The Demons
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the Inquisition.
Dangerous Beauty
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.
Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
Grave Robbers
A group of teenage, treasure seeking, grave robbers accidentally uncover the tomb of a satanic sect leader from the early Spanish colonial age, reawakening the diabolical killer, who promptly sets out to complete his unholy mission of spawning the son of Satan.
Black Death
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
The Holy Inquisition
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he reports them, leading to devastating consequences for the whole family.
The Antichrist
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Coven
French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.
Galileo
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
History of the World: Part I
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Season of the Witch
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
The Milky Way
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
The Devils
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
Menocchio the Heretic
Italy, late 16th century, the Church, threatened by the Protestants, unleashes the Inquisition. Menocchio, an old, stubborn, self-educated miller oppose the new order. Accused of heresy, he ignores the pleadings and stands trial. The story of a man incapable of betraying his own principles.
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
Day of Wrath
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.
The Name of the Rose
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
The Pit and the Pendulum
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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Jesús Franco
Director
Rosa Palomar
as
Anne Libert
as
Kathleen
Karin Field
as
Lady De Winter
Oliver Platt
as
Maffio Venier
Rufus Sewell
as
Marco Venier
Jacqueline Bisset
as
Paola Franco
Catherine McCormack
as
Veronica Franco
Robert Newton
as
Don Pedro
Norma Varden
as
Elena's Governess
Agustín Bernal
as
El Verdugo
David Warner
as
Abbot
Johnny Harris
as
Mold
Eddie Redmayne
as
Osmund
Sean Bean
as
Ulrich
Claudio Brook
as
Fray Alonso de Peralta
Jorge Luke
as
Luis de Carvajal
Alberto De Martino
Director
Vittorio Fanfoni
as
(credit only)
Umberto Orsini
as
Dr. Marcello Sinibaldi
Alida Valli
as
Irene
Luis Fernández de Eribe
as
Judy Parfitt
as
Angelica Sarti
Margaret Leighton
as
Elderly Court Lady
Vernon Dobtcheff
as
First Secretary
Mel Brooks
Director
Howard Morris
as
Court Spokesman - The Roman Empire
John Hurt
as
Jesus - The Roman Empire
Mary-Margaret Humes
as
Miriam
Nicolas Cage
as
Behmen
Stephen Campbell Moore
as
Debelzaq
Ron Perlman
as
Felson
Stephen Graham
as
Hagamar
Luis Buñuel
Director
Daniel Pilon
as
François, ami de Rodolphe
Georges Marchal
as
Le jésuite / The Jesuit
Michel Piccoli
as
Le marquis de Sade / The Marquis
Twiggy
as
Courtier
Kenneth Colley
as
Legrand
Georgina Hale
as
Philippe
Aida Gouveia
as
Antónia, a Nun
Vítor Mendes
as
António Fernando Queiroz de Melo, the Mayor
William Berger
as
Father Vicente
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Director
Christian Slater
as
Adso of Melk
Roger Corman
Director
Barbara Steele
as
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
John Kerr
as
Francis Barnard
Vincent Price
as
Nicholas Medina / Sebastian Medina
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