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Adua and Her Friends

Adua and Her Friends

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian Cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her Friends tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome.

Alien Terror

Alien Terror

Horror · Thriller · Science Fiction

A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission. There’s only one minor problem: the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people’s bodies and make them explode!

The Antichrist (4KUHD) aka Anticristo

The Antichrist (4KUHD) aka Anticristo

Horror · Drama · 4K UHD DISC

In Rome, a beautiful young woman is left paralyzed by the trauma of a horrific childhood accident. But when placed under hypnosis, she is seized by visions of her past life as a heretic and becomes a foul-mouthed seductress with a taste for perversion that leads to her defilement by Satan himself.

Blazing Magnum

Blazing Magnum

Thriller · Crime · Drama

When his sister is poisoned at a party, hardened Canadian cop Tony Saitta embarks on a violent investigation that turns into a shocking whirlpool of revenge and betrayal.

Body Puzzle

Body Puzzle

Horror · Thriller · Mystery

A homicide detective realizes that the brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer he's after have something to do with the late husband of a beautiful widow.

Caesar Must Die

Caesar Must Die

Drama · World Cinema

The captivating new drama from legendary Italian auteurs Paolo & Vittorio Taviani follows real-life prison inmates as they rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's classic story of honour and power, Julius Caesar.

City of Women

City of Women

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

In Federico Fellini's surreal classic, Marcello Mastroianni plays a man dropped into a strange world where women rule and men are their playthings.

The Conformist

The Conformist

Based on Literature · Historic Drama · RT Certified Fresh

Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed man trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – who joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in.

Conversation Piece

Conversation Piece

Drama · World Cinema

This new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s personal and provocative chamber study starring Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Helmut Berger explores themes of class, sex, art, and fascism and preserves Visconti’s precise chromatic design, elegant interior compositions, and sonic detail…

The Counsellor

The Counsellor

Action · Drama · Crime

When the godson of the San Francisco syndicate boss asks permission to leave “the business,” Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior triggers a bloody mob war and the godson again becomes the “consigliori,” or The Counsellor.

Crime of Love

Crime of Love

Drama · World Cinema

A forgotten classic, Crime of Love is a story about two factory workers living in Northern Italy who form a romantic connection. The film gives a good idea of the north-south mentality clash in Italy. The workers from the north and the south may have the same political ideas, but when they go home t…

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 10-12

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 10-12

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 16-18

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 16-18

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 19-20

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 19-20

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 21-22

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 21-22

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 23-24

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 23-24

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 25-26

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 25-26

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 27-28 with Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 27-28 with Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 31-32

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 31-32

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 33-34

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 33-34

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 35-36

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 35-36

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 4-6

Detective Montalbano: Episodes 4-6

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Detective Montalbano works in Sicily with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, solving complicated cases overshadowed by a cunning mafia.

Django Shoots First

Django Shoots First

Western · Drama · Spaghetti Western

A feared and brutal gunslinger plans to cash in on his father's bounty, only to discover his dad was an innocent man. Now the hunt is on to destroy the men responsible for his demise.

Fellini's Casanova

Fellini's Casanova

Drama · World Cinema · History

The incomparable Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) directs this visually stunning portrait of Casanova, the infamous Italian womanizer, adventurer, author and libertine.

Filibus

Filibus

Drama · Silent · Crime

Flying high above the clouds in her dirigible, Filibus steals from the rich… before mysteriously vanishing into the clouds. But when famed a famed detective sets out to catch her, this cross-dressing master criminal has other plans. Newly remastered and restored by the Eye Filmmuseum.

Fireworks

Fireworks

Romance · Drama · LGBTQ

The troubled relationship between Gianni and Nino, set in the narrow-minded and prejudencial Sicily of 1982.

Il Generale Della Rovere

Il Generale Della Rovere

Based on True Story · War · Drama

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice Film Festival, directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring world cinema icon Vittoria de Sica (The Bicycle Thief), IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE is a film based on the true story of Emanuele Bardone, who, during the height of WWII, exploits his fellow Italian…

The Goldsmith

The Goldsmith

Horror

A trio of desperate criminals break into the isolated country house of an elderly goldsmith and his wife. But their chosen targets turn out to be far less defenseless than they seem.

Gomorrah: Fourth Season

Gomorrah: Fourth Season

Television · Drama · Crime

Gomorrah: Fourth Season continues the worldwide gangster show phenomenon that is based on Roberto Saviano’s best-selling book and the subsequent award-winning film of the same name.

Gomorrah: Second Season

Gomorrah: Second Season

Television · Drama · Crime

At the start of Season 2 it appears that the era of the Savastano clan, which once reigned supreme over Naples, seems to be definitively over. A power vacuum, the biggest ever in Camorra history, now yawns like a chasm.

Gomorrah: Third Season

Gomorrah: Third Season

Television · Drama · Crime

Gomorrah: Third Season continues the worldwide gangster show phenomenon based on Roberto Saviano’s best-selling book and the subsequent award-winning film of the same name.

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Horror · Cult

Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (Il rosso segno della follia).

Hercules in the Haunted World

Hercules in the Haunted World

Horror · Cult

Mario Bava helmed this entry in the series, in which Hercules (Reg Park) must journey to the bowels of Hell to recover a magical plant that is the only hope of a dying princess.

Hitch Hike

Hitch Hike

Drama · World Cinema

While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer (international superstar franco Nero of Django) and his beautiful wife (Corinne Clery, the Story of O and Moonraker) pick up a stranded motorist (David Hess of Last House on the Left infamy). But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath,…

Honey (Miele di donna)

Honey (Miele di donna)

Drama

The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night – without knowing that it’s a special kind of hotel that serves more than breakfast.

