Lucio Fulci - Top 40 Recommendations
by kishiro6 | created - 26 Aug 2020 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicA list of classic Lucio Fulci movies. Includes movies from all genres; horror, giallo, sci-fi, fantasy and comedy.
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1. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas
Votes: 10,700
Don't Torture A Duckling
Starring Florinda Bolkan
Music by Riz Ortolani
2. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Not Rated | 95 min | Mystery, Thriller
The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti
Votes: 5,794
A Lizard In A Woman's Skin
Starring Florinda Bolkan
Music by Ennio Morricone
3. The Psychic (1977)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A clairvoyant woman discovers a skeleton in a wall in her husband's house, and seeks to find the truth about what happened to the victim.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Gabriele Ferzetti, Marc Porel, Gianni Garko
Votes: 6,410
The Psychic
Starring Jennifer O'Neill
Music by Fabio Frizzi
4. Zombie (1979)
R | 91 min | Horror
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver
Votes: 30,738
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Music by Fabio Frizzi
5. The Beyond (1981)
R | 87 min | Horror
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John
Votes: 25,330 | Gross: $0.12M
The Beyond
Starring Catriona MacColl
Music by Fabio Frizzi
6. One on Top of the Other (1969)
R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza
Votes: 2,678
Perversion Story
Music by Riz Ortolani
7. The Conspiracy of Torture (1969)
R | 84 min | Drama, History, Horror
In 16th century Italy, a young noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father, leading to an uproar in the community and the Catholic Church.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Adrienne Larussa, Georges Wilson, Mavie Bardanzellu
Votes: 1,048
Beatrice Cenci
Music by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
8. Massacre Time (1966)
M | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A prospector and his drunkard half-brother must fight a rancher and his sadistic son after they seize control of his farm.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Franco Nero, George Hilton, Linda Sini, Giuseppe Addobbati
Votes: 2,348
Massacre Time (The Brute And The Beast)
Music by Coriolano Gori
9. Contraband (1980)
Unrated | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Someone is muscling in on the two brothers' cigarette smuggling into Italy at Naples. The police is tipped off, then Mickey's stable burns down, then the killing etc. starts. Luca responds.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Marcel Bozzuffi, Saverio Marconi
Votes: 2,206
Contraband
Music by Fabio Frizzi
10. The New York Ripper (1982)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross, Andrea Occhipinti
Votes: 12,500
The New York Ripper
Music by Francesco De Masi
11. The Four of the Apocalypse... (1975)
Unrated | 87 min | Fantasy, Western
In 1873, four petty criminals - three men and a pregnant woman - wander through the trackless terrain of Utah, where they are hounded by a sadistic bandit.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Fabio Testi, Lynne Frederick, Michael J. Pollard, Harry Baird
Votes: 2,948
Four Of The Apocalypse
Music by Fabio Frizzi
12. City of the Living Dead (1980)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi
Votes: 19,365
City Of The Living Dead (The Gates Of Hell)
Starring Catriona MacColl
Music by Fabio Frizzi
13. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza
Votes: 16,262
The House By The Cemetery
Starring Catriona MacColl
Music by Walter Rizzati
14. Silver Saddle (1978)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Drama, Western
A young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past...
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Sven Valsecchi, Ettore Manni, Gianni De Luigi
Votes: 834
Silver Saddle
Music by Fabio Frizzi
15. The Black Cat (1981)
R | 92 min | Horror
A professor with the psychic ability to communicate with the dead uses his powers on his pet cat in order to take vengeance upon his enemies.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck, Al Cliver
Votes: 4,243
The Black Cat
Music by Pino Donaggio
16. The Eroticist (1972)
R | 96 min | Comedy
A senator vying for the Italian Presidency seeks to cure his penchant for sexual harassment, all while a cabal of politicians linked to the Vatican try to keep the story under wraps.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Lionel Stander, Laura Antonelli, Corrado Gaipa
Votes: 672
The Eroticist
Music by Fred Bongusto
17. I maniaci (1964)
92 min | Comedy
Features a series of brief comic shetches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Walter Chiari, Enrico Maria Salerno, Barbara Steele, Raimondo Vianello
Votes: 224
The Maniacs
Starring Franco Franchi
Music by Ennio Morricone
18. A Bullet for Sandoval (1969)
PG-13 | 105 min | Western
A Confederate deserter, whose Mexican girlfriend dies during childbirth, starts a feud with her Mexican family, becomes an outlaw and vows revenge on all who wronged him.
