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Franco Diogene has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Dir. Alan Parker · With Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins
A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Renato Pozzetto, Massimo Boldi, Donna Osterbuhr
Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi
Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.
Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Adriano Celentano, Debra Feuer, Jean Sorel
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Adriano Celentano, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono

as il proprietario della casa fatiscente
George and Lucia are newlyweds and have also been lucky enough to find a home at a low price , very low . Maybe too low . In fact the house is haunted by two lovers who, a thousand years ago, were surprised by the girl's mother who subsequently turned them into pillars of salt . But there is a way to break the magic and free the two lovers caught in the curse and it is all in the hands of the newlyweds on their wedding night . Will they succeed ?
Dir. Bruno Corbucci · With Renato Pozzetto, Gloria Guida, Yorgo Voyagis
Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.
Dir. Luca Verdone · With Renato Pozzetto, Carlo Verdone, Silvia Annichiarico

Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions...
Dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis · With John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins
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