Laura Lenzi Movies
- 1984
- PG
Mighty Hercules (played by muscleman Lou Ferrigno) returns in this sequel. This papa Zeus sends Herc from Olympus to Earth to find seven stolen thunderbolts. Basically the film is Saturday afternoon kiddy matinee fodder, good for passing the time, but little else. The film is also known as Adventures of Hercules. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lou Ferrigno, Milly Carlucci, (more)
- 1982
The internationally renowned string quartet had been performing together for most of their adult lives when their lead violinist suddenly died, leaving the remaining three confused about their lives and careers. Up till then, all they had known were the rigors of constant practice and traveling. Music was everything, and they never took the time to sample Life's other pleasures. The trio decide to split up, but then a young violinist shows up and convinces them to reform the group and let him take over. He is one of the most talented players they have ever heard and the quartet once again makes sweet music. But as good as he is on stage, the youth is a wild man off stage who freely smokes dope, sleeps with fans, and parties whenever he can. Seeing that his private life has not affected the brilliance of his playing and even suspecting that it may even improve his playing, the three old players are thrown into personal tail spins as they look back at their own austere life choices. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Héctor Alterio, Omero Antonutti, (more)
Christopher Connelly (Trauma) plays an archaeologist who desecrates the tomb of a 5,000-year-old god of cruelty and evil, and is temporarily blinded by lasers from a blue stone in the wall. Meanwhile, a sightless old woman gives his daughter, Susie (Brigitta Boccoli), an identical stone -- the Evil Eye -- in a town square. Back in New York, Susie's eyes start glowing blue as she plays with her brother, Tommy (Giovanni Frezza), and her babysitter, Jamie Lee (Cinzia De Ponti). Everything goes haywire after that. The apartment security guard plunges to his death in an elevator shaft, a cobra shows up in the living room and gets lodged in Susie's esophagus, and her mother's friend, Luke (Carlo De Mejo), turns to sand. It seems that the evil god is using Susie as a vessel to open a rift in the space-time continuum. Before too long, Susie and Tommy are jetting back and forth through the rift to Egypt, Jamie Lee has disappeared, and Susie's mother seeks out a man named Adrian Marcato (see Rosemary's Baby) to exorcise the demon. That night, the stuffed birds which he keeps in his store come to life and attack him, rending his flesh as he dies screaming. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christopher Connelly, Martha Taylor, (more)
- 1979
Saverio is a young man with ambitions different from those of his father. Unfortunately, his father is a disciplinarian and a school educator who insists that his son should follow in his own footsteps. When the boy misses an examination which would qualify him for a teaching post, the pair have a long-delayed confrontation. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fabio Traversa, Laura Lenzi, (more)
- 1976
In the years just before World War I, an enterprising early Viennese women's rights activist daringly takes the exams to enter an all-male college in Trieste (a port on the Mediterranean which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later became part of Italy). She becomes the only girl student at the college, and this film chronicles her experiences as she crashes through the barriers of male attitudes again and again. She becomes involved in a complex romantic situation which seems very important to her until the war begins and puts everything into a new perspective. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Laura Lenzi, Stefano Patrizi, (more)
