Three-disc set includes: Day Of The Owl (Mafia) (1968)Newly-appointed Sicilian police captain Bellodi (Franco Nero) promised justice to now-widowed Rosa Nicolosi (Claudia Cardinale), whose husband... more
Rome-stationed CIA agent John Dhannay (Tony Musante) was just trying to focus on the assignment at hand... destabilizing an African government. He'd have to place that on the back burner, however, as... more
Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah is a stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of cinema's most authentic depictions of organized crime. In this tour de force adaptation of undercover... more
Naples, Italy: An idealistic cigarette smuggler, Luca, runs into problems when a sadistic drug dealing gangster from France decides to muscle his way into operations. As he tries to wipe out the... more
If you thought Jackie Brown was the first airline stewardess to mix it up with some shady characters, think again. In this racy and lighthearted Italian crime saga, gorgeous stew Nora Green (Ursula... more
Violence and action abound in this Italian/Austrian crime thriller about down-and-out private detective Walter Spada (Maurizio Merli), who's hired to track down the missing daughter of a wealthy... more
5 RESTORED CLASSIC FILMS, 4 REMASTERED SOUNDTRACKS, 10+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
Italian director Umberto Lenzi had recently completed a landmark string of kinky gialli with Hollywood outcast... more
After brandishing his gun and badge too many times in front of powerful people, Maurizio Merli (Violent Naples and The Cynic, The Rat, and The Fist) is busted down from Homicide to Emergency Squad.... more
Antonio Sabata, Philippe Leroy. Toto, a fresh produce businessman in Milan, uses his successful business as a cover for another successful operation—a prostitution ring. But when a French gangster... more
An ex-con (Gastone Moschin) confronts a crazed gangster who thinks he has hidden a fortune in cash lost during an elaborate heist. The police think so, too, so he'll have to prove his "innocence"-but... more
In a prosperous North Italian town plagued by a kidnapping ring preying on the kids of wealthy families-and victims too ready to pay off rather than involve the cops-newly appointed commissioner... more
The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy focuses on Luca Carnali, a small-time mobster and pimp who has been set up by his gangland boss. When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy... more
Ray Lovelock, Marc Porel. Gore, action and comic bi-play star in this fast-paced cop drama about two detectives who always get their man…and kill him. Loaded with motorcycles, helicopters and the... more
Over a long and wide-ranging career, director Enzo G. Castellari (Keoma, The Inglorious Bastards) helmed some of the most infamous of all the poliziotteschi - the gritty, action-packed crime films... more
A follow up of sorts to his earlier film, the seminal Caliber 9 (1972), Blood and Diamonds (1977) blasts it's way into familiar poliziotteschi territory, leaving scars, bullets and tire tracks in... more
Nick the Sting is another slam-bang action movie from pulp movie master Fernando di Leo (The Italian Connection ; Shoot First, Die Later). Luc Merenda stars as small time conman Nick Hezard who gets... more
Andre de Toth, Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg. Palance plays the son of Genghis Khan, while Ekberg is the lady he lusts for. An elaborate spectacle piece with lots of excitement and plenty of pitched... more
Richard Conte, Luc Merenda. A crooked cop asks his father for a special favor, but Dad walks the straight an narrow, which leads to trouble with the family, the authorities and the mob in this... more
Famed Italian director Fernando di Leo delivers 3 classic, hardboiled crime stories in this set that includes Shoot First, Die Later (Richard, Conte, Luc Merenda. 1974/95 min.), Kidnap Syndicate (Luc... more
In 1970s Sicily, left-wing activist Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato (Luigi Lo Cascio) is one of the very few willing to publicly condemn the enormously powerful Mafia. Doing so during radio broadcasts... more
Based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's second novel. A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta) tells the story of a group of kids who live in one of the poorest and most disreputable neighborhoods in Rome. The... more
In 1961, director Mario Bava (Rabid Dogs, Kill Baby Kill) turned his hand to the historical adventure genre, capitalizing on the recent success of 1958 s Kirk Douglas vehicle The Vikings. The result... more