The Best Exploitation Movies Ever Made
“What are the best Exploitation Movies?” We looked at 326 of the top Exploitation films, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 25 films, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Exploitation” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 300+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
Happy Scrolling!
Top 25 Best Exploitation Movies Ever Made
25 .) Assault on Precinct 13 directed by John Carpenter
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Ranker
- Tarantino
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
24 .) Blacula directed by William Crain
Lists It Appears On:
- Ranker
- Screen Rant
- Wired
An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.
23 .) Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) directed by Russ Meyer
Lists It Appears On:
- Complex
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become house guests of the old man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own.
22 .) Maniac (1980) directed by William Lustig
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB 2
- Ranker 2
- Taste Of Cinema
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
21 .) Shaft (1971) directed by Gordon Parks
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Ranker
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
20 .) Shivers (1975) directed by David Cronenberg
Lists It Appears On:
- Film Daily
- List Verse
- Screen Rant
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
19 .) Super Fly (1972) directed by Gordon Parks Jr.
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- List Verse
- Ranker
Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet.
18 .) The Beyond (aka The Seven Doors Of Death) (1981) directed by Lucio Fulci
Lists It Appears On:
- Den Of Geek
- Film Daily
- Flick Chart
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural ‘accidents’, she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
17 .) The Big Bird Cage (1972) directed by Jack Hill
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Ranker 2
- Screen Rant
Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
16 .) Vampyros Lesbos (1971) directed by Jesús Franco
Lists It Appears On:
- Complex
- IMDB
- Ranker
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
15 .) Zombie Holocaust (1980) directed by Marino Girolami
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Taste Of Cinema
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
14 .) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) directed by Russ Meyer
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- List Verse
- Ranker
- Screen Rant
A hip and happenin’ all girl rock group head to LA to claim lead-singer Kelly’s inheritance and make it (and make it) in LA. Soon the girls fall into a morass of drugs and deceit as their recording success soars. It takes several tragedies to make them stop and think… but is it too late?
13 .) Blood Feast (1963) directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Lists It Appears On:
- List Verse
- Screen Rant
- Taste Of Cinema
- Top Tenz
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
12 .) Foxy Brown (1974) directed by Jack Hill
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Ranker
- Screen Rant
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
11 .) Grindhouse (2007) directed by Robert Rodriguez
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB 3
- Rolling Stone
- Screen Rant
Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.
10 .) Pink Flamingos (1972) directed by John Waters
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- List Verse
- Ranker
- Screen Rant
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”.
9 .) The Devil’s Rejects (2005) directed by Rob Zombie
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB 3
- Ranker 2
- Rolling Stone
The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding out in a backwater motel, the wanted siblings wait to rendezvous with their errant father, Captain Spaulding, killing whoever happens to stand in their way.
8 .) The Last House on the Left (1972) directed by Wes Craven
Lists It Appears On:
- Film Daily
- Flick Chart
- Ranker
- Screen Rant
A disturbed gang of youths kidnap, torture and murder two teenage girls; unbeknownst to the gang, the parents of one of the girls live nearby…
7 .) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper
Lists It Appears On:
- Film Daily
- Flick Chart
- Ranker
- Screen Rant
Five friends visiting their grandfather’s house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
6 .) Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973) directed by Bo Arne Vibenius
Lists It Appears On:
- Complex
- IMDB
- Ranker
- Ranker 2
A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.
5 .) Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Lists It Appears On:
- Complex
- Ranker 2
- Top Tenz
- Wired
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town’s destruction during the Civil War.
4 .) Coffy (1973) directed by Jack Hill
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Ranker
- Tarantino
- Wired
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
3 .) I Spit on Your Grave (1978) directed by Meir Zarchi
Lists It Appears On:
- Complex
- Film Daily
- List Verse
- Ranker
- Top Tenz
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
2 .) Ms .45 (1981) directed by Abel Ferrara
Lists It Appears On:
- Film Daily
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Taste Of Cinema
- Top Tenz
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker’s gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick her up.
