Spaghetti Cinema – Stream On Demand

Luc Merenda and James Mason star in Fernando di Leo's mob revenge thriller

‘Kidnap Syndicate’ – The business of crime on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 01/29/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo’s 1975 Italian crime thriller reworks the premise of Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’ as a brutal portrait of class, power, and vengeance.

Fernando Di Leo’s ‘Milieu Trilogy’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 01/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

The crime films of Fernando di Leo are poliziotteschi (Italian crime thriller) at its best and these three films in particular dismantle the pulp glorification of the mafia.

Luc Merenda stars in Fernando di Leo's crime drama from Italy

‘Shoot First, Die Later’ – Revenge of the corrupted on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema 01/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo’s seventies Italian gangster thriller stars Luc Merenda as a hotshop young cop on the take and features some of the most impressive car chases of its era.

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone's 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ on Paramount+ and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Kanopy, Paramount+, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD, western 01/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s classic Civil War epic, arguably the definitive spaghetti western.

Henry Silva and Woody Strode in Fernando di Leo's gangster classic

‘The Italian Connection’ – Mob schemes on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, Free, gangsters, International Classics, Kanopy, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD, thriller 01/07/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo, Italy’s king of crime cinema, directs this thriller about a pimp on the run from a pair of New York hitmen for a crime he was framed for.

Charles Bronson in Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, Paramount+, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD, western 11/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale star in Sergio Leone’s loving tribute to the myth of the American West, which features Henry Fonda in a rare role as a cold-blooded villain.

Clint Eastwood stars in the iconic spaghetti western by Sergio Leone

‘A Fistful of Dollars’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Hoopla, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD, western 02/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s uncredited remake of Kurosawa’s ‘Yojimbo,’ which launched the spaghetti western into an international phenomenon.

Johnny Depp is a lizard in the old West in ‘Rango’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Animation, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Have You Seen...?, Kid Stuff, Netflix, satire, Spaghetti Cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 02/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

This offbeat animated adventure is like a spaghetti western remake of ‘Chinatown.’

‘Starcrash’ – the most marvelously ridiculous ‘Star Wars’ knock-off on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Science Fiction, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 10/19/2020 Sean Axmaker

The shamelessly and fabulously derivative Italian space opera Starcrash (1979) is both the most ridiculous and the most irresistible of all the Star Wars knock-offs of the late seventies and eighties. Caroline Munro spends much of the film in a black latex bikini as the great outlaw starship pilot Stella Star, who is arrested by […]

‘The Long Hair of Death’ – Barbara Steele takes sweet revenge on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Spaghetti Cinema, suspense, SVOD 02/26/2020 Sean Axmaker

Antonio Margheriti is best known to modern audiences (if at all) thanks to Quentin Tarantino, who memorialized his name in Inglorious Basterds; it’s Brad Pitt’s cover name as he infiltrates a Nazi function and he can’t even pronounce it. The real Antonio Margheriti was a prolific director cranking out genre pictures through the 1960s and […]