Released Date:
1945-04-01
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
156 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (4161 Reviews)
Director:
Henry KingGeorge Seaton (screenplay)
Franz Werfel (novel)
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
Released Date:
1944-11-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (28491 Reviews)
Director:
Otto PremingerVera Caspary (novel)
Jay Dratler (screen play)
Samuel Hoffenstein (screen play)
Elizabeth Reinhardt (screen play)
Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.
Released Date:
1945-12-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (7165 Reviews)
Director:
John M. StahlJo Swerling (screenplay)
Ben Ames Williams (novel)
Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train to New Mexico. They are immediately attracted to each other, soon fall in love and decide to get married, about which everyone they know is happy except Ellen's fiancè back home, politician Russell Quinton. However, Richard and Ellen's love for each other is different than that of the other as Ellen demonstrates in the manner which she tells everyone of their impending marriage. Ellen's love for Richard is an obsessive, possessive one, much like the love she had for her now deceased father, who Richard physically resembles. Ellen wants Richard all to herself and resents anyone who even remotely takes a place in his life and heart, even if his love for that person is not a romantic one. These people include most specifically Richard's physically disabled teen-aged brother Danny Harland, Ellen's own adopted sister Ruth Berent, and a young man neither has gotten a chance to really know yet. After time, Richard learns to what extent Ellen will go to get what she wants, she who always wins.
Released Date:
1953-04-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (10721 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè De TothCrane Wilbur (screenplay)
Charles Belden (story)
Professor Henry Jarrod is a true artist whose wax sculptures are lifelike. He specializes in historical tableau's such a Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. His business partner, Matthew Burke, needs some of his investment returned to him and pushes Jarrod to have more lurid exposes like a chamber of horrors. When Jarrod refuses, Burke set the place alight destroying all of his beautiful work in the hope of claiming the insurance. Jarrod is believed to have died in the fire but he unexpectedly reappears some 18 months later when he opens a new exhibit. This time, his displays focus on the macabre but he has yet to reproduce his most cherished work, Marie Antoinette. When he meets his new assistant's beautiful friend, Sue Allen, he knows he's found the perfect model - only unbeknown to anyone, he has a very particular way of making his wax creations.
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (13987 Reviews)
Director:
Kurt NeumannJames Clavell (screenplay)
George Langelaan (based on a story by)
After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family. Andre was experimenting with teleportation - transporting objects from one point to another by breaking the object down to the atomic level and then reassembling it in a receiver a distance away. The system had some glitches - it seemed to work with inanimate object but his cat disappeared when he tried teleporting it. He thinks he's solved all of the problems with his invention and decides to try and teleport himself. When a fly enters the teleportation device with him, disaster strikes.
Released Date:
1960-06-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
79 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(7713 Reviews)
Director:
Roger CormanGenres:
HorrorEdgar Allan Poe (based on "The Fall of The House of Usher")
Richard Matheson (screenplay)
After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
Released Date:
1963-01-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (7097 Reviews)
Director:
Roger CormanRichard Matheson (screenplay)
Edgar Allan Poe (poem)
In this tongue-in-cheek movie inspired by Poe's poem, Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magician named Bedlo comes to Craven for help - the evil Scarabus has turned him into a raven and he needs someone to change him back. He also tells the reluctant wizard that Craven's long-lost wife Lenore, whom he loved greatly and thought dead, is living with the despised Scarabus.
Released Date:
1964-03-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Italy
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(11896 Reviews)
William F. Leicester (screenplay)
Richard Matheson (screenplay)
Richard Matheson (novel)
Ubaldo Ragona (screenplay)
Furio M. Monetti (screenplay)
When a plague devastated life on Earth, the population died or became a sort of zombie living in the dark. Dr. Robert Morgan is the unique healthy survivor on the planet, having a routine life for his own survival: he kills the night creatures along the day and maintains the safety of his house, to be protected along the night. He misses his beloved wife and daughter, consumed by the outbreak, and he fights against his loneliness to maintain mentally sane. When Dr. Morgan finds the contaminated Ruth Collins, he uses his blood to heal her and he becomes the last hope on Earth to help the other contaminated survivors. But the order of this new society is scary.
