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La conquista dello Spazio DVD (1955)
Also known as: Conquest of Space DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Sci-Fi

Director: Byron Haskin

Cast: Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy, Phil Foster, William Redfield, William Hopper, Benson Fong, Ross Martin, Vito Scotti, John Dennis, Michael Fox, Joan Shawlee, Iphigenie Castiglioni

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
 

Conquistador de la Luna DVD (1960)
Country: Mexico

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Rogelio A. González

Cast: Antonio Espino, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Andrés Soler, Ó;scar Ortiz de Pinedo, Ramiro Gamboa, Alberto Pedret, Alicia Moreno, Alejandro Reyna

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il conquistatore DVD (1956)  
Also known as: The Conqueror DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, War, Romance, History, Biography

Director: Dick Powell

Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz, Agnes Moorehead, Thomas Gomez, John Hoyt, William Conrad, Ted de Corsia, Leslie Bradley, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Mamakos, Leo Gordon, Richard Loo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: In ancient times, the Mongolian warlord Temujin must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father. The battles pale in comparison with Temujin's home life, as he attempts to woo the heart of the red-haired Tartar prisoner Bortai whom he has captured in a raid. He must also deal with various intrigues within his palace. Eventually, Bortai falls to his manly charms, Temujin defeats his enemies within and without, and is crowned Genghis Khan.

Il conquistatore d'Oriente DVD (1960)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, Romance

Director: Tanio Boccia

Cast: Rik Battaglia, Gianna Maria Canale, Irène Tunc, Paul Muller, Tatiana Farnese, Franco Balducci, Fosco Giachetti, Giulio Donnini, Edda Ferronao, Attilio Torelli, Riccardo Ferri, Myriam Cordella, Aldo Pini, Riccardo Montalbano

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot Outline: Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader.

Il conquistatore dei Mongoli DVD (1958)  
Also known as: Ilya Muromets DVD (original title)

Country: Soviet Union

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Fantasy

Director: Aleksandr Ptushko

Cast: Boris Andreyev, Shukur Burkhanov, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva, Yelena Myshkova, Sergei Martinson, Georgi Dyomin, Aleksandr Shvorin, Nikolai Glazkov, Vladimir Solovyov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Sergei Stolyarov, Shamshi Tyumenbayev, Sadykbek Dzhamanov, V. Tyagushev

Medium: DVD R/RW


Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German

Plot: Ilya is a cripple without the use of his legs. When he aids some weary travellers, they surprise him by giving him a potion that restores his legs. He immediately becomes powerful and sets off to prove himself to his King. Doing so, he fights the evil Tugars, a wind demon that looks like a cross between a goblin and The Noid, a zeppelin-like ambassador, and the evil Tugars. Ilya gets framed for a crime he didn't commit, then is freed, then finally dispatches the Tugars and their dragon.

IL conquistatore del Messico DVD (1939)  
Also known as: Juarez DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History, Biography

Director: William Dieterle

Cast: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp, Joseph Calleia, Gale Sondergaard, Gilbert Roland, Henry O'Neill, Harry Davenport, Louis Calhern, Walter Kingsford, Georgia Caine, Montagu Love

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Spanish

Plot: The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw support for Maximilian. Carlotta goes to France to plead with Napoleon, to no avail.

Il conquistatore del mondo DVD (1956)  
Also known as: It Conquered the World DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Roger Corman

Cast: Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Sally Fraser, Russ Bender, Jonathan Haze, Dick Miller, Taggart Casey, Paul Harbor, Karen Kadler, Charles B. Griffith, Marshall Bradford, Thomas E. Jackson, David McMahon

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: One of several remaining members of its race, an alien from Venus is guided to Earth by disgruntled scientist Tom Anderson, who tells it which humans it should attach mind control devices to. Among them is his old friend, fellow scientist Paul Nelson. Nelson, after killing a flying bat-thing which carries the device, finally persuades the paranoid Anderson that he's been wrong to ally himself with an alien bent on world domination. They hurriedly leave when they discover Tom's wife has picked up a rifle and gone to the alien's cave to try to kill it.

