Luc Merenda

  • Luigi Scattini – La ragazza fuoristrada (1973)

    1971-1980ExploitationItalyLuigi Scattini

    PLOT
    Giorgio, an advertiser at a large agency, while on a trip to Nubia to advertise a car brand, meets Maryam and falls madly in love with her. He takes her back to the city where he lives and, fighting against his parents who are opposed to the marriage, marries her.Read More »

  • Stelvio Massi – Il Conto è chiuso AKA The Last Round (1976)

    1971-1980ActionCrimeItalyStelvio Massi

    Stelvio Massi’s crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up against the two powerful families who are exploiting them. After settling in an industrial town and witnessing the cruelty of the factory owners, ex-mercenary Marco (Carlos Monzón) assumes the role of union agitator. When a violent confrontation erupts, the labor leader is driven to bring down the corrupt clans.Read More »

  • Domenico Paolella – Le Monache di Sant’Arcangelo AKA The Nun and the Devil (1973)

    1971-1980Domenico PaolellaExploitationFrance

    1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.

    The unholy nuns at Sant’Arcangelo Convent will do anything to succeed their dying Mother Superior. Corruption, lust and Catholic-guilt galore in this sumptuous and erotic Italian ‘nunsploitation’ classicRead More »

  • Duccio Tessari – L’uomo Senza Memoria AKA Puzzle AKA Man Without a Memory (1974)

    1971-1980Duccio TessariGialloItalyMystery

    Synopsis:
    In London a tricky problem is presented to Edward [Luc Merenda], who has just recovered from a serious car accident. He can’t remember who he is. This is especially troublesome for him as people from his past start turning up and demanding that he “gives back the money” he owes them. He learns that his passport claiming he is Peter Smith is a fake and his real name is in fact Edward. The trail leads him to Italy where his wife Sara [Senta Berger] still unaware that he’s still alive has started putting together the shatters of her life since he went missing in London some years ago.Read More »

  • Fernando Di Leo – Il poliziotto è marcio AKA Shoot First, Die Later (1974)

    1971-1980CrimeFernando Di LeoItalyThriller

    Synopsis:
    Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors. His father, a simple man, also works for the department but on a lower rung; he isn’t jealous of his son, but rather proud of him, little knowing that he’s a crooked cop. A series of events leads the young detective to ask his father for a favor (he wants a certain police report that is desired by the syndicate) and it doesn’t take long for the detective’s father to realize his son is on the take… which leads to numerous complications.Read More »

  • Tinto Brass – Action (1980)

    1971-1980DramaEroticaItalyTinto Brass


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    Description: Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
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  • Walter Hugo Khouri – O Palácio dos Anjos aka The Palace of Angels (1970)

    1961-1970BrazilDramaWalter Hugo Khouri

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    Synopsis:

    In São Paulo, the greedy Bárbara is not happy with her work in a loan and investment company. When her boss Ricardo invites Bárbara for a meeting at his apartment, he harasses her first and then he fires her. When Bárbara is walking on the sidewalk, a stranger offers a ride to downtown for her. While driving, the driver Rose offers a job in a brothel to Bárbara promising a very high income to her. When Bárbara arrives home, she tells the offer she had to her friends Mariazinha and Ana Lúcia. The trio decides to visit the place but they do not like the situation of being treated like objects. They decide to steal the database of the wealthy clients of Ricardo and offer their services in the own apartment. Sooner Bárbara invests a large amount improving the location that is known as “The Palace of the Angels”. Along the days they raise lots of money satisfying the fantasies of their clients but Mariazinha can’t stand the situation and returns to her hometown. Now Bárbara and Ana Lúcia
    — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (IMDb).Read More »

  • Sergio Martino – I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale AKA Torso (1973)

    1971-1980GialloItalySergio MartinoThriller

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    SYNOPSIS
    A fetishistic killer is on the loose, a madman in a balaclava who enjoys murdering young women (and occasionally men, if they happen to get in the way). When two university students drop dead, Jane (Suzy Kendall) and her three friends, Daniela (Tina Aumont), Katia (Angela Covello) and Ursula (Carla Brait), decide to high-tail it to a villa in the countryside until the whole thing blows over. Unbeknownst to them, however, the killer has decided to tag along and proceeds to stalk them before launching into a blood-thirsty orgy of death. It feels great to be a student!Read More »

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