Roger Corman — Director (38)
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
director: Roger Corman actor: Jason Robards / George Segal …
other title: Il massacro del giorno di San Valentino / Chicago-massakren …
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban
The Masque of the Red Death
director: Roger Corman actor: Vincent Price / Hazel Court …
other title: La maschera della morte rossa / Den røde dødsmaske …
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
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The Premature Burial (1962) [Movie] TMDB
The Premature Burial
director: Roger Corman actor: Ray Milland / Hazel Court …
other title: Sepolto vivo / O Enterrado Vivo …
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Tomb of Ligeia
director: Roger Corman actor: Vincent Price / Elizabeth Shepherd …
other title: La tomba di Ligeia / O Túmulo de Ligeia …
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
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The Haunted Palace (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Haunted Palace
director: Roger Corman actor: Vincent Price / Debra Paget …
other title: La città dei mostri / Det forheksede slot …
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
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Tales of Terror (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tales of Terror
director: Roger Corman actor: Vincent Price / Peter Lorre …
other title: I racconti del terrore / A Maldita, o Gato e a Morte …
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Pit and the Pendulum
director: Roger Corman actor: Vincent Price / John Kerr …
other title: Il pozzo e il pendolo / Brønden og pendulet …
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
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House of Usher (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
House of Usher
director: Roger Corman actor: Vincent Price / Mark Damon …
other title: I vivi e i morti / Ondskabens slot …
Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.
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The Wasp Woman (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Wasp Woman
director: Roger Corman actor: Susan Cabot / Anthony Eisley …
other title: La donna vespa / A Mulher Vespa …
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
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The Trip (1967) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Trip
director: Roger Corman actor: Peter Fonda / Susan Strasberg …
other title: Il serpente di fuoco / Viagem ao Mundo da Alucinação …
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
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The Intruder (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Intruder
director: Roger Corman actor: William Shatner / Frank Maxwell …
other title: L'odio esplode a Dallas / Weißer Terror …
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.
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The Terror (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Terror
director: Roger Corman actor: Boris Karloff / Jack Nicholson …
other title: La vergine di cera / Genfærdets terror …
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
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Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Attack of the Crab Monsters
director: Roger Corman actor: Richard Garland / Pamela Duncan …
other title: L'assalto dei granchi giganti / L'Attaque des crabes géants …
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.
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A Bucket of Blood (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
A Bucket of Blood
director: Roger Corman actor: Dick Miller / Barboura Morris …
other title: Un secchio di sangue / Das Vermächtnis des Professor Bondi …
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
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Five Guns West (1955) [Movie] WikiData KevGa-NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Five Guns West
director: Roger Corman actor: John Lund / Dorothy Malone …
other title: Fünf Revolver gehen nach Westen / Cinque colpi di pistola …
During the Civil War, five condemned Southern prisoners are plucked off Death Row and promised pardons on the condition that they undertake a mission to head west and bring back a double-crossing Confederate spy who has a stagecoach full of Confederate gold.
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The Wild Angels (1966) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Wild Angels
director: Roger Corman actor: Peter Fonda / Nancy Sinatra …
other title: I selvaggi / De vilde engle …
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
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Machine-Gun Kelly (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Machine-Gun Kelly
director: Roger Corman actor: Charles Bronson / Susan Cabot …
other title: La legge del mitra / Revolver-Kelly …
George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets his confidence from his Thompson SMG and his girl Flo. After a botched robbery, Flo, Kelly and his gang try their hand at a more lucrative job: kidnapping.