Leonard Mann

A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism. Perhaps even more interesting than the films themselves were the rushed methods of production (stars performing their own stunts, stealing shots, no live sound) and the bleed-over between real-life crime and movie crime.

Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.

크리스(Chris: 제브 스튜어트 아담스 분), 캐시(Cathy: 크리스티 스완슨 분) 그리고 쌍동이 코리(Cory: 벤 라이안 갱거 분)와 캐리(Carrie: 린드세이 파커 분)는 부모님의 사랑을 한껏 받으며 행복하게 살고 있었다. 그러던 어느날 아버지(Father: 마샬 콜트 분)가 돌연한 사고로 사망함으로서 가정은 완전히 파괴되고 무일푼이 된다. 의지할 곳 없는 식구들은 어머니(Mother: 빅토리아 테넌트 분)의 친정으로 가게 된다. 외할머니(Grandmother: 루이스 블레처 분)와 할아버지(Grandfather: 나단 데이비스 분)는, 17년전에 부모를 거역하고 집을 나가 숙부와 결혼한 딸 코린과 그녀의 자식들을 환영할 리가 없다. 여생이 며칠 남지 않은 아버지에게서 사랑을 되찾고 다시 막대한 재산을 상속받기 위하여 어머니는 갖은 학대를 받으면서 친정에서 살아가야만 했고, 4남매 역시 다락방에 숨겨진 채 햇빛도 못보고 살아가야만 했다. 인조목으로 장식된 다락방에 숨어사는 아이들은 차차 어머니의 방문이 뜸해지는 것에 대해 의혹을 품는다. 할머니는 태어나지 말았어야 하는 4남매들이 이곳에 온 것을 할아버지에게 알리지 않고, 딸 코린이 아버지의 사랑을 되찾으려 노력하는 것을 바라보며 4남매의 식사에 비소를 섞어 먹임으로서 서서히 죽이려는 음모를 꾸미는데...

A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing research for a book about the crimes sets out to uncover the identity of the killer, aided by his beautiful girlfriend. Based on a true story.

A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.

교향악단 지휘자 클로드 이스트맨(Claude Eastman: 더들리 무어 분)에게는 자기보다 한 스무살쯤 어린, 젊고 예쁜 이탈리아 영화배우 아내 다니엘라(Daniella Eastman: 나스타샤 킨스키 분)가 있다. 어느날 클로드가 출장간 동안에 다니엘라를 잘 보살피라는 말을 감시하라는 말로 잘 못 알아들은 이탈리아인 집사 쥬세페(Giuseppe: 리차드 리버티니 분)와 친구 노먼(Norman Robbins: 알버트 브룩스 분)은 다니엘라에게 사설탐정을 붙여 감시한다. 그런데 사설탐정은 다니엘라의 아파트에서 한밤중에 남자가 나오는 장면을 목격하고, 이를 클로드에게 알린다. 그 남자가 자신의 제자인 바람둥이 미남 맥스(Maxmillian Stein: 아망드 아상테 분)라는 것을 알아낸 클로드는 격분한 나머지 다니엘라와 맥스를 둘 다 교묘하게 죽일 계획을 세운다. 그러나 현실은 상상할 때와 달라서 결국 그들을 죽이는데 실패한다. 한편 녹화된 감시 카메라를 다시 보던 사설탐정은 맥스가 다니엘라와 바람을 피운 것이 안, 노먼의 아내 칼라(Carla Robbins: 캐시 예이츠 분)와 바람피우는데 다니엘라의 아파트를 사용했을 뿐이라는 사실을 발견하고는 기겁을 해서 이 사실을 클로드에게 알리러 간다. 결국 다니엘라와 클로드는 탐정으로부터 자초지종을 듣게 된다. 다니엘라는 남편이 자신을 의심하고 죽이려고까지 했다는데 충격을 받지만 사랑으로 다시 화해하는데...

The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

범인이 경찰로 위장하여 연쇄 살인을 벌이는 사건에 접한 뉴욕 경찰은 혼란에 빠진다. 편집증이 있는 프레드 형사(Lieutenant Fred O'Connor: 하비 키이텔 분)는 용의자를 그만의 아지트로 데려가 심문을 한다. 그러던 중 연쇄살인의 진범 레오(Leo Smith: 존 라이든 분)를 체포하여 그의 방식대로 처리하려 하지만 이를 눈치챈 동료 밥(Bob Carvo: 레오나드 만 분)의 저지를 받는다. 결국 심한 다툼 끝에 프레드는 밥을 살해하고 만다. 당황한 프레드는 레오의 도움으로 밥의 죽음을 또 다른 범죄처럼 꾸미는데...

