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1. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
PG-13 | 166 min | Western
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 349,166 | Gross: $5.32M
2. Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western
A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Guido Lollobrigida, Daniele Vargas
Votes: 2,396
3. Love Circle (1969)
R | 125 min | Drama
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party.
Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Tony Musante, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Annie Girardot
Votes: 308
4. Probabilità zero (1969)
PG | 95 min | Action, Drama, War
Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.
Director: Maurizio Lucidi | Stars: Henry Silva, Luigi Casellato, Riccardo Salvino, Ezio Sancrotti
Votes: 183
5. Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, War
Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along ... See full summary »
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter, Robert Hundar, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 297
6. The 5-Man Army (1969)
M/PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Western
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
Directors: Don Taylor, Italo Zingarelli | Stars: Bud Spencer, Peter Graves, James Daly, Nino Castelnuovo
Votes: 1,772
7. Season of the Senses (1969)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Four young girls (Claudia, Monica, Michèle and Marina) and two boys (Peter and Marco) during an excursion by motorboat are running out of gasoline.
Director: Massimo Franciosa | Stars: Udo Kier, Laura Belli, Edda Di Benedetto, Eva Thulin
Votes: 60
8. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi
Votes: 24,101 | Gross: $0.42M
9. The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
GP | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two journalists try to solve a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company's secret experiments, becoming targets of the killer themselves.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Pier Paolo Capponi
Votes: 13,029
10. Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
PG | 104 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Aldo Bufi Landi
Votes: 9,885
11. Therefore It Is (1972)
93 min | Comedy, Western
A bandit assembles a group of skilled thieves to rob his former partner-in-crime, who is now posing as a priest, and has stashed his money in a heavily-guarded bank safe.
Director: Alfio Caltabiano | Stars: Luc Merenda, Alfio Caltabiano, Tano Cimarosa, Míla Beran
Votes: 88
12. The Five Days (1973)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Adriano Celentano, Enzo Cerusico, Marilù Tolo, Luisa De Santis
Votes: 716
13. Deep Red (1975)
R | 127 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril
Votes: 42,654
14. Suspiria (1977)
R | 92 min | Horror
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Votes: 105,478
15. 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: 24,026
16. 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: 27,436
17. Phenomena (1985)
R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Votes: 30,063
18. 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: 26,574
19. 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: 12,044
20. Opera (1987)
R | 107 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 19,498
21. 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: 8,893
22. Two Evil Eyes (1990)
R | 120 min | Horror
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
Directors: Dario Argento, George A. Romero | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada, Bingo O'Malley
Votes: 8,144 | Gross: $0.35M
23. The Sect (1991)
R | 125 min | Horror
A lonely kindergarten teacher discovers a secret well in the basement of her house, and soon finds herself being followed by a murderous Satanic cult.
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Kelly Curtis, Herbert Lom, Mariangela Giordano, Michel Adatte
Votes: 3,353
24. Trauma (1993)
R | 106 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young man tries to help a teenage girl find the serial killer who murdered her parents before the killer comes after them.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 8,067
25. The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Not Rated | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti
Votes: 9,211
26. The Wax Mask (1997)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror
In 1900 Paris, a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man whose metal claw rips out their hearts. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. 12 years later in Rome, ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Stivaletti | Stars: Robert Hossein, Romina Mondello, Riccardo Serventi Longhi, Gabriella Giorgelli
Votes: 2,471
27. The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
R | 99 min | Horror
Gory remake of the Gaston Leroux classic story, only this time, the phantom is not disfigured, but a man who was raised by rats deep under the Paris Opera House.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Julian Sands, Asia Argento, Andrea Di Stefano, Nadia Rinaldi
Votes: 5,823
28. Sleepless (2001)
R | 117 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer who's resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year period.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli, Gabriele Lavia
Votes: 7,495
29. The Card Player (2003)
Not Rated | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Rome policewoman teams up with a British Interpol agent to find a crafty serial killer who plays a taunting game of cat-and-mouse with the police by abducting and killing young women and showing it over an Internet web cam.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Silvio Muccino, Adalberto Maria Merli
Votes: 5,655
30. Mother of Tears (2007)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An American art student in Rome accidentally triggers the return of Mater Lachrymarum - the Third Mother - and must use her latent magical powers to end the witch's reign of terror.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Moran Atias
