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THRILLER/NOIR - L'amico americano/L'assassino della Sierra Nevada

L'amico americano (1977)
Also known as:: Der amerikanische Freund (original title)

Country: West Germany

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Wim Wenders

Cast: Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Sandy Whitelaw, Jean Eustache, Lou Castel, Andreas Dedecke, David Blue, Stefan Lennert, Rudolf Schündler, Keiko, Will Rogers

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.

Un amico da salvare (1975)  
Also known as: A friend in deed (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Director: Ben Gazzara

Cast: Richard Kiley, Rosemary Murphy, Michael McGuire, Val Avery, Eric Christmas, Eleanor Zee, John Finnegan, Arlene Martel, Victor Campos, Joshua Bryant, John Calvin, Byron Morrow, James V. Christy, Alma Beltran, Ian Flynn

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amico di famiglia (1973)
Also known as: Les noces rouges (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Claude Chabrol

Cast: Clotilde Joano, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu, Eliana De Santis, Franç;ois Robert, Pippo Merisi, Daniel Lecourtois, Ermanno Casanova, Henri Berger, Maurice Fourré, Philippe Fourré, Susannah York, Gilbert Servien

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will "benefit the town", and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair...

L'amico sconosciuto (1978)
Also known as: The Silent Partner (original title)

Country: Canada

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Daryl Duke

Cast: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Céline Lomez, Michael Kirby, Ken Pogue, Sean Sullivan, Gail Dahms-Bonine, John Candy, Michael Donaghue, Jack Duffy, Nancy Simmonds, Nuala Fitzgerald, Guy Sanvido, Charlotte Blunt, James Brolin, Will Rogers

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted. There ensues a terrific battle of wits involving the clever but basically "moral" teller, and the cunning and totally uninhibited bank robber, which involves several other people in ways which cannot be revealed here.

Amore e mistero DVD (1936)
Also known as: Secret Agent DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Percy Marmont, Florence Kahn, Charles Carson, Lilli Palmer

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Italian

Plot: During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and then Elsa Carrington who helps him in his duty.

Amore e morte nel giardino degli dei (1972)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Director: Sauro Scavolini

Cast: Peter Lee Lawrence, Erika Blanc, Ezio Marano, Orchidea de Santis, Rosario Borelli, Franz von Treuberg, Vittorio Duse, Bruno Boschetti, Carla Mancini

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amore impossibile (1962)
Also known as:: La croix des vivants (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Yvan Govar

Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Pascale Petit, Giani Esposito, Christine Darvel, Alain Cuny, Madeleine Robinson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Roger Dumas, Marika Green, Jacques Richard, Max de Rieux, Marie Dubois, Jackie Blanchot, Tony Buller, Guy-Louis Duboucheron

Medium: DVD R/RW

L'amore senza ma... (1962)
Also known as: L'amour avec des si (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Claude Lelouch

Cast: Guy Mairesse, Janine Magnan, Jean Franval, Richard Saint-Bris, France-Noëlle, Jacques Martin, Jean Daurand, Bernard Papineau, Mosin, Joëlle Picaud, Lyonnais, Jacqueline Morane, Rita Maiden

Medium: DVD R/RW

Anatomia di un delitto (1954)
Also known as:: Naked Alibi (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Noir, Drama, Crime

Director: Jerry Hopper

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Marcia Henderson, Max Showalter, Billy Chapin, Chuck Connors, Don Haggerty, Stuart Randall, Don Garrett, Richard Beach, Tol Avery, Paul Levitt, Fay Roope, Joseph Mell

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: French

Plot: Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues him doggedly despite lack of evidence. The obsessed Conroy is dismissed from the force, but continues to harass Willis, who flees to a sleazy town on the Mexican border. Of course, Conroy follows. But which is crazy, Conroy or Willis?

