Movie Listings by Genre

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder    More Info
Starring: Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Gottfried John, Helmut Griem, Udo Kier, Ivan Desny, Hark Bohm, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal

 World War I Berlin is the backdrop of Alfred Doblin's 1929 novel. Presented as 14 individual episodes, the story follows the life of an ex-convict who tries to live an honorable existence but finds problems at every turn in the Berlin environment during the rise of Nazism.

Director: Lucio Fulci    More Info
Starring: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck, Al Cliver, Dagmar Lassander, Bruno Corazzari, Geoffrey Copleston, Daniela Doria

 Supposedly, this film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe story, but the title is about the only thing in common with Poe's work. A wheelchair-bound psychic (Patrick Magee) talks to the dead and to his cat and sends the cat out to take care of his enemies. But who is really in control–the cat or the man? Gore is mild by Lucio Fulci standards.

Director: Andrea Bianchi    More Info
Starring: Karin Well, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Simone Mattioli, Peter Bark, Antonella Antinori, Roberto Caporali, Claudio Zucchet, Anna Valente, Raimondo Barbieri, Mariangela Giordano

 Move over Fulci and Romero, another zombie rip-off has hit the screen in this rotten flick with rotting, maggot-encrusted zombies. The zombies are released from their crypt and, of course, they are VERY hungry. That neat party over there would provide a wonderful feast. The acting is so bad (and the English-dubbing is even worse) that the characters deserve to be eaten. Still, it's somewhat fun to watch the gore.

Director: Federico Fellini    More Info
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Ettore Manni, Jole Silvani, Donatella Damiani

 After trailing an attractive woman passenger when she leaves the train, Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni) ends up at a hotel where he finds himself in the middle of a feminist conference.

Director: Luigi Cozzi    More Info
Starring: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Mase, Siegfried Rauch, Gisela Hahn, Carlo De Mejo, Carlo Monni

 This, Director Cozzi's rip-off of "Alien," follows his rip-off of "Star Wars." ("Starcrash") Nasty eggs that spew green goop at people–which then explodes in them–are being manufactured by a one-eyed Martian who wants to rule Earth.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari    More Info
Starring: Franco Nero, Sybil Danning, William Berger, Carlo Gabriel Sparanero, Mickey Knox, Ennio Girolami, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo, Licinia Lentini, Mario Maranzana

 "Double Cross" is the name of the game that San Francisco ex-cop Larry "Cobra" Staziani (Franco Nero) finally discovers after he is hired to track down the ruthless drug kingpin who heads a narcotics ring in Genoa, Italy.

Director: Aleksandr Mitta    More Info
Starring: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoli Vasilyev, Leonid Filatov, Aleksandra Yakovleva, Irina Akulova, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Yuri Gorobets, Komaki Kurihara, Aleksandr Pavlov, Galina Gladkova

 This two-part film tells the story of an airplane and its crew. In the first part, the crew members and their lives are brought out; the second part involves the adventure of the plane's damage from an earthquake and the attempt to land it in Moscow.

Director: Sammo Hung    More Info
Starring: Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung, Wong Ha, Lam Ching-Ying, Cheung Ti-Hong, Leung Suet-Moi, Wu Ma, To Siu-Ming, Billy Chan

 An unfaithful wife hires a warlock priest to use evil curses and black magic against her husband. But, he catches on to her plot and works with the priest's brother in a counterattack.

Director: Ingmar Bergman    More Info
Starring: Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Rita Russek, Heinz Bennent, Lola Muthel

 A middle-class businessman, driven to the brink by his nagging wife, rapes and kills a prostitute who reminds him of his dreadful spouse. Another Bergman hit.

Director: Lucio Fulci    More Info
Starring: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Daniela Doria, Janet Agren, Robert Sampson, Michele Soavi, Venantino Venantini

 "Extreme Gore" would be an apt title for this Lucio Fulci offering as people attempt to close the gates of Hell after the gates had been opened by a priest who hung himself. The story is not important–it's the blood that counts. I think I liked the drill through the head the best (or was it the upchucking of intestines?).

Director: Chen Chi-Hwa    More Info
Starring: Jackie Chan, James Tien, Lung Jun-Er, Wu Ma, Dean Shek

 This comedic parody of the kung fu films of the 1970s follows an orphan (Jackie Chan) as he learns kung fu and then puts it to good use when he joins the team guarding a valuable gemstone. When bandits steal the gem, Jackie goes on a tear and takes care of those baddies.

Director: Akira Kurosawa    More Info
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Daisuke Ryu, Masayuki Yui, Kenichi Hagiwara, Koji Shimizu, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Otaki, Kaori Momoi, Mitsuko Baisho

 Set in 16th-century Japan, this is the story of a thief, Kagemusha (Tatsuya Nakadai), who resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda (also played by Nakadai). When Shingen is killed during a battle, his death is kept secret, and Kagemusha turns over a new leaf when he transforms himself into the dead clan leader. A visually beautiful movie.

Director: Edouard Molinaro    More Info
Starring: Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Paola Borboni, Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Benny Luke, Stephane Audran, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Glauco Onorato, Roberto Bisacco

 This sequel just does not match up to the original movie, but it is still a pretty good comedy in which a homosexual couple, Albin Mougeotte and Renato Baldi (Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi) unwittingly becomes embroiled in espionage after obtaining stolen microfilm..