Director: Julio Buchs | Stars: George Hilton, Ernest Borgnine, Alberto de Mendoza, Leo Anchóriz
Votes: 536
A Bullet For Sandoval
Co-Directed by Lucio Fulci and Julio Buchs
Music by Gianni Ferrio
19. Challenge to White Fang (1974)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Western
Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, John Steiner, Raimund Harmstorf
Votes: 484
Challenge To White Fang
Music by Carlo Rustichelli
20. A Cat in the Brain (1990)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A horror film director is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer bent on killing people to model the killings after the director's gory death scenes from his movies.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Lucio Fulci, Brett Halsey, Ria De Simone, David L. Thompson
Votes: 3,777
Cat In The Brain
Music by Fabio Frizzi
21. Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Olga Karlatos, Ray Lovelock, Claudio Cassinelli, Cosimo Cinieri
Votes: 2,205
Murder Rock
Music by Keith Emerson
22. Conquest (1983)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young man, armed with a magical bow and arrows, embarks on a mystical journey through a mystical land to rid it of all evil and joins forces with an outlaw to take down an evil witch bent on claiming the magic bow for evil.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Conrado San Martín, Violeta Cela
Votes: 2,802
Conquest
Music by Claudio Simonetti
23. The Devil's Honey (1986)
R | 83 min | Mystery, Thriller
A young woman abducts and subjects a doctor whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend to acts of sexual torture.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Brett Halsey, Corinne Cléry, Blanca Marsillach, Stefano Madia
Votes: 1,656
The Devil's Honey
Music by Claudio Natili
24. Touch of Death (1988 Video)
Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A moody, middle-aged gigolo kills off women after he gets bored with dating them and uses their body parts for trophies and for consumption.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Brett Halsey, Ria De Simone, Al Cliver, Sacha Darwin
Votes: 1,786
Touch Of Death
Music by Carlo Maria Cordio
25. Aenigma (1987)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls boarding school to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jared Martin, Lara Lamberti, Ulli Reinthaler, Sophie d'Aulan
Votes: 3,329
Ænigma
Music by Carlo Maria Cordio
26. Voices from Beyond (1991)
Unrated | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a family man is poisoned to death, it's covered up as a stomach hemorrhage and his spirit returns to aid his daughter in finding his killers.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Duilio Del Prete, Karina Huff, Pascal Persiano, Lorenzo Flaherty
Votes: 1,315
Voices From Beyond
Music by Vince Stelvio Cipriani
27. Zombie 3 (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.
Directors: Lucio Fulci, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni
Votes: 5,498
Zombie 3
Music by Stefano Mainetti
28. Collector's Item (1985)
R | 101 min | Drama
A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Stars: Tony Musante, Laura Antonelli, Florinda Bolkan, Laura Troschel
Votes: 402
The Trap
Starring Florinda Bolkan
Written by Lucio Fulci, but directed by Giuseppe P. Griffi after Fulci's health started to decline.
Music by Ennio Morricone
29. Manhattan Baby (1982)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror
An archaeologist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidentally releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed entity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Christopher Connelly, Laura Lenzi, Brigitta Boccoli, Giovanni Frezza
Votes: 3,217
Manhattan Baby
Music by Fabio Frizzi
30. I guerrieri dell'anno 2072 (1984)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In 2072 Rome, Italy, the ruthless CEO of a TV network plots to stage a modern series of gladiator games for ratings while one 'contenstant' learns of a conspiracy behind the true nature of the results.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jared Martin, Fred Williamson, Howard Ross, Eleonora Brigliadori
Votes: 1,744
Warriors of the Year 2072
Music by Riz Ortolani
31. Demonia (1990)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery
A Canadian archaeological team in Sicily accidentally unleashes vengeful ghosts of five demonic nuns who were murdered 500 years earlier, and the ghosts now set out to kill the group and townspeople alike.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Brett Halsey, Meg Register, Lino Salemme, Christina Engelhardt
Votes: 2,017
Demonia
Music by Giovanni Cristiani
32. The Sweet House of Horrors (1989 TV Movie)
Unrated | 82 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean-Christophe Brétignière, Cinzia Monreale, Lubka Lenzi, Lino Salemme
Votes: 667
The Sweet House Of Horrors
Music by Vince Tempera
33. La pretora (1976)
98 min | Comedy
A magistrate is torn between her job and marrying her childhood friend, all while her rivals hire her prostitute twin sister to impersonate her and tarnish her reputation.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Raf Luca, Giancarlo Dettori, Mario Maranzana
Votes: 468
My Sister-In-Law
Starrring Edwige Fenech
Music by Nico Fidenco
34. I due della legione (1962)
97 min | Comedy
Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by ... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Alighiero Noschese, Rosalba Neri
Votes: 109
Those Two In The Legion
Starring Franco Franchi
Music by Ennio Morricone
35. Dracula in the Provinces (1975)
100 min | Comedy, Horror
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Rossano Brazzi, Sylva Koscina, Moira Orfei
Votes: 301
Young Dracula (Dracula In The Provinces)
Music by Fabio Frizzi
36. I due evasi di Sing Sing (1964)
99 min | Comedy
Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other ... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Arturo Dominici, Gloria Paul
Votes: 85
Two Escape From Sing Sing
Starring Franco Franchi
Music by Ennio Morricone
37. Gli imbroglioni (1963)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a ... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Pietro De Vico, Raimondo Vianello, Aroldo Tieri
Votes: 100
The Swindlers
Starring Franco Franchi
Music by Ennio Morricone
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