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1. Open Your Eyes (1997)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
Votes: 73,363 | Gross: $0.37M
2. The Red Circle (1970)
Not Rated | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand
Votes: 28,252 | Gross: $0.37M
3. The Devil's Honey (1986)
R | 83 min | Mystery, Thriller
A young woman abducts and subjects a doctor whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend to acts of sexual torture.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Brett Halsey, Corinne Cléry, Blanca Marsillach, Stefano Madia
Votes: 1,665
4. The Demoniacs (1974)
R | 100 min | Horror
A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Joëlle Coeur, John Rico, Willy Braque, Paul Bisciglia
Votes: 1,550
5. Paranoia (1969)
X | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, Colette Descombes, Tino Carraro
Votes: 1,641
6. Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A series of victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black wasp. The victims all seem to have a connection with a spa.
Director: Paolo Cavara | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Barbara Bouchet, Rossella Falk
Votes: 3,647
7. Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Arianna Gorini
Votes: 13,080
8. The Night of the Hunted (1980)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Futuristic asylum residents in a skyscraper suffer insanity, amnesia. Blank-eyed inmates roam halls of "Black Tower" as tension escalates and bodies pile up.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Brigitte Lahaie, Alain Duclos, Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau
Votes: 2,110
9. Black Sabbath (1963)
Approved | 97 min | Horror
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff, Mark Damon
Votes: 13,962
10. The 10th Victim (1965)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
In a future where a human vs. human "Big Hunt" is used as an alternative to war, a veteran huntress' plan to kill a "victim" for a major TV sponsorship deal is compounded by romance.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone
Votes: 5,017
11. One on Top of the Other (1969)
R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza
Votes: 2,681
12. Fascination (1979)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Franca Maï, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier
Votes: 3,554
13. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Not Rated | 95 min | Mystery, Thriller
The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti
Votes: 5,810
14. Baba Yaga (1973)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror
A photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.
Director: Corrado Farina | Stars: Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funès, Ely Galleani
Votes: 2,253
15. The Nude Vampire (1970)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Caroline Cartier, Olivier Rollin, Maurice Lemaître, Bernard Musson
Votes: 1,782
16. And Soon the Darkness (1970)
GP | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès, John Nettleton
Votes: 4,078
17. The Wax Mask (1997)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror
In 1900 Paris, a couple is murdered by a masked man, with a young girl as the only survivor. Twelve years later, a wax museum opens in Rome, attracting people and causing a series of disappearances.
Director: Sergio Stivaletti | Stars: Robert Hossein, Romina Mondello, Riccardo Serventi Longhi, Gabriella Giorgelli
Votes: 2,483
18. Knife + Heart (2018)
Unrated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.
Director: Yann Gonzalez | Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet
Votes: 5,552 | Gross: $0.03M
19. Naked You Die (1968)
82 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After a mysterious trunk arrives at a prestigious girl's boarding school, its staff and students - including an orphaned heiress and an amateur sleuth - are targeted by a shadowy killer.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Mark Damon, Eleonora Brown, Sally Smith, Patrizia Valturri
Votes: 819
20. Faceless (1988)
98 min | Horror, Thriller
When model Barbara Hallen disappears in France, her father's private detective traces her steps to a private plastic surgery clinic run by Dr.Flamand.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum
Votes: 1,842
21. Dirty Hands (1975)
R | 102 min | Crime, Thriller
Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her neighbour Jeff Marle, a writer, are lovers. They plan the assassination of Julie's wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, François Maistre, Paolo Giusti
Votes: 2,398
22. Oasis of Fear (1971)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Two hippies find themselves on the run from the law and soon end up going undercover in a villa owned by a mysterious woman.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Irene Papas, Ray Lovelock, Ornella Muti, Michel Bardinet
Votes: 1,069
23. I Am What I Am (1967)
X | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Bernard meets Jane in a night club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but she thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his ... See full summary »
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco, Charles Kohler
Votes: 883
24. So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A bored, married Parisian socialite is pulled into a web of lust and deception after he seemingly rescues a woman from her abusive boyfriend.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Erika Blanc, Horst Frank
Votes: 1,247
25. Amer (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Marie Bos, Biancamaria D'Amato
Votes: 6,591
26. Castle of Blood (1964)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror
A journalist takes a bet that he can spend the night in a haunted castle on All Hallow's Eve. During his stay, he bears witness to the castle's gruesome past coming to life before him, and falls in love with a beautiful female ghost.
