The Cat in Heat (1972) aka La gatta in calore

1972

Giallo rarity with the delightful Eva Czemerys. Well worth a viewing for those who obsess over the giddy realms of Gialli. (Photography by everyone’s favorite filth hound Joe D’amato) ‘La Gatta In Calore’ is quite a dark, erotically charged Giallo about a beautiful, bored and neglected housewife’s decent into a drug debauched relationship with her abusive and hedonistic neighbour. (The scenes when Czemerys is tormented by her young demented beau and his sleazy, dope-fiend friends […]

Brothers (2009)

2009

A young man comforts his older brother’s wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. Before leaving on his second tour in Afghanistan, Marine Captain Sam Cahill, a leader, an athlete, a good husband and father, welcomes his screw-up brother Tommy home from prison. He’d robbed a bank. In Afghanistan, Sam’s helicopter is shot down and all are presumed dead. Back home, while Sam wastes away as a prisoner in a remote encampment, Tommy […]

Carnal Crimes (1991)

1991

Although Elise is young and beautiful, her husband is no longer interested in having vanilla sex with her. This leaves her bored, unsatisfied and with problems during public masturbation. Then she meets the mysterious photographer Renny and experiences unknown measures of lust and passion. The affair suddenly becomes deadly danger when she learns that he’s suspected of woman slayer.

Above Suspicion (1995)

1995

A Cop is paralysed in a shooting and unable to walk. His misfortune brings him sympathy which he uses to devise a plan to rid himself of his unfaithful wife and her lover. Dempsey Cain is an honored cop, a loving husband and father, and mentor to his handsome younger brother. Then a drug dealer’s bullet paralyzes him for life and Dempsey’s world is shattered. Suddenly, his wife and brother seem to care less about […]

Black Ice

Black Ice (2007) aka Musta jää

2007

Upon discovering that her husband is having an affair, a Helsinki gynecologist attempts to gather more knowledge about her rival and, in the process, becomes hopelessly entangled in the other woman’s life – partially on purpose but primarily out of happenstance. Saara is pretty, elegant, liberal, and friendly to a fault. Yet while surface appearances would suggest that Saara is something of an open book, the truth is that lately no one has looked deeper […]