Il conquistatore dell'India DVD (1935)
Also known as: Clive of India DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, War, History, Biography

Director: Richard Boleslawski

Cast: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith, Cesar Romero, Montagu Love, Lumsden Hare, Ferdinand Munier, Gilbert Emery, Leo G. Carroll, Etienne Girardot, Robert Greig, Mischa Auer, Ferdinand Gottschalk

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Spanish

Plot: In the mid-1700's the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. A clerk in the company, Robert Clive, is frustrated by his lack of advancement, and transfers to the military arm of the company, where he excels. Clive's leadership and gift for manipulation strengthen England's hold over India and lead to personal wealth, which is often threatened by the enemies he makes along the way.

Il conquistatore di Atlantide DVD (1965)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Alfonso Brescia

Cast: Kirk Morris, Luciana Gilli, Piero Lulli, Hélène Chanel, Andrea Scotti, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Fortunato Arena, Livia Rossetti, Mohammed Tawfik, Caterina Trentini

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il conquistatore di Corinto DVD (1961)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, History

Director: Mario Costa

Cast: Jacques Sernas, John Drew Barrymore, Geneviève Grad, Gianna Maria Canale, Gordon Mitchell, Gianni Santuccio, Nando Tamberlani, Ivano Staccioli, Andrea Fantasia, Gianni Solaro, José Jaspe, Vassili Karis, Dina De Santis, Milena Vukotic, Adriana Vianello

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Protests break out in Corinth against Roman domination, injuring Caius Vinicius, a Roman centurion. He's rescued by Hebe -- daughter of the anti-Roman governor, Critolaus -- who's being unsuccessfully wooed by the governor's second-in-command, the villainous Diaeus. Smitten, Hebe sends the handsome Roman to recuperate at the home of Callicrates, a political moderate. Artemide, wife of Callicrates, also falls for Caius Vinicus...

Il conquistatore di Maracaibo DVD (1961)
Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure

Director: Eugenio Martín

Cast: Hans von Borsody, Luisella Boni, Helga Liné, Jany Clair, Luis Induni, Carlo Tamberlani, Conrad Andersen, Barta Barri, Frank Braña, José María Caffarel, Carlos Casaravilla, Livia Contardi, José Marco, José Manuel Martín, Luis Sánchez Polack

Medium: DVD R/RW

I conquistatori degli abissi DVD (1966)  
Also known as: Around the World Under the Sea DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

Director: Andrew Marton

Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Brian Kelly, Shirley Eaton, David McCallum, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Gary Merrill, Ron Hayes, George Shibata, Donald Linton, Frank Logan, Don Wells, Jack Ewalt, George De Vries, Tony Gulliver

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The crew of a five-man submarine travels the world oceans, planting sensors on the ocean floor to warn scientists of any impending earthquakes.

I conquistatori della Luna DVD (1952)  
Also known as: Radar Men from the Moon DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Sci-Fi

Director: Fred C. Brannon

Cast: George Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, William Bakewell, Clayton Moore, Peter Brocco, Robert R. Stephenson, Don Walters, Tom Steele, Dale Van Sickel, Wilson Wood, Noel Cravat, Baynes Barron, Paul McGuire, Ted Thorpe

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Strategic targets on Earth are being destroyed by an unknown weapon. Government security head Henderson suspects it's an "atomic ray" originating from the moon! He assigns Commando Cody, scientist and man of action with a secret flying suit, to investigate. Soon, Cody is battling Earth thugs in the pay of Krog the moon man and making trips in his experimental rocket to the moon itself, in a perilous and all but singlehanded effort to thwart the planned invasion of Earth.

I conquistatori della Sirte DVD (1950)  
Also known as: Tripoli DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, War, Romance, History

Director: Will Price

Cast: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed, Grant Withers, Lowell Gilmore, Connie Gilchrist, Alan Napier, Herbert Heyes, Alberto Morin, Emil Hanna, Grandon Rhodes, Frank Fenton, Rosa Turich, Ray Hyke

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The U. S. Marine Corps hymn starts with"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli", and this film's story purports to be the reason why, and is give or take a few incidents in this movie: It is 1805 and the Tripoli pirates have challenged America's right to freedom of the seas---all of them, anywhere---so United Stares warships were sent to that port...

