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Plot Summary:
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Triangle (1970)
Plot Summary:
Todd Pearson Is A Teacher That Takes A "Hands-On" Approach With His Students And Colleagues!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Invincible Maciste Brothers (1964)
Plot Summary:
Peplum movie from 1964.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Vulcan, Son of Giove (1962)
Plot Summary:
A superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The Conqueror of Atlantis (1965)
Plot Summary:
Curious noises in the Arabian desert signal an attack by bizarre phantom-like raiders of gold who are in search of their Queen. A relocated Hercules (KIRK MORRIS of The Witch's Curse) arrives on the scene and sets off to find a kidnapped Nomad princess. He follows her abductors past the Mountain of the Dead, through the City of the Phantoms, to a mysterious castle which turn out to be Atlantis. As if all this wasn't strange enough, Hercules will encounter gold-painted, blue body stocking-wearing, reanimated dead guys; female guards (who are killed if they taste the love of a man); a dying evil queen and her Ming the Merciless wanna-be sorcerer-scientist; and a torturous climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Egypt
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: homoerotic
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Samson and the Slave Queen (1963)
Plot Summary:
The king of Nogara dies, leaving behind a will naming one of his nieces as his successor. Will it be blonde and virtuous Isabella or evil, dark-haired Malva? Each woman relies on a hero to locate the will. Malva hires the bare-chested strongman Samson while Isabella relies on the masked El Toro (a.k.a. Zorro) even though her heart belongs to the mild-mannered poet, Ramon. Malva's ruthless desire for the throne soon alienates Samson and he and El Toro then team up to bring about a proper resolution to the Nogara succession. Meanwhile, Isabella learns El Toto's true identity, an identity which both surprises and pleases her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Colossus of the Arena (1962)
Plot Summary:
A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: campy
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Triumph of the Ten Gladiators (1964)
Plot Summary:
The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: campy
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Ursus in the Land of Fire (1963)
Plot Summary:
Hamilan, a cruel and ambitious general, murders his king and places himself on the throne with the former king's evil niece as his queen. He then wages war against his peaceful neighbors, killing their women and enslaving their men. A hero named Ursus appears at a tournament to challenge Hamilan's authority. Though victorious at the tournament, Ursus is arrested and forced to turn a grist-mill under an overseer's lash. Meanwhile, the former king's virtuous daughter, Diana, is tormented by her evil cousin, the new queen. Sentenced to a slow and tortuous execution, Ursus breaks free and a revolt breaks out. Ursus throws Hamilan to his death in a fiery pit and then Ursus and Diana enjoy the cheers of a grateful populace. - Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: campy
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Hercules the Avenger (1965)
Plot Summary:
Reg Park returns to his antics of old as the man of iron in HERCULES THE AVENGER. The Son of Jove undertakes another journey into the nether realms battling zombies and monsters in order to rescue his son, allowing goddess Gia an opportunity to place her own slacker son in Hercules' sandals. There's something for everyone: ghouls, dragons, sweating men and girls in skimpy outfits.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: campy
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Triumph of Maciste (1961)
Plot Summary:
The evil Queen Tenefi demands that a steady supply of young women be sacrificed to the God of Fire. Maciste intervenes and saves from this sacrifice a village's women including the beautiful Antea. Maciste then becomes involved in an effort to restore to the throne of Memphis its rightful ruler, Prince Iram.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Amazons (1973)
Plot Summary:
lena Johnston is Antione, the War Goddess of the Amazons, who must mate with the Greek king Theseus to propogate her race. Traditionally this is done only out of duty, but this time she falls in love with her "boy toy"... a definite no-no for an Amazon queen. Helmed by James Bond director Terence Young and based on a story co-authored by Robert Graves, this sexy and spectacular entry in the sword-and-sandal genre features an incredible bevy of Euro-cult starlets including Rosanna Yanni, Helga Line and Luciana Paluzzi, plus a lyrical score by Academy Award-winner Riz Ortolani.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Adventure, Action, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexploitation film
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Colussus and the Huns (1962)
Plot Summary:
King Bohlem, brother of the late Attila, reconquers former Hun territory. To secure this territory, he sends his son, Otto, and his nephew, Tharus, to forge an alliance with King Haadem, strongest of the neighboring rulers. Haadem, however, is just concluding an alliance with Kudrum, the ambitious son of a king hostile to Hun interests. To cement this alliance, Haadem has agreed to marry his daughter, Tamall, to Kudrun, but Tamall dislikes Kudrum. She quickly falls in love with the newly-arrived Tharus. Kudrum inflames Haadem's feelings against Tharus and arranges to have Tharus publicly flogged. Not satisfied, Kudrum then murders Haadem and has the crime blamed on Tharus. Tamall's love for Tharus is tested but then she comes to believe Tharus's claims of innocence and works on behalf of Tharus as Kudrum's forces arrive for a decisive battle.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Antigone (1961)
Plot Summary:
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The Trojan Women (1971)
Plot Summary:
The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: epic, independent film, serious, realistic, talky
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Seven from Thebes (1964)
Plot Summary:
The city of Thebes has come under the cruel domination of Sparta. Diomedes and several of his friends strive to throw off the Spartan yoke even while Diomedes romances Dorida, daughter of the Theban governor who's collaborating with Sparta.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Medea (1969)