Votes: 11,142 | Gross: $0.06M
31. Giallo (2009)
R | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
In Italy, a woman fears her sister has been kidnapped; Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elsa Pataky, Robert Miano
Votes: 6,067
32. Dracula 3D (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Asia Argento stars in horror legend Dario Argento's sexy spin on the classic tale about the sharp-toothed count who craves human blood.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Asia Argento, Unax Ugalde
Votes: 5,315 | Gross: $0.01M
33. 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: 4,327
34. Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An industrialist invites his colleagues to his private island so they can exploit a resin formula invented by one of the guests, but a killer within the group disrupts the proceedings.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech, Howard Ross
Votes: 3,458
35. Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (1970)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Western
Two gunmen, a Native American con-woman and a priest-turned-gangster alternate between fighting and aiding each other over obtaining a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Brett Halsey, Charles Southwood, Marilù Tolo, Teodoro Corrà
Votes: 623
36. 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: 995
37. 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: 12,717
38. 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: 4,218
39. 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: 5,345
40. 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: 4,679
41. 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: 5,264
42. 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: 4,019
43. 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: 1,472
44. 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: 3,754
45. 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: 775
46. 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: 2,372
47. Succubus (1968)
X | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A performer at an S&M nightclub begins to lose her grip on reality, and is plunged into a nightmarish mental landscape.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Janine Reynaud, Jack Taylor, Adrian Hoven, Howard Vernon
Votes: 1,241
48. Two Undercover Angels (1969)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the ... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Janine Reynaud, Rosanna Yanni, Chris Howland, Alexander Engel
Votes: 670
49. Kiss Me Monster (1969)
R | 75 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
KISS ME, MONSTER finds The Red Lips moonlighting on a striptease world tour - but no sooner do they hit the stage than the girls are up to their pasties in stiffs, Satanists and Sapphic sadists, all after a secret formula for human clones!
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Janine Reynaud, Rosanna Yanni, Adrian Hoven, Chris Howland
Votes: 739
50. Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror
In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.
Director: Adrian Hoven | Stars: Janine Reynaud, Howard Vernon, Elvira Berndorff, Claudia Butenuth
Votes: 405
51. The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
M | 92 min | Adventure, Crime
Fu Manchu poisons and hypnotizes ten women to bring down his enemies, including Nayland Smith, with kisses of death.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Howard Marion-Crawford, Götz George
Votes: 1,526
52. Mothers of America (1969)
R | 94 min | Action, Adventure
Having established Femina, a secret city populated entirely by beautiful women, Sumuru plots to wage a war against all men.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Shirley Eaton, Richard Stapley, George Sanders, Maria Rohm
Votes: 1,242
53. 99 Women (1969)
Unrated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A new female inmate at an island prison is abused by fellow convicts and staff, and her disillusionment with the new warden prompts her to join in an attempted breakout and mutiny.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Maria Schell, Luciana Paluzzi, Mercedes McCambridge, Herbert Lom
Votes: 1,594
54. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)
R | 90 min | Drama
Penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful, chaste orphan must endure an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who covet her virtue and life.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Romina Power, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter
Votes: 2,049
55. The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
PG | 92 min | Adventure, Crime, Horror
Fu Manchu seizes a Turkish castle for its stockpile of opium, as he needs the drug as part of his plot to freeze the Earth's oceans.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Howard Marion-Crawford, Günther Stoll
Votes: 2,306
56. Venus in Furs (1969)
R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
A jazz trumpeter becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman whose corpse he discovers on a beach, after which she seemingly returns to life to take revenge on those responsible for her death.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski
Votes: 2,219
57. Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion (1970)
X | 87 min | Drama, Horror
An innocent girl goes to spend the weekend on an island with a woman and her brother, but soon finds herself entangled in a web of sexual experiments.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Maria Rohm, Marie Liljedahl, Jack Taylor, Christopher Lee
Votes: 1,999 | Gross: $0.08M
58. Night of the Blood Monster (1970)
PG | 84 min | Biography, Horror
Sir Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of seventeenth century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual needs.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Hans Hass Jr.
