Sergio Grieco Movies

There's nothing more terrifying than a Beast With a Gun, and when psychotic criminal Nanni Vitali (Helmut Berger) and three violent thugs stage a jailbreak, the streets will run red with blood in the final film from notorious director Sergio Grieco. Taking to the pavement in a horrific frenzy of rape, robbery, and revenge, Vitali seals his own grim fate when, in brutalizing a beautiful young woman, he catches the attention of a determined cop (Richard Harrison) bent on bringing the murderous madman to justice. As his relentless slide into darkness speeds to a furious race against death, Vitali seems determined to avoid going back into his cage even if it means going down in a hail of bullets and gunsmoke. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Helmut Berger plays the title character in the Italian melodrama Mad Dog. Berger isn't foaming at the mouth or anything, but he is dangerous, and his bark is far worse than his bite. Sent to jail by an honest police officer, Beger manages to escape. He then methodically conducts a campaign of terror to destroy the cop. Marissa Mell costar in this 90-minute mayhem festival. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this classic of Italian erotic horror, a perverse Mother Superior and her nuns begin a long slide into mental illness and embrace lustful depravity at the time of the Inquisition, with terrifying consequences when the Inquisitors arrives to see what they've been doing. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

In this drama, a CIA agent must race against time to find a purloined nuclear bomb, "Bloody Mary", which had been taken by a ring of foreign spies. He soon finds himself aboard an Athens-bound freighter where he encounters Russian and Chinese agents. Will he find the weapon in time? ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this drama, the daughter of the leader of Carthage falls in love with the mercenary leader of an angered band of soldiers who are out to get the pay they were cheated out of after they valiantly fought to save the city. The woman promises to give him her jewels to repay them, but then a dishonest local politician intervenes and exchanges the gems for rocks and keeps the valuables for himself. The mercenaries begin to attack the city in earnest until the dishonest fellow's actions are revealed and he is executed. After that the soldiers are paid, and the lovers reunited,. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this high-seas adventure, a dashing pirate and his loyal crew take on a wicked king forced his way onto the throne with his own bad pirates. The newly empowered villain kidnaps the daughter of the deposed Duke and forces her into marriage. Fortunately, the good pirates attack on her wedding day. A long, bloody battle takes place while the palace women, including the bride take refuge in the dungeon. The conniving leader ruthlessly orders the dungeon flooded, but fortunately, the good pirate manages to save all the women, while the bad one finds himself impaled by his own booby-trap. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide