. The mission takes on new and dangerous twists as the crew finds out that all is not as it seems at Zebra, and that someone will stop at nothing to prevent the mission from being completed.

Bassa marea (1950)
Also known as: House by the River (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Fritz Lang

Cast: Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Jody Gilbert, Sarah Padden, Peter Brocco, Howland Chamberlain, Leslie Kimmell, Effie Laird, Will Wright, Kathleen Freeman, Margaret Seddon, Alex Gerry

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect.

I bassifondi di San Francisco (1949)
Also known as: Knock on Any Door (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Nicholas Ray

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Candy Toxton, Mickey Knox, Barry Kelley

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his wife some jewelry, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead from suicide. When he turns again to robbery he's caught by a cop and Nick pumps all his bullets into him in frustration. Morton's appeal to the court emphasizes the evils of the slums.