Anatomia di un rapimento (1963)
Also known as: Tengoku to jigoku (original title)

Country: Japan

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Takeshi Katô, Takashi Shimura, Jun Tazaki, Nobuo Nakamura, Yûnosuke Itô, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Minoru Chiaki, Eijirô Tôno, Masao Shimizu

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's life. His resolution of that dilemma -- the certain loss of the company vs. the probable loss of the child -- makes for one distinct drama, and an ensuing elaborate police procedure makes for a second.

Gli angeli con la faccia sporca (1938)
Also known as: Angels with Dirty Faces (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Michael Curtiz

Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsly, Joe Downing, Edward Pawley, Adrian Morris, Frankie Burke

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hell's Kitchen. Early on, Rocky gets sent to reform school, where he learns how to be a first class criminal. Jerry, who had escaped from the law, goes straight and becomes a priest. As adults, they reunite in the old neighborhood: Jerry works with the kids who, like he and Rocky, could end up on either side of the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner isn't anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks, roughhousing and gunfire ensues.

L'angelo nero (1946)
Also known as: Black Angel (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Roy William Neill

Cast: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling, Wallace Ford, Hobart Cavanaugh, Freddie Steele, John Phillips, Ben Bard, Junius Matthews, Marion Martin, Archie Twitchell, Maurice St. Clair, Vilova

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Kirk Bennett is falsely sentenced to death for killing blackmailer Mavis Marlowe, ex-wife of nice-guy drunk Martin Blair. Bennett's stand-up wife Catherine tries to prove him innocent, enlisting the aid of Blair, who falls in love with her. Bennett's execution draws near as the two pose as piano player and singer, trying to get the goods on sleazy nightclub owner Marko, a prime suspect. Failing to nail Marko, Catherine goes off to meet with her husband, scheduled to die the next morning, and Blair slips into an alcoholic stupor before the real killer is revealed.

L'angelo scatenato (1970)
Also known as: Angel Unchained (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama

Director: Lee Madden

Cast: Don Stroud, Luke Askew, Larry Bishop, Tyne Daly, T. Max Graham, Jean Marie Ingels, Bill McKinney, Jordan Rhodes, Peter Lawrence, Pedro Regas, Linda Smith, Nita Michaels, J. Cosgrove Butchie, T.C. Ryan, Alan Gibbs

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.

Angoscia (1944)
Also known as: Gaslight (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: George Cukor

Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes, Tom Stevenson, Heather Thatcher, Lawrence Grossmith, Jakob Gimpel

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Paula's aunt Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. Paula, who lives with her aunt finds the body. Police fail to find the killer and Paula is sent away to school. Ten years later, Paula returns to London with her new husband. They take up residence in her aunt's house, which she has inherited. Paula is increasingly isolated by her husband but does come to the attention of an admirerer of her aunt, Mr. Brian Cameron.

Angoscia nella notte (1947)
Also known as: Fear in the night (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: Maxwell Shane

Cast: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran, Kay Scott, Charles Victor, Robert Emmett Keane, Jeff York, Joey Ray, Loyette Thomson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Bank teller Vince Grayson wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but Vince finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story...until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing that mirrored room. Is doom closing in on Vince?

Anime in delirio (1947)
Also known as: Possessed (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, John Ridgely, Moroni Olsen, Erskine Sanford, Peter Miles, Jakob Gimpel, Isabel Withers, Lisa Golm, Douglas Kennedy, Monte Blue, Don McGuire

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David as a result of borderline personality disorder which ultimately leads to murder.

L'anniversario (1968)
Also known as: The Anniversary (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Comedy

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Cast: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley, James Cossins, Christian Roberts, Elaine Taylor, Timothy Bateson, Sally-Jane Spencer, Arnold Diamond, Albert Shepherd, Ralph Watson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: On the celebration of the anniversary of Mrs. Taggart, her three dominated sons come to her house for the party. Terry, Henry and Tom Taggart work in construction, in a business that belonged to their father and is presently managed by their manipulative mother. Tom brings his pregnant fiancée Shirley Blair to tell his mother that they will marry each other; Terry brings his wife Karen Taggart and they secretly intend to emigrate to Canada; and Henry is gay and loves to wear women's underwear. During the night, the mean Mrs. Taggart uses the most despicable means and tricks to get rid off Shirley and Terry and keep her sons close to her.

