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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: 61,346
2. Cannibal Ferox (1981)
93 min | Adventure, Horror
Three friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Lorraine De Selle, Danilo Mattei, Zora Kerova
Votes: 10,823
3. The Man-Eater (1999)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Young woman looking for a self-expression in a variety of sexual relationships.
Director: Aurelio Grimaldi | Stars: Loredana Cannata, Arturo Paglia, Pascal Persiano, Loredana Solfizi
Votes: 755
4. Eaten Alive! (1980)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Horror
A young woman teams up with a mercenary to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea where they find that a deranged leader of a religious cult has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Mel Ferrer
Votes: 4,619
5. Troll 2 (1990)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A vacationing family discovers that the entire town they're visiting is inhabited by goblins, disguised as humans, who plan to eat them.
Director: Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Michael Paul Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Connie Young
Votes: 34,733
6. Black Emanuelle (1975)
R | 96 min | Drama
While on assignment in Nairobi, a photojournalist questions her racial and sexual identity when she engages in affairs with her wealthy hosts.
Director: Bitto Albertini | Stars: Laura Gemser, Karin Schubert, Angelo Infanti, Isabelle Marchall
Votes: 1,767
7. Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The killer wears a suit and a black motorcycle helmet. Will anyone discover the killer's identity before the entire agency dies?
Director: Andrea Bianchi | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Nino Castelnuovo, Femi Benussi, Solvi Stubing
Votes: 3,121
8. Piranha II: The Spawning (1982)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Directors: James Cameron, Ovidio G. Assonitis, Miller Drake | Stars: Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen, Ricky Paull Goldin
Votes: 9,932
9. Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
An archaeology professor discovers an ancient crypt which contains living dead corpses. The zombies go on a rampage and attack a group of people which the professor had invited to celebrate his discovery.
Director: Andrea Bianchi | Stars: Karin Well, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Simone Mattioli, Antonella Antinori
Votes: 6,361
10. The Big Bust-Out (1972)
75 min | Action, Thriller
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
Director: Ernst Ritter von Theumer | Stars: Tony Kendall, Monica Teuber, William Berger, Gordon Mitchell
Votes: 328
11. Emanuelle, Queen of Sados (1980)
X | 91 min | Crime, Drama
A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.
Director: Ilias Mylonakos | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas
Votes: 775
12. Hell Behind the Bars (1984)
82 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A woman murders her boyfriend and steals some diamonds he has smuggled. She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil, sadistic bisexual warden. She sets about planning her escape with some of her fellow inmates.
Director: Gianni Siragusa | Stars: Ajita Wilson, Rita Silva, Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger
Votes: 378
13. The Profane Exhibit (2013)
108 min | Horror
Deep within the underbelly of Paris, there is a club which is the home of a secret, wicked society. At first it resembles an ordinary fetish or Goth nightclub, but within the cavernous ... See full summary »
Directors: Jeremy Kasten, Uwe Boll, Ruggero Deodato, Anthony DiBlasi, Marian Dora, Ryan Nicholson, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Michael Todd Schneider, Sergio Stivaletti, Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Christine Ahanotu, Dídac Alcaraz, U. Bernard, Stephanie Bertoni
Votes: 273
14. The New York Ripper (1982)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross, Andrea Occhipinti
Votes: 12,531
15. Foxy Lady (1992)
82 min | Thriller
Hitman Mark's affair with a prostitute entangled with her pimp, a drug lord, forces him to confront deadly obstacles and secure their escape while grappling with past trauma.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Debora Caprioglio, Steve Bond, Sharon Marino, Leonardo Treviglio
Votes: 637
16. Warrior Queen (1987)
R | 79 min | Drama
In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, while secretly helping the slaves to escape.
Director: Chuck Vincent | Stars: Sybil Danning, Donald Pleasence, Rick Hill, Josephine Jacqueline Jones
Votes: 1,140
17. 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: 1,600
18. Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
An expedition in the East Indies, encounters not only the cannibals they were looking for, but also an evil scientist and his zombie army.
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, Sherry Buchanan, Peter O'Neal
Votes: 5,910
19. One-Sided Passion (1986)
94 min | Drama
A partially paralyzed teenager is failing to have sex for the first time. He's eager but clumsy and sickly, so the local country girls reject him. He starts to realize that the only affectionate person in his life is his beautiful mother.
Director: Gianni Siragusa | Stars: Malisa Longo, Gabriele Tinti, Dino Strano, Rita Silva
Votes: 226
20. Emanuelle and Francoise (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A woman plots to take revenge on the man that abused her sister.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: George Eastman, Rosemarie Lindt, Annie Carol Edel, Maria Rosaria Riuzzi
Votes: 783
21. Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983)
PG | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Reb Brown, Corinne Cléry, John Steiner, Carole André
Votes: 3,492 | Gross: $2.81M
22. 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: 2,059
23. Terminator II (1989)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In a polluted future Venice researchers work to improve the situation. One day, unknown forces start killing them. A team of soldiers and a couple of civilians is sent to investigate. Soon, they encounter strange murderous creatures.
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: Christopher Ahrens, Haven Tyler, Geretta Marie Giancarlo, Fausto Lombardi
Votes: 1,918
24. Women's Prison Massacre (1983)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Four escaped male convicts seize control of a women's prison and proceed to terrorize the inmates, one of whom is reporter Emanuelle, incarcerated on trumped-up charges.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Gilbert Roussel | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Ursula Flores, Maria Romano
Votes: 1,222
25. Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
A photographer and models go to an abandoned castle to shoot some sexy covers for horror novels. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th century executioner.
