Amazing Movie Posters

An ice cream vendor (Giuliano Gemma) and a wrestler (Bud Spencer) decide to play along when a gangster mistakes them for a pair of dangerous killers. Release date: 1974 (USA) Director: Enzo Barboni Running time: 2h 3m Sequel: Charleston Screenplay: Enzo Barboni, Tulio Demicheli, J. Fortini, Ángel G. Gauna, Marie Claire Solleville

Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison. Director: Giovanni Brusadori (as Conrad Brueghel) Writers: Giovanni Brusadori (screenplay) (as Giovanni Brusatori) , Giovanni Brusadori (story) (as Giovanni Brusatori) Stars: Lilli Carati, Ines Pellegrini, Marina Daunia

Young lovers (Jill Schoelen, J. Eddie Peck) go through an old desert test-site full of nuclear-mutated snakes. Initial release: February 15, 1990 (Hungary) Director: Frederico Prosperi Running time: 1h 38m Film series: The Curse Film Series Screenplay: Frederico Prosperi, Susan Zelouf

Terror in the Crypt is a 1964 Italian-Spanish horror film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. The film is based on Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Initial release: 1964 Director: Camillo Mastrocinque Running time: 1h 24m Music composed by: Carlo Savina Costume design: Maria Rosa Valenza

A street-gang member kills the gang's leader and blames it on a rival gang. Director: John A. Bushelman Writer: William C. Thomas Stars: David Kyle, Kelly Yaegermann, Steve Bond

Unjustly accused of murder, a man escapes from a mental institution and is blamed for a series of gruesome murders. Initial release: April 28, 1967 Director: Alfred Vohrer Running time: 2h 34m Screenplay: Herbert Reinecker Music composed by: Martin Böttcher

After political unrest breaks out on a Caribbean island, scheming criminal Renzo Capetto (Anthony Carbone) sees an opportunity. He promises to transport a group of exiles out of the country while also taking part of the national treasury. Followed onto the boat by an American agent (Edward Wain), Capetto plans to kill off the exiles and explain that their deaths were from a sea monster. Then he can keep the money for himself. But this plan goes awry when the sea monster actually shows up. Initial release: June 1961 Director: Roger Corman Running time: 1h 15m Screenplay: Charles B. Griffith Music composed by: Fred Katz

Determined to develop a gaseous drug that allows patients to tolerate the difficulties of surgery, Dr. Bolton (Boris Karloff) devises numerous opium-based remedies, which he tests on himself. His experiments fail miserably in trials performed for his colleagues -- who include his own son, Jonathan (Francis Matthews) -- and Bolton is dismissed from his position. Having developed an addiction to opium, Bolton finds work treating the poor but falls in with grave robbers in order to get drugs. Initial release: December 1958 Director: Robert Day Running time: 1h 27m Music composed by: Buxton Orr Cinematography: Geoffrey Faithfull

Wolfgang is traveling in outer space when a monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman, appears in his spaceship and makes love with him. Then the ship is forced to land on a planet which is a penal colony. Here he meets Miranda who falls in love with him. A group of prisoners uses him and his spaceship to fly away from the planet. But the monster which is by now inside Wolfgang arouses and only Miranda's love can save him. Director: Jay Kamen Writer: Mitch Brian Stars: Rex Smith, Lisa Langlois, Patrick Macnee

Contamination is a 1980 science fiction-horror film directed by Luigi Cozzi and starring Ian McCulloch. Cozzi also cowrote the screenplay under his pen name Lewis Coates. The soundtrack was composed by Goblin. Release date: June 1982 (USA) Director: Luigi Cozzi Running time: 1h 35m Initial DVD release: 2004 (USA) Screenplay: Luigi Cozzi, Erich Tomek

Strange events and disappearances plague a composer (Andrea Occhipinti) as he scores a horror film at an Italian villa. Initial release: August 6, 1983 (Italy) Director: Lamberto Bava Running time: 1h 50m Initial DVD release: May 29, 2001 Screenplay: Dardano Sacchetti, Elisa Briganti

The son (Gene Kelly) of a slain Italian lawyer helps a policeman (J. Carrol Naish) fight organized crime in circa-1900 New York. Initial release: March 11, 1950 Director: Richard Thorpe Running time: 1h 32m Music composed by: Alberto Colombo Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Terry and Ann are two "swingers" who spend the night in a spooky old house, where they're subjected to bizarre sexual experiments by Mr Bradley and his deranged sister. Director: Charles Romine Writer: Charles Romine Stars: Eve Reeves, Joyce Danner, Daniel Garth

A World War II veteran (Gordon MacRae) and his nurse (Virginia Mayo) search for his buddy (Edmond O'Brien), a reformed hoodlum on the run. Initial release: February 11, 1950 Director: Vincent Sherman Running time: 14h 51m Music composed by: Daniele Amfitheatrof Producer: Anthony Veiller

Greek muscleman Atlas (Michael Forest) fights tyrant Praximedes (Frank Wolff) for game Candia (Barboura Morris). Release date: May 1961 (USA) Director: Roger Corman Running time: 1h 19m Screenplay: Charles B. Griffith Music composed by: Ronald Stein

The crew of a five-man submarine travels the world oceans, planting sensors on the ocean floor to warn scientists of any impending earthquakes. Director: Andrew Marton Writers: Arthur Weiss, Art Arthur Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Brian Kelly, Shirley Eaton

In the year 2159, humanity is sharply divided between two classes of people: The ultrarich live aboard a luxurious space station called Elysium, and the rest live a hardscrabble existence in Earth's ruins. His life hanging in the balance, a man named Max (Matt Damon) agrees to undertake a dangerous mission that could bring equality to the population, but Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) vows to preserve the pampered lifestyle of Elysium's citizens, no matter what the cost. Release date: August 9, 2013 (USA) Director: Neill Blomkamp Running time: 1h 49m MPAA rating: R Screenplay: Neill Blomkamp

A space scientist (Hugh Marlowe) figures out how to down a fleet of alien spacecraft looming over Washington, D.C. Initial release: July 1, 1956 Director: Fred F. Sears Running time: 1h 23m Story by: Donald Keyhoe