American International Pictures

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{{short description|Film production company}}
{{For|the unrelated film production company set up by Samuel Z. Arkoff|Arkoff International Pictures}}
{{Infobox company
| name = American International Pictures
| logo = American International Pictures 2020.png
| logo_size =
| logo_caption = Current logo used since 2020
| type = {{plainlist|
* [[Subsidiary]]
* Label
}}
| former_names = American Releasing Corporation {{small|(1954–56)}}
| fate = Acquired by [[Filmways]]
| successor = [[Filmways Pictures]] (original)
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1954|4|2}} (original) 
{{Start date and age|2020|10|7}} (relaunch)
| defunct = {{Start date and age|1980}} (original)
| location = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| area_served = Worldwide
| industry = [[Film]] 
| founders = {{plainlist|
* [[James H. Nicholson]]
* [[Samuel Z. Arkoff]]
}}
| key_people = {{plainlist|
* Eric Hohl {{small|(president)}}
}}
| products = [[Film|Motion pictures]]
| num_employees = 
| parent = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] 
{{small|(2020–present; relaunch)}}
| owner = [[MGM Holdings|MGM Holdings, Inc.]] {{small|([[Amazon (company)|Amazon]])}}
| subsid = 
}}


'''American International Pictures (AIP)''' is an American motion picture production label of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]. In its original operating period, AIP was an independent [[film production]] and [[Film distributor|distribution]] company known for producing and releasing films from 1955 until 1980, a year after its acquisition by [[Filmways]] in 1979.

It was formed on April 2, 1954 as '''American Releasing Corporation (ARC)''' by former [[Realart Pictures Inc.]] sales manager [[James H. Nicholson]] and entertainment lawyer [[Samuel Z. Arkoff]]<ref>Johnson, John ''Cheap Tricks and Class Acts'', 1996, McFarland, p.265</ref> and their first release was the 1953 UK documentary film ''[[Operation Malaya (film)|Operation Malaya]]''. It was dedicated to releasing low-budget films packaged as [[double feature]]s, primarily of interest to the [[Teen film|teenagers]] of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

The company eventually became a part of [[Orion Pictures]], which in turn, became a division of MGM. On October 7, 2020, four decades after the original closure, MGM revived AIP as a label for acquired films for digital and theatrical releases, with MGM overseeing across streaming platforms and [[United Artists#United Artists Releasing|United Artists Releasing]] handling theatrical distribution in North America.

== AIP personnel ==
Nicholson and Arkoff served as [[executive producers]] while [[Roger Corman]] and [[Alex Gordon (writer-producer)|Alex Gordon]] were the principal [[film producer]]s and, sometimes, directors. Writer [[Charles B. Griffith]] wrote many of the early films, along with Arkoff's brother-in-law, Lou Rusoff, who later produced many of the films he had written. Other writers included [[Ray Russell]], [[Richard Matheson]] and [[Charles Beaumont]]. [[Floyd Crosby]], [[American Society of Cinematographers|A.S.C.]] famous for his camera work on a number of exotic documentaries and the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] winner, ''[[High Noon]]'', was chief cinematographer. His innovative use of surreal color and odd lenses and angles gave AIP films a signature look. The early rubber monster suits and miniatures of [[Paul Blaisdell]] were used in AIP's [[science fiction film]]s. The company also hired [[Les Baxter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artistinterviews.eu/?page_id=54&parent_id=22|title=Artist Interviews » Les Baxter|website=www.artistinterviews.eu|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref> and [[Ronald Stein]] to compose many of its film scores.

In the 1950s, the company had a number of actors under contract, including [[John Ashley (actor)|John Ashley]], [[Fay Spain]] and [[Steve Terrell]].

== Emphasis on teenagers ==
When many of ARC/AIP's first releases failed to earn a profit, Arkoff quizzed film exhibitors who told him of the value of the teenage market as adults were watching television.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Shocker Pioneers Tell How to Make Monsters: Want to Make a Monster? Experts Tell How It's Done|author=Scheuer, Philip K.|date=September 17, 1958|work=Los Angeles Times|page=E1}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://fancaster.com/people/Samuel-Z-Arkoff/1114263/biography |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110723052204/http://www.fancast.com/people/Samuel-Z-Arkoff/1114263/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-23 |title=Samuel Z Arkoff Biography |publisher=Fancast }}.</ref> AIP stopped making Westerns with Arkoff explaining: "To compete with television westerns you have to have color, big stars and $2,000,000".<ref name="Doherty">{{citation | last = Doherty | first = Thomas | title = Teenagers and Teenpics | publisher = Unwin-Hyman | year = 1988}}.</ref>{{rp |126}}

AIP was the first company to use [[focus group]]s,<ref>{{cite book|last=Booker|first=M. Keith|title=Historical dictionary of American cinema|year=2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=978-0-8108-7192-2|pages=22}}</ref> polling American teenagers about what they would like to see and using their responses to determine titles, stars, and story content. AIP would question their exhibitors (who often provided 20% of AIP's financing<ref name="Doherty" />{{rp |35}}) what they thought of the success of a title, then would have a writer create a script for it.<ref name="Doherty" />{{rp |156}} A sequence of tasks in a typical production involved creating a great title, getting an artist such as Albert Kallis who supervised all AIP artwork from 1955–73<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/NewSite/INDEX/ARTISTS/US/artists-kallis.asp |title=Albert Kallis – bio |publisher=Learn about movie posters |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080321134047/http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/NewSite/INDEX/ARTISTS/US/artists-kallis.asp |archive-date=2008-03-21 }}.</ref> to create a dynamic, eye-catching poster, then raising the cash, and finally writing and casting the film.

== The ARKOFF formula ==
Samuel Z. Arkoff related his tried-and-true "ARKOFF formula" for producing a successful low-budget movie years later, during a 1980s talk show appearance. His ideas for a movie included:

* '''A'''ction (exciting, entertaining drama)
* '''R'''evolution (novel or controversial themes and ideas)
* '''K'''illing (a modicum of violence)
* '''O'''ratory (notable dialogue and speeches)
* '''F'''antasy (acted-out fantasies common to the audience)
* '''F'''ornication ([[Sexual attraction|sex appeal]] for young adults)

Later, the AIP publicity department devised a strategy called "the Peter Pan Syndrome":

a) a younger child will watch anything an older child will watch; 
b) an older child will not watch anything a younger child will watch; 
c) a girl will watch anything a boy will watch; 
d) a boy will not watch anything a girl will watch; 
therefore: 
to catch your greatest audience you zero in on the 19-year-old male.<ref>Bean, Robin and Austen, David ''U.S.A. Confidential'' p. 215 ''[[Films and Filming]]'' November 1968 quoted in p. 157 Doherty, Thomas ''Teenagers and Teenpics'' Unwin-Hyman 1988</ref>

== History==
[[Image:RavenPoster.jpg|thumb|right|[[Roger Corman]]'s'' [[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'' (1963)]]
=== American Releasing Corporation ===
AIP began as the American Releasing Corporation, a new distribution company formed in 1954 by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff.

==== Roger Corman ====
They were interested in distributing a car chase movie produced by [[Roger Corman]] for his Palo Alto Productions, ''[[The Fast and the Furious (1955 film)|The Fast and the Furious]]'' (1955). Corman had received offers from other companies for the film, but ARC offered to advance money to enable Corman to make two other films. Corman agreed, ''The Fast and the Furious'' performed well at the box office and the company was launched.

Corman's next two films for the company were a Western, ''[[Five Guns West]]'' (1955), which Corman directed, and a science fiction film, ''[[The Beast with a Million Eyes]]'' (1955). The title from the latter had come from Nicholson.

ARC also distributed the Western ''[[Outlaw Treasure]]'' (1955) starring [[Johnny Carpenter]].

==== Alex Gordon ====
ARC got Corman to direct another Western and science fiction double bill ''[[Apache Woman]]'' (1955) and ''[[Day the World Ended]]'' (1955). Both scripts were written by Arkoff's brother-in-law [[Lou Rusoff]], who would become the company's leading writer in its early days. ''Apache Woman'' was produced by Alex Gordon, an associate of Arkoff's, ''Day'' was produced by Corman. Both were made by Golden State Productions, ARC's production arm.<ref name="shocker">{{cite news| title= Shocker Pioneers Tell How to Make Monsters: Want to Make a Monster? Experts Tell How It's Done| last= Scheuer| first= Philip K.| work= Los Angeles Times | date= September 21, 1958| page= E1}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Fangoria|url=https://archive.org/details/Fangoria_027/page/n36/mode/1up/search/%22five+guns+west%22?q=%22five+guns+west%22|issue=27|title=The Pit and the Pen|first=Alex|last=Gordon|pages=34–37|date=May 1983}}</ref>

Normally, B movies were made for the second part of a bill and received a flat rate. As television was encroaching on the B movie market, Nicholson and Arkoff felt it would be more profitable to make two low budget films and distribute them together on a [[double feature]]. Nicholson came up with a title for a film to support ''Day the World Ended'', ''[[The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues]]'' (1955), but lacked the money to make both films. They split the costs with Dan and Jack Milner, film editors who wanted to get into production. The resulting double bill was very successful at the box office.<ref name="shocker"/>

Gordon also produced ''[[The Oklahoma Woman]]'' (1955), a Western by Corman, made through Sunset Productions. It was put on a double feature with ''[[Female Jungle]]'' (1955), a [[film noir]].

Other films released under the ARC banner include a British documentary ''[[Operation Malaya (film)|Operation Malaya]]'' (1955) and Corman's ''[[Gunslinger (film)|Gunslinger]]'' (1956).

=== American International in the 1950s ===
Arkoff and Nicholson had always wanted to name their company "American International Pictures", but the name was unavailable. When the name became available, they changed over.

There were three main production arms at AIP in the late 1950s: Roger Corman, Alex Gordon and Lou Rusoff, and Herman Cohen. Arkoff and Nicholson would buy films from other filmmakers as well, and import films from outside America.

==== Roger Corman ====
Corman continued to be an important member of AIP (though he also worked for Allied Artists and his own Filmgroup company during this period). He had a big hit for the company with the science fiction film ''[[It Conquered the World]]'' (1956) from a script by Rusoff that was rewritten by [[Charles B. Griffith]].

His films included ''[[Rock All Night]]'' (1956); ''[[Naked Paradise]]'' (1957), in which Arkoff had a small role; ''[[The Undead (film)|The Undead]]''; ''[[Sorority Girl]]''; ''[[The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent]]'' (1957); ''[[Machine Gun Kelly (film)|Machine Gun Kelly]]'' with [[Charles Bronson]]; and ''[[Teenage Caveman (1958 film)|Teenage Caveman]]'' (1958), with [[Robert Vaughn]].

AIP also distributed films Corman helped finance films, such as ''[[Night of the Blood Beast]]'', ''[[She Gods of Shark Reef]]'' and ''[[The Brain Eaters]]'' (all released in 1958).

==== Alex Gordon and Lou Rusoff ====
The other key producer for AIP was Alex Gordon who mostly made films though his Golden State Productions outfit, usually written by [[Lou Rusoff]]. He made ''[[Girls in Prison]]'' (1956), with director [[Edward L. Cahn]] who would become one of AIP's most prolific directors. AIP released it on a double bill with ''[[Hot Rod Girl]]'' (1956).

Cahn also directed the following for Gordon: ''[[The She-Creature]]'' (released as a double feature with ''It Conquered the World''); ''[[Flesh and the Spur]]'', the last Western made by AIP; ''[[Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956 film)|Shake, Rattle & Rock!]]'', a rock musical with [[Mike Connors]]; ''[[Runaway Daughters (1956 film)|Runaway Daughters]]'' (1956); ''[[Voodoo Woman]]''; ''[[Dragstrip Girl]]'' (1957), with [[John Ashley (actor)|John Ashley]]; ''[[Motorcycle Gang (film)|Motorcycle Gang]]'' (1957), again with Ashley; ''[[Jet Attack]]'' and ''[[Submarine Seahawk]]'' (1958). Most of these were written by Rusoff and directed by [[Edward L. Cahn]].