Votes: 1,528
59. Count Dracula (1970)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Horror
Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm
Votes: 3,801
60. Sex Charade (1972)
90 min | Crime
The story revolves around Anne who is held hostage by an escaped maniac from an insane asylum. The fugitive forces her to tell stories to prevent her from getting help. Anne then spins a ... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Paul Muller, Soledad Miranda, Jack Taylor, Diana Lorys
Votes: 31
61. Eugenie de Sade (1973)
X | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After a bashful young woman discovers that her famed wordsmith stepfather is a psychopathic deviant, she becomes an accomplice in his murderous sex games.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Andrea Montchal, Greta Schmidt
Votes: 1,157
62. Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama, Horror
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller, Ewa Strömberg
Votes: 5,201
63. She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror
After a doctor commits suicide when his research into human embryos is terminated, his widow seduces and then executes revenge upon those she holds responsible.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Paul Muller, Howard Vernon
Votes: 2,027
64. The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
84 min | Adventure, Thriller
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg
Votes: 722
65. X312 - Flight to Hell (1971)
86 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Among the passengers are a corrupt banker who is smuggling ... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Thomas Hunter, Gila von Weitershausen, Hans Hass Jr., Fernando Sancho
Votes: 304
66. The Vengeance of Doctor Mabuse (1972)
100 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Fred Williams, Jack Taylor, Ewa Strömberg, Roberto Camardiel
Votes: 362
67. Jungfrauen-Report (1972)
82 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden we are taken on a voyage around the world that covers various rites of passage and cultures deflowering of the virgin.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Hans Hass Jr., Eva Garden, Ingeborg Steinbach, Diane Winter
Votes: 331
68. Robinson und seine wilden Sklavinnen (1972)
80 min | Adventure, Comedy
Meet Poor old Mr Robinson who is so bored at home with his terrible and an annoying house wife and her Mother. At work One day, he decides to retire from urban life and spend the rest of ... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Yehuda Barkan, Andrea Rau, Anne Libert, Ingeborg Steinbach
Votes: 185
69. A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror
Following the death of her father, a young girl visits her estranged family at their sinister castle in the countryside, and comes to realize her eccentric and morbid relatives are not quite alive.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Pierre Quérut, Jean Rollin | Stars: Christina von Blanc, Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert, Rosa Palomar
Votes: 2,716
70. Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
GP | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Directors: Al Adamson, Samuel M. Sherman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr., Zandor Vorkov, Anthony Eisley
Votes: 2,246
71. Daughter of Dracula (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
Luisa visits her dying mother at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells Luisa that the Karlsteins are a family of vampires and that her ancestor, the original Count Karlstein, lies buried in the crypt.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert, Alberto Dalbés, Daniel White
Votes: 746
72. Quartier de femmes (1973)
97 min | Drama
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Andrés Resino, Geneviève Robert, Dennis Price, Rosa Palomar
Votes: 249
73. The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alberto Dalbés, Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, Beatriz Savón
Votes: 883
74. Un capitán de quince años (1973)
88 min | Action, Adventure
Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a captain. Fate has it so that, to keep all sailors in peace, he shall command the ship. All... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: José Manuel Marcos, Edmund Purdom, Marc Cassot, Doris Thomas
Votes: 84
75. Un silencio de tumba (1976)
83 min | Horror, Mystery
An actress and her entourage spend a weekend on an island in the Atlantic. First her child is abducted, then a killer starts to eliminate the rest of the group one by one.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alberto Dalbés, Glenda Allen, Mario Álex, Montserrat Prous
Votes: 148
76. Les ebranlées (1972)
82 min | Crime, Drama
Sleazy private detective Al Pereira goes on a sleazy mission involving the sleazy denizens of a sleazy nightclub.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Anne Libert, Doris Thomas, Howard Vernon, Montserrat Prous
Votes: 92
77. Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac (1973)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Linda Vargas picks up Ortiz in a bar where she works in a lesbian show with Maria Toledano.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Howard Vernon, Doris Thomas, Anne Libert, Jacqueline Laurent
Votes: 605
78. Relax Baby (1973)
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alberto Dalbés, David Rocha, Lina Romay
Votes: 23
79. El misterio del castillo rojo (1973)
80 min | Sci-Fi
Mad mastermind lives in the Red Castle and plans to dominate the world by turning people into robots. Hero hot on the trail, mastermind tries to foil him and make him an automaton: stolen diamonds, warships, a complicated bizzare plot.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Luis Barboo, Alberto Dalbés, Jesús Franco, Kali Hansa
Votes: 21
80. The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff (1973)
81 min | Drama, Horror
A doctor unleashes a nightmare of hypnosis curtailing mad violence on the family of a crippled young woman.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: William Berger, Montserrat Prous, Edmund Purdom, Loreta Tovar