Directors: Antonio Margheriti, Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici
Votes: 2,805
27. The Washing Machine (1993)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla,
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Philippe Caroit, Ilaria Borrelli, Katarzyna Figura, Barbara Ricci
Votes: 891
28. The School Teacher in the House (1978)
90 min | Comedy, Mystery
Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral ... See full synopsis »
Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Renzo Montagnani, Alvaro Vitali, Marco Gelardini
Votes: 483
29. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder. Does anyone in the building know something?
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener, Birgit Yew
Votes: 4,365 | Gross: $0.01M
30. The Whip and the Body (1963)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Romance
The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly betrothed to his brother.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Ida Galli
Votes: 4,680
31. The Butcher (1970)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone
Votes: 9,405 | Gross: $0.47M
32. The Night Caller (1975)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte
Votes: 4,325
33. The Strangler (1970)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings.
Director: Paul Vecchiali | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Eva Simonet, Paul Barge
Votes: 360
34. Plucked (1968)
86 min | Horror, Thriller
The depraved manager of a high-tech poultry factory - which is genetically engineering boneless chickens - is pulled into a love triangle with his domineering wife and her sexually-liberated cousin, leading to double-crosses and murder.
Director: Giulio Questi | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Jean Sobieski
Votes: 1,782
35. 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: 4,343
36. Red Nights (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A woman steals an ancient artefact and flees to Hong Kong in order to sell it. Little does she know that the box contains an ancient vial of poison and the people she is dealing with will go to any lengths to obtain it.
Directors: Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud | Stars: Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng, Carole Brana, Stephen Wong Cheung-Hing
Votes: 679
37. Diabolically Yours (1967)
G | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A wealthy amnesiac begins to suspect that his devoted wife is not really his wife and that he is not the man people keep telling him he is.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Peter Mosbacher, Claude Piéplu
Votes: 1,772
38. Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Fiore Altoviti
Votes: 1,038
39. Il demonio (1963)
98 min | Drama, Horror
A lonely, sexually-uninhibited young peasant is subjected to an exorcism after she hexes a man who rejects her advances.
Director: Brunello Rondi | Stars: Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Anna María Aveta, Tiziana Casetti
Votes: 1,146
40. Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay (1971)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
Two French girls get lost in the woods and accidentally enter the realm of sorceress Morgana Le Fay - who gives them the choice of either staying young forever as her lovers, or rot in a dungeon for eternity.
Director: Bruno Gantillon | Stars: Dominique Delpierre, Alfred Baillou, Mireille Saunin, Régine Motte
Votes: 813
41. Illustrious Corpses (1976)
PG | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An investigation of the judges' assassinations reveals a political background.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paolo Bonacelli
Votes: 2,803
42. The Murder Clinic (1966)
GP | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Patients and staff of an isolated mental hospital are being killed off by a hooded maniac who stalks the halls.
Directors: Elio Scardamaglia, Lionello De Felice | Stars: William Berger, Françoise Prévost, Mary Young, Barbara Wilson
Votes: 471
43. The Flesh of the Orchid (1975)
110 min | Drama, Thriller
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret
Votes: 696
44. The Forbidden Room (1977)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina
Votes: 1,320
45. My Sister, My Love (1969)
R | 100 min | Drama
Diana is divorcing her husband, and decides to spend the winter at her younger sister's home. Adultery and unnatural Sapphic love return to her life, amidst sad remembrances and with unsuspected consequences.
Director: Roberto Malenotti | Stars: Nathalie Delon, Susan Strasberg, Massimo Girotti, Giancarlo Giannini
Votes: 145
46. The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Count Drago invites entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans.
Directors: Warren Kiefer, Luciano Ricci | Stars: Christopher Lee, Gaia Germani, Philippe Leroy, Mirko Valentin
Votes: 1,167
47. La moglie in vacanza... l'amante in città (1980)
90 min | Comedy
Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Barbara Bouchet, Renzo Montagnani, Lino Banfi
Votes: 477
48. Revenge of the Dead (1983)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery
Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, ... See full summary »
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canovas, Paola Tanziani, Cesare Barbetti
Votes: 2,486
49. Web of the Spider (1971)
R | 93 min | Horror
The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten
Votes: 837
50. Sotto falso nome (2004)
105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
Director: Roberto Andò | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Anna Mouglalis, Greta Scacchi, Giorgio Lupano
Votes: 959