1 .) Cannibal Holocaust (1980) directed by Ruggero Deodato
Lists It Appears On:
- Complex
- Den Of Geek
- Film Daily
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Verse
- Ranker 2
- Top Tenz
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area’s local cannibal tribes.
The 300+ Additional Best Exploitation Films
| # | Movies | Directors | Lists |
| 26 | Anthropophagus: The Beast (aka The Grim Reaper) (1980) | Joe D’Amato | Den Of Geek |
| – | – | – | IMDB 2 |
| 27 | Battle Royale (2000) | Kinji Fukasaku | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 28 | Bitch Slap (2009) | Rick Jacobson | IMDB |
| – | – | – | IMDB 3 |
| 29 | Black Snake Moan (2006) | Craig Brewer | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 30 |
Bloodsucking Freaks aka The Incredible Torture Show
|
Taste Of Cinema | |
| – | – | – | Top Tenz |
| 31 | Caligula (1979) | List Verse | |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 32 | Cannibal Ferox (1981) | Umberto Lenzi | Den Of Geek |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 33 | City of the Living Dead (1980) | Lucio Fulci | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB 2 |
| 34 | Contamination (1980) | Luigi Cozzi | Den Of Geek |
| – | – | – | IMDB 2 |
| 35 | Death Proof (2007) | Quentin Tarantino | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 36 | Death Wish (1974) | Sutori | |
| – | – | – | Top Tenz |
| 37 | Django Unchained (2012) | Quentin Tarantino | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 38 | Drive (2011) | Nicolas Winding Refn | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 39 | Eaten Alive! (1980) | Umberto Lenzi | IMDB 2 |
| – | – | – | Ranker 2 |
| 40 | Hell Ride (2008) | Larry Bishop | IMDB |
| – | – | – | IMDB 3 |
| 41 | Hitch Hike (aka Autostop Rosso Sangue) (1977) | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Den Of Geek |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 42 | Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) | Jason Eisener | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 43 | House on the Edge of the Park (1980) | Ruggero Deodato | Den Of Geek |
| – | – | – | IMDB 2 |
| 44 | Humanoids from the Deep (1980) | Barbara Peeters | IMDB 2 |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 45 | Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS | Complex | |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 46 | John Wick (2014) | Chad Stahelski | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 47 | Kids (1995) | Larry Clark | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 48 | Master of the Flying Guillotine | Ranker | |
| – | – | – | Tarantino |
| 49 | Nightmare City (1980) | Umberto Lenzi | IMDB 2 |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 50 | Piranha 3D (2010) | Alexandre Aja | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 51 | Planet Terror (2007) | Robert Rodriguez | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 52 | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Ranker 2 |
| 53 | Satanico Pandemonium (1975) | Gilberto Martínez Solares | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Indie Wire |
| 54 | Shogun Assassin (1980) | Robert Houston | IMDB |
| – | – | – | IMDB 2 |
| 55 | Showgirls (1995) | Paul Verhoeven | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 56 | Spring Breakers (2012) | Harmony Korine | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 57 | The Big Doll House (1971) | Jack Hill | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Indie Wire |
