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Striker is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Enzo G. Castellari with Frank Zagarino
Striker (1987)
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Add to a movie listStriker (also known as Combat Force) is a 1987 Italian war-action film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. The film reprises the style of the "Rambo" movies.
^ Giordano Lupi, Fabio Zanello. Il cinema di Enzo Castellari. Profondo Rosso, 2006.
^ Michele Giordano. Giganti buoni: da Ercole a Piedone (e oltre) il mito dell'uomo forte nel cinema italiano. Gremese Editore, 1998.
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Aux États-Unis, John Slade est arrêté et emprisonné pour possession de drogue. Il nie farouchement, se dit la victime d'une machination et prétend que le sachet de cocaïne découvert a été glissé à son insu dans ses poches. Peu après son arrestation, des agents de la CIA lui proposent un marché : la fin des poursuites judiciaires contre l'engagement de libérer Frank Morris, un compatriote journaliste et l'un de ses amis, incarcéré dans les geôles sandinistes au Nicaragua. Il accepte le contrat et entre dans ce pays comme journaliste canadien où il retrouve Marta, un agent local, également sa coéquipière.Actors
Frank Zagarino
(John Slade)
John Phillip Law
(Frank Morris)
Werner Pochath
(Houtman)
John Steiner
(Kariasin)
Enzo G. Castellari
(Man Shot in the Street)
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Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Films about sharks
Actors Franco Nero, Werner Pochath, Jorge Luke, Mirta Miller, Michael Forest, Eduardo Fajardo
Rating51%
Mike Di Donato, an Italian-American man with a mysterious past, leads a solitary life in an anonymous sea island. His unusual work is the hunting of sharks, from which his partner derives handicrafts for the local market.
Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
, 1h33Directed by Enzo G. Castellari, Luigi Cozzi
Origin Italie
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Ennio Girolami, Alessandra Martines, Cork Hubbert, Massimo Vanni
Rating43%
In the city of Basra, the evil vizier Jaffar has clouded the caliph's mind and imprisoned his daughter, Princess Alina in order to marry her. Jaffar has four of the town's five sacred gems sent to dangerous and evil places where they will be carefully guarded by magical forces. Sinbad and his crew arrive at the caliph's palace, only to be captured by the hypnotised soldiers. Jaffar sentences Sinbad's crew to the torture chamber while the mighty sailor is to be locked in a pit full of snakes. Sinbad gets out of the snake pit using some snakes tied together into a rope and later rescues his companions from the torture chamber. As they flee the controlled Basra, Jaffar grants power from evil forces to help him kill Sinbad, this summons an evil cloud over Sinbad's ship and the Legions of Darkness, undead warriors. Together with the help of his friends, Sinbad manages to defeat the undead and the leader. Sinbad heads to a mysterious island to seek the help of a wise Oracle, who tells them the location of the four sacred gems of Basra. Then, he sails to an island and finds the gem by himself, he destroys a towering rock monster and retrieves the gem. Jaffar is joined by another ally, Soukra, a sorceress, and they prepare Jaffar's scheming plan. The second gem is on the island of the Amazons, the Amazons hypnotise Sinbad's crew and the Queen takes Sinbad with her. The Bald Cook and Poochie the dwarf save Sinbad and retrieves the second gem, the Queen's necklace. Next, Sinbad and his team head to the Isle of the Dead, where they battle Ghost Knights who have risen from the dead to fulfill their destiny. Sinbad goes for the Ghost King while his companions battle the Knights. Jaffar casts Sinbad's ship and his crew in the middle of the sea, leaving the sailor alone on the Isle of the Dead. Jaffar gives life to the Ghost King using his evil powers, and it weakens Sinbad, but he resists and destroys the Ghost King with his own sword and takes the third sacred gem. Later, Sinbad meets Kira, and her father, Nadir the wizard, two survivors on the Isle of the Dead who came there on a flying balloon. Sinbad agrees to help them get rid of the vicious monsters of the island and is aided by Kira, they encounter a group of ghouls, Sinbad fights them but Kira is captured by them. Sinbad rescues Kira but has to face a terrible monster able to fire bolts of energy from its wrists guarding the last sacred gem of Basra, Sinbad defeats the evil creature with the gems he has and retrieves the last one and they, along with Nadir escape the island on a balloon. Sinbad meets up with his companions and they go off to face Jaffar, Sinbad's men face off the soldiers while Sinbad battles Jaffar. The wizard creates an exact Sinbad clone to battle the sailor, but he manages to defeat it. Eventually, Jaffar is captured by Sinbad and Princess Alina is rescued. Peace has been restored to the world with the sacred gems.
