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Grindhouse Cinema Database's Top Grindhouse Classics

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Cannibal Holocaust
Ruggero Deodato 1980 1h 35m 6.6

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Paura nella città dei morti viventi
Lucio Fulci 1980 1h 33m 7.1

In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetery which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to rise.

Coffy
3.

Coffy

Jack Hill 1973 1h 30m 6.2

Coffy is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin. Coffy sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.

Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero 1978 2h 7m 8.3

An American horror movie from 1978 about a group of four people who are hiding out in a shopping center after the city has been over run with zombies. This low budget film has gained a cult statues in the horror genre.

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
John Hough 1974 1h 33m

Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Russ Meyer 1965 1h 23m 7.7

A B-Movie from Russ Meyer starring three slightly amusing big breasted GoGo girs that travel across the California desert and don’t look back to anyone or anything. A film from the soft porno king of big breasted bawds.

Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori
Shunya Ito 1972 1h 27m 7.4

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

Fight for Your Life
Robert A. Endelson 1977 1h 22m 6.5

This is the story of three escaped convicts who take a middle-class Black family hostage for a relentless nightmare of racist humiliation, sexual violence and extreme vengeance.

Tian xia di yi quan
Jeong Chang-hwa 1972 1h 46m 7.0

Two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament.

Halloween
10.

Halloween

John Carpenter 1978 1h 31m 8.1

Halloween is the low budget American horror film from 1978. A young man who at the age of six killed his sister has escaped from a psychiatric clinic and is once again killing teenagers in this classic from John Carpenter.

Long hu dou
Jimmy Wang Yu 1970 1h 30m 9.0

See The Most Violent, Bloodspurting Fight Ever Filmed!

I Drink Your Blood
David E. Durston 1970 1h 23m 5.5

A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy, whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them, tries to get even - with deadly results.

Day of the Woman
Meir Zarchi 1978 1h 41m 5.7

An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
Don Edmonds 1975 1h 37m 7.1

Ilsa is a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners. Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and should be allowed to fight on the front lines

Shurayukihime
Toshiya Fujita 1973 1h 37m 8.3

A young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi
Jimmy Wang Yu 1975 1h 33m 7.8

The one-armed boxer is stalked by a vengeful flying guillotine expert, after his disciples were killed in the first 'One-Armed Boxer' film. But as the flying guillotine master is blind, he starts his quest by becoming a serial killer of one-armed men.

Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero 1968 1h 36m 8.2

A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" horror film, and it greatly influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.

Mil gritos tiene la noche
Juan Piquer Simón 1982 1h 25m 6.7

A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.

Rolling Thunder
John Flynn 1977 1h 40m 6.9

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô
Norifumi Suzuki 1973 1h 28m 7.0

Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho runs into the three gangsters responsible for her father's murder, and runs afoul of various yakuza who want her dead. A European spy, played by Christina Lindberg, arrives on the scene and complicates matters.

Suspiria
21.

Suspiria

Dario Argento 1977 1h 39m 8.1

A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the staff of the school are actually a coven of witches bent on chaos and destruction.

Switchblade Sisters
Jack Hill 1975 1h 31m 6.0

A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!

Tenebre
23.

Tenebre

Dario Argento 1982 1h 41m 7.2

A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.

E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà
Lucio Fulci 1981 1h 28m 7.6

Behind this doorway lie the terrifying and unspeakable secrets of hell. No one who sees it lives to describe it. And you shall live in darkness for all eternity.

The Exterminator
James Glickenhaus 1980 1h 38m 7.6

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

The Sexplorer
1975 1h 22m

A young Venusian girl lands on Earth to explore the planet. She lands in Soho in London, UK where she has ample opportunities to research sex on Earth.

The Lady in Red
1979 1h 33m

A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.

The Last House on Dead End Street
Roger Watkins 1977 1h 18m

After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.

The Last House on the Left
Wes Craven 1972 1h 24m 7.1

Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.

The Mack
30.

The Mack

Michael Campus 1973 1h 50m

Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.

The Pom Pom Girls
Joseph Ruben 1976 1h 29m

A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is approaching, and a prank war is in full swing.

Sette note in nero
Lucio Fulci 1977 1h 37m 6.7

A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.

The Savage Seven
1968 1h 34m

Biker gang leader Kisum (Adam Roarke) loves waitress Marcia Little Hawk (Joanna Frank). Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk (Robert Walker, Jr.), the leader of a group of American Indians disapproves. At various times these two groups are adversaries and allies. The two groups join forces but crooked businessmen scheme to have them at each other's t...

Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken
Shigehiro Ozawa 1974 1h 30m 7.0

Takuma Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba) is a martial arts master for hire who comes to the rescue of a kidnapped heiress. The film begins with Tsurugi meeting the condemned murderer Tateki Shikenbaru while disguised as a Buddhist monk. Tsuguri applies his "oxygen coma punch" to Tateki, causing him to collapse just before he can be executed. ...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Tobe Hooper 1974 1h 23m 8.0

A group of friends passing through are stalked and hunted down by a deformed killer with a chainsaw in order to sustain his poor family who can only afford to eat what they kill.

Thriller - en grym film
Bo Arne Vibenius 1974 1h 48m 7.2

A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.

Vanishing Point
Richard C. Sarafian 1971 1h 39m 8.1

Kowalski, works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Fransisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.

Il boss
38.

Il boss

Fernando Di Leo 1973 1h 49m

A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.

Zombi 2
39.

Zombi 2

Lucio Fulci 1979 1h 31m 7.7

Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

Escape from New York
John Carpenter 1981 1h 39m 7.6

In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

Enter the Dragon
Robert Clouse 1973 1h 42m 7.9

A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
Dario Argento 1970 1h 36m 7.0

In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas (Tony Musant) witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall) and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him.

Supervixens
Russ Meyer 1975 1h 46m 6.9

Supervixens is a 1975 sexploitation satire by American filmmaker Russ Meyer. The cast features Meyer regulars Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, and Haji. The film also features Shari Eubank (in a dual role) in one of her only two film roles ever and Christy Hartburg in her only film role ever.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervixens

Wu du
44.

Wu du

Chang Cheh 1978 1h 41m 7.0

A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.

Death Race 2000
Paul Bartel 1975 1h 20m 7.3

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenge...

The Big Bird Cage
Jack Hill 1972 1h 36m 6.0

Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.

Ren zhe wu di
Chang Cheh 1982 1h 48m

A young martial artist seeks revenge on the ninja who kills his martial arts brothers and teacher.

Blood Freak
Brad F. Grinter, Steve Hawkes 1972 1h 26m 5.0

A biker comes upon a girl with a flat tire and offers her a ride home. He winds up at a drug party with the girl's sister, then follows her to a turkey farm owned by her father, a mad scientist. The father turns the biker into a giant turkey monster who goes after drug dealers.

Walking Tall
Phil Karlson 1973 2h 5m 9.0

Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.

Shao Lin san shi liu fang
Lau Kar-leung 1978 1h 56m 8.0

During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge.

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