Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Cult: 1316 Films to Rent
- Sisu (2023)
- Dir. Jalmari Helander
Feat. Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan…
- A stylized, tongue–in–cheek actioner set in a Northern Finnish wasteland where a lone prospector has his gold stolen by a group of…
- Flux Gourmet (2022)
- Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Fatma Mohamed, Gwendoline Christie , Asa Butterfield…
- Required viewing for those with an interest in the machinations of the Arts, director Peter Strickland steps up as the rightful heir to British…
- Jackass Forever (2022)
- Dir. Jeff Tremaine
Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O , Chris Pontius…
- Fourth installment in the JACKASS film series, with the crew 11 years older and no less gloriously stupid.
All the same insane stunts, pranks and…
- Project Wolf Hunting (2022)
- Whist being transported across international waters inside a locked cargo ship, a group of infamous criminals unites to stage a coordinated escape.…
- Willy's Wonderland (2020)
- Dir. Kevin Lewis
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Ric Reitz
- Nicolas Cage continues his late career "cult" movie run with this bonkers action–comedy–horror playing a quiet drifter who is tricked…
- Bliss (2019)
- Dir. Joe Begos
Feat. Dora Madison
- Brilliant hallucinogenic splatter–fest following a painter hungry for inspiration who begins snorting a stimulant called Bliss and soon spirals…
- Color Out of Space (Colour Out of Space) (2019)
- Dir. Richard Stanley
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Q'orianka Kilcher…
- Cult director Richard Stanley (HARDWARE) brings some nutty humour to this adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, with…
- Deerskin (Le Daim) (2019)
- Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Feat. Jean Dujardin, Adele Haenel, Albert Delpy
- Quentin Dupieux, director of the cult hit RUBBER, returns with this buckwild surrealist comedy, following a man's all–consuming devotion for a…
- Parasite (2019)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho…
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
- VHYes (2019)
- Dir. Jack Henry Robbins
Feat. Mason McNulty, Charlyne Yi, Kerri Kenney…
- Winsomely absurd retro comedy shot entirely in VHS and Betacam, celebrating the nostalgia of video formats through the story of a 12 year old boy who…
- Vivarium (2019)
- Dir. Lorcan Finnegan
Feat. Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg
- A young couple shopping for their first home find themselves in a housing development where every house looks exactly the same, and with no idea how…
- An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
- Dir. Jim Hosking
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch…
- Wilfully awkward and discomforting comedy from the director of THE GREASY STRANGLER that this time subjects an A–list cast to a series of…
- Border (Gräns) (2018)
- Dir. Ali Abbasi
Feat. Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson
- Remarkable Swedish black comedy about a customs officer with an extraordinary sense of smell who sniffs out a suspicious–looking traveller with…
- Climax (2018)
- Dir. Gaspar Noe
Feat. Sofia Boutella, Kiddy Smile, Roman Guillermic
- A dance movie like you're never seen, legendary provocateur Gaspar Noe helms this brilliant and intoxicating ensemble piece. Set in an abandoned…
- Field Guide to Evil, The (2018)
- Dir. Peter Strickland, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
- The brainchild of Kiwi Ant "Incredibly Strange" Timpson, who follows his ABC's OF DEATH anthology productions with a like–minded venture into…
- House That Jack Built, The (2018)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman…
- Matt Dillon plays a po–faced serial killer across 12 years, intimately exploring his mental state and beliefs about life and art. From Danish…
- In Fabric (2018)
- Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Fatma Mohamed, Hayley Squires…
- Utterly beguiling and sumptuous ghost story from singular British director Peter Strickland (DUKE OF BURGUNDY), following a possessed red dress as it…
- Judy & Punch (Judy and Punch) (2018)
- Dir. Mirrah Foulkes
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman
- A gorgeously carnivalesque and blackly comic Australian period drama in which the traditional fairy tale of Punch and Judy is turned on its head. The…
- Mandy (2018)
- Dir. Panos Cosmatos
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache…
- Psychedelic horror director Panos Cosmatos follows up his beguiling and underrated BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW with this no–holds–barred…
- Mega Time Squad (2018)
- Dir. Tim van Dammen
Feat. Anton Tennet, Jonathan Brugh, Milo Cawthorne…
- Ingenious low–budget sci–fi comedy set in the tiny North Island town of Thames, New Zealand in which a small–town criminal finds an…
- Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018)
- Dir. Milorad Krstic
- Brilliantly animated crime drama following four thieves who attempt to steal the legendary artworks that are inspiring the nightmares of their…
- Slice (2018)
- Dir. Austin Vesely
Feat. Zazie Beetz, Chance the Rapper
- Enjoyable schlocky comedy, fashionably throwing back to 80's horror and following a pizza delivery boy who sets out to solve a murder mystery in his…
- Sorry to Bother You (2018)
- Dir. Boots Riley
Feat. LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer…
- A brilliant, politically radicalised comedy marking a big splash debut for rapper turned writer/director Boots Riley that was apparently ten years in…
- Under the Silver Lake (2018)
- Dir. David Robert Mitchell
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace
- Dazzlingly creative Los Angeles–set neo–noir about a disenchanted slacker who sets out for answers when strange crimes begin occurring in…
- Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
- Dir. John McPhail
Feat. Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Marli Siu…
- Big–hearted Xmas themed zombie musical set in the sleepy town of Little Haven, where Anna and her friends go up against the undead. A…
- Blade of the Immortal (2017)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Takuya Kimura, Sugisaki Hana, Fukushi Sota…
- Japanese uber–director Miike Takashi’s 100th feature, based on a popular manga series about a vengeful swordsman with an uncanny ability to…
- Disaster Artist, The (2017)
- Dir. James Franco
Feat. James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen…
- A satirical yet empathetic adaptation of Greg Sestero's autobiographical book of the same name depicting his friendship with one Tommy Wiseau, the…
- Evil Within, The (2017)
- Dir. Andrew Getty
Feat. Frederick Koehler, Sean Patrick Flanery
- Bizarre horror where a lonely, unstable man is compelled to go on a murder spree by the demonic reflection he sees in the mirror. It's production…
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (2017)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryunosuke Kamiki, Kento Yamazaki
- Frenetic and boundlessly wacky live–action adaptation of the manga, with a head spinning plot involving psychic avatars who plot to bring down…
- My Friend Dahmer (2017)
- Dir. Marc Meyers
Feat. Ross Lynch, Anne Heche, Alex Wolff…
- Chilling biographical drama about the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, based on the 2012 graphic novel by John "Derf" Backderf, who was friends…
- T2 Trainspotting (2017)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller…
- The characters of Irvine Welsh's TRAINSPOTTING are alive, if not entirely well, twenty years later in this sequel that serves up some good laughs and…
- Twin Peaks (TV Series) (Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, Twin Peaks: The Return) (2017)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Catherine E. Coulson, Madchen Amick…
- Revival of the cult TV series with most of the same cast (plus many, many more), which rivals and occasionally surpasses the terrifying brilliance of…
- Woodshock (2017)
- Dir. Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Joe Cole, Pilou Asbæk
- A stylistically unique psychological thriller with all the elegance you'd expect from fashion designer siblings Kate and Laura Mulleavy in their…
- Greasy Strangler, The (2016)
- Dir. Jim Hosking
Feat. Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo
- A good–dumb–fun excerise in bad taste about a creepy father–and–son team who run a disco walking tour and become rivals for…
- Love Witch, The (2016)
- Dir. Anna Biller
Feat. Samantha Robinson, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys…
- Writer–director Anna Biller who also produced, edited, costumed, set designed and scored this feminist sexploitation pastiche shot in 35mm as…
- Neon Demon, The (2016)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Jena Malone…
- An aspiring model moves to Los Angeles where her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty–obsessed women and exploitative…
- Operation Avalanche (2016)
- Dir. Matt Johnson
Feat. Matt Johnson
- Impressively staged mock documentary that goes behind the scenes of one of the great conspiracy myths – that the moon landing was faked for the…
- Raw (Grave) (2016)
- Dir. Julia Ducournau
Feat. Garance Marillier , Ella Rumpf
- A bright young veterinary student and ardent vegetarian is unexpectedly subjected to a series of cruel hazing rituals in her first week at college,…
- Spaghettiman (Spaghetti Man) (2016)
- Dir. Mark Potts
Feat. Benjamin Crutcher, Winston Carter
- An absurdist, no–budget superhero spoof centred around a cynical super–slacker whose microwave mishap inadvertently turns him into a man…
- This Giant Papier-Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy (This Giant Paper Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy) (2016)
- Dir. Christian Nicolson
Feat. Christian Nicolson, Daniel Pujol
- Three nerds are inexplicably plunged into a B–grade sci–fi movie where they must comandeer a rickety old spaceship and find a way to…
- Train to Busan (2016)
- Dir. Sang-ho Yeon
Feat. Gong Yoo, Kim Soo-Ah, Jung Yu-mi
- Breakout Korean zombie–thriller sensation in which a group of terrified passengers fight their way through a viral outbreak while trapped on a…
- Aaaaaaaah! (2015)
- Dir. Steve Oram
Feat. Steve Oram, Julian Barratt, Lucy Honigman…
- A twisted cult comedy which confronts the human condition by imagining what life would be like if humans were apes. Written and directed by Steve…
- Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015)
- Dir. Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon
Feat. Alec Owen, Paul Prado, Patton Oswalt…
- Satirical slasher film which, despite it's title, is not a sequel, and which presents itself as a lost film dug up from the 1980's. A masked killer…
- Forbidden Room, The (2015)
- Dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Feat. Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Jacques Nolot…
- Maverick director Guy Maddin applies his wild and deliciously demented imagination to this fantastic fantasy, telling a range of almost…
- High-Rise (High Rise) (2015)
- Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller…
- A blackly comic, super–stylish slice of dystopia set in a retro–futurist 1975 in which life for the residents of a tower block begins to…
- Turbo Kid (2015)
- Dir. Francois Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell, Anouk Whissell
Feat. Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside…
- Recommended for teens with strong constitutions, this gory post–apocalyptic romp set in a desolate "alternate 1997" follows a comic book fan…
- BoJack Horseman (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie…
- Riding on the success of other outrageously creative adult cartoons like RICK AND MORTY comes this terrific satire of the American entertainment…
- Duke of Burgundy, The (2014)
- Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Monica Swinn
- BORGEN star Sidse Babett Knudsen throws aside the responsibilities of leading the Danish nation to star in this slice of arty–kink from the…
- Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A (2014)
- Dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
Feat. Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
- A languid and luscious Iranian immigrant take on the vampire myth set in the ghost–town of Bad City (filmed in California), where the remaining…
- Rick and Morty (TV Series) (2014)
- A wacky, profane Adult Swim series from COMMUNITY creator Dan Harmon, centred on the adventures of an alcoholic scientist and his young…
- Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)
- Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox…
- Jumping the shark is this "slightly better" sequel to the unlikely disaster movie hit. The definition of dumb fun.
- Tusk (2014)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment…
- Gleefully ludicrous Kevin Smith directed horror comedy following the fate of an unfortunate podcaster who discovers his next guest has a bizarre…
- 25th Reich, The (2013)
- Dir. Stephen Amis
Feat. Jim Knobeloch, Serge De Nardo
- Aussie B–movie genre tribute featuring giant Nazi robot spiders, giant mosquitoes, spaceships, etc.
The plot involves five American GIs…
- A Field in England (2013)
- Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover…
- Dir. Ben Wheatley (KILL LIST, SIGHTSEERS) goes off the deep end with this trippy 17th century odyssey about a band of English Civil War deserters,…
- Cheap Thrills (2013)
- Dir. E.L. Katz
Feat. Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton…
- A devilishly effective black comedy about a pair of old friends who enter into an increasingly bloody game of one–upmanship with a wealthy…
- Computer Chess (2013)
- Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Kriss Schludermann, Tom Fletcher, Wiley Wiggins
- Mumblecore maestro Andrew Bujalski directs this left–of–field mockumentary, shot on low–fi video, about a surreal chess tournament…
- Dance of Reality, The (2013)
- Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Feat. Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Autobiographical fantasy by acclaimed cult director Jodorowsky, who again provides a glorious extravagance of creativity, following his experiences…
- Filth (2013)
- Dir. Jon S. Baird
Feat. Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, James McAvoy…
- James McAvoy plays a self–destructing copper whose corruption and bigotry manifest in a spiral of sex, drugs and violence. From an Irving Welsh…
- Magic Magic (2013)
- Dir. Sebastián Silva
Feat. Juno Temple, Michael Cera, Emily Browning…
- This bizarre head trip from Chilean dir. Sebastián Silva (THE MAID) has its bewitching moments despite descending into madness. The film follows a…
- Nymphomaniac (Nymphomaniac: Vol. I & II) (2013)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Stacy Martin…
- The controversy–baiting director Lars Von Trier's wild and poetic opus detailing a woman’s erotic journey from birth to middle age as told by…
- Search for Weng Weng (2013)
- Dir. Andrew Leavold
- A bizarre history of Filipino B–films, as told through director Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond…
- Sharknado (2013)
- Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard
- An irrational internet sensation, this Z–grade disaster movie has gained unlikely cult status on the back of its has–been casting (Tara…
- Under the Skin (2013)
- Dir. Jonathan Glazer
Feat. Scarlett Johansson
- Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) directs screen siren Scarlett Johansson in this startlingly original sci–fi thriller about an alien…
- Wrong Cops (2013)
- Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Feat. Mark Burnham, Eric Wareheim, Marlyn Manson…
- A series of loosely connected comic vignettes from the director of WRONG and RUBBER, featuring crooked cops, one–eyed techno–hounds, and…
- Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
- Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Tonia Sotiropoulou…
- A masterpiece of implied horror, this is a homage to Italian 'giallo' and horror cinema of 1970's that remarkably measures up to the best films of…
- Black Dynamite (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Michael Jai White
- A funky Adult Swim spin–off of the feature film blaxploitation parody, with Michael Jai White returning to voice the eponymous baadasssss in…
- Gravity Falls (TV Series) (2012-2016)
- Animated mystery comedy from creator Alex Hirsch, set in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon, where siblings Dapper and Mabel (voiced by…
- Holy Motors (2012)
- Dir. Leos Carax
Feat. Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes…
- Leos Carax's first feature in over a decade is an unclassifiable romp through the streets of Paris, led by a world–weary actor (Denis Lavant)…
- John Dies at the End (2012)
- Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Rob Mayes, Chase Williamson, Paul Giamatti…
- Two college dropouts–cum–amateur exorcists must save the world from an inter–dimensional invasion caused by a powerful new drug…
- Wrong (2012)
- Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Feat. Jack Plotnick, William Fichtner
- In this follow–up to the cult horror RUBBER, dir. Quentin Dupieux refines his unique storytelling craft with this beguiling comedy of the…
- 33D Invader, The (2011)
- Dir. Man Kei Chin
Feat. Macy Wu
- A trio of socially inept dweebs hit the jackpot when they encounter a buxom beauty sent from the future; her mission to return to the year 2046…
- Dear God No! (2011)
- Dir. James Bickert
Feat. Jett Bryant, Paul McComiskey, Madeline Brumby
- The grindhouse aesthetic is aped for all its worth in this grubby exploitation pastiche, centred on a renegade biker gang and their violent exploits.…
- God Bless America (2011)
- Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Melinda Page Hamilton
- Irrepressible writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait returns with another sizzling, charcoal–black comedy that takes aim at the worst proponents of…
- Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
- Dir. Jason Eisener
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Gregory Smith, Brian Downey
- Spawned from the leftovers of the Tarantino–Rodriguez 'Grindhouse' double–bill, this ropey pastiche of revenge movies and B–grade…
- Love Exposure (2011)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima
- Notorious cinematic oddity from Japanese director Sion Sono (WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL), following the adventures of a Catholic teenage boy who…
- Paradise Lost 3 - Purgatory (2011)
- Dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
- This concluding chapter in the Paradise Lost saga came on the back of the West Memphis Three's sudden release from prison, and covers the defense…
- Portlandia (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein
- Cult sketch comedy of the zeitgeist that affectionately skewers the liberals, hipsters and well–intentioned naifs attempting to live out their…
- Sex and Zen - Extreme Ecstasy (2011)
- Dir. Christopher Sun Lap Key
Feat. Hiro Hayama, Leni Lan, Saori Hara…
- Touted as "the first 3D erotic movie", this Ming Dynasty bonk–fest under–performs as both a porny period spectacle, and a randy sex…
- Whisperer in Darkness, The (2011)
- Dir. Sean Branney
Feat. Matt Foyer, Barry Lynch, Autumn Wendel
- A fittingly old–fashioned homage to the 30s Universal horror by way of H.P. Lovecraft's story of an extraterrestrial folklore.
This…
- Adventure Time (TV Series) (2010)
- One of the more inspired Cartoon Network creations follows the wildly original, mind altering adventures of Finn, and his best friend Jake – a…
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
- Dir. Panos Cosmatos
Feat. Eva Allan, Michael Rogers, Scott Hylands
- This startling cult–film–in–the–making concerns the escape attempt of a sedated prisoner from a futuristic commune.
An…
- Big Tits Zombie (The Big Tits Dragon) (2010)
- Dir. Takao Nakano
Feat. Saori Andô, Sola Aoi
- Big, dumb fun born from Japan's recent spate of outrageous splatter comedies, centred on three air–headed strippers who unwittingly unleash an…
- Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
- Dir. James Nguyen
Feat. Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore
- Shoe–string trash homage to Hitchcock's THE BIRDS that follows a romantic couple whose small town that is attacked by birds.…
- Cold Fish (2010)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden , Asuka Kurosawa
- Japanese 'enfant terrible' Sion Sono's violent (and typically lengthy) tale of a quiet owner of a tropical fish shop whose life and family are taken…
- Drawn Together - The Movie (2010)
- Dir. Greg Franklin
- Warped feature length installment of the BIG BROTHER parody with the disturbed housemates facing permanent eviction after the show is threatened with…
- El Monstro Del Mar! (2010)
- Dir. Stuart Simpson
Feat. Nelli Scarlet, Karli Madden, Kate Watts
- Three fugitive vixens battle a monster from the deep in this slavishly entertaining ode to the grindhouse exploits of yesteryear, lodged somewhere…
- I Saw the Devil (2010)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi
- Terrifying revenge thriller following a man on a hunt for the serial killer who murdered his pregnant wife. Exceedingly brutal, this makes for a…
- Jackass 3 (2010)
- Dir. Jeff Tremaine
Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Bam Margera…
- Eye–watering third entry has the requisite pratfalls, puke and penis that fans have come to expect, with Knoxville and company bravely putting…
- Kim Newman's Guide to the Flipside of British Cinema (2010)
- Dir. Jake West
- Cult film critic Kim Newman hosts this entertaining doco that looks at some British cinema's more esoteric films.
