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  • Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers (1929)

    1. Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers

    192958m
    6.5 (151)
    Cagliostro, an Italian adventurer rises through the French aristocracy on account of his magical tricks, medical knowledge and ability to foretell the future. When he falls from grace after a divination that predicts a dire future for Marie Antoinette, he sets in motion a plan that will result in revenge, but at a great price.
    DirectorRichard OswaldStarsHans StüweRenée HéribelAlfred Abel
  • Lionel Atwill, Lee Tracy, and Fay Wray in Doctor X (1932)

    2. Doctor X

    19321h 16mUnrated
    6.4 (4.5K)
    A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsLionel AtwillFay WrayLee Tracy
  • Kaii Utsunomiya tsuritenjô (1956)

    3. Kaii Utsunomiya tsuritenjô

    19561h 20m
    6.3 (118)
    Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger brother Tadanaga.
    DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsHiroshi OgasawaraAkemi TsukushiTetsurô Tanba
  • The Sadist (1963)

    4. The Sadist

    19631h 32mR
    6.6 (3.2K)
    Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.
    DirectorJames LandisStarsArch Hall Jr.Helen HoveyRichard Alden
  • Dr. Crippen (1963)

    5. Dr. Crippen

    19631h 38mTV-PG
    6.4 (879)
    The real-life story of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife so he could be with his young lover. But was he truly guilty of murder?
    DirectorRobert LynnStarsDonald PleasenceSamantha EggarCoral Browne
  • O Crime de Aldeia Velha (1964)

    6. O Crime de Aldeia Velha

    19641h 45m
    7.3 (109)
    Set in a little remote village, where everyone is very religious and primitive, "O Crime de Aldeia Velha" (The crime of Aldeia Velha) tells the story of Joana, the most beautiful girl in village. She is badly regarded by all other women because they envy her and her affairs with men. As soon as accidents start happening involving her (at some point, she holds an already sick baby and he eventually dies), the women (and slowly, men too) in the village start claiming that she is possessed by the devil. At first,she doesn't believe it. They ask for two priests to exorcise her, but they leave and say to the people that she isn't possessed at all, and that people need to relax. But, little by little, they start convincing Joana that she is really possessed and she starts entering a stage of slight madness and behaving like she is. So, people "believing" that she isn't going to die, and that the demon will leave her body, with her permission, they end up burning her alive...
    DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsBarbara LaageRogério PauloMário Pereira
  • The Zodiac Killer (1971)

    7. The Zodiac Killer

    19711h 27mR
    4.4 (1K)
    A serial killer in San Francisco murders without motive or apparent pattern and taunts the police with phone calls and letters.
    DirectorTom HansonStarsHal ReedBob JonesRay Lynch
  • Burke & Hare (1972)

    8. Burke & Hare

    19721h 34mR
    5.3 (602)
    Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
    DirectorVernon SewellStarsPaul LutyRoy MacreadyDerren Nesbitt
  • Encounter with the Unknown (1972)

    9. Encounter with the Unknown

    19721h 30mPG
    4.7 (749)
    Trilogy of unsettling stories rooted in reality
    DirectorHarry ThomasonStarsRod SerlingRobert GinnavenGary Brockette
  • Endless Night (1972)

    10. Endless Night

    19721h 26m
    3.9 (61)
    Ive is a man on the edge whose traumatic childhood causes him to develop a thing for sex, perversion, violence and murder.
    DirectorPhilippe BrottetStarsVelly BeguardAlice ArnoJohnny Cacao
  • Kurt Raab in Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

    11. Tenderness of the Wolves

    19731h 22mNot Rated
    6.3 (1.7K)
    Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.
    DirectorUlli LommelStarsKurt RaabJeff RodenMargit Carstensen
  • The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)

    12. The Legend of Blood Castle

    19731h 29mPG
    5.9 (884)
    An aging Marchioness obsessed with looking youthful devises a vicious plan, under advice from her personal nurse, to look young again.
    DirectorJorge GrauStarsLucia BosèEspartaco SantoniEwa Aulin
  • Max von Sydow in The Exorcist (1973)

    13. The Exorcist

    19732h 2mR83Metascore
    8.1 (478K)
    When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
    DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda Blair
  • Roberts Blossom in Deranged (1974)

    14. Deranged

    19741h 24mR
    6.3 (6.1K)
    A deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps, among others, as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.
    DirectorsJeff GillenAlan OrmsbyStarsRoberts BlossomCosette LeeLeslie Carlson
  • Mascha Gonska and Michel Piccoli in The Infernal Trio (1974)

    15. The Infernal Trio

    19741h 47m
    6.2 (970)
    A cunning French legal adviser teams up with an unemployed German girl and her sister to commit murders in Marseille.
    DirectorFrancis GirodStarsMichel PiccoliRomy SchneiderMascha Gonska
  • Black Christmas (1974)

    16. Black Christmas

    19741h 38mR65Metascore
    7.1 (53K)
    During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
    DirectorBob ClarkStarsOlivia HusseyKeir DulleaMargot Kidder
  • The Legend of the Wolf Woman (1976)

    17. The Legend of the Wolf Woman

    19761h 19mR
    5.0 (1.5K)
    A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
    DirectorRino Di SilvestroStarsAnnik BorelHoward RossDagmar Lassander
  • Jack the Ripper (1976)

    18. Jack the Ripper

    19761h 27mR
    5.3 (2K)
    A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
    DirectorJesús FrancoStarsKlaus KinskiJosephine ChaplinHerbert Fux
  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

    19. The Town That Dreaded Sundown

    19761h 30mR52Metascore
    6.0 (10K)
    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
  • Black Journal (1977)

    20. Black Journal

    19771h 55m
    6.3 (568)
    Lea's only son Michele has to endure his mother's zealous affection . She is convinced she rescued him by making a deal with Death. When his son gets engaged to a woman, Lea is ready to make a new deal with Death.
    DirectorMauro BologniniStarsShelley WintersMax von SydowRenato Pozzetto
  • Kelly Nichols in The Toolbox Murders (1978)

    21. The Toolbox Murders

    19781h 33mR35Metascore
    5.2 (5.3K)
    A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.
    DirectorDennis DonnellyStarsCameron MitchellPamelyn FerdinWesley Eure
  • Primitif (1978)

    22. Primitif

    19781h 30mNot Rated
    3.7 (844)
    After a raft accident in the jungle, three anthropology students and their guides attempt to escape from a primitive cannibal tribe that has hunted them down.
    DirectorSisworo Gautama PutraStarsEnny HaryonoBarry PrimaJohann Mardjono
  • James Brolin, Rod Steiger, and Margot Kidder in The Amityville Horror (1979)

    23. The Amityville Horror

    19791h 57mR28Metascore
    6.2 (47K)
    Newlyweds and their children battle a demonic presence in their home.
    DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsJames BrolinMargot KidderRod Steiger
  • Savage Harvest (1981)

    24. Savage Harvest

    19811h 27mPG
    5.7 (614)
    A family in Africa finds itself under attack by a pride of lions.
    DirectorRobert L. CollinsStarsTom SkerrittMichelle PhillipsShawn Stevens
  • Jay Ilagan, Charo Santos-Concio, Vic Silayan, and Charito Solis in In the Wink of an Eye (1981)

    25. In the Wink of an Eye

    19811h 30mTV-14
    7.7 (833)
    A crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema. A controlling patriarch loses it over his daughter's marriage and her attempts to escape from their incestuous household.
    DirectorMike De LeonStarsCharo Santos-ConcioJay IlaganVic Silayan

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