Directors: Àlex Pastor & David Pastor
Writers: Àlex Pastor & David Pastor
Release Year: 2009

Plague? Rats.

Danny Green (Lou Taylor Pucci) his brother Brian (Chris Pine) and two women – Bobby (Piper Perabo) and Kate (Emily VanCamp) – are heading on a road trip to the beach when they run across Frank Holloway (Christopher Meloni) and his sick daughter, Jodie (Kiernan Shipka) in a SUV that’s out of gas. Normally, this would be a minor inconvenience, but the whole USA – possibly the world – is dealing with an always-fatal pandemic, and she’s infected. In case you couldn’t guess from the title – and the fact that Christopher Meloni only seems to be cast in tragic media – things don’t end so well….

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Director: Daniel Monzón
Writer: Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Daniel Monzón based on a novel by Francisco Pérez Gandul
Release year: 2009
English title: Cell 211

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock!

In order to make a good impression at his new job as a prison warden, Juan Oliver (Alberto Ammann) visits the facility on the day before he’s supposed to start, to get a tour and introduce himself to his new colleagues. Wrong time and place, as it turns out to be…

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Director: Monte Hellman
Writer: Charles Willeford, based on his novel
Release year: 1974

One of the most absorbing cult movies of the 1970′s

Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) is a natural born cock-fighter. Throughout all of his life, he trained cocks and was considered the best in business. An obsession that slowly costed him everything.

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Director: Tinto Brass
Writer: Tinto Brass, Pierre Lévy and Francesca Longo, based on a novel by Sergio Donati
Release year: 1967
English title: Deadly Sweet

Everybody loves something sweet.

Deadly Sweet is truly a giallo filled with the traditional elements of mystery and crime, also incorporating so many elements of pop art and psychedelia, along with a very addictive rock soundtrack. This film had me in the first 10 minutes.

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Director: Massimo Dallamano
Writer: Bruno Di Geronimo, Massimo Dallamano and Peter M. Thouet, based on a novel by Edgar Wallace
Release year: 1972
English title: What Have They Done To Solange?

Catholic school girls rule. Their lives being shortened regardless, they rule.

When a killer, disguised as a priest, starts murdering girls from a British private school, a philander Italian teacher quickly becomes the prime suspect. But as the bodycount rises, things become more and more complicated and a mystery is waiting to be unraveled.

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