Includes three short films:…
- Last Circus, The (2010)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang
- Clown rivalries collide in this violent, OTT genre riot from Spanish trash auteur, Alex de la Iglesia, set at both ends of Franco's dictatorship…
- Lost Thing, The (2010)
- Dir. Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruheman
Feat. Tim Minchin
- From the brainchild of celebrated Australian illustrator–author Shaun Tan comes this perfectly–formed animated adaptation of his best…
- Machete Maidens Unleashed (2010)
- Dir. Mark Hartley
- Eye–opening look at the exploitation film–making industry that thrived in the Philippines during the seventies as American producers took…
- Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010)
- Dir. Joseph Guzman
Feat. Tawny Amber Young, Bill Oberst Jr, Devanny Pinn…
- Seriously trashy revenge flick with a vengeful nun out to deal to the drug–dealing clergy that abused and brainwashed her. Ironic…
- Rubber (2010)
- Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Feat. Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Wings Hauser
- Defiantly oddball art–horror parody about an inanimate car tyre with telepathic powers who embarks on a desert killing spree for "no reason".…
- Velvet Underground - Vanishing Point (2010)
- Dir. Tom Barber
Feat. Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, John Cale
- Doco on the legendary art–rockers featuring a wealth of material, including evocative period footage of New York, obscure interviews and…
- Afro Samurai Resurrection (2009)
- Dir. Fuminori Kizaki
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu, Mark Hamill
- Stylish sequel reprises the Samuel L. Jackson–voiced Afro Samurai, here coming out of retirement to fend off a sadistic villainess. Garnished…
- Amer (2009)
- An experimental journey inside the mind of a sociopathic woman. Isolated chapters cover the details of her bizarre surreal childhood and sexually…
- Antichrist (2009)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Delivering laughter and revulsion in equal measure, Lars von Trier’s hugely controversial psychosexual opus – about a grieving couple who retreat…
- Black Dynamite (2009)
- Dir. Scott Sanders
Feat. Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson
- Spot–on Blaxpoitation homage with the superfly Black Dynamite out for vengeance when "The Man" kills his brother and floods his 'hood with…
- Boogie (2009)
- Dir. Gustavo Cova
- Violent, devilish adaptation of Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa's celebrated cartoons ('Boogie, the Oily'), about a jaded war veteran whose bloodlust…
- Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Sarah Wynter
- Feature–length movie spin off of the TV series focusing on the undead missionary 'Reapers' and their reactions to their…
- Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
- Dir. Jared Hess
Feat. Michael Angarano, Jemaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge…
- Call us biased, but Jemaine Clement is worth the price of admission alone to this zany yet well–aligned comedy from the creator of NAPOLEON…
- Haunted World of El Superbeasto, The (2009)
- Dir. Rob Zombie
- Crude R–Rated animation from horror fanatic Rob Zombie (adapted from his own dirty comic) concerns the sex–addicted exploits of a washed…
- Human Centipede, The (2009)
- Dir. Tom Six
Feat. Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie…
- The "mad scientist movie" taken to a perverse extreme with crab–faced Dieter Laser as the gonzo doc delighting in his latest experiment –…
- K-On! (TV Series) (Keion!) (2009)
- Based on the popular Manga, this breezy anime series follows five sprightly teenagers who strive to keep their high school music club alive by…
- My Dog Tulip (2009)
- Dir. Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini
- Touching, bittersweet adult animation of J. R. Ackerley's 1956 book, recalling the author's 15–year relationship with his beloved German…
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny…
- Dir. Werner Herzog and David Lynch as producer team up for this bizarre tale of an actor driven to murder his mother in sunny, suburban San Diego…
- Night Of The Living Dead: Reanimated (2009)
- Dir. Mike Schneider
- Inventive homage to the Romero original brings together nearly 150 artists to animate their favourite scenes from the horror classic.
Set against…
- Nitro Circus (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Johnny Knoxville
- From the creators of JACKASS – but this time it's professionals performing the stunts, bringing the risk factor up to a jaw–dropping high.
- Prisoner, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel, Hayley Atwell…
- Fuzzy re–imagining of the '60's cult classic has Caviezel retire from his New York based desk job only to wake up the next day in the desert…
- Repo Chick (2009)
- Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Jaclyn Jonet, Miguel Sandoval, Chloe Webb…
- Dubious, if entertainingly scatterbrained sequel to the cult of REPO MAN centres on a blonde airhead who falls in with gang of repossession agents in…
- Rooster Teeth Shorts: Volume One (2009)
- Live action sketch comedy has the masterminds of Red vs. Blue playing themselves encumbered by the daily grind, and something called devil…
- Town Called Panic, A (2009)
- Dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
- Delightfully skewed claymation spawned from the cult Belgian TV series about a Cowboy, Indian and Horse figurine who share a house in a strange rural…
- White Lightnin' (2009)
- Dir. Dominic Murphy
Feat. Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher
- The life of Appalachian mountain dancer and criminal cult figure Jesco White is the inspiration for this nightmarish hillbilly biopic filmed in…
- $9.99 (2008)
- Dir. Tatia Rosenthal
Feat. Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Roy Billing…
- An unemployed 28–year–old named Dave comes across a booklet purporting the know the meaning of life – and all for $9.99 – in…
- Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
- Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Feat. Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Parminder Nagra
- From the producers of BATMAN BEGINS and the highly anticipated 'The Dark Knight' comes this stylish anime collection of six sequences tracing…
- Dark Floors (2008)
- Dir. Pete Riski
Feat. Skye Bennett, Philip Bretherton, William Hope…
- Cult horror focused on a man and his autistic daughter trying to escape a hospital full of fiends from another world.
Typical B–grade…
- Dead Set (TV Series) (2008)
- Dir. Yann Demange
Feat. Jaime Winstone, Riz Ahmed, Warren Brown…
- A bleak send–up of reality TV culture in which a production studio is attacked by zombies during the filming of a fictional "Big Brother" style…
- Forbidden Legend, The - Sex & Chopsticks 1 & 2 (2008-2009)
- Dir. Man Kei Chin
Feat. Hikaru Wakana, Kaera Uehara, Tam Kon Chung…
- Oriental comedy smut by way of the SEX AND ZEN legacy is a hilarious tale of an ancient sexologist's son whose 'iron dick' must remain firmly in his…
- Freebird (2008)
- Dir. Jon Ivay
Feat. Phil Daniels, Gary Stretch, Geoff Bell
- Three Welsh bikers head to the countryside in search of an elusive cannabis farm, only to have their nice weekend turn into a madcap mission through…
- Genius Party: Beyond (2008)
- Dir. Masahiro Maeda, Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa
- Five more of Japans finest animators come together in this fine follow up. This time out the theme is "The Spirit of Creativity".
- Hell Ride (2008)
- Dir. Larry Bishop
Feat. Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour…
- Grindhouse–inspired biker flick stars Bishop as the head of a biker gang on a mission to avenge a fallen comrade killed by a rival…
- Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)
- Dir. Gabor Csupo
Feat. Eric McCormack, Hank Azaria, Dan Castellaneta
- Biting satirical adult animated feature from the animators of THE SIMPSONS and the creators of DUCKMAN, about a disparate group of immigrants chasing…
- JCVD (2008)
- Dir. Mabrouk El Mechri
Feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem
- ‘The Muscles from Brussels’ holds a mirror up to himself in this sly, semi–autobiographical take on the once–famous action star’s…
- Life's A Zoo (TV Series) (2008)
- Clever stop–motion parody of the BIG BROTHER reality series, where a group of animals must compete against one another in a series of…
- Mary and Max (2008)
- Dir. Adam Elliot
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Barry Humphries…
- Clay–mated marvel from Australia that tells an adorable yet heart–breaking tale of friendship between an eight–year–old…
- Mister Lonely (2008)
- Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Samantha Morton, Diego Luna, Werner Herzog
- Surreal drama from the king of skewed cinema Harmony Korine (GUMMO) following two parallel plots about identity: a couple of celeb impersonators…
- One Eyed Monster (2008)
- Dir. Adam Fields
Feat. Amber Benson, Ron Jeremy, Jason Graham
- 'The world is screwed' in this horror comedy, where a cast and crew of a porno film must escape a shape–shifting alien who chooses to posses…
- Otto; Or, Up With Dead People (Otto: Or Up With Dead People) (2008)
- Dir. Bruce LaBruce
- Watchably pretentious piece of repugnant fare from provocative director LaBruce, this time following a gay zombie who must de–code his sordid…
- South Park: The Imaginationland Trilogy (2008)
- Three episodes make up this feature length movie from everyone's favourite all–American brats as they enter Imaginationland – a magical…
- Tamagotchi The Movie (2008)
- Kids movie based on the popular 'virtual pet' toys sees a child from Earth being inadvertently sent to the Tamagotchi Planet, where mischief and…
- Trailer Park Of Terror (2008)
- Dir. Steven Goldmann
Feat. Nichole Hiltz, Matthew Del Negro, Trace Adkins
- Yet another installment in the zombie–comedy genre sees a group of troubled high–school students get stranded in a trailer park occupied…
- Watchmen Animated: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood (2008)
- Dir. Mike Smith
Feat. Gerard Butler, Salli Saffioti, Stephen McHattie
- Short animated companion piece to dir. Snyder's blockbuster WATCHMEN tells the story of a castaway's desperate struggle to return home and warn his…
- X-Files - I Want to Believe (2008)
- Dir. Chris Carter
Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly…
- The second big screen outing for the X–Files crew, 10 years on, with former FBI agents Mulder and Scully recruited onto a case involving…
- X-Plicit Films (X-Femmes) (2008)
- Dir. Lola Doillon, Mélanie Laurent, Helena Noguerra
- Ten erotic, female–friendly shorts commissioned as part of French TV series 'X–Femmes', with actress Melanie Laurent (INGLOURIOUS…
- Aardman's Darkside (2007)
- Another excellent batch of animation from the renowned Aardman studio, this time showcasing the more subversive and adult–orientated side of…
- Afro Samurai (2007)
- Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Perlman
- The perpetually cool Samuel L. Jackson reeks of attitude as the voice of an Afro–American samurai hellbent on revenge.
In the spirit of KILL…
- Big Man Japan (Dai-Nipponjin) (2007)
- Dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto
Feat. Hitoshi Matsumoto
- A genuine inductee to the 'Incredibly Strange' hall of fame, this gonzo monster mash bounds between deadpan mock–u–mentary following the…
- Boystown (2007)
- Dir. Juan Flahn
Feat. Pepon Nieto, Pablo Puyol, Carlos Fuentes
- Very dark comedy with Hitchcockian flourishes with a nefarious real estate agent killing off old ladies who refuse to sell him their apartments in a…
- Crazy Love (2007)
- Dir. Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
- Stranger–than–fiction story of the obsessive love of Burt and Linda Pugach, whose personal tragedy made international headlines during…
- Death Proof (2007)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan…
- Tarantino, that great galloping genre geek, further indulges his jones for '70s B flicks and sexual kicks with his half of the 'Grindhouse' double…
- Devil Dared Me To, The (2007)
- Dir. Chris Stapp
Feat. Chris Stapp, Matt Heath
- A gleefully irresponsible petrolhead comedy that wears its oily rags on its sleeve, this feature debut from the crazy yet talented boys behind "Back…
- Doctor Who (Animated TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Anthony Head…
- Animated spin–offs that aim predominantly at a younger audience, but have enough well–crafted animation locations and clever technique to…
- Fear(s) of the Dark (Fears of the Dark, Peur(s) du noir) (2007)
- Dir. Blutch , Charles Burns, Marie Caillou
- Six dynamic and distinct graphic artists illustrate various primordial phobias using only 'light and dark' in this impressive compendium of animated…
- I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
- Dir. Chris Siverston
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough
- Trash fans rejoice. This Lindsay Lohan career nadir won more Razzie awards than both SHOWGIRLS and BATTLEFIELD EARTH.
Lohan plays both a good…
- La Antena (2007)
- Dir. Esteban Sapir
Feat. Valeria Bertuccelli, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Julieta Cardinali
- Richly appointed in retro–industrial iconography, and possessed by the dreamlike influence of David Lynch, Georges Franju and Fritz Lang, this…
- Muay Thai Chaiya Boxers (Chaiya) (2007)
- Dir. Kongkiat Khomsiri
Feat. Akara Amarttayakul, Sonthaya Chitmanee, Don Ferguson…
- Rough–and–tumble ONG–BAK impersonator centred on three country boys, trained in the unique ‘Chaiya’ Muay Thai discipline, who…
- My Name Is Bruce (2007)
- Dir. Bruce Campbell
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Ted Raimi…
- Cult favourite B–grade actor Campbell is kidnapped by a misguided fan who expects him to save the world from very real monsters in this…
- Time Crimes (Los Cronocrímenes Timecrimes) (2007)
- Dir. Nacho Vigalondo
Feat. Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga
- Intricate, mind–bending Spanish gem following a man who trips back a fraction in time and inadvertently interferes with his past, present and…
- Total Drama Island (TV Series) (2007)
- An on–target and high–spirited animated parody of the 'Reality TV' format in which 22 teens battle it out for celebrity supremacy as the…
- Beales of Grey Gardens, The (2006)
- Dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles
- Comprised of new footage and fresh hindsight, the Maysles brothers revisit the iconic Beales immortalised in their 1976 verite classic GREY GARDENS.…
- Black Blood Brothers (TV Series) (2006)
- Remnants of a vampire clan that wanted to rule the world alone, but got defeated in a war by joined forces of other vampires and humans, kidnap the…
- Destricted (2006)
- Dir. Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Sam Taylor-Johnson
- A challenging – though some may argue, laughable – exercise in reclaiming the pornographic film, this omnibus commissions seven artists to each…
- Dirty Sanchez: The Movie (2006)
- Dir. Jim Hickey
- Deplorable, downright heinous version of JACKASS sees four British louts subject themselves to a myriad of irresponsible stunts and…
- Dudesons Movie, The (2006)
- Dir. Jarno Laasala
- It's JACKASS, Scandinavian–style, with a group of equally insane extremists subjecting themselves a series of painful and humiliating…
- Fall, The (2006)
- Dir. Tarsem Singh
Feat. Lee Pace, Cantinca Untaru, Justine Waddell
- Long delayed in this part of the world, this visually audacious labour of love from dir. Singh has Lee Pace as a wounded stuntman narrating a…
- Hellboy Animated (2006)
- Dir. Phil Weinstein
- Teasing series of animated features continuing the HELLBOY legacy, with Ron Perlman and Selma Blair faithfully reprising their roles from the…
- Inland Empire (2006)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux…
- Warped and optically haunting suspense starring Lynch regular Laura Dern as a focused actress ecstatic about receiving a part in a new film, until…
- Jackass Number Two (2006)
- Dir. Jeff Tremaine
Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Steve-O …
- Exhilarating stunts and vomit–inducing pranks abound in this sophomoric effort, daring you not to laugh as Johnny Knoxville and his posse of…
- Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, The (TV Series) (2006)
- A warped, unpredictable anime series centred on the titular Haruhi Suzumiya: an eccentric high school girl whose unconscious ability to alter reality…
- Metalocalypse (TV Series) (2006-2013)
- Vicious metal–inspired satire details the exploits of Dethlok, a mega–successful heavy metal band partial to a little violence, revolt,…
- MTV Barrio 19 (2006)
- Excellent compilation of amazing demonstrations by street performers from around the globe – Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, Britain... –…
- Paprika (2006)
- Dir. Satoshi Kon
- Mind–altering extravaganza of stolen dream technology from the anime trailblazer behind PERFECT BLUE, forged from the dir’s pet themes of…
- Princess (2006)
- Dir. Anders Morgenthaler
Feat. Thure Lindhardt
- Dubious animated revenge fantasy entertains the vigilante streak of a Danish missionary, whose pornstar sister dies at the hands of her pimp…
- Scanner Darkly, A (2006)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jnr., Woody Harrelson…
- Richard Linklater’s latest ‘rotoscope’ animation adapts Philip K. Dick's sci–fi novel into a dystopian proxy for the near future, where…
- Taxidermia (2006)
- Dir. Gyorgy Palfi
Feat. Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi
- Grostesque though exquisitely crafted oddity from the dir. of HUKKLE degenerates well beyond the threshold of bad taste in its history of three…
- Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
- Dir. Michael Arias
- Notable Western–directed anime about two street kids defending their turf across a sprawling, fantastical cityscape.
Involving yakuza muscle…
- Alien Apocalypse (2005)
- Dir. Josh Becker
Feat. Bruce Campbell
- Suspension of disbelief is strongly advised in order to enjoy this campy, schlocky spatter–fest.
Campbell (EVIL DEAD) hams it up as an…
- American Dad (TV Series) (2005)
- More politically–inclined satire from the creator of THE FAMILY GUY (Seth MacFarlane), set around a CIA operative with a very strange family…
- B-Boy Masters (2005)
- Studious documentary covers a recent Hip Hop Elements All Star Weekend, where 'B–Boys' compete in various hop–hop competitions, including…
- Black Cat (TV Series) (Shonen Jump) (2005)
- Sven is your run–of–the–mill sweeper (a.k.a. bounty hunter): down on his luck, haunted by the perpetual grumbling of his stomach…
- Devil and Daniel Johnston, The (2005)
- Dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
- Shadowy and sympathetic look at cult American songwriter Daniel Johnston, whose quirky pop gems – covered by the likes of Sonic Youth, Beck,…
- Disaster! (2005)
- Dir. Roy T. Wood
- A marginal, clay–mated spoof of disaster films, this offers a potty–fixated twist on the script of ARMAGEDDON, with impending doom coming…
- Drift (2005)
- Dir. Leah Singer, Lee Renaldo
- Experimental collaboration between Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and filmmaker Leah Singer, in which urban and nature imagery runs on two…
- Girls of the Playboy Mansion (TV Series) (The Girls Next Door) (2005)
- A trashy, tantalizing carrot dangling the holy grail of heterosexual male fantasy, this no–brainer Reality TV excursion opens the doors to Hugh…
- League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, The (2005)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack
Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith…
- Big–screen graduation for the cult TV series set around the inbred Northern English town of "Royston Vasey", where which the trio of Gatiss,…
- Midnight Movies - From The Margin To The Mainstream (Incl. Night of the Living Dead and Reefer Madness) (2005)
- Dir. Stuart Samuels
- Entrenched in the counter–cultural fertility of the seventies, this documentary profiles six seminal underground flicks that transformed the…
- Mushi-Shi (TV Series) (2005)
- Dir. Hiroshi Nagahama
- Artful, existential anime of spiritual transcendence, concerning an intangible life force dubbed ‘Mushi’, and the gifted master who seeks out…
- Mysterious Geographic Explorations Of Jasper Morello, The (2005)
- Dir. Anthony Lucas
- Visually accomplished short animation, set in a 'Victorian–style' future where steam–powered airships navigate across polluted skies and…
- Naughty Nurses (2005)
- An explicit animated follow–up to SEX WARD observing the indecent acts performed by nurses who have gained a reputation for "satisfying" their…
- Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The (2005)
- Dir. The Brothers Quay
Feat. Amira Casar
- A ten–year hiatus hasn’t dulled the Quay Brothers’ imagination for the surreal and phantasmagorical, with their latest feature an…
- Popetown (TV Series) (2005)
- Dir. Phil Ox
- Sacrilegious almost by definition, this SIMPSONS–style animated TV series depicts the life and times of brattish Pope in the surreal…
- Puzzlehead (2005)
- Dir. James Bai
Feat. Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro
- Grungy sci–fi set in a desolate future in which a lonely scientist creates a self–aware android and unwittingly a love rival. Shot on a…
- Ringers: Lord of the Fans (2005)
- Dir. Carlene Cordova
- A passionately reverential treatment of 'Lord of the Rings' culture and Tolkien mania, dissecting the varied influences of the now–ubiquitous…
- Save Your Legs! (2005)
- Dir. Boyd Hicklin
- Genial documentary follows a group of amateur Australian cricketers – the Abbotsford Anglers Cricket Club – on a 'tour' to India.…
- Squidbillies (TV Series) (2005)
- A family of degenerative squid hillbillies are the focus of this vulgar, though hilarious Adult Swim brew. Expect an abundance of redneck jokes,…
- Trinity Blood (TV Series) (2005)
- Centuries ago, Armageddon cast darkness across the world. From that darkness, the vampires emerged. Now humans and vampires tremble on the brink of…
- Work of Director Anton Corbijn, The (2005)
- Dir. Anton Corbijn
- A celebrated photographer, particularly in his association with Depeche Mode and U2 (he shot the iconic album cover for Joshua Tree), Anton Corbijn's…
- Work of Director Jonathan Glazer, The (2005)
- Dir. Jonathan Glazer
- Best known as the assured director behind SEXY BEAST and BIRTH, Jonathan Glazer's formative works include numerous commercials and music videos.…
- Work of Director Mark Romanek, The (2005)
- Dir. Mark Romanek
- Award–winning music videos are the forte of Mark Romanek, whose eclectic resume – which includes the likes of Johnny Cash, Audioslave,…
- Work of Director Stephane Sednaoui, The (2005)
- Dir. Stephane Sednnaoui
- Doubling as a photographer by trade, Stephane Sednaoui's background in fashion informs much of his music video work, characterised by highly stylised…
- 9 Songs (Nine Songs) (2004)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Margo Stilley, Kieran O'Brien
- A controversially explicit sex'n'rock'n' roll drama about two stray souls – an American student and a British bloke – who over a year…
- A Dirty Shame (2004)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville…
- An outrageous, if obvious, return to boundary–crossing comedy for dir. John Waters (PINK FLAMINGOS), with Tracey Ullman playing a repressed…
- Beck - Mongolian Chop Squad (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Osamu Kobayashi
- Rock–oriented anime riffs on the high school angst of bored 14–year–old, who, through a chance meeting with a skilled guitarist,…
- Bill Hicks - Live (2004)
- Feat. Bill Hicks
- An essential showcase of three live shows from the legendary stand–up comedian and ferocious left–wing commentator, Bill Hicks, who died…
- Bondi Tsunami (2004)
- Dir. Rachael Lucas
Feat. Keita Abe, Taki Abe, Nobuhisa Ikeda…
- A surfee, road–movie oddity in which two Japanese surfers travel the breaks and landmarks of Australia, in a beer–fueled dope…
- Bubba Ho-Tep (2004)
- Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis
- Strangely brilliant horror–satire with an outlandish plot where Elvis Presley (living but aging and impotent) fights the evil of a reincarnated…
- Drawn Together (TV Series) (2004)
- Twisted parody of BIG BROTHER and its ilk with cartoon characters living under one roof and the camera's constant scrutiny.