| 58 | The Hills Have Eyes | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 59 | The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) | Tom Six | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 60 | The Inglorious Bastards (1978) | Enzo G. Castellari | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Ranker 2 |
| 61 | The Raid: Redemption (2011) | Gareth Evans | IMDB 3 |
| – | – | – | Rolling Stone |
| 62 | The Street Fighter (1974) | Shigehiro Ozawa | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 63 | Vanishing Point (1971) | Ranker | |
| – | – | – | Sutori |
| 64 | 2019: After The Fall Of New York (1983) | Den Of Geek | |
| 65 | 99 Women (1969) | Jesús Franco | IMDB |
| 66 | A Bucket of Blood | Wired | |
| 67 | A Serbian Film | Ranker 2 | |
| 68 | Aakrosh (1980) | Govind Nihalani | IMDB 2 |
| 69 | Absence of Malice (1981) | Sydney Pollack | IMDB 2 |
| 70 | Absurd (1981) | Joe D’Amato | IMDB 2 |
| 71 | Ace Jackson Is a Dead Man (2015 Video) | Sean Weathers | IMDB 3 |
| 72 | Alien Contamination | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 73 | Alligator (1980) | Lewis Teague | IMDB 2 |
| 74 | Altered States (1980) | Ken Russell | IMDB 2 |
| 75 | Alucarda (1977) | Juan López Moctezuma | IMDB |
| 76 | Amateur Porn Star Killer (2006) | Shane Ryan | IMDB 3 |
| 77 | Amer’ (2009) | Rolling Stone | |
| 78 | American Gigolo (1980) | Paul Schrader | IMDB 2 |
| 79 | American Grindhouse (2010) | Weird Retro | |
| 80 | An Ideal Place to Kill (1971) | Umberto Lenzi | IMDB |
| 81 |
Anima Persa (1977) (aka The Forbidden Room)
|
Den Of Geek | |
| 82 | Audition | AV Club | |
| 83 | August Underground | Ranker 2 | |
| 84 | Baadasssss Cinema (2002) | Weird Retro | |
| 85 | Bad Timing (1980) | Nicolas Roeg | IMDB 2 |
| 86 | Baise Moi’ (2000) | Rolling Stone | |
| 87 | Battle Beyond the Stars | Indie Wire | |
| 88 | BB | CJ Wallis | Far Sighted Blog |
| 89 | Beast with a Gun (1977) | Sergio Grieco | IMDB |
| 90 |
Beyond The Darkness (1979) (aka Buio Omega)
|
Den Of Geek | |
| 91 | Big Doll House (1971) | Sutori | |
| 92 | Black Caesar (1973) | Larry Cohen | IMDB |
| 93 | Black Mama White Mama (1973) | Eddie Romero | IMDB |
| 94 |
Blazing Magnum (1976) (aka Strange Shadows In An Empty Room)
|
Den Of Geek | |
| 95 | Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1973) | Ted V. Mikels | IMDB |
| 96 | Blood, Boobs & Beast (2007) | Weird Retro | |
| 97 | Blow Out (1981) | Brian De Palma | IMDB 2 |
| 98 | Blue Ruin’ (2013) | Rolling Stone | |
| 99 | Body Heat (1981) | Lawrence Kasdan | IMDB 2 |
| 100 | Brian De Palma | AV Club | |
| 101 | Bruce Lee In New Guinea | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 102 | Bug | AV Club | |
| 103 | Caged Fury | Ranker 2 | |
| 104 | Cannibal Claus | Sean Donohue | Far Sighted Blog |
| 105 | Cannibals in the Streets (1980) | Antonio Margheriti | IMDB 2 |
| 106 | Car Wash | Ranker | |
| 107 | Chaos A.D. | Chris Woods | Far Sighted Blog |
| 108 | Christmas Evil (1980) | Lewis Jackson | IMDB 2 |
| 109 | Cleopatra Jones (1973) | Jack Starrett | IMDB |
| 110 | Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975) | Charles Bail | IMDB |
| 111 | Contraband (1980) | Lucio Fulci | IMDB 2 |
| 112 |
Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)
|
Weird Retro | |
| 113 | Crank’ (2006) | Rolling Stone | |
| 114 | Crazy Thunder Road (1980) | Gakuryû Ishii | IMDB 2 |
| 115 | Creatures the World Forgot (1971) | Don Chaffey | IMDB |
