Ennio Morricone
122) A fine pair
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"When Esmeralda Marini pays a surprise visit to NYC police captain Mike Harmon, the uptight cop agrees to help her as a favor to her father, an old friend he hasn't seen in years. She explains that she wants to break into an Austrian villa and return gems stolen by a friend, but Mike has no idea it's all a con to rob the house herself. As the thrill of adventure loosens him up and he offers to become her partner, Mike must find a way to keep Esmeralda...
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Hoping to bring notorious bandit, Indio, and his gang to justice, "The man with no name" teams with another bounty hunter, Col. Douglas Mortimer, to infiltrate a gang of thieves in order to steal their ill-gained fortune. Mortimer is motivated by personal reasons: he wants to avenge the rape and murder of his sister. This is the second installment of Sergio Leone's legendary "Man with No Name" trilogy that begins with "A Fistful of Dollars," and concludes...
124) Wolf
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English
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A dignified and tasteful book editor is bitten by a wolf, becomes a werewolf, and must learn to adapt to his new existence.
125) A fistful of dollars
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With this film, the genre of "spaghetti western" was born. A lean, cold-eyed, cobra-quick gunfighter arrives in a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers terrorize the impoverished citizens. Though he receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang, his loyalty cannot be bought. He accepts both jobs and sets in motion a deadly plan to destroy the criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated...
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Carol Hammond (Florinda Bolkan, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) is a sophisticated politician's daughter who experiences a series of vivid, psychedelic nightmares drenched in depraved sex orgies and LSD. The dreams turns into a nightmare featuring the death of her neighbor, Julia Dürer (Anita Strindberg, The Eroticist). The next day Julia is found brutally murdered in her own apartment. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Corvin...
127) Machine gun McCain
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After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn in a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high-level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high-stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.
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Criterion collection volume 249
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Français
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The film is considered one of the most influential political films in history, by Gillo Pontecorvo. Vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, etc. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques...
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Pasolini's rendering of several of Chaucer's tales of romance, deception, murder, and lust, told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral during the Middle Ages. The middle film of Pasolini's thematic "Trilogy of Life," the other two films being Decameron and Arabian Nights.
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Fistful of dollars: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
For a few dollars more: Two bounty hunters with the same intentions, team up to track down a Western outlaw.
The good, the bad and the ugly: A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy...
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Criterion collection volume 631
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Italiano
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The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
The Arabian nights follows the adventures of a slave girl as she rises to power over a great city. Around her revolve the stories of magic and lust, mystery and fantasy that derive from three cultures (Persia, Egypt and India) and range from the ninth century to the Renaissance.
In the Canterbury tales, Pasolini's startling...
138) Gunslingers
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Disc 1, Side A: Boot Hill: A tough adventurer and his sidekick find outlaws and rowdy women in this action-filled spaghetti western.
Disc 1, Side B: God's gun: A lawless horde of bloodthirsty bandits descends on a tiny village and commences a reign of brutal, mindless violence and terror.
Disc 2, Side A: Death rides a horse: A man seeks revenge on the ruthless gang who murdered his family when he was a young boy.
Disc 2, Side B: Beyond the law:...
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The good, the bad, and the ugly: A spaghetti western tale of greed, revenge and epic warfare. Three ruthless outlaws avidly search for a treasure chest containing $200,000.
Hang 'em high: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.