Movies to Watch on Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital archive that offers access to all kinds of materials, such as books, movies, music, and archived web pages. It's safe, legal, and 100% free! I use it to watch a lot of films, especially foreign films that can be difficult to find on streaming. All the non-English ones I've listed here should have English subtitles.
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Lake Mungo
Directed by: Joel Anderson
Language: English
After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centred in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice’s secret past emerges.
One Cut of the Dead
Directed by: Shinichiro Ueda
Language: Japanese
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned Second World War Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
Cure (1997)
Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Language: Japanese
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere…
Pulse (Kairo)
Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Language: Japanese
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Pontypool
Directed by: Bruce Mcdonald
Language: English
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it’s just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
Suspiria (1977)
Directed by: Dario Argento
Language: English
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tanz Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
Slatter: Naked Blood
Directed by: Hisayasu Satô
Language: Japanese
A scientist taints his mother’s scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.
An American Werewolf in London
Directed by: John Landis
Language: English
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Multiple Maniacs
Directed by: John Waters
Language: English
Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her and descends into a life of murder and mayhem.
Female Trouble
Directed by: John Waters
Language: English
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progression from bratty schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents’ refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas.
Pink Flamingos
Directed by: John Waters
Language: English
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”.
Crash (1996)
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Language: English
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Rabid
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Language: English
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood—the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Videodrome
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Language: English
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon “Videodrome,” a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
The Fly
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Language: English
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Oldboy
Directed by: Park Chan Wook
Language: Korean
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Directed by: Park Chan Wook
Language: Korean
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu’s boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park’s daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Directed by: Park Chan Wook
Language: Korean
After being wrongfully convicted, a woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. While in prison she gains the respect of her cellmates and plots her revenge on the man responsible. Once released, she begins her elaborate plan of retribution, but discovers a horrifying truth.
Nekromantik
Directed by: Jörg Buttgereit
Language: German
A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
One Missed Call (2003)
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Language: Japanese
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters pursue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.
Tokyo Gore Police
Directed by: Yoshihiro Nishimura
Language: Japanese
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father’s killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
Suicide Club
Directed by: Sion Sono
Language: Japanese
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn’t as simple as he had hoped.
Noriko's Dinner Table
Directed by: Sion Sono
Language: Japanese
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko’s family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Return of the Living Dead
Directed by: Dan O'Bannon
Language: Japanese
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
Triangle
Directed by: Christopher Smith
Language: English
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Her suspicions are realised when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety, a ship Jess is convinced she’s been on before.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Directed by: Shinya Tsukamoto
Language: English
A “metal fetishist”, driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Braindead
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Language: English
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove’s mother, she’s transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Black Christmas (1974)
Directed by: Bob Clark
Language: English
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Maniac (1980)
Directed by: William Lustig
Language: English
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?
The Evil Dead
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Language: English
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they’ve rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
Evil Dead II
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Language: English
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.
Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3)
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Language: English
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.
The Craft
Directed by: Andrew Fleming
Language: English
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them – be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
Possession (1981)
Directed by: Andrzej Żuławski
Language: English, French, German
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Directed by: Jim Sharman
Language: English
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named ‘Rocky’.
Carrie (1976)
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Language: English
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Jennifer's Body
Directed by: Diablo Cody
Language: English
A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Halloween (1978)
Directed by: John Carpenter
Language: English
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
The Thing (1982)
Directed by: John Carpenter
Language: English
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot and the camp doctor lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
The Lighthouse
Directed by: Robert Eggers
Language: English
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Helter Skelter
Directed by: Mika Ninagawa
Language: Japanese
Top star Lilico undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries to her entire body. As her surgeries show side effect, Lilico makes the lives of those around her miserable as she tries to deal with her career and her personal problems.
Ghostwatch
Directed by: Lesley Manning
Language: English
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.
Ichi the Killer
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Language: Japanese
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Man Bites Dog
Directed by: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, and André Bonzel
Language: French
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