| 116 | Cruising (1980) | William Friedkin | IMDB 2 |
| 117 | Cutter’s Way (1981) | Ivan Passer | IMDB 2 |
| 118 | Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980) | Hark Tsui | IMDB 2 |
| 119 | Dawn of the Dead | Ranker | |
| 120 | Day of Resurrection (1980) | Kinji Fukasaku | IMDB 2 |
| 121 | Dear God No! (2011) | James Bickert | IMDB |
| 122 | Death Hunt (1981) | Peter R. Hunt | IMDB 2 |
| 123 | Death Race | Flick Chart | |
| 124 | Death Race 2000 | Ranker | |
| 125 | Death Watch (1980) | Bertrand Tavernier | IMDB 2 |
| 126 | Death Wish 3 | Indie Wire | |
| 127 | Delirio Caldo (1972) (aka Delirium) | Den Of Geek | |
| 128 | Demons (1986) | Den Of Geek | |
| 129 | Dolemite | Screen Rant | |
| 130 | Don’t Panic (1978) | Carlos Puerto | IMDB |
| 131 | Dreaming Purple Neon | Todd Sheets | Far Sighted Blog |
| 132 | Dressed to Kill (1980) | Brian De Palma | IMDB 2 |
| 133 | Drive Angry (2011) | Patrick Lussier | IMDB |
| 134 | Effects (1980) | Dusty Nelson | IMDB 2 |
| 135 | Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980) | Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | IMDB 2 |
| 136 | Eraserhead | Wired | |
| 137 | Escape from Hell (1980) | Edoardo Mulargia | IMDB 2 |
| 138 | Escape from New York (1981) | John Carpenter | IMDB 2 |
| 139 | Excalibur (1981) | John Boorman | IMDB 2 |
| 140 | Eyes of a Stranger (1981) | Ken Wiederhorn | IMDB 2 |
| 141 | Eyes Without a Face | Ranker | |
| 142 | Fade to Black (1980) | Vernon Zimmerman | IMDB 2 |
| 143 | Famous T & A (1982) | Weird Retro | |
| 144 | Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972) | Shun’ya Itô | IMDB |
| 145 | Female Trouble | Ranker | |
| 146 | Five Deadly Venoms (1978) | Cheh Chang | IMDB |
| 147 |
FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH A.K.A. KING BOXER (1973)
|
Tarantino | |
| 148 | Flash Gordon (1980) | Mike Hodges | IMDB 2 |
| 149 | Flavia, the Heretic (1974) | Gianfranco Mingozzi | IMDB |
| 150 | For Your Eyes Only (1981) | John Glen | IMDB 2 |
| 151 | Forbidden Zone (1980) | Richard Elfman | IMDB 2 |
| 152 | Frankenhooker | Screen Rant | |
| 153 | Frankenstein Created Bikers | James Bickert | Far Sighted Blog |
| 154 | Friday the 13th (1980) | Sean S. Cunningham | IMDB 2 |
| 155 | Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) | Steve Miner | IMDB 2 |
| 156 | Funeral Home (1980) | William Fruet | IMDB 2 |
| 157 | Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô (1973) | Norifumi Suzuki | IMDB |
| 158 | Gloria (1980) | John Cassavetes | IMDB 2 |
| 159 | Golem (1980) | Piotr Szulkin | IMDB 2 |
| 160 | Halloween II (1981) | Rick Rosenthal | IMDB 2 |
| 161 | Hammer House of Horror (1980) | Nicholas Ball | IMDB 2 |
| 162 | Hanger (2009 Video) | Ryan Nicholson | IMDB 3 |
| 163 | Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 164 | Happy Birthday to Me (1981) | J. Lee Thompson | IMDB 2 |
| 165 | Harlequin (1980) | Simon Wincer | IMDB 2 |
| 166 | Harry Brown’ (2009) | Rolling Stone | |
| 167 | Heavy Metal (1981) | Gerald Potterton | IMDB 2 |
| 168 |
Hell Of The Living Dead (1980) (aka Zombie Creeping Flesh)
|
Den Of Geek | |
| 169 |
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010)
|
Weird Retro | |
| 170 | Hex (1980) | Chih-Hung Kuei | IMDB 2 |
| 171 | Holocaust Cannibal (2014 Video) | Bill Zebub | IMDB 3 |
| 172 | Holy Hell | Ryan LaPlante | Far Sighted Blog |
| 173 | Hookers in Revolt (2006 Video) | Sean Weathers | IMDB 3 |
| 174 | House of 1000 Corpses | Ranker 2 | |
| 175 | Human Experiments | Ranker 2 | |