Released Date:
1968-05-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (5930 Reviews)
Director:
Michael ReevesTom Baker (screenplay)
Michael Reeves (screenplay)
Louis M. Heyward (additional scenes)
Ronald Bassett (novel)
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches. Aided by his sadistic accomplice John Stearne, he travels from city to city and wrenches confessions from "witches" in order to line his pockets and gain sexual favors. When Hopkins persecutes a priest, he incurs the wrath of Richard Marshall, who is engaged to the priest's niece. Risking treason by leaving his military duties, Marshall relentlessly pursues the evil Hopkins and his minion Stearne.
Released Date:
1971-05-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (9461 Reviews)
Director:
Robert FuestDoctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are orchestrated by a demented organ player with the help of his mute assistant. The detective is stumped until he finds that all of the doctors being killed assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of Dr. Phibes, but he couldn't be the culprit, could he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death...
Released Date:
1972-07-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (3782 Reviews)
Director:
Robert FuestRobert Fuest
Robert Blees
James Whiton (characters)
William Goldstein (characters)
The moon rises at a predestined angle and awakens the sleeping Dr. Phibes three years later. To his dismay, he finds his house has been demolished and his papyrus scrolls stolen, the scrolls he needs to find the Pharoah's Tomb in Egypt, where the River of Life flows. After identifying the source of the papyrus theft, he packs and leaves for Egypt with his assistant Vulnavia, still intent upon awakening his dead wife Victoria. The parties responsible for the theft of Phibes' scrolls suffer an attrition problem as Inspector Trout chases him across the world.
Released Date:
1973-04-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (6219 Reviews)
Director:
Douglas HickoxAnthony Greville-Bell (screenplay)
Stanley Mann (idea)
John Kohn (idea)
Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) stars as an actor overlooked for a critics' acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespeare plays. After confronting the Critics' Circle, an attempted suicidal dive into the Thames results in Lionheart being rescued by your typical paraffin/meths/turps swigging tramps. Lionheart then (presumed dead) exacts his grizzly, and quite amusing revenge on the critics who denied him his finest hour.
Released Date:
1981-05-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (1741 Reviews)
Director:
Roy Ward BakerEdward Abraham
Valerie Abraham
R. Chetwynd-Hayes (book)
A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.
Released Date:
1982-10-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
6 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
8.4 (16948 Reviews)
Director:
Tim BurtonYoung Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
Released Date:
1984-04-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1723 Reviews)
Director:
Pete WalkerMichael Armstrong (screenplay)
Earl Derr Biggers (novel)
George M. Cohan (play)
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants.
Released Date:
1984-03-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (804 Reviews)
Director:
Ray CameronSix scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It turns out that the house is the place of a satanic cult lead by a sinister monk who plans to kill the scientists who are inhabiting this house of Satan.
Released Date:
1983-12-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
13 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
8.6 (10458 Reviews)
Director:
John LandisMichael Jackson and his date are watching a movie. They leave, and take a shortcut through the graveyard on the way home. Michael turns into a werepanther-type creature, and then later a zombie, as he gets down and funky in a tremendous dance scene to the tune of his song "Thriller."
Released Date:
1986-07-02
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
74 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (30004 Reviews)
Peter Young (story)
Vance Gerry (story)
Steve Hulett (story)
Ron Clements (story)
John Musker (story)
Bruce Morris (story)
Matthew O'Callaghan (story)
Burny Mattinson (story)
David Michener (story)
Mel Shaw (story)
Eve Titus (based on "Basil Of Baker Street")
Paul Galdone (based on "Basil Of Baker Street")
In Victorian London, England, a little mouse girl's toymaker father is abducted by a peglegged bat. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world's answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime's link to a plot against the Crown itself.
Released Date:
1987-08-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (2943 Reviews)
Director:
Lindsay AndersonGenres:
DramaDavid Berry (play)
David Berry (screenplay)
Summer people in Maine: things are changing. Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during the youth of two elderly widowed sisters who have a seaside home where they've summered for 50 years. Libby is blind, contrary, and seemingly getting ready to die. Sarah is attentive to her sister, worried about continuing to care for her, and half interested in an old Russian aristocrat who fishes from their shore. It's the eve of Sarah's 46th wedding anniversary. The Russian offers some fish he's caught, Sarah invites him to dinner, and Libby gets her back up. Sarah wonders if it isn't time to sell the place and find a home for Libby. What alternatives do old people have?
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