Riz Ortolani Movies

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by...

A journalist and secretary get involved in espionage.

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a...

Lucia, a young German married to Paolo, a Neapolitan emigrant, is raped. She tells a lie to her husband, but the day he discovers the truth a tragedy...

A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula.

An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main...

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the...

Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.

The Milanese nudist professor Paolo Barca moved to the province of Catania; there he will succeed in changing something both in the school and in his...

A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol...

An Italian documentary that gives an inside look at the making of Ruggero Deodato's controversial horror film "Cannibal Holocaust".

Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of...

Gianni Manera writes, directs and stars in this violent U.S. based story of Mafia members and Black gangsters fighting for turf.

Italian crime drama

Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.