Umberto Lenzi is undoubtedly the king of Italian crime movies, but unfortunately; Syndicate Sadists is not the best examples of his work in this genre. Lenzi's crime flicks tend to be a cut above the rest because he makes films based on stories with a point, and they don't lack direction; but this film feels a bit too wayward to fully fit with the rest of his stuff. The film takes obvious influence from Sergio Leone's landmark western 'A Fistful of Dollars' (which in turn, took influence from Akira Kurosawa's landmark samurai flick Yojimbo), in that it features two warring families and a strong character at the centre. The crime that Lenzi focuses on is kidnapping, and we centre on a character called 'Rambo'. Rambo is dragged into the war between the two families after his brother is killed because of it. Rambo uses his brains and brawn to pit the two families against one another, in the hope of gaining revenge for his brother's death, rescuing a young boy that they've kidnapped, and ultimately letting the two sides destroy one another. The film's biggest asset is undoubtedly Tomas Milian. Milian was put to great use by Lenzi in almost all of his crime thrillers. The range of characters he has played for Lenzi is immense, and this one is easily one of the coolest. The character is called Rambo, which immediately sprang to mind the popular Sylvester Stallone character - but for once, the Italians actually haven't stolen this name as Syndicate Sadists was released first! As usual, the film is wickedly entertaining, as we get to watch Milian get himself involved in the usual array of car chases, shootouts and brawls. Lenzi has got him riding a motorbike this time round, and every scene featuring it and Milian is a real standout! However, the film often feels like it doesn't really have anywhere to go, and this means that the running time is stretched out more than it should be. Compared to the crime films of other Italian directors, Syndicate Sadists is more than above average; but in relation to Lenzi crime flicks such as Almost Human and The Cynic, The Rat and The Fist - it doesn't stand tall as one of Lenzi's best. Still, if you're looking for ninety minutes of testosterone fuelled mayhem - Syndicate Sadists will suffice!

维欧拉（阿曼达•贝尼斯 饰）甜美可人，笑容如同一片金色阳光。但她可不是个娇滴滴的小女生。疯狂喜爱足球的她，一直把踢球当作梦想。谁知，可恶的学校竟然取消了女子球队。维欧拉为了继续她的足球梦，乔装成她的双胞胎哥哥赛巴斯蒂去新学校报道，并作为新生加入足球队，准备在球场上战胜那些轻视女孩的男球员们。然而从小女生变成男生可不是一件容易的事，维欧拉故作野蛮的样子着实让人又佩服又好笑。 在室友杜克（钱宁 •塔图姆饰）的帮助下，维欧拉足球技术越来越出色。而不知不觉中，她竟爱上了这个和她朝夕相处的阳光大男孩。令人咋舌的是，学校的“万人迷”奥莉维娅竟然疯狂地为她着迷。一件件突发事件接踵而至，维欧拉不知所措。但她始终不变的，对足球的狂热，促使她硬着头皮也要向前走。爱情，足球，皆大欢喜还是全盘皆输？等待维欧拉，等待你我……

失去双亲的街舞者安迪（布莱恩娜·伊维根 Briana Evigan 饰）自小就开始了对街舞的执着练习，她所在的巴尔的摩知名街舞团体410最近完成了“锐舞争霸赛”的视频参赛宣言，而她的监护人因这次出格的视频内容威胁要把她送离此地，幸好在朋友的斡旋下，安迪选择进入马里兰艺术学校学习，保住了眼下的生活。学校里的明星学生查斯（罗伯特·霍夫曼 Robert Hoffman 饰）对安迪颇有兴趣，要求加入锐舞争霸赛却被后者无视。安迪因学业繁重不能兼顾410的训练，终于导致被开除。失意的安迪接受了查斯的邀请，和他物色来的众多校内隐藏的舞蹈高手组成新队伍，向锐舞争霸赛发起冲击……