Gordon left AIP and Rusoff alone produced ''[[Hot Rod Gang]]'' (1958) and ''[[Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow]]'' (1959).

==== Herman Cohen ====
Another key producer for AIP was [[Herman Cohen]], who had a huge hit with ''[[I Was a Teenage Werewolf]]'' (1957) starring [[Michael Landon]]). He followed it with ''[[I Was a Teenage Frankenstein]]'', ''[[Blood of Dracula]]'' (both also in 1957 as a double feature), ''[[How to Make a Monster (1958 film)|How to Make a Monster]]'' (1958), ''[[The Headless Ghost]]'' and ''[[Horrors of the Black Museum]]'' (both in 1959).

==== Other producers ====
Other key collaborators who worked for AIP in the late 1950s included:
* Norman T. Herman: ''[[Hot Rod Girl]]'' (1956)
* Robert Gurney: ''[[Invasion of the Saucer Men]]'' (1957; released as a double feature with ''I Was a Teenage Werewolf''), ''[[Reform School Girl]]'' (1957) and ''[[Terror from the Year 5000]]'' (1958)
* [[Bert I. Gordon]]: ''[[The Amazing Colossal Man]]'' (1957), ''[[Attack of the Puppet People]]'' (1958), ''[[War of the Colossal Beast]]'' (1958; the sequel to ''The Amazing Colossal Man'') and ''[[Earth vs. the Spider]]'' (1958)
* [[Burt Topper]]: ''[[Hell Squad (1958 film)|Hell Squad]]'' (1958), ''[[Tank Commandos]]'' (1959) and ''[[Diary of a High School Bride]]'' (1959)
* [[Edward Bernds]]: ''[[High School Hellcats]]'' (1958).
* Stanley Shpetne: ''[[The Bonnie Parker Story]]'' (1958) and ''[[Paratroop Command]]'' (1959).
* Stanley Kallis: ''[[Operation Dames]]'' (1959) and ''[[Roadracers]]'' (1959).

==== Pickups ====
AIP would flesh out their distribution schedule by buying films made by outside producers. These included ''[[The Astounding She-Monster]]'', the documentary ''[[Naked Africa]]'', ''[[The Screaming Skull]]'' (1957), ''[[The Cool and the Crazy]]'', ''[[Daddy-O]]'', ''[[Dragstrip Riot]]'' and ''[[Tank Battalion (film)|Tank Batallion]]'' (1958).

==== Anglo-Amalgamated ====
AIP developed a mutual relationship with Britain's [[Anglo-Amalgamated]] who would distribute AIP's product in the U.K. In return, AIP would distribute their films in the U.S., such as ''[[The Tommy Steele Story]]'' (1957) and ''[[Cat Girl]]'' (1957).

AIP also imported ''[[The White Huntress]]'' (1954, England), ''Pulgarcito'' (1958, Mexico) and ''[[The Sky Calls]]'' (1959, Russia).

==== Late 1950s crisis ====
AIP became a victim of its own success when other companies started copying its double feature strategy. Costs were rising and were not compensated by increased box office grosses. AIP shut down most of their production arms and focused on distributing films from Italy, while they decided what to do next.

=== AIP's 1960s output ===
The company moved into rented office space at the former [[Jim Henson Company Lot|Chaplin Studios]].

==== Imports ====
In the late 1950s, AIP kept their company afloat by importing films from Italy. These included ''[[Sheba and the Gladiator]]'' (1959), ''[[Goliath and the Barbarians]]'' (1959) and ''[[Black Sunday (1960 film)|Black Sunday]]'' (1960); the latter film proved to be one of the company's early successes.

There was also ''Atomic Agent'' (1959, France), ''[[The Angry Red Planet]]'' (1959, Denmark), ''[[Tiger of Bengal]]'' (1959) and ''[[The Indian Tomb (1959 film)|The Indian Tomb]]'' (1960) from [[Fritz Lang]] in Germany, ''[[Portrait of a Sinner]]'' (1959, West Germany), ''[[The Professionals (1960 film)|The Professionals]]'' (1960, Great Britain), and ''[[Escape to Paradise]]'' (1960, the Philippines).

They also bought ''[[Why Must I Die?]]'' and ''[[The Jailbreakers]]'' (1960).

==== The Corman-Poe cycle ====
In the early 1960s, AIP gained some kudos by combining [[Roger Corman]], [[Vincent Price]] and the stories of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] into a series of horror films, with scripts by [[Richard Matheson]], [[Charles Beaumont]], [[Ray Russell]], [[R. Wright Campbell]] and [[Robert Towne]].

The original idea, usually credited{{who|date=October 2015}} to Corman and Lou Rusoff, was to take Poe's story "[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]", which had both a high name-recognition value and the merit of being in the [[public domain]], and thus [[Royalties|royalty]]-free, and expand it into a feature film. Corman convinced the studio to give him a larger budget than the typical AIP film so he could film the movie in widescreen and color, and use it to create lavish sets as well.<ref name="100Movies">{{cite news|author=Corman, Roger and Jerome, Jim|title=How I Made Over a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime|date=1998|publisher= DaCapo Press}}</ref>

The success of ''[[House of Usher (film)|House of Usher]]'' led AIP to finance further films based on Poe's stories. The sets and special effects were often reused in subsequent movies (for example, the burning roof of the Usher mansion reappears in most of the other films as [[stock footage]]), making the series quite cost-effective. All the films in the series were directed by Roger Corman, and they all starred Price except ''[[The Premature Burial (film)|The Premature Burial]]'', which featured [[Ray Milland]] in the lead. It was originally produced for another studio, but AIP acquired the rights to it.<ref name="100Movies"/>

As the series progressed, Corman made attempts to change the formula. Later films added more humor to the stories, especially ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'', which takes Poe's poem as an inspiration and develops it into an all-out farce starring Price, [[Boris Karloff]] and [[Peter Lorre]]; Karloff had starred in a 1935 film with the same title. Corman also adapted [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s short novel ''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]]'' in an attempt to get away from Poe, but AIP changed the title to that of an obscure Poe poem, ''[[The Haunted Palace]]'', and marketed it as yet another movie in the series. The last two films in the series, ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'' and ''[[The Tomb of Ligeia]]'', were filmed in England with an unusually long schedule for Corman and AIP.

Although Corman and Rusoff are generally credited with coming up with the idea for the Poe series, in an interview on the [[Anchor Bay Entertainment|Anchor Bay]] DVD of [[Mario Bava]]'s ''[[Black Sabbath (film)|Black Sabbath]]'', [[Mark Damon]] claims that he first suggested the idea to Corman. Damon also says that Corman let him direct ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)|The Pit and the Pendulum]]'' uncredited. Corman's commentary for ''Pit'' mentions nothing of this and all existing production stills of the film show Corman directing.

==== List of Corman-Poe films ====
During the early 1960s, AIP produced a series of horror films inspired by the Poe cycle. Of eight films, seven feature stories that are actually based on the works of Poe.

# ''[[House of Usher (film)|House of Usher]]'' (1960) – based on the short story "[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]"
# ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)|The Pit and the Pendulum]]'' (1961) – based on the title of the [[The Pit and the Pendulum|short story of the same name]]
# ''[[The Premature Burial (film)|The Premature Burial]]'' (1962) – based on the [[The Premature Burial|short story of the same name]]
# ''[[Tales of Terror]]'' (1962) – based on the short stories "[[Morella (short story)|Morella]]", "[[The Black Cat (short story)|The Black Cat]]", "[[The Cask of Amontillado]]" and "[[The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar]]"
# ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'' (1963) – based on the [[The Raven|poem of the same name]]
# ''[[The Haunted Palace]]'' (1963) – based on [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s novella ''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]]'', using the [[The Haunted Palace (poem)|title from Poe's 1839 poem]]
# ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'' (1964) – based on the [[The Masque of the Red Death|short story of the same name]] with another Poe short story, "[[Hop-Frog]]", used as a subplot
# ''[[The Tomb of Ligeia]]'' (1964) – based on the short story "[[Ligeia]]"

Occasionally, Corman's 1963 film ''[[The Terror (1963 film)|The Terror]]'' (produced immediately after ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'') is recognized as being part of the Corman-Poe cycle, although the film's story and title are not based on any literary work of Poe.

In 1962, Arkoff said AIP was in a position similar to [[Columbia Pictures]] just before they made ''Submarine'' and ''Dirigible'':
<blockquote>Before that they were on poverty row. Our better position will enable us to obtain more important writers, perhaps more important producers as well. We're a privately owned company at the moment but perhaps within two or three years we will become a public company.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Who Needs High Salaried Stars? Horrors! Film Makers Find Audiences Prefer Action|author=Alpert, Don|date=July 15, 1962|work=Los Angeles Times|page=A8}}</ref></blockquote>

==== Beach Party era ====
Beginning with 1963's ''[[Beach Party]]'', AIP created a new genre of [[beach party film]]s featuring [[Annette Funicello]] and [[Frankie Avalon]]. The original idea and the first script were Rusoff's. The highly successful and often imitated series ended in 1966 with the seventh film, ''[[The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini]]''. Many actors from the beach films also appeared in AIP's spy-spoofs, such as ''[[Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine]]'' (1965) and car racing films like ''[[Fireball 500]]'' (1966) and ''[[Thunder Alley (1967 film)|Thunder Alley]]''. During this time, AIP also produced or distributed most of Corman's horror films, such as ''[[X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes]]''.

In 1966, the studio released ''[[The Wild Angels]]'' starring [[Peter Fonda]], based loosely on the real-life exploits of the [[Hells Angels]] motorcycle gang. This film ushered in AIP's most successful year and kicked off a subgenre of [[Outlaw biker film|motorcycle gang films]] that lasted almost 10 years and included ''[[Devil's Angels]]'', ''The Glory Stompers'' with [[Dennis Hopper]], and ''[[The Born Losers]]''—the film that introduced the [[Billy Jack]] character.

In 1968, AIP launched a $22 million film programme.<ref>{{cite news|title=AIP Reveals Its 1968 Film Program|work=Los Angeles Times|date=Jan 13, 1968|page=b7}}</ref> The [[Psychedelia|psychedelic]] and [[hippie]] scenes of the late '60s were also exploited with films like ''[[The Trip (1967 film)|The Trip]]'', also with Fonda, ''[[Riot on Sunset Strip]]'', ''[[Wild in the Streets]]'', ''[[Maryjane (film)|Maryjane]]'', ''[[Gas-s-s-s]]'' and ''[[Psych-Out]]'' with [[Jack Nicholson]]. These "social protest" films were also highly successful. Horror movies also enjoyed a revival of popularity in the late 60s.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Bye, Bye, Beach Bunnies: Bye, Bye, Beach Bunnies|author=VINCENT CANBY|date=Mar 2, 1969|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=D1}}</ref>

==== International American International ====
In the U.K., AIP struck up a film making partnership with [[Nat Cohen]] and [[Stuart Levy (producer)|Stuart Levy]]'s [[Anglo-Amalgamated]].