Parodying reality…
- Endless Serenade (2004)
- Graphic animated sex punctuates this 'hentai' anime about a love–triangle which develops out of two unrequited office romances. The makers of…
- Gankutsuou (TV Series) (Count of Monte Cristo, The) (2004)
- Born into an aristocratic family in Paris, Albert sets out on a journey with his best friend, Franz, to escape his privileged yet dull life. They…
- Hair High (2004)
- Dir. Bill Plympton
Feat. Keith Carradine, Sarah Silverman, Dermot Mulroney
- Cult animator Bill Plympton (THE TUNE) gives high school a manic makeover in this teen melodrama of prom night rivalry that expands in various,…
- Helter Skelter (2004)
- Dir. John Gray
Feat. Jeremy Davies, Clea Duvall
- A grimly rewarding TV docudrama about murderous hipster Charles Manson, played with screwy–eyed, whisper–voiced veracity by Jeremy…
- I Love You (2004)
- Sexually explicit 'anime' set on a Japanese campus where a handsome lad must choose between the charms of three female students, by sampling their…
- Incident At Loch Ness (2004)
- Dir. Zak Penn
Feat. Werner Herzog
- Droll and rather odd filmbiz comedy follows the efforts of German auteur Werner Herzog (GRIZZLY MAN) and an inept Hollywood producer, Zak Penn, to…
- Keane (2004)
- Dir. Lodge Kerrigan
Feat. Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan
- A powerful and unnerving feat of ‘mental’ endurance, dir. Kerrigan’s follow–up to the equally unsettling CLEAN, SHAVEN plunges the viewer…
- Mind Game (2004)
- Dir. Masaaki Yuasa
Feat. Koji Imada, Sayaka Maeda, Takashi Fujii
- Inventive Japanese animation based on the manga of the same by Robin Nishi, depicting the psychedelic self–discovery of a socially inept…
- Old Boy (Oldboy) (2004)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo
- Wowing audiences wherever it's played (including being nominated for the Palm D'Or at Cannes), this achingly intense thriller from Korea raises the…
- Riding Giants (2004)
- Dir. Stacy Peralta
- Perhaps the definitive cinematic fan–letter to the sport of surfing, in particular its "big wave" subcult, with the dir. of DOGTOWN AND…
- Straight Into Darkness (2004)
- Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. Ryan Francis, Scott MacDonald, Linda Thorson
- Grimy horror/war mishmash focused on two American soldiers on the run in Nazi–occupied France. Unapologetically violent, and made with a…
- Strangerhood, The (TV Series) (2004)
- The creators of RED vs BLUE trade their gamepads for mousepads in appropriating popular 'life simulation' THE SIMS, overdubbing the computer game's…
- Tales from the Crapper (2004)
- Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Gabriel Friedman, Chad Ferrin
Feat. Julie Strain, Ron Jeremy, Trey Parker
- Definitively cr*ppy outcome for Troma (TOXIC AVENGER), created according to the 'Dog Pile 95 Doctrine of Digital Filmmaking', with two short…
- Team America - World Police (2004)
- Dir. Trey Parker
Feat. Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller…
- The most fully–realized and funniest creation yet from the SOUTH PARK boys, who hit the bullseye (and a raw nerve or two) by brilliantly…
- Terkel in Trouble (2004)
- Dir. Stefan Fjeldmark, Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Thorbjorn Christoffersen
Feat. Bill Bailey, Ben Bishop, Olivia Colman…
- Teenage angst takes on whole new meaning in this savagely black animated comedy that isn't for the kiddies or the prudish. Disgruntled teenager…
- Tulse Luper Suitcases, The (The Moab Story, Vaux to the Sea, From Sark to Finish) (2004)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
- For the first time groundbreaking British director Peter Greenaway's three film oeuvre is released in this must–have set. Includes the three…
- American Misfits (2003)
- A unique mix of skateboarding, prankery, skits and interviews – hosted by JACKASS star Wee Man and fellow misfit Laban Phiedas. Much stuntwork…
- American Splendor (2003)
- Dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis
- An ambitious celebration of the life of cult US comic–writer Harvey Pekar, told in a quilt–work of monologue, biopic, autobiography and…
- Battle Royale II: Requiem (Battle Royale 2) (2003)
- Dir. Fukasaku Kinji, Fukasaku Kenta
Feat. Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shugo Oshinari
- Bolder and bloodier sequel that introduces 9/11–style terrorist topicality into its violent, 'last teen standing' scenario, with overt…
- Billabong Odyssey (2003)
- Dir. Philip Boston
- Surf documentary with a difference – this chronicles the search by a group of top wave–riders (Shawn Barron, Layne Beachley, Ken…
- Brown Bunny, The (2003)
- Dir. Vincent Gallo
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Chloe Sevigny
- Notoriously egocentric gem from Vincent Gallo, who stars, directs, writes, shoots, edits and produces an intriguingly desultry road–trip across…
- Chlorine (2003)
- Commended documentary covers the hardcore pool–skating scene in the USA, in which emptied swimming pools are transformed into adhoc…
- Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
- A true original of contemporary cinema, dir. Guy Maddin here imparts the strange tale of a hockey player beset by monstrous desires, hinging in…
- Creature Comforts (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Richard Goleszowski, Nick Park
- Charming claymation television series based on the Oscar–winning short by dir. Park (WALLACE AND GROMIT) set around various eccentric English…
- Cromartie High School (TV Series) (Sakigake!! Kuromati Kôkô) (2003)
- Dir. Hiroaki Sakurai
- The zany and hilarious episodes in the life of a teenage boy who ends up at a rough public school, peopled by an array of thugs, robots, a gorilla…
- Fireplace Lounge (2003)
- Relax in front of a 'virtual' fireplace. Contains five different soundtracks to choose from...
- Gozu (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Hideki Sone, Kimika Yoshino
- Rebel iconoclast of Japanese cinema, Takashi Miike, unveils his creepiest film since AUDITION: a hellishly disorientating – yet markedly restrained…
- Haggard (2003)
- Dir. Bam Margera
Feat. Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo…
- Spinoff feature from the creators of JACKASS mostly dispenses with the stuntwork and prankery, substituting plot and comic routines.
Dunn is…
- Harvie Krumpet (2003)
- Dir. Adam Elliot
- A quirky claymation short from Australian Adam Elliot, concerning the fantastic adventures, mishaps and tragedies of everyman Harvie. Has gone on to…
- Interstella 5555 (The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem) (2003)
- Dir. Kazuhisa Takenôchi
- Quirky and well–crafted animated feature, which extends a series of music–videos by the French electronica group Daft Punk, which…
- Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, The (2003)
- A circus fit for the new millenium, 'The Jim Rose Circus' features various self–described freaks such as Torture King, Mr Lifto, The Enigma and…
- Kung Faux (TV Series) (2003)
- Postmodern comic conceit, where a series of classic kung–fu films are redubbed with new music and voiceovers by various hiphoppers –…
- Look Around You (TV Series) (2003-2006)
- Dir. Tim Kirkby
Feat. Robert Popper, Peter Serafinowicz, Olivia Colman…
- Season 1 is a brilliant absurd satire of educational programmes, particularly of the faceless kind played to British schoolchildren in the 1970's,…
- Loop Select 005 (incl. Two Cars One Night) (2003)
- Dir. Taika Waititi, Patrick Gillies, Michael Duignan
- Compilation of 9 music videos and 8 short films from New Zealand. Artists and bands include 'Black Seeds', 'Trinity Roots', Anika Moa and…
- Manson Family, The (2003)
- Dir. Jim Van Bebber
Feat. Marcelo Games
- Psychedelic biopic of the notorious hippie anti–icon Charles Manson, who gathered a cult following around him in the late 1960s and programmed…
- Masked and Anonymous (2003)
- Dir. Larry Charles
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, Bob Dylan…
- In a near–apocalyptic future America, a popular singer (Bob Dylan) sets out on a nationwide tour to revive his career before heading into a…
- Off The Charts - The Song-Poem Story (2003)
- Dir. Jamie Meltzer
- A gem of a music doco from off the beaten track, this charts the arcane history of the "song poem", a genre of music where members of the public have…
- Onedotzero_Select - Volume 1 (Adventures in Moving Image) (2003)
- Stunning collection of short digital works collated and commissioned by London–based organisation 'onedotzero', all of which use…
- Peep Show (TV Series) (2003-2015)
- Feat. David Mitchell, Robert Webb
- Warped comedy about two perpetual adolescents and their oddball adventures told inventively with off kilter point–of–view and voice overs…
- Perverted by Language - The Fall (2003)
- One of the most original and long–running of the British punk groups of the late 1970s, The Fall are notable mainly for their influential…
- Plaster Caster (2003)
- Dir. Jessica Villines
- Groovy "cockumentary" tracing the colourful career of artist and super–groupie Cynthia Albritton, who became infamous for making commemorative…
- Red vs Blue (2003)
- Dir. Burnie Burns
- Appropriating the graphics engine of popular X–Box title ‘Halo’, the makers of this resourceful video game spoof act out various inane…
- Sex Ward (2003)
- 'Hentai' sex–oriented animation set around the experiences of two new nurses on probation in the wards of Ishikawa General Hospital. As the two…
- Six Feet Under - Season 3 (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…
- Further episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home.
13 episodes over 5 DVDs: Perfect Circles, You Never Know, The Eye Inside,…
- Spectres of the Spectrum (2003)
- Dir. Craig Baldwin
- An experimental 'ficto–history' of the age of electricity onwards, which uses 'found' footage – kinescopes, early educational films,…
- Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
- Dir. Satoshi Kon, Shogo Furuya
- An unusual 'dramatic' anime, which concerns three down–and–outs in Tokyo who rescue an abandoned baby and struggle to knit together a…
- Triplets of Belleville, The (Belleville Rendezvous) (2003)
- Dir. Sylvain Chomet
- Witty, inventive and lovingly designed with retro–chic flair, this 'all–ages' animated feature is distinctively and delightfully…
- Wildboyz (TV Series) (2003-2005)
- Dir. Jeff Tremaine
Feat. Steve-O , Chris Pontius
- JACKASS alumni Steve–O and Chris Pontius apply their daredevil obnoxiousness to satirising the 'nature documentary'.
In practice, this…
- Woodenhead (2003)
- Dir. Florian Habicht
- A remarkable and surrealistic melding of New Zealand setting and Germanic sensibility, in which a sad fairytale narrative is enacted, sung and…
- Work of Director Chris Cunningham, The (2003)
- Dir. Chris Cunningham
- A showcase of dynamic music videos, short films, commercials and video installations from director Chris Cunningham, who has been especially lauded…
- Work of Director Michel Gondry, The (2003)
- Dir. Michel Gondry
- A comprehensive compilation of music videos, art experiments and short films from the fiercely creative French director Michel Gondry, whose visual…
- Work of Director Spike Jonze, The (2003)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
- Before his successful foray into feature films, director Spike Jonze made his name as the pre–eminent music video director of the 1990s. He…
- Zero Day (2003)
- Dir. Ben Coccio
Feat. Andre Keuck, Calvin Robertson
- A confronting, fictionalized insight into the nihilistic mind–set of two alienated students who plotted and carried out a violent massacre at…
- A Snake of June (2002)
- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Asuka Kurosawa, Yuji Kohtari, Shinya Tsukamoto…
- Intriguing neo–noir psychodrama from uncompromising Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto (yes, he of the notorious TETSUO films), about a suicide…
- Auto Focus (2002)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe
- A savvy true Hollywood story detailing the sordid life of “Hogan’s Heroes” TV star Bob Crane, whose illicit 'sex addiction' led to…
- BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
- Dir. Isaac Julien
Feat. Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree, Quentin Tarantino…
- A fan's–eye–view of 1970s Blaxploitation cinema, featuring juicy interviews with players, directors, critics and aficionados.
Although…
- Backyard, The (2002)
- Dir. Paul Hough
- A cringe–inducing glimpse into the American subculture of backyard amateur wrestling, in which contestants up the ante with barbed wire,…
- Black Angel (Senso '45) (2002)
- Dir. Tinto Brass
Feat. Anna Galiena, Gabriel Garko, Franco Branciaroli
- Typically lurid Brass outing with well–connected Galiena drawn into a torrid affair with an SS Officer during the Nazi occupation of Venice.…
- Black Books (TV Series) (2002)
- Dir. Nick Wood, Graham Linehan
Feat. Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig
- Plotted around dipsomaniac bookstore–owner Dylan Moran and his pal Bill Bailey, this genially anti–social comedy from Britain’s Channel…
- Decasia: The State of Decay (2002)
- Dir. Bill Morrison
- Highly original experimental film that achieves a stunning aesthetic and haunting visual poetry by compiling an array of found archival film footage…
- Dracula - Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
- Deeply evocative version of Bram Stoker's oft–filmed 'Dracula' novel based around a recent stage–show by the Winnipeg National Ballet…
- Happy Tree Friends (2002-2005)
- Dir. Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro
- Ultraviolence performed in the seemingly harmless arena of the kiddy cartoon. This 'sick' series of animations (originally made as internet shorts)…
- Hebrew Hammer, The (2002)
- Dir. Jonathan Kesselman
Feat. Adam Goldberg
- An oddball spoof in which Goldberg (DAZED AND CONFUSED) plays a caricatured streetsmart Jewish stud fighting a religious conspiracy. Interesting…
- Jackass: The Movie (2002)
- Dir. Jeff Tremaine
Feat. Steve-O , Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze…
- Hugely successful movie version of the cult MTV show, whose fearless stars submit to various painful and perilous stunts.
Bound by a sense of…
- Kenny Vs Spenny (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Spencer Rice
- Reality show from the creators of SOUTH PARK pitches two best friends against each other in a series of outlandish 'who can do it better' type…
- Leunig Animated (2002)
- A compilation of the short animations of Michael Leunig, based on his comic–strips, which reveal a certain wry view of the universe. Narrated…
- Order, The - From Cremaster 3 (2002)
- Dir. Matthew Barney
Feat. Matthew Barney
- The climactic half–hour of artist Matthew Barney's 5–part 'Cremaster' series, a challenging excursion into surrealistic imagery whose a…
- Orphans and Angels (2002)
- Dir. Harold Brodie
Feat. Emmeline Hawthorne, Christopher Brown, Cal Wilson
- Risk–taking psychodrama set in a fairytale version of Auckland's seamy subcultures, and possibly NZ's most lurid excursion since ANGEL…
- Savage Messiah (2002)
- Dir. Mario Azzapardi
Feat. Luc Picard
- Fact–based account of a cult leader who presides over a quasi–religious commune, which includes his eight wives and 26 children.
Luc…
- Six Feet Under - Season 2 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…
- Further episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home.
13 episodes over 5 discs: In The Game, Out Out Brief Candle, The Plan,…
- Slim Shady Show, The (2002)
- Dir. Peter Gilstrap, Mark Brooks
Feat. Eminem
- An animated fantasy based around rapper Eminem's alter–ego 'Slim Shady'. Characterised by its various movies parodies and celebrity bashing…
- Spun (2002)
- Dir. Jonas Akerlund
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo…
- A cinematically exhilarating depiction of existence among a group of methamphetamine (P) addicts in Los Angeles, that is sure to divide audiences as…
- Steve-O - Don't Try This at Home (2002)
- Feat. Steve-O
- A collection of special moments featuring Steve–O, one of the wilder stars of MTV's JACKASS show. Lacking the imaginative wit of the movie,…
- American Astronaut, The (2001)
- Dir. Cory McAbee
Feat. Cory McAbee
- Wobbling unusually between satire, male angst and experimental derring–do, this slice of outer orbit cinema is set in a grungy future existence…
- Avalon (2001)
- Dir. Mamoru Oshii
- A landmark technical achievement from the director of Anime classic GHOST IN THE SHELL, this distinctive 'hybrid' Anime is curiously inspired by…
- Bat Thumb (2001)
- Dir. David Bourla
- Further thumb puppetry from writer Steve Oedekerk, this time spoofing the BATMAN franchise, in the parallel universe of 'Gaaathumb City'. Here, Wuse…
- Broken Saints (TV Series) (2001)
- Dir. Brooke Burgess
- One of the most celebrated online animations – which began as a grassroots guerilla exercise and grew into a sprawling, prize–winning…
- Dog Days (2001)
- Dir. Ulrich Seidl
Feat. Maria Hofstatter, Alfred Mrva, Erich Finsches…
- A wilfully transgressive Euro–drama examining middle–class dysfunction and despair in a Viennese suburb over a few days in a summer heat…
- Educational Archives - Social Engineering 101 (2001)
- A delightful mixture of government American educational films from the 1940–70 period which were shown in schools to tutor children in the ways…
- Fluffer, The (2001)
- Dir. Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
- Salacious piece of fluff about an aspiring filmmaker whose fascination with a male porn star leads him to scoring a job on the set. He soon rises to…
- Girl Next Door / Campus (2001)
- Two Japanese anime films that veer into the pornographic.
"Campus" concerns a man's recurring dreams of an ancient love affair. "Girl Next Door"…
- Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano…
- A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
- Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
Feat. John Cameron Mitchell
- Robbed of his rightful place in rock history by a former protégé, transsexual rocker Hedwig is resigned to playing on the lowest rung of the tour…
- Isle, The (2001)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Suh Jung, Kim Yoo-Suk, Park Sung-Hee
- An art–shocker with a distinctly Asian streak of the perverse, this counterpoints a striking visual tableaux and tranquil setting with the…
- Jackass (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O , Bam Margera…
- Compilation of the 'best' moments from MTV's cult TV–series in which a group of warped individuals inflict pranks, painful,…
- Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The (2001)
- Dir. Larry Blamire
Feat. Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Larry Blamire
- A dead–on Z–grade movie parody that replicates the wooden acting, dumb dialogue, sloppy editing and cheap props of 50's "creature…
- Millennium Actress (2001)
- Dir. Satoshi Kon
- The thinking–person's animator, dir. Satoshi Kon further extends his body of "real world" anime with a work of brilliantly conceived illusion…
- Mulholland Drive (2001)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux
- Dir. David Lynch returns to the defiantly enigmatic mode of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Lost Highway’ with an absurdist Tinseltown satire that probably…
- Naked, The (Golasy) (2001)
- Dir. Witold Swiêtnicki
- Genuine oddity, this Polish satire upon the tedium of the Soviet era, as experienced by an office full of white–collar workers, is lent a…
- Ripping Friends, The (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Eric Bauza, Mark Dailey, Dwayne Hill
- Animated series from John Kricfalusi (REN & STIMPY) where four muscleheaded superheroes humourously flub their assigned roles.
