The Day the Sky Exploded 1958  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
aka: Death from Outer Space
Death Comes from Space
Director: Paolo Heusch
Cast: Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Madeleine Fischer, Ivo Garrani, Dario Michaelis, Sam Galter, Peter Meersman, Jean-Jacques Delbo, Massimo Zeppieri, Annie Bernal, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Gerard Landry
A joint U.S./Russian/British mission to space goes bad, but one astronaut, John McLaren (Paul Hubschmid), is able to abandon the craft. The spaceship crashes into the Sun–immediately causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and other assorted problems on Earth. It also results in asteroids heading toward our planet. Can the world's scientists work together to save the Earth?
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Excellent Cadavers 1999  R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ricky Tognazzi
Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Antonio Manzini, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Galiena, Andy Luotto, Lina Sastri, Arnoldo Foa, Ivo Garrani
Giovanni Falcone (Chazz Palminteri) fights to the death to bring down the Sicilian Mob in this story, based on fact, about political battles in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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The Giant of Marathon 1959 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Steve Reeves, Mylene Demongeot, Daniela Rocca, Philippe Hersent, Sergio Fantoni, Ivo Garrani, Alberto Lupo, Miranda Campa, Daniele Vargas, Gianni Loti, Anita Todesco
Based on the 490 B.C. Greek marathon runner who ran from Marathon to Athens to warn of Persian attacks and to Sparta to get assistance in the defense of Greece, there are many liberties taken as our hero (Steve Reeves) takes charge of the fighting and saves the Athenians, Greece, and even the rest of Europe from the dastardly Persians.
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Hercules 1957  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
Director: Pietro Francisci
Cast: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici, Mimmo Palmara, Lidia Alfonsi, Gina Rovere, Gabriele Antonini
This Italian-made film started a series of he-man fantasies when it was brought to the U.S. and, through good marketing, was a hit. Former Mr. Universe Steve Reeves plays Hercules of mythology in the retelling of "Jason and the Golden Fleece." The superhero Hercules must succeed in a series of difficult quests in order to win the fair (and scantily clad) maiden, Iole (Sylva Koscina).
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Holocaust 2000 1977  R, 102 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Chosen
Rain of Fire
Director: Alberto De Martino
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Agostina Belli, Simon Ward, Anthony Quayle, Virginia McKenna, Alexander Knox, Spiros Focas, Ivo Garrani, Adolfo Celi, Romolo Valli, Massimo Foschi, Geoffrey Keen, John Carlin, Peter Cellier, Gerard Hely
The inherent danger of nuclear power plants is exploited in this film about Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) whose son (Simon Ward) is the devil. In that guise, he has come to build new nuclear plants with built-in failure mechanisms.
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Special Section 1975 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Louis Seigner, Michael Lonsdale, Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Dux, Henri Serre, Roland Bertin, Ivo Garrani, Francois Maistre, Jacques Spiesser
Based on a true story involving Marxists killing a German officer in a Paris subway, this film explores forces behind the Vichy government's appeasement of Nazis even when judges and cabinet members were in no immediate danger themselves.
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Street People 1976 R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Maurizio Lucidi
Cast: Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Ivo Garrani, Fausto Tozzi, Ennio Balbo, Ettore Manni, Loretta Persichetti, Pietro Martellanza, Luigi Casellato, Romano Puppo
This film's tangled, confusing plot revolves around the Mafia and narcotics smuggling ($3 million worth of heroin) inside a crucifix). Comic relief helps, but it is not enough to help this one.
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| 1. The Chastity Belt (1968)
aka: On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
2. The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
aka: Death from Outer Space
aka: Death Comes from Space
3. Excellent Cadavers (1999)
4. The Giant of Marathon (1959)
5. Hercules (1957)
6. Holocaust 2000 (1977)
aka: The Chosen
aka: Rain of Fire
7. Special Section (1975)
8. Street People (1976)
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