On a trip to Italy, Arkoff met [[Fulvio Lucisano]], an Italian screenwriter and producer who eventually headed Italian International Film,{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} which co-produced 25 films in Italy for AIP.<ref>p. 96 + p. 214 Arkoff, Sam and Trubo, Richard ''Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants'' 1990 Carol Publishing</ref> Due to importing completed productions from other foreign countries being cheaper and more simplistic than producing their own in-house studio films in America, AIP had released many [[giallo]], [[Peplum (film genre)|peplum]], [[Eurospy films|Eurospy]] and [[Euro War|Macaroni Combat]] [[war film]]s featuring many American stars and Italian stars such as the [[comedy team]] of [[Franco Franchi]] and [[Ciccio Ingrassia]]. However, AIP released only two [[Spaghetti Western]]s (''[[Massacre Time]]'' and ''[[God Forgives... I Don't!]]''), perhaps recalling their failure with Westerns in the 1950s. Many of these films were edited, rewritten with different (dubbed English) dialogue, usually by Arkoff's nephew [[Ted Rusoff]], and sometimes re-scored by Les Baxter.

AIP, through [[Henry G. Saperstein]], is known for being the major U.S. distributor for [[Toho]]'s ''[[Godzilla]]'' and [[Kadokawa Pictures|Daiei]]'s ''[[Gamera]]'' ([[kaiju]]) films of the '60s and '70s. AIP also distributed other Japanese science fiction films like ''[[Frankenstein Conquers the World]]'', ''[[Gappa: The Triphibian Monster|Monster from a Prehistoric Planet]]'', ''[[The X from Outer Space]]'' and the [[South Korea]]n production ''[[Yongary, Monster from the Deep]]'', as well as two Japanese animated features from [[Toei Animation]], ''[[Alakazam the Great]]'' and ''[[Jack and the Witch]]''.

AIP also released a pair of Japanese spy thrillers re-dubbed as a comedy co-written by [[Woody Allen]] called ''[[What's Up Tiger Lily?]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tokyostreetreport.com/events/2009/04/international-secret-police/ |title=International Secret Police |publisher=tokyo street report |date=2009-04-16 |access-date=2010-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704050625/http://www.tokyostreetreport.com/events/2009/04/international-secret-police/ |archive-date=2010-07-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The studio also released edited and English-dubbed versions of several [[Eastern Bloc]] science fiction films that had the dialogue rewritten for the American market and in some cases had additional scenes filmed with American and British actors. These include the Soviet film ''[[Planeta Bur]]'' (''Planet of Storms'') which was released by AIP in two different English-dubbed versions, as ''[[Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet]]'' and ''[[Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women]]'' and the highly regarded 1963 Czech science fiction film ''[[Ikarie XB-1]]'', which was re-titled ''Voyage to the End of the Universe''.

A few years later, AIP backed a British Poe film directed by [[Gordon Hessler]]: ''[[The Oblong Box (film)|The Oblong Box]]'' (1969) based on [[The Oblong Box (short story)|the short story of the same name]].

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In 1964, AIP became one of the last film studios to start its own television production company, '''American International Productions Television''' (a.k.a. '''American-International Television''' or '''AIP-TV''').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0002353/|title=American-International Television (AIP-TV) – IMDbPro|website=imdb.com|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref> AIP-TV at first released many of their 1950s films to American television stations, then filmed unsuccessful [[television pilot]]s for ''[[Beach Party]]'' and ''[[Sergeant Deadhead]]''. The company then made several color sci-fi/horror [[television film]]s by [[Larry Buchanan]] that were remakes of black-and-white AIP films, and sold packages of many English-dubbed European, Japanese and Mexican films (the last type were produced by [[K. Gordon Murray]]) and foreign-made live-action and animated TV series (including ''[[Prince Planet]]''). The best known animated series AIP-TV distributed was ''[[Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt]]''.

In order to allay the fears of cinema owners who feared current releases would soon end up being shown on television, AIP issued a statement retroactive to 1963 that the company would not release any of their films to television until five years after cinema release, unless the film had not made back its original negative costs.<ref>Heffernan, Kevin ''Ghouls Gimmicks and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business'', 2004, Duke University Press, p.167</ref> AIP-TV also filmed specials for promotion of AIP films, such as ''[[The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot]]'' (1965, ABC) and ''[[An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe]]'' (1972, syndication), both with [[Vincent Price]].

In 1978, AIP-TV distributed the pop music series ''[[Twiggy's Jukebox]]''. For several years around this time, AIP-TV also distributed several British TV series, including ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', to U.S. stations.

==== AIP Records ====
AIP started their own record label, [[American International Records]], in 1959<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DSAEAAAAMBAJ |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DSAEAAAAMBAJ/page/n8 9] |quote=american international records. |title=Billboard – Internet Archive |date=1959-06-08 |access-date=2010-08-02|last1=Nielsen Business Media |first1=Inc |publisher=Nielsen Business Media }}</ref> to release music used in their films. There were a number of soundtrack albums as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/label/American+International+Records |title=American International Records – CDs and Vinyl at Discogs |publisher=Discogs.com |access-date=2010-08-02}}</ref>

AIP Records was once distributed by [[MGM Records]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bsnpubs.com/mgm/airtogether.html |title=Together/AIR Album Discography |publisher=Bsnpubs.com |date=2000-04-12 |access-date=2010-08-02}}</ref> the record label owned by AIP's successor-in-interest MGM.

=== Later years ===
In 1969, AIP went public to raise extra capital, issuing 300,000 shares.<ref>{{cite news|title=American International Pictures|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=3 June 1969|page=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=American International Pictures|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=10 July 1969|page=27}}</ref>

In 1970, they entered into an agreement with [[Commonwealth United Entertainment]] to issue their films.<ref>{{Cite news|title=American International Pictures Enters Film Accord|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=Apr 10, 1970|page=22}}</ref> In 1971 they released 31 films, their greatest number to date, and were seen as one of the most stable companies in Hollywood.<ref>{{cite news|title=30 FEATURES SET: AIP ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR BUSIEST FILM YEAR|author=Warga, Wayne|date=Jan 28, 1971|work=Los Angeles Times|page=g11}}</ref> Despite their exploitation roots, they did not concentrate on R- or X-rated filmmaking during this period.<ref>{{Cite news|title=X-Rated Movies: On the Downswing?|work=The Washington Post, Times Herald|date=Mar 31, 1971|page=B4}}</ref>

==== Resignation of Nicholson ====
In 1972, James H. Nicholson resigned from AIP to set up his own production company working out of [[20th Century Fox]], called Academy Pictures Corporation; its only two releases were ''[[The Legend of Hell House]]'' and ''[[Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Nicholson to Quit American International Pictures Post|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=January 17, 1972|page=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nicholson Plans Own Film Firm|work=Los Angeles Times|date=22 January 1972|page=b6}}</ref> AIP bought out over 100,000 of Nicholson's shares.<ref>{{cite news|title=California Film Maker Buys Own Stock From Ex-Officer|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=19 September 1972|page=43}}</ref> He died shortly thereafter of a cancerous brain tumor.<ref>{{Cite news|title=J.H. Nicholson, Film Maker, Dies of Cancer|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 11, 1972|page=26}}</ref>

==== Arkoff alone ====
Arkoff continued on at AIP as president until the end of the decade. Heads of production during the 1970s included Larry Gordon<ref>{{Cite news|title=LARRY GORDON ROLLS HIS DICE|author=Taylor, Clarke|date=Oct 8, 1978|work=Los Angeles Times|page=n35}}</ref> and Jere Henshaw.

By the early 1970s, AIP felt the horror movie cycle was in decline and so switched to other genres, such as kung fu and gangsters.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite news|title=The dime-store way to make movies-and money by Aljean Harmetz.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=Aug 4, 1974|page=202}}</ref> Notably, they produced some of that decade's [[blaxploitation]] films, like ''[[Blacula]]'', and ''[[Foxy Brown (1974 film)|Foxy Brown]]''. In a throwback to the old "studio days", the company is credited with making [[Pam Grier]] a household name, as the majority of her early '70s films were made under contract to American International.

In the mid- to late 1970s, AIP began to produce more [[mainstream]] films, such as ''[[Bunny O'Hare]]'', ''[[Cooley High]]'', ''[[The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday]]'', ''[[The Amityville Horror (1979 film)|The Amityville Horror]]'', ''[[Love at First Bite]]'', ''[[Meteor (film)|Meteor]]'', ''[[Force 10 from Navarone (film)|Force 10 from Navarone]]'', ''[[Shout at the Devil (film)|Shout at the Devil]]'', ''[[The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 film)|The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' and ''[[C.H.O.M.P.S]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Policy Shift Set by American International Pictures Inc.|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 25, 1972|page=7}}</ref> The increased spending on these projects, though they did make some money, contributed to the company's downfall. In the meantime, the studio imported and released its final foreign film, an Australian film, ''[[Mad Max (film)|Mad Max]]'', dubbed into [[American English]].

James Nicholson's first wife Sylvia was still a major shareholder of the company. She sued AIP for mismanagement, but this was resolved in 1978 when AIP bought out her shares.<ref>{{cite news|title=American International Pictures Buys Shares From Sylvia Nicholson|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=Apr 19, 1978|page=36}}</ref>

=== Merger with Filmways ===
By the late 1970s, filmmaking costs continued to rise, AIP's tactic of moving into bigger budgeted quality pictures was not paying off at the box office, and Arkoff began to think of merging the company. "We've been the [[F. W. Woolworth Company|Woolworths]] of the movie business but Woolworths is being out priced", said Arkoff.<ref>{{cite news|title=Filmways Inc. Signs Accord in Principle For Movie Maker|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=Oct 10, 1978|page=48}}</ref> Talks began with [[Filmways|Filmways, Incorporated]]. Negotiations stalled for a while,<ref>{{cite news|title=American International Pictures, Filmways Inc. Terminates Merger Plan|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=Dec 11, 1978|page=20}}</ref> but resumed a number of months later.<ref>{{Cite news|title=May Revive Merger Talks With Filmways, AIP Says|author=Jones, John A.|date=Feb 12, 1979|work=Los Angeles Times|page=d12}}</ref> In 1979, AIP was sold to Filmways for $30 million and became a subsidiary production unit thereof, renamed Filmways Pictures in 1980.<ref>{{cite news|title=Filmways Says Assets Were Overstated For American International Pictures Inc.|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=Dec 3, 1979|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=AIP BITES DUST AS FILMWAYS RENAMES STUDIO|work=Los Angeles Times|date=Mar 13, 1980|page=f3}}</ref>

Arkoff was unhappy with the direction of the company and resigned to set up his own production company, receiving a pay out worth $1.4 million.<ref>{{Cite news|title=President of Filmways' American International Pictures Resigns Post|work=The Wall Street Journal |date=Dec 6, 1979|page=30}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Filmways Inc. Pays Ex-Aide $1.4 Million|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=8 July 1980|page=8}}</ref>

AIP-TV was absorbed as the wholly owned program syndication arm of Filmways Television. Filmways was later bought by Orion Pictures Company in 1982 and Filmways was later renamed '''[[Orion Pictures|Orion Pictures Corporation]]''', but retained the distribution arm. This allowed Orion to establish its own distribution, after utilizing [[Warner Bros.]] for distribution. Warner Bros. still has distribution rights to Orion films which were originally distributed by this company. Today, a majority of the AIP library is owned by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]'s subsidiary Orion Pictures Corporation. The American International name is still a registered trademark owned by MGM's Orion Pictures unit.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=doc&state=4010:i6p96l.3.5 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-10-14 |archive-date=2016-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414020823/http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=doc&state=4010:i6p96l.3.5 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=How Accountants Helped Orion Pictures Launch Its Financial Comeback|author=Welles, Chris|date=May 15, 1983|work=Los Angeles Times|page=f1}}</ref>

=== Relaunch ===
On October 7, 2020, it was announced that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer relaunched AIP as a label for films that the studio will acquire for digital and limited theatrical releases. Founder of [[Open Road Films]], Eric Hohl was accepted as a president of the studio, after he was reinstated by MGM in 2017. MGM will oversee AIP's new films across all streaming platforms and the theatrical releases of them will be handled by its joint distribution venture [[United Artists Releasing]]. The first film from the relaunched AIP was ''[[Breaking News in Yuba County]]'', directed by [[Tate Taylor]] and starring [[Allison Janney]], which was released on February 12, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/tate-taylors-breaking-news-in-yuba-county-mgm-for-relaunched-american-international-pictures/|title=Tate Taylor's 'Breaking News in Yuba County' Picked up by MGM for Relaunched American International Pictures BannerTheWrap}}</ref>

On May 17, 2021, technology company [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] entered negotiations to acquire MGM and even made a bid for about $9 billion. The negotiations are made with Anchorage Capital Kevin Ulrich.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spangler |first1=Todd |title=Amazon Said to Make $9 Billion Offer for MGM |url=https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/amazon-mgm-acquisition-talks-9-billion-1234975168/ |access-date=May 17, 2021 |work=Variety |date=May 17, 2021|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Toonkel |first1=Jessica |title=Amazon Pondering Deal to Buy MGM |url=https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-pondering-deal-to-buy-mgm|access-date=May 17, 2021 |work=The Information |date=May 17, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> On May 26, 2021, it was officially announced that MGM will be acquired by Amazon for $8.45 billion, subject to regulatory approvals and other routine closing conditions; with the studio continuing to operate as a label under the new parent company, which includes AIP and its titles.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} The merger was finalized on March 17, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maas |first=Jennifer |date=2022-03-17 |title=Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM |url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-1235207852/ |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Legacy===
In 2005, less than four years after the death of Arkoff, filmmaker and [[Troublemaker Studios]] co-founder [[Robert Rodriguez]] founded a horror genre film and television company called [[Troublemaker Studios#Rodriguez International Pictures|Rodriguez International Pictures]], which is a homage to the company.

