italian exploitation movies
Overview of films
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Ritratti d’autore: Cristiano Bortone vs Joe D’Amato
Video portrait of Italian B-master D’Amato.
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Endgame
English-language sci-fi/action film set after World War III; a gladiator-like ‘end game’ is broadcast on TV to keep the people down. &#
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Ritratti d’autore: Pappi Corsicato vs Dario Argento
Video portrait of Italian B-master Argento.
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L’aldilà
A diabolical tempo, sadism and a chunk of irony characterise this film, that Quentin Tarrantino described as one of the finest portrayals of hell.<
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La notte americana del Dr. Lucio Fulci
Video portrait of Italian B-master Fulci.
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Ritratti d’autore: Giuseppe Tornatore vs Riccardo Freda
Video portrait of Italian B-master Freda.
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Beatrice Cenci
Famous costume melodrama, in which a tyrannical count is held prisoner, while his second wife plots against his life with her stepson.
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Feature debut was a great box-office success at the time. Argento embroidered forth on the archetypes of the Italian horror-genre, but also added a
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Antropophagus
On a deserted Greek island, a group of tourists is thinned down by a cadaver-consuming monster. No one is spared… Regarded by aficionados as
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Non si sevizia un paperino
South Italian village is hit by a series of murders of little boys. Exciting plot in obsessive, stylishly photographed blood-filled film.
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Lo spettro
Super-low-budget film about vengeful ghost set at the turn of the 20th century in Scotland, it may be the Italian horror film par excellence.
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Profondo rosso
In this stylish psycho-thriller the visual shock-effects are backed and introduced by electronic rock by the band Goblin.