I conquistatori della Virginia DVD (1953)
Also known as: Captain John Smith and Pocahontas DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History

Director(s): Lew Landers

Cast: Anthony Dexter (as Capt. John Smith), Jody Lawrance (as Pocahontas), Alan Hale Jr. (as Fleming), Robert Clarke (as Rolfe), Stuart Randall (as Opechanco), James Seay (as Wingfield), Philip Van Zandt (as Davis), Shepard Menken (as Nantaquas), Douglass Dumbrille (as Powhatan), Anthony Eustrel (as King James), Henry Rowland (as Turnbull), Eric Colmar (as Kemp), Beulah Archuletta (as Powhatan Woman , uncredited), William Cottrell (as Macklin , uncredited), Francesca De Scaffa (as Indian Maiden , uncredited), Joan Dixon (as Indian Maiden , uncredited), Jack Kenny (as Settler who Discovers Gold , uncredited), John Maxwell (as Ship's Doctor , uncredited), Charles Soldani (as Powhatan Indian , uncredited), Tony Urchel (as Powhatan Indian , uncredited)

Medium: DVD R/RW

Subtitles: Spanish

Storyline: Captain John Smith (Anthony Dexter), returned fom the Jamestown colony, is telling his story before the Court of King James I (Anthony Eustral.) He tells of the unrest in the colony and how he set out to make peace with the Indians. He is captured and sentenced to death, but Pocahontas (Jody Lawrence) makes her celebrated intervention and, instead of a slaying, there is a wedding. Back at Jamestown, Smith makes efforts to keep the colony united and the Indians from attacking, in spite of the efforts of some in the colony who stir up trouble for their own gain. He exposes them and returns to England to give his report. He stays because Pocahontas, thinking he is dead, has remarried.

La conquistatrice DVD (1951)  
Also known as: I Can Get It for You Wholesale DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Michael Gordon

Cast: Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey, George Sanders, Sam Jaffe, Randy Stuart, Marvin Kaplan, Harry von Zell, Barbara Whiting, Vicki Cummings, Ross Elliott, Richard Lane, Mary Philips

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.

La conquistatrice dell'Alhambra DVD (1950)  
Also known as: Cuentos de la Alhambra DVD (original title)

Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: Spanish

Genre(s): Drama , Adventure

Director: Florián Rey

Cast: Manuel Aguilera, Julio F. Alymán, Manuel Arbó, Mario Berriatúa, Raúl Cancio, Francisco Cano, José Guardiola, Manuel Guitián, Casimiro Hurtado, José Isbert, José María Martín, Mari Carmen Obregón, Nicolás D. Perchicot, Santiago Rivero, Rosario Royo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Conrack DVD (1974)  
Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Martin Ritt

Cast: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews, Antonio Fargas, Ruth Attaway, James O'Rear, Gracia Lee, C.P. MacDonald, Jane Moreland, Thomas Horton, Nancy Butler, Robert W. Page, Hume Cronyn, Mac Arthur Nelson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie Island, an island in a South Carolina river delta, the island accessible only by boat. The island is inhabited exclusively by blacks...

Le conseguenze DVD (1964)
Country: Italy

Spoken languages: Italian

Genres: Drama

Director(s): Sergio Capogna

Cast:
Pierre Massimi (as Daniele), Marisa Solinas (as Marisa), Venantino Venantini (as Valerio), Marina Berti (as Elena), Mario Valdemarin, Germano Gilioli, Massimo Tonna, Claudio Gora, Jole Fierro, Gaia Raffi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Le conseguenze di un bacio DVD (1943)  
Also known as: His Butler's Sister DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Director: Frank Borzage

Cast: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray, Walter Catlett, Elsa Janssen, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Jenks, Sig Arno, Hans Conried, Florence Bates, Roscoe Karns, Russell Hicks, Andrew Tombes

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.

Le conseguenze di una notte DVD (1978)  
Also known as: The Night the Prowler DVD (original title)

Country: Australia

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Director: Jim Sharman

Cast: Ruth Cracknell, John Frawley, Kerry Walker, John Derum, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Terry Camilleri, Harry Neilson, Peter Collingwood, Robbie Ward, Merv Lillie, Dorothy Hewett, Robert Baxter, Paul Chubb, John Cobley, Ray Bennett

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: The Night The Prowler, is about the dark side of suburban middle-class urban culture and family relations. It film brings to the surface some of the darkest recesses of suburban family life. The film shifts from the darkly comic to the deadly serious. A young woman is attacked by a prowler in her bedroom but she turns the tables on him and she ravishes him. She then transforms into a knife wielding, leather jacketed prowler herself and begins sneaking in men's bedrooms at night. The prowlee becomes the prowler.

