A Scientist that developed a formula to increase the world's food supply, is captured by enemies that don't want this to happen. George Collins, Agent X 1-7 is assigned to rescue him from a castle where he is held hostage.
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A Scientist that developed a formula to increase the world's food supply, is captured by enemies that don't want this to happen. George Collins, Agent X 1-7 is assigned to rescue him from a castle where he is held hostage.
In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is the millionaire's attractive mistress (Brigitte Fossey), and the story takes off from there.
Five bizarre stories that make up this edgy, humorous, and utterly bonkers Italian horror anthology, which gleefully includes serial killers, cannibal sex workers, and environmentalist witches.
Giorgio is a greedy adulterer who makes a deal with a serial killer to dispose of his wealthy wife, Nora. Unfortunately, a thrill-seeking young couple steal the killer's car with Nora's corpse in the trunk, ending up at a run-down seaside villa.
Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, he works his way up to the top, driving his company to new heights despite the growing suspicion and mistrust...
Ghosts and dead bodies infest a small nineteenth-century village.
In the business district of La Défense, a wave of suicides expose the fractures of a crumbling society. Strangers move through the streets like ghosts, bound by the invisible threads of paranoia. In the eerie glow of a collapsing city, destruction may be the only chance for rebirth.
Carlo is a bum who suffers from recurrent nightmares. He lives by the rule of the coin, tossing the very same coin over and over again to take every single decision of his life. Coin toss after coin toss, he arrives in L'Aquila, a city hit by an earthquake. Here he becomes involved in a gruesome murder case. With the help of Marta, an alcoholic woman he met on the road, he starts an investigation which will soon have a metaphysical perspective.
Elderly Italian who immigrated to Canada after killing a famous soccer player in a car accident must pay off his gambling debts by agreeing to become a human prey in a deadly manhunt organized by his debtees.
The 1990s. The story of the longest Anonima Sequestri kidnapping, that of Giuseppe Vinci, whose family supermarket chain was spread all over Sardinia.
Since the car accident that caused the death of his wife, the comics author Stéphane Destouches sinks into alcohol and wanders the roads of Morocco.
Four notorious bank robbers meet up in an isolated castle to divide a large number of diamonds hidden there by their deceased former boss, whose Italian wife is hosting a party.
The story of two rival bosses who, following the strategic release of one of the two, will unleash a whirlwind of events, inevitably overwhelming the members of their families. A fight for honor and revenge that will be thwarted by a stubborn and dutiful Carabinieri Colonel, who will heroically seek justice in alliance with an ambitious undercover CIA agent. Against the backdrop of the fight against the criminal underworld.
Claudia, a 25-year-old with serious insecurities, rents the upper floor of a isolated house. There she meets Letizia, a charming woman who introduces her to metaphony. That innocent game soon turns into a nightmare.
A tireless crew is on the job to deliver you the short of the year... Sooner or later, it's coming.
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.
Joan Mulligan is waiting in vain for her husband, Arthur Blanc, an Etruscologist who has traveled to Tuscany in search of materials for an exhibition. The woman, who suffers from metapsychic disturbances, "sees" in a nightmare the cave her husband has discovered, where Arthur is mysteriously murdered. She then departs for Italy herself, determined to shed light on her husband's death, and finds herself entangled in a series of other murders that have taken place in the same cemetery—all of which share one same macabre detail. Mike, a secret agent who has fallen in love with her, must uncover the truth behind the intricate mystery. (extended version of Assassinio al Cimitero Etrusco)
Veronica, a 16-year-old girl, is spending the Christmas holidays at her grandfather's in a small village in the Sicilian hinterland when a woman disappears and the fear of the monster who had sown terror in the area ten years earlier returns. The girl suddenly begins to feed a terrible suspicion: her own grandfather could be the culprit.
A hit man is dispatched on a contract he takes personally.
Pina Acciai, a fortune teller dedicated to usury, is found dead in her apartment with her skull smashed in. The police try to shed light on the matter and discover that all the tenants of the building could have a motive.
Two different worlds, art, and cuisine collide in a tense and mysterious thriller.
Three young hobby archeologists witness a satanic ritual in a secluded villa. Instead of helping poor female victims they decide to secretly document the events.
Enrico is 30 years old, unemployed, and spends his life between public competitions and his friends at the bar. But one day, Silvana, his beautiful girlfriend, suddenly leaves him without explanation. His life falls apart, and Enrico even attempts suicide, albeit half-heartedly. Elvira, a sweet girl who has also recently suffered a heartbreak, mends his broken heart. Everything seems to be fine when Silvana returns forcefully to the forefront. Enrico has no choice but to divide his time between the two. Martha, a beautiful foreigner with children, will take him far away, dragging him to Uruguay. But Silvana will always be in his heart.
When Chiara, a violinist at the conservatory, is brutally murdered after a performance, inspector Maccari is put on the case. Maccari, whose own wife was once murdered by a serial killer, suspect professor Baraldi, the director of the conservatory. But as more fall prey to the killer, Maccari comes to a shocking conclusion...
An entrepreneur from Caserta becomes entangled with the underworld and ends up exposing himself because of his relationship with Alba, the youngest daughter of a gangster. The subsequent situation gets worse and worse, and he is forced to hide in a bunker built especially for him, where he survives for a long time alone, in the company of hallucinations and ghosts.
The daughter of a foreign diplomat in Paris is courted by two men. One of them entrusts her with a harmless commission for Poland, as she has a diplomatic passport. But it's a trap, and the girl is forced to work for Eastern spies.
