Lars Bloch

Who's Afraid of Dracula?

Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!

Boccaccio '70

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

Eighteen in the Sun

An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.

Trinity and Sartana Are Coming

Sartana and Trinity set out on a grudging relationship hell bent for gold and comic brawls.

The Wild Eye

A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations.

La bellezza di Ippolita

Luca, a petrol dealer, marries a magazine dancer, Ippolita, a girl who likes to be courted by the many passing motorists. One day, the woman discovers that her husband has betrayed her with Adriana. Ippolita decides her revenge: she assures Luke that she will keep her duties as a wife only when she too has allowed herself similar distractions. Through a series of animated events, the two resume married life: but Luca will not be able to know if Ippolita was really unfaithful to him.

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn

Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic affair help Gianni see the error of his ways? Luciano Martino directs this saucy comedy that also stars Aldo Maccione, Alvaro Vitali and Olga Bisera.

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

The Professor and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.

Howlers of the Dock

Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down.

Extraconiugale

Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.

Beautiful Families

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s.

Alleluja & Sartana Are Sons... Sons of God

Two conmen, posing as missionaries, are out to swindle the members of a church group in this slapstick western.

Long Live Robin Hood

John Lackland seizes the English throne, believing the rightful ruler, his brother Richard the Lionheart, to be dead. When he learns that Richard is being held captive by the German emperor and can be ransomed for a large sum of money, he refuses to pay and orders the messengers, including Sir Henry of Nottingham, to be killed. Sir Henry escapes to Sherwood Forest, which belongs to his estates. There he joins forces with a group of Anglo-Saxons and fights under the name Robin Hood against the regime of the king's traitors...

Red Coat

Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.

The Ravine

In the winter of 1943, deep in the frozen waste of German occupied Yugoslavia, a lone parachute drifts from the snowy skies, falling ever closer to earth and a waiting German patrol car. Suddenly shots ring out from a hidden sniper, the Germans are killed, and the parachutist scurries away into the forest. The sniper is a woman, the number one partisan terrorist on the German hit list, and her adversary is the German number one exterminator sent direct from berlin to eliminate her. The battle is on, orders from high command - capture her… alive. Both are professional, but now the hunter becomes the hunted.

The Sisters

Faced with a broken marriage, a woman decides to try to rekindle incestuous relationship with her younger sister, who is married to a wealthy older man.

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.

Fantozzi Against the Wind

The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors. A nostalgic look at those movies that are still in the taste of many.

Who Breaks... Pays

A ship stopped at the port of Istanbul should take vegetables, but an unscrupulous man would like to add weapons under the vegetable crates. The captain of the ship refuses the offer of the evildoer.

A Stranger in Town

Unknown to anybody else but himself The Stranger arrives in an abandoned town where he witnesses the slaughter of Mexican soldiers by a gang led by Aguila. The Stranger threatens Aguila to denounce him if he does not accept to let him take part in the theft of a shipment of gold. The plan is a success but when The Stranger claims his due, he gets a good beating instead. However The Stranger manages to escape with the gold. The bandits, who want his skin, pursue him. But The Stranger is not the kind to get caught so easily...

The Secret of Seagull Island

A woman searches for her blind sister in this feature-length English-language cut of the TV miniseries Seagull Island (1981).

The Temptation of Dr. Antonio

Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo obsessively fights against what he perceives as immorality in Rome, only to be driven mad by a seductive billboard of Anita Ekberg that haunts him with hallucinations.

Juliette de Sade

Sade adaptation set in the late 1960s.

The Flying Saucer

An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer and its female occupant.

Strange Occasion

Three sexy and comic episodes.

Diary of a Telephone Operator

Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.

Heroes in Hell

In World War II, guerrillas kidnap a German general.

Made in Italy

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

The Jukebox Kids

When a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to promote her own rock and roll music by promoting various young singers.

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

The Return of Halleluja

Ramirez, the general of the Mexican revolution against Maximilian who has been appointed king of Mexico, organizes his forces to attack the king's General, Miranda. Ramirez realizes that the Aztec Indians would be allies of great value, so he offers to return to them an idol statue that has been stolen from them. Only Alleluja is capable of retrieving the idol from the thieves.

Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!

A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.

Il divorzio

Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.

Emanuelle in America

Untameable photo reporter Emanuelle goes around the world to document the sex practices of the rich and powerful, getting dangerously close to the most disturbing and hidden schemes.

Navajo Joe

The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

La Dolce Vita

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

A Liar in Paradise

Two poor friends are trying to run a con on a wealthy family.

On the Third Day Arrived the Crow

Lincoln Tate and Lorenzo Rineschi are the Kennedy/Connelly brothers who are out to avenge their father's death at the hands of the Crow and his men. In their search, they stumble upon a gold shipment that the bandits are after.

Beyond Good and Evil

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.