Free Resources of Rare Movies
Giallo
La ragazza del lago (2007)
Jan 6th
North of Italy, nowadays. The corpse of a young girl is found beside an alpine lake. Sanzio, a middle aged police officer, is in charge of investigation. He is nearby the end of his career, and has a heavy ill wife, not able to recognize him. In the apparently quite town, Sanzio, pursued by his family troubles, will find a problematic truth. Probably he finds more than he could expect.
Eyes of Crystal (Occhi di cristallo) (2004)
Jan 6th
When a young couple and a peeper are killed in the field with sadism, Inspector Amaldi and his partner Freese unsuccessfully follow the leads trying to track the criminal. Meanwhile, the college student Giuditta is being stalked and goes to the precinct, where she is attended by Amaldi, and immediately they feel a great attraction for each other. When another woman is murdered, Amaldi and Freese realize that they are chasing a serial killer. Amaldi visits Professor Civita, trying to find the meaning of three leaves found in the crime scene. Amaldi, who battles with his violent temper, tries to put the clues together and to avoid the next murder of the unknown psychopath.
The Stendahl Syndrome (La sindrome di Stendhal) (1996)
Jan 6th
Anna Manni is a policewoman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. The problem is that she suffers from “Stendhal’s syndrome”, a psychosomatic disease that gives her dizziness and hallucinations when she is exposed to the sight of paintings and artistic masterpieces. When the maniac lures her into a trap inside Florence’s famous Uffizi museum, her troubles are just beginning…
Trauma (1992)
Jan 6th
An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.
Opera (1987)
Jan 6th
A young opera singer (Betty) gets her big chance when the previous star of a production of Verdi’s Macbeth is run over by a car. Convinced the opera is bad luck she accepts, and becomes the target (in Argento’s unmistakable style) of a psychopath – a man she has been dreaming of since childhood.
Stage Fright (Deliria) (1987)
Jan 6th
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the theater with the killer! Which one of them committed the murder, and who will get out alive?
Tenebrae (1982)
Jan 6th
With Argento’s trademark visual style, linked with one of his more coherent plots, Tenebrae follows a writer who arrives to Rome only to find somebody is using his novels as the inspiration (and, occasionally, the means) of committing murder. As the death toll mounts the police are ever baffled, and the writer becomes more closely linked to the case than is comfortable.
The New York Ripper (Lo squartatore di New York) (1982)
Jan 6th
Killer who talks like a duck wanders around New York City killing women by various means including slicing an eyeball with a razorblade. Detective Jack Headly is hot on his trail.
E tu vivrai nel terrore – L’aldilà (1981)
Jan 6th
The cellar of an old hotel is built on top of the door to the beyond. Bloody zombies roam there. A young woman who is heir of the hotel wants to restaurate it. She is confronted with strange events. A painter has a lethal fall, the plumber vanishes and her friend breaks his neck. When she escapes to the hospital of a friendly doctor she doesn’t know what a nightmare is waiting there…
Inferno (1980)
Jan 6th
Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark’s friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister’s murder.
The Psychic / Seven Notes in Black (Sette note in nero) (1977)
Jan 6th
A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband’s home and finds a skeleton behind it. Along with her psychiatrist, she seeks to find the truth about who the person was and who put her there. Soon enough, she starts to realize the possibility that she may share the victim’s fate…
The House with Laughing Windows (La Casa dalle finestre che ridono) (1976)
Jan 6th
Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror.
Deep Red (Profondo rosso) (1975)
Jan 6th
A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so closely.
Blood Feast (La dama rossa uccide sette volte) (1973)
Jan 6th
A long time ago there were two sisters, a red queen and a black queen. They grew up hating each other. Finally the black queen killed the red queen by stabbing her seven times. The red queen came back from the dead and killed six people then killed the black queen. This cycle repeats it self every 100 years. But its only a legend…right? Now in present time it would seem that the red queen is back and bodies are piling up left and right. This is a stylish if slightly confusing giallo but there are enough twists and turns along the way to keep your interest along with a VERY nude young Sybil Danning.
Torso (I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale ) (1973)
Jan 6th
Someone is strangling coeds in Perugia. The only clue is that the killer owns a red and black scarf, and police are stumped. American exchange student Jane and her friends decide to take a break from classes by going up to Danielle’s uncle’s villa in the country. Unfortunately the killer decides to follow, and the women begin suffering a rapid attrition problem.
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Il tuo vizio
Jan 6th
Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming Irina give Oliviero new inspiration. What’s Floriana’s game and who’s the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan.
Seven Bloodstained Orchids (Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso) (1972)
Jan 6th
A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed “The Half-Moon Killer” by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
