(1968) Ingrid Pitt, Keith Larsen, Lucien Pan, Bruno Punzalan, Joaquin Fajardo.  This film has been high on the want lists of Ingrid Pitt fans for years.  While on a trip through a steamy jungle, Ingrid’s artist husband discovers that she’s having an affair with their jungle guide.  He lures them into posing for him in the swirling waters of a jungle river that has been infected...

(1953) Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Tissier, Albert Dinan, Peter van Eyck.  Here’s an adventure-intrigue-science fiction thriller that most fans never even knew exited—with Von Stroheim no less!  A Foreign Legion officer is killed in southern Morocco after witnessing a secret experiment involving a fantastic new death ray...

(1942) Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marchat, Julien CaretteIt, Robert Arnoux, Simone Allain, Auguste Bovério.  A husband and wife scientist team plans a mission into the stratosphere aboard a new-fangled balloon/spacecraft.  When the scientist is injured, his wife proceeds on the journey as planned, along with a bumbling assistant.  However, in mid-flight problems arise...

(1959) Pavel Makhotin, Vladimir Emelyanov, Georgiy Shamshurin, Anatoliy Shamshurin. A young man stumbles onto a secret cache of video tapes showing an unknown cosmonaut in space flight.  Years later, and now a young scientist, a huge surprise awaits him when the tapes are reexamined...

(1961) Rolf Ludwig, Christine Laszar, Helga Labudda, Micaela Kreißler, Otto Stark, Erik S. Klein.  A time traveler from the future arrives in communist East Germany.  He possesses a fantastic crystal lens that enables him to read people's thoughts and even measure their feelings...

(1954, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Agar, Rosemarie Stack, Abner Biberman, Andre Narcisse, Jacques Molant.  Agar plays a devil-may-care treasure hunter in this obscure voodoo thriller. He meets up with a beautiful young woman who possesses a golden idol, stolen by her father during a native voodoo ceremony. After obtaining directions and various voodoo charms, he and the girl go in search of the treasure.  They end up on a pagan island and soon find what they’re searching for—a section of the ocean floor covered with skulls and hundreds of idols.  Will the natives let them bring back their loot alive?  Lots of seagoing danger and voodoo thrills.  Listed on IMDB as an adventure-horror film.  The Golden Mistress is presented in its original 1.75 widescreen format.  Nice color, from 16mm.

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Alan Steel, Wandisa Guida, Daniele Vargas, Livio Lorenzon, Andrea Aureli.  A plot is underway in ancient Rome by the leader of the Praetorian Guard, who wishes for the Emperor’s daughter to marry his foppish son. When the emperor refuses, he ends up a corpse, stabbed by an assassin.  The Praetorian leader then declares himself emperor.  Enter Steel, as Hercules...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Aldo Canti, Carlo Tamberlani.  Kendall and Harris took time off from their Kommissar X series to do this lively sci-fi action comedy.  Harris is an FBI agent who joins up with Kendall and Canti, becoming self styled Supermen who battle crime while wearing bullet-proof super-suits...

(1953) Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon, Dario Moreno, Maurice Ronet.  Eddie plays tough-guy undercover agent Lemmy Caution, who ends up in exotic Casablanca attempting to track down two million in missing loot...

(1954) Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Robert Berri.  Eddie, as Lemmy Caution, hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has been watching.  Later, he finds the other agent murdered...

 (1956, aka Cloak without Dagger) Philip Friend, Mary Mackenzie, Leslie Dwyer, Allan Cuthbertson, John Heller, Chin Yu, Bill Nagy.  Pretty Mary Mackenzie (who died just ten years later) is a fashion reporter who stumbles upon a murder.  In a manner very worthy of an older Nancy Drew...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kirk Morris, Luciana Gilli, Piero Lulli, Andrea Scotti, Hélène Chanel, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa. Mysterious "phantom invaders" are raiding villages in the desert for gold. Morris is a shipwrecked warrior who falls in love with a princess, whose entourage is traveling across the desert.  When the princess is kidnapped by the “phantoms,” Morris and his companion trudge across the desert in hopes of rescuing her...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Scott, Alberto Lupo, Rosalba Neri, Philippe Hersent.  The Roman Senate is bitterly divided between the patricians and the plebeians. Alberto Lupo plays a traitorous senator who conspires against a handsome and powerful Roman warrior, played by Gordon Scott...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Sheldon Pearson, Cindy Ellis, Penelope, Ann Grant, Holly Saunders.  This disturbing psychological horror/exploitation thriller is about a modern-day writer who’s obsessed with the Marquis De Sade.  Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he begins to live out De Sade's violent sexual fantasies...

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Eddie Constantine, Gaia Germani, Christiane Minazzoli, Elga Andersen, Philippe lemaire.  Ace FBI agent Lemmy Caution is given the task of finding out what happened to a missing scientist, who was working on a formula for a new solid fuel...

(1965) Milo O'shea, Christine Hargreaves, Patsy Rowlands, Desmond Jordan, Bernard Kay. O’shea is wonderful as an eccentric plant geneticist who cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby.  Things start to get out of hand when his plants begin to develop into Chlorophyll-fueled monstrosities...

(1962, Anamorphic Edition) Pascale Petit, Gordon Scott, George Ardisson, Rik Battaglia.  This sword and sandal opus covers the early life of Cleopatra. It chronicles the power struggles with her brother, her courtiers, her generals, and lastly, the Roman Empire...

(1961, Anamorphic Edition) Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Alberto Lupo, Giacomo Furia, Gérard Herter.  Lupo, one of the best villains of the Peplum era, plays another dastardly dictator whose armies attack a nearby kingdom.  The rulers of the besieged capital city place a royal medallion around the neck of their infant son (Ursus) and have him removed from the city.  He ends up being raised by Lions...