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Delicatessen

(1991)

Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro

Cast:

Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado

7.6

89%

66

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The Day of the Jackal

(1973)

Action, Thriller

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

Runtime:

143 min

Director:

Fred Zinnemann

Cast:

Edward Fox, Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Olga Georges-Picot, Alan Badel

7.8

89%

80

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Love and Death

(1975)

Comedy, History

Boris is a simple Russian villager who pines from afar for his beautiful cousin Sonja. Forced against his will into joining the Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars, the cowardly Boris accidentally becomes a military hero. But when his beloved Sonja comes to him with a dangerous patriotic scheme, Boris debates his desires and beliefs.

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Woody Allen

Cast:

Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu, Edmond Ardisson

7.7

100%

89

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Alphaville

(1965)

Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon

7.1

91%

N/A

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The Train

(1964)

Action, Thriller, War

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their nation...

Runtime:

133 min

Director:

John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon

7.8

93%

N/A

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Bob le Flambeur

(1956)

Action, Crime, Drama

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix w...

Runtime:

103 min

Director:

Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast:

Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Roger Duchesne, André Garet, Gérard Buhr

7.8

97%

80

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What's New Pussycat?

(1965)

Comedy, Romance

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Clive Donner

Cast:

Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Romy Schneider, Capucine

6.2

29%

N/A

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The Night of the Generals

(1967)

Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War

An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler

Runtime:

148 min

Director:

Anatole Litvak

Cast:

Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Philippe Noiret, Christopher Plummer, Howard Vernon

7.3

N/A

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The Silence of the Sea

(1949)

Drama, Romance, War

In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between France and ...

Runtime:

87 min

7.7

100%

N/A

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The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

(1960)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Fritz Lang

Cast:

Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe, Gert Fröbe, Wolfgang Preiss, Dawn Addams

7.0

88%

N/A

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Triple Cross

(1966)

Action, Adventure, War

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Runtime:

140 min

Director:

Terence Young

Cast:

Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Gert Fröbe, Claudine Auger, Trevor Howard

6.3

N/A

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The Awful Dr. Orlof

(1962)

Horror

Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had better hurry, though -- a young police inspector and his ballerina girlfriend are onto his sadi...

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Howard Vernon, Conrado San Martín, Diana Lorys, Perla Cristal, María Silva

6.2

N/A

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She Killed in Ecstasy

(1971)

Horror

A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to his death by luring each member of the committee into compromising situations and then killing them one by one.

Runtime:

73 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Howard Vernon, Ewa Strömberg, Horst Tappert

6.0

N/A

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The Diabolical Dr. Z

(1966)

Horror, Science Fiction

A woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Mabel Karr, Estella Blain, Fernando Montes, Howard Vernon, Guy Mairesse

6.9

N/A

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Faceless

(1987)

Horror

A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation reveals the horrifying secret behind the Doctor's miracle cures which is blood and organs taken from kid...

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Helmut Berger, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum, Stéphane Audran

6.1

N/A

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A Virgin Among the Living Dead

(1973)

Horror

A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that they are all in fact dead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. Unable to leave she's drawn into a macabre underworld through visions of nude satanic rituals and her ...

Runtime:

79 min

Director:

Jesús Franco, Jean Rollin

Cast:

Christina von Blanc, Christina von Blanc, Carmen Yazalde, Rosa Palomar, Carmen Yazalde

4.9

N/A

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

(1981)

Horror

It's the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne, attended by various pillars of Victorian society. But when people are found raped and murdered outside and ultimately inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities - but who is he? An...

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Walerian Borowczyk

Cast:

Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Gérard Zalcberg, Patrick Magee, Howard Vernon

6.4

N/A

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Succubus

(1968)

Horror

Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games.

Runtime:

84 min

5.6

N/A

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The Bloody Judge

(1970)

History, Horror

Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. Convincend of doing what's necessary, the cruel judge mercilessly persecutes 'traitors', who ...

Runtime:

84 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Hans Hass Jr., Maria Rohm

5.2

N/A

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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus

(1962)

Horror

Jess Franco returns with another campy gore-fest featuring the strange goings-on in a tiny hamlet called Holfen. When women wind up knifed and gouged in the village, everyone thinks the deaths are due to a curse wielded by a cruel 17th century baron. Von Klaus heir Ludwig is distantly related to the royal, which makes him the target of...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Howard Vernon, Hugo Blanco, Gogó Rojo, Fernando Delgado

6.1

N/A

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The Game Is Over

(1966)

Drama, Romance

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.

Runtime:

98 min

6.0

N/A

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The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

(1973)

Horror

Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for his attacker: Dr. Cagliostro, a mad scientist who’s created a race of human-animal hybrids.