Not quite on a par…
- Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow…
- Spinning another pathologically eccentric comedy, the dir. of BOTTLE ROCKET and RUSHMORE will either have you declining to be amused or else…
- Schlock! - The Secret History of American Movies (2001)
- Dir. Ray Greene
- A suitably low–rent survey of 50s and 60s B–grade movies, with insights courtesy of Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, David F. Friedman,…
- Six Feet Under - Season 1 (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…
- The acclaimed, innovative HBO comedy–drama about an extremely dysfunctional family that operate a funeral home presided over by their deceased…
- Teenage Caveman (2001)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff, Richard Hillman
- The highlight of a ‘Creature Feature’ series that updates drive–in fare of yesteryear, this delirious slab of camp set in a…
- Tick, The (TV Series) (2001)
- Dir. Brian Edlund
Feat. Patrick Warburton
- A live–action recreation of Ben Edlund's comic–strip, that garnered a small, but loyal following during its one and only season. Follows…
- Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust (2001)
- Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Feat. Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichiro Nagai, Koichi Yamadera
- Raising the stakes in both style and story, this reworking of the original 1985 film spins the lone Vampire hunter's adventures in a different…
- Waking Life (2001)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Wiley Wiggins
- A luminous, visually unique reprise of dir. Linklater’s SLACKER, whereby a lone protagonist (Wiley Wiggins) wanders the streets of Austin, Texas…
- Wave Twisters (2001)
- Dir. Syd Garon, Eric Henry
- From the album ‘Wave Twisters’, DJ Qbert’s turntable stylizations are transformed into a form of conceptual animated ecstasy through creative…
- Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
- Dir. David Wain
Feat. Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Marguerite Moreau…
- Set in the charmingly unhip summer–camp 'Camp Firewood', this wettingly hilarious satire of 1970s and 80s culture, mores and cliches is…
- Aaagh! It's The Mr. Hell Show (TV Series) (2000)
- X–rated sketch animation taking pot shots at Hollywood movies and television by way of Mr. Hell – a sadistic devil–like bachelor…
- Battle Royale (Batoru Rowaiaru) (2000)
- Dir. Fukasaku Kinji
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara…
- This hyper–kinetic, violent satire from Japan courted controversy (and a fair swag of hype) for its ‘irresponsible’ premise and searing…
- Believer, The (2000)
- Dir. Henry Bean
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell…
- The darker side of Jewish identity is examined in this risky, provocative drama about a disillusioned young man who tries to reconcile his repressed…
- Boogiepop Phantom (TV Series) (Boogiepop Never Laughs: Boogiepop Phantom) (2000)
- Dir. Kouhei Kadano
- Anime series set in an unnamed Japanese city, intertwining the stories of multiple characters to uncover the mystery behind a string of serial…
- Filth and the Fury, The (2000)
- Dir. Julien Temple
- Film–maker Julien Temple gives an angry and commanding voice to 'The Sex Pistols' (incl. the late Sid Vicious), who tell their story 'like it…
- Gothic Industrial Madness (2000)
- Three hours of extreme videos from the best Gothic Industrial stalwarts including: Clock Dva, Foetus, Penal Colony, William Burroughs, Einsturzende…
- Gravitation (2000)
- Soapy J–pop anime serial charting the opposite–attract courtship of an aspiring musician and the hard–headed novelist he falls for.
- InuYasha (TV Series) (2000)
- Fifteen–year–old schoolgirl Kagome Higurashi, whose family tends a shrine, falls into an old well one day and literally tumbles into…
- Little Otik (Otesanek) (2000)
- Dir. Jan Svankmajer
Feat. Veronika Zilkova, Jan Hartl, Kristina Adamcova
- Animation guru and ‘militant surrealist’ Jan Svankmajer elaborates on a distinctively Czech fairy tale about a monstrous baby that grows…
- Mark of Cain, The (2000)
- Dir. Alix Lambert
- Instructive documentary on an esoteric subject: the disappearing art of the Russian prison tattoo. Journeying the penal system of the Russian…
- Metropolis (2000)
- Dir. Rinataro
- Visually splendid ‘future–noir’ set in a teeming, multi–leveled city, inhabited by several storylines: a detective quest, the…
- MPD - Psycho (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoki Hosaka
- Takashi Miike's TV series is an appropriately psychotic riff on a policier, featuring a detective with 32 personalities chasing a serial killer who…
- Oracle of Omaha (2000)
- Dir. Lisa D Gildehaus
- The second–richest man in America, investor Warren Buffett, is the subject of this study, whose investment success and ethics have made him a…
- Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations (2000)
- Dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
- Essential sequel to the brilliant documentary of the now infamous Robin Hills Murder trial that saw three small boys savagely murdered and three…
- Pie in the Sky - The Brigid Berlin Story (2000)
- Dir. Vincent Freemont, Shelly Dunn Freemont
Feat. Brigid Berlin
- The true story of Brigid Polk, real name Brigid Berlin, a blueblood socialite who rebelled to become an Andy Warhol bad–girl, and starred in…
- Pond Life (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Candy Guard
- Quietly amusing animated soap–opera follows life in the small suburban pond of Dolly Pond’s existence.
14 episodes over 2 tapes:
Vol…
- Psycho Beach Party (2000)
- Dir. Robert Lee King
Feat. Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Kimberley Davies
- Kicking sand in the face of John Waters’ latest efforts, this parody of GIDGET and other 60s beach party movies gets fabulous mileage out of…
- Scarlet Diva (2000)
- Dir. Asia Argento
Feat. Asia Argento
- A fearless, punk excursion into her own fleeting status as a model–cum–actress daughter of Italian horror stylist Dario Argento, Asia…
- Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
- Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson
- Various rotund men of retirement age face personal crises in a series of unsettling, stylised vignettes that could be collectively read as an…
- Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone) (2000)
- Dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
- A blast of wild inspiration from the New Thai Cinema, this restages a Hollywood Western within a luridly kitschy setting using back–projection,…
- Wild Zero (2000)
- Dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi
Feat. Guitar Wolf
- Japanese punk tyrants Guitar Wolf shred up the screen in this appropriately chaotic zombie fest, gouged from the remnants of a meteor carrying…
- 8 1/2 Women (1999)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Standing, Matthew Delamare, Vivian Wu…
- The indefatiguable provocateur of English cinema makes a perverse 'tribute' to Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece 8 1/2, with this tale of a rich…
- Angry Kid (1999-2000)
- Dir. Darren Walsh
- A series of shorts from Aardman Animation concerning a snot–nosed teenager, who gets by in the world with ginger hair and a big…
- Asterix and Obelix Take on Caesar (1999)
- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Roberto Benigni
- An ambitious, 'live–action' adaptation of Goscinny and Uderzo's classic Roman Age comicbook.
Visually lavish, this was a box–office…
- Attack the Gas Station (1999)
- Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang…
- Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea.
Gleefully tearing apart…
- Audition (1999)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
- An almost–masterpiece of the macabre that sets up and sustains itself brilliantly with a restrained pace and jewel of a premise, then careens…
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. John Cusack, John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz…
- Surrealist comic marvel distinguished by the most bizarre of plots – washed–up puppeteer John Cusack's new position as a filing clerk…
- Blackadder - Back and Forth (1999)
- Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry…
- The old gang return for a one–off episode, whereby a present–day Lord Blackadder steps into a time–machine for a jaunt back through…
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames…
- Drawn from the hell–bent memoirs of a New York ambulance driver, this sees dir. Scorcese returning to home–turf, a script by Paul…
- Celebrity Deathmatch (TV Series) (1999)
- Genuinely amusing clay–mation generated by MTV, stages fantasy bouts–to–the–death between various celebrity pairings, like:…
- CKY Trilogy (1999-2003)
- Feat. Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo
- Sampling scenes from the 'Camp Kill Yourself' videos and documentary, this is an excellent compilation of skate–boarding and twisted stuntwork.…
- Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)
- Expose of the BLAIR WITCH PROJECT back–story, keeping up the pretence of 'fact' and wringing more than a modicum of new twists out of the…
- Dogma (1999)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Kevin Smith, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck…
- Eccentric meditation on Roman Catholicism in a modern–day context from writer/director Kevin Smith (CHASING AMY), that's just as bizarre as it…
- Fight Club (1999)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
- Those grim forebodings of the pre–millennial zeitgeist form a backdrop to this flawed but thoroughly unique thriller–satire.
Office…
- Following (1999)
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
- A dazzling debut for dir. Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO), this quicksilver suspenser concerns a writer who begins to 'follow' people around London,…
- Gravitation: Lyrics of Love (1999)
- Dir. Shinichiro Watanabe
- Prequel to the cult anime series GRAVITATION that sees the lead singer of 'Bad Luck' at a crossroads in his professional and personal life with album…
- Hitman Hart - Wrestling with Shadows (1999)
- Dir. Paul Jay
- A must for wrestling fans and detractors alike, this is the hugely compelling real–life story of Brett 'The Hitman' Hart, five times WWF…
- Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999)
- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno
- A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
- Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
- Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Ewen Bremner, Chloe Sevigny, Werner Herzog…
- Experimental melodrama from notorious indie film–maker Harmony Korine (GUMMO) following a man with schizophrenia and his dysfunctional family.…
- Life of Python, The (1999)
- Feat. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam…
- The BBC celebrates 30 years of Monty Python with new sketches and a plethora of guest appearances.
Volume One:
"Pythonland" – Journey with…
- Original Schtick / Schtick Happens (1999-2002)
- Dir. Maciek Wszelaki
- A stranger–than–fiction documentary following American visual artist and egotistical maniac Robert (Bob) Fischer on a bizarre tour of…
- Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 8 (1999)
- Dir. Ed Bye
Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on 2 VHS tapes.
Vol…
- Sacred Flesh (1999)
- Dir. Nigel Wingrove
Feat. Eileen Daly, Sally Tremaine, Moyna Cope…
- Salacious voyage into the mind of a Mother Superior locked away in a convent tortured by visions of sexual abandon.
Debut entry for Wingrove is a…
- South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)
- Dir. Trey Parker
- This big screen splash from the cult TV show is also fouler–mouthed, has a strong musical element, and an ironic twist – an R–rated…
- Star Trek - Insurrection (1999)
- Dir. Jonathan Frakes
Feat. Patrick Stewart, F. Murray Abraham
- Forging ahead with their own lucrative franchise, the Next Generation produce another winner which fans will rally round. Patrick Stewart and co. get…
- Thumb Wars - The Phantom Cuticle (1999)
- Dir. Steve Oedekerk
- One of the best of dir. Oedekerk's 'Thumb' series, in which skillfully manipulated thumb–puppets spoof up various Hollywood staples. Here, Loke…
- Trekkies (1999)
- Dir. Roger Nygard
- Comprehensive, eye–opening tour of the STAR TREK phenomenon and the lives of some of its more ardent devotees. Chuckle and gasp as Denise…
- Tribe, The (TV Series) (1999-2003)
- Set in an post–apocalyptic future where all adults have been wiped out by a virus and children must fend for themselves by ganging up together,…
- Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
- Dir. James Marsh
- A deadpan, quietly unsettling documentary that charts 10 years of creeping misfortune at the end of the 19th century in the small Midwest town of…
- Acid House, The (1998)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Stephen McCole, Maurice Roeves, Garry Sweeney
- Those with a taste for undiluted Irvine Welsh (author of TRAINSPOTTING) will find warts–and–all satisfaction in this portmanteau of three…
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. John Goodman, Dan Aykroyd, Evan Bonifant
- Belated, extraneous sequel to the 1980 cult 'classic' with John Goodman filling in the XXL trousers of the very late John Belushi. (Alas, the…
- Buffalo 66 (1998)
- Dir. Vincent Gallo
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara…
- Released from prison after doing someone else's time, an embittered yet benign loner sets about evening the score, but not before kidnapping a sweet…
- Destroy All Rational Thought (1998)
- An eclectic patchwork of material to do with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, including footage from Burroughs films and home–movies, and…
- Divine Trash (1998)
- Dir. Steve Yeager
- A divine treat for fans of the film–maker John Waters’, this supplements contemporary and archival interviews with rare footage of the…
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro
- Wildly hallucinatory version of Hunter S. Thompson's counter–culture novel, does away with the ersatz social satire but thankfully hits the…
- Gummo (1998)
- Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Chloe Sevigny
- The writer of KIDS turns the camera on his hometown, Xenia, Ohio, selectively seeking out the disenfranchised, the bored and the ugly to distinctive…
- Happiness (1998)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Lara Flynn Boyle, Dylan Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Controversial is the byword for this disturbing trawl through the sad–case lives of various American suburbanites and their families (Lara…
- I Stand Alone (Seul Contre Tous) (1998)
- Dir. Gaspar Noe
Feat. Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain…
- Staunch attempt to shake up the “bourgeois” values in French cinema, first–time director Gaspar Noe fleshes out his short film about a…
- In God's Hands (1998)
- Dir. Zalman King
- A moody visual style distinguishes this ride on the hummungest waves of the world surf–scene – Bali, Mexico and of course, Hawaii.…
- Pi (1998)
- Dir. Darren Aronofsky
Feat. Sean Gullette
- Super–inventive, grungy portrait of a maths genius who slides into a maelstrom of paranoia as he get closer to 'cracking the code' that may or…
- Shattered Image (1998)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. William Baldwin, Anne Parillaud, Graham Greene
- Dir. Raul Ruiz gives the lurid straight–to–video thriller (a staple of the 90s) an eccentric, if compromised twist, in this sleazy noir…
- Six-String Samurai (1998)
- Dir. Lance Mungia
- Armed with an excellent grasp of all the genres it cheekily adopts, this indie concerns the journey of its Buddy Holly–lookalike hero across a…
- Wadd: The Life and Times of John C Holmes (1998)
- Dir. Cass Paley, Alan Smithee
Feat. John Holmes
- Well hung, generously portioned portrait of the American sex film industry's most famous and successful male 'porn star'.
Legendary for his…
- X-Files Movie, The (1998)
- Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
- Following the STAR TREK model, the '90s TV phenomenon, featuring terminally–perturbed FBI agents Mulder and Scully, beams up onto the big…
- Young Thugs - Nostalgia (1998)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoto Takenaka
- Apparently dir. Miike's (AUDITION) favourite of his own films, this semi–autobiographical rites of passage tale is a prequel to YOUNG THUGS…
- Another 9 1/2 Weeks (Love in Paris) (1997)
- Dir. Anne Goursaud
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Angie Everhart, Steven Berkoff…
- Depending on your sensibilities this Parisian set sequel either represents a career nadir for Rourke or some kind of gonzo triumph. Either way…
- King of the Hill (TV Series) (1997-2006)
- Feat. Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Brittany Murphy
- Smart animated sitcom about a redneck Texan salesman 'Hank Hill' and his family, which finds its own middle–American way into the cult…
- Kingdom II, The (Riget II) (1997)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Udo Kier
- Lars Von Trier's compulsive TV creation continues into its second series of medical soap opera, supernatural horror and black comedy.
Raising the…
- Kurt and Courtney (1997)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
- Not even an unofficial biography of 'Nirvana', Kurt Cobain or Courtney Love, but instead a wickedly amusing slice of pop–cultural…
- Liquid Television 2 (1997)
- Dir. Various
- Another collection of bizarre and fringy animation from the MTV stable.Includes Winter Steele, Bobby & Billy, Brad Dharma, Cut–Up Camera and…
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty…
- Welcome to Lynchland. Where picket fences surround troubled, violent, sexual twisted souls who converse in awkwardly measured rhythms.
David Lynch…
- Nowhere (1997)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton…
- Final installment of Gregg Araki's teen apocalypse' trilogy, trawling the teenage shallowlands of L.A. in a kind of R–rated flip to Beverly…
- Perfect Blue (1997)
- Dir. Satoshi Kon
- Coherent and mature product of Japanese 'anime' is an unsettling psycho–drama about a burnt–out teen pop idol, simultaneously plagued by…
- Pretty As a Picture (1997)
- Dir. Toby Keeler
Feat. Jack Nance, Mel Brooks, Dean Stockwell
- A beguiling and extensive peep behind the velvet curtains of director David Lynch's creative processes, during the making of LOST HIGHWAY. Helping…
- Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 7 (1997)
- Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on DVD or over 2 VHS…
- South Park (TV Series) (1997)
- Dir. Trey Parker, Matt Stone
- Comedy Central's taboo–breaking cartoon satire drew on the BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD school of irreverence, yet offered something entirely original,…
- Spawn (1997)
- Dir. Mark A. Z. Dippe
Feat. Theresa Randle, Martin Sheen
- Mightily fluid digital FX are the primary inspiration in this version of Todd McFarlane's cult comic book, wherein the forces of light and darkness…
- Spicy City (TV Series) (1997)
- Dir. Ralph Bakshi et al
- A Ralph Bakshi (FRITZ THE CAT) animated TV–series that pursues a decidedly adult version of the 'cyber–future', though with more of a…
- Weird Al Show, The (TV Series) (1997-1998)
- Dir. Peyton Reed
Feat. Al Yankovic
- Short–lived 'educational' children's TV show from the mind of 'Weird Al' Yankovic, perhaps best known in New Zealand for his pop song parodies,…
- Young Thugs - Innocent Blood (1997)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoto Takenaka
- Gangster shenanigans with cult dir. Takashi, this time taking a more measured approach to the story of four young friends who drift together and…
- Aeon Flux (TV Series) (1996)
- The hi–tech animated adventures of the leather–clad double–agent anti–heroine, whose specialties include assassination,…
- Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996)
- Dir. Mike Judge
- The flagrantly antisocial, hormonally over–charged MTV duo embark on a fea ture–length odyssey to recover their all–important TV…
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Season 1 (1996)
- Dir. Bruce Seth Green, Joss Whedon
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar
- The TV followup to the 1992 movie, that slays its predecessor in wit and cult–appeal. Sarah Michelle Gellar plays the high–school teen…
- Butch Camp (1996)
- Dir. Alessandro De Gaetano
Feat. Judy Tenuta, Paul Denniston
- Outrageous gay rom–com set in an S&M boot camp training center for gay men to learn macho survival tactics.