Director: Francois Truffaut    More Info
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Heinz Bennent, Jean Poiret, Jean-Louis Richard, Sabine Haudepin, Andrea Ferreol, Marcel Berbert, Richard Bohringer, Paulette Dubost

 During the World War II Nazi occupation of Paris, Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve) strives to save both her Jewish husband Lucas (Heinz Bennent) and the Theatre Montmarte. The only hope of saving the Montmarte is a new play in which Marion stars, while director Lucas hides in the basement listening in on rehearsals. Meanwhile, there is a romantic attraction between Marion and the play's leading man Bernard Granger (Gerard Depardieu), but they manage to resist temptations as Marion chooses to remain loyal to her country and to her husband.

Director: Lamberto Bava    More Info
Starring: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Roberto Posse, Ferdinando Orlandi, Fernando Pannullo, Elisa Kadigia Bove

 Famed horror director Mario Bava's son follows in his father's footsteps with this gross little tale. Jane (Bernice Stegers) is unhappy at home and, thus, shares an apartment with a lover. But Jane's daughter Lucy (Veronica Zinny) suspects her mother's infidelity and, to punish her mother, drowns her little brother. Lucy calls her mother to tell what she did, and the frantic Jane is driven home by her boyfriend. An accident decapitates the boyfriend, and the distraught Jane spends a year in an asylum. When she is released she goes back to the apartment, and, among other things, she entertains the blind owner of the building, Robert (Stanko Molnar). But, she seems to have a more torrid affair also going on, and it may have something to do with the locked freezer. Robert decides to investigate.

Director: Boris Szulzinger    More Info
Starring: Louise Fletcher, Maria Schneider, Marc-Henri Wajnberg, Alexander Wajnberg, Jess Hahn, Michel Israel, Jimmy Shuman, Suzy Falk, Vincent Grass, Jose Geal

 This satire on the Dracula character fails to entertain as its attempts at inane comedy only make the bad situation worse.

Director: Alain Resnais    More Info
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud, Marie Dubois, Henri Laborit, Jean Daste, Pierre Arditi, Philippe Laudenbach, Bernard Malaterre

 Human behavior analyst Henry Laborit (played by himself) observes the actions of three characters (Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, and Roger Pierre) as they go through crises in their lives.

Director: Umberto Lenzi    More Info
Starring: Hugo Stiglitz, Mel Ferrer, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani, Eduardo Fajardo, Stefania D'Amario, Ugo Bologna, Tom Felleghy

 A plane crash-lands at an Italian airport, and zombies exit from the doors shooting and stabbing anyone in the way.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov    More Info
Starring: Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyryov, Andrei Popov, Yelena Solovey, Avangard Leontyev, Andrei Razumovsky, Oleg Kozlov, Yelena Kleshchevskaya, Galina Shostko, Gleb Strizhenov

 Set in 19th-century St. Petersberg, this story revolves around Oblomov (Oleg Tabakov) who spends most of his time lazing around, dreaming of the past. His life changes after his friend Stoltz (Yuri Bogatyrov) introduces him to the lovely Olga (Yelena Solovey) who determines to change Oblomov into an action-oriented individual. In the process, they fall in love. But, where does Stoltz fit into this new picture?

Director: Lucio Fulci    More Info
Starring: Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Guido Alberti, Daniele Dublino, Venantino Venantini, Marcel Bozzuffi, Saverio Marconi, Tommaso Palladino, Ofelia Meyer, Ferdinando Murolo

 Luca (Fabio Testi) heads a cigarette and liquor smuggling crime family but otherwise is a pleasant man with a wife and child. When his brother is killed by a rival gang, Luca sets out for revenge. But, before long, his gang members have either been assassinated or have been picked up by the police, and Luca must fight the rivals alone. Gore and violence are abundant in Fulci's departure from Horror films.

Director: Paul Verhoeven    More Info
Starring: Toon Agterberg, Hans van Tongeren, Maarten Spanjer, Renee Soutendijk, Marianne Boyer, Jeroen Krabbe, Rutger Hauer, Peter Tuinman, Yvonne Valkenburg, Rudi Falkenhagen

 A trio of teen bike racers aspires to achieve the success of their hero, racing champion Witkamp (Rutger Hauer). But tragedy strikes in this intense film where sex and violence prevail.

Director: Francesco Rosi    More Info
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Charles Vanel, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrea Ferreol, Maddalena Crippa, Sara Tafuri, Marta Zoffoli, Simonetta Stefanelli, Accursio di Leo

 The funeral of their mother is the catalyst for the reunion of three grown sons in this excellent movie that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Director: Michel Deville    More Info
Starring: Dominique Sanda, Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Valerie Masterson, Cecile Le Bailly, Jacqueline Parent, Jacques Pieiller, Francoise Morhange, Frederic Andrei

 Best friends Helene (Dominique Sanda) and Lucie (Geraldine Chaplin) travel by car from Paris into the French countryside and, through many long discussions, present different viewpoints concerning the subjects of their erotic and intellectual lives. The end result is that, by trip's end, each has a better understanding of the other's feelings about life.

Director: Jackie Chan    More Info
Starring: Jackie Chan, Wei Pei, Shih Kien, Whang Ing Sik, Tien Feng, Mei Sheng Fan

 Dragon (Jackie Chan) fails his Lion Dance competition and leaves in disgrace with the mission to find his brother. As always, his martial arts talents are featured.

Director: Laurent Heynemann    More Info
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Lisa Kreuzer, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Le Coq, Stephan Meldegg, Maurice Teynac, Andre Wilms

 This thriller is the story of a setup in which a German terrorist (Lisa Kreuzer) is to be assassinated and the blame placed on an innocent man.