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1. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi
Votes: 61,225
2. The Church (1989)
R | 102 min | Horror
An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Barbara Cupisti
Votes: 8,916
3. Demons (1985)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento
Votes: 26,605
4. Tenebrae (1982)
R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 27,471
5. Last Cannibal World (1977)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror
An oil prospector is captured and imprisoned by a violent and primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippines' rain forest. He manages to escape with a female hostage, and begins searching for his missing companion and their airplane.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai, Ivan Rassimov, Sheik Razak Shikur
Votes: 4,170
6. Inferno (1980)
R | 106 min | Horror
An American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 24,043
7. A Bay of Blood (1971)
R | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The murder of a wealthy countess triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to seize her large estate.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso, Anna Maria Rosati
Votes: 12,736
8. Delirium (1987)
Unrated | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A former hooker runs a successful men's magazine. An obsessed admirer systematically slaughters her models (occasionally increasing the magazine's output) and supplies the mistress with ... See full summary »
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Serena Grandi, Daria Nicolodi, Vanni Corbellini, David Brandon
Votes: 2,373
9. Danger: Diabolik (1968)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A master thief and his sensual lover pull off heist after heist, all while an envious coalition of cops and gangsters is gunning for them.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 7,202
10. Planet of the Vampires (1965)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi
Votes: 7,013 | Gross: $0.25M
11. Demons 2 (1986)
R | 92 min | Horror
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Bobby Rhodes
Votes: 12,058
12. Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery
A tourist spends the night in a derelict Spanish villa seemingly held in the supernatural grip of an eccentric butler, who resembles a depiction of the Devil she had seen on an old fresco.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano
Votes: 5,354
13. Shock (1977)
R | 93 min | Horror
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.
Directors: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava | Stars: Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr., Ivan Rassimov
Votes: 4,681
14. Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)
GP | 83 min | Horror, Mystery
A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali, Piero Lulli
Votes: 7,601
15. A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Unrated | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo, Michele Soavi
Votes: 4,027
16. Rabid Dogs (1974)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Lea Lander, George Eastman, Riccardo Cucciolla, Don Backy
Votes: 5,270
17. Baron Blood (1972)
PG | 90 min | Horror
A young man, visiting the castle of a murderous ancestor in Austria, accidentally brings his dead relative back to life - searching for new victims.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti, Luciano Pigozzi
Votes: 4,226
18. Macabre (1980)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Roberto Posse
Votes: 3,096
19. Devil Fish (1984)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Gianni Garko, William Berger
Votes: 3,755
20. Fantaghirò: Cave of the Golden Rose (1991–1996)
Adventure, Fantasy
Fantaghirò is youngest of three princesses born to a warrior king. Although beautiful and intelligent.
Stars: Alessandra Martines, Brigitte Nielsen, Kim Rossi Stuart, Katerina Brozová
Votes: 491
21. Dario Argento: Panico (2023)
98 min | Documentary, Biography, Horror
A film crew documents horror director Dario Argento as he works on his latest script in a hotel room, revisiting the isolation where he dreamed up his most iconic films, removed from distractions to explore his dark imagination.
Director: Simone Scafidi | Stars: Dario Argento, Asia Argento, Fiore Argento, Floriana Argento
Votes: 386
22. My Voyage to Italy (1999)
PG-13 | 246 min | Documentary
World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Star: Martin Scorsese
Votes: 3,527 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)
82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Disgraced SIC agent Bill Dexter teams up with bumbling doormen Franco and Ciccio to stop Dr. Goldfoot from using his bikini-clad robot girls to blow up high-ranking NATO generals.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Vincent Price, Fabian, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia
Votes: 1,474
24. Body Puzzle (1992)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A homicide detective realizes that the brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer he's after have something to do with the late husband of a beautiful widow.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Joanna Pacula, Tomas Arana, François Montagut, Gianni Garko
Votes: 957
25. Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
GP | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, Jesús Puente
Votes: 4,333
26. Blastfighter (1984)
Unrated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former policeman sets out to unleash violent vengeance upon deer poachers when they rape and kill his long lost daughter.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Valentina Forte, George Eastman, Stefano Mingardo
Votes: 1,474
27. The Torturer (2005)
100 min | Horror
The twenty-four year-old aspirant actress Ginette Cazonni goes to an audition with the underground director Alex Scerba and they have one night stand. Ginette finds one earring identical to... See full summary »
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Simone Corrente, Elena Bouryka, Emilio De Marchi, Carla Cassola
Votes: 359
28. Inspector Coliandro (2003– )
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime
The improbable adventures of an improbable inspector of the Italian Police Force.
Stars: Giampaolo Morelli, Veronica Logan, Alessandro Rossi, Paolo Sassanelli
Votes: 674
29. You'll Die at Midnight (1986)
88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man becomes aware that his wife has been having an affair resulting in a violent argument. Shortly afterward she is murdered and he becomes the chief suspect.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Valeria D'Obici, Leonardo Treviglio, Lea Martino, Eliana Miglio
Votes: 777
30. The House of Exorcism (1975)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery
A troubled priest attempts to exorcise the soul of a tourist who has been possessed by the Devil after witnessing supernatural events at a Spanish villa.