- Cannibal! The Musical (Alfred Packer: The Musical) (1996)
- Dir. Trey Parker
Feat. Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool
- This fiendishly inventive 'student' film from SOUTH PARK creator Trey Parker is one of those no–budget labour of loves like say, BAD TASTE,…
- Crash (1996)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger…
- Auteur David Cronenberg's latest vision is an anti–fable about accident victims James Spader and Holly Hunter, who become sexually obsessed…
- Day of the Beast (1996)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Alex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura
- If Almodovar made a horror movie it might look like this – beautifully shot and designed, funny and exciting. Though he can't quite sustain the…
- Doctor Who - The Movie [Paul McGann] (Dr. Who) (1996)
- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Paul McGann, Eric Roberts
- Paul McGann (WITHNAIL AND I) incarnates the Doctor in this feature–film revival, materialising in San Francisco on the eve of the millennium…
- Dr. Katz (1996)
- Dir. Jonathon Katz
- Featured on MTV, meek animated psychologist Dr Katz conducts en–couch journeys with various troubled New Yorkers. Effectively simple artwork…
- Ebola Syndrome, The (1996)
- Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Anthony Wong
- Birthed from the notorious "Category 3" underbelly of Hong Kong cinema, this close relative of THE UNTOLD STORY features another deranged murderer on…
- Fetishes (1996)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
- One of dir. Broomfield's more insalubrious documentaries, where his customised faux innocence is used as a passport into the world of New York's…
- Freeway (1996)
- Dir. Matthew Bright
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland
- Grim white trash road–movie black comedy made of The Brothers' Grimm's "Little Red Riding Hood" sends young Reese Witherspoon on a lost highway…
- Fudoh - The Next Generation (1996)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Shosuke Tanihara, Kenji Takano, Marie Jinno
- Possibly the first film that gave the Western world an inkling of dir. Miike's unhinged worldview, investing a tale of yakuza vengeance with surreal,…
- God's Lonely Man (1996)
- Dir. Francis Von Zerneck
Feat. Michael Wyle, Jamie Walters
- The story of St. Francis of Assisi is loosely transposed to the underbelly of modern LA – a redemption–seeking nervous loner befriends a…
- Hardcore Logo (1996)
- Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Bernie Coulson, John Pyper-Ferguson, Callum Keith Rennie…
- This Canadian punk music 'mockumentary' is not just simply another son–of–SPINAL TAP, taking an edgier, bleaker comic look at the…
- Head, The (TV Series) (The Head Saves the Earth) (1996)
- An animated mutant super–hero joins forces with the parasitic alien stuck in his outsized cranium to ward off an impending invasion of Earth.…
- Institute Benjamenta (1996)
- Dir. The Brothers Quay
Feat. Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John
- A meek, alienated German (Mark Rylance) enlists in a bizarrely regimented academy for butlers in this live–action debut of renowned animators,…
- Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)
- Dir. Kelly Makin
Feat. Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald
- Smart satire from the Canadian sketch comedy troupe is more hit than miss. Plot such as it is centres on a dangerous anti–depressant that…
- Maxx, The (1996)
- Muscle–bound purple super–hero The Maxx seeks the connection between his New York harsh reality and an alternate universe known as the…
- Paradise Lost (1996)
- Dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
- A ‘tour de force’ crime documentary, courtroom saga and true life horror show, this is a bare witness account of the trial of three…
- Schizopolis (1996)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Steven Soderbergh
- Disillusioned after finishing his previous movie, dir. Steven Soderbergh (SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE) made this little–seen, self–funded…
- Sex and Zen Pt. 2 (1996)
- Dir. Chin Man-Kei
Feat. Loletta Lee, Tat-Wah Lok
- A creepy polygamist meets his match in the 'mirage woman' in this twice–as–smutty, half–as–funny sequel to the outlandish…
- Soul Music (1996)
- Dir. Jean Flynn
- Animated adaptation of one of Terry Pratchett's discworld novels offers an parallel universe history of rock music, complete with examples. Fans of…
- Star Trek - First Contact (1996)
- Dir. Jonathan Frakes
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes
- Highly accredited STAR TREK entry in which an entirely new crew of the Starship Enterprise E come up against series arch–enemies The Borg……
- Tokyo Fist (1996)
- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Koji Tsukamoto, Kahori Fujii
- From the man who inflicted the world with two Tetsuo's comes another punishing opus of body–horror that takes the sport of boxing into…
- Trainspotting (1996)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller…
- The creators of SHALLOW GRAVE reinvigorate the British film industry by transforming an obscure cult novel about heroine addicts into a…
- Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
- Dir. Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Jane Jansen, Will Keenan, Valentine Miele
- Tromatized version of 'Romeo and Juliet' resets the world's most famous love story in contemporary Manhattan, with body piercings, kinky sex and…
- Ultraman - Zearth 1 (1996)
- Dir. Shinya Nakajima
- A mockingly ludicrous homage to the long–running Japanese TV serial, in which the heroic MYDO (Mysterious Yonder Defence Organisation) must…
- Weatherwoman Returns (1996)
- Dir. Tomoaki Hosoyama
Feat. Misa Aika, Kiyomi Ito, Ayako Kato
- Sequel to WEATHERWOMAN, is equally unsettling in the way its nasty thrills are clad in cheap satire. As in the first, the rivalry between various TV…
- Wyrd Sisters (1996)
- Dir. Jean Flynn
- Terry Pratchett sci–fi novel set in the 'Discworld' universe gets animated, retaining the oddball humour and satiric overtones. Three witches…
- A Weatherwoman (1995)
- Dir. Tomoaki Hosoyama
Feat. Kei Mizutani
- Manga–based comedy where debut TV weatherwoman Kei Mizutani disregards all public standards in pursuit of ratings and her own fetishistic…
- Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (1995)
- Dir. T.F. Mous
- This extreme 'shocker' depicts in grisly detail the story of the massacre of 300 000 Chinese by Japanese soldiers following the invasion of Nanking…
- Chinese Torture Chamber Story (1995)
- Dir. Bosco Lam
- Salacious sex farce in the mould of SEX AND ZEN and EROTIC GHOST STORY, that wilfully pushes the boundaries of good taste, with a measure of…
- Doom Generation, The (1995)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech
- The boundaries of good taste are demolished in this white–trash road movie obsessed with teenage sex and scatology. The joke turns cruel in the…
- Eko Eko Azarak (Wizard of Darkness, Birth of the Wizard, Misa the Dark Angel) (1995)
- Dir. Shimako Sato
Feat. Kimika Yoshino
- Highly impressive and lurid high–school horror, has a teenage girl (Yoshino) contending with coven of Satanic witches at her new school, who…
- Kids (1995)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson, Justin Pierce…
- Cult photographer Larry Clark's debut, 24hrs of New York streetkid life, attracted immediate controversy. The unblinking depictions of sex, drugs and…
- Liquid Television (1995)
- Dir. Various
- Eye–popping collection of inventive animation, originally featured on MTV. Includes short films, music videos, multimedia pieces and comic…
- Nico Icon (1995)
- Dir. Susanne Ofteringer
- Most famous as one–time singer for the Velvet Underground or arguably just for being famous, this takes a biographical tour of the late German…
- Showgirls (1995)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon
- The BASIC INSTINCT team reprise with another sexploitation film that sent most critics in howls of derision.
Lack of plot and oversaturation of…
- Star Trek - Generations (1995)
- Dir. David Carson
Feat. LeVar Burton, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan…
- Capt. Picard and crew get their big–screen debut but are forced to call on the spirit of predecessor Capt. Kirk to assist them in a struggle…
- Bad Boy Bubby (1994)
- Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Nicholas Hope
- Nicholas Hope is terrific as a 35–year–old man who ventures out for the first time into suburban Australia after a lifetime of abusive…
- Boy Meets Girl (1994)
- Dir. Ray Brady
Feat. Tim Poole, Danielle Sanderson, Margot Steinberg
- For many years banned in the UK on video at least, this abrasive, low–budget drama plays out the wilfully unpleasant scenario of a man who gets…
- Duckman (TV Series) (1994-1997)
- Feat. Jason Alexander
- An animated black–comedy sitcom adapted from a one–off comic book that is centred around a lascivious, widowed, self–loathing duck…
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker…
- Tim Burton, the eccentric visionary behind EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, PEE–WEE and BATMAN finds a soul mate in recounting the life of the world's…
- Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (1994)
- Doco on the B–movie director, that reveals the man beneath the pink cardy. Covering the time of Tim Burton's biopic and beyond, through to the…
- Endless Summer 2 (1994)
- Dir. Bruce Brown
Feat. Patrick O'Connell, Robert Weaver
- Brown is some thirty years older but his passion for surfing and engaging humour has diminished none. Awesome surfing footage is captured this time…
- Faust (1994)
- Dir. Jan Svankmajer
- Svankmajer's second feature is an eloquent and inspired revision of the Faustian myth set in contemporary Prague. Live–action is embellished…
- Felidae (1994)
- Dir. Michael Schaack
- Based on the cult novel by Akif Pirincci, this 'adult' animated feature unfolds a noirish murder–mystery from a feline viewpoint. This is no…
- Hated (1994)
- Dir. Todd Phillips
- Unflinching shock–umentary exposes the grubby exploits of the late GG Allin – punk rocker, nihilist, sad bastard – who, despite…
- High Life, The (TV Series) (1994)
- Feat. Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson
- Short–lived Scottish sitcom set on the fictional airline 'Air Scotia', home to the worst cabin crew in the United Kingdom, headed by the…
- Kingdom, The (Riget) (1994)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Norby…
- A Danish medical soap opera from the director of BREAKING THE WAVES that's a bizarre yet compulsive combination of ghost story, TV drama and…
- Man in Uniform, A (I Love a Man in Uniform) (1994)
- Dir. David Wellington
Feat. Tom McCamus
- This sharp, brooding satire is reminiscent of TAXI DRIVER but has a flavour and agenda all of its own.
A meek bank clerk gets an acting break in…
- Metal Skin (1994)
- Dir. Geoffrey Wright
Feat. Aiden Young, Tara Morice, Ben Mendelsohn
- A petrol–soaked, despairing love story from the director of ROMPER STOMPER, who takes another look at Australian youth counter–culture…
- My So-Called Life (TV Series) (1994-1995)
- Dir. Scott Winant
Feat. Claire Danes, Jared Leto, Bess Armstrong…
- Hard–hitting drama series starring a young Claire Danes in her breakout role as a 15 year–old dealing with angst–ridden teen…
- Natural Born Killers (1994)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis
- Oliver Stone turns a Tarantino script into a mean–spirited satire that points fingers at the decline of America without any measure of…
- Oblivion (1994)
- Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Richard Joseph Paul, Andrew Divoff, Isaac Hayes…
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- Ocean Girl (TV Series) (1994-1997)
- Feat. Marzena Godecki, Jeffrey Walker, Kerry Armstrong
- Environmentally conscious Australian cult adventure series based around a mystical girl from under the sea who has the ability to communicate with…
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman…
- With just his second film, Quentin Tarantino not only became a household name but a massive cultural phenomenon.
He miraculously surpasses…
- Accion Mutante (1993)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Antonio Resines, Alex Angulo
- A deformed terrorist group strike out against pretty society in this wildly irreverent satire that takes a gleeful turn into futuristic…
- Beavis and Butthead (TV Series) (1993-1997)
- Dir. Mike Judge
- Once rejected by our television networks on moral grounds, this might've been your only chance to catch America's favourite miscreants in animated…
- Bitter Moon (1993)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Emmanuelle Seigner…
- Erotic weirdness unfolds aboard an ocean liner as wheel–chaired creep Peter Coyote foists an unsavoury personal tale upon innocent Hugh Grant.…
- Body Melt (1993)
- Dir. Philip Brophy
Feat. Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo
- Phil Brophy's cult oddity SALT, SALIVA, SPERM AND SWEAT caused a stir some years back – now his full–length feature opens the floodgates…
- Clean, Shaven (1993)
- Dir. Lodge Kerrigan
Feat. Peter Greene
- Cult actor Peter Green followed his great work in LAWS OF GRAVITY with this difficult but startling independent feature as a violent schizophrenic…
- Dangerous Game (1993)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo
- Fascinating descent into the dark recesses of a film–directing mind (Ferrara's). It opens as a film–within–a–film about a…
- Dottie Gets Spanked (1993)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Evan Bonifant, Barbara Garrick
- Or Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fetishist. This smart Todd Haynes short bears witness to an artistically inclined young boy with three…
- Hercules Returns (1993)
- Dir. David Parker
Feat. David Argue, Michael Carman, Mary Coustas
- Three hapless cinema entrepreneurs discover their opening film, HERCULES, is in Italian with no subtitles, so they dub the voices and sound effects…
- Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993)
- Dir. Jerry Aronson
- This resonant film double–acts as a nostalgic looking–glass into bohemian culture and as a showcase of the New York beat poet/political…
- Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 6 (1993)
- Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on 2 VHS tapes.
Vol…
- Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
- Dir. Bolex Brothers
- Resembling something of a post–apocalyptic Wallace and Gromit, this combines stop–motion animation of live actors and puppetry to tell…
- Sex and Zen (1993)
- Dir. Michael Mak
Feat. Lawrence Ng, Kent Cheng, Xu Jin-Jang
- Part comic fantasy, part porno movie, and though an imaginative example of both genres, the balancing act is a hard one to pull off (fnarr, fnarr).…
- Some Yo Yo Stuff (1993)
- Dir. Anton Corbijn
- Brief but illuminating glimpse at the world of Don Van Vliet, best known as the experimental rock–singer 'Captain Beefheart' who essentially…
- Sonatine (1993)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Ayo Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe
- Those familiar with 'Beat' Takeshi's films will know what to expect from this latest elegy to gangster violence. His personal demons manifest in…
- Super 8 1/2 (1993)
- Dir. Bruce LaBruce
Feat. Bruce LaBruce
- No–budget sex spoof in which self–styled gay icon Bruce LaBruce plays a washed–up pornster who confesses all to a predatory lesbian…
- Totally F***ed Up (1993)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid…
- A corrosive portrait of a group of alienated gay comrades, and the first (and perhaps best) part of dir. Araki's 'teen apocalypse trilogy' (completed…
- Untold Story, The (1993)
- Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Danny Lee, Anthony Wong
- Outrageous gross–out thriller that may put you off Chinese food for life – based on the "Eight Immortals Restaurant murders" that took…
- X-Files, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (1993)
- Dir. Robert Mandel, Daniel Sackheim, Harry Longstreet
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny
- The first series of the sci fi TV phenomenon – not quite finding the shape of the mythology of later seasons, but with some excellent episodes…
- Bad Lieutenant (1992)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Harvey Keitel
- Deeply disturbing character study of a bent cop that Harvey Keitel goes off the method deep–end to authenticate. An addiction to smack and…
- Careful (1992)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
Feat. Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Paul Cox
- Iconoclast film–maker Guy Maddin’s dreamlike tale of repression and disorder, set in an alpine village where rigidly studious young men…
- Charles Manson - Then and Now (1992)
- Tracing America's morbid fascination with the infamous sociopath , jailed in 1970 after members of his cult "family" went on a murder spree, this…
- Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1992)
- Dir. Dan Hoskins
Feat. Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff
- Hit–and–miss parody of zombie and biker flicks with a feminist–revenge kick. An improvement from the dreaded 'Troma' label.
- Cool World (1992)
- Dir. Ralph Bakshi
Feat. Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne
- Cartoonist Gabriel Byrne is seduced into the animated world of his sexy creation in this dense, saucy amalgam of live–action and animation for…
- Cyberpunk (1992)
- Dir. Marianne Trench
Feat. William Gibson, Timothy Leary
- Low–budget insight into the cyberpunk counter–culture. Author William Gibson and many hangers–on offer their view of what it means…
- Dark at Noon (1992)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. John Hurt, David Warner
- John Hurt and David Warner join in the spirit of this bizarre fancy from exiled Chilean director Ruiz. Set in a Portugese village where anything…
- Fishing with John (TV Series) (1992)
- Dir. John Lurie
Feat. Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper…
- Neo–beatnik musician John Lurie hosts his own candid, off–beat TV show in which he takes a hipster celebrity pal on an exotic fishing…
- Leolo (1992)
- Dir. Jean-Claude Lauzon
Feat. Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Julien Guiomar
- A rites–of–passage drama seen through a warped looking–glass, the story of ten–year–old Leolo is a blackly humorous…
- Living End, The (1992)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel
- Irreverent road movie posits a pair of HIV–positive young hunks on the fast–track to nowhere as they attempt to live the rest of their…
- Man Bites Dog (1992)
- Dir. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde
- Disturbing black comedy unravels itself as a media satire but its barbaric humour won't tickle everyone's funnybone. Staged as a documentary, a film…
- Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 5 (1992)
- Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on 2 discs or tapes.…
- Roadside Prophets (1992)
- Dir. Abbe Wool
Feat. John Doe, Adam Horovitz
- An imperfect but engaging reworking of the '70s road movie for Generation Xers. John Doe and Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz pair as free–wheeling…
- Romper Stomper (1992)
- Dir. Geoffrey Wright
Feat. Russell Crowe
- Powerhouse drama about a gang of neo–Nazi skinheads who wreak havoc on the Melbourne's Vietnamese community.
The contentious subject is…
- Slacker (1992)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Richard Linklater
- A hugely original and influential film that virtually coined the phrase for young aimless academics of the 1990s. Essentially plotless, it is…
- Tune, The (1992)
- Dir. Bill Plympton
- Bill Plympton made a name for himself with clever animated shorts like 25 Ways to Quit Smoking and Push Comes to Shove. He fashions a hilarious…
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Moira Kelly…
- The big–screen prequel charts a surreal path of events preceding the murder of Laura Palmer. Without the constraints of TV censorship Lynch…
- Wild Palms (TV Series) (1992)
- Dir. Peter Hewitt, Kathryn Bigelow, Keith Gordon
Feat. James Belushi, Dana Delany, Angie Dickinson…
- Grandly stylised mini–series heavily inspired by TWIN PEAKS yet almost as worthy in spite of big lug James Belushi in the lead role. After…
- Adjuster, The (1991)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Maury Chaykin
- Eliptical and seductive fifth feature from one of cinema's most original talents. Two 'adjusters' – an insurance assessor, and his wife, a film…
- Barton Fink (1991)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis
- The Coen Bros' striking if enigmatic account of a brilliant scribe hampered with writer's block and a strange hotel companion in mid 1940s Hollywood.…
- Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
- Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler…
- Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return as a couple of crazed teenagers who are sent on a Bogus Journey through a round trip to heaven and hell in this…
- Chances (TV Series) (1991-1992)
- Dir. Helen Gaynor
- Noteworthy as perhaps the most risque television series to grace Australian screens, this is a bizarre, self–consciously camp roll through…
- Commissioner of Sewers (1991)
- Dir. Klaus Maeck
- Dir. Maeck brings a European perspective to bear on the cult American writer, William S. Burroughs (NAKED LUNCH). A familiar blend of archival…
- Cool as Ice (1991)
- Dir. David Kellogg
Feat. Vanilla Ice, Kristin Minter, Naomi Campbell
- This dubious remake of THE WILD ONE finds rap wash–up Vanilla Ice whooping it up in Brando's famous tough guy role.
- Dark Backward, The (1991)
- Dir. Adam Rifkin
Feat. Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton…
- Weird black comedy about a hopeless stand–up comic (Judd Nelson) who finds that the third arm growing from his back is his ticket to the…
- Eerie Indiana (TV Series) (1991-1992)
- Feat. Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow
- Short–lived, cult TWIN PEAKS–offshoot follows the arrival of a young boy to Eerie, Indiana, a town overrun with urban legends, a living…
- Erotic Ghost Story 2 (1991)
- Dir. Lam Ngai Kai
Feat. Charine Chan, King-Man Chik, Yiu-Wah Kwok
- Sequel mixes up similar ingredients, but story is unrelated to the first.
- Exotic Dances of Betty Page, The (1991)
- Dir. Irving Klaw
Feat. Betty Page
- Iconic 50's pin–up model Betty Page takes it (almost) all off for the camera of pin–up impresario Irving Klaw, in a series of teasingly…
- Highway 61 (1991)
- Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Don McKellar, Valerie Buhagiar, Peter Breck
- Don McKellar and Valerie Buhagiar reunite for this pseudo–sequel to Bruce McDonald's ROADKILL as a couple of kooky Canadians who travel the…
- Johnny Suede (1991)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. Brad Pitt, Nick Cave
- Brad Pitt is priceless as a naive, super–quiffed romantic who dreams of basking in the limelight of rock idoldom. This small gem underscores…
- Motorama (1991)
- Dir. Barry Shils
Feat. Flea, Meatloaf, Drew Barrymore…
- Hip road movie about a 10–year–old delinquent who steals a car and gets life lessons en route from the likes of Flea, Meatloaf and Drew…
- Priit Parn - Selected Films (1991)
- Dir. Priit Parn
- Three films from the unusual Estonian animator Priit Parn, whose work combines visual sophistication, dream logic and scathing political and social…
- Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 4 (1991)
- Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on 2 VHS tapes or a…
- Ren and Stimpy (TV Series) (1991-1995)
- Dir. John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp
- The ground–breaking cartoon misadventures of a hyper chihuahua and a stupid cat that turned animation and good taste on its ear, and inspired a…
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
- Dir. Tom Stoppard
Feat. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth
- Tom Stoppard films his own play that follows the aimless lives of two incidental characters from HAMLET. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth dazzlingly…
- Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (1991)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- Gracious conclusion to the film series featuring the original cast. Combines great special effects, a plot with a social conscience, and some deft…
- Story of Ricky (Riki-Oh aka Lai Wong) (1991)
- Dir. Nam Nai-Choi
Feat. Fan Siu-wong
- Hong Kong cult sensation that comedically stir–fries prison ultra–violence with Western–style splatter.