Anonima delitti (1955)
Also known as: New York Confidential (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: Russell Rouse

Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevens, Barry Kelley, Mike Mazurki, Celia Lovsky, Herbert Heyes, Steven Geray, William 'Bill' Phillips, Henry Kulky, Nestor Paiva, Joseph Vitale

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Nick Magellan works for the corrupt businessman Charlie Lupo, who presides over an influential crime syndicate in Manhattan, New York. New York senators belong to the realm of this syndicate. Charlie has a recalcitrant daughter, Kathy Lupo. She is in love with Nick. Nick protects Kathy against her father when she leaves her parental home. Charlie always knows not to be judged, but when one of the senators talks too much during a television interview, he is in the center of a massive fraud research by the law.

Anonima omicidi (1957)
Also known as: Chicago Confidential (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: German

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

Director: Sidney Salkow

Cast: Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran, Douglas Kennedy, Paul Langton, Elisha Cook Jr., Gavin Gordon, Beverly Tyler, Buddy Lewis, Anthony George

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An honest union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official. Thus off the hook, the crime syndicate actually responsible for the crime is free to continue its activities. However, State's Attorney Jim Fremont begins to suspect that Blane has been set up. Fremont launches a new investigation.

L'appartamento del 13° piano (1972)
Also known as: La semana del asesino (original title)

Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Eloy de la Iglesia

Cast: Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela, Charly Bravo, Fernando Sánchez Polack, Lola Herrera, Goyo Lebrero, Vicky Lagos, Ismael Merlo, Rafael Hernández, José Franco, Valentín Tornos, Antonio Orengo, Antonio Corencia, Antonio del Real

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A young man, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother's fiancee and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to the butchery...

Appuntamento col cadavere (1962)
Also known as: Trauma (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Director: Robert M. Young

Cast: John Conte, Lynn Bari, Lorrie Richards, David Garner, Warren J. Kemmerling, William Bissell, Bond Blackman, William Justine, Ray Lennert, Renee Mason, Robert Totten, Alfred Chafe, Ruby Borner

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Emmaline, who, as a teenager, discovered the drowned body of her aunt, returns to the family mansion as a married woman. Eventually, she falls for the caretaker's nephew, and remembers who the real killer was.

Appuntamento con il delitto (1959)
Also known as: Un témoin dans la ville (original title)

Country: Italy/France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Edouard Molinaro

Cast: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi, Jacques Berthier, Daniel Ceccaldi, Robert Dalban, Jacques Jouanneau, Micheline Luccioni, Ginette Pigeon, Janine Darcey, Françoise Brion, Geneviève Cluny, Joëlle Janin, Nicole Alexandra, Claire Nicole

Medium: DVD R/RW

Appuntamento con la morte (1950)
Also known as: One Way Street (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Spanish

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

Director: Hugo Fregonese

Cast: James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea, Basil Ruysdael, William Conrad, Rodolfo Acosta, King Donovan, Robert Espinoza, Tito Renaldo, Margarito Luna, Emma Roldán, George J. Lewis

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

Un appuntamento per uccidere DVD (1962)
Also known as: Horace 62 (original title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: André Versini

Cast: Charles Aznavour, Raymond Pellegrin, Giovanna Ralli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Etienne Bierry, Danielle Godet, Nerio Bernardi, François Darbon, Kempetian, Louis Lalanne, Philippe March, Paolo Stoppa, Henri Virlojeux

Medium: DVD R/RW

Arabesque (1966)
Also known as: Arabesque (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.

Arma da taglio (1972)
Also known as: Prime Cut (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 (1957)
Also known as: The Weapon (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.

Arrest! (1968)
Also known as: Nobody Runs Forever (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.