After a factory worker is killed, Sergio Bruni is placed on remand for two years before being released for lack of evidence. Shunned by his wife and his colleagues, he must now discover the true culprit.
Manny Baxter is furious: his wife has run away with her lover Guido. Manny is rich and jealous and will use all the power of his money to prevent his wife Laureen and Guido from being happy together. And, first things first, he will keep them from leaving Manila where they are now for Bangkok as they are planning.
Somewhere in the bleak Italian Alps is an isolated boarding school for troubled boys of the ultra privileged. 17-year old Giulio is sent there by his mother and finds himself instantly at odds with both his peers and the staff until the arrival of the eccentric Eduordo. The pair bond over their mutual desire for escape, which they eventually do, and run away to a nightclub in the middle of the woods. There they meet Elena, a young prostitute whose destiny will be unforgettably linked to theirs. For the boys, the night is full of freedom, disturbing experiences, and secrets. But what they discover about their experiences, and their school, may be the biggest secret of all.
After seven difficult years, Matteo Dell Torre withdraws his campaign from the crisis. But because of the work, he rarely sees with his wife, with children. When the case turned out to be imposed, the police accuse Matteo of murder and find 30 million of bad money on account of the company. Under the threat of business and marriage. Mateo will go to jail. In order to prove his innocence, he turns out to be incarcerated ...
Deceit, perversion, and an unseen murderer follow a wealthy socialite through Italy as her mind breaks down into madness.
Summer. The sun's rays pulse on the surface of an inflatable pool as two lovers kiss and console. They live among fields and woods, far from society. Outside their love nest, ther's a world that never wanted them and that, slowly, transformed them into monsters. Aboard a white van, they sow hatred and horror as a response to a childhood that has never been processed.
Francesco and Maurizio, two young gardeners with no ambitions and an uncertain future, are the only witnesses to an apparently unmotivated murder that disrupts the social dynamics of an otherwise respectable City.
Vladimir and his friend Vercingetorix discover, in his dead father's wine cellar, a wine that has the power to conduct you to the afterlife, opening a doorway that leads in both directions. They begin exploring, but accidentally bring back to life a serial killer. Violent death and secret rituals follow, as both the police and a mysterious occult organization who are desperate to gain possession of the secret become involved. Along with Lidia, a policewoman, have to try and discover the secret of the fantastical doorway.
Amos, a watchmaker, loses his wife due to post-surgery complications. Destroyed by grief, he joins old friends Karl and Maner, former revolutionaries, to kidnap Prime Minister Ullmann, once their companion, to extort money from the state.
Thriller about the murder by poisoning of a famous lawyer.
A wheelchair bound woman's life is at stake as her maid and chauffeur plot her murder in order to gain an inheritance.
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
Linda can't sleep because she saw something she can't shake. She drifts through her days like a sleepwalker, while an idea takes root inside her — one that both terrifies and tempts her, and that could upend her life.
A hit man finds out that his current contract is weirder than advertised. The middle film in Misichia's Penance trilogy.
Klaus Burg and his 18-year-old daughter Alina live in the witness protection program and have built up a new, modest existence in a remote fishing village in Iceland.
Matilda is a Roman hitwoman forced into her job by her father, a feared Roman killer and a great fan of Lèon who would like her to be as fearless as the young protagonist of the film. But the poor girl is shy, clumsy and would do anything to change her life. And so, between one cleaning and another, she dreams of normality.
A director would like to make a film about a nun in mystical crisis. After receiving a clear refusal from the producer, the man kidnaps his daughter.
In 1589, six innocent women were accused from the inquisition of witchery in the small ligurian mountain.
A self-proclaimed "harmless" stalker has sessions with a psychologist in this thrill ride of a louche melodrama, which touches on the thriller and murder mystery in a universe clothed in the aesthetics of the advert.
After a bungled diamond heist a trio of killers take refuge at the home of a country doctor and force him at gunpoint to attend to their mortally wounded colleague. They abuse the doctor and take sexual advantage of his wife. But everything is not as it seems.
Fortuna (6 years old) lives with her mother in an anonymous suburb. She spends her time with two playmates, Nicola and Anna, dreaming of being Nancy, an alien princess chased by giants who want to kidnap her and her friends. After a tragic accident happened to Nicola, an obscure secret surfaces in a struggle between reality and imagination, unveiling a horrible truth. A dark fairy tale, based on a true story.
A young man lies in a hospital suspended between life and death. The police know nothing about him. The patient, in his rare moments of consciousness, only remembers his gang’s involvement in a robbery of a rare painting, and the mysterious Madame Jacno who commissioned Fabrizio, the gang leader, to steal the work of art. But someone is still trying to kill the patient, and as his life is continually threatened, his memory slowly comes back to him…!
A married couple on a weekend away when their private party is crashed by a band of local bikers. They tie up the man and the leader rapes his wife. The wife and the bike leader then fall for one another, that turns out to be bad news for the husband, and for the bike gang...
"Mad in Italy" is a truly disturbing psychological film based on true events about one girl's ordeal to stay alive at the hands of a young maniac. Featuring amazing cinematography by one of the most talented Italian directors of photography Mirco Sgarzi (House of Flesh Mannequins and Orgy of Blood).
A corrupt cop steals evidence of a Mafia drug ring with plans to sell it to their rivals, but is hunted by the mafia and government agents.
Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.