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Alice Arno
Alice Arno, (born June 29, 1946) is a French actress, nudist and model, best known for her roles in European sexploitation and horror film genre. Movie career Arno (who was raised in a family of nudists) worked as a nude model (posing for ''Pop'', ''Men'', ''Topfilm''...) when she began her film career in 1969 at the age of 22. In 1972, she played the lead role in ''Justine de Sade'', Claude Pierson's film adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's 1791 novel Justine. She became, along with Lina Romay and Monica Swinn, one of the most popular figures of European exploitation film, working for ''Eurociné'' and for Robert de Nesle's ''Comptoir Français de Productions Cinématographiques''. She appeared in twelve erotic horror movies directed by Jesús Franco and is best remembered for playing the titular role in Franco's ''The Perverse Countess'' (1974), an erotic remake of the classic 1932 film ''The Most Dangerous Game''. She appeared in ten films with her sister Chantal Broquet, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexploitation
A sexploitation film (or sex-exploitation film) is a class of independently produced, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s and early 1970s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films. The term "sexploitation" has been used since the 1940s. Sexploitation films were generally exhibited in urban grindhouse theatres, the precursor to the adult movie theaters of the 1970s and 1980s that featured hardcore pornography content. The term soft-core is often used to designate non-explicit sexploitation films after the general legalisation of hardcore content. Nudist films are often considered to be subgenres of the sex-exploitation genre as well. "Nudie" films and "Nudie-cuties" are associated genres. History of sexploitation films in United States After a series of United States Supreme Court rulings in the late 1950s and 1960s, increasingly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sicilian Clan
''The Sicilian Clan'' (french: Le clan des Siciliens) is a 1969 French-Italian gangster film based on the novel by Auguste Le Breton. The film was directed by Henri Verneuil and stars Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura and Alain Delon, whose casting led to the film's box-office success in France. Ennio Morricone composed the score for the picture. Plot In Paris, jewel thief Roger Sartet escapes from custody with the help of the Manalese, a small but well-organised Sicilian Mafia clan consisting of the patriarch Vittorio, his two sons and his son-in-law. In prison, Sartet got to know a technician involved in setting up the electronic security at an exhibition centre in Rome, who bit by bit supplied him with details of the system. A priceless collection of jewels will shortly be on show in the centre. Vittorio and a fellow Mafioso, Tony Nicosia from New York, go to the exhibition, only to find that additional security makes a simple robbery difficult. The jewels will next be on show in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Film Actresses
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Riccardo Freda
Riccardo Freda (24 February 1909 – 20 December 1999) was an Italian film director. He worked in a variety of genres, including sword-and-sandal, horror film, horror, ''giallo'' and spy films. Freda began directing ''I Vampiri'' in 1956. The film became the first Italian sound film, sound horror film production. Biography Riccardo Freda was born in 1909 in Alexandria, Egypt to Italian parents. Freda attended school in Milan where he took art classes at the Centro Sperimantale. After school he took on work as a sculptor and art critic. Film career Freda first began working in the film industry in 1937 and directed his first film ''Don Cesare di Bazan'' in 1942. Freda began directing ''I Vampiri''. ''I Vampiri'' was the first Italian horror film of the sound era, following the lone silent horror film ''The Monster of Frankenstein (film), Il mostro di Frankenstein'' (1920) Despite being the first, a wave of Italian horror productions did not follow until Mario Bava's film ''Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Face
''Double Face'' ( it, A doppia faccia, german: Das Gesicht im Dunkeln/ translation: ''The Face in the Dark'') is a 1969 thriller film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Klaus Kinski, Christiane Krüger and Annabella Incontrera. It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace adaptations made by Rialto Film. Plot A businessman named John Alexander learns that his wealthy wife Helen has died in a car accident. After mourning, he runs afoul of some shady characters who lead him to believe that his wife is still alive. Cast Cast information from the book ''Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker''. * Klaus Kinski as John Alexander * Christiane Krüger as Christine * Günther Stoll as Inspector Stevens * Annabella Incontrera as Liz * Sydney Chaplin as Mr. Brown * Barbara Nelli as Alice * Margaret Lee as Helen Alexander * Carlo Marcolino as Butler * Luciano Spadoni as Inspector Gordon * Ignazio Dolce The following cast went uncredited. * Bedy Moratti * Fulvio Pellegr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio F
Ignacio is a male Spanish and Galician name originating either from the Roman family name Egnatius, meaning born from the fire, of Etruscan origin, or from the Latin name "Ignatius" from the word "Ignis" meaning "fire". This was the name of several saints, including the third bishop of Antioch (who was thrown to wild beasts by emperor Trajan) and Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Variants include the archaic Iñacio, the Italian Ignazio, the German Ignatz, the Basque Iñaki, Iñigo, Eneko, and the diminutives Nacho/Natxo, Iggy, and Iggie. Ignacio can refer to: People * Ignacio Chávez (other) * Ignacio González (other) * Ignacio López (other) ; Arts and entertainment * Ignacio Aldecoa, 20th-century Spanish author * Ignacio Berroa, 20th-21st-century Cuban jazz drummer * Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh, 19th-20th-century Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer * Ignacio Figueredo, 20th-century Venezuelan folk musician * Ignacio Merino 19th-century Peruvian pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Virgin Among The Living Dead
''A Virgin Among the Living Dead'' is a 1973 European erotic horror film directed by Jesús Franco. Franco shot the film in 1971, but it was only released in 1973 after some additional erotic footage was added to the film without Franco's involvement. It was later re-cut with some extra zombie footage and redistributed to theaters again in 1981 as a zombie film. It has since been restored on DVD to Franco's original director's cut. Plot A beautiful young woman named Christina arrives in Europe to visit her estranged relatives in a small castle for the reading of her dead father's will. She eventually discovers that they are all undead, and they fear that when she inherits her father's mansion, she will ask them all to leave. But Christina is lonely and tells her Uncle Howard that she wants them all to remain there and live with her. She learns that a spirit called the Queen of the Night has claimed her father's eternal soul because he committed suicide by hanging himself. Christina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Lara (film Director)
Christian Lara (25 January 1939 – 9 September 2023) was a Guadeloupean film director and producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. Having shot more than twenty feature films in the Caribbean, France, Canada, and Africa, he is regarded by many as ''"the Father of French Antilles cinema"''. Life and career Lara began his professional career in Paris, France as a journalist for ''Le Figaro'', a French daily newspaper. As of 1973, he turned film-maker, directing his first movie, ''Jeu de dames'' (en: ''Dames play''), starring Georges de Caunes. That same year, following a then Parisian trend for erotic films, Lara directed '' Les Infidèles'' (en: ''The unfaithfulls''), from a screenplay written by French erotic films director Daniel Daërt (born Jacques Godaert). The two men renewed their collaboration a year after, Lara working as camera operator on Daërt's ninth porn film, ''Cours du soir pour monsieur seul'' (en: ''Night classes for lonely men''). Lara produced a more p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bare-Breasted Countess
''Female Vampire'' (a.k.a. ''The Bare-Breasted Countess'') is a French-Belgian horror film written, directed, and co-edited by Jesús Franco. It was produced in 1973, but was only theatrically distributed in 1975. The film is set in Madeira and stars actress Lina Romay as Irina von Karlstein, a vampire who has sex with both male and female victims. In an unusual variation of the vampire myth, Karlstein performs oral sex on her victims until they die, draining them of their sexual fluids. Three versions of the film were shot: straight horror, horror mixed with sex, and a hardcore pornography version. Franco's original title for the film was ''The Bare Breasted Countess'', but it was released under many different titles over the years. To assuage Franco, the film was screened as ''The Bare Breasted Countess'' at the 2009 Fantastic Fest in the United States, which Franco attended as guest of honor. The film's title was inexplicably changed to ''Female Vampire'' for its DVD release. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Pallardy
Jean-Marie Pallardy is a French movie director. He first worked as a male model in the 1960s, before opting for a career change and directing softcore erotic pictures. He also tried his hand at crime fiction and adventure films, with mixed results. His most ambitious project to date is '' White Fire'' (1984), starring Robert Ginty and Fred Williamson, a movie which has proved to be quite popular among camp aficionados. Pallardy's career dwindled in the 1980s, with the decline of France's exploitation cinema, and his movies became few and far between. His last movie to date, ''The Donor'', guest-starring David Carradine, was released straight to DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind ... in 2004. External linksNanarland Biography of Jean-Marie Pallardy, his recurrent ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Casse
''Le Casse'' (US title: ''The Burglars'') is a 1971 French-Italian neo noir crime film directed by director Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Omar Sharif. It is based on the 1953 novel by David Goodis and revolves around a team of four burglars chased by a corrupt policeman in Athens. It's a remake of the 1957 film '' The Burglar'' with Jayne Mansfield. The movie is known for its spectacular car chase and Belmondo's incredible fall from a construction truck down a steep, rocky hillside. The movie was shot twice, once in French and once in English, by the same cast. Plot In Athens, Azad (Jean-Paul Belmondo), Ralph (Robert Hossein) and 2 other accomplices, Renzi and Helen, steal a suitcase of emeralds from a rich Greek citizen, M.Tasco, when the latter is away on vacation. The thieves break into the house, manage to open the safe, and escape with the jewels. A police detective, Abel Zacharia ( Omar Sharif), spots the burglars’ car in front of the house. Azad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Davy .
Jean-François Davy (born 3 May 1945) is a French film producer, director, screenwriter and actor. He directed the 1978 film '' Surprise Sock'', which starred Anna Karina Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940 – December 14, 2019) Selected filmography * '' Bananes mécaniques'' (1973) * '' Surprise Sock'' (1978)References External links * 1945 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