| 176 | I Saw the Devil’ (2010) | Rolling Stone | |
| 177 | I Stand Alone’ (1998) | Rolling Stone | |
| 178 | Ichi the Killer’ (2001) | Rolling Stone | |
| 179 | Inferno (1980) | Dario Argento | IMDB 2 |
| 180 | Inglourious Basterds | AV Club | |
| 181 | Irréversible | AV Club | |
| 182 | Jaws (1975) | Sutori | |
| 183 |
Jive Turkey aka Baby Needs A New Pair Of Shoes
|
Taste Of Cinema | |
| 184 | Jungle Holocaust (1977) | Ruggero Deodato | IMDB |
| 185 | Just for the Hell of It | Ranker 2 | |
| 186 | Kamilla (1981) | Vibeke Løkkeberg | IMDB 2 |
| 187 | Kill Bill | AV Club | |
| 188 | Killer Nun (1979) | Giulio Berruti | IMDB |
| 189 | Knightriders (1981) | George A. Romero | IMDB 2 |
| 190 | La bimba di Satana (1982) | Mario Bianchi | IMDB |
| 191 | La nuit de la mort! (1980) | Raphaël Delpard | IMDB 2 |
| 192 | Lady Snowblood (1973) | Toshiya Fujita | IMDB |
| 193 | Lady Stay Dead (1981) | Terry Bourke | IMDB 2 |
| 194 | Le scomunicate di San Valentino (1974) | Sergio Grieco | IMDB |
| 195 | Lone Wolf and Cub | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 196 | Looker (1981) | Michael Crichton | IMDB 2 |
| 197 | Macabre (1980) | Lamberto Bava | IMDB 2 |
| 198 | Machete (2010) | Ethan Maniquis | IMDB |
| 199 | Machete Kills (2013) | Robert Rodriguez | IMDB |
| 200 | Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) | Weird Retro | |
| 201 | Madhouse (1981) | Ovidio G. Assonitis | IMDB 2 |
| 202 | Mandingo Sex Addict (2015 Video) | Sean Weathers | IMDB 3 |
| 203 | Maniac (1934) | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 204 | Massacre at Central High | Top Tenz | |
| 205 | Men Behind The Sun | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 206 |
Midnight Movies: From The Margin To The Mainstream (2005)
|
Weird Retro | |
| 207 | Monster Shark | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 208 | Motel Hell (1980) | Kevin Connor | IMDB 2 |
| 209 | Mother’s Day (1980) | Charles Kaufman | IMDB 2 |
| 210 | Motorpsycho! (1965) | Russ Meyer | IMDB |
| 211 | Mudhoney (1965) | Russ Meyer | IMDB |
| 212 | Mystics in Bali (1981) | H. Tjut Djalil | IMDB 2 |
| 213 | Night of the Juggler (1980) | Robert Butler | IMDB 2 |
| 214 | Night Train To Terror | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 215 | Nightkill (1980) | Ted Post | IMDB 2 |
| 216 |
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
|
Weird Retro | |
| 217 | Nuda per Satana (1974) | Luigi Batzella | IMDB |
| 218 | Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010) | Joseph Guzman | IMDB |
| 219 | Nymphomaniac Vols. 1 and 2’ (2013) | Rolling Stone | |
| 220 | One Million Years B.C | Don Chaffey | IMDB |
| 221 | Orgy of the Dead | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 222 | Outland (1981) | Peter Hyams | IMDB 2 |
| 223 | Pieces | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 224 | Piranha | Ranker | |
| 225 | Porky’s (1981) | Bob Clark | IMDB 2 |
| 226 | Prom Night (1980) | Paul Lynch | IMDB 2 |
| 227 | Psycho (1960) | Sutori | |
| 228 | Q — The Winged Serpent | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 229 | Reefer Madness | Ranker 2 | |
| 230 | Rhythm of a Crime (1981) | Zoran Tadic | IMDB 2 |
| 231 | Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky | Wired | |
| 232 | ROLLING THUNDER (1977) | Tarantino | |
| 233 | Run! Bitch Run! (2009) | Joseph Guzman | IMDB 3 |
| 234 | Sacrifice! (1972) | Umberto Lenzi | IMDB |
| 235 | Salon Kitty (1976) | Tinto Brass | IMDB |
| 236 | Satan’s Sadists (1969) | Al Adamson | IMDB |