Rib–cracking,…
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1991)
- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Nobu Kanaoka, Iwata
- Sensational sequel is everything fans of the first one should expect, and much more.
A full length, Technicolor, ultra–slick revision of…
- Twin Peaks - Season 2 (TV Series) (1991)
- Dir. David Lynch, Various
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick…
- Second and final season of the cult nineties serial, with Kyle MacLachlan as an eccentric, mystical FBI agent arriving in a small Pacific Northwest…
- Aardman Animation (1990)
- Dir. Nick Park, Various
- Stop–motion clay–mation in this compilation tape from the British Aardman team best known here for Wallace and Gromit. Tape includes the…
- Battle Heater (Kotatsu) (1990)
- Dir. Geroge Iida
Feat. Pappara Kawai, Akira Imoto
- A maniacal low–budget doozie about a man–eating Kotatsu heater, this adds its own spirited splash to the horror mini–genre of…
- Erotic Ghost Story (1990)
- Dir. Lam Ngai Kai
Feat. Amy Yip
- Buxom starlet Amy Yip lets it all hang out with other 'foxes' in this Eastern spin on the WITCHES OF EASTWICK. Generous nudity and dry ice steam up…
- Guy Maddin Collection, The (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, The Heart of the World, Archangel) (1990-2000)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
Feat. Michael Gottli, David Falkenburg, Michael O’Sullivan…
- Three films from Canada's silent movie alchemist, all deliciously dreamlike examples of the cult filmmaker's brilliant oeuvre.
Twilight of the Ice…
- Jodorowsky Constellation, The (1990)
- Dir. Louis Mouchet
- The creator of latterday surrealist films such as EL TOPO, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN and SANTE SANGRE, Alejandro Jodorowsky, gets due homage in this detailed…
- Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
- Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Robert Davi, Bruce Campbell, Claudia Christian…
- Better–than–expected sequel to the enjoyably trashy slasher about an undead police officer who turns serial killer after his own murder.…
- Meet the Feebles (1990)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Donna Akesten, Stuart Devenie, Mark Hadlow
- "The Muppets meets Blue Velvet in hell" was Fangoria's accurate description of this perversely funny satire featuring an all–puppet cast. From…
- No Skin Off My Ass (1990)
- Dir. Bruce LaBruce
Feat. Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Caroline Azar
- Canadian queer provocateur LaBruce takes his cue from New York underground artists' Warhol and Richard Kern. Starring as a punk hairdresser with a…
- Pump Up the Volume (1990)
- Dir. Allan Moyle
Feat. Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Annie Ross…
- Christian Slater is Hard Harry, maverick pirate radio DJ by night, anonymous and shy student by day. His anarchic commentaries earn a loyal band of…
- Reflecting Skin, The (1990)
- Dir. Philip Ridley
Feat. Viggo Mortensen
- An eerie and perverse tale of a young boy's unsettling experiences growing up in the prairie farmlands of Idaho, where the adults are weird and the…
- Sgt. Kabukiman (1990)
- Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Feat. Rick Gianasi, Susan Byun
- A modest New York cop is gifted the supernatural powers of a Japanese hero enabling him to kick criminal butt, Kabuki–style! Finally, a…
- Twin Peaks (1990)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick…
- The pilot of David Lynch's milestone TV series in all its enigmatic glory, complete with made–for–video, tacked–on conclusion. Vol…
- Twin Peaks - Season 1 (TV Series) (1990)
- Dir. David Lynch, Various
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick…
- An eccentric, mystical FBI agent arrives in a small Pacific Northwest town to investigate the murder of a young high school girl. Iconic, influential…
- Wicked Willie Comes Again (1990)
- Dir. Bob Godfrey
- The animated adventures of a man and his 'best friend' Willie adapted for the small–screen from Gray Jolliffe's cartoon series. More amusing…
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd…
- Disturbing, provocative and always stylish, the director parodies himself and many other great film–makers in this mother of all road movies.…
- Wild Orchid (1990)
- Dir. Zalman King
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset, Bruce Greenwood…
- Brazilian–flavoured slice of Mickey Rourke erotica. Yup, it's that bad.
- Akira (1989)
- Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo
- Dazzling cyberpunk animated feature adapted from the cult comic books, it's a violent, anarchic, wildly ambitious ride through Neo–Tokyo in…
- Blackadder Goes Forth (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Richard Boden
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson
- Final official series, set on the Western Front 1917. Six episodes contained on a single DVD or two tape volumes: 'Captain Cook', 'Corporal…
- Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tim Roth, Michael Gambon
- Greenaway combines the best elements of his previous work into one illustrious concoction of charcoal humour, explicit violence, awe–inspiring…
- Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham…
- A stylised yet vivid journey into the lives of a group of sympathetic, drug–addicted youths in the early '70s.
A high point in the career…
- Firm, The (1989)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Gary Oldman, Phillip Davis
- Another of dir. Clarke’s essential forays into the vicious subcultures of Britain, here a ‘firm’ of football hooligans led by real estate agent…
- For Adults Only (Sex and Buttered Popcorn) (1989)
- Dir. Sam Harrison
- A must–see for schlock film fans, this investigates the origins of exploitation film–making in the 1930s and 1940s, mixing rarely seen…
- Gods Must Be Crazy II, The (1989)
- Dir. James Uys
Feat. Jamie Uys
- Sequel to the fave comedy where a bush–man encounters an 'evil' coke–bottle. This is more consistantly funny, even if the novelty value…
- Mack the Knife (1989)
- Dir. Menahem Golan
Feat. Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julie Walters…
- Muddled adaptation of The Threepenny Opera is notable for some pretty inept dance sequences and some rather overt mugging by some well–known…
- Man Called Rainbo, A (1989)
- Dir. Lesser Pizmo
Feat. Sylvester Stallone
- Awful hippy film Rebel featuring a young Stallone is here redubbed for comic effect by failed film students. Unfortunately they manage to make it…
- Parents (1989)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis
- Frightening piece of horror kitsch about a boy who suspects his parents are cannibals. Splendid, stylised direction and set design make this a…
- Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 3 (1989)
- Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on 2 VHS tapes or a…
- Roadkill (1989)
- Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Valerie Buhagiar, Don McKellar
- This first road movie from dir. Bruce McDonald (HIGHWAY 61) is possessed of a naive charm and raw energy that characterizes many of the best indie…
- Santa Sangre (1989)
- Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Feat. Guy Stockwell
- The title means 'holy blood', a fair indication of the twin themes of this strikingly grotesque tale of a disturbed circus–performer. With its…
- Simpsons, The (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Various
- Fun at home with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson – the definitve animated American family, in the iconic TV series of the 1990s has…
- Skinheads (1989)
- Dir. Greydon Clark
Feat. Chuck Connors
- Vietnam vet Chuck Connors exacts violent revenge on bald Nazi supremacists for the murders of three students. Utterly dubious.
- Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989)
- Dir. William Shatner
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- This time Shatner tries his hand at directing, in what turns out to be one of the less memorable missions of the series. The crew travel through…
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara
- Mind–blowing cyberpunk tour–de–force that sandwiches enough visuals to fill three movies into its sweat–breaking 67 minutes.…
- Toxic Avenger Part 2, The (1989)
- Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Feat. Ron Fazio, John Altamura
- Diminished return of the ugliest superhero to ever gross the screen, in the same splatter–spoof mode of the original.
- Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, The (1989)
- Dir. Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Lisa Gaye…
- Third movie in the superhero splatter–spoof franchise from Troma Studios. The Toxic Avenger discovers his most evil adversary when he decides…
- Violent Cop (1989)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano
- Popular entertainer 'Beat' Takeshi's directing debut is a stylish, witty yet cynical and disturbing elegy to violence executed with alarming…
- Wallace and Gromit - Three Cracking Adventures (Grand Day Out, The Wrong Tousers, A Close Shave) (1989-1995)
- Dir. Nick Park
Feat. Peter Sallis
- All three classic "Wallace and Gromit" short films on a single disc. Perfection.
- Alice (1988)
- Dir. Jan Svankmajer
- The Czech animator's style naturally lends itself to the curiously menacing spirit of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, an absurd world populated…
- Dead Ringers (1988)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold
- You'll share in Jeremy Irons' nightmares as twin gynaecologists, both brilliant and respected in their trade, who succumb to perverse mid–life…
- Down by Law (1988)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, John Lurie
- Three disparate misfits become friends after sharing an escape from a crummy Southern jail. Art and humour rarely mix better than in this eccentric…
- Dreaming, The (1988)
- Dir. Mario Andreacchio
Feat. Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, Gary Sweet
- A supernatural oddity in which a doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds…
- Elvira (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) (1988)
- Dir. James Signorelli
Feat. Cassandra Peterson, Jeff Conaway, Edie McClurg…
- High camp fun with real–life cult horror movie host Elvira, in her first acting role. Canny blend of tongue–in–cheek innuendo and…
- Gandahar (Light Years) (1988)
- Dir. Rene Laloux
- Typically vibrant animation from Laloux has an evil force from a 1000 years in the future threatening an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in…
- Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Nick Cave
- Despite the uncompromising, raw depiction of brutal prison life, this film is a non–exploitative essay that ultimately indicts the future of…
- Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) (1988)
- Dir. Isao Takahata
- Modest 'classic' of Japanese anime that tells the story of two children caught up in the devastating fire–bombing of Kobe in WW2.
Amid the…
- Heat and Sunlight (1988)
- Dir. Rob Nilsson
Feat. Rob Nilsson, Consuela Faust
- This film documents the final, agonising hours of a love affair between a man and his exotic dancer girlfirend. An intriguing, erotic oddity with…
- Maniac Cop (1988)
- Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Bruce Campbell
- THE EVIL DEAD's Bruce Campbell stars in this violent black comedy about a psycho–killer who masquerades as a policeman.
- Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (TV Series) (1988-1999)
- Feat. Kevin Murphy, Jim Mallon, Trace Beaulieu…
- Legendary cult series about a man and his robot buddy who get shot into space by an evil scientist and forced to watch the most horrific…
- Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 1 (1988)
- Dir. Ed Bye
Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- Catch up on those missed or classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on…
- Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 2 (1988)
- Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on 2 VHS tapes or a…
- Salt, Saliva, Sperm & Sweat (1988)
- Dir. Philip Brophy
- Be prepared to be grossed out for this very weird, Warhol–influenced experimental outing from Australia about a day in the life of a frustrated…
- Smoke 'em If You Got Em (1988)
- Dir. Ray Boseley
Feat. George Huxley, Nique Needles
- The apocalypse inspires a group of loutish adolescents to throw a party, in spite of their guests dying from radiation sickness! Bizarre comedy…
- Tapeheads (1988)
- Dir. Bill Fishman
Feat. John Cusack, Tim Robbins
- Eager to succeed in the L.A. as music–vid directors, John Cusack and Tim Robbins “do what they gotta do, so they can do what they wanna”.…
- Twister (1988)
- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis…
- Minor cult item about bizzare family headed by Harry Dean Stanton.a
- Amazon Women On the Moon (1987)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher…
- Inspired ensemble of contemporary sketches performed by a star–studded cast.
- Angel Heart (1987)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Charlotte Rampling
- Things get increasingly bizarre for Mickey Rourke as a sleazy P.I. on the trail of a mysterious jazz singer. Genuinely creepy American gothic carries…
- Bad Taste (1987)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Peter Jackson
- New Zealand's entry into the splatter comedy genre, shot on consecutive Sundays over a four year period, is among the best ever made. Outrageously…
- Bambi Meets Godzilla (1987)
- Dir. Various
- Compilation of various oddities from the early days of animation, including the legendary title track and Betty Boop's hyper–surreal 'Crazy…
- Blackadder 3 (TV Series) (1987)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson
- Classic third series set in England 1760–1815. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tape volumes: 'Dish and Dishonesty', 'Ink and…
- China Girl (1987)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. David Caruso, James Russo
- Dir. Abel Ferrara’s violent riff on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (and WEST SIDE STORY for that matter) set around rival Chinese and Italian street gangs…
- Crazy Love (Love Is a Dog from Hell) (1987)
- Dir. Dominique Deruddere
Feat. Josse De Pauw, Geert Hunaerts, Michael Pas…
- Superlative tragicomedy based on the work of Charles Bukowski is told in three parts – pre–pubescence, acne plagued teenagehood and…
- Deathstalker II - Duel Of The Titans (Deathstalker 2) (1987)
- Dir. Jim Wynorski
Feat. John Terlesky, Monique Gabrielle, John Lazar
- Sword and sorcery bollocks with weedy John Terlesky stepping into Rick Hill's furry boots and helping future soft porn hall–of–famer…
- Gate, The (1987)
- Dir. Tibor Takacs
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Kelly Rowan
- Amusing cult horror flick starring a young Stephen Dorff (BLADE) who accidentally uncovers a portal to hell in his backyard from which a gaggle of…
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1987)
- Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Michael Rooker, Tom Towles
- Theatrically banned, this uncut version ranks as one of the more unsettling works ever committed to film. In short, a low–budget masterpiece…
- Mondo New York (1987)
- Dir. Harvey Keith
Feat. Joseph Arias, Rick Aviles, Charlie Barnett
- Eye–opening documentary depicts the seedy underbelly of life in the Big Apple. Fascinating but often repulsive, so keep the remote at close…
- Salvation (1987)
- Dir. Beth B
Feat. Stephen McHattie, Exene Cervenka, Dominque Davalos…
- A NY Underground take on televangelists, sex and kidnapping.
- Straight to Hell (1987)
- Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Joe Strummer, Sy Richardson, Dennis Hopper…
- Spaghetti western parody, featuring the Pogues, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello and other rock star types.
- Track 29 (1987)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Gary Oldman, Theresa Russell, Christopher Lloyd…
- Purporting to be her long–lost son, sleazoid Gary Oldman materialises out of Theresa Russell's alcoholic haze, as husband Christopher Lloyd…
- White of the Eye (1987)
- Dir. Donald Cammell
Feat. David Keith, Cathy Moriaty, Art Evans…
- Smartly executed, disturbing thriller set in a small Arizona town where a psychotic balances his marital problems with his penchant for homicide.
- Best of Q (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Spike Milligan
- Spike Milligan's influential television series (it out Monty Python's Monty Python) takes the former Goon's surrealistic 'nonsense' style and gives…
- Blackadder 2 (TV Series) (1986)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny…
- Definitive, bloody hilarious second series set in England, 1558–1603. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tape volumes: 'Bells', 'Head',…
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern…
- David Lynch's ground–breaking, brilliantly controlled work tells the story of a pure teenager (Kyle Maclachlan) whose curiosity embroils him in…
- Class of Nuke 'em High (Atomic High School) (1986)
- Dir. Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton
- One of the better Troma–trash productions in which pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after…
- Dogs in Space (1986)
- Dir. Richard Lowenstein
Feat. Michael Hutchence
- An unkempt Michael Hutchence stars in this walk through punk–era Melbourne. The cast drink, take drugs, and scream at each other while the…
- Erotic Tatooing and Body Piercing (1986)
- Dir. Charles Gatewood
- A behind–the–scenes peek at the 'modern primitive' sub–culture. Mondo king Charles Gatewood visits a body adornment convention…
- Gladiator, The (1986)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Ken Wahl, Robert Culp, Nancy Allen
- Telemovie excursion for Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT), pummeling viewers with a patented and occasionally intriguing exercise in petrolhead…
- Maya Deren Experimental Films (1986)
- Dir. Maya Deren
- A unique combination of influences – Colette, modern dance, Jean Cocteau – are evident in Maya Deren's legendary short films and her…
- River's Edge (1986)
- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye…
- Terrifying drama about a group of school friends who discover that one of them has murdered a classmate. Major cult film from the '80s with its lurid…
- Run, Chrissie, Run! (1986)
- Dir. Chris Langman
Feat. Carmen Duncan, Red Symons
- An ex–terrorist from Germany is on the run in Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie, with a former lover on her trail, and two IRA…
- Screamplay (1986)
- Dir. Rufus Butler Seder
Feat. George Kuchar, Katy Bolger
- Tacky amusement can be found in this midnight flick about a splatter movie writer whose nightmare visions become frighteningly real!
- Sid and Nancy (1986)
- Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb
- Pretty grim portrait of the life and times of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and his girlfriend. Both are stunningly personified by Gary Oldman and Chloe…
- Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home (1986)
- Dir. Leonard Nimoy
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- Kirk and his crew must travel back in time to the 20th century in order to save the Earth. Far more comedic than previous entries in the series, as…
- Vamp (1986)
- Dir. Richard Wenk
Feat. Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron…
- Campy, neon–hued sex comedy–horror from the 80's in which two students travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their…
- When the Wind Blows (1986)
- Dir. Jimmy T. Murakami
Feat. John Mills, Peggy Ashcroft
- Superb animated version of Raymond Brigg's comicbook about an elderly couple who prepare for an impending nuclear disaster. Engaging and powerful…
- Withnail and I (1986)
- Dir. Bruce Robinson
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths
- Anarchic cult sensation about a pair of young degenerate actors who decide to spend a soul–cleansing weekend at an Uncle's farmhouse in the…
- 2019: The New Barbarians (Nuovi barbari, I) (1985)
- Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Fred Williamson, Giancarlo Prete
- Third and final episode in the post–apocalyptic BRONX WARRIORS series, escapes the bloody rubble of New York City for a MAD MAX–style…
- Best of John Belushi, The (1985)
- Feat. John Belushi
- Collection of 16 skits from Belushi's time at Saturday Night Live (1975–1979). Showcases his unpredictable, madcap style in many classic…
- Brazil (1985)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm…
- Daydreaming bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a mystery woman before falling victim to his own…
- Commando (1985)
- Dir. Mark Lester
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya…
- When his daughter is kidnapped, retired marine "John Matrix" (Schwarzenegger) is forced to murder an entire army of other marines with his bare…
- Crimewave (1985)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Louise Lasser, Brion James
- Written by the Coen Brothers for the director of the EVIL DEAD movies, this curious crime picture is a brilliant mix of zany slapstick humour and…
- Insignificance (1985)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell
- Curious chamber piece intriguingly posits Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Albert Einstein as characters who meet in a hotel room in…
- Love Circles (Ronde de l'amour, La) (1985)
- Dir. Gerard Kikoine
Feat. Sophie Berger, Josephine Jacqueline Jones
- A late–night erotic confection masquerading as a remake of classic LA RONDE, this touts steamy sex scenes strung together narratively by a…
- Miranda (1985)
- Dir. Tinto Brass
Feat. Serena Grandi
- Classic of Italian erotica with sex–symbol Serena Grandi juggling an assortment of lovers.
- Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Paul Ruebens
- A stylised masterpiece in which Pee–Wee Herman embarks on a priceless search for his prized possession; a bicycle. A brilliant,…
- Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (1985)
- Dir. Kirby Dick
- The debut feature from bold documentarian Kirby Dick (SICK) is this fascinating and humane portrait of a sex surrogate Maureen Sullivan, who is…
- Ray Bradbury Theater, The (TV Series) (1985-1992)
- An HBO–originated fantasy anthology series entirely scripted by the eponymous (and prolific) author, based on his short stories and novels. A…
- Re-Animator (1985)
- Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
- Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
- Shaker Run (1985)
- Dir. Bruce Morrison
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Leif Garrett, Lisa Harrow…
- Cult film sees Kiwi scientist Harrow steal a biological weapon that some mercenaries are keen to get their hands on. She enlists daredevil drivers…
- Smooth Talk (1985)
- Dir. Joyce Chopra
Feat. Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place…
- Poignant yet sinister coming–of–age tale chronicles a young girl's sexual awakening and the attention she attracts from a mysterious…
- Starfleet (TV Series) (X Bomber) (1985)
- Dir. Go Nagai
- Heavily influenced by Gerry Anderson's supermarionation series, this sci–fi Japanese production from manga creater Go Nagai kicks off when an…
- Vampire Hunter D (1985)
- Dir. Toyoo Ashida
Feat. Michael McConnohie, Kaneto Shiozawa
- In a barren, distant future where vampires rule what remains of life on earth, a beautiful young girl hires an imposing vampire hunter known as…
- Beat Street (1984)
- Dir. Stan Lathan
Feat. Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis
- Key film in the history of hip–hop culture, this urban musical may show its age and derivation (SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER), but still comprises an…
- Beyond The Doors (Down On Us) (1984)
- Dir. Larry Buchanan
- Preposterous 'docudrama' about the deaths of 1960s rock–stars Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin (played by obscure actors with the…
- Brother from Another Planet (1984)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Joe Morton, Steve James, Bill Cobbs
- Quirky comic fantasy from John Sayles about a mute alien negro who crash lands in New York and mixes with some earthbound home–boys in downtown…
- Miami Vice (TV Series) (1984)
- Dir. Thomas Carter
Feat. Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas
- One of the premiere TV–fantasies of the 1980s – pastel–suited vice–cops Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Phillip Michael…
- Mixed Blood (1984)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Marilia Pera, Richard Ulacia
- Appropriately loose and ironic black comedy about gang and drug shenanigans in NYC from Warhol's factory alumni, Morrissey.
