Larry Cohen Films
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1. Bone (1972)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Berlin
Votes: 1,376
2. Black Caesar (1973)
R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin
Votes: 3,893
3. Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery
Votes: 1,760 | Gross: $1.45M
4. It's Alive (1974)
PG | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever it is scared. And it is easily scared.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell
Votes: 8,977
5. God Told Me To (1976)
R | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney
Votes: 6,552
6. The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
PG | 112 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Broderick Crawford, James Wainwright, Michael Parks, José Ferrer
Votes: 798
7. It Lives Again (1978)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An epidemic of monster babies sweeps across America.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, John P. Ryan, John Marley
Votes: 2,648
8. See China and Die (1981 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real-life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Esther Rolle, Kene Holiday, Frank Converse, Paul Dooley
Votes: 82
9. Full Moon High (1981)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon, Joanne Nail
Votes: 1,619
10. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
R | 93 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, Richard Roundtree
Votes: 9,465
11. Perfect Strangers (1984)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Anne Carlisle, Brad Rijn, John Woehrle, Matthew Stockley
Votes: 581
12. Special Effects (1984)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A director makes a movie based on a murder he committed.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn, Kevin O'Connor
Votes: 1,260
13. The Stuff (1985)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino
Votes: 18,500
14. It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The monster babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island so that they can live out their lives as far away from normal humans as possible without killing them. Enraged by the... See full summary »
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, James Dixon
Votes: 2,177
15. A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Ricky Addison Reed, Andrew Duggan
Votes: 4,567
16. Deadly Illusion (1987)
R | 87 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A detective is framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Directors: Larry Cohen, William Tannen | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Vanity, Morgan Fairchild, John Beck
Votes: 482 | Gross: $0.63M
17. Wicked Stepmother (1989)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A mother-and-daughter pair of witches wreaks havoc on a suburban family.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, Lionel Stander
Votes: 2,391 | Gross: $0.04M
18. The Ambulance (1990)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A comic-book artist meets a woman on the NYC streets, but after a quick flirtation, she suddenly collapses and is picked up by an old ambulance. He checks all the hospitals in the area, but the woman has disappeared.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons
Votes: 4,188
19. As Good as Dead (1995 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Susan switches identities with her new friend Nicole, so that Nicole can pay for her medical bills with Susan's insurance. Then Susan finds herself trapped in her new identity when Nicole ends up dead under questionable circumstances.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Crystal Bernard, Judge Reinhold, Traci Lords, Carlos Carrasco
Votes: 500
20. Original Gangstas (1996)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a gang shoots his father, Bookman (Fred Williamson) returns to his hometown, rounds up some of his own people and begins an all-out war to restore the neighborhood to its rightful sense of justice.
Directors: Larry Cohen, Fred Williamson | Stars: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield
Votes: 2,012 | Gross: $3.01M
21.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Pick Me Up
(2006)
TV-MA | 58 min | Horror
In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect it to anywhere, a recently divorced woman traveler, who's a passenger on a bus that has broken down, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between serial killers.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fairuza Balk, Michael Moriarty, Warren Kole, Laurene Landon
Votes: 3,594
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