Italian

A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia are married for twenty years. But they wearily live their relationship separately; while she lives in their original flat in Rome, he lives with a young lover, Lù from time to time in his house in the country while writing a book. He does not keep his relationship hidden from his wife and even accepts that Silvia may have lovers, among them in particular a young and violent neo-fascist. But this relationship rekindles Carlo’s jealousy and he becomes obsessed by knowing everything about her affairs and jealousy makes him blind. The film navigates between eroticism, decadence and perversion, in an obscure game with no wins or winners.Read More »

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn’t return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returns, and Amalia has to choose between two husbands. But while the two fight over her, a third one may be lurking…Read More »

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The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades as seen by an outsider perspective, that of his family and political allies.Read More »

‘Giallo’ is Italian for ‘yellow’, the color of the lurid pulp novels that inspired one of the most intense, extreme and influential genres in movie history. In this unprecedented collection, experience the full chronological evolution of giallo with more than 100 rare and classic trailers from such masters as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Antonio Margheriti, Umberto Lenzi and many more. Then slip on black leather gloves and set the mood with a Bonus CD of legendary soundtrack music from composers that include Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani, Bruno Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani and others, along with all-new featurettes that thrust even deeper into the genre. “But be warned,” says Gizmodo.com, “Once you start going down the blood- slicked giallo rabbit hole, you may become dangerously obsessed.”
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Three couples are staying at a hotel and all are having sexual issues. One day a professional porn star (Lina Romay) shows up and teaches everyone how to do it.Read More »

Synopsis
(by Tim Lucas)
Made in 1975, “De Sade’s Juliette” was one of Franco’s earliest XXX productions, predated only by “Sexorcismes”, the hardcore variant he produced of the 1974 film “Exorcism.” It was never released anywhere in its original form. Its only release anywhere in the world was as “Justine”, the Italian variant shared here, which was cobbled together by Joe D’Amato in 1979-80, who shuffled in some footage from another 1975 Franco film, “Midnight Party.” For some other unfathomable reason, Alice Arno is top-billed and she’s not even in it!Read More »

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This concise documentary, available only in Blue Underground’s Mondo Cane Collection box set, offers unique insight into an area of cinema with which few historians would ever bother. It does so by telling the story of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, a pair of filmmakers whose desire to create an “anti-documentary” that explored hidden truths led to the creation of the exploitation film world’s most notorious bastard child — the “mondo” film. Any good documentary lives or dies by its subject matter, and director David Gregory hits pay dirt with his subjects here — Jacopetti and Prosperi are intelligent, feisty, and compelling storytellers. Read More »

A theater troupe’s young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater’s elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.Read More »

The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man has been sent by the government to be the governor in that region. He has been given wide-ranging power and authority and is not afraid to use it.Read More »