The Name of the Rose (1986)

Summary: An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

Release Date: September 24, 1986

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Writers: Umberto Eco

, Andrew Birkin

, Gérard Brach

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: R

Production: Constantin Film, Cristaldifilm, Les Films Ariane, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Allied Filmmakers, FR 3 Cinéma, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Nelson Entertainment, Showtime Networks, Embassy Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Image Entertainment, PolyGram Video, Warner Home Video, New Line Home Video

Countries: Italy, France, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,153,487

Lo Squartatore Di New York (1982)

Summary: A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

Release Date: March 04, 1982

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Lucio Fulci

Writers: Gianfranco Clerici

, Vincenzo Mannino

, Lucio Fulci

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fulvia Film

Distributor: 21st Century Film Corporation, Vidmark Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Blue Underground, Starmaker Entertainment

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Lion of the Desert (1980)

Summary: In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.

Release Date: May 16, 1981

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Moustapha Akkad