I Cannibali

I Cannibali

Drama · World Cinema

I Cannibali, third feature film by Liliana Cavani, starring a trio of excellent actors (Pierre Clementi, Britt Ekland and Tomas Milian), is a modern reinterpretation of Sophocles' tragedy, made during the protest years of 1967-69. A film that stands out for its visionary intelligence, in the context…

Il Dono

Il Dono

Drama

In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the last inhabitants who haunt the deserted village.

Io Capitano

Io Capitano

Drama

Io Capitano narrates the epic journey of a teenage boy and his cousin as they decide to leave Senegal for the promise of Europe.

Kidnapped (2023)

Kidnapped (2023)

Drama

The true story of a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, when in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family by the Pope, to be raised Catholic.

Madness (Vacanze per un Massacro)

Madness (Vacanze per un Massacro)

World Cinema · Drama · Thriller

After brutally killing two farmers with a pitchfork, an escaped murderer Joe Brezy makes a bee-line for the holiday cottage where five years earlier he stashed a substantial amount of ill-gotten loot.

Maladonna and Malombra

Maladonna and Malombra

Drama · Cult

In 1984 Bruno Gaburro directed two provocatively erotic dramas both starring Eurosleaze favorite Paola Senatore (Emmanuelle in America, Salon Kitty).

Many Wars Ago

Many Wars Ago

War · Drama · World Cinema

In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy.

Marriage Italian Style

Marriage Italian Style

Drama · Academy Award Nominees

In this Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of…

Martin Eden

Martin Eden

Based on Literature · Drama · Period Drama

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London and operating in the tradition of the great Italian classics, Martin Eden tells the story of a dashing young proletarian who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station in order to marry a bourgeois university student.

The Medium

The Medium

Horror · Thriller

Following the death of his wife, an American music composer moves to an old mansion in Rome with his young son. They are soon haunted by a series of inexplicable events, causing them to hire a medium to divine the true nature of their seemingly cursed existence.

Murder Obsession

Murder Obsession

Horror · World Cinema

Director Riccardo Freda, known for mentoring one of Italy's master cult horror film makers, Mario Bava, brings us (for the first time available on DVD in the US), one of his sexiest giallos: Murder Obsession which tells the story of a horror film actor Michael Stanford (played by Stefano Patrizi) wh…

Nero Wolfe (2012)

Nero Wolfe (2012)

Action · Drama · Suspense

Based on the classic novels by Rex Stout, following one of Rome's finest investigators who'd rather spend time at home than chase criminals.

The Night of the Devils

The Night of the Devils

World Cinema · Horror · Thriller

Italian genre film legend Gianni Garko stars in this terrifying masterpiece of the mascabre, based on Tolstoy's story THE WURDULAK, itself previously adapted in Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH.

Nightmare Beach (4KUHD)

Nightmare Beach (4KUHD)

Horror · 4K UHD DISC · Cult

After a criminal motorcycler is put to death, a curse lifts him from the dead to seek violent revenge against the residents of South Florida during Spring Break.

Nightmare City

Nightmare City

World Cinema · Horror · Thriller

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Nude for Satan

Nude for Satan

Horror

Italian Gothic horror that tells the tale of a man who stops at a remote castle hoping to get medical help for an injured woman, only to find the inhabitants mirror the darker sides of the woman and himself.

One Hundred Steps

One Hundred Steps

Drama · World Cinema · Crime

The shocking story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who vocally opposed the mafia in the 1970s and paid a brutal price.

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

Drama · World Cinema

This box-set presents 38 remarkable films made by Paolo Gioli between 1969 and 2013, expressing his playfully deconstructive attitude towards motion picture technology, as seen in his early hand-painted films, his unusual manipulations of camera mechanisms and optics, and his unique interest in home…

The Perfect Husband

The Perfect Husband

Horror

A couple seek the weekend solace of a cabin but it turns into a deadly nightmare as maddening paranoia and blind rage explodes around them.

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Horror · Drama · Thriller

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Revelations of a Psychiatrist in a World of Perverse Sex

Revelations of a Psychiatrist in a World of Perverse Sex

Drama · Exploitation

Mondo-style film in which a psychiatrist explains to his students several stories of sexual deviancy.

Riot in a Women's Prison

Riot in a Women's Prison

Drama · Crime

Young French tourist gets falsely accused of drug possession while on vacation in Italy. She finds herself incarcerated at a hellish women’s penitentiary where the inmates are subjected to mental and physical torture by the staff and fellow felons alike.

Sacco & Vanzetti

Sacco & Vanzetti

Cannes Film Festival · Drama · World Cinema

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, known for their anarchist beliefs, stand accused of robbery and murder. Their political leanings are used as evidence against them, but defense attorney Fred Moore is convinced of their innocence.

Sacrifice (Umberto Lenzi)

Sacrifice (Umberto Lenzi)

Horror · World Cinema

Marks the birth of bloody and controversial “Italian Cannibal” sub-genre, SACRIFICE stars Eurohorror legend Ivan Rassimov as photographer John Bradley, who ventures into the heart of Thailand’s jungles and is kidnapped by a ruthless native tribe

Seduction

Seduction

Drama · World Cinema

Maurice Ronet (Purple Noon) stars as Giuseppe Lagana, a European playboy who returns to his home in the Sicilian town of Catania to settle his deceased father’s affairs. He reunites with an old friend, Caterina (Lisa Gastoni), and a mid-life romance is kindled from the sparks of their youthful…