A Blade in the Dark 1983  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: House of the Dark Stairway
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo, Michele Soavi, Valeria Cavalli, Stanko Molnar, Lara Naszinsky
A young composer, Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti), is hired to score a horror movie. When strange things start happening that relate to both the former tenant of the villa he has rented and to the film, he realizes that something sinister is going on.
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Bolero 1984  R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Derek
Cast: Bo Derek, George Kennedy, Andrea Occhipinti, Ana Obregon, Olivia d'Abo, Greg Bensen, Ian Cochrane, Mirta Miller, Mickey Knox
In the 1920s an American heiress, Ayre (Bo Derek), travels to Spain looking for the most romantic way to lose her virginity.
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Love of Man 1997 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Yolanda Garcia Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra
Cast: Loles Leon, Andrea Occhipinti, Pedro Mari Sanchez, Armando del Rio, Roberto Alvarez, Sergio Otegui, Roma Sanchez, Antonio Albert, Jesus Cabrero, Juan Luis Alvarez
Schoolteacher Esperanza (Loles Leon) searches for Mr. Right, but without success. Her best friend, Ramon (Andrea Occhipinti), a gay lawyer, tries to help in her matchmaking. But when Ramon gets serious with a man, Esperanza becomes jealous in this comedy set in Madrid.
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The New York Ripper 1982  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Drama / Thriller
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross, Andrea Occhipinti, Alexandra Delli Colli, Paolo Malco, Cinzia de Ponti, Cosimo Cinieri, Daniela Doria, Babette New, Zora Kerova, Paul E. Guskin, Antone Pagan, Josh Cruze, Lucio Fulci
Sleazy sex and gore are the ingredients of this film as police Lt. Williams (Jack Hedley) sets out after a crazed woman-killer (who quacks like a duck) while stalking the streets of NYC. The suspect, Mickey Scellenda (Howard Ross), has been seen in the company of some of the victims, but how many more victims will be claimed before the perpetrator is finally caught?
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The Sea Inside 2004  PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Cast: Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Duenas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo, Clara Sugura, Joan Dalmau, Alberto Jimenez, Tamar Novas, Francesc Garrido, Josep Maria Pou, Andrea Occhipinti, Alberto Amarilla, Federico Perez Rey, Nicolas Fernandez Luna
Spaniard Ramon Sampedro was paralyzed during a diving accident and spent the next 30 years as a quadriplegic. This film depicts his real-life battle with family and the court system to grant him the right of euthanasia. The film received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for one other.
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The Sun Also Rises 1984 TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Robert Carradine, Zeljko Ivanek, Ian Charleson, Leonard Nimoy, Stephane Audran, Andrea Occhipinti, Elisabeth Bourgine, Hutton Cobb
This remake of Henry King's 1957 "The Sun Also Rises" pales by comparison to the first rendition of Hemingway's classic tale about the "Lost Generation" of expatriates who roamed Europe between the two World Wars. Nicely photographed.
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| 1. A Blade in the Dark (1983)
aka: House of the Dark Stairway
2. Bolero (1984)
3. Conquest (1983)
4. Love of Man (1997)
5. The New York Ripper (1982)
6. The Sea Inside (2004)
7. The Sun Also Rises (1984)
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