== Film library ==

=== 1950s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Release date
! Title
! Genre
! Director
|-
! colspan="4"| as American Releasing Corporation
|-
| align="right"| 1955 || ''[[Operation Malaya (film)|Operation Malaya]]'' || Documentary || [[David MacDonald (director)|David MacDonald]]
|-
| align="right"| February 15, 1955 || ''[[The Fast and the Furious (1955 film)|The Fast and the Furious]]'' || Crime || [[John Ireland (actor)|John Ireland]]
|-
| align="right"| April 15, 1955 || ''[[Five Guns West]]'' || Western || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| May 15, 1955 || ''[[Outlaw Treasure]]'' || Western || [[Oliver Drake (filmmaker)|Oliver Drake]]
|-
| align="right"| June 15, 1955 || ''[[The Beast with a Million Eyes]]'' || Sci-fi || David Kramarsky Lou Place '''Uncredited:''' [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| September 15, 1955 || ''[[Apache Woman]]'' || Western || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan ="2"| December 1955 || ''[[Day the World Ended]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| ''[[The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues]]'' || Sci-fi || Dan Milner
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| June 15, 1956 || ''[[The Oklahoma Woman]]'' || Western || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| ''[[Female Jungle]]'' || Crime || [[Bruno VeSota]]
|-
| align="right"| June 1956 || ''[[Gunslinger (1956 film)|Gunslinger]]'' || Western || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
! colspan="4"| as American International Pictures
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 15, 1956 || ''[[It Conquered the World]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| ''[[The She-Creature]]'' || Horror || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 1956 || ''[[Girls in Prison]]'' || Crime || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| ''[[Hot Rod Girl]]'' || Action || [[Lew Landers]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 15, 1956 || ''[[Runaway Daughters (1956 film)|Runaway Daughters]]'' || Crime || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| ''[[Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956 film)|Shake, Rattle & Rock!]]'' || Musical || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| January 1957 || ''[[Naked Paradise]]'' || Crime || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| ''[[Flesh and the Spur]]'' || Western || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| March 1, 1957 || ''[[Voodoo Woman]]'' || Horror || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| ''[[The Undead (film)|The Undead]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| April 24, 1957 || ''[[Dragstrip Girl]]'' || Action || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| ''[[Rock All Night]]'' || Crime || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| June 19, 1957 || ''[[I Was a Teenage Werewolf]]'' || Horror || [[Gene Fowler Jr.]]
|-
| ''[[Invasion of the Saucer Men]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| August 1957 || ''[[Naked Africa]]'' || Documentary || Ray Phoenix
|-
| ''[[The White Huntress]]'' || Adventure || [[George P. Breakston]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| August 1957 || ''[[Reform School Girl]]'' || Crime || [[Edward Bernds]]
|-
| ''[[Rock Around the World]]'' || Musical || Gerard Bryant
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| October 22, 1957 || ''[[Motorcycle Gang (film)|Motorcycle Gang]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]] || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
|''[[Sorority Girl]]'' || Drama || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| October 25, 1957 || ''[[The Amazing Colossal Man]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Bert I. Gordon]]
|-
| ''[[Cat Girl]]'' || Horror || [[Alfred Shaughnessy]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| November 23, 1957 || ''[[I Was a Teenage Frankenstein]]'' || Horror || [[Herbert L. Strock]]
|-
| ''[[Blood of Dracula]]'' || Horror || [[Herbert L. Strock]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| December 1957 || ''[[The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent]]'' || Adventure || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
|''[[The Astounding She-Monster]]'' || Sci-fi horror || Ronald V. Ashcroft
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| January 1958 || ''[[The Screaming Skull]]'' || Horror || [[Alex Nicol]]
|-
| ''[[Terror from the Year 5000]]'' || Sci-fi || Robert J. Gurney Jr.
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| February 1958 || ''[[Jet Attack]]'' || War || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| ''[[Suicide Battalion]]'' || War || [[Edward L. Cahn]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| March 1958 || ''[[The Cool and the Crazy]]'' || Drama || [[William Witney]]
|-
| ''[[Dragstrip Riot]]'' || Drama || [[David Bradley (director)|David Bradley]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| May 28, 1958 || ''[[The Bonnie Parker Story]]'' || Crime || [[William Witney]]
|-
| ''[[Machine-Gun Kelly (film)|Machine-Gun Kelly]]'' || Action || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| June 1958 || ''[[High School Hellcats]]'' || Crime || [[Edward Bernds]]
|-
| ''[[Hot Rod Gang]]'' || Drama || [[Lew Landers]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 1, 1958 || ''[[How to Make a Monster (1958 film)|How to Make a Monster]]'' || Horror || [[Herbert L. Strock]]
|-
| ''[[Teenage Caveman (1958 film)|Teenage Caveman]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 30, 1958 || ''[[War of the Colossal Beast]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Bert I. Gordon]]
|-
| ''[[Attack of the Puppet People]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Bert I. Gordon]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 1958 || ''[[Hell Squad (1958 film)|Hell Squad]]'' || War || [[Burt Topper]]
|-
| ''[[Tank Battalion (film)|Tank Battalion]]'' || War || Sherman A. Rose
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| August 1958 || ''[[Night of the Blood Beast]]'' || Sci-fi horror || [[Bernard L. Kowalski]]
|-
| ''[[She Gods of Shark Reef]]'' || Adventure || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| September 1958 || ''[[The Brain Eaters]]'' || Sci-fi horror || [[Bruno VeSota]]
|-
| ''[[Earth vs. the Spider]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Bert I. Gordon]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| December 1958 || ''[[Submarine Seahawk]]'' || War || [[Spencer Gordon Bennet]]
|-
|''[[Paratroop Command]]'' || War || [[William Witney]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| March 1959 || ''[[Roadracers (1959 film)|Roadracers]]'' || Action || Arthur Swerdloff
|-
| ''[[Daddy-O]]'' || Crime || Lou Place
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| March 1959 || ''[[Tank Commandos]]'' || War || [[Burt Topper]]
|-
| ''[[Operation Dames]]'' || War || [[Louis Clyde Stoumen]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| April 29, 1959 || ''[[The Headless Ghost]]'' || Horror || [[Peter Graham Scott]]
|-
| ''[[Horrors of the Black Museum]]'' || Horror || [[Arthur Crabtree]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan= "2"| July 1959 || ''[[Diary of a High School Bride]]'' || Romance || [[Burt Topper]]
|-
| ''[[Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow]]'' || Horror || William J. Hole Jr.
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| September 23, 1959 || ''[[Nel Segno di Roma|Sheba and the Gladiator]]'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Guido Brignone]]
|-
| ''[[Goliath and the Barbarians]]'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Carlo Campogalliani]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| October 21, 1959 || ''[[A Bucket of Blood]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| ''[[Attack of the Giant Leeches]]'' || Sci-fi horror || [[Bernard L. Kowalski]]
|-
|}

