Barbara Steele
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Exotic, voluptuous, nostril-flaring British actress Barbara Steele originally aspired to be a painter. At 20, she was sidetracked into acting, and within a year she made her film bow in a one-line bit as a student in Bachelor of Hearts (1958). Most of... more
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Cast: Cameron Mitchell Barbara Steele Yvonne De Carlo Avery Schreiber Denny Harris
Tags: Mystery
Length: 87min
When the on-campus accommodations are all taken, a group of college students are forced to take rooms in the spooky house of Mrs. Engels (Yvonne De Carlo) and her strange son, Mason (Brad Reardon). When one of the kids turns up dead, the police launch...
Cast: Yves Boisset Patrick Dewaere Annie Girardot Barbara Steele Philippe Sarde
Tags: Comedy
Length: 102min
Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés...
Cast: David Cronenberg John Dunning Ivan Reitman Barbara Steele Joe Silver
Tags: Science Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Horror Sex Horror
Length: 87min
A gripping exercise in body horror and social paranoia, prolific Canadian director David Cronenberg's debut feature offers a startling look at modern isolationist society with a parasitic twist. When a scientist experimenting with a new form of organ...
Cast: Jonathan Demme Roger Corman Tak Fujimoto Barbara Steele Juanita Brown
Tags: Sexploitation Prison Film Crime
Length: 85min
Considered the quintessential "girls in prison" flick of the 1970s, novice director Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat is set in a hellish American woman's penitentiary run by vicious, wheelchair-bound Barbara Steele. Statuesque convict Erica Gavin is forced...
Cast: Boris Karloff Michael Gough Christopher Lee Barbara Steele John Coquillon
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 87min
In this spooky thriller, an evil sorcerer invites an innocent young man and his girl friend to his dark and scary mansion. The two have no idea that the black magician is planning to sacrifice the young man to atone for the evil misdeeds of his...
Cast: Volker Schlöndorff Barbara Steele Mathieu Carrière
Tags: Period Film
Length: 90min
Robert Musil's novel Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless was the source for this allegorical German film. Mathieu Carriere plays Torless, a student in a costly boarding school during the glory days of the Hapsburg empire. While at school, Carriere...
Cast: Barbara Steele Riz Ortolani Anthony M. Dawson Georges Riviere
Tags: Haunted House Film Costume Horror Horror Gothic Film
Length: 89min
In this eerie and effective early horror film from prolific genre director Antonio Margheriti, Alan Foster (Georges Riviere), an American tourist visiting England, takes a bet from a Lord Blackwood and his guest, Edgar Allan Poe, to spend the night in...
Cast: Ennio Morricone Luciano Salce Emmanuelle Riva Barbara Steele Ugo Tognazzi
Length: 89min
In this romantic comedy, two long-time lovers finally decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately, they find the mundane realities of marriage oppressive. They miss the thrill of courtship, and suddenly all those cute little quirks of theirs have turned...
Cast: Vincent Price Roger Corman Samuel Z. Arkoff Barbara Steele John Kerr
Tags: Period Film Costume Horror Horror Gothic Film
Length: 90min
American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak advantage in Roger Corman's Pit & the Pendulum. Save for the climax, Richard Matheson's script bears but little resemblance to the Edgar Allen Poe original, though there are...
Cast: Mario Bava Barbara Steele Ennio de Concini Les Baxter Mario Serandrei
Tags: Supernatural Horror Costume Horror Horror Gothic Film
Length: 83min
Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high...
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