二战中德军节节败退，但战事的失利没能阻止德军在他们的法国殖民地的大屠杀，相反德军开始了更加疯狂的屠杀。巴黎的医生于连（菲利浦•诺瓦雷 Philippe Noiret 饰）由于感到城里日渐紧张的气氛，他怕家人遭遇不测，于是安排了他的妻子和孩子回乡下暂避风头。 于连送了妻子回乡不觉已过一段时间，他决定回乡探望家人。孰料他回到乡下，看到的只剩斑斑血迹，残忍的德军对这条小村庄进行了屠杀。 愤怒的于连在村里的老屋内找到了一杆老枪。于连决定向德军举起复仇之剑！

I am awestruck by this movie. Fast zombies that can use weapons, even guns, and are capable of intelligent thought. They plot a strategic offensive to take over the city, hitting the airport, then the TV stations and the power plant. If you love horror, gory, and violent movies and don't mind a little bad acting, then you will LOVE this movie. It is exciting and even a bit suspenseful. It starts out fast and hard and maintains a steady pace of mayhem and carnage. I can't believe more people haven't seen this film. I have yet to meet a horror movie buff that has seen this film before. It is a true gemstone of European horror and exploitation, definitely up to par with the classics of the genre such as Zombi 2, Demons, House by the Cemetery, etc. And it's even readily available uncut (92 minutes) on DVD from Anchor Bay (under the title "Nightmare City") and on VHS under the title "City of the Walking Dead." Super gory and violent, a must for fans of Italian grind house flicks.

After a criminal motorcycle rider is put to death, he comes back from the dead to seek murderous revenge against the residents of a Florida town.

美国游客山姆隔着美术馆的玻璃窗，瞥见一宗企图谋杀，他的及时出现让凶手逃走了，获救的女子芳名莫尼卡。不久，山姆仿佛受了蛊惑似的对这宗谋杀着了迷，他决定追踪凶手的下落，这自然让他的女友朱丽娅很不快；而同时他和女友也开始接到威胁电话……

This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity. I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few). Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).

imdb Plot summary Born in a small town in the countryside surrounding Pistoia, Adriana is an attractive young girl who counts on using her looks to go places in the entertainment business in Rome. Moving to the capital, she works first of all in a hairdressing salon, then in a small cinema where she manages to get a job working in fancy dress. Meantime, she socializes with young men of the upper middle classes, who take her to parties and out on the town with the sole aim of taking advantage of her. Adriana knows their game, but plays along. In the meantime, she meets an agent called Cianfanna, a modest money-grubber who introduces her to a journalist friend of his so he can write an article on her. Having thus launched her career in advertising, Adriana decides to go home to visit her parents. Once home, however, she is distraught to learn of the death of her sister. Returning to Rome, she takes acting lessons, but during one lesson she suddenly faints: she is pregnant, with no idea of who the father of her child is. The days go by and Adriana tries to forget about her pregnancy, while sleeping with an increasingly long list of lovers. And yet, despite the fact these encounters are often less than enjoyable, at one point she actually falls in love: his name is Antonio and he's a decent young man from a respectable family, but still in love with a former girlfriend he is unable to forget…

This early 70's giallo by Umberto Lenzi is certainly among the best in his filmography and also in the whole genre. Personally I think Lenzi's best films are the funny cartoon-turned-film Kriminal, the stylish giallo Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, the explosive Napoli violenta and this. In the eighties he did plenty of film trash in form of Eaten Alive, Hitcher in the Dark or Black Demons, all of which are ripping something off and/or very dull and slow moving. Knife of Ice came when the giallo boom was at its hottest and the result is convincing. Technically the film is superb, containing great cinematography in the beginning when we learn about the main character's trauma towards trains. From this point on, Lenzi shows us his ability to benefit the widescreen and, for example, the bicycle ride near the forest is genuinely beautiful! This scene also shows Lenzi's ability to build suspense, very slowly but meaningfully. After all, there aren't so many murders in the whole film, only the suspense circulating around the murderer's identity. One suspect is a devil worshipper which brings new aspects to the mystery. Since the final scene takes place in a church, one can wonder if Lenzi wanted to comment on something, maybe the hypocritical morale of church and superstition. The main character (Carrol Baker) is mute which demands a lot from her face and eyes. The actress works very well, giving us a believable performance circulating around the emotions of fear and mental pain. The other actors are good, too. The finally, however, may not give too positive a sight about female sex since they all are expressed rather negatively in the film, one way or another. Still this is easily among the most noteworthy in the genre, not as bloody as the Argento films, for example, but equally suspenseful and visually also interesting.

