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The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
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 6K
The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
Original name: La casa dalle finestre che ridono
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror.
Style: surreal, scary, tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic, slasher, gothic horror ...
Plot: female nudity, supernatural horror, transvestism, attempted rape, obsession, murder, painting, twists and turns, mentally unstable, obsessive quest, unlikely criminals, bondage, nudity, life is a bitch, gender, haunted by the past, amateur detective, painter, whodunit, psychological trauma, folk horror, art, pagan, business, killer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe
Keyword: italian horror, disgust, bruise

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Most similar movies to The House of the Laughing Windows

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, slasher, suspenseful and serious films with plots about murder, serial killer, violence, deadly, sadism, female nudity and psychopath mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The House of the Laughing Windows: Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975), A Bay of Blood (1971), Blood and Black Lace (1964), Bloodstained Shadow (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, serial killer, police investigation, journalism, obsession, amateur detective, small town, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, death ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a ...
Style: slasher, erotic, suspense, disturbing, sensual ...
Plot: lust, serial killer, lesbian sex, sexual fantasy, erotica, fashion model, female serial killer, voyeur, licking, model, voyeurism, murderer ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 13K
A Bay of Blood (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, inheritance, squid, violence, obsession, fear, psychopath, blood, strangulation, insanity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Inspector Sylvester is assigned to investigate the violent murder of a fashion house model Isabella, by a masked assailant. As the investigation proceeds all of the house’s various sins, including corruption, abortions, blackmail and drug ...
Style: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, model, fashion, whodunit, masked killer, fashion model, strangulation, macabre, murderer, female nudity, erotica ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Bodies Presented Traces of Carnal Violence (1973)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the ...
Style: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, mental illness, murder, strangulation, psychopath, home invasion, investigation, countryside, swamp, serial murder, interracial lesbian sex, voyeur ...
Time: 20th century, year 2016, 70s, year 1972
Place: italy, rome italy, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, voyeurism, female psychopath, maniac, attempted murder, murder, psychopath, murder mystery, police detective, female killer, danger ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Bloodstained Shadow (1978)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A murder mystery set on an island near Venice. A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.
Style: slasher, erotic, surprise ending, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, folk horror, macabre, whodunit, murder, danger, nobility, voyeur, peasant, couples, psychopath, sexual relations ...
Time: 70s, 60s, victorian era
Place: italy, venice, europe, turin italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Death at the Villa (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
Style: psychosexual thriller, slasher, suspense, controversial, serious ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, exploitation, lgbt, doctor, rape, danger, mental illness, sexual abuse, manipulation, repression, graphic violence ...
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 6.9
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Opera (1987)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Style: slasher, disturbing, suspense, scary, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, female nudity, voyeur, obsession, nudity, bare breasts, nude, nude girl, sadistic psychopath, cruelty, masked villain ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Style: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, erotic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, tarantula, female nudity, lesbianism, dysfunctional marriage, whodunit, obsession, maniac, killer, murderer, escape, lust ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Killer Nun (1979)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, queer horror ...
Plot: nun, hospital, exploitation, erotica, nunsploitation, torture, rape, murder, addiction, religion, female psychopath, lgbt ...
Time: 70s
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.5
 42K
Deep Red (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, murder mystery, psychopath, visceral, supernatural, danger, female psychopath, mental illness, intrigue, manic, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, australia, lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, art, murder, sadistic psychopath, psycho killer, hallucination, surrealism, policewoman, obsession, memory loss, mental illness, rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: rome italy, florence, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: killer, reanimation, murder, necrophilia, obsession, bare chested male, lesbian sex, fear, anger, psycho killer, confusion, human monster ...
Time: 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
Style: slasher, scary, horror musical, cult classic, metafiction ...
Plot: voyeurism, serial killer, nudity, female nudity, voyeur, stalker, obsession, gory, murder, psychopath, transvestism, blood ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, deep ...
Plot: serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, murder of a nude woman, infidelity, misogynist, lust, voyeur, brutality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The New York Ripper (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, detective, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, torture, nudity, sex, gory, massacre, violence against women, sexual cruelty, brutality, fondling, psycho ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.8
 6K
The Psychic (1977)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
Style: grindhouse, slasher, creepy, gothic, suspense thriller ...
Plot: psychic, exploitation, murder, investigation, supernatural, macabre, whodunit, murder mystery, psychic power, killer, telekinesis, plot twist ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, blind man, murder, macabre, investigation, chase, gory, obsession, voyeurism, stalking, twists and turns, mind game ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe, turin italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Fifth Cord (1971)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, suspense, erotic, scary ...
Plot: reporter, nymphomania, investigation, new year, murder, drug addiction, lgbt, macabre, organized crime, killer, virus, sexual obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, new york, australia, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The French Sex Murders (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The plot involves the murder of a prostitute in a Paris brothel (run by early 60's sex symbol Anita Ekberg). It's blamed on a jealous client, but the lead detective ("Bogey")suspects otherwise. And when the murders continue after ...
Style: slasher, suspense, mind bending, sexy, scary ...
Plot: male nudity, serial killer, psychopath, brothel, decapitation, investigation, prostitute, danger, murder, nudity, female pubic hair, sex scene ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Friday the 13th (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, maniac, gory, murder, revenge, disturbed individual, summer, summer camp, psychopath, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Seven Dead in the Cat's Eye (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
Style: gothic, erotic, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, investigation, sadism, small town, supernatural, whodunit, danger, curses spells and rituals, apocalypse, gory, mental illness, darkness ...
Time: 70s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Venus in Furs (1969)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A couple who get involved in an underground scene of kinky sex and sadism have a surprise coming to them...
Style: erotic, sexual, disturbing, psychedelic, suspense ...
Plot: bdsm, erotica, sex slave, surrealism, rape, lesbian sex, sexploitation, ghost, glamour, bondage, fetish, sensuality ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: turkey, brazil, rio de janeiro, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.8
 3K
Macabre (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot: necrophilia, dead child, mental illness, murder, blindness, accident, haunted by the past, gory, supernatural, bare breasts, mental institution, camp ...
Time: 70s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Card Player (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, master criminal, dangerous attraction, murder, vengeance, woman in danger, homicidal maniac, gambling, police investigation, law enforcement ...
Place: rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.3
 4K
Blood Brides (1970)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Style: slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, homicidal maniac, serial murder, woman in danger, gory, wedding, whodunit, fashion, family life, criminal ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Death Laid An Egg (1968)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill ...
Style: grindhouse, surreal, slasher, suspense, splatter ...
Plot: chicken, surrealism, farm, murder mystery, blackmail, serial killer, wedding, rural setting, homicide, mutant, sexy girl, sexy woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jane lives in London with her boyfriend Richard. Her mother was murdered when she was young, she recently lost a baby in a car crash and she's plagued by nightmares of a knife-wielding man. Richard thinks that the cure is vitamins, while ...
Style: gothic, sadistic, scary, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot: occult, murder, obsession, erotica, mind game, investigation, mysterious character, woman in danger, danger, psychopath, haunted by the past, pregnancy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place: europe, england, united kingdom, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
Style: surreal, stylized, experimental, serious, postmodern ...
Plot: male nudity, investigation, disappearance, danger, violence, uncover truth, whodunit, spouse in danger, obsession, violent content, nudity, arthouse horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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