Keoma (1976)
, 1h41Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Themes Films about families
Actors Franco Nero, Woody Strode, William Berger, Olga Karlatos, Orso Maria Guerrini, Donald O'Brien
Rating69%
After the U.S. Civil War, Keoma (Nero), part Indian and part white, returns to his home town to find his half-brothers in alliance with a petty tyrant named Caldwell. Caldwell and his gang rule over the town with an iron fist. With the help of his father and George, an old Black friend, he vows revenge. Keoma also shows compassion when he saves a pregnant woman from a group sent by Caldwell's group to be quarantined in a mine camp full of plague victims. Keoma is constantly visited by the apparition of an older woman ("The Witch") who saved him during the massacre of an Indian camp.
Le motorizzate (1963)
, 1h38Directed by Enzo G. Castellari, Marino Girolami
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Anthology film, Action
Actors Ennio Girolami, Totò, Walter Chiari, France Anglade, Bice Valori, Pierre Doris
Rating60%
Five segments. The collision between a van of religious, supporters of the Christian Democrats, and a Fiat 600 with on board a group of young militants of the PCI. Misadventures of a prostitute who works into a caravan placed under a viaduct. A walker faces a foot race to the beat of music. The poor Urbano Cacace impersonates a traffic policeman in order to feed his family. A woman with her brand new car hit a man who tries to take advantage of the incident attempting an insurance scam.
Eagles Over London (1969)
, 1h44Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson, Francisco Rabal, Ida Galli, Luigi Pistilli, Renzo Palmer
Rating56%
During the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, a team of German saboteurs assume the identities of dead British soldiers and are transported to England. Their first objective is to cripple British air defences by destroying radar stations. Though the identities and whereabouts of the saboteurs are unknown, a team of British soldiers is set up to track them down and abort their mission. While the Battle of Britain rages overhead, the final confrontation takes place as the German team are about to blow up the RAF Fighter Command control centre.
Street Law (1974)
, 1h45Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Franco Nero, Barbara Bach, Renzo Palmer, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo, Enzo G. Castellari
Rating68%
Carlo Antonelli (Franco Nero), an average citizen until the day he is brutally beaten during a violent robbery. But when the police drop the case and the suspects remain free, Carlo is pushed beyond his breaking point. Now one man will launch an all-out war against the criminal scum who plague the cities, where justice has its own rules, vengeance needs no badge and the only force that matters is Street Law.
Day of the Cobra (1980)
, 1h35Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Franco Nero, Sybil Danning, Carlo Gabriel Nero, Mario Maranzana, Mickey Knox, Licinia Lentini
Rating59%
Un agent américain des stupéfiants est assassiné en Italie. Le chef du département décide d'embaucher Larry Stanziani, «The Cobra». Larry, un ancien agent et maintenant un détective privé de troisième ordre, profite de l'occasion pour se venger d'un vieil ennemi, mais bientôt il découvre qu'il fait face à une organisation implacable.
The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
, 1h30Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
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Rating64%
The plot is set in 1944 in France. American soldiers Berle, a deserter; Nick Colasanti, a petty thief; Fred, nicknamed "Assassin"; Tony, a mutineer; and Lieutenant Yeager (arrested for refusing to execute orders to kill, among others, women and children) are sentenced to death for their crimes and are shipped to a prisoners' camp near the Ardennes.
Any Gun Can Play (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Adventure, Western, Spaghetti Western
Actors Edd Byrnes, Gilbert Roland, George Hilton, Ignazio Spalla, Ivano Staccioli, Valentino Macchi
Rating59%
Un chasseur de primes traque un groupe de bandits à travers l'Ouest américain. Le plus dangereux d'entre eux, Monetero, prévoit d'attaquer un train transportant un magot...
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Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
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Rating46%
Tedeum and his parents and granddad are all con men travelling around in a sailboat on wheels. When he inherits a mine from another well-known con man he assumes that it is false and tries to sell it. His first attempts turns out to be at the Texas’ sheriff convention and he has to escape together with another con man who is disguised as a monk. However, the mine does in fact exist, and the big boss Grant is out for it, though his confrontations with Tedeum usually ends in him losing his pants. Two female con men, the strong Betty and the beautiful Wendy, also get involved. In the end we find Grant, Tedeum, the monk and Tedeum’s father as inmates of Laredo prison – because the mine lies right under it!