The best John Richardson’s movies

John Richardson

John Richardson

19/01/1934- 05/01/2021
Today we present the best John Richardson’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best John Richardson’s movies.
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The Church

The Church
6.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 10/03/1989
  • Character: Architect
In medieval Europe, crusading knights massacre a village full of suspected devil worshipers and build a large Gothic church above the cursed remains. It is now present day, and this elaborate cathedral still stands. But when its sealed crypt is accidentally reopened, a group of people trapped inside the church become possessed by the fury of the damned! Can the blood of the innocent survive this unholy communion, or will the ultimate demonic evil be unleashed upon the world?!

One Million Years B.C.

One Million Years B.C.
5.7/10
As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilisation.

Black Sunday

Black Sunday
7.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 12/08/1960
  • Character: Dr. Andrej Gorobec / Dr. Andreas Gorobec
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way.

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
6.3/10
Under hypnosis while trying to quit smoking, Daisy Gamble revisits past lives and different personalities.

The Vengeance of She

The Vengeance of She
4.6/10
Beautiful young European girl, Carol, is possessed by the spirit of Ayesha – “She, who must be obeyed” – and led to the lost city of Kuma, where she is destined to become queen.

She

She
5.8/10
The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences.

Torso

Torso
6.5/10
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment

Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/11/1973
  • Character: Lorenzo Viotto
A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.

Murder Obsession

Murder Obsession
5.3/10
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.

Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/01/1962
  • Character: Young Man Being Photographed (uncredited)
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.

Sapphire

Sapphire
7.2/10
Two Scotland Yard detectives (Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig) investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the investigators wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry. Director Basil Dearden won a British Academy Award for his deft, sensitive hand at the helm.

School of Thieves 2

School of Thieves 2
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/09/1987
  • Character: Ricco Gondoliere
In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them.

Execution

Execution
5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/06/1968
  • Character: Bill Coler / John Coler
Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one. He is actually the outlaw's honest younger brother Bill, who works in a traveling circus. Will Clip be able to find the stolen gold? Maybe ... but only if a gang of vicious Mexican bandits - to say nothing of Bill's circus troupe - allow him to. Which they do not seem willing to do.

Duck in Orange Sauce

Duck in Orange Sauce
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1975
  • Character: John
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.

Frankenstein '80

Frankenstein '80
4.2/10
A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.

Eyeball

Eyeball
5.9/10
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.

John the Bastard

John the Bastard
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/11/1967
  • Character: John Donald Tenorio
Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make enemies all along the way until he finally meets his match in the person of a Mormon assassin and a stone statue. source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1987
  • Character: (archive footage)
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.

Pirates of Tortuga

Pirates of Tortuga
5.3/10
After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart (Ken Scott) docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan (Robert Stephens), a pirate who has been wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean. After recruiting some former shipmates for his crew, Capt. Bart sets sail in search of the infamous buccaneer, and is joined by a beautiful female stowaway in the process.

The Tree with Pink Leaves

The Tree with Pink Leaves
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/09/1974
  • Character: Andrea, padre di Marco
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.

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