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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Year: 1976
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first thing you notice with Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man is that the leads, Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock, are impossibly beautiful men, like Greek gods. Not that they are effeminate in any way. Unlike American leading men, Porel and Lovelock […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Giallo/ Exploitation
Director: Paolo Cavara
Year: 1976
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Someone is killing off the members of the Flora and Fauna Club, a group of rich people who play decadent erotic games and keep wild animals in cages on the estate of the club’s host (beautifully played by John Steiner). The killer leaves an illustration […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1975
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Henry Silva has one of the least reassuring smiles in cinema, like a grinning shark, even when he’s supposed to be a happy family man, as in Manhunt In The City.
When the eight year old daughter of David Vannucchi (Henry Silva) is killed […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1975
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Back when Kidnap Syndicate was made, there was an epidemic of kidnappings of all kinds in Italy: kidnapping for ransom, as well as political kidnappings of all different political persuasions. Although Kidnap Syndicate is structured as a suspense thriller, the clear impetus […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Mario Bava
Year: 1974
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In it’s heart, Rabid Dogs is essentially a road movie. There isn’t a whole lot of action, and most of that is kind of blah by modern standards. Mario Bava’s direction is never more than workmanlike. Yet Rabid Dogs still manages to entertain.
After […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Duccio Tessari
Year: 1973
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Before I get started on actually discussing the merits of Tony Arzenta, I should mention that I saw a dubbed copy, which generally leads to subtracting a least a star from my rating, especially for Italian flicks. That’s because the way Italians express themselves is […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1972
Rating:
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Manhunt (or La Mala Ordina in the original Italian) is the 2nd part of writer/director Fernando Di Leo’s famed Milieu Trilogy.
Writer/director Di Leo wastes little time setting up the plot. Corso (Cyril Cusack), a mafia boss in NYC, hears that a Milanese pimp named Luca Canali […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1985
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
A couple of days ago, I wrote about The Boss, another infinitely better film from writer/director Fernando Di Leo. Both of these films are available as a package from Raro Video. If you really like Italian Poliziotteschi movies, the set is worth getting for The […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1973
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In most ways, The Boss AKA Il Boss is pretty delightful. The film is crammed full of flavorful performances, from the leads down to the tiniest character parts; the dialog is often laugh out loud funny; the way scenes are constructed is often cunning […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Andrea Bianchi
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I saw Cry Of A Prostitute over 30 years ago in an outdoor movie theater in Ikaria, Greece, and it made quite an impression on me, mostly because of the gnarly imagery and lack of a conventional hero. I’ve been looking forward to watching it again […]