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To Love, Perhaps to Die (Some Bizarre and Obscure cinema)

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  • 1984 (2023)

    1. 1984

    20232h 12m
    4.5 (127)
    A totalitarian regime governs society, restricting freedoms. Propaganda and surveillance are omnipresent. A mathematician engages in a forbidden relationship and joins a resistance movement against the oppressive ruling party.
    DirectorDiana RingoStarsAleksandr ObmanovVladimir IvaniyAleksey Sharanin
  • Keep My Grave Open (1977)

    2. Keep My Grave Open

    19771h 19mR
    4.3 (494)
    A crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to her.
    DirectorS.F. BrownriggStarsCamilla CarrChelcie RossStephen Tobolowsky
  • Death Carries a Cane (1973)

    3. Death Carries a Cane

    19731h 24mNot Rated
    5.8 (945)
    A photographer witnesses a murder through a telescope but can't identify the killer. She reports it to police, but other witnesses are found murdered. She may be the next target.
    DirectorMaurizio PradeauxStarsRobert HoffmannNieves NavarroJorge Martín
  • Scream Bloody Murder (1973)

    4. Scream Bloody Murder

    19731h 30mR
    4.7 (1.3K)
    A deranged kid murders his father and has his arm crushed by the farm tractor. After being discharged from the mental hospital with an amputee, he discovers that his mother has remarried, prompting him to go on a homicidal rampage.
    DirectorMarc B. RayStarsFred HolbertLeigh MitchellRobert Knox
  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

    5. The Town That Dreaded Sundown

    19761h 30mR52Metascore
    6.0 (11K)
    The story of a berserk, hooded killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.
    DirectorCharles B. PierceStarsBen JohnsonAndrew PrineDawn Wells
  • Five Women for the Killer (1974)

    6. Five Women for the Killer

    19741h 40m
    5.6 (608)
    A reporter comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead.
    DirectorStelvio MassiStarsFrancis MatthewsPascale RivaultGiorgio Albertazzi
  • Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

    7. Alice, Sweet Alice

    19761h 47mR67Metascore
    6.4 (14K)
    In 1961, divorced Catholic couple Dom and Catherine Spages' life is upended when their teenage daughter Alice is suspected of her younger sister Karen's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of stabbings follow.
    DirectorAlfred SoleStarsLinda MillerMildred ClintonPaula E. Sheppard
  • The Love Butcher (1975)

    8. The Love Butcher

    19751h 25mR
    5.7 (514)
    The twisted tale of Caleb, and his alter ego Lester. After being pushed around too far, Caleb transforms into Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.
    DirectorsDon JonesMikel AngelStarsJames LempKay NeerJeremiah Beecher
  • Zooey Hall and Geri Reischl in Poor Albert & Little Annie (1972)

    9. Poor Albert & Little Annie

    19721h 21mR
    4.1 (491)
    Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
    DirectorPaul LederStarsZooey HallGeri ReischlJoanne Moore Jordan
  • Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

    10. Eyes of Laura Mars

    19781h 44mR49Metascore
    6.2 (13K)
    Fashion photographer Laura Mars, whose photographs contain violent images, develops the ability to see through a killer's eyes. Those around her include her driver Tommy, her manager Donald, her ex-husband Michael, and policeman John.
    DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsFaye DunawayTommy Lee JonesBrad Dourif
  • Delirium (1972)

    11. Delirium

    19721h 42mR
    5.4 (1.4K)
    A respected psychologist who regularly works with the police becomes a suspect in a series of gruesome murders of young women.
    DirectorRenato PolselliStarsMickey HargitayRita CalderoniRaul Lovecchio
  • Tiffany Bolling and Randolph Roberts in Wicked, Wicked (1973)

    12. Wicked, Wicked

    19731h 35mPG
    5.4 (782)
    Someone murders and dismembers a series of blonde women; unique in that it is shot entirely in the early 1970's cinema gimmick DUO-VISION (split screen).
    DirectorRichard L. BareStarsDavid BaileyTiffany BollingRandolph Roberts
  • Delirium (1979)

    13. Delirium

    19791h 28mR
    4.7 (981)
    An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.
    DirectorPeter MarisStarsTurk CekovskyDebi ChaneyTerry TenBroek
  • Blood Suckers (1971)

    14. Blood Thirst

    19711h 14mGP
    4.5 (498)
    A sex-crimes specialist from New York travels to the Philippines to help his friend, a Manila homicide detective, solve a series of murders.
    DirectorNewt ArnoldStarsRobert WinstonKatherine HenrykYvonne Nielson
  • William Finley, Margot Kidder, and Jennifer Salt in Sisters (1972)

    15. Sisters

    19721h 33mR70Metascore
    6.9 (23K)
    A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMargot KidderJennifer SaltCharles Durning
  • Deep Red (1975)

    16. Deep Red

    19752h 7mR89Metascore
    7.5 (46K)
    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.
    DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele Lavia
  • Bluebeard (1972)

    17. Bluebeard

    19722h 5mR
    5.6 (1.8K)
    A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one. After he beds a woman he's after, he murders her.
    DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRichard BurtonRaquel WelchVirna Lisi
  • Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976)

    18. Assault! Jack the Ripper

    19761h 12m
    6.1 (632)
    Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.
    DirectorYasuharu HasebeStarsTamaki KatsuraYuri YamashinaNatsuko Yashiro
  • Hitch Hike to Hell (1977)

    19. Hitch Hike to Hell

    19771h 27mR
    5.0 (524)
    Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them, and kills them. As the bodies start to pile up, the police finally begin to investigate.
    DirectorIrvin BerwickStarsRobert GribbinRussell JohnsonJohn Harmon
  • The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)

    20. The Corruption of Chris Miller

    19731h 47mR
    6.4 (1K)
    Abandoned by their husband/father, a traumatized woman and her disturbed stepdaughter hire a drifter handyman at their secluded estate while a series of murders begins.
    DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsJean SebergMarisolBarry Stokes
  • Beware My Brethren (1972)

    21. Beware My Brethren

    19721h 32mR
    5.3 (758)
    A religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to murder and chaos.
    DirectorRobert Hartford-DavisStarsAnn ToddPatrick MageeTony Beckley
  • Sridevi and Kamal Haasan in Sigappu Rojakkal (1978)

    22. Sigappu Rojakkal

    19782h 9mNot Rated
    7.8 (2.2K)
    Kamal Haasan, the central character, is a man terribly soured by his unvaryingly devastating encounters with the opposite sex. He develops a pathological hatred for women and uses his charm to seduce young women and kill them immediately after having sex with each. These proceedings are recorded watched repeatedly by his adoptive father and mentor, another crazed woman-hater with a similarly disillusioning experience with the female sex, who vicariously enjoys his protege's exploits. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of the house watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do.
    DirectorBharathirajaStarsKamal HaasanSrideviBhagyaraj
  • Labyrinth (1962)

    23. Labyrinth

    196215mShort
    6.7 (504)
    A short film by Jan Lenica in which a lonely woman undergoes a series of surreal visions.
    DirectorJan Lenica
  • Blood Voyage (1976)

    24. Blood Voyage

    19761h 20mR
    4.4 (192)
    What is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer.
    DirectorFrank MitchellStarsWayne A. FarlowJonathan GoldsmithJohn Hart
  • Up from the Depths (1979)

    25. Up from the Depths

    19791h 25mR
    3.4 (1.1K)
    A giant shark-like creature preys on a Hawaiian tourist community.
    DirectorCharles B. GriffithStarsSam BottomsSusanne ReedVirgil Frye

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