Cast: Barbara Steele

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Barbara Steele. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Eight and a Half (8½)

1963 · Movie · 140 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Anouk Aimée · Sandra Milo

Synopsis Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a filmmaker who is at a crisis point in his life and his work, struggles to make a new movie. This creative block triggers his memories, so he starts recalling important moments in his life and...

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8.0

20K votes

8.0

20K votes

Direction Mark Gatiss · John Das · Rachel Jardine

Cast Mark Gatiss · John Carpenter · Roger Corman · Roy Ward Baker

Synopsis TV miniseries. 3 episodes. Actor and writer Mark Gatiss ("Doctor Who", "Sherlock") examines the history of the horror film in three stages: the Universal success through the myths of Lugosi, Chaney or Karloff; the Hammer revival with Cushing or Lee;...

7.3

59 votes

7.3

59 votes

Young Törless

1966 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Mathieu Carrière · Marian Seidowsky · Barbara Steele · Bernd Tischer

Synopsis At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, intelligent Torless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate...

7.1

747 votes

7.1

747 votes

For Love and Gold

1966 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Catherine Spaak · Gian Maria Volonté · Maria Grazia Buccella

Synopsis A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this...

7.1

814 votes

7.1

814 votes

Black Sunday

1960 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Bava

Cast Barbara Steele · John Richardson · Andrea Checchi · Ivo Garrani

Synopsis 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, with only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way.

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Vincent Price · Barbara Steele · Patrick Westwood · Antony Carbone

Synopsis In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Pretty Baby

1978 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Brooke Shields · Susan Sarandon · Keith Carradine · Frances Faye

Synopsis The inspiration for Malle’s first American film was E. J. Bellocq’s remarkable photographic record of New Orleans’ red-light district, Storyville, in the early years of the twentieth century. A fourteen-year-old (Shields) is cheer-fully sold into the trade by her mother...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Direction Anthony Page

Cast Kathleen Quinlan · Bibi Andersson · Ben Piazza · Lorraine Gary

Synopsis Based very loosely on the intricate novel by Joanne Greenberg. A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the...

6.4

69 votes

6.4

69 votes

Castle of Blood

1964 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy

Direction Antonio Margheriti · Sergio Corbucci

Cast Barbara Steele · Jorge Rivier · Margarete Robsahm · Arturo Dominici

Synopsis A writer accepts a bet that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking...

6.4

406 votes

6.4

406 votes

The Spectre

1963 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy

6.3

94 votes

6.3

94 votes

6.3

69 votes

The Terror of Dr. Hichcock

1962 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Riccardo Freda

Cast Barbara Steele · Robert Flemyng · Silvano Tranquilli · Maria Teresa Vianello

Synopsis The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of...

6.1

266 votes

6.1

266 votes

The Long Hair of Death

1964 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Antonio Margheriti

Cast Barbara Steele · Giorgio Ardisson · Ella Karin · Umberto Raho

Synopsis In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and the murder of the Count's brother. Her older daughter pleads for her mother’s life with the old Count but to no avail. The woman is burned at the...

6.1

176 votes

6.1

176 votes

Dark Shadows (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Armand Mastroianni · Matthew Hall · Mark Sobel

Cast Ben Cross · Barbara Blackburn · Jim Fyfe · Joanna Going

Synopsis Victoria Winters comes to Collinwood, an isolated mansion in coastal Maine, to work as a governess, but soon finds herself drawn into a strange, Gothic world of vampires, ghosts and a family curse that dates back centuries.

6.1

107 votes

6.1

107 votes

Shivers

1975 · Movie · 87 min. · Canada

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast Paul Hampton · Joe Silver · Barbara Steele · Lynn Lowry

Synopsis 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.

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

Nightmare Castle

1965 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Caiano

Cast Barbara Steele · Paul Muller · Helga Liné · Marino Masé

Synopsis A sadistic count tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then removes their hearts from their bodies. Years later, the count remarries and the new wife experiences nightmares and hauntings. The ghosts of the slain return to exact...

5.7

109 votes

5.7

109 votes

Lost River

2014 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Ryan Gosling

Cast Christina Hendricks · Saoirse Ronan · Iain De Caestecker · Matt Smith

Synopsis "Lost River" is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld...

5.4

3K votes

5.4

3K votes

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

1965 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy

Direction Massimo Pupillo

Cast Walter Brandi · Mirella Maravidi · Barbara Steele · Alfredo Rizzo

Synopsis An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his...

5.3

36 votes

5.3

36 votes

Curse of the Crimson Altar

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vernon Sewell

Cast Boris Karloff · Christopher Lee · Mark Eden · Barbara Steele

Synopsis When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in...

5.1

236 votes

5.1

236 votes

Silent Scream

1980 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Denny Harris

Cast Rebecca Balding · Cameron Mitchell · Avery Schreiber · Barbara Steele

Synopsis Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is...

5.0

96 votes

5.0

96 votes