- Night of the Comet (1984)
- Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney
- Terrific B–movie where a comet hits earth and two surviving valley girls must fight the resulting cannibal zombie apocalypse. Trashy in all the…
- Repo Man (1984)
- Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton
- Young punk Emilio Estevez unwittingly becomes involved in the car re–possession business in this curious cocktail of action, sci–fi and…
- Return to Waterloo - The Kinks (1984)
- Dir. Ray Davies
Feat. Ray Davies, Tim Roth
- A unique 80s–era rock–opera from The Kinks which takes place in the mind of a solitary train–commuter and features various songs…
- Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1984)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott
- 80's cult fantasy flop based on the comic book jungle girl heroine Sheena, a female version of Tarzan who was raised by a fictional African tribe.
- Special Effects (1984)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Zoë Tamerlis, Eric Bogosian
- Enjoyably lurid horror–thriller from Larry Cohen stars Eric Bogosian (TALK RADIO) as a film director who casts a woman in a crime movie based…
- Star Trek III - The Search for Spock (1984)
- Dir. Leonard Nimoy
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- Leonard Nimoy himself directed this continuation of 'The Wrath of Khan', in which the crew set out to rescue Spock from Kurge (Christopher Lloyd).…
- Streets of Fire (1984)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Michael Pare, Rick Moranis…
- Surprise hit is an unusual blending of motorcycles, 50s rock'n'roll melodrama and tough, futuristic street action. Lane plays a pop diva who is…
- Black Venus (1983)
- Dir. Claude Mulot
Feat. Josephine Jacqueline Jones
- Ebony eroticism is the skin trade of this sometimes–sordid 19th century scandal: a beautiful seductress becomes a sex object in a debauched…
- Blackadder 1 (TV Series) (The Black Adder) (1983)
- Dir. Martin Shardlow
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny…
- Quirky, frequently funny inaugural series of the 80's comedy smash, set in Medieval England. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tapes: 'The…
- Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983)
- Dir. Henry Jaglom
Feat. Karen Black
- Uniquely kooky concoction set around the unpredictable neuroses of a newly single woman (Black), who enters a world of whimsy, crazed encounters and…
- Chained Heat (1983)
- Dir. Paul Michaels
Feat. Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning…
- The other film of ‘note’ to star Linda Blair (THE EXORCIST), is an unrepentant and sleazy woman–in–prison exploitationer,…
- Deathstalker: Last Great Warrior King (1983)
- Dir. James Sbardellati
Feat. Rick Hill, Barbi Benton, Richard Brooker
- Trashtastic sword–and–sandals fantasy sees a chiselled Rick Hill play a warrior who must save the earth (and the girl) from a wicked…
- Digital Daydreams (1983)
- Dir. Robert Dornhelm
Feat. Bill Wyman, James Coburn, Richard O'Brien
- Genuine oddity lossely based around the life and 'digital dreams' of Bill Wyman (bassist of the Rolling Stones), which blends together documentary,…
- Escape From the Bronx (1990: Bronx Warriors II) (1983)
- Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Henry Silva, Giancarlo Prete
- Dystopian sequel to the cult 80s dud BRONX WARRIORS, with New York City a wasteland ruled over by vicious motorcycle gangs and corporate villains.…
- Keep, The (1983)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jurgen Prochnow…
- German soldiers camping in a Romanian castle are visited by various ghoulies in Michael Mann's off–beat supernatural yarn set during WWII,…
- Key, The (La Chiave) (1983)
- Dir. Tinto Brass
Feat. Frank Finlay, Stefania Sandrelli, Franco Branciaroli…
- Saucy art–house romp from the dir. of CALIGULA, surrounding his tale of a straying marriage in nationalistic pre–WW2 Venice with…
- Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
- Dir. Godfrey Reggio
- This unique visual and aural masterpiece looks at our earth and 20th Century 'progress' through the eye of time–lapse camera. The…
- Legend of the Eight Samurai (Satomi hakken-den) (1983)
- Dir. Fukasaku Kinji
Feat. Sonny Chiba, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada
- In an ancient unspecified era, eight samurai must battle supernatural forces, witches and other hazards to rescue a princess, who is about to be…
- Liquid Sky (1983)
- Dir. Slava Tsukuman
Feat. Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard
- A geniune punk artefact about an over–sexed woman who unwittingly hosts an alien parasite that kills off her lovers at the point of orgasm. Its…
- Made in Britain (1983)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Tim Roth, Sean Chapman
- Probably the finest skinhead movie ever made – Tim Roth giving an electrifying debut performance as a glaring malcontent who takes out his rage…
- Midnite Spares (1983)
- Dir. Quentin Masters
Feat. Bruce Spence, James Laurie
- Cult Aussie race car movie. Young racing driver Steve comes up against a nefarious den of car thieves who may just have something to do with his…
- Rock and Rule (1983)
- Dir. Clive A. Smith
- Obscure, though excellent cult animation made by Canada's 'Nelvana' studio, set in a post–apocalyptic world of mutant rodents.
The story…
- Signal 7 (1983)
- Dir. Rob Nilsson
Feat. Bill Ackridge, Dan Leegant
- Dedicated to John Cassavetes, this 12–hr slice of the night–world of various New York taxi–drivers, shot on videotape, is similarly…
- Star 80 (1983)
- Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson…
- Dir. Bob Fosse's razzle–dazzle cynicism is a perfect match for this loose chronicle of true events that led to the murder of penthouse pet…
- Suburbia (Rebel Street's aka: Wild Side) (1983)
- Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Flea
- Low key yet definitive dramatic portrait of the American punk scene, staged with non–actors as the "T.R. gang" who set up camp in a scuzzy L.A.…
- Tales from the Darkside (TV Series) (1983-1988)
- This popular horror/fantasy anthology TV series from the 1980's features more misses than hits, but all are gloriously tacky relics of their time.…
- Videodrome (1983)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. James Woods, Debbie Harry
- Cable TV programmer James Woods enters a dark netherworld of psychosis and pornography as he searches for the ultimate thrill. He may have just found…
- 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
- Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Vic Morrow, Fred Williamson, Christopher Connelly
- Renowned cheese–fest in which youth gangs of the post–Apocalypse Bronx, battle each other and an evil corporate arms manufacturer. Prime…
- Battletruck (Warlords of the 21st Century) (1982)
- Dir. Harley Cokeliss
Feat. Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright…
- In the 21st Century oil wars have left civilisation verging on collapse. Lawlessness and anarchy are the order of this day in this…
- Class of 1984 (1982)
- Dir. Mark Lester
Feat. Perry King
- A new school–teacher (Perry King) finds himself intimidated by members of his unruly class – to the point where he must exact brutal…
- Comic Strip Presents (DVD Box Set) (1982-1988)
- Feat. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French…
- At the forefront of the 'alternative comedy' movement in the early 1980s, The Comic Strip are an ensemble of British comedians who have produced many…
- Concrete Jungle, The (1982)
- Dir. Tom DeSimone
Feat. Jill St. John, Barbara Luna
- A late ’women in prison’ exploitationer, with the rather standard plotline – innocent girl sent to corrupt prison – given…
- Countryman (1982)
- Dir. Dickie Jobson
Feat. Countryman , Hiram Keller, Carl Bradshaw…
- Cult item for reggae–enthusiasts (produced by Island Records), this vaguely political fable about two air–crashed Americans rescued by a…
- Crosstalk (1982)
- Dir. Mark Egerton
Feat. Gary Day, Penny Downie, John Ewart
- Gary Day plays a wheelchair–bound computer genius who devises a system that significantly advances AI technology, but appears to be taking…
- Eating Raoul (1982)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel
- Bizarre B–movie classic about a conservative couple who discover the lucrative and 'moral' practise of bumping off clients that respond to…
- Human Lanterns (Ren pi deng long) (1982)
- Dir. Chung Sun
Feat. Leih Lo
- The Shaw Brothers' first international star, Lo Leih, excels in this horror–suspenser as a mad lampshade maker in olden–day China who…
- Junkman - Gone in 60 Seconds 2 (1982)
- Dir. H.B. Halicki
Feat. H.B. Halicki, Susan Shaw
- Further automotive shenanigans from ace petrolhead Halicki, setting a new record for the sheer number of cars and planes destroyed in one…
- Knight Rider (1982)
- Dir. Daniel Heller
Feat. David Hasselhoff
- Pilot–movie for the TV series notable among other infamies for launching David Hasselhoff into stardom. Here he steers his super hi–tech,…
- Knight Rider (TV Series) (1982)
- Feat. David Hasselhoff
- David Hasselhoff fights crime with the aid of his talking automobile KITT. A classic of early 80s trash television may provide amiable nostalgia for…
- Les Maitres du Temps (Time Masters) (1982)
- Dir. Rene Laloux
- Another vivid, otherworldly animation from French dir. Laloux (FANTASTIC PLANET), with design from Jean Giraud (aka Mobius). Bygone sci–fi…
- Love Butcher, The (1982)
- Dir. Mikel Angel, Donald M. Jones
Feat. Eric Stern
- Amusing sleaze/cheesefest about a retarded, sexually frustrated gardener (Eric Stern) who harbours a slick, womanizing alter–ego, not to…
- Ninja Wars (Iga ninpûchô) (1982)
- Dir. Mitsumasa Saito
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba
- Period fantasy action involving magicians, love potions and endangered royalty in ancient Japan, a story resolved with a fair amount of…
- One Down Two To Go (1982)
- Dir. Fred Williamson
Feat. Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly…
- Straight–to–video blaxploitation, about a trio of kung fu fighters (Kelly, Brown and Williamson) who go after crooked event promoters.…
- Plague Dogs, The (1982)
- Dir. Martin Rosen
- Sensitive animated version of Richard Adam's (WATERSHIP DOWN) novel about two dogs who escape from a vivisection laboratory and try to evade their…
- Running on Empty (Fast Lane Fever) (1982)
- Dir. John Clark
Feat. Max Cullen
- A cult movie for modified car fanatics in Australia, this ropey but completely committed street drag thriller is worth a watch for its entertainingly…
- Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- The Enterprise crew are back to do battle with Kirk's old enemy Khan, as he takes control of a Federation Starship. Nice touches of humour and…
- Angel of Vengeance (Ms.45) (1981)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Zoë Tamerlis, Jack Thibeau
- Surreal drama about a deaf–mute who seeks revenge after two sexual assaults. Taut and disturbing, with minimal dialogue, it has the distinction…
- Being Different (1981)
- Dir. Harry Rasky
Feat. Billy Barty, Sandra Elaine Allen, Jo-Ann Cantilla
- Siamese–twin cowboys, a bearded lady, the world's tallest woman and a living 'elephant man' are among those that come upfront for this well…
- Beyond, The (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà) (1981)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck
- This eerie celluloid nightmare from Italian gore–meister Fulci can be fully appreciated in this uncut version, restoring its succession…
- Britannia Hospital (1981)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright…
- Political allegory dressed as raucous Blighty comedy going all out, but it hasn't quite the magic of cult predecessors IF... and O LUCKY MAN!
- Christiane F. (1981)
- Dir. Ulrich Edel
Feat. David Bowie
- Absorbing account of the decline and fall into the Berlin's degrading drug and prostitution scene of two young heroin addicts. Features the music and…
- Escape from New York (1981)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine…
- 1997 New York is a huge maximum–security prison where the President's plane just happens to crash! Futuristic actioner notable for its sardonic…
- Eureka (1981)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Nicolas Roeg…
- Irishman Gene Hackman strikes it rich in Alaska, and retires to his own Carribean island for family fights with flaky son–in–law Rutger…
- For Your Height Only (1981)
- Dir. Eddie Nicart
Feat. Weng Weng, Yehlen Catral, Carmi Martin…
- Schlocky riff on the 007 franchise with pint sized ass–kicker Weng Weng as the world's smallest super spy, Agent 00, doing battle with mad…
- Force Five (1981)
- Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Joe Lewis
- Ultraviolent action, with Joe Lewis leading a skilled quintet of martial artists to rescue a girl from an island fortress ruled over by a religious…
- Gods Must Be Crazy, The (1981)
- Dir. James Uys
Feat. Jamie Uys
- The infamous African cult fave about a jolly bush–man who ventures across country to dispose of an 'evil' coke–bottle. The sequel is more…
- Knightriders (1981)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Ed Harris, Tom Savini
- One–of–a–kind event follows the bizarre exploits of a travelling motor–cycle show who engage in medieval–style combat…
- Loveless, The (1981)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter
- A brooding, fetishised love–letter to the motorcycle movies of the 1950s (THE WILD ONE et al), with a bike gang having a troubled interlude in…
- Madame Wang's (1981)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Virginia Bruce
- Latterday Morrissey/Warhol production set around the politico–erotic misadventures of a German lad who stows away to New York City. Features…
- Mommie Dearest (1981)
- Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Faye Dunaway
- The eyebrow–raising private life of Joan Crawford makes for a gaudy compulsive shocker, in which Faye Dunaway puts on her most ferocious…
- Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, The (Tajemstvi hradu v Karpatech) (1981)
- Dir. Oldrich Lipsky
Feat. Michal Docolomansky, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlastimil Brodsky…
- Cult oddity based on the Jules Verne novel The Carpathian Castle, a sci–fi horror story about a campy count who haunts a house overlooking a…
- Pacific Banana (1981)
- Dir. John D. Lamond
- One of the last Australian sexploitation–ers is set around a madcap airline and a pilot with an 'undercarriage problem'. Randy humour abounds…
- Polyester (1981)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
- Divine gives suburban neurosis a new meaning as a wife and mother of a whacked–out family living in Baltimore. The director's first…
- Porky's (1981)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier
- ANIMAL HOUSE retread with juvenile male high–jinx on college campus. Massive hit is testament to the adage that no–one ever went broke…
- Shock Treatment (1981)
- Dir. Jim Sharman
Feat. Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young, Patricia Quinn…
- Richard O'Brien and co. camp through the Rocky Horror premise again without the magic, but not without charm.
Brad and Janet return as a…
- Shogun Assassin (1981)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masahiro Tomikawa
- Samurai classic is a composite of two Japanese features in which a formidable warrior violently defends his honour with his young son in a…
- Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)
- Dir. Charles B Griffith
Feat. Jimmy McNichol, Janet Julian, Walter Barnes
- Not in any way related to SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, this cheapie from Roger Corman factory is enjoyable on its own terms. Charting the rivalry between a…
- Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Ben Gazzara
- A whiskey–swilling, anarchist poet (Ben Gazzara) searches in vain for redemptive power and inspiration through his self–destructive…
- Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
- Dir. John Derek
Feat. Bo Derek, Richard Harris, Miles O'Keefe
- Famously atrocious 1980s retelling of the Tarzan story, with the lone distinction of featuring a semi–clothed Bo Derek. Playing the apeman,…
- They Call Her...Cleopatra Wong (1981)
- Dir. Bobby A. Suarez
Feat. Marrie Lee
- Singapore's top policewoman, the deadly Miss Cleopatra Wong, teams up with her Filipino counterpart to bust a counterfeit operation in this…
- Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)
- Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Sergio Corbucci
- On a small pacific island, Alan and Charlie try to find a war treasure left behind by the Japanese army in World War II.
- Altered States (1980)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. William Hurt, Blair Brown
- William Hurt plays a scientist with a penchant for mind exploration in his starring debut. Russell's overly talky but fascinating film has found a…
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1980)
- Dir. John De Bello
Feat. Jack Riley
- Wanna–B–movie, that has the requisite half an idea, but fails to take itself as seriously as the true gems in this genre.
- Bad Timing (1980)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Art Garfunkel, Harvey Keitel, Nicolas Roeg…
- After his wife attempts suicide, a guilt–ridden Art Garfunkel engages in a tense battle of wits with investigator Harvey Keitel. Nic Roeg goes…
- Being There (1980)
- Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Peter Sellers
- A middle–aged gardner, reared in solitude and exclusively educated through his television, is mistaken for a political genius. Profound and…
- Breaking Glass (1980)
- Dir. Brian Gibson
Feat. Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels, Jon Finch…
- Grievously under–rated and singular rock music drama from the post–punk era offers more than just nostalgic interest, with an impassioned…
- Can't Stop the Music (1980)
- Dir. Nancy Walker
Feat. Steve Guttenberg
- Attempt to revive the musical in disco garb comes off somewhat flat, but worth seeing for some eccentric details – The Village People acting…
- Elephant Man, The (1980)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt
- The heart–wrenching true story of a grossly deformed pauper, dramatised to perfection by director David Lynch. A compassionate doctor rescues…
- Falls, The (1980)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray
- One of dir. Greenaway's more trenchantly avant–garde works (think 'A Walk Though H' crossed with DROWNING BY NUMBERS), expanding his riddling…
- Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
- Dir. Julien Temple
Feat. Malcolm McLaren, John Lydon, Sid Vicious…
- Quintessential punk movie off–handedly documents the Sex Pistols phenomenon under the auspice of self–styled rock guru Malcolm McLaren.…
- Kremmen - The Movie (1980)
- Animated sci–fi comedy with Kenny Everett voicing the egotistical superhero.
- McVicar (1980)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell…
- Based on the true story of infamous UK criminal John McVicar, this gritty thriller stars Daltrey as the bad boy sent to a maximum security prison…
- Ninth Configuration, The (Twinkle, Twinkle, ) (1980)
- Dir. William Peter Blatty
Feat. Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller…
- Psychological thriller set in the 70's written, produced and directed by William Peter Blatty (THE EXORCIST). Having returned from Vietnam, a marine…
- Out of the Blue (1980)
- Dir. Dennis Hopper
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Linda Manz, Sharon Farrell…
- Dennis Hopper transposes the themes from his EASY RIDER into a punk aesthetic in this downbeat yet compelling dissertation on teenage rebellion and…
- Rude Boy (1980)
- Dir. Hazan, Mingay
Feat. Jimmy Pursey, Johnny Green
- Semi–doco in which a teenage punk is forced to choose political allegiances while scamming a roadie job with the Clash. Features nine Clash…
- Scum (1980)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Ray Winstone, Phil Daniels
- Life in a British borstal painted in unflinchingly realistic hues. Clark's deeply affecting indictment of the penal system plays out barbaric rituals…
- Shining, The (1980)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
- Man, wife and child are assigned to caretaking a remote hotel for the winter. Formidable unease is created before Jack Nicholson completely loses his…
- Stir (1980)
- Dir. Stephen Wallace
Feat. Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller…
- Grimily authentic prison drama (an Australian specialty) charts the brutality of the NSW penal system in the 1970s and the eventual consequence: mass…
- Stunt Man, The (1980)
- Dir. Richard Rush
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey
- A fugitive stumbles upon a movie set, where he is embraced and hired as a stuntman by the fervant director. A bizarre,…
- Union City (1980)
- Dir. Mark Reichart
Feat. Debbie Harry, Dennis Lipscomb
- Underrated low–budget film noir starkly depicts urban neurosis in a seedy apartment. Grungy lead performances from Debbie Harry and Dennis…
- Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
- Dir. Art Linson
Feat. Bill Murray, Peter Boyle
- In a piece of dream–casting, Bill Murray plays 'gonzo' journalist Hunter S Thompson, with Peter Boyle as his lawyer sidekick having a series of…
- Angel Mine (1979)
- Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Derek Ward, Jennifer Redford, Myra De Groot
- A punk, Bunuel–esque social satire in which a married couple escape their material lives through anarchic fantasies, staged as dream–like…
- Baby Snakes - Frank Zappa (1979)
- Dir. Frank Zappa
Feat. Frank Zappa
- A massively extended concert film from iconoclastic musician Zappa, that is interspersed with the extraordinary claymations of Bruce Bickford. Even…
- Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (1979)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Kitten Natividad
- Russ Meyer plunges deep into absurd self–parody for his last completed feature – a raunchy sex–farce about a small town couple who…
- Bitch, The (1979)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Joan Collins, Antonio Cantafora, Kenneth Haigh…
- Joan Collins returns in trashy sequel to THE STUD.
