Big Guns aka Tony Arzenta (aka No Way Out, which is the most fitting title but also the more descriptive one) is a French-Italian crime movie by Duccio Tessari starring legendary French actor Alain Delon. Arzenta (Delon) is a professional assassin with a wife (Nicoletta Machiavelli) and child. He decides […]
Radiance
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Welcome to Furious Cinema’s new and ongoing look at films released through UK label Radiance Films and associates. An exploration of cinema you should not miss.
Death Occured Last Night (La Morte risale a ieri sera) is an Italian-German crime darama by Duccio Tessari from 1970. Amanzio Berzaghi’s (Raf Vallone) daughter Donatella (Gill Bray) is suffering from a natal condition: despite her biological age of 25, she has the mind of a three year old. Unable […]
Allsonanfan is a 1974 Italian historical drama written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (who passed away February 29, 2024 and April 2018 respectively). The previously hard to obtain title garnered renewed interest among younger audiences due to Quentin Tarantino‘s use of its epic theme music “Rabbia e Tarantella” […]
The Case is Closed, Forget it (L’istruttoria e chiusa: dimentichi) is a prison drama from 1971 directed by Damiano Damiani. The architect Vanzi (Franco Nero) is in jail for a traffic incident only. Bad luck for him there seems to be a witness testifying of a hit and run, and […]
How to Kill a Judge (Perche’….. magistrato) is a crime drama by Damiano Damiani released in 1975. Filmmaker Giacomo Solaris (Franco Nero) releases a controversial movie onto theaters that presents a fictionalized account of the assassination of a corrupt official who got a bit too cozy with the mafia. When […]
The Day of the Owl ((Il giorno della civetta), released in the United States by AIP simply as Mafia (because that was the title of the English translation of the novel it was based on) is a 1968 Italian crime drama by Damiano Damiani (Confessions of a Police Captain). The movie […]
Arrebato (Rapture) is a Spanish arthouse horror movie by Iván Zulueta from 1979. From the publisher: Horror movie director José (Eusebio Poncela) is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from […]
The Sunday Woman (La donna della domenica) is a crime comedy from 1975 by Luigi Comencini. The architect Garrone (Claudio Gora), disliked by many for his mannerisms but nevertheless well connected and uninvited fixture at every dinner party, is found brutally murdered. His skull bashed in by a phallic object. […]
She Dies Tomorrow is a 2020 psychological thriller with supernational elements by Amy Seimetz. Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil) is still going through loss or dealing with isolation, as she is stricken by the notion of dying the next day. Among her friends, one by one more persons are randomly struck […]
Red Sun (Rote Sonne) is a 1970 crime flick by Rudolf Thome starring Munich’s legendary Rolling Stones groupie sensation Uschi Obermaier. Peggy (Uschi Obermaier) shares an apartment in Munich with some other girls. Her former boyfriend from Hamburg, Thomas (Marquard Bohm) arrives in town looking for a change in life […]