Plot Summary:
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spiritual, fairy tale, psychedelic, epic, surreal, neorealism, fantasy adventure, cult classic, serious, talky
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Sansone contro il corsaro nero (1964)
Plot Summary:
aka Hercules and the Black Pirates. Brave and noble Samson fights pirates as a soldier in the royal army. He wants to marry lovely fair maiden Rosita, but her haughty governor father disapproves. Meanwhile, the cunning and duplicitous Rodrigo Sanchez joins forces with the wicked Black Pirate to thwart Samson.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: campy
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The Rebel Gladiators (1962)
Plot Summary:
In order to persuade the Emperor to spare his village, the mighty Ursus is forced to fight the greatest gladiator in Rome in the Roman Arena.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: campy
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The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983)
Plot Summary:
A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, independent film, fable
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Kerim, Son of the Sheik (1962)
Plot Summary:
In the Middle East, circa 1860s, the evil Omar seeks to become Khadive by killing off his adversaries and by marrying the reluctant Fawzia, favorite niece of the current Khadive. (After marrying Fawzia, he plans to eliminate her so he can then marry his own choice, the ruthless Zahira.) Omar's brutal policies result in the death of a young woman named Laila. Laila's brother, Kerim, then becomes Omar's sworn enemy. Now known as "the Black Shiek," Kerim becomes a Robin Hood of the desert, rallying various tribes in a revolt against Omar. In the process Kerim meets and falls in love with Fawzia who eventually comes to share his feelings. In disguise, Kerim infiltrates Omar's headquarters but is discovered, imprisoned -- along with Fawzia and her father, Mansur -- and flogged. A sympathetic slave girl named Selima rides and informs Prince Ahmed who comes to Kerim's rescue. In a hand-to-hand duel, Kerim kills Omar. Then Kerim and Fawzia ride off together into the desert.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Two Gladiators (1964)
Plot Summary:
The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (1961)
Plot Summary:
Bodybuilder Ed Fury stars as the legendary Ursus in this above-average sword-and-sandal adventure from veteran director Carlo Campogalliani. The plot concerns Ursus' attempts to rescue his kidnapped fiancee, aided by a pretty blind slave girl. Now an evil queen, Ursus' former love throws him into a gladiatorial arena with a bull, which manages to smack the slave girl in the head and restore her eyesight before Ursus defeats it and his enemies. The bullfight is particularly well-staged, and this exciting spectacle may be the highlight of Fury's erratic screen career. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Conquest of Mycenae (1963)
Plot Summary:
Gordon Scott plays Glaucus, the prince of Tiryns, a powerful warrior who goes undercover in Mycenae to infiltrate the evil cult of Moloch, which is exacting tribute from neighboring kingdoms in the form of attractive young hostages, both male and female. Calling himself "Hercules," Glaucus defeats Mycenae's champions and gains the favor of the voluptuous Queen Demetra (Rosalba Neri) whose son, covered in a dog's head mask, has been raised as the living embodiment of the dark god Moloch and receives sacrifices in his sprawling underground grotto.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, epic, psychotronic, campy
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The Lion of Thebes (1964)
Plot Summary:
Fleeing Troy in the wake of its destruction, fair-faced Helen and her faithful protector Arion run into the pharaoh Ramses, who sets his sights on Helen -- and is subsequently murdered. Now it's up to Arion to save Helen from those who wish her dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, epic, serious, captivating, stylized
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Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Hercules (Gordon Scott) sets out to save the city of Troy from a horrible sea monster. Meanwhile, the city is threatened by a different kind of monster--a smarmy politician who will stop at nothing to seize the throne.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, campy
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Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962)
Plot Summary:
Wandering strongman Maxxus comes upon two warring tribes, the Sun worshipers and the Moon worshipers...and fights monsters !.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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The Trojan Horse (1961)
Plot Summary:
Guerra di Troia (AKA: Trojan Horse) is a 1961 historical drama film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time. The film was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starred Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy
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The Centurion (1961)
Plot Summary:
Protests break out in Corinth against Roman domination, injuring Caius Vinicius, a Roman centurion. He's rescued by Hebe -- daughter of the anti-Roman governor, Critolaus -- who's being unsuccessfully wooed by the governor's second-in-command, the villainous Diaeus. Smitten, Hebe sends the handsome Roman to recuperate at the home of Callicrates, a political moderate. Artemide, wife of Callicrates, also falls for Caius Vinicus but when he spurns her, she has him arrested and imprisoned. Hebe then agrees to marry Diaeus if he will spare the Roman's life but Caius Vinicius is soon freed by Callicrates and his allies, just as a Roman army arrives to battle Corinthian forces.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Hercules and the Circle of Fire (1994)
Plot Summary:
When all the earth's fire begins to go out, Hercules and Deianeira must go in search for fire to stop the world from cold. "Hercules and the Circle of Fire" is the third movie-length pilot episode of the television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, dark fantasy, campy
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Immortals (2011)
Plot Summary:
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 175000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, exciting, stylized, epic, serious, heroic, entertaining, visual, visually stunning, fairy tale