NoShame, or NoShame Films, was an Italian-American company specializing in releasing authoritative editions of cult

Cult film

A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences...

 Italian movies

Cinema of Italy

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...

 on DVD.

History

NoShame Films started its office in Italy and opened an office in Los Angeles, California the following year. Its specialty was remastering and releasing cult Italian films on DVD from such sub-genres as giallo

Giallo

Giallo is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language it refers to a genre similar to the French fantastique genre and includes elements of horror fiction and eroticism...

 and poliziotteschi

Poliziotteschi

Poliziotteschi films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s...

. The company was praised by DVD collectors for the amount of effort that went into its releases, which included thick booklets and plenty of special features.

In 2006 the company quietly went out of business, with its website going offline and all future releases being canceled. Its previously released DVDs also started to go out of print. A new DVD company, MYA Communications, releases many films along the same lines as NoShame and has even slowly started to re-issue some of NoShame's out-of-print films.

DVD releases

• Almost Human
  Almost Human (film)
  Almost Human, also known as The Death Dealer, The Kidnap of Mary Lou and The Executioner is a 1974 poliziotteschi film...
  
  
• Uno Bianca
• The Big Alligator River
• Boccaccio '70
  Boccaccio '70
  Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 Italian portmanteau film directed by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, from an idea by Cesare Zavattini...
  
  
• The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
  The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
  The Case of the Scorpion's Tail is a 1971 thriller film by Italian director Sergio Martino. Its Italian title is La Coda dello scorpione.-Plot:...
  
  
• Colt 38 Special Squad
  Colt 38 Special Squad
  Colt 38 Special Squad, also known as Those of the 38 Caliber is a 1976 poliziotteschi film...
  
   / La Bidonata
  La Bidonata
  La Bidonata, also known as The Rip-off, is a once lost 1977 Italian comedy/crime film. This was the final film directed by giallo specialist Luciano Ercoli.-Production:...
  
  
• Convoy Busters
  Convoy Busters
  Convoy Busters, also known as An Uncomfortable Cop is a 1978 poliziotteschi film. This film by Stelvio Massi stars Maurizio Merli.-Releases:...
  
  
• Dark Waters
• Devil in the Flesh
• Double Game
  Double Game
  Double Game, also known as Violent Turin , is a 1977 poliziotteschi film. This film by Carlo Ausino stars George Hilton.-Plot:...
  
   / Tony: Another Double Game
  Tony: Another Double Game
  Tony: Another Double Game, also known as Tony: The Other Side of Violent Turin , is a 1980 poliziotteschi film...
  
  
• Emergency Squad
• The Emilio Miraglia Killer Queen Box Set (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
  The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
  The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Emilio Miraglia. It was released in 1971.-Plot:The film tells the story of Alan , a man whose obsession with his disloyal dead wife, Evelyn, causes him to prey upon sexy redheads, including Erika Blanc, who in a...
  
   / The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
  The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
  The Red Queen Kills Seven Times is a 1972 Italian giallo film directed by Emilio Miraglia.-Plot:Two sisters, Kitty and Evelyn, are cursed by a family painting depicting a seven year-cycle in which a Red Queen is raised from the dead to kill seven times...
  
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• Gambling City
  Gambling City
  Gambling City, also known as The Cheaters is a 1975 Italian poliziotteschi film by Sergio Martino. It stars Luc Merenda, Dayle Haddon and Corrado Pani....
  
  
• Giovannona Long-Thigh
• Last Days of Mussolini
  Last Days of Mussolini
  Last Days of Mussolini is a 1975 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Rod Steiger, Franco Nero and Lisa Gastoni. The film depicts the down fall of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.-Cast:...
  
  
• The Last Round
• Love and Anger
  Love and Anger
  "Love and Anger" is a song written and performed by the British singer Kate Bush. It was the third and final single to be released from her album The Sensual World in 1990, and peaked at no.38 on UK Singles Chart. The song also reached no.1 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, Bush's...
  
  
• Luciano Ercoli's The Death Box Set (Death Walks at Midnight / Death Walks on High Heels)
• A Man Called Magnum
  A Man Called Magnum
  A Man Called Magnum is a 1977 poliziotteschi film. This film by Michele Massimo Tarantini stars Luc Merenda.-Releases:...
  
  
• Massacre in Rome
  Massacre in Rome
  Massacre in Rome is a 1973 film directed by George Pan Cosmatos about the Ardeatine massacre which occurred at the Ardeatine caves in Rome, 24 March 1944, committed by the Germans as a reprisal for a partisan attack.-Summary:...
  
  
• The Most Beautiful Wife
• Open Letter to the Evening News
• Padre Pio, Miracle Man
• Partner
• The Railroad Man
  The Railroad Man
  The Railroad Man is a 1956 Italian language award winning drama film directed by Pietro Germi.It is available on DVD in USA on NoShame films.-Cast:* Pietro Germi - Andrea Marcocci* Luisa Della Noce - Sara Marcocci...
  
  
• Roma Citta Libera
• Secrets of a Call Girl
• The Sensuous Nurse
• St. Francis
• Story of a Cloistered Nun
• Story of a Love Affair
• The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
• The Desert of the Tartars
  The Desert of the Tartars
  The Desert of the Tartars is a 1976 award-winning film by Italian director Valerio Zurlini with an international cast, including Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Max von Sydow, Francisco Rabal, Helmut Griem, Giuliano Gemma, Philippe Noiret, Fernando Rey, and Jean-Louis Trintignant...
  
  
• Ubalda, All Naked and Warm
• The Valerio Zurlini Box Set: The Early Masterpieces
• A Whisper in the Dark
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
• Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
  Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
  Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key is a 1972 giallo film directed by Sergio Martino. The picture stars Edwige Fenech, Luigi Pistilli, and Anita Strindberg...