二次世界大战期间，美国政府密令军方潜入一中立港口，摧毁德国军舰。既然是中立港口，英国军官路易斯庞和葛文瓦特决定，任何任务失败的人都需三缄其口，他们故意派出酒醉的老人假扮村民，这些老兵真能立大功顺利摧毁敌舰吗？

教立大学社会学系四年级学生山本秋平（本木雅弘饰）即将毕业，却被毕业论文指导教授兼大学相扑部顾问的穴山（柄本明饰）找去，说他旷课太多不能给予学分，除非他愿意加入大学相扑部。 秋平别无选择，相扑部里只有一个留级多年、身材单薄的青木（竹中直人饰），相继入伙的几个人情况各异：胖子田中是虔诚的基督徒；大一新生春雄是秋平的弟弟，他的到来纯属被逼无奈。仓促成军的他们在比赛中连连失利，引来众人耻笑辱骂。 面对嘲笑，他们开始认真训练，希望在下次比赛中获得好成绩，英国留学生斯迈利也加入了相扑部，他们五人将走上什么样的道路呢？

中年男子杉山正平（役所广司饰）是名普通的上班族，他工作认真，事业有成，却发觉朝九晚五的生活空虚无味。一天下班，疲劳的杉山偶然透过车窗看到车站对面，一家贴有“岸川舞蹈学校”字样的楼房窗旁，有一位相貌清秀女子的身影，看着那女子凝望远方，杉山被她那寂寞的表情所深深地吸引。 数日之后，抑制不住好奇心的杉山走进了这家舞蹈学校，开始学习交谊舞。他所看到的那个女子正是这个舞蹈教室的老师岸川舞（草刈民代饰）。杉山渐渐地真心喜欢上了跳舞，一样享受舞蹈带来的快乐还有青木（竹中直人饰）等人。他们在指导下进行舞蹈大会前的特训，而舞老师也再次燃起对舞蹈的热爱……

教立大学社会学系四年级学生山本秋平（本木雅弘饰）即将毕业，却被毕业论文指导教授兼大学相扑部顾问的穴山（柄本明饰）找去，说他旷课太多不能给予学分，除非他愿意加入大学相扑部。 秋平别无选择，相扑部里只有一个留级多年、身材单薄的青木（竹中直人饰），相继入伙的几个人情况各异：胖子田中是虔诚的基督徒；大一新生春雄是秋平的弟弟，他的到来纯属被逼无奈。仓促成军的他们在比赛中连连失利，引来众人耻笑辱骂。 面对嘲笑，他们开始认真训练，希望在下次比赛中获得好成绩，英国留学生斯迈利也加入了相扑部，他们五人将走上什么样的道路呢？

Guy Carter是一个屡获荣誉的建筑研究生，他有一个漂亮的妻子和一个刚出生的孩子，问题是他在所学的专业，没有实际工作经验，这难以让他会成为一个好父亲。他一直试图在他的领域找工作，但一年了也无法找到。最后，他的妻子安妮为他找了一份在Craigslist做司机工作。他开始认为是送披萨的 但是很快意识到是接送妓女和负责清洗妓女阳具的工作。

约翰.米尔斯扮演一个奥赛罗情节严重的老警探，面对年轻貌美的妻子还要试探妻子的忠诚还能有什么结果呢。。。只能是玩火自焚