Director: Massimo Pupillo | Stars: Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Luisa Baratto, Ralph Zucker
Votes: 2,361
26. The Devil's Wedding Night (1973)
R | 83 min | Horror
Lady Dracula uses Dracula's ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle, where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood.
Directors: Luigi Batzella, Joe D'Amato | Stars: Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, Esmeralda Barros, Enza Sbordone
Votes: 1,040
27. Hitch-Hike (1977)
Unrated | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker, who threatens to kill them unless they take him to a sanctuary where he promises to give them some of his bank loot.
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry, David Hess, Joshua Sinclair
Votes: 3,207
28. Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
Unrated | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but the place is run over by vicious rats.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Geretta Geretta, Massimo Vanni, Gianni Franco
Votes: 3,192
29. Body Count (1986)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery
A group of teens are stalked and killed by a Shaman at a cursed camping site.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Bruce Penhall, Mimsy Farmer, David Hess, Luisa Maneri
Votes: 2,599
30. Deep Blood (1989)
Unrated | 94 min | Adventure, Horror
Several young men have to stop an ancient native American evil in the form of a killer shark which is attacking a small beach community.
Directors: Raffaele Donato, Joe D'Amato | Stars: Frank Baroni, Cort McCown, Keith Kelsch, Wayne Camp
Votes: 588
31. White Slave (1985)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.
Director: Mario Gariazzo | Stars: Elvire Audray, Will Gonzales, Dick Campbell, Andrea Coppola
Votes: 2,091
32. 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: 2,375
33. Maya (1989)
100 min | Horror
An ancient evil awakens in a small Mexican village and many people fall victim to its curse. It is up to a mystical doctor to try and stop this evil power before it is too late.
Director: Marcello Avallone | Stars: Peter Phelps, Mariella Valentini, Cyrus Elias, Mariangélica Ayala
Votes: 431
34. Hitcher in the Dark (1989)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
A sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Joe Balogh, Josie Bissett, Jason Saucier, Robin Fox
Votes: 960
35. Contamination (1980)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch
Votes: 5,314
36. Caliber 9 (1972)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A former gangster is forced to resume his old lifestyle when his violent, jealous ex-colleagues and the police believe that he knows the location of a stolen cache of $300,000.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf, Frank Wolff
Votes: 4,736
37. The Great Alligator (1979)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Romano Puppo
Votes: 1,443
38. Summer Temptations (1988)
R | 83 min | Drama
In a villa on an island (St. Peter) a little out of season, inhabit Vanessa, a young widow, and stepdaughters Kikki and Vivi/. Vanessa had married their father above all because he was very... See full summary »
Director: Piero Vivarelli | Stars: Moana Pozzi, Marino Masé, Petra Scharbach, Hula
Votes: 211
39. The Italian Connection (1972)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Milanese pimp is pursued by - and then pursues - a pair of New York hitmen and the gangsters who framed him for stealing a shipment of heroin.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Woody Strode, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 2,871
40. 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: 3,760
41. Night Killer (1990)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A surviving amnesiac victim of a serial killer is terrorized while the police works with a psychiatrist to bring him to justice and stop the crime wave.
Directors: Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Peter Hooten, Tara Buckman, Richard Foster, Mel Davis
Votes: 1,122
42. 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: 5,281
43. Escape from Women's Prison (1978)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Four female convicts escape from prison and take a bus full of young female athletes hostage, and take refuge in a judge's house. Soon enough, the police surrounds the place, but the escapees are not giving up without a fight.
Director: Giovanni Brusadori | Stars: Lilli Carati, Zora Kerova, Filippo De Gara, Francesco Ferracini
Votes: 365
44. ...And Give Us Our Daily Sex (1979)
84 min | Comedy
Laura Gemser stars in this ridiculos but fun sex comedy. The video release is much more sexually explicit than the theatrical version.
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Laura Gemser, Bárbara Rey, José Sazatornil, Ángel Herraiz
Votes: 320
45. Riot in a Women's Prison (1974)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama
Young French tourist Martine gets falsely accused of drug possession in Italy. She's imprisoned in a brutal women's prison where inmates face abuse from staff and other prisoners. A riot erupts, intensifying the ordeal.
Director: Brunello Rondi | Stars: Martine Brochard, Marilù Tolo, Erna Schurer, Katia Christine
Votes: 223
46. La casa del piacere (1994)
81 min | Drama
A married woman accompanies her husband on a business trip to the Philippines. She is then seduced by a young local gigolo hired by her own man.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Irina Kramer, Nick Nicholson, Marc Gosálvez, Andrea Ruiz
Votes: 205
47. Ghosthouse (1988)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Lara Wendel, Greg Rhodes, Mary Sellers, Ron Houck
Votes: 2,967
48. Patrick Still Lives (1980)
92 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Five people receive an anonymous letter revealing a secret of theirs and inviting them to come stay at a mansion that houses a clinic run by a corrupt doctor who experiments on the brain of his comatose son.
Director: Mario Landi | Stars: Sacha Pitoëff, Gianni Dei, Mariangela Giordano, Carmen Russo
Votes: 965
49. High Crime (1973)
R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A righteous police inspector matches wits with a powerful Italian drug ring, all while key suspects and those closest to him begin to die in more-or-less equal measure.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, James Whitmore, Delia Boccardo
Votes: 1,118
50. Alien 2: On Earth (1980)
R | 92 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ... See full summary »
Directors: Ciro Ippolito, Biagio Proietti | Stars: Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese, Benedetta Fantoli
Votes: 1,703