바이크 헬멧과 달라붙는 가죽 복장의 미치광이 살인마가 캠퍼스를 거닐면서 아리따운 청춘 남녀들을 죽이고 다닌다. 가장 유력한 용의자로 평소 행동이 의심스러웠던 인류학 교수와 그의 조수가 지목된다. 풋풋한 대학생 엘레나 역시 이러한 공포 분위기 속에서 조금씩 불길한 느낌을 감지하는데...

Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.

Sun Valley provides the backdrop to this story of a downhill ski racer who seeks to make a comeback after being branded a loser and the ski bunny who helps him regain his self-respect.

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Golob, turning the unsuspecting victim into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength. The people of Metropolis must somehow outwit Graal before he can create an army of these soldiers, or their planet will be destroyed.

The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot against one another for control of the business.

안토니오는 아름다운 아내와 함께 자기 사업에 열중하는 40대의 중년 신사다. 그러나 그는 아내 모르게 사업을 빙자하여 사생활을 즐기고 있었다. 그러던 어느 날, 살인 현장에 있었다는 이유로 누명을 쓰고 도망자가 되어 자기 집안이 건너다 보이는 옆집에 숨어 지내게 된다. 남편이 돌아오지 않자 아내는 남편이 타고 다니던 마차를 타고 다니다가 평소 남편의 애정 행각을 알게 되고 복수라도 하듯이 남편의 친구들과 어울린다. 그러나 그녀는 우연히 남편이 옆집에서 자기를 주시하고 있다는 것을 알게 된다.

Returning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called 'The Prince', finds his business compromised by Rudy, a small local bandit full of presumption, audacity and men ready to kill. Commissioner Baldi a young and brave employee, will fight against them with the help of an ex-employee Rampelli.

Napoli spara! (internationally released as Weapons of Death and Naples shoots) is a "poliziottesco" film directed by Mario Caiano in 1977. It is an unofficial sequel of Napoli violenta, of which reprises the character of Gennarino (still played by Massimo Deda).

An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his innocence.

The young Rimini native Stefano Santi goes to Rome, with a letter of recommendation for the maestro Melchiorri, artistic director of the Opera House, to take part in a competition for cellists. While trying in vain to be received by Melchiorri, he met an unscrupulous girl, Giorgia Muller, an architectural student temporarily linked to a fellow student. Between one misfortune and another the cello smashes, a homosexual theater manager tries to enmesh him Stefano, who now has a precarious employment in a nightclub, yields to the allurements of Giorgia, ending up in his bed. The girl, however, is unfaithful to him, so that Stefano, disgusted with her, and having now lost all hope of participating in the competition,

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After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...

A glamorous playboy thug's brutal trail of murder, terrorism and sexual blackmail across Las Vegas, Rome, Paris and London quickly wins him a prominent place in the Rome syndicate loosely run by an aging and decrepit Mafia Don. He even wins over the Don's much younger wife.

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A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.

The story is about a young hippy called Salvatore who sparks up a relationship with a high class prostitute, Maddalena. The two fall in love and try to start a new life together but things turn ugly when Maddalena is kidnapped by his old hippy pals and Maddalena's dangerous pimp...

A man and his assistant invent a powerful aphrodisiac they don't hesitate testing out on the beautiful female populace of their village.

After witnessing the brutal murder of his entire family by Native Americans as a child, Jeremiah Bridger becomes a merciless Indian-killer and scalp hunter. After saving the life of a beautiful Native American girl named Tune, however, the lone and silent gunman slowly reconsiders his hatred. He starts to doubt his former persuasion, that it was really Indians, who killed his family, and soon has to find out that a greedy and unscrupulous landowner usually blames Native Americans for his own crimes.

A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.

One of the most ambitious spaghetti westerns, The Forgotten Pistolero is a retelling of the Greek legend of Orestes, who avenges the murder of his father with the help of his friend and former mentor Pylades and his sister Electra. In Baldi’s movie, Orestes is called Sebastian, a man living on his own. One day a wounded stranger called Rafael/Pylades takes shelter in his house and tells him that he, Sebastian, is the son of a Mexican general who was murdered by his wife and her lover. Sebastian has no recollection of the massacre, but the tolling of the bells announcing the Ave Maria bring back fragmented memories. Finally Sebastian is re-united with his sister Isabella and together they avenge the murder of their father. The film is a bit confusing from time to time, with a storyline that seems over-complicated for a spaghetti western, but patient and attentive viewers are rewarded. The Forgotten Pistolero is also known for Roberto Pregadio’s awesome score.