=== 1960s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Release date
! Title
! Genre
! Director
|-
| align="right"| June 22, 1960 || ''[[House of Usher (film)|House of Usher]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| June 1960 || ''[[The Jailbreakers]]'' || Crime || [[Alexander Grasshoff]]
|-
|''[[Why Must I Die?]]'' || Crime || [[Roy Del Ruth]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 1960 || ''[[The Amazing Transparent Man]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Edgar G. Ulmer]]
|-
| ''[[Beyond the Time Barrier]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Edgar G. Ulmer]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| August 31, 1960 || ''[[Circus of Horrors]]'' || Horror || [[Sidney Hayers]]
|-
| ''[[The Angry Red Planet]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Sidney W. Pink]]
|-
| align="right"| October 1960 || ''[[Journey to the Lost City]]''|| combined film of ''[[The Indian Tomb (1959 film)|The Indian Tomb]]'' and ''[[The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959 film)|The Tiger of Eschnapur]]'' || [[Fritz Lang]]
|-
| align="right"| November 1960 || ''[[Goliath and the Dragon]]'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Vittorio Cottafavi]]
|-
| align="right"| February 15, 1961 || ''[[Black Sunday (1960 film)|Black Sunday]]'' || Horror || [[Mario Bava]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2" | March 22, 1961 || ''[[The Hand (1960 film)|The Hand]]'' || Crime || [[Henry Cass]]
|-
| ''[[Beware of Children]]'' || Comedy || [[Gerald Thomas]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| May 3, 1961 || ''[[Konga (film)|Konga]]'' || Horror || [[John Lemont]]
|-
| ''[[Master of the World (1961 film)|Master of the World]]'' || Sci-fi || [[William Witney]]
|-
| align="right"| July 14, 1961 || ''[[Alakazam the Great]]'' || [[Anime]] || Taiji Yabushita Daisaku Shirakawa
|-
| align="right"| August 12, 1961 || ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)|The Pit and the Pendulum]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| October 1961 || ''[[The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll|Jekyll's Inferno]]'' || Horror || [[Terence Fisher]]
|-
| align="right"| December 6, 1961 || ''[[Portrait of a Sinner]]'' || Drama || [[Robert Siodmak]]
|-
| align="right"| December 12, 1961 || ''[[The Continental Twist]]'' || Musical || William J. Hole
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| December 13, 1961 || ''[[Space Men|Assignment Outer Space]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Antonio Margheriti]]
|-
|''[[The Phantom Planet]]'' || Sci-fi || [[William Marshall (bandleader)|William Marshall]]
|-
| align="right"| December 28, 1961 || ''[[Flight of the Lost Balloon]]'' || Sci-fi adventure || [[Nathan Juran]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| January 1962 || ''[[Guns of the Black Witch]]'' || Adventure || [[Domenico Paolella]]
|-
|''[[Lost Battalion (1960 film)|Lost Battalion]]'' || War || [[Eddie Romero]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| 1962 || ''[[Battle Beyond the Sun]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Mikhail Karyukov]] [[Aleksandr Kozyr]]
|-
| ''[[Night Tide]]'' || Horror || [[Curtis Harrington]]
|-
|align="right"| June 6, 1963 || ''[[A House of Sand]]'' || Drama || Robert Darwin
|-
|align="right"| 1963 || ''[[Duel of Fire]]'' || Adventure || [[Umberto Lenzi]]
|-
| align="right"| March 7, 1962 || ''[[The Premature Burial (film)|The Premature Burial]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| March 10, 1962 || ''[[Journey to the Seventh Planet]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Sidney W. Pink]]
|-
| align="right"| April 25, 1962 || ''[[Burn, Witch, Burn (film)|Burn, Witch, Burn]]'' || Horror || [[Sidney Hayers]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| August 10, 1962 || ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]'' || Sci-fi || Joseph Green
|-
| ''[[Invasion of the Star Creatures]]'' || Sci-fi comedy || [[Bruno VeSota]]
|-
| align="right"| June 1962 || ''[[The Prisoner of the Iron Mask]]'' || Adventure || Francesco De Feo
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 4, 1962 || ''[[Tales of Terror]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| ''[[Panic in Year Zero!]]'' || Nuclear war thriller || [[Ray Milland]]
|-
| align="right"| August 1962 || ''[[Marco Polo (1961 film)|Marco Polo]]'' || Adventure || [[Piero Pierotti]]
|-
| align="right"| September 1962 || ''[[White Slave Ship]]'' || Adventure || [[Silvio Amadio]]
|-
| align="right"| November 18, 1962 || ''[[A Story of David]]'' || [[List of films based on the Bible|Biblical]] || Bob McNaught
|-
| align="right"| December 1962 || ''[[Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World]]'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Riccardo Freda]]
|-
| align="right"| December 1962 || ''[[Warriors Five!]]'' || [[Macaroni combat|War]] || [[Leopoldo Savona]]
|-
| align="right"| January 20, 1963 || ''[[Reptilicus]]'' || Sci-fi horror || [[Sidney W. Pink]]
|-
| align="right"| January 25, 1963 || ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| March 3, 1963 || ''[[California (1963 film)|California]]'' || Western || Hamil Petroff
|-
| align="right"| March 26, 1963 || ''[[Operation Bikini]]'' || War || Anthony Carras
|-
| align="right"| April 24, 1963 || ''[[Free, White and 21]]'' || Drama || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| May 1, 1963 || ''[[The Mind Benders (1963 film)|The Mind Benders]]'' || Spy || [[Basil Dearden]]
|-
| align="right"| June 12, 1963 || ''[[Erik the Conqueror]]'' || Adventure || [[Mario Bava]]
|-
| align="right"| June 17, 1963 || ''[[The Terror (1963 film)|The Terror]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| August 7, 1963 || ''[[Beach Party]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[William Asher]]
|-
| align="right"| August 28, 1963 || ''[[The Haunted Palace]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| September 18, 1963 || ''[[X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| September 25, 1963 || ''[[Dementia 13]]'' || Horror || [[Francis Ford Coppola|Francis Coppola]]
|-
| align="right"| December 18, 1963 || ''[[Samson and the Slave Queen]]'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Umberto Lenzi]]
|-
| align="right"| December 25, 1963 || ''[[Goliath and the Sins of Babylon]]'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Michele Lupo]]
|-
| align="right"| 1964 || ''[[Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon]]'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Domenico Paolella]]
|-
| align="right"| January 22, 1964 || ''[[The Comedy of Terrors]]'' || Comedy horror || [[Jacques Tourneur]]
|-
| align="right"| January 22, 1964 || ''[[Pyro... The Thing Without a Face]]'' || Horror || [[Julio Coll]]
|-
| align="right"| March 12, 1964 || ''[[Summer Holiday (1963 film)|Summer Holiday]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[Peter Yates]]
|-
| align="right"| March 25, 1964 || ''[[Muscle Beach Party]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[William Asher]]
|-
| align="right"| March 1964 || ''[[Under Age (1964 film)|Under Age]]'' || Drama || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| April 1, 1964 || ''[[Marcia o Crepa|Commando]]'' || [[Macaroni combat|War]] || [[Frank Wisbar]]
|-
| ''[[Torpedo Bay (film)|Torpedo Bay]]'' || [[Macaroni combat|War]] || [[Charles Frend]] Bruno Vailati
|-
| align="right"| April 1964 || ''[[Unearthly Stranger]]'' || Sci-fi || [[John Krish]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| May 6, 1964 || ''[[Black Sabbath (film)|Black Sabbath]]'' || [[Giallo]] || [[Mario Bava]]
|-
| ''[[The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)|The Last Man on Earth]]'' || Horror || [[Ubaldo Ragona]] [[Sidney Salkow]]
|-
| align="right"| May 20, 1964 || ''[[The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963 film)|The Evil Eye]]'' || [[Giallo]] || [[Mario Bava]]
|-
| align="right"| June 24, 1964 || ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| June 1964 || ''[[Some People (film)|Some People]]'' || Musical || [[Clive Donner]]
|-
| align="right"| July 2, 1964 || ''[[Wonderful Life (1964 film)|Swingers' Paradise]]'' || Musical || [[Sidney J. Furie]]
|-
| align="right"| July 22, 1964 || ''[[Bikini Beach]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[William Asher]]
|-
| align="right"| September 17, 1964 || ''[[Mothra vs. Godzilla|Godzilla vs. the Thing]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Ishirō Honda]]
|-
| align="right"| September 1964 || ''[[Diary of a Bachelor]]'' || Comedy || [[Sandy Howard]]
|-
| align="right"| October 29, 1964 || ''[[The Time Travelers (1964 film)|The Time Travelers]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Ib Melchior]]
|-
| align="right"| November 11, 1964 || ''[[Pajama Party (film)|Pajama Party]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[Don Weis]]
|-
| align="right"| November 25, 1964 || ''[[Navajo Run]]'' || Western || [[Johnny Seven (actor)|Johnny Seven]]
|-
| align="right"| November 25, 1964 || ''[[Ikarie XB-1|Voyage to the End of the Universe]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Jindřich Polák]]
|-
| align="right"| December 29, 1964 || ''[[T.A.M.I. Show]]'' || [[Concert film|Concert documentary]] || [[Steve Binder]]
|-
| align="right"| 1965 || ''[[The Eye Creatures]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| January 20, 1965 || ''[[The Tomb of Ligeia]]'' || Horror || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| January 27, 1965 || ''[[Operation Snafu]]'' || War comedy || [[Cyril Frankel]]
|-
| align="right"| March 3, 1965 || ''[[The Lost World of Sinbad]]'' || Adventure || [[Senkichi Taniguchi]]
|-
| align="right"| March 11, 1965 || ''[[Atragon]]'' || [[Kaiju|J-Horror]] || [[Ishirō Honda]]
|-
| align="right"| March 1965 || ''[[Rome Against Rome]]'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Giuseppe Vari]]
|-
| align="right"| April 14, 1965 || ''[[Beach Blanket Bingo]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[William Asher]]
|-
| align="right"| April 20, 1965 || ''[[The Pawnbroker (film)|The Pawnbroker]]'' || Drama || [[Sidney Lumet]]
|-
| align="right"| April 28, 1965 || ''[[The Fool Killer]]'' || Adventure drama || [[Servando González]]
|-
| align="right"| April 1965 || ''Taboos of the World'' || [[Mondo film|Shockumentary]] || [[Romolo Marcellini]]
|-
| align="right"| May 19, 1965 || ''[[Pop Gear|Go Go Mania]]'' || Musical || Frederic Goode
|-
| align="right"| May 26, 1965 || ''[[War-Gods of the Deep]]'' || Horror || [[Jacques Tourneur]]
|-
| align="right"| June 30, 1965 || ''[[Ski Party]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[Alan Rafkin]]
|-
| align="right"| July 8, 1966 || ''[[Frankenstein Conquers the World]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Ishirō Honda]]
|-
| align="right"| July 14, 1965 || ''[[How to Stuff a Wild Bikini]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[William Asher]]
|-
| align="right"| August 1, 1965 || ''[[Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Curtis Harrington]]
|-
| align="right"| August 18, 1965 || ''[[Sergeant Deadhead]]'' || Comedy || [[Norman Taurog]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| October 27, 1965 || ''[[Die, Monster, Die!]]'' || Horror || [[Daniel Haller]]
|-
| ''[[Planet of the Vampires]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Mario Bava]]
|-
| align="right"| November 6, 1965 || ''[[Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine]]'' || Comedy || [[Norman Taurog]]
|-
| align="right"| November 30, 1965 || ''[[King & Country]]'' || Drama || [[Joseph Losey]]
|-
| align="right"| 1966 || ''[[Zontar, the Thing from Venus]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| 1966 || ''[[Curse of the Swamp Creature]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| January 12, 1966 || ''[[Secret Agent Fireball]]'' || [[Eurospy]] || [[Luciano Martino]]
|-
|''[[Berlin, Appointment for the Spies|Spy in Your Eye]]'' || [[Eurospy]] || [[Vittorio Sala]]
|-
| align="right"| January 1966 || ''[[Conquered City]]'' || [[Macaroni combat|War]] || [[Joseph Anthony]]
|-
| align="right"| March 1966 || ''[[Queen of Blood]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Curtis Harrington]]
|-
| align="right"| March 2, 1966 || ''[[Blood Bath]]'' || Horror || [[Jack Hill]]
|-
| align="right"| April 12, 1966 || ''[[The Girl-Getters]]'' || Drama || [[Michael Winner]]
|-
| align="right"| April 13, 1966 || ''[[The Dirty Game]]'' || [[Eurospy]] [[Anthology film|anthology]] || [[Christian-Jaque]] [[Werner Klingler]] [[Carlo Lizzani]] [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]
|-
| align="right"| April 1966 || ''[[Man from Cocody]]'' || Action || [[Christian-Jaque]]
|-
| align="right"| April 1966 || ''[[What's Up, Tiger Lily?]]'' || Spy comedy film || [[Woody Allen]] [[Senkichi Taniguchi]]
|-
| align="right"| April 1966 || ''[[The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini]]'' || [[Beach party film|Beach party]] || [[Don Weis]]
|-
| align="right"| May 1966 || ''[[The Great Spy Chase]]'' || [[Eurospy]] || [[Georges Lautner]]
|-
| align="right"| June 7, 1966 || ''[[Fireball 500]]'' || Car racing film || [[William Asher]]
|-
| align="right"| July 1966 || ''[[Tarzan and the Valley of Gold]]'' || Adventure || [[Robert Day (director)|Robert Day]]
|-
| align="right"| July 20, 1966 || ''[[The Wild Angels]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]] || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| November 9, 1966 || ''[[Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs]]'' || [[Eurospy]] comedy || [[Mario Bava]]
|-
| align="right" |November 1966 || ''[[Door to Door Maniac]]'' || Crime || Bill Karn
|-
| align="right"| December 28, 1966 || ''[[Trunk to Cairo]]'' || Spy || [[Menahem Golan]]
|-
| align="right"| 1967 || ''[[Mars Needs Women]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| 1967 || ''[[In the Year 2889 (film)|In the Year 2889]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| 1967 || ''[[Creature of Destruction]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| January 18, 1967 || ''[[War Italian Style]]'' || [[Macaroni combat|War]] comedy || [[Luigi Scattini]]
|-
| align="right"| March 18, 1967 || ''[[Riot on Sunset Strip]]'' || Drama || [[Arthur Dreifuss]]
|-
| align="right"| March 22, 1967 || ''[[Thunder Alley (1967 film)|Thunder Alley]]'' || Car racing film || [[Richard Rush (director)|Richard Rush]]
|-
| align="right"| April 1967 || ''[[Devil's Angels]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film]] || [[Daniel Haller]]
|-
| align="right"| May 17, 1967 || ''[[The Million Eyes of Sumuru]]'' || Action || [[Lindsay Shonteff]]
|-
| align="right"| June 1967 || ''[[Death Is a Woman|Love Is a Woman]]'' || Mystery || Frederic Goode
|-
| align="right"| August 23, 1967 || ''[[The Trip (1967 film)|The Trip]]'' || Drama || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| November, 1967 || ''[[The House of 1,000 Dolls]]'' || Crime || [[Jeremy Summers]]
|-
| align="right"| November 22, 1967 || ''[[The Glory Stompers]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]] || Anthony M. Lanza
|-
| align="right"| 1968 || ''[[Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Peter Bogdanovich]]
|-
| align="right"| January 18, 1968 || ''[[The Born Losers]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]] || [[Tom Laughlin|T. C. Frank]]
|-
| align="right"| January 24, 1968 || ''[[Maryjane (film)|Maryjane]]'' || Drama || [[Maury Dexter]]
|-
| align="right"| January 24, 1968 || ''[[The Wild Racers]]'' || Racing car film || [[Daniel Haller]]
|-
| align="right"| March 28, 1968 || ''[[The Road Hustlers]]'' || Action || Larry E. Jackson
|-
| align="right"| May 1968 || ''[[The Mini-Skirt Mob]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]] || [[Maury Dexter]]
|-
| align="right"| May 1968 || ''[[The Savage Seven]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]] || [[Richard Rush (director)|Richard Rush]]
|-
| align="right"| May 15, 1968 || ''[[Witchfinder General (film)|Witchfinder General]]'' || Horror || [[Michael Reeves]]
|-
| align="right"| May 29, 1968 || ''[[Wild in the Streets]]'' || Comedy-drama || [[Barry Shear]]
|-
| align="right"| September 22, 1968 || ''[[Psych-Out]]'' || Drama || [[Richard Rush (director)|Richard Rush]]
|-
| align="right"| October 1968 || ''[[The Young Animals]]'' || Drama || [[Maury Dexter]]
|-
| align="right"| November 1968 || ''[[Killers Three]]'' || Crime || [[Bruce Kessler]]
|-
| align="right"| December 20, 1968 || ''[[Three in the Attic]]'' || Comedy-drama || [[Richard Wilson (director)|Richard Wilson]]
|-
| align="right"| 1969 || ''[['It's Alive!']]'' || Horror || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| March 18, 1969 || ''[[The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots]]'' || [[Anime]] || [[Kimio Yabuki]]
|-
| align="right"| April 16, 1969 || ''[[Hell's Belles (film)|Hell's Belles]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]] || [[Maury Dexter]]
|-
| align="right"| May 1969 || ''[[God Forgives... I Don't!]]'' || [[Spaghetti Western]] || [[Giuseppe Colizzi]]
|-
| align="right"| 14 May 1969 || ''[[The Devil's 8]]'' || Moonshine Action || [[Burt Topper]]
|-
| align="right"| May 23, 1969 || ''[[Destroy All Monsters]]'' || Sci-fi || [[Ishirō Honda]]
|-
| align="right"| June 11, 1969 || ''[[The Oblong Box (film)|The Oblong Box]]'' || Horror || [[Gordon Hessler]]
|-
| align="right"| July 23, 1969 || ''[[Spirits of the Dead]]'' || [[Anthology film|Anthology]] horror || [[Roger Vadim]] [[Louis Malle]] [[Federico Fellini]]
|-
| align="right"| August 19, 1969 || ''[[Angel, Angel, Down We Go]]'' || Crime || [[Robert Thom (writer)|Robert Thom]]
|-
| align="right"| August 27, 1969 || ''[[De Sade (film)|De Sade]]'' || Drama || [[Cy Endfield]] '''Uncredited:''' [[Roger Corman]] [[Gordon Hessler]]
|-
| align="right"| September 8, 1969 || ''[[The Honeymoon Killers]]'' || Crime || [[Leonard Kastle]]
|-
| align="right"| September 10, 1969 || ''[[Hell's Angels '69]]'' || [[Outlaw biker film|Outlaw biker]] || [[Lee Madden]] [[Conny Van Dyke]]
|}

