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- DirectorRiccardo FredaMario BavaStarsGianna Maria CanaleCarlo D'AngeloDario MichaelisParis. Young girls are found dead, drained from their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.
- DirectorPaolo HeuschMario BavaStarsPaul HubschmidMadeleine FischerFiorella MariScientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
- DirectorPietro FrancisciMario BavaStarsSteve ReevesSylva KoscinaGabriele AntoniniWhile negotiating peace between two brothers contesting the throne of Thebes, an amnesiac Hercules is seduced by the evil Queen Omphale.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaMario BavaStarsJohn MerivaleDidi SullivanGérard HerterA team of archaeologists in Mexico encounter an amorphous, blob-like monster that appears to be connected with the collapse of the Mayan civilization.
- DirectorJacques TourneurBruno VailatiMario BavaStarsSteve ReevesMylène DemongeotSergio FantoniA Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.The visual style still impresses, but the story beneath it has become too formularised for the film to retain all its original power.
- DirectorRaoul WalshMario BavaStarsJoan CollinsRichard EganDenis O'DeaTwo decades before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty (1981), Dame Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story. The setting is Persia in the fourth century B.C., as Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed King Ahasuerus. The King has been trying to stifle and defeat the campaign of hatred fomented against the Jews by his evil minister Haman (Sergio Fantoni). Before the King can pair off with Esther and defeat the villainous Haman, there are several intervening adventures and an additional, attractive woman who competes for attention.
- DirectorMario BavaHenry LevinStarsDonald O'ConnorNoëlle AdamVittorio De SicaA poor young man finds a magic lamp that possesses a genie, who will grant the boy three wishes if he sets him free from the lamp.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsReg ParkChristopher LeeLeonora RuffoHercules must journey into Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsCameron MitchellAlice KesslerEllen KesslerTwo estranged brothers confront each other as rivals when war breaks out between Britain and the Vikings for control of England.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsJohn SaxonLetícia RománValentina CorteseA mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.Bava, who'd once shot films for Roberto Rossellini and Raoul Walsh, used black and white for the last time on this project, and with its mastery of the noir vocabulary it helped establish the giallo.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsMichèle MercierLidia AlfonsiBoris KarloffBoris 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.Vintage Bava.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsDaliah LaviChristopher LeeTony KendallThe ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly betrothed to his brother.Mario Bava's erotic masterpiece.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsCameron MitchellEva BartokThomas ReinerA masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.For those prepared to overlook the stumbling script which exists merely as a frame, this is a true original, a portrait of murder in oils.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsKen ClarkJany ClairMichel LemoineA lone rider comes across a dying soldier, who gives him a paper authorizing the payment of $150,000 to the U.S. Army. The rider gathers some colleagues who disguise themselves as soldiers and who take the paper to a bank.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarry SullivanNorma BengellÁngel ArandaAfter landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.A peerless example of a bravura visual imagination abstracting cheap sets into psychedelic textures.
- DirectorAntonio RománMario BavaStarsKen ClarkYvonne BastienPiero LulliA drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
- DirectorMario BavaLeopoldo SavonaStarsCameron MitchellFausto TozziGiacomo Rossi StuartA mysterious, knife-throwing Viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of King and the woman for himself.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsGiacomo Rossi StuartErika BlancFabienne DaliA Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.The movie is an immersion as much as it is a narrative.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsVincent PriceFabianFranco FranchiDisgraced SIC agent Bill Dexter teams up with bumbling doormen Franco and Ciccio to stop Dr. Goldfoot from using his bikini-clad robot girls to blow up high-ranking NATO generals.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsJohn Phillip LawMarisa MellMichel PiccoliA master thief and his sensual lover pull off heist after heist, all while an envious coalition of cops and gangsters is gunning for them.Although it's too long and eventually loses track of Itself, Danger: Diabolik is very nearly the movie Barbarella should have been.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsWilliam BergerIra von FürstenbergEdwige FenechAn 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.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsStephen ForsythDagmar LassanderLaura BettiA cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma.Stylish horror pic that is done in by its illogical and crude fantasy narrative.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBrett HalseyCharles SouthwoodMarilù ToloTwo 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.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsClaudine AugerLuigi PistilliClaudio CamasoThe 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.Bava displays how ahead of the curve he was in tackling the slasher genre.