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  • Ferdinando Baldi – Texas, addio AKA Goodbye Texas (1966)

    1961-1970ActionEuro WesternsFerdinando BaldiItalyWestern

    The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has become the local landowner. But there is a secret. It turns out that Cisco is the father of Burt’s younger brother and Cisco are craving for respect from his “son”. Burt Sullivan joins forces with the local townspeople to stop and bring Cisco back to his punishment in Texas…Read More »

  • Robert Vernay – Passeport diplomatique agent K 8 (1965)

    France1961-1970ActionRobert VernayThriller

    The daughter of a foreign diplomat in Paris is courted by two men. She is persuaded to take a necklace through customs on her diplomatic passport. But it’s a trap, she finds out that it contained microfilm and the young girl is forced to work for the spies from the East…taking part in a plot to kidnap a scientist…Read More »

  • Luigi Comencini – La donna della domenica AKA The Sunday Woman (1975)

    Luigi Comencini1971-1980ComedyItalyMysteryQueer Cinema(s)

    Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino’s high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens…Read More »

  • Jesus Franco – Les Chatouilleuses (1975)

    1971-1980EroticaExploitationFranceJesus Franco

    User review from imdb by Michael Elliot:
    Silly but entertaining sex comedy from Jess Franco set in Central America. The story revolves around four prostitutes (including Lina Romay, Pamela Stanford) who are on the run from a group of bandits and hide in a convent pretending to be nuns. The film runs a very short 63-minutes, which is just about right since we mainly get comedic sex scenes involving the four girls trying to sleep their way out of trouble. There are also countless lesbian scenes and Franco certainly knows how to shoot these and make them very erotic. The print I viewed was in French only and was P&S so hopefully a remastered version will show up at some point.Read More »

  • Daniele D’Anza – Il segno del comando (1971)

    Drama1971-1980Daniele D'AnzaItalyTV

    From teledico.com:
    In 1968, Flaminio Bollini, Giuseppe D’ Agate, Dante Guardamagna and Lucio Mandarà, met to write a story between truth and magic, daily life and mystery. The starting idea was about a university professor of English literature engrossed with the translation of a diary of Lord Byron, written during a roman stay in 1817. During the translation, the university professor comes invited, right in Rome, from a mysterious painter who challenges him to find an imaginery public square.Read More »

  • Adriano Celentano & Miky Del Prete – Yuppi du (1975)

    1971-1980Adriano CelentanoComedyDramaItalyMiky Del Prete

    Felice Pietà is a man of modest means living with his second wife, Adelaide. Together, they raise Monica, from his first marriage with Silvia, who committed suicide long ago.Read More »

  • Nanni Moretti – Palombella Rossa AKA Red Wood Pigeon (1989)

    1981-1990ComedyItalyNanni Moretti

    Because of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As the match is about to finish, he misses the penalty which would have let his team draw the match and keep the leadership.Read More »

  • Matteo Rovere – Gli sfiorati AKA Drifters (2011)

    Drama2011-2020ComedyItalyMatteo Rovere

    Based on the novel 1990 novel “Gli sfiorati” by Sandro Veronesi; the story of an existential drama where the young Méte, a graphologist fascinated by the psychology hidden behind writing, it’s an embarrassing and difficult situation having to take care of his half-sister Belinda, a seventeen-year-old teenager in the balance between everything and nothing, during the second marriage of Méte’s father (the only thing the two have in common). To avoid the situation, Méte pretends to be mostly busy with Damiano, a womanizer friend, and Bruno, colleague and separated father. The movies revolves around an impossible love affair, that between a half-brother and a half-sister, and is made up of characters who are lost, tormented, aimless, against the background of a Rome that is chaotic, arrogant, immersed in its ruins and its social routines.Read More »

  • George A. Romero – Martin [Italian “Wampyr” Cut] (1977)

    1971-1980George A. RomeroHorrorUSA

    The film “Martin” was shot in the US in the summer of 1976. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1977, and was released in cinemas in the US in July 1978. Due to the success of Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” (1978) in Italy (where it was released as “Zombi”, and scored by Italian prog rock legends Goblin), the producer of that film bought the rights to Romero’s earlier film “Martin” and released it in Italy as “Wampyr” – with a new music score by Goblin (mostly recycling music they had written for the films “Suspiria” and “Zombi”, and also some non-soundtrack material from their album “Roller”). This Italian cut of the film was released with scenes in a different order, and even some of the dialogue was differently dubbed, giving a very different impression and feel to the story compared to the US version.Read More »

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