Drakula or Dracula (Original title: Дракула) (1920) – a lost silent Russian film.
Dracula's Death (1921) – Unlicensed Hungarian adaptation. First known film appearance of Dracula. This film has been lost since its release.
Nosferatu (1922) – unlicensed German adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel; featuring "Count Orlok", a thinly veiled allusion to Dracula; starring Max Schreck.
Blacula (1972) – a blaxploitationcult film in which an African prince is turned into a vampire by Dracula. The film is also notable for featuring the first two gay male vampires in film history: both victims of Blacula.
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1978) – a.k.a. Dracula's Dog; a low-budget film in which the descendant of Dracula takes second billing to a vampiric Doberman.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) – Inspired by Dark Shadows and Dan Curtis' Dracula, the 1992 film also merges a reincarnation romance with the medieval story of Vlad III; starring Gary Oldman as Dracula. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Van Helsing (2004) – action film only loosely connected to the original Dracula; Richard Roxburgh is Dracula. Van Helsing's appearance is heavily based on the look of Vampire Hunter D, a vampire hunter who is the implied son of Dracula.
Blade: Trinity (2004) – Drake the vampire is supposed to have had many forms throughout the centuries, Stoker's Dracula being one of them.
Dracula 3D (2012) – Italian Horror film directed by Dario Argento. The film is not a direct adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, but features elements from the novel.
Mark of the Vampire (1935) – a remake of London After Midnight, this time as a talkie. At the conclusion of the film the vampires are revealed to be fraudulent.
The Return of Doctor X (1939) – In an atypical role, Humphrey Bogart plays a scientist executed for starving an infant to death, who is re-animated with a need to consume blood.
El Vampiro / English translation The Vampire (1957) – a Mexican cult classic, possibly the first film to actually show a vampire with elongated canines.
Black Sabbath (1963) – a portmanteau Italian horror film, introduced by Boris Karloff, in three segments, the last of which is based on Alexei Tolstoy's vampire story The Family of the Vourdalak (1839) about a father (played by Karloff) who returns to the family home as a vampire.
Le Viol du Vampire / English title The Rape of the Vampire (1968) – vampire erotica by cult French director Jean Rollin. Followed by several more films of much the same sort, by Rollin, each usually featuring several attractive naked Frenchwomen in vampiric roles such as La Vampire Nue.
Grave of the Vampire (1972) starring William Pataki, as professor Lockwood, formerly Caleb Croft. He was a rapist and murderer resurrected as a vampire.
Leptirica (a.k.a. The She- Butterfly) (1973) – a Yugoslavian classic horror film directed by Djordje Kadijevic.
Vampyres (1974) – an erotic film which features two lesbian vampires who inhabit a Gothic mansion in England: includes much in the way of bloody violence.
Cronos (1993) – by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, features a vampiric parasite encased inside a clockwork beetle, cunningly devised by a medieval alchemist to pierce the skin of those who handle it, turning them into blood-thirsty vampires. Vampirism in the film is also used as a metaphor for the predatory financial exploitation of Mexico by the US.
The Addiction (1995) A philosophical and theological variant on the vampire film that uses vampirism as a metaphor for drug addiction, and which culminates in an extremely violent orgy of blood-sucking.
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) – Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, John C. Reilly, Michael Ceveris – based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan called Cirque Du Freak.
Wannabe (2009) – an Independent American Horror film[1]
We Are the Night (2010) – A German modern-day film about a clique of young, rich and pretty female vampires. Directed by acclaimed director Dennis Gansel.
Sun Shadows: Faithful Kiss (2011) – A Swedish vampire film about a young man from a vampirehunter family falling in love with a vampiress. This leads to a war between vampires and vampirehunters.[2]
