Welcome to the 41st century, where Barbarella (Jane Fonda), sexy queen of space and representative of United Earth, battles monsters, robots, and nasty intergalactic villains in her quest to locate... more
Years before Shaw Brothers' kung fu films made them the biggest film studio in Hong Kong, local audiences flocked to their wuxia pian films: mythic tales of swordfighting (and often gravity-defying)... more
Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Guido Lollobrigida. A mysterious gunman with a distinctive black glove agrees to help a new widow find and kill the men who stole her life from her. Directed by... more
In this definitive spaghetti western, Franco Nero (Keoma, The Fifth Cord) gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-US... more
As giant monsters rampaged the Japanese cinematic landscape during the "kaiju boom" of the mid-1960s, Daiei Studios introduced a new character to the screen that would be embraced for generations:... more
Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas. In this sparkling comic thriller, a society of assassins for hire is challenged by an aspiring reporter to target their own charismatic leader. Based on Jack... more
Django the drifter returns in this classic sixties Spaghetti Western from Ferdinando Baldi (Texas Addio, Comin At Ya!), starring Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) as the wandering gunslinger, hired... more
While groundbreaking director Mario Bava remains the most well-known purveyor of Italian Gothic horror, many other filmmakers tried their hand at the form throughout the 1960s as part of a hugely... more
Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name spawned imitations, variations and shameless rip-offs keen to emulate his success at the box office. Within months of A Fistful of Dollars' release, Giuliano Gemma... more
This disturbing tale of sexual horror from director Yasuzô Masumura stars Eiji Funakoshi as a deranged blind sculptor who is obsessed with the female form. He kidnaps a young model (Mako Midori) to... more
Writer/director Teruo Ishii adapts some of celebrated horror author Edogawa Rampo's most deranged stories to produce this controversial and disturbing film. A young medical student searches for his... more
In stark contrast to the monochrome naturalism of his earlier masterwork Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, visionary master director Tomu Uchida took inspiration from Bunraku and kabuki theater for... more
Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Lorelia De Luca. A double-barrel of spaghetti western excitement. In A Pistol for Ringo (98 min.), a gunfighter infiltrates a bandit gang to rescue a family of... more
After making his first bonafide classic in Ride the High Country, director Sam Peckinpah took a step towards the epic with Major Dundee. The film would, in many ways, define the rest of his career... more
The work of Kijû Yoshida is one of Japanese cinema's obscure pleasures. A contemporary of Nagisa Ôshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses) and Masahiro Shinoda (Pale Flower,... more
Drawn from the pen of one of Japan's foremost writers of the 20th century, Junichiro Tanizaki (A Fool's Love, The Makioka Sisters), Irezumi is a stylish tale of lust, betrayal and revenge directed by... more
Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) helms a bitingly satirical espionage thriller set in the heart of the Japanese auto industry in his 1962 landmark Black Test Car, which... more
Have you ever heard the saying "it's a man's world"' Well don't dare repeat that to The Man-Eaters - a raucous, rowdy and randy gang of female bikers who ride their men just as viciously as they do... more
From the outrageous imagination of cult director Teruo Ishii (Orgies of Edo, Horrors of Malformed Men) comes this infamous omnibus of three shocking tales of crime and punishment based on true-life... more
These two movies from cult classic director Herschell Gordon Lewis feature murderous locals in the south and the tourists who must fight back against them! Includes Two Thousand Maniacs! (Connie... more
For the third and final instalment in his infamous 'Blood Trilogy', Color Me Blood Red, splatter movie pioneer Herschell Gordon Lewis turned to the world of fine art for this tortured tale of a... more
Legendary Toei director Teruo Ishii tells three stories of moral sickness set during Japan's prosperous Genroku era in this bloody follow-up to his sexploitation classic Shogun's Joy of Torture, and... more
Lon Chaney, Jr., Carol Ohmart. Good stuff for you exploitation buffs! Jack Hill makes his solo directorial debut here with this cult shocker about a pair of greedy cousins trying to pry the family... more
Considered the magnum opus of the five decades-long career of Tomu Uchida (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Mad Fox), the epic crime drama A Fugitive from the Past was voted third in the prestigious... more
War, madness, sex, and body horror are explored in this brutal drama from Japan, set in the late 1930s during the Sino-Japanese War. While enduring horrifying physical and emotional trauma as she... more