=== 1970s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Release date
! Title
! Genre
! Director
|-
| align="right"| 1970 || ''[[Strawberries Need Rain]]'' || Fantasy || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| 1970 || ''[[Pacific Vibrations]]'' || Documentary || [[Surfer (magazine)|John Severson]]
|-
| align="right"| January 1970 || ''[[The Savage Wild]]'' || Documentary || Gordon Eastman
|-
| align="right"| January 1970 || ''[[Scream and Scream Again]]'' || Sci-fi thriller || [[Gordon Hessler]]
|-
| align="right"| January 14, 1970 || ''[[The Dunwich Horror (film)|The Dunwich Horror]]'' || Horror || [[Daniel Haller]]
|-
| align="right"| March 24, 1970 || ''[[Bloody Mama]]'' || Drama || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| April 15, 1970 || ''[[The Haunted House of Horror]]'' || [[Slasher film|Slasher]] || [[Michael Armstrong (filmmaker)|Michael Armstrong]]
|-
| align="right"| May 8, 1970 || ''[[Lola (1969 film)|Lola]]'' || Romantic comedy-drama || [[Richard Donner]]
|-
| align="right"| June 1970 || ''[[A Bullet for Pretty Boy]]'' || Action || [[Larry Buchanan]]
|-
| align="right"| June 10, 1970 || ''[[Count Yorga, Vampire]]'' || Horror || Bob Kelljan
|-
| align="right"| July 29, 1970 || ''[[Cry of the Banshee]]'' || Horror || [[Gordon Hessler]]
|-
| align="right"| September 2, 1970 || ''[[Angel Unchained]]'' || Outlaw biker || [[Lee Madden]]
|-
| align="right"| September 9, 1970 || ''[[Venus in Furs (1969 Franco film)|Venus in Furs]]'' || Erotic thriller || [[Jesús Franco]]
|-
| align="right"| October 22, 1970 || ''[[The Vampire Lovers]]'' || Horror || [[Roy Ward Baker]]
|-
| align="right"| February 17, 1971 || ''[[Gas-s-s-s]]'' || Sci-fi comedy-drama || [[Roger Corman]]
|-
| align="right"| February 18, 1971 || ''[[Wuthering Heights (1970 film)|Wuthering Heights]]'' || Romance || [[Robert Fuest]]
|-
| align="right"| March 17, 1971 || ''[[Blood and Lace]]'' || Horror || Philip S. Gilbert
|-
| align="right"| April 22, 1971 || ''[[The Hard Ride]]'' || Outlaw biker || [[Burt Topper]]
|-
| align="right"| April 28, 1971 || ''[[The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant]]'' || Sci-fi horror || Anthony Lanza
|-
| align="right"| May 18, 1971 || ''[[The Abominable Dr. Phibes]]'' || Comedy horror || [[Robert Fuest]]
|-
| align="right"| August 20, 1971 || ''[[Swedish Fly Girls]]'' || Drama || [[Jack O'Connell (filmmaker)|Jack O'Connell]]
|-
| align="right"| September 29, 1971 || ''[[Chrome and Hot Leather]]'' || Outlaw biker || Lee Frost
|-
| align="right"| October 6, 1971 || ''[[Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971 film)|Murders in the Rue Morgue]]'' || Horror || [[Gordon Hessler]]
|-
| align="right"| October 13, 1971 || ''[[A Lizard in a Woman's Skin]]'' || [[Giallo]] || [[Lucio Fulci]]
|-
| align="right"| October 18, 1971 || ''[[Bunny O'Hare]]'' || Comedy || [[Gerd Oswald]]
|-
| align="right"| October 27, 1971 || ''[[Some of My Best Friends Are...]]'' || Drama || [[Mervyn Nelson]]
|-
| align="right"| October 1971 || ''[[1000 Convicts and a Woman]]'' || Drama || [[Ray Austin (director)|Ray Austin]]
|-
| align="right"| December 22, 1971 || ''[[Kidnapped (1971 film)|Kidnapped]]'' || Adventure || [[Delbert Mann]]
|-
| align="right"| January 19, 1972 || ''[[Together (1971 film)|Together]]'' || [[Mockumentary]] || [[Sean S. Cunningham]]
|-
| align="right"| February 2, 1972 || ''[[The Return of Count Yorga]]'' || Horror || Bob Kelljan
|-
| align="right"| February 1972 || ''[[Godzilla vs. Hedorah|Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster]]'' || Involuntary comedy || [[Yoshimitsu Banno]]
|-
| align="right"| March 10, 1972 || ''[[Frogs (film)|Frogs]]'' || Horror || [[George McCowan]]
|-
| align="right"| March 15, 1972 || ''[[Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?]]'' || Horror || [[Curtis Harrington]]
|-
| align="right"| April 1972 || ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde]]'' || Sci-fi horror || [[Roy Ward Baker]]
|-
| align="right"| May 17, 1972 || ''[[Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]]'' || Horror || [[Seth Holt]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="3"| May 1972 || ''[[Pickup on 101]]'' || Drama || [[John Florea]]
|-
| ''[[Wild in the Sky]]'' || Action comedy || William T. Naud
|-
| ''[[The Bloody Judge (film)|The Bloody Judge]]'' || Horror || [[Jesús Franco]]
|-
| align="right"| June 14, 1972 || ''[[Boxcar Bertha]]'' || Crime || [[Martin Scorsese]]
|-
| align="right"| July 19, 1972 || ''[[The Thing with Two Heads]]'' || Sci-fi || Lee Frost
|-
| align="right"| July 21, 1972 || ''[[F.T.A.]]'' || Documentary || [[Francine Parker]]
|-
| align="right"| July 1972 || ''[[Dr. Phibes Rises Again]]'' || Horror || [[Robert Fuest]]
|-
| align="right"| August 16, 1972 || ''[[Slaughter (1972 film)|Slaughter]]'' || [[Blaxploitation]] || [[Jack Starrett]]
|-
| align="right"| August 25, 1972 || ''[[Blacula]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[William Crain (filmmaker)|William Crain]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| August 1972 || ''Deathmaster'' || Horror || [[Ray Danton]]
|-
| ''[[The Sandpit Generals]]'' || Drama || [[Hall Bartlett]]
|-
| align="right"| September 1972 || ''[[Tam-Lin (film)|Tam-Lin]]'' || Horror || [[Roddy McDowall]]
|-
| align="right"| October 10, 1972 || ''[[Baron Blood (film)|Baron Blood]]'' || Horror || [[Mario Bava]]
|-
| align="right"| November 1972 || ''[[The Dirt Gang]]'' || Action drama || [[Jerry Jameson]]
|-
| align="right"| November 10, 1972 || ''[[Unholy Rollers]]'' || Action comedy || [[Vernon Zimmerman]]
|-
| align="right"| November 22, 1972 || ''Prison Girls'' || Crime || [[Tom DeSimone|Thomas De Simone]]
|-
| align="right"| January 19, 1973 || ''[[Black Mama White Mama]]'' || [[Women in prison film|Women in prison]] || [[Eddie Romero]]
|-
| align="right"| January 1973 || ''[[Manson (film)|Manson]]'' || Documentary || [[Robert Hendrickson (director)|Robert Hendrickson]] and [[Laurence Merrick]]
|-
| align="right"| February 7, 1973 || ''[[Black Caesar (film)|Black Caesar]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Larry Cohen]]
|-
| align="right"| March 27, 1973 || ''[[Sisters (1973 film)|Sisters]]'' || Horror || [[Brian De Palma]]
|-
| align="right"| April 1973 || ''[[Cannibal Girls]]'' || Comedy horror || [[Ivan Reitman]]
|-
| align="right"| May 4, 1973 || ''[[Deep Thrust]]'' || Action || [[Huang Feng]]
|-
| align="right"| June 13, 1973 || ''[[Coffy]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Jack Hill]]
|-
| align="right"| June 27, 1973 || ''[[Scream, Blacula, Scream]]'' || Blaxploitation || Bob Kelljan
|-
| align="right"| June 1973 || ''[[Little Cigars (film)|Little Cigars]]'' || Crime comedy || Chris Christenberry
|-
| align="right"| July 20, 1973 || ''[[Dillinger (1973 film)|Dillinger]]'' || Crime || [[John Milius]]
|-
| align="right"| August 8, 1973 || ''[[Heavy Traffic]]'' || [[Adult animation|Animated comedy-drama]] || [[Ralph Bakshi]]
|-
| align="right"| August 31, 1973 || ''[[Slaughter's Big Rip-Off]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Gordon Douglas (director)|Gordon Douglas]]
|-
| align="right"| September 1973 || ''[[Death Line]]'' || Horror || [[Gary Sherman (director)|Gary Sherman]]
|-
| align="right"| October 31, 1973 || ''[[The Italian Connection]]'' || [[Poliziotteschi|Action]] || [[Fernando di Leo]]
|-
| align="right"| October 1973 || ''The Screaming Tiger'' || Action || Lung Chien
|-
| align="right"| November 21, 1973 || ''Battle of the Amazons'' || [[Peplum (film genre)|Sword-and-sandal]] || [[Alfonso Brescia]]
|-
| align="right"| December 1973 || ''[[Hell Up in Harlem]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Larry Cohen]]
|-
| align="right"| January 30, 1974 || ''[[The Bat People]]'' || Horror || [[Jerry Jameson]]
|-
| align="right"| February 13, 1974 || ''[[Bamboo Gods and Iron Men]]'' || Blaxploitation comedy || Cesar Gallardo
|-
| align="right"| February 1974 || ''Secret Life of a Schoolgirl Wife'' || Comedy-drama || Leon Capetanos
|-
| align="right"| March 6, 1974 || ''[[Deranged (1974 film)|Deranged]]'' || Horror || [[Alan Ormsby]]
|-
| align="right"| March 20, 1974 || ''[[Sugar Hill (1974 film)|Sugar Hill]]'' || Blaxploitation horror || Paul Maslansky
|-
| align="right"| April 5, 1974 || ''[[Foxy Brown (film)|Foxy Brown]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Jack Hill]]
|-
| align="right"| May 15, 1974 || ''[[Truck Stop Women]]'' || Action || [[Mark L. Lester]]
|-
| align="right"| May 22, 1974 || ''[[Madhouse (1974 film)|Madhouse]]'' || Horror || [[Jim Clark (film editor)|Jim Clark]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| June 5, 1974 || ''[[Thriller: A Cruel Picture]]'' || [[Rape and revenge film|Rape and revenge]] || [[Bo Arne Vibenius|Alex Fridolinski]]
|-
| ''[[Dirty O'Neil]]'' || Crime thriller || Leon Capetanos [[Lewis Teague]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| June 26, 1974 || ''[[The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat]]'' || [[Adult animation|Animated comedy]] || [[Robert Taylor (animator)|Robert Taylor]]
|-
| ''[[Truck Turner]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Jonathan Kaplan]]
|-
| align="right"| July 17, 1974 || ''[[Golden Needles]]'' || Action || [[Robert Clouse]]
|-
| align="right"| July 1974 || ''[[Savage Sisters]]'' || [[Women in prison film|Women in prison]] || [[Eddie Romero]]
|-
| align="right"| August 8, 1974 || ''[[Macon County Line]]'' || Action || [[Richard Compton]]
|-
