When a young real estate agent, Thomas Hutter, goes to the castle to close a deal, Orlok is attracted by his blood and decides to follow him to his hometown. The arrival of the count causes a series of mysterious deaths and spreads panic among the inhabitants.

Murnau, through evocative images an...

Horror, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany, 1932.
Late in the evening, Allan Gray arrives at an inn near the town of Courtempierre and rents a room to sleep. Gray is suddenly disturbed by an old man, who enters the room and leaves a square package on the table: "To be opened on my death" is written ...

Horror, by F. W. Murnau, German, 1926.
Faust is an elderly scholar who has lost faith in life. He is defeated by his inability to help others and by his awareness of his own mortality. One day, he meets Mephistopheles, who offers him a pact: in exchange for his soul, Mephistopheles will give him ...

Drama, fantasy, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
Japan, late 16th century: the potter Genjurō and his brother Tobei live with their wives Miyagi and Ohama in a village in the Omi region; Genjurō, convinced that he can earn a lot of money by selling his goods in the nearby city, goes to the county...

Horror, fantasy, by Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920.
The symbolic film of cinematic expressionism. Francis tells a story to a man: in 1830, in a small town, a guy named Caligari, plays the barker at the fair to present the attraction of him, a sleepwalker that he holds under hypnosis in a coffin. The...

Docufiction, by Andrea Dalfino, 2022, Italy.
The Witches of Scillar is a documentary that delves deeply into the trials that took place in Alto Adige, in Castel Presule and surrounding areas at the beginning of the 16th century, following which more than 10 were condemned to the stake on charges ...

Horror, comedy, by Milton Moses Ginsberg, USA, 1973.
Jack Whittier is a reporter posted to Washington D.C. as correspondent from Budapest. Jack is infected by a werewolf during a party and begins to transform into a werewolf. Meanwhile, he tries to hide his new condition and keep his job as a jou...

Documentary, by Benjamin Christensen, Sweden, 1922.
Desecration of tombs, torture, demon-possessed nuns and witches' sabbath: Haxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages is an incredibly original and unconventional film that has become legendary over time. Between documentary and dramatic fiction, the fil...

Horror, by Herk Harvey, United States, 1962.
Mary Henry emerges unscathed from a car accident that killed her two companions, and sets off on a strange adventure in Salt Lake City, where she finds herself drawn to a dilapidated lakeside pavilion and haunted by a ghostly figure (played by same dir...

Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ...

Thriller, by Serge Turgeon, Italy, 2025.
In Venice, a mysterious presence appears once every century or two, haunting the canals and hidden corners of the city. Driven by a sense of destiny, a woman decides to search for it. Following its elusive traces, she is drawn deeper and deeper into the ci...

Horror, thriller, by Jason Figgis, United States, 2016.
Set in Ireland, the film tells the story of Isabel Mann, an introverted and lonely teenager who is drawn into a dark and seductive world of blood, violence, and vampirism. As the story unfolds, Isabel undergoes a disturbing transformation—fr...

Documentary, horror, by Jason Figgis, USA, 2014.
In "Cathnafola", everything begins when renowned paranormal investigator Chris Halton of Haunted Earth UK receives footage filmed by three teenagers at the ruins of Cathnafola House in Ireland. Determined to unearth the truth behind the location’s ...

Documentary, by Jason Figgis, United States, 2019.
This documentary retraces the life and work of Simon Marsden, widely regarded as one of the foremost photographers of the supernatural. Premiered at the British Film Institute in London, the film offers a fascinating journey into his creative uni...

Horror, by Theodore Gershuny, United States, 1972.
1972 American Slasher, is a forerunner horror genre several years before Carpenter's Halloween, with a complex script and first person shooting of the killer, which inspired many subsequent films. Its originality and its narration are what manage...

Horror, by John Carpenter, United States, 1978.
An independent film shot on a very small budget, it grossed over $ 80 million worldwide at the time. It is the most successful slasher movie and one of the 5 most profitable films in the history of cinema, which has become a cult with countless sequ...

Drama, horror, by Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926.
A page of madness is an independent film shot on a nearly non-existent budget and then lost for forty-five years. Fortunately the director rediscovered it in his archive in 1971. It is a film made by a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, the S...

Horror, Crime, by Monte Hellman, United States, 1959.
A group of criminals, led by the ruthless Alexander Ward, devises a plan to steal gold bars from a bank vault in Deadwood, South Dakota. Ward sends one of his henchmen, Marty Jones, to cause an explosion in a nearby gold mine; the detonation w...

Documentary, horror, by Jason Figgis, Ireland, 2003.
Throughout history, mankind has told stories of ghosts and supernatural presences. In The Twilight Hour, renowned photographer of the fantastic and supernatural Sir Simon Marsden embarks on a journey into the darkest and most unsettling corners...

Horror, di George Romero, Stati Uniti, 1968.
One of the most profitable independent films of all time, it grossed around 250 times its budget. Inspired like other cult horror films by Richard Matheson's 1954 novel "I Am Legend". Shot as a "guerrilla film" with a cast and crew of friends and famil...

Short film, sci-fi, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy, 2011.
Freely adapted from "The Strange Case of M. Valdemar" by Edgar Allan Poe: a man on his deathbed, is mesmerized (a kind of hypnosis), remaining suspended between life and death until ...

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SUBTITLES: English

Horror, Thriller, by Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1963.
Francis Ford Coppola's debut film produced at low cost by Roger Corman, who wanted a film on the model of low budget Psycho with gothic atmospheres and heinous crimes. The Haloran family gathers in their Irish castle to commemorate t...

Horror, romantic, by Hunt Hoe, Canada, 2006.
Gus is a charming man who works as a cook in an oriental restaurant in Montreal. His boss sends him to a remote island in Thailand to meet a master of Zen cuisine and improve the quality of his dishes. There he meets a mysterious woman named Lake who l...

Horror, comedy, by Jack Hill, United States, 1967.
Spider Baby is a grotesque cult horror film that tells the story of the Merrye family, affected by a genetic disease that causes mental regression and feral behavior as they grow older. In an isolated house live Baby, her sisters, and the affecti...