Votes: 226
81. Idoni gia treis (1974)
74 min | Adventure, Crime
Director: Ilias Mylonakos | Stars: Dora Douma, Tasos Tsotas, Katia Bouranda, Thanasis Daskalopoulos
82. Countess Perverse (1975)
87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two wealthy aristocrats lure a virginal girl to a Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Howard Vernon, Tania Busselier
Votes: 720
83. Yuka (1974)
88 min | Adventure
In medieval France, traveler Pygar tells he-man Karzan (Maciste in the French version) of his recent journey to a place called Antigua, and of its entire community of Amazons promising ... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Wal Davis, Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Montserrat Prous
Votes: 280
84. Les gloutonnes (1975)
87 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
According to legend, a group of women escaped from Atlantis just before the destruction of the continent. They took refuge on a mysterious island, and founded a kingdom. Men who dared ... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Wal Davis, Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Montserrat Prous
Votes: 236
85. Al otro lado del espejo (1973)
82 min | Drama, Horror
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Emma Cohen, Robert Woods, Françoise Brion, Philippe Lemaire
Votes: 430
86. Female Vampire (1973)
Not Rated | 72 min | Horror
A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Jack Taylor, Alice Arno, Monica Swinn
Votes: 2,079
87. Night of the Skull (1974)
82 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After the unexpected death of a rich relative, the reading of his will brings a motley crew of greedy family members to a mansion by the sea to collect.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alberto Dalbés, Evelyne Scott, William Berger, Maribel Hidalgo
Votes: 420
88. Don't Hang Up (1974)
PG | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
In this horror movie, a dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Susan Bracken, Larry O'Dwyer, Gene Ross, James N. Harrell
Votes: 642
89. Tender and Perverse Emanuelle (1973)
75 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Whodunit from the great! The investigation into the suicide of a young woman found dead at the bottom of a cliff uncovers many lovers of both sexes, including her Brother's sister and her... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Norma Kastel, Jack Taylor, Lina Romay, Alice Arno
Votes: 337
90. Kiss Me Killer (1977)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime
A deadly look into the savage world of gangsters. The aftermath of a holdup turns into a game of deceit and doublecross. A vengeful woman brings about the destruction of the entire gang of ruthless killers.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alice Arno, Lina Romay, Olivier Mathot, Giuseppe Mattei
Votes: 162
91. The Mark of Zorro (1974 TV Movie)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Western
When Don Diego returns to California only to find the people overrun and overtaxed by corrupt politicians, he takes matters into his own hands as the masked crusader Zorro.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel
Votes: 690
92. L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
A madman conducts a private inquisition to exorcise demons by torturing women to death.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Catherine Lafferière, Jesús Franco, Pierre Taylou
Votes: 956
93. Celestine, Maid at Your Service (1974)
93 min | Comedy
The police raid a brothel and a prostitute (Lina Romay) escapes into the countryside. The woman, Celestine, ends up at a rich folks house where she ends up sleeping with two of the servants who then get her a job as a maid.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Howard Vernon, Olivier Mathot, Pamela Stanford
Votes: 468
94. Lorna the Exorcist (1974)
X | 81 min | Horror
A man is tormented by an ex-lover, Lorna, who posseses a strange power over a women, including the man's daughter.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Pamela Stanford, Guy Delorme, Lina Romay, Jacqueline Laurent
Votes: 806
95. Les chatouilleuses (1975)
100 min | Comedy, Western
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Fred Williams, Olivier Mathot, Richard Bigotini
Votes: 105
96. Les emmerdeuses (1976)
82 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Pina and Tina, two cabaret artists with a passion for espionage and theft, discover that a carpet seller named Kashfi has some extraordinary diamonds stolen from the millionaire Radeck.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Pamela Stanford, Willy Braque, Raymond Hardy
Votes: 59
97. Convoi de femmes (1974)
80 min | Adventure, War, Western
In 1740, French women are being kidnapped and sent to America. Once there, they are attacked and taken by Indians. After being rescued by soldiers, they find themselves in the middle of a battle between the French and British.
Director: Pierre Chevalier | Stars: Anna Gladysek, Marianne Rémont, Paul Muller, Gilda Arancio
Votes: 37
98. Midnight Party (1976)
94 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
A nightclub stripper hooks up with two playboys and ends up with an invitation to their midnight orgy.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Julio Pérez Tabernero | Stars: Monica Swinn, Lina Romay, Olivier Mathot, Claude Boisson
Votes: 292
99. A Virgin for St. Tropez (1975)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Maria (Marianne Rémont), a beautiful young woman, runs away from home with her older lover, across the Spanish border to St-Tropez, France. He says they will be meeting friends and getting ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Friedland | Stars: Marianne Rémont, Jean-Pierre Delamour, Paul Muller, James Harris
Votes: 92
100. Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Roger Darton
Votes: 1,506
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