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Alberto Dalbés, Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, Beatriz Savón, Anne Libert

5.1

N/A

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The Demons

(1973)

Horror

A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.

Runtime:

118 min

5.7

N/A

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The Perverse Countess

(1974)

Horror, Thriller

Two wealthy aristocrats lure a virginal girl to a Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism in this Jess Franco's softcore version of "The most dangerous game".

Runtime:

87 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Alice Arno, Howard Vernon, Monica Swinn

5.6

N/A

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The Devil Came from Akasava

(1971)

Adventure

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!

Runtime:

84 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Siegfried Schürenberg

4.9

N/A

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Daughter of Dracula

(1972)

Horror, Mystery

Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells Luisa that the Karlsteins are a family of vampires and that her ancestor, the original Count Karlstein, lies buried in the crypt. Afterwards, Luisa goes and finds the count's coffin and discovers that he is undead. As she takes Karine, ...

Runtime:

82 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Britt Nichols, Howard Vernon, Jesús Franco, Anne Libert, Daniel White

5.3

N/A

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The Obscene Mirror

(1973)

Drama, Horror, Mystery

A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.

Runtime:

87 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Emma Cohen, Philippe Lemaire, Françoise Brion, Alice Arno, Howard Vernon

6.2

N/A

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Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac

(1973)

Drama

Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers' parties and starts acting in porno movies. She also begins to write a s...

Runtime:

87 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Montserrat Prous, Howard Vernon, Manuel Pereiro, Jacqueline Laurent, Jacqueline Laurent

5.8

N/A

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The French Sex Murders

(1972)

Horror, Mystery

After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

Ferdinando Merighi

Cast:

Anita Ekberg, Barbara Bouchet, Rosalba Neri, Howard Vernon, Evelyne Kraft

5.0

N/A

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Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter

(1952)

Drama, Romance

Gerard, a 25-year-old student, decides to find a treasure Troilus lost in the sea after the Peloponnesian War. His meeting with Manina jeopardises his plans of finding the treasure.

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Willy Rozier

Cast:

Brigitte Bardot, Jean-François Calvé, Howard Vernon, Espanita Cortez

5.6

N/A

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Adventures of Captain Fabian

(1951)

Adventure

An ambitious girl (Micheline Presle) uses a sea captain (Errol Flynn) to climb the social ladder in old New Orleans.

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

William Marshall

Cast:

Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Victor Francen

5.7

N/A

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All Mixed Up

(1985)

Comedy, Drama

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Josiane Balasko

Cast:

Isabelle Huppert, Josiane Balasko, Farid Chopel, Jean Carmet, Coluche

5.3

N/A

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Virgin Report

(1972)

Comedy, Drama, Horror

Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden we are taken on a voyage around the world that covers various rites of passage and cultures deflowering of the virgin.

Runtime:

82 min

5.0

N/A

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Celestine

(1974)

Comedy

The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment. In a manner recalling Terence Stamp's effect on the household...

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Olivier Mathot, Howard Vernon, Monica Swinn, Pamela Stanford

5.0

N/A

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Women in Cellblock 9

(1978)

Action, Crime, Drama

A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison, located somwhere in the South American jungle. None of them will reveal the secrets of their organisation or the names of their collaborators in the cities, so they are handed over to Dr. Costa who, after four years inactivity in Europe...

Runtime:

75 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Howard Vernon, Aida Gouveia

4.5

N/A

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Howl of the Devil

(1988)

Horror

Hector Doriani (Paul Naschy) is a stage and screen actor who feels himself living in the shadow of his dead twin brother, Alex Doriani, once a famous star of horror movies. Alex’s young son, Adrian, now lives with Hector in an isolated mansion in the countryside. To keep alive the memory of his father, the boy imagines himself visited ...

Runtime:

97 min

5.8

N/A

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In the Castle of Bloody Lust

(1968)

Horror

In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Adrian Hoven

Cast:

Janine Reynaud, Howard Vernon, Elvira Berndorff, Claudia Butenuth

5.2

N/A

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A Friend Will Come Tonight

(1946)

Drama, War

Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl and a Swiss doctor who might be a spy for the Germans ...

Runtime:

125 min

Director:

Raymond Bernard

Cast:

Michel Simon, Madeleine Sologne, Paul Bernard, Louis Salou, Saturnin Fabre

6.8

N/A

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Dolls for Sale

(1973)

Crime, Drama

A crime movie directed by Jess Franco.

Runtime:

82 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Howard Vernon, Montserrat Prous, Anne Libert, Doris Thomas, Luis Barboo

6.4

N/A

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Train d'enfer

(1965)

Thriller

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Gilles Grangier

Cast:

Jean Marais, Marisa Mell, Gérard Tichy, Howard Vernon, Jean Lara

5.3

N/A

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