Antonio Sabàto

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.

Quando um grupo de jovens decide roubar um banco, eles percebem que descobriram acidentalmente uma fachada para lavagem de dinheiro para o mercado de droga coreano, que provocam os Gangsters a virem atrás do grupo.

A South American rebel leader in exile in Miami is given one last chance to overthrow his successor, a brutal dictator, by a multi-national mining group out to exploit his countries' mineral resources.

In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other - a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.

De volta à sua cidade natal, o Índio Thunder descobre que o velho cemitério indígena do seu povo está sendo violado para a construção de um shopping center. Ele tenta deter a obra pelas vias legais, apresentando um acordo firmado que garante a posse daquelas terras, mas é espancado pela polícia e banido da cidade. Sua vingança deixará um rastro de destruição.

A poderosa e inescrupulosa corporação que domina Manhattan inicia uma operação militar para expulsar todos os moradores do Bronx, visando demolir os prédios velhos e construir ali condomínios para moradores da alta sociedade. Quando os mercenários contratados pelo conglomerado começam a exterminar os moradores do Bronx como ratos, a única esperança de salvação passa a ser o herói solitário Trash, sobrevivente do massacre das gangues.

A 1983 Italian film.

Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1980

A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.

Italian crime movie from 1979 directed by Alfonso Brescia.

An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.

Giovanni Molet is sent to jail for the murder of two of the Carraro family over a feud over land. While incarcerated, a vendetta is carried out on Molet's brother who is killed by the Carraros. While being transferred to another prison, Molet manages to escape and goes on the run. He holes up in a large villa owned by a newlywed couple and slowly starts to prepare for his revenge.

A man gets caught up in a criminal organization and finds that once in, you can't get out.

Obscure, action-packed euro-crime yarn about an imprisoned genius who organizes a bank robbery of 4 billion Lire from behind bars. It's up to superhunk Antonio Sabato to save the day, foil the baddies and bed the chick. There are great car chases and wrecks, and an occasionally enjoyable synth score.

A gang of young and ruthless bikers terrorizes the streets of Rome for no other reason than kicks and to kill their copious amounts of spare time. They purposelessly gang-rape random girls, beat up pedestrians, deal hard drugs, organize illegal street races, menace witnesses, murder city employees and commit violent heists even though they don't need any money as they're all the offspring of rich & eminent citizens. The tough police inspector De Gregori rapidly becomes very frustrated because each time he arrests the arrogant gang leader Stefano, his daddy's attorneys arrange a release warrant the exact same day. But when the gang's aggressions gradually become viler and De Gregori's own wife becomes the target of an assault, he decides to enforce the law slightly more drastic.

Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.

Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.

A look at Shaw Brothers Studios in their prime. Includes: interviews with David Chiang; exploring the Shaw Brothers sets; a look at the craftsmen, foley artists and stuntmen of Shaw Bros.; a profile on Run Run Shaw; Italian-meets-Chinese kung-fu films; and a visit from Peter Cushing.

Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.

Joe Esposito, an italo-american, and Brad McCoy, a Scottish man, are engaged by Giorgiakis to be his bodyguards, due to their physical stature, and muscular development. Only, on the cover, both men are dealing in drugs... Wang and his gang get interested in a particular big cache of drugs, and therefore Giorgiakis, and his bodyguards, will find themselves under unexpected pressure.

A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.

Spaghetti Western about a Bounty Hunter traking down outlaws.

Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don Vincenzo. Mancurso becomes part of the organization and the more he gets to know Vincenzo the more he wants his job but Mancurso will learn that success can come at a severe cost.

Um misterioso assassino está matando jovens mulheres com brutalidade, e sempre deixa um adorno em formato de meia-lua junto aos cadáveres. Quando Giulia, que seria a terceira vítima do criminosos, sobrevive ao ataque, seu namorado Mario e o investigador do caso resolvem simular sua morte para que ela ajude a investigar as motivações por trás dos assassinatos - que podem estar ligados ao passado das vítimas e a um verão que passaram no mesmo hotel.

Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of the beautiful hooker, Lulu Belle, our hero sets out to recover the missing pieces.

A diamond robber, who was left behind in the hands of the police, gets out of prison and teams up with the man who funded the robbery, but who never saw the loot, to get even with the other members of the gang.

Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at "Ding-Dong" keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers. Annoyed that hubby would rather make war than Ding-Dong, Listra organizes the women of both tribes to go on strike and "abstain Ding-Dong" until the men stop fighting. It all happens back in the days when men carried clubs and women played ding-dong, an Italian stone-age sex comedy based on the Greek classic "Lysistrata" and filled with shapely cavewomen sporting '70s hairstyles, a gay caveman with the hots for the hero, a title tune that will follow you forever and, of course, plenty of old-fashioned Ding-Dong!

A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been an eyewitness to the assassination and saw the man with the icy eyes commit it. At his trial she testifies against him, and he's sentenced to death. However, the reporter soon begins to find holes in the stripper's story, and other circumstances arise which makes him believe that the wrong man may have been convicted

Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight long years of imprisonment he's finally released. Rosario goes back to Sicily, where he learns that his wife died in an accident. He tries to rebuild his life, but when he finds out that his wife was murdered, he decides that it's time to take action: alone against the Mafia!

A drama directed by Ugo Liberatore.

Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.

A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.

No século XXXXI, as guerras já foram abolidas há muito tempo, mas Barbarella (Jane Fonda), uma bela agente, recebe um comunicado do Presidente da Terra (Claude Dauphin), dizendo que uma arma foi inventada e que isto pode perturbar a paz no universo. Assim, sua missão é evitar que tal mal aconteça.

Luke Barrett, having lost his memory due to an accident, does not realize that Dingus had killed his wife and brother to take possession of the Barretts' land and money. At first Luke trusts him, but while looking for his forgotten identity he discovers the truth.

O seu jogador Clay Watson, o atirador de artilharia convencido Moses Lang, e o astuto Edwin Kean são um trio de criminosos no Velho Oeste. O trio de "motley" é forçado a formar uma aliança inquieta para encontrar 400.000 dólares em dinheiro roubado.

O empresário Ben Novack (Antonio Sabáto) chega na América, vindo da Europa, com a missão de entregar o pagamento para trabalhadores de uma mina, mas acaba sendo roubado a bordo de uma diligência. Determinado em recuperar o dinheiro, ele contrata o pistoleiro Billy Joe (Lee Van Cleef), sem desconfiar que ele é o próprio autor do roubo. Novack deve lidar com a revolta dos trabalhadores, ao mesmo tempo em que é lubridiado pelo homem que contratou para resolver o problema. Mas até quando?

A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.

Maltrapilho, bondoso e independente, Miguel (Antonio Sabato) só pensa em se mudar para Nova York e ganhar dinheiro trabalhando para o “Coyote” (Fernando Sancho) um personagem do submundo. Cooper (John Ireland), envergonhado por ser um fora-da-lei, escondeu o produto de seu roubo e quer se mudar com sua esposa e filha para bem longe desse perigoso mundo. Porém, Moxon (Mirko Ellis) é seu impiedoso sócio. Os caminhos de Cooper e Miguel se cruzam quando Cooper e Moxon assaltam um banco, onde após matar os caixas, durante a fuga Moxon tenta trair Cooper. Tem inicio, uma explosiva história de vingança, perseguição, traição e assassinos de sangue frio.

O piloto americano Aaron é demitido depois de um acidente na corrida de Mônaco, que acabou lesando seu companheiro de equipe, o inglês Stoddard. Enquanto ele se recupera, Aaron muda de equipe e começa a se envolver com a ex-esposa de Stoddard.

A married couple and their friends are entangled in a series of love affairs.