| 237 | Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1980) | Valeri Rubinchik | IMDB 2 |
| 238 | Sax Rohmer’s The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) | Jesús Franco | IMDB |
| 239 | Scanners (1981) | David Cronenberg | IMDB 2 |
| 240 | Schizoid (1980) | David Paulsen | IMDB 2 |
| 241 |
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)
|
Weird Retro | |
| 242 | School of the Holy Beast (1974) | Norifumi Suzuki | IMDB |
| 243 | Scream Blacula Scream | Ranker | |
| 244 | Scumbag Hustler (2014) | Sean Weathers | IMDB 3 |
| 245 |
Seven Shawls Of Yellow Silk (1972) (aka Crimes Of The Black Cat)
|
Den Of Geek | |
| 246 | She-Devils on Wheels | Ranker 2 | |
| 247 | Si yiu (1981) | Chih-Hung Kuei | IMDB 2 |
| 248 | Slave of the Cannibal God (1978) | Sergio Martino | IMDB |
| 249 | Sleepaway Camp | Screen Rant | |
| 250 | Slumber Party Massacre | Screen Rant | |
| 251 | Snuff | Top Tenz | |
| 252 | SPIDER BABY (1968) | Complex | |
| 253 | Stone (1974) | Sandy Harbutt | IMDB |
| 254 | Story of Ricky | Flick Chart | |
| 255 | Streets of Vengeance | Paul Ragsdale | Far Sighted Blog |
| 256 | Succubus (1968) | Jesús Franco | IMDB |
| 257 |
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song (1971)
|
Sutori | |
| 258 | Switchblade Sisters (1975) | Film Daily | |
| 259 | Terror Train (1980) | Roger Spottiswoode | IMDB 2 |
| 260 | The Astro-Zombies (1968) | Ted V. Mikels | IMDB |
| 261 | The Attic (1980) | George Edwards | IMDB 2 |
| 262 | The Beasts’ Carnival (1980) | Paul Naschy | IMDB 2 |
| 263 | The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968) | Jesús Franco | IMDB |
| 264 | THE BONNIE PARKER STORY (1958) | Tarantino | |
| 265 | The Boogey Man (1980) | Ulli Lommel | IMDB 2 |
| 266 | The Brain That Wouldn’t Die | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 267 | The Changeling (1980) | Peter Medak | IMDB 2 |
| 268 | The Children (1980) | Max Kalmanowicz | IMDB 2 |
| 269 | The Doll Squad (1973) | Ted V. Mikels | IMDB |
| 270 | The Duke of Burgundy’ (2014) | Rolling Stone | |
| 271 | The Elephant Man (1980) | David Lynch | IMDB 2 |
| 272 | The Evil Dead (1981) | Film Daily | |
| 273 | The Exterminator (1980) | James Glickenhaus | IMDB 2 |
| 274 | The Fan (1981) | Ed Bianchi | IMDB 2 |
| 275 | The Fog (1980) | John Carpenter | IMDB 2 |
| 276 | The Food of the Gods | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 277 |
The House With Windows That Laugh (1976)
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| 278 | The Last Hunter (1980) | Antonio Margheriti | IMDB 2 |
| 279 | The Long Good Friday (1980) | John Mackenzie | IMDB 2 |
| 280 | The Mack (1973) | Michael Campus | IMDB |
| 281 | The Mountain of the Cannibal God | Ranker 2 | |
| 282 |
The New Gladiators (1984) (aka Warriors Of The Year 2072)
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| 283 | The Night Child (1975) (aka Perche?!) | Den Of Geek | |
| 284 | The Night of the Hunted (1980) | Jean Rollin | IMDB 2 |
| 285 | The Ninth Configuration (1980) | William Peter Blatty | IMDB 2 |
| 286 | The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) | Cheh Chang | IMDB |
| 287 | The Other Hell (1981) | Bruno Mattei | IMDB 2 |
| 288 | The Paperboy’ (2012) | Rolling Stone | |
| 289 |
The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (1974)
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| 290 | The Reincarnation of Isabel (1973) | Renato Polselli | IMDB |
| 291 | The Road Warrior (1981) | George Miller | IMDB 2 |