Arsenico e vecchi merletti (1944)
Also known as: Arsenic and Old Lace (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Crime

Director: Frank Capra

Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell, Edward McNamara, Garry Owen, John Ridgely, Vaughan Glaser

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Mortimer Bruster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.

Artigli nell'ombra (1936)
Also known as: Der verrater (original title)

Country: Germany

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Thriller, War

Director: Karl Ritter

Cast: Lída Baarová, Willy Birgel, Irene von Meyendorff, Theodor Loos, Rudolf Fernau, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Heinz Welzel, Paul Dahlke, Josef Dahmen, Hans Zesch-Ballot, Sepp Rist, Volker von Collande, Ernst Karchow, Siegfried Schürenberg, Otto Graf

Medium: DVD R/RW

Ascensore per una rapina DVD (1974)
Also known as: The elevator DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Jerry Jameson

Cast: James Farentino, Roddy McDowall, Don Stroud, Teresa Wright, Myrna Loy, Carol Lynley, Arlene Golonka, Barry Livingston, Jean Allison, Craig Stevens, Bob Fisher, Paul Sorensen, Ed Deemer, Will J. White, Jack Griffin

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing his latest job, is trapped along with group of people in a jammed elevator in a high-rise building.

Ashanti (1979)
Also known as: Ashanti (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Richard Fleischer

Cast: Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Beverly Johnson, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, William Holden, Zia Mohyeddin, Winston Ntshona, Tariq Yunus, Tyrone Jackson, Akosua Busia, Jean-Luc Bideau, Olu Jacobs, Johnny Sekka

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task...

Assassination (1967)
Also known as: El ejecutor (Spanish title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Emilio Miraglia

Cast: Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Ida Galli, Peter Dane, Bill Vanders, Alfredo Varelli, Bob Molden, Karl-Heinz Menzinger, Gunther Scholtz, Gert von Zitzewitz, Valentino Macchi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Assassination Bureau (1969)
Also known as: Assassination Bureau (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Crime

Director: Basil Dearden

Cast: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell, Beryl Reid, Clive Revill, Kenneth Griffith, Vernon Dobtcheff, Annabella Incontrera, Jess Conrad, George Coulouris, Ralph Michael, Katherine Kath

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.

Loaned: No

Gli assassini sono tra noi (1946)
Also known as: Die Mörder sind unter uns (original title)

Country: Germany

Spoken Languages: German

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

Director: Wolfgang Staudte

Cast: Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, Hildegard Knef, Arno Paulsen, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi, Marlise Ludwig, Ursula Krieg, Robert Forsch, Albert Johannes, Wolfgang Dohnberg, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he drinks a lot of alcohol. Susanne asks him to go but he doesn't want to, so they share Susanne's apartment and even discover their sympathy and then their love for each other. That encourages him a little, of course. But then he hears that Ferdinand Brückner is still alive and also lives in Berlin. Brückner was his Captain during WW2, he gave the order to kill more than 100 innocent people, many children and women among them, on Christmas 1942 in Poland.

Assassinio al sole DVD (1974)
Also known as: Le hasard et la violence(original title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama

Director: Philippe Labro

Cast: Yves Montand, Katharine Ross, Antonio Casagrande, Catherine Allégret, Sergio Fantoni, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Giuseppe Addobbati, Riccardo Mangano, Massimo De Rossi, Corinne Puccar, René Morard, Dan Vieru, Jean-Pierre Mette, H. Raynaud, Pierre Dominique

Medium: DVD R/RW

Assassinio al terzo piano (1967)
Also known as: Games (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller

Director: Curtis Harrington

Cast: Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross, Don Stroud, Kent Smith, Estelle Winwood, Marjorie Bennett, Ian Wolfe, Anthony Eustrel, Eloise Hardt, George Furth, Peter Brocco, William O'Connell, Ena Hartman, Joanne Medley

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A bored art-collecting Manhattan couple invite an interesting aging cosmetics saleswoman to enliven their dull lives by directing sex and death "games." Featuring a corpse encased in plaster and displayed in the living room as art, and a triple-cross ending.

