The best Mario Novelli’s movies

Mario Novelli

Mario Novelli

26/02/1940- 21/08/2016
Today we present the best Mario Novelli’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Mario Novelli’s movies.
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Liebes Lager

Liebes Lager
5/10
Considered lost for many years, this Italian Nazi exploitation flick was rediscovered some time in the 1990's.

Caliber 9

Caliber 9
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 15/02/1972
  • Character: Pasquale Tallarico
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

Play Motel

Play Motel
4.8/10
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.

Year of the Gun

Year of the Gun
5.6/10
In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) must struggle to stay alive.

California

California
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/08/1977
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.

The True Story of the Nun of Monza

The True Story of the Nun of Monza
4.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/07/1980
  • Character: Molteno
Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce sister Virginia. But will their wicked and lustful actions continue to go unnoticed?

Violent City

Violent City
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 13/08/1975
  • Character: Lazari
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.

Warriors of the Year 2072

Warriors of the Year 2072
4.8/10
In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.

Syndicate Sadists

Syndicate Sadists
6.4/10
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.

Isabella, Duchess of the Devils

Isabella, Duchess of the Devils
5/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 30/08/1969
  • Character: Mayer
An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke, and takes his lands and his title. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies, and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge.

Rulers of the City

Rulers of the City
6/10
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.

Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power

Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power
3.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/03/1982
Caesar Neron indulges himself in any known debauchery including incest with his mother when his Empire slowly declines.

The Sword of the Barbarians

The Sword of the Barbarians
3.8/10
A swordsman's wife is murdered by followers of the evil Goddess Rani. He vows vengeance upon the cult and journeys to the Ark of the Templars to get a magic crossbow that will help him accomplish his mission.

Holy Water Joe

Holy Water Joe
4.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/12/1971
  • Character: Donovan Henchman
A gang of robbers armed with a union army cannon rob the bank holding bounty Killer Acquasanta Joe's earnings to date. He pursues, crossing and double crossing along the way.

Fear in the City

Fear in the City
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 17/11/1976
  • Character: Bankrobber
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.

Skin 'em Alive

Skin 'em Alive
5.1/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 25/05/1978
  • Character: Barney (as Anthony Freeman)
This rare Italian action adventure tells the story of a broke man called Rudy, who goes into the African jungle to join his half-brother Franz. Franz is leader of a mercenary group that fights against native rebels, but Rudy only wants some money from his next of kin (on one occasion, he says: "You know I can't stand violence"). But Franz, a racist who sees Africans merely as animals, just wants him to leave again immediately. Then, Franz gets abducted and imprisoned by the rebels. Rudy joins forces with the other mercenaries, who are as fascist as Franz and like to kill Africans and rape their wives. He does so to make a deal with Franz as soon as they have freed him, but the mercenaries get attacked on more than one occasion by the natives.

The Yellow Panther

The Yellow Panther
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/01/1982
  • Character: L'uomo che telefona nella cabina telefonica

Like Rabid Dogs

Like Rabid Dogs
6.1/10
Tony is the young member of an upper class Roman family; he lives a hectic double life, and under the guise of good student, he likes to persecute and kill prostitutes in the company of a couple of friends.

Eyes Behind the Stars

Eyes Behind the Stars
3.8/10
A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and leave. Later, when they develop the photos they took, they discover what looks like alien creatures in the background.

Fraulein Doktor

Fraulein Doktor
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 24/01/1969
  • Character: Sgt. Otto Latemar
A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.

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