| align="right"| August 18, 1974 || ''[[Act of Vengeance (1974 film)|Act of Vengeance]]'' || Horror || Bob Kelljan
|-
| align="right"| October 1974 || ''[[Hangup]]'' || Action || [[Henry Hathaway]]
|-
| align="right"| November 22, 1974 || ''[[Sunday in the Country (1974 film)|Sunday in the Country]]'' || Crime thriller || John Trent
|-
| align="right"| December 25, 1974 || ''[[Abby (film)|Abby]]'' || Blaxploitation horror || [[William Girdler]]
|-
| align="right"| 1975 || ''[[Vampira (1974 film)|Vampira]]'' || Comedy horror || [[Clive Donner]]
|-
| align="right"| February 1975 || ''[[Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women]]'' || Superhero comedy || [[Alfonso Brescia]]
|-
| align="right"| March 26, 1975 || ''[[Sheba, Baby]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[William Girdler]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="3"| March 1975 || ''[[House of Whipcord]]'' || Horror || [[Pete Walker (director)|Pete Walker]]
|-
| ''[[War Goddess]]'' || Adventure || [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]
|-
| ''[[The Wild Party (1975 film)|The Wild Party]]'' || Comedy-drama || [[James Ivory]]
|-
| align="right"| April 25, 1975 || ''[[The Reincarnation of Peter Proud]]'' || Mystery horror || [[J. Lee Thompson]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| May 21, 1975 || ''[[Cornbread, Earl and Me]]'' || Drama || Joseph Manduke
|-
| ''[[The Wild McCullochs]]'' || Drama || [[Max Baer Jr.]]
|-
| align="right"| May 1975 || ''[[What Have You Done to Solange?]]'' || [[Giallo]] || [[Massimo Dallamano]]
|-
| align="right"| June 11, 1975 || ''[[Murph the Surf (film)|Murph the Surf]]'' || Biographical crime comedy || [[Marvin J. Chomsky]]
|-
| align="right"| June 25, 1975 || ''[[Cooley High]]'' || Comedy-drama || [[Michael Schultz]]
|-
| align="right"| July 2, 1975 || ''[[Bucktown (film)|Bucktown]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Arthur Marks]]
|-
| align="right"| July 31, 1975 || ''[[Hennessy (film)|Hennessy]]'' || Thriller || [[Don Sharp]]
|-
| align="right"| August 13, 1975 || ''[[The Land That Time Forgot (1975 film)|The Land That Time Forgot]]'' || Adventure fantasy || [[Kevin Connor (director)|Kevin Connor]]
|-
| align="right"| September 3, 1975 || ''[[Return to Macon County]]'' || Drama || [[Richard Compton]]
|-
| align="right"| September 28, 1975 || ''[[Walking Tall Part 2]]'' || Crime || [[Earl Bellamy]]
|-
| align="right"| December 17, 1975 || ''[[Sixpack Annie]]'' || Action comedy || [[Graydon F. David]]
|-
| align="right"| December 25, 1975 || ''[[Friday Foster (film)|Friday Foster]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Arthur Marks]]
|-
| align="right"| January 14, 1976 || ''[[Killer Force]]'' || Thriller || [[Val Guest]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| March 1976 || ''[[Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw]]'' || Crime drama || [[Mark L. Lester]]
|-
| ''[[One Summer Love]]'' || Romantic drama || [[Gilbert Cates]]
|-
| align="right"| April 21, 1976 || ''[[Crime and Passion]]'' || Crime || [[Ivan Passer]]
|-
| align="right"| May 1976 || ''[[Annie (1976 film)|Annie]]'' || Drama || [[Massimo Dallamano]]
|-
| align="right"| June 18, 1976 || ''[[The Food of the Gods (film)|The Food of the Gods]]'' || Sci-fi thriller || [[Bert I. Gordon]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| June 23, 1976 || ''[[The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday]]'' || Comedy || [[Don Taylor (American actor and director)|Don Taylor]]
|-
| ''[[I Don't Want to Be Born]]'' || Horror || [[Peter Sasdy]]
|-
| align="right"| July 9, 1976 || ''[[A Small Town in Texas]]'' || Crime || Jack Starrett
|-
| align="right"| July 30, 1976 || ''[[Squirm (film)|Squirm]]'' || Horror || [[Jeff Lieberman]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| July 1976 || ''[[At the Earth's Core (film)|At the Earth's Core]]'' || Sci-fi fantasy || [[Kevin Connor (director)|Kevin Connor]]
|-
| ''[[Special Delivery (1976 film)|Special Delivery]]'' || Crime comedy || [[Paul Wendkos]]
|-
| align="right"| August 13, 1976 || ''[[Futureworld]]'' || Sci-fi thriller || [[Richard T. Heffron]]
|-
| align="right"| August 25, 1976 || ''[[J.D.'s Revenge]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Arthur Marks]]
|-
| align="right"| September 17, 1976 || ''[[Street People (film)|Street People]]'' || Action || [[Maurizio Lucidi]]
|-
| align="right"| October 7, 1976 || ''[[A Matter of Time (film)|A Matter of Time]]'' || Musical || [[Vincente Minnelli]]
|-
| align="right"| October 8, 1976 || ''[[Scorchy]]'' || Crime || [[Howard Avedis]]
|-
| align="right"| November 24, 1976 || ''[[Shout at the Devil (film)|Shout at the Devil]]'' || War || [[Peter R. Hunt]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| December 24, 1976 || ''[[The Monkey Hustle]]'' || Blaxploitation || [[Arthur Marks]]
|-
| ''[[The Town That Dreaded Sundown]]'' || Horror || [[Charles B. Pierce]]
|-
| align="right"| December 1976 || ''[[Escape from Angola]]'' || Adventure || [[Leslie H. Martinson]]
|-
| align="right"| January 23, 1977 || ''[[The Day That Shook the World]]'' || Historical drama || [[Veljko Bulajić]]
|-
| align="right"| February 2, 1977 || ''[[Chatterbox (1977 film)|Chatterbox]]'' || [[Sex comedy]] || [[Tom DeSimone]]
|-
| align="right"| February 11, 1977 || ''[[Strange Shadows in an Empty Room]]'' || Crime || [[Alberto De Martino]]
|-
| align="right"| March 4, 1977 || ''[[Death Weekend]]'' || Horror || [[William Fruet]]
|-
| align="right"| April 1, 1977 || ''[[Breaker! Breaker!]]'' || Action || Don Hulette
|-
| align="right"| June 15, 1977 || ''[[Tentacles (film)|Tentacles]]'' || Horror || [[Ovidio G. Assonitis]]
|-
| align="right"| June 29, 1977 || ''[[Empire of the Ants (film)|Empire of the Ants]]'' || Sci-fi horror || [[Bert I. Gordon]]
|-
| align="right"| July 6, 1977 || ''[[The People That Time Forgot (film)|The People That Time Forgot]]'' || Adventure fantasy || [[Kevin Connor (director)|Kevin Connor]]
|-
| align="right"| July 13, 1977 || ''[[The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 film)|The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' || Sci-fi fantasy horror || Don Taylor
|-
| align="right"| August 10, 1977 || ''[[The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane]]'' || Mystery thriller || [[Nicolas Gessner]]
|-
| align="right"| August 17, 1977 || ''[[Joyride (1977 film)|Joyride]]'' || Adventure crime comedy || [[Joseph Ruben]]
|-
| align="right"| August 31, 1977 || ''[[Walking Tall: Final Chapter]]'' || Crime || Jack Starrett
|-
| align="right"| October 14, 1977 || ''[[Rolling Thunder (film)|Rolling Thunder]]'' || [[Neo-noir]] || [[John Flynn (director)|John Flynn]]
|-
| align="right"| December 28, 1977 || ''[[Grayeagle]]'' || Western adventure || [[Charles B. Pierce]]
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| December 1977 || ''[[The Incredible Melting Man]]'' || Sci-fi horror || [[William Sachs]]
|-
| ''[[The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover]]'' || Biographical drama || [[Larry Cohen]]
|-
| align="right"| February 1978 || ''[[Record City]]'' || Comedy || Dennis Steinmetz
|-
| align="right"| March 1978 || ''[[Last Cannibal World]]'' || Horror || [[Ruggero Deodato]]
|-
| align="right"| April 19, 1978 || ''[[Holocaust 2000]]'' || Horror || Alberto De Martino
|-
| align="right"| May 13, 1978 || ''[[Jennifer (1978 film)|Jennifer]]'' || Horror || [[Brice Mack]]
|-
| align="right"| May 24, 1978 || ''[[Youngblood (1978 film)|Youngblood]]'' || Action || Noel Nosseck
|-
| align="right" rowspan="2"| May 26, 1978 || ''[[Here Come the Tigers]]'' || Sports comedy || Sean S. Cunningham
|-
| ''[[High-Ballin']]'' || Action comedy || [[Peter Carter (director)|Peter Carter]]
|-
| align="right"| May 1978 || ''[[Our Winning Season]]'' || Drama || [[Joseph Ruben]]
|-
| align="right"| June 6, 1978 || ''Cracking Up'' || Comedy || [[Rowby Goren]] Chuck Staley
|-
| align="right"| June 22, 1978 || ''[[Matilda (1978 film)|Matilda]]'' || Comedy || [[Daniel Mann]]
|-
| align="right"| June 1978 || ''[[Who Can Kill a Child?]]'' || Spanish horror || [[Narciso Ibáñez Serrador]]
|-
| align="right"| July 14, 1978 || ''[[Mean Dog Blues]]'' || Drama || [[Mel Stuart]]
|-
| align="right"| October 5, 1978 || ''[[The Norsemen]]'' || Adventure || [[Charles B. Pierce]]
|-
| align="right"| December 8, 1978 || ''[[Force 10 from Navarone (film)|Force 10 from Navarone]]'' || War || [[Guy Hamilton]]
|-
| align="right"| April 18, 1979 || ''[[The Evictors]]'' || Crime horror || [[Charles B. Pierce]]
|-
| align="right"| April 27, 1979 || ''[[Love at First Bite]]'' || Comedy horror || [[Stan Dragoti]]
|-
| align="right"| June 1, 1979 || ''Sunnyside'' || Action || Timothy Galfas
|-
| align="right"| July 27, 1979 || ''[[The Amityville Horror (1979 film)|The Amityville Horror]]'' || Horror || [[Stuart Rosenberg]]
|-
| align="right"| September 14, 1979 || ''[[California Dreaming (1979 film)|California Dreaming]]'' || Comedy-drama || [[John D. Hancock]]
|-
| align="right"| September 1979 || ''[[Seven (1979 film)|Seven]]'' || Action crime || [[Andy Sidaris]]
|-
| align="right"| October 5, 1979 || ''[[Something Short of Paradise]]'' || Romantic comedy || David Helpern
|-
| align="right"| October 19, 1979 || ''[[Meteor (film)|Meteor]]'' || Disaster || [[Ronald Neame]]
|-
| align="right"| November 1979 || ''[[Jaguar Lives!]]'' || Action || [[Ernest Pintoff]]
|-
| align="right"| December 21, 1979 || ''[[C.H.O.M.P.S.]]'' || Sci-fi comedy || [[Don Chaffey]]
|}