Il consigliori DVD (1973)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Director: Alberto De Martino

Cast: Martin Balsam, Tomas Milian, Francisco Rabal, Dagmar Lassander, Nello Pazzafini, Perla Cristal, Carlo Tamberlani, Manuel Zarzo, John Anderson, Franco Angrisano, Fortunato Arena, Carlo Gaddi, Giovanni Pallavicino, Giovanni Carbone, Carla Mancini

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.

Conta fino a cinque e muori DVD (1957)  
Also known as: Count Five and Die DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, War

Director: Victor Vicas

Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Annemarie Düringer, Nigel Patrick, David Kossoff, Rolf Lefebvre, Larry Burns, Anthony Ostrer, Claude Kingston, Philip Ray, Robert Raglan, Peter Prouse, Philip Bond, Otto Diamant, Marianne Walla, Beth Rogan

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France.

Conta solo l'avvenire DVD (1946)  
Also known as: Tomorrow Is Forever DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Irving Pichel

Cast: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood, John Wengraf, Sonny Howe, Michael Ward, Ian Wolfe, Joyce Mackenzie, Tom Wirick, Lane Watson, Henry Hastings

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Elizabeth and John say good-bye as John leaves to go to war. When the war ends, Elizabeth receives a telegram that John has been killed in action. She finds comfort in Larry and they marry. John returns 20 years later, disfigured, with a new identity, Erik, and an adopted daughter, Margaret. John/Erik and Elizabeth accidentally meet and he learns that he has a son, Drew. John must then decide whether or not to reveal his true identity.

I contagiati DVD (1975)
Also known as: The Missing Are Deadly DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Don McDougall

Cast: Ed Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, George O'Hanlon Jr., Gary Morgan, José Ferrer, Kathleen Quinlan, Marjorie Lord, Armand Alzamora, John Milford, Irene Tedrow, Stuart Nisbet, Joe Alfosa, Abraham Alvarez, Squire Fridell, Marla Gibbs

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable virus that can kill 100 million people in three weeks.

Contamination DVD (1980)  
Also known as: Alien arriva sulla Terra DVD (alternative title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Luigi Cozzi

Cast: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch, Gisela Hahn, Carlo De Mejo, Carlo Monni

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A ship pulls into New York Harbor with no one on board. The police find a cargo full of green pulsating eggs. Upon contact, the eggs explode spreading a green acid like substance that seeps into the skin and explodes. It is later discovered that the eggs are being manufactured in South America by a one-eyed Martian that grew from a tiny seed a former astronaut brought back from a expedition to Mars.

Contamination 3 DVD (1966)  
Also known as: La grande KL DVD (alternative title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Documentary, Short, Experimental

Director: Cioni Carpi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Contatti porno DVD (1978)
Also known as: China Cat DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Adult

Director: Bob Chinn

Cast: John Holmes, Chris Cassidy, Paula Wain, Eileen Welles, Jennifer Richards, Kyoto Sun, Dale Meador, John Seeman, Desiree Cousteau, Mark Lewis, Elliot Lewis

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A quartet of dangerous femme fatals try to recover a priceless jade statue that private detective, Johnny Wadd, unknowingly has in his possession.

Il conte di Essex DVD (1939)  
Also known as: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History, Biography

Director: Michael Curtiz

Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson, Henry Daniell, James Stephenson, Nanette Fabray, Ralph Forbes, Robert Warwick, Leo G. Carroll

Medium: DVD R/RW


Il conte di Matera DVD (1957)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure

Director: Luigi Capuano

Cast: Otello Toso, Virna Lisi, Paul Muller, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Wandisa Guida, Guido Celano, Emilio Petacci, Armando Migliari, Renato Chiantoni, Ugo Sasso, Erminio Spalla, Carlo Tamberlani, Edoardo Toniolo, Amedeo Trilli, Nietta Zocchi

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il conte di Montecristo DVD (1934)  
Also known as: The Count of Monte Cristo DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Romance, History

Director: Rowland V. Lee

Cast: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn, O.P. Heggie, Irene Hervey, Georgia Caine, Walter Walker, Lawrence Grant, Luis Alberni, Douglas Walton, Juliette Compton, Clarence Wilson, Eleanor Phelps

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. After being told that he died in prison, his fiancé Mercedes is forced to marry his rival Count Mondego. Twenty years later, Dantes escapes with the help of the Abbe Faria, who leaves him the treasure of Monte Cristo. Dantes, now called the Count of Monte Cristo, plans his revenge on the three who framed him.