Directors: Lamberto Bava, Mario Bava, Alfredo Leone | Stars: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano
Votes: 821
31. Four Times That Night (1971)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A night of attempted seduction is recalled from the perspectives of the woman, the man, a lecherous doorman and a psychoanalyst.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Daniela Giordano, Brett Halsey, Dick Randall, Valeria Sabel
Votes: 997
32. Waves of Lust (1975)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Thriller
A young couple becomes embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Al Cliver, Silvia Dionisio, John Steiner, Elizabeth Turner
Votes: 537
33. The Ogre (1988)
R | 94 min | Horror
An American horror writer, haunted by childhood nightmares, moves to an old mansion in Italy with her husband and young son only to discover the nightmares were real.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Paolo Malco, Virginia Bryant, Sabrina Ferilli, Stefania Montorsi
Votes: 253
34. Pirates: Blood Brothers (1999)
R | 360 min | Action, Adventure
Pray for safe passage - when two brothers from the noble Albrizzi family fall in love with the same woman, they pledge war against one another to avenge her accidental death.
Stars: Nicholas Rogers, Paolo Seganti, Remo Girone, Mario Adorf
Votes: 864
35. Odissea (1968)
GP | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
Stars: Bekim Fehmiu, Carlo Alighiero, Leonard Steckel, Constantin Andrieu
Votes: 860
36. Blood on Méliès' Moon (2016)
125 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Brothers will call The Cinematographer.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Luigi Cozzi, Philippe Beun-Garbe, Alessia Patregnani, Brahim Ahmadouche
Votes: 117
37. Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess (2021)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary
Who was Joe D'amato- Aristide Massaccesi under his civil status? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism in France, the king of porn in Italy. A man with a thousand pseudonyms ... See full summary »
Directors: Manlio Gomarasca, Massimiliano Zanin | Stars: Lamberto Bava, Tinto Brass, Manlio Cersosimo, Joe D'Amato
Votes: 120
38. Alisea and the Dream Prince (1996)
180 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Alisea and her brothers have been captured by Azaret, an evil wizard. Alisea escapes the castle and meets the young Prince Demian, with whom she falls in love.
Stars: Nicole Grimaudo, Veronica Logan, Jürgen Prochnow, Oliver Christian Rudolf
Votes: 401
39. Dogman's Rabies (2018)
120 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Fabio, a small-time neighborhood crook, suffers years of mistreatment from Claudio, a local boss of the criminal underworld. When he is driven to desperation and the brink of madness, he carries out a terrible and bloody act of vengeance.
Director: Sergio Stivaletti | Stars: Riccardo De Filippis, Virgilio Olivari, Romuald Andrzej Klos, Romina Mondello
Votes: 216
40. Ghost Son (2007)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Laura Harring, John Hannah, Pete Postlethwaite, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni
Votes: 848
41. Twins (2018)
Horror
The massacre of the Levi family, of which only adopted twins Eva and Greta survive, pits priests Father Michel and Father Paul against the powers of evil, both convinced that the twins are diabolical.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Isabella de Ligne-La Trémoïlle, Gérard Depardieu, Lars Eidinger, Damiana Fiammenghi
42. The Dragon Ring (1994– )
114 min | Fantasy
Desideria is the eldest daughter of the Dragon King and Queen and heir to the throne and the Dragon Ring. If she marries a prince that is. When she finds her prince however it turns out to ... See full summary »
Stars: Anna Falchi, Franco Nero, Sophie von Kessel, Joel Beeson
Votes: 572
43. Savage Gringo (1966)
82 min | Action, Drama, Western
A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
Directors: Antonio Román, Mario Bava | Stars: Ken Clark, Yvonne Bastien, Piero Lulli, Howard Ross
Votes: 264
44. Sabbath (1989)
Horror
Stars: Lydia Bosch, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Lídia Franco, Giovanni Guidelli
Votes: 6
45. Moxina (2012)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
In the winter of 2008, two climbers encountered the Taiwanese legendary monster Moxina (a.k.a. Mô-sîn-á) at the evil mountain Wuzhishan. Ryota Nakanishi presents sixteen minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
Director: Ryota Nakanishi | Stars: Mario Bava, Pengquang Chen, Shunji Chen, Sean S. Cunningham
Votes: 766
46. Last Feelings (1978)
105 min | Drama
Diego Michele is a troubled runaway who tries to make something out of himself by joining a swimming team and competing in national tryouts and champion races which takes a turn when he is ... See full summary »
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Carlo Lupo, Vittoria Galeazzi, Luigi Diberti, Jacques Sernas
Votes: 84
47. The Princess and the Pauper (1997 TV Movie)
180 min | Fantasy
A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who were separated after their birth.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Anna Falchi, Lorenzo Crespi, Nicholas Rogers, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 314
48. Brivido giallo (1987–1989)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
"Brivido Giallo" was a horror anthology mini-series directed by the Italian master of horror, Lamberto Bava. Graveyard Disturbance and Dinner with a Vampire have a dark comical twist, while Until Death and The Ogre are regular horror.
Stars: Roberto Pedicini, Gregory Lech Thaddeus, Gioia Scola, Paolo Malco
Votes: 87
49. All the Colors of Giallo (2019)
89 min | Documentary, Horror
A celebration of the genre with interviews by many contributors - a gialli filmmakers.
Director: Federico Caddeo | Stars: Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Barbara Bouchet, Luciano Ercoli
Votes: 424
50. I giochi del diavolo (1981– )
Fantasy, Horror
A story about the devil's influence on five people's lives in 20th-century Venice.
Stars: Daria Nicolodi, Rada Rassimov, Gabriele Ferzetti, Donato Placido
Votes: 33