Assassinio per contratto (1958)
Also known as: Murder by Contract (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

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

Director: Irving Lerner

Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel, Michael Granger, Kathie Browne, Joseph Mell, Frances Osborne, Steven Ritch, Janet Brandt, Davis Roberts, Don Garrett, Gloria Victor

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Claude is a young man with a regular job, no history of trouble with the law and no chance of making any real money. He also has the brains and emotional detachment to make the big bucks as a hit man, and that becomes his new job title. A string of successful hits gets him sent to Los Angeles for his latest job. There he is accompanied by two goons: one who is perpetually nervous and the other who quickly worships the young man as a hero. The cold, ruthless hit man finally becomes unglued when he finds out that his latest target is a woman...

Assassinio premeditato (1953)
Also known as: A Blueprint for Murder (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Cast: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips, Freddy Ridgeway

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with the same mystery symptoms that killed her father. The kids' visiting uncle, Whitney Cameron, is warned that the symptoms match strychnine poisoning, but that poisoners are seldom detected and rarely convicted. Sure enough, no case can be made against the obvious suspect; so what can Whitney do to save the next victim?

Assassinio su commissione (1979)
Also known as: Murder by Decree (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

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

Director: Bob Clark

Cast: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud, Frank Finlay, Donald Sutherland, Geneviève Bujold, Chris Wiggins, Tedde Moore, Peter Jonfield, Roy Lansford, Catherine Kessler, Ron Pember

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot Outline: Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. As he investigates, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places.

Assassinio sull'Eiger (1975)
Also known as:: The Eiger Sanction (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Adventure, Romance

Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Brühl, Thayer David, Reiner Schöne, Michael Grimm, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Brenda Venus, Gregory Walcott, Candice Rialson, Elaine Shore, Dan Howard, Jack Kosslyn

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Jonathan Hemlock is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.

L'assassino (1961)
Also known as: El asesino (Spanish title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Director: Elio Petri

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone, Andrea Checchi, Francesco Grandjacquet, Marco Mariani, Franco Ressel, Mac Ronay, Toni Ucci, Max Cartier, Bruno Scipioni, Giovanna Gagliardo, Liana Ferri, Carlo Egidi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot Outline: A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover, is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody wegetto see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback...

L'assassino abita al 21 (1942)
Also known as: L'assassin habite... au 21 (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Mystery

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert, René Génin, Jean Despeaux, Marc Natol, Huguette Vivier, Odette Talazac, Maximilienne, Sylvette Saugé, Louis Florencie, André Gabriello, Raymond Bussières

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Dapper Inspector Vorobechik ('Wens' for short) is assigned the case of a serial killer who leaves a calling card on his victims; Monsieur Durand. Wens' mistress, struggling actress Mila Malou, determines to get publicity for herself by helping him. Learning that Durand is one of the eccentric tenants of a boarding house at No. 21 Avenue Junot, Wens takes a room in the guise of a Protestant minister; only to be followed by Mila who hardly seems like a minister's wife! Suspects are arrested, but while each is in jail, there's another murder...

L'assassino conosce la musica (1963)
Also known as: L'assassin connaît la musique (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Director: Pierre Chenal

Cast: Maria Schell, Paul Meurisse, Sylvie Bréal, Yvonne Clech, Fernand Guiot, Christa Lang, Marcel Pérès, Paul Demange, Pierre Sergeol, Jean Luisi, André Badin, Jacques Dufilho, Noël Roquevert, Claude Mann

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what HE thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So he had better find a way to finish it. At long last, he comes across Agnes, a divorced woman who agrees to let him her quiet home. Lionel, full of hope, resumes work...

L'assassino della Sierra Nevada (1956)
Also known as: A Strange Adventure (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Director: William Witney

Cast: Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, Marla English, Jan Merlin, Nick Adams, Peter Miller, Paul Smith, Emlen Davies, Frank Wilcox, Thomas Browne Henry, John Maxwell, Steve Wayne

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

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