IL conte di Montecristo DVD (1943)  
Also known as: Le comte de Monte Cristo DVD (original title)

Country: France

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, History

Director: Robert Vernay

Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm, Michèle Alfa, Aimé Clariond, Marcel Herrand, Ermete Zacconi, Alexandre Rignault, Henri Bosc, Jacques Baumer, André Fouché, René Bergeron, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Yves Deniaud, Fred Pasquali, Joffre, Paul Faivre

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body...

IL conte di Montecristo DVD (1961)  
Also known as: Le comte de Monte Cristo DVD (original title)

Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: French

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, History

Director: Claude Autant-Lara

Cast: Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Bernard Dhéran, Franco Silva, Claudine Coster, Jean-Claude Michel, Yves Rénier, Marie Mergey, Jean Martinelli, Henri Guisol, Alain Ferral, Roldano Lupi, Henri Vilbert, Jean-Jacques Delbo

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad...

Il conte di Montecristo DVD (1975)
Also known as: The Count of Monte-Cristo DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, History

Director: David Greene

Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence, Tony Curtis, Kate Nelligan, Angelo Infanti, Harold Bromley, George Willing, Alessio Orano, Ralph Michael, Dominic Barto, Harry Baird, Isabelle De Valvert, Taryn Power

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...

Il conte di Sant'Elmo DVD (1953)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure

Director: Guido Brignone

Cast: Nelly Corradi, Massimo Serato, Anna Maria Ferrero, Tino Buazzelli, Carlo Croccolo, Tina Lattanzi, Luigi Pavese, Alfredo Varelli, Franco Pesce

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Set in Sicily in 1860, Massimo Serato, a patriot in disguise complete with tights, mask and trimmings and known as the Count of St. Elmo, is fighting an oppressive government. He holds up a stagecoach in order to obtain money to fund his quest and among his captives is Bianca, a famous opera singer, whom he releases after she sings for the bandits and she, naturally, loses her heart to him...

Il conte Dracula DVD (1970)
Also known as: El Conde Dracula DVD (original title)

Country: Spain

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Horror

Director: Jesus Franco

Cast: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski, Soledad Miranda, Maria Rohm, Fred Williams, Paul Muller, Jack Taylor, Jesús Puente, José Martínez Blanco, Franco Castellani

Medium: DVD R/RW

Il conte Ugolino DVD (1949)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure

Director: Riccardo Freda

Cast: Carlo Ninchi, Gianna Maria Canale, Peter Trent, Piero Palermini, Carla Calò, Luigi Pavese, Ugo Sasso, Ciro Berardi, Armando Guarnieri

Medium: DVD R/RW

La contessa Alessandra DVD (1937)  
Also known as: Knight Without Armour DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Romance, History

Director: Jacques Feyder

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor, Basil Gill, David Tree, John Clements, Frederick Culley, Laurence Hanray, Dorice Fordred, Franklin Kelsey, Laurence Baskcomb, Hay Petrie, Miles Malleson

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. Amid the turmoil of the civil war between the red and white armies, he tries to flee Russia along with the beautiful Countess Alexandra.

