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Italian cinema: Thriller

A ciascuno il suo (1967)
Elio Petri

In a small Sicilian town a pharmacist named Manno begins receiving anonymous letters threatening him with death. Because Manno has something of a reputation as a Don Juan no one takes the death threats seriously, until he is shot dead, along with his friend Roscio, during a hunting trip...   [More...]

Beat the Devil (1953)
John Huston

Billy Dannreuther and his wife Maria are on their way to make their fortune in Africa, but are held up in an Italian port whilst their steamboat undergoes some repair work...   [More...]

Borsalino (1970)
Jacques Deray

Marseille, 1930. After completing a six month stretch in prison, Roch Siffredi returns to his girlfriend to find her in the company of another man, François Capella...   [More...]

Cadaveri eccellenti (1976)
Francesco Rosi

Investigating the murder of two important magistrates, Varga and Sanza, in a small town in the south of Italy, Inspector Rogas soon has good reason to belief that the two crimes are connected...   [More...]

Classe tous risques (1960)
Claude Sautet

Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons...   [More...]

La Decima vittima (1965)
Elio Petri

In the not too distant future, human aggression is channelled away from war and into a government-licensed murder game known as The Big Hunt...   [More...]

Don't Look Now (1973)
Nicolas Roeg

John and Laura Baxter are a young couple who are both profoundly traumatised when their five-year-old daughter Christine drowns accidentally at their home...   [More...]

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
Mario Bava

Whilst on holiday in Rome, a young American, Nora Davis, visits her bedridden elderly aunt. When her aunt suddenly dies that night, Nora rushes out into the street to fetch her doctor, Marcello Bassi, but is attacked by a mugger...   [More...]

I Guappi (1974)
Pasquale Squitieri

In 1891, Nicola Bellizzi arrives in Naples with ambitions of becoming a lawyer but his plans change when his path crosses that of the feared racketeer Don Gaetano Frungillo...   [More...]

I'm Not Scared (2003)
Gabriele Salvatores

In 1978, 10-year-old Michele Amitrano lives with his impoverished family in a small town in Southern Italy. The acres of wheat fields in the surrounding countryside provide a happy playground for Michele and his gang...   [More...]

Kill Baby, Kill (1966)
Mario Bava

Dr Eswai arrives in a remote Transylvanian village to perform an autopsy on a young woman who has recently died, apparently by impaling herself on railing spikes...   [More...]

Ossessione (1943)
Luchino Visconti

Gino Costa, an itinerant labourer, arrives at a roadside café-cum-petrol station. The owner, Giuseppe Bragana, offers him temporary work, which he accepts - because he is attracted to his employer's wife, Giovanna...   [More...]

Plein soleil (1960)
René Clément

An impoverished young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward by a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philippe Greenleaf, back home to take over the family business...   [More...]

Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment...   [More...]

The Whip and the Body (1963)
Mario Bava

It has been many years since Kurt Menliff has been disowned by his father, Count Vladimir, after driving a servant girl to suicide...   [More...]

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