=== 1980s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Release date
! Title
! Genre
! Director
! Notes
|-
| align="right"| February 15, 1980 || ''[[Mad Max (film)|Mad Max]]'' || Action || [[George Miller (director)|George Miller]] || Australian sci-fi dystopian film dubbed in American English
|-
| align="right"| March 14, 1980 || ''[[Defiance (1980 film)|Defiance]]'' || Action || [[John Flynn (director)|John Flynn]] ||
|-
| align="right"| March 14, 1980 || ''[[The Visitor (1979 film)|The Visitor]]'' || Sci-fi horror || [[Giulio Paradisi|Michael J. Paradise]] || Initially planned for AIP release, but sold off to independent distributor The International Picture Show
|-
| align="right"| March 28, 1980 || ''[[Nothing Personal (1980 film)|Nothing Personal]]'' || Romantic comedy || George Bloomfield ||
|-
| align="right"| May 1, 1980 || ''[[Gorp (film)|Gorp]]'' || [[Sex comedy]] || [[Joseph Ruben]] ||
|-
| align="right"| July 11, 1980 || ''[[How to Beat the High Cost of Living]]'' || Crime comedy || [[Robert Scheerer]] || Last AIP film until its resurrection on October 7, 2020 by MGM
|}

=== 2020s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Release date
! Title
! Genre
! Director
! Notes
|-
| align="right"| February 12, 2021 || ''[[Breaking News in Yuba County]]'' || Comedy-crime-drama || [[Tate Taylor]] || First film following relaunch
|-
|align="right"| July 20, 2021 || ''[[How It Ends (2021 film)|How it Ends]]'' || Comedy-drama || [[Daryl Wein]] [[Zoe Lister-Jones]] ||
|-
|align="right"| August 24, 2021 || ''[[Summer Days, Summer Nights]]'' || Comedy-drama || [[Edward Burns]] ||
|-

|}

=== Unproduced films ===
The following films were announced for production by AIP, but never made:
* an adaptation of [[H. Rider Haggard]]'s ''[[She: A History of Adventure|She]]'' (1958, dir. [[Roger Corman]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 97}}</ref>
* ''Even and the Dragon'' (1958, dir. Stanley Shpetner)<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 98}}</ref>
* ''Take Me to Your Leader'' (1958) – a part-animated feature<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 99}}</ref>
* ''Aladdin and the Giant'' (1959) – produced by [[Herman Cohen]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 114}}</ref>
* ''[[In the Year 2889 (novel)|In the Year 2889]]'' (1959) – from the novel by [[Jules Verne]]<ref name="Smith p. 118">Smith p. 118</ref>
* ''The Talking Dog'' (1959) – a comedy<ref name="Smith p. 118"/>
* ''[[When the Sleeper Wakes]]'' from the novel by [[H. G. Wells]] (1960–62)<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p 159}}</ref> – Vincent Price was announced as a star in 1965<ref name="Smith p. 249">Smith p. 249</ref>
* a color [[remake]] of [[Fritz Lang]]'s ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'' (1961)<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 161}}</ref>
* ''Genghis Khan'' (1960s, dir. [[Jacques Tourneur]]) – a Roadshow production with a $4.5 million budget<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 188, 230}}</ref>
* ''The Great Deluge'' – story of [[Noah's Ark]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 188}}</ref>
* ''War of the Planets'' (1962) – a $2 million sci-fi epic starring [[Vincent Price]] and [[Boris Karloff]] based on a script by [[Harlan Ellison]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 192}}</ref>
* ''Off on a Comet'' (1962) – a filming of [[Jules Verne]]'s novel advertised in comic books<ref>{{cite news|title=''First Kiss'' (January 1962), Charlton Comics}}</ref>
* ''Stratofin'' (1962) based on Jules Verne's ''Master of the World''<ref>pp.219-220 Palmer, Randy ''Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker: A Biography of the B Movie Makeup and Special Effects Artist'' McFarland, 1 Jan. 1997</ref>
* ''It's Alive'' (1963) with Peter Lorre, Harvey Lembeck and [[Elsa Lanchester]]<ref name="harlan"/>
* ''Something in the Walls'' (1963)<ref name="Smith p. 208">Smith p. 208</ref>
* ''The Magnificent Leonardi'' (1963) – with [[Ray Milland]]<ref name="Smith p. 208"/>
* ''Sins of Babylon'' (1963)<ref name="Smith p. 208"/>
* ''Rumble'' (1963) with Avalon and Funicello from a book by [[Harlan Ellison]] about New York gangs<ref name="harlan">{{Cite news|title=Grand Guignol Set at Vine St. Cabaret: Huston 'Sells' Kipling Yarn; Sinatra, AIP Think Young|author=Scheuer, Philip K.|date=July 12, 1963|work=Los Angeles Times|page=D11}}</ref>
* ''The Graveside Story'' (1964) – with Price, Karloff, Lorre and [[Elsa Lanchester]]<ref name="los">{{cite news|title=AIP Millions for Poe, Beach Parties: 'Flowers' Oscar Hopeful; Burton Buys, May Direct|author=Scheuer, Philip K.|work=Los Angeles Times|date=Jan 2, 1964|page=C11}}</ref>
* ''The Gold Bug'' (1964) with Price, Lorre and Lanchester<ref name="los"/>
* ''The Chase'' (circa 1965) – a silent comedy starring [[Buster Keaton]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Hollywood To Make A Big Silent Film|work=The Times|location=London|date=3 March 1965|page=15|via=''The Times'' Digital Archive}}</ref>
* ''Malibu Madness'' (1965)<ref name="Smith p. 249"/>
* ''The Haunted Palace'' (1965)<ref name="Smith p. 249"/>
* ''Seven Footprints to Satan'' (1965)<ref name="Smith p. 249"/>
* ''The Jet Set'' or ''Jet Set Party'' (1964, dir. [[William Asher]]) – with Avalon and Funicello<ref>{{Cite news|title=Howard Hughes, Aide Part Company|author=Dorothy Kilgallen|date=June 11, 1964|work=The Washington Post|page=E22}}</ref>
* ''Malibu Madness'' (1965)<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith p. 262}}</ref>
* ''Robin Hood Jones'' (1966, dir. [[William Asher]]) – a musical about [[Robin Hood]] starring Price, Avalon, Funicello and Susan Hart<ref name="Smith p. 289">Smith p. 289</ref>
* ''Cruise Party'' (1966) – with Avalon and Dwayne Hickman<ref name="Smith p. 289"/><ref>{{cite news|title=American Film Executive On Study Visit|work=South China Morning Post and Hongkong Telegraph|date=15 Sep 1965|page=7}}</ref>
* ''The Girl in the Glass Bikini'' (1966, dir. [[William Asher]]) – a sci-fi/comedy with Avalon, Funicello and Aron Kincaid<ref>{{cite news|title=MOVIE CALL SHEET: Spiegel to Film 'Swimmer'|work=Los Angeles Times|date=19 March 1965|page=D13}}</ref>
* ''The Girl in the Glass Castle'' (1966) – a musical comedy with a $1 million budget<ref name="operations">{{cite news|title=American International Expanding Operations|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 4, 1966|page=e13}}</ref>
* ''The Hatfields and the McCoys'' (1966) – a musical with Avalon and Funicello<ref>Smith p. 315</ref>
* ''It'' (1967) – based on [[Richard Matheson]]'s story "Being"<ref name="operations"/>
* ''The Golem'' (1967)<ref name="operations"/>
* ''[[Minamata (film)|Minamata]]'' (2021)

=== Financial earnings ===
* 1970 – $22.7 million<ref>{{cite news|title=American International Pictures' Profit Steady: Company Says Results for Third Fiscal Quarter Were About the Same as for Year-Ago Period|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=Oct 12, 1971|page=37}}</ref>
* 1971 – $21.4 million<ref>{{Cite news|title=American International Pictures|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 9, 1973|page=19}}</ref>
* 1972 – $24 million
* 1973 – $24.5 million<ref>{{cite news|title=Horror or Horrid Films, AIP Quickies Score at Box Office: FILMS|author=Getze, John|work=Los Angeles Times|date=20 Feb 1974|page=d10}}(Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers)</ref> – profit $744,000<ref>{{cite news|title=Stockholder Meeting Briefs|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=26 June 1973|page=35}}</ref>
* 1974 – $32.5 million – profit of $931,400<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
* 1975 – $48.2 million<ref>{{cite news|title=American International Will Be 'Happy' if Net Matches Fiscal 1975's|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=Oct 27, 1975|page=18}}</ref>
* 1978 – $51.2 million – profit $1.8 million<ref>{{cite news|title=AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL EPIC: CHINESE BOOK U.S. FILM 'FUTUREWORLD'|author=Bry, Barbara|work=Los Angeles Times |date=Jan 5, 1979|page=d16}}</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==
* Mark Thomas McGee, ''Faster and Furiouser: The Story of American International Pictures'' (McFarland & Company, 1995) {{ISBN|0-7864-0137-0}}.
* Gary A. Smith, ''American International Pictures: The Golden Years'', Bear Manor Media 2013

== External links ==
{{Commons category|American International Pictures}}
* [http://oldshowbiz.tumblr.com/tagged/AIP/ American International Pictures archive curated by AIP historian [[Kliph Nesteroff]]]

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