- Blank Generation (1979)
- Feat. Carole Bouquet, Andy Warhol, Richard Hell
- Carole Bouquet, Andy Warhol and Richard Hell covort in New York in this episodic, authentic timepiece from the punk era.
- Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979)
- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet…
- When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…
- Caligula (1979)
- Dir. Tinto Brass
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud…
- Penthouse magnate Bob Guccione's notorious 'legitimate' porno–drama stars Malcolm MacDowell as the ruthless and randy Roman Emperor. This…
- Cat and the Canary, The (1979)
- Dir. Radley Metzger
Feat. Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox…
- The classic spooky–house mystery by John Willard is here adapted for the fifth time. The relatives a recently–deceased man gather to hear…
- Dawn of the Dead (Zombies, Dawn of the Dead) (1979)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger
- One of the most effectively violent films ever produced, this classic gorefest has the walking dead run amok in a shopping mall. The comic–book…
- Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979)
- Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Dudley Moore, Peter Cook
- After a decade apart Dudley Moore and Peter Cook entered a Virgin recording studio for a drunken banter session, creating a much–bootlegged…
- Driller Killer (1979)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Abel Ferrara
- Somewhat notorious as a 'video nasty' of the 80s video boom, this debut from bad boy auteur Abel Ferrara was perhaps misunderstood (like The Texas…
- Flash Gordon: The Animated Series (1979)
- Wonderfully retro Saturday morning animated series sees Flash Gordon crashland on Planet Mongo, ruled by the evil dictator Ming the Merciless, and…
- G.I. Samurai (Sengoku jieitai; Time Slip) (1979)
- Dir. Mitsumasa Saito
Feat. Sonny Chiba, Jun Eto
- A squadron of Japanese soldiers, together with their weaponry, helicopter and gunboat, are accidentally caught in a 'time slip' and transported back…
- Hair (1979)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. John Savage, Treat Williams
- Belated screen version of the popular stage musical celebrating the era of free love and drugs. The laughably dated philosophy is redeemed by those…
- I'm For the Hippopotamus (1979)
- Dir. Italo Zingarelli
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Joe Bugner
- Spencer and Hill take umbrage with a German tyrant, selling all of the African wildlife to Canadian Zoo's! Slim and Tom must teach this guy a lesson…
- J-Men Forever (1979)
- Dir. Richard Patterson
Feat. Peter Bergman, Phil Proctor
- An ‘appropriated’ cult classic in the comic tradition of WHAT’S UP, TIGER LILY?, that cleverly splices together countless scenes from old…
- Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
- Dir. Michael O'Donoghue
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher…
- Notorious spoof of the Italian schockumentaries is the brain child of Saturday Night Live's oddball genius Michael O'Donoghue.
Originally…
- Over the Edge (1979)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Matt Dillon, Harry Northrup
- One of the best portraits of delinquency yet committed to the screen, Matt Dillon, in his acting debut, is just one of the aimless youths who erupt…
- Plumber, The (1979)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Judy Morris, Ivor Kants
- An obscure, one–of–a–kind telemovie from Peter Weir concerning a middle–class couple whose apartment is besieged by an…
- Quadrophenia (1979)
- Dir. Franc Roddam
Feat. Phil Daniels, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone…
- Brilliant portrait of alienated youth, inspired by The Who's concept album, focuses on a young Mod's personal crises and his gang's violent agenda…
- Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979 - 2003 (1979-2003)
- Dir. The Brothers Quay
- Since the late 1970s, the identical twin Quay Brothers have made a unique contribution to animation in general, and the puppet film in particular.…
- Radio On (1979)
- Dir. Christopher Petit
Feat. David Beames
- Rambling, meditative car–trip through a lonely B&W England as David Beames travels from London to attend his brother's funeral in Bristol. A…
- Real Andy Kaufman, The (1979)
- Feat. Andy Kaufman
- Rare footage of a live performance and backstage interview from manic–surrealist comic Andy Kaufman, later memorialised in MAN ON THE…
- Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
- Dir. Alan Arkush
Feat. P.J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, Clint Howard…
- Pop–crazy student and 'Ramones' no. 1 fan, Riff Randell (PJ Soles) fights for her right to party against dragonlady principal Togar (Mary…
- Sapphire and Steel (TV Series) (1979- 1982)
- Dir. Shaun O'Riordan
Feat. Joanna Lumley, David McCallum
- A pre–AB FAB Joanna Lumley and a post–INVISIBLE MAN David McCallum cavort around in eerie abodes repairing 'tears in time'. High concept,…
- Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- Starring the cast from the 60's TV phenomenon, this special effects fest features the crew fighting a lethal force field spinning toward Earth.…
- Stone (1979)
- Dir. Sandy Harbutt
Feat. Ken Shorter, Sandy Harbutt
- Hailed as one of the great bikie movies, but with a few unintentional laughs along the way as renegade cop Stone (a John Farnham look and…
- Tempest, The (1979)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Toyah Wilcox, Peter Bull, Richard Warwick
- One of dir. Jarman's early triumphs, reimagines Shakespeare's final play as a blend of Edwardian drama, cabaret carnival and punk jamboree, all…
- Visitor, The (Stridulum) (1979)
- Dir. Giulio Paradisi
Feat. Joanne Nail, Lance Henriksen, Paige Conner…
- A young girl cursed with an inhuman, malevolent power is central to a cosmic battle between forces of good and evil in this ambitious and at times…
- Wanderers, The (1979)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Linda Manz
- Bittersweet throw back to life in a Bronx high school in 1963, focused on Italian gang 'The Wanderers', who fumble their way through romance and…
- Warriors, The (1979)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Michael Beck, James Remar
- NY street–gang Warriors, stranded far from their home–turf, must risk crossing the territory of a dozen other hostile gangs. Sleek yet…
- 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The (Master Killer) (1978)
- Dir. Liu Chia Liang
Feat. Chia Hui Liu
- Thirsty for revenge, Gordon Liu (of KILL BILL) joins the Shaolin Temple to equip himself with the necessary kung fu skills in the definitive Shaw…
- Aardman Classics (1978-1999)
- Dir. Peter Lord, Peter Peake, Sam Fell
- A collection of 24 classic short films from British model animators Aardman, dating from their earliest years. Included are the following works,…
- Alan Clarke at the BBC, Volume 2: Disruption (1978-1989)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Gary Oldman, David Bowie, Sean Chapman
- A 5–DVD box set bringing together long–unavailable productions which Alan Clarke directed for the BBC between 1978 and 1987. All these…
- Big Wednesday (1978)
- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Jan-Michael Vincent, Gary Busey, William Katt
- Resonant, underrated youth movie about three red–blooded American boys who catch waves in mid–60s California but face the winds of change…
- Bye Bye Monkey (Ciao maschio) (1978)
- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, Geraldine Fitzgerald
- Gerard Depardieu adopts a baby monkey, engages in lewd sexual acts, and is raped by a militant feminist theatrical troupe in this crackpot futurist…
- Circle Of Iron (The Silent Flute) (1978)
- Dir. Richard Moore
Feat. David Carradine, Christopher Lee, Roddy McDowall
- Bizarre 80s fantasy tells the story of a young fighter who seeks a spiritual identity through martial arts, and goes on a quest to find the legendary…
- Driver, The (1978)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani…
- Memorable exercise in action stylistics from dir. Hill (THE WARRIORS), which opposes specialist getaway driver Ryan O’Neal with maniacal cop Bruce…
- Fingers (1978)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown…
- Harvey Keitel conjures up the required intensity for this portrait of a frustrated concert pianist with a violent temper. The nerve–shredding…
- FM (1978)
- Dir. John A Alonzo
Feat. Michael Brandon
- No static at all, and no commercials either (well, not too many) if the liberal, music–dedicated broadcasters get their way over the interests…
- I Spit On Your Grave (Day of the Woman, aka I Hate Your Guts) (1978)
- Dir. Meir Zarchi
Feat. Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace…
- Legendary 1970s video nasty in which a feminist writer (Keaton) holidaying in the countryside is menaced and repeatedly raped by four locals, whom…
- Incredible Hulk, The (TV Series) (1978- 1982)
- Dir. Kenneth Johnson
Feat. Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno
- Tacky but classic TV history, scientist Bill Bixby being exposed to a massive dose of gamma rays and afterwards, whenever he gets in a bad mood,…
- Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato) (1978)
- Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Ian Bannen
- Enjoyably sleazy cult war film following a group of shamed American soldiers who manage to escape their captives en route to military prison, only to…
- Jubilee (1978)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Toyah Wilcox, Adam Ant
- Jarman's uncompromising stamp is all over this cult curio which, steeped in the punk ethos, aims at shaking up conventional complacency. A random…
- Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (Kiss In Attack Of The Phantom!) (1978)
- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley…
- Filmed at the height of KISS's popularity, this glorious piece of 70's rock 'n' roll camp pits the cosmic, cosmeticized crusaders against a…
- Let Me Die a Woman (1978)
- Dir. Doris Wishman
- You’ll need a strong stomach for trash queen Doris Wishman’s sensational bad taste documentary about men (and women) desperate to change their…
- Monkey! (TV Series) (Volumes 7-13) (1978-1979)
- Feat. Masaaki Sakai, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shiro Kishibe…
- Further episodes from the original dubbed 'run' of the cult TV Series.
Vol 7: Vampire Master, Outrageous Coincidences, Pigsy King and God
Vol 8:…
- Monkey! (TV Series) (Volumes 1-6) (1978- 1979)
- Feat. Masaaki Sakai, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shiro Kishibe…
- Colourful, supernatural adventures in feudal Japan with the invincible Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy and Tripitaka! This Japanese tele show became a favourite…
- Monkey! (TV Series) (Volumes 14-17) (1978-1979)
- Feat. Masaaki Sakai, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shiro Kishibe…
- Further episodes from the cult TV Series. Supplementary to the original 'run' of the show, these episodes were recently dubbed by the original…
- Patrick (1978)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Robert Thompson, Sir Robert Helpmann, Susan Penhaligon
- Shrill Aussie B–movie about a comatose hospital patient who utilizes his psychokinetic powers to inflict pain and death.
Takes its time to…
- Return to Fantasy Island (1978)
- Dir. George McCowan
Feat. Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize, Adrienne Barbeau…
- Mysterious millionaire ‘Mr Roarke’ and his sidekick Tattoo play host (and God, or devil?) to various guests, who pay a fortune have their…
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
- Dir. Michael Schultz
Feat. The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Steve Martin…
- A blushing musical turkey that contrives a potty narrative from Beatles’ songs interpreted by The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton, along with guest…
- Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Helmut Berger
- A star–studded, big–budget entry in the Italian 'cannibal movie' cycle, with Andress and Keach off to the wilds of New Guinea and the…
- Stud, The (1978)
- Dir. Quentin Masters
Feat. Joan Collins
- Joan Collins stars in this appropriately ludicrous dramatisation of sister Jackie's trash novel about the rise and fall of a…
- Thank God It's Friday (1978)
- Dir. Robert Klane
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Debra Winger, Donna Summer
- Disco Sucks! Essential 70's retro viewing in this one–night–on–the–town comedy. Appearances by the Commodores, Donna Summer…
- Wise Blood (1978)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Brad Dourif
- Brad Dourif plays the obsessed leader of the 'Church Without Christ' in this marvellous satire on contemporary evangelism in the American South. From…
- Wiz, The (1978)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor
- Much maligned 'black musical' version of L. Frank Baum's classic fairytale (best known through the Judy Garland version).
Here, New York City was…
- Backroads (1977)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter
- This short road–movie was a moody debut for dir. Noyce, laying out the tale of two drifters (one black, one white) who steal a car for an…
- Bad (Andy Warhol's Bad) (1977)
- Dir. Jed Johnson
Feat. Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell
- The last Andy Warhol production before his death is a pleasingly demented soap–opera directed by Jed Johnson, a man who originally worked…
- Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)
- Dir. Tom Laughlin
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Pat O'Brien, Richard Gautier
- Minor followup to the counter–culture hit BILLY JACK, utilises the same 'violent pacifist' hero in a bizarre, but solid update of Capra's MR…
- Children of the Stones (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson
- A spooky classic of British television, in which a scientist and his son move to the village of Milbury, only to be sucked into a quasi–pagan…
- Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth
- Askwith and Booth are back in this final tired entry of a the series. Fans will by now know what to expect. Those who don't would be advised to…
- Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1977)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Windsor Davies
- Third in the series has Askwith once again in the titular role. Expect jokes about stick shifts.
- Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…
- Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
- Crime Busters (1977)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, David Huddleston
- An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
- Damnation Alley (1977)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda…
- Post–apocalyptic thriller that follows a group of WWIII survivors at a military installation who drive across the desolate wasteland to find…
- David Lynch Collection (1977-2007)
- Dir. David Lynch
- An exceptional collection for fans of one of the greats of surreal cinema, David Lynch. This 5–disc set includes:
1. 'Eraserhead' (1977)
2.…
- Desperate Living (1977)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
- The third in John Waters' unholy trilogy again succeeds in his aim to simultaneously shock and incite hysterics. No Divine this time, but Liz Renay,…
- Eraserhead (1977)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Jack Nance
- The king of cult movies – David Lynch's brooding, abstract nightmare about domestic alienation has redefined the face of cinema weird. A…
- Fantasm Comes Again (1977)
- Dir. Colin Eggleston
Feat. Uschi Digard, John Holmes, Mary Gavin…
- More sexual fantasies lived out by a cast of 70s porn superstars, sees only a slight decline on its 'illustrious' predecessor. Here, it is letters to…
- Fight For Your Life (1977)
- Dir. Robert A. Endelson
Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd
- A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
- FJ Holden, The (1977)
- Dir. Michael Thornhill
Feat. Paul Couzens, Carl Stever, Sigrid Thornton
- Low–budget youth drama that follows the travails of two smalltime Holden–driving hoons in the West Sydney suburb of Bankstown.
Both…
- Grand Theft Auto (1977)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Ron Howard, Marion Ross, Barry Cahill
- Petrolhead debut in the directing seat for Ron Howard (who also stars) is a car–chase special involving a young runaway couple in the crunching…
- Hardware Wars (1977)
- Dir. Ernie Fosselius
- This rather dated, but well–remembered sci–fi spoof paved the way for countless Star Wars parodies and tributes.
- High Rolling (High Rolling in a Hot Corvette) (1977)
- Dir. Igor Auzkins
Feat. Joseph Bottoms, Wendy Hughes, Grigor Taylor
- Aussie buddy comedy about an American man who works at a carnival in Queensland who befriends a boxer, then embarks on a road trip to Surfers…
- House (Hausu) (1977)
- Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Feat. Kimiko Ikegami
- Words don't do justice to this one–of–a–kind Japanese horror romp about a gaggle of teen girls caught in a haunted house whose…
- Journey Among Women (1977)
- Dir. Tom Cowan
Feat. June Pritchard, Martin Phelan
- Ten female convicts, on the lam from an outback prison, set up utopian bush camp in this heady feminist treatise, where men are scum and women frolic…
- Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
- Dir. Roger Michael Watkins
Feat. Roger Michael Watkins
- Both notorious and obscure, this 1970s shocker concerns a drug–dealer who upon being released from jail enters the shady world of porno…
- Mannaja: A Man Called Blade (1977)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Maurizio Merli, John Steiner
- One of the last belated gasps of the 'spaghetti western' genre, with the handsome Merli playing a bounty hunter whose special talent is with the…
- Martin (1977)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest
- Bizarre and original film about a young man who claims he is not a vampire, but has psycho–sexual penchants that would pale 'Nosferatu'.…
- Opening Night (1977)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara
- Intermittently fascinating, semi–improvised opus from Cassavetes (who also stars), about an aging actress (Gena Rowlands) who suffers a…
- Other Side of Midnight, The (1977)
- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon…
- Soapy Sidney Sheldon drama follows the exploits of a young French woman who vows revenge on a ne'er do well Canadian pilot for leaving her pregnant,…
- Professionals, The (TV Series) (1977-1983)
- Dir. William Brayne
Feat. Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson
- CI5 hard–men Bodie and Doyle shoot first and then ask no questions in their dirty (but necessary) line of work. A seminal TV Series of the…
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. John Travolta
- John Travolta's instant star–quality invests this chronicle of the disco era with an infectious bravado. Great soundtrack, classic dance moves…
- Summer City (1977)
- Dir. Christopher Fraser
Feat. Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, John Jarratt
- The exploits of four boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious turn when they…
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet
- Masterpiece of loopy morals, terrorist attacks and chastity belts that turns that age old loves–me–loves–me–not story once…
- Wizards (1977)
- Dir. Ralph Bakshi
- A counter–culture animated fantasy, set in a supernatural future populated by elves, fairies and derelict technology.
Centred around two…
- Allegro Non Troppo (1976)
- Dir. Bruno Bozzetto
- This pastiche of Disney's FANTASIA holds its own with a variety of animators having a ball with the freedom to interpret some popular classical…
- Bionic Woman, The (TV Series) (1976-1978)
- Feat. Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Lee Majors
- The respectable female spinoff to THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, has Wagner play the tennis pro fiance of 'Steve Austin' who after a skydiving accident…
- Black Shampoo (1976)
- Dir. Greydon Clark
Feat. John Daniels, Tanya Boyd
- A blaxploitation jive on the Warren Beatty starrer SHAMPOO, with be–afroed John Daniels as macho–man "Mr. Jonathan", the hottest…
- Bold, the Brave and the Best, The (1976-2004)
- Best of collection of 14 hard case and thought provoking acclaimed Aussie animation shorts ranging from animal antics to social commentary on…
- Brute, The (1976)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Sarah Douglas, Julian Glover, Bruce Robinson
- A strange combination of social realism and luridity turns this tale of a battered wife into a strange horror film indeed.
- Cannonball (1976)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. David Carradine, Paul Bartel
- A kind of contemporary sequel to DEATH RACE 2000, David Carradine and Paul Bartel reteam for this self–consciously tacky road movie. Carradine…
- Eliza Fraser (The Rollicking Adventures of Eliza Fraser) (1976)
- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Susannah York, Trevor Howard, Noel Ferrier…
- Bawdy historical epic from the pen of David Williamson has York shipwrecked in 1830's Australia and forced to live with the local indigenous people.
- End Play (1976)
- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. John Waters, Ken Goodlet, George Mallaby
- Aussie thriller adapting the1972 novel of the same name by Russell Braddon. A merchant sailor and his wheelchair bound brother attract the suspicions…
- Fantasm (1976)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. John Holmes, Uschi Digard, Mary Gavin
- Australian sex–spoof has a 'renowned sexologist' guide the audience through the ten most common female fantasies.
Some of the best known…
- Feathered Serpent, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Patrick Troughton, Brian Deacon
- Former Dr. Who Patrick Troughton headlines this British obscurity – a 'pagan gothic' fantasy series of murder, intrigue and political…
- God Told Me To (