| 292 | The Sentinel | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 293 | The Shining (1980) | Stanley Kubrick | IMDB 2 |
| 294 | The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) | Film Daily | |
| 295 | The Stunt Man (1980) | Richard Rush | IMDB 2 |
| 296 | The Toxic Avenger 1984 | List Verse | |
| 297 | the trailer for 2012 | AV Club | |
| 298 | The Unseen (1980) | Danny Steinmann | IMDB 2 |
| 299 | The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981) | Piotr Szulkin | IMDB 2 |
| 300 | The Watcher in the Woods (1980) | John Hough | IMDB 2 |
| 301 | The Wild Angels (1966) | Sutori | |
| 302 | THE WIZARD OF GORE (1970) | Complex | |
| 303 |
THEY CALL HER ONE EYE A.K.A THRILLER (1973)
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| 304 | They Came From Within | Wired | |
| 305 | Thief (1981) | Michael Mann | IMDB 2 |
| 306 | This Nude World | Ranker 2 | |
| 307 | Thriller: A Cruel Picture 1973 | List Verse | |
| 308 | Thriller: They Call Her One Eye | Wired | |
| 309 | TNT Jackson | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 310 | To All a Goodnight (1980) | David Hess | IMDB 2 |
| 311 | Turkey Shoot aka Escape 2000 | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 312 | Twilight’s Last Gleaming | Indie Wire | |
| 313 | Wake in Fright | Flick Chart | |
| 314 | Walking Tall | Top Tenz | |
| 315 | We’re Going to Eat You (1980) | Hark Tsui | IMDB 2 |
| 316 | Werewolves on Wheels (1971) | Michel Levesque | IMDB |
| 317 | William Friedkin | AV Club | |
| 318 | Without Warning (1980) | Greydon Clark | IMDB 2 |
| 319 | Yasagure anego den: Sôkatsu rinchi (1973) | Teruo Ishii | IMDB |
| 320 |
Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972)
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| 321 | Zero Dark Thirty | AV Club | |
| 322 | Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) | Yukio Noda | IMDB |
| 323 | Zigeunerweisen (1980) | Seijun Suzuki | IMDB 2 |
| 324 | ZOMBI 2 (1979) | Complex | |
| 325 | Zombie | Flick Chart | |
| 326 | Zombie Strippers! (2008) | Jay Lee | IMDB 3 |
21 Best Exploitation Film Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| AV Club | Can an exploitation movie be a great movie? |
| Complex | Zombi 2 – The 10 Sickest Exploitation Movies |
| Den Of Geek | The Beginner’s Guide to Italian Exploitation Cinema |
| Far Sighted Blog | “Mondo” Counts Down Year’s Best Exploitation Films |
| Film Daily | Exploitation movies to watch before ‘Suspiria’ |
| Flick Chart | The Best Exploitation Films of All Time |
| IMDB | EXPLOITATION FILMS |
| IMDB 2 | Greatest 80’s Horror, Thriller, Cult, Grindhouse & Exploitation Films |
| IMDB 3 | 25 Best Modern Exploitation Movies |
| Indie Wire | Weapons, Explosions And Excessive Nudity! 5 Exploitation Movies |
| List Verse | Top 10 Twisted But Notable Exploitation Films |
| Ranker | 70s Exploitation Movies | List of Best 1970s Exploitation Films |
| Ranker 2 | Exploitation Movies | List of the Best Exploitation Films |
| Rolling Stone | 25 Best Modern Exploitation Movies |
| Screen Rant | 14 Best Exploitation Movies of All Time |
| Sutori | Exploitation Films in the 60s and 70s: A Timeline |
| Tarantino | Tarantino’s Top 7 exploitation movies (in Cinescape Magazine) |
| Taste Of Cinema | 25 Great Exploitation Films You Shouldn’t Miss |
| Top Tenz | Top 10 Notable and Notorious Exploitation Films |
| Weird Retro | Cinema: Top Ten: Exploitation Cinema Documentaries |
| Wired | Wildest Exploitation Movies, as Picked by You |