La Contessa Castiglione DVD (1942)
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Drama, History

Director(s): Flavio Calzavara

Cast: Doris Duranti (as Virginia Oldoini, contessa di Castiglione), Andrea Checchi (as Baldo Princivalli), Renato Cialente (as Costantino Nigra), Lamberto Picasso (as Il marchese Oldoini), Enzo Biliotti (as Napoleone III), Clara Auteri Pepe (as Martina), Annibale Betrone (as L'urbanista barone Haussmann), Giacomo Moschini (as Mocquart), Alessandra Adari, Luigi Allodoli, Cesare Barbetti (as Il piccolo Peruzzi), Marisa Dianora (as Marianna), Claudio Ermelli (as Il nobile sulla sedia a rotelle), Gabriele Ferzetti, Ambretta Glori, Edoardo Grandi, Alda Lauri, Nino Marchesini (as Connot), Alfredo Martinelli (as Un amico degli Oldoini), Armando Migliari (as Un amico degli Oldoini), Nico Pepe (as Un amico degli Oldoini), Emilio Petacci (as Un amico degli Oldoini), Fulvio Ranieri, Ennio Sammartino, Vinicio Sofia (as Un amico degli Oldoini), Maria Pia Spini (as L'imperatrice Eugenia)

Medium: DVD R/RW

La contessa di Castiglione DVD (1954)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): History

Director: Georges Combret

Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Georges Marchal, Paul Meurisse, Rossano Brazzi, Lucienne Legrand, Lea Padovani, Georges Lannes, Michel Etcheverry, Tamara Lees, Claude Boissol, Lisette Lebon, Gil Delamare, Guy Cosson, Pierre Flourens, Charles Bouillaud

Medium: DVD R/RW

La contessa di Hong Kong DVD (1967)  
Also known as: A Countess from Hong Kong DVD (original title)

Country: UK

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Director: Charles Chaplin

Cast: Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren, Patrick Cargill, Michael Medwin, Oliver Johnston, John Paul, Angela Scoular, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Bartlett, Bill Nagy, Dilys Laye, Angela Pringle, Jenny Bridges

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Natascha, a White Russian countess, stows away on a luxury liner at Hong Kong, determined to seek a new life in America. Natascha hides in the cabin of Ogden Mears, a millionaire diplomat, thereby causing an endless stream of misunderstandings and complications; particularly when his wife, Martha, joins the trip at Honolulu, necessitating a 'marriage' to Ogden's valet, Hudson, a saronged-dive overboard and more subterfuge on the part of Ogdon and his associate, Harvey.

La contessa di Montecristo DVD (1946)
Also known as: The Wife of Monte Cristo DVD (original title)

Country: USA

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Romance

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast: John Loder, Lenore Aubert, Charles Dingle, Fritz Kortner, Eduardo Ciannelli, Martin Kosleck, Fritz Feld, Eva Gabor, Clancy Cooper, John Bleifer, Anthony Warde, Colin Campbell, Crane Whitley

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Edmund Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo, rides again in 1832, this time accompanied by (or stood in for) his countess wife, Haydee. He is out for vengeance (using a mask and working as "The Avenger") against those who responsible for his imprisonment in the Chateau DIf, and justice for the people of Paris who are being mistreated by the crooked Prefect of Police and his henchmen associates, which leads Dantes engaging if a skirmish with the Gendarmerie, that leaves him incapacitated for a while, and Haydee takes his place as "The Avenger."

La contessa di Parma DVD (1938)  
Country: Italy

Spoken Languages: Italian

Genre(s): Comedy

Director: Alessandro Blasetti

Cast: Elisa Cegani, Antonio Centa, María Denis, Umberto Melnati, Osvaldo Valenti, Nunzio Filogamo, Ugo Ceseri, Pina Gallini, Marichetta Stoppa, Giannina Chiantoni, Mario Lembo, Pina Valli, Mirica Albis, Oreste Marlò

Medium: DVD R/RW

La contessa e i suoi amanti DVD (1971)  
Also known as: Josefine Mutzenbacher DVD (original title)

Country: Austria

Spoken Languages: German

Genre(s): Erotic, Comedy

Director: Kurt Nachmann

Cast: Christine Schuberth, Renate Kasché, Uli Steigberg, Astrid Boner, Harry Hardt, Kurt Bülau, Gunther Möhner, Elisabeth Volkmann, Hilde Brand, Werner Abrolat, Walter Kraus, Kurt Hepperlin, Helmut Früchtenicht, Maria Mante, Tino Schubert

Medium: DVD R/RW

Plot: Josefine is a young streetwalker in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. She manages to sleep her way to the top by marrying a British aristocrat, and she delights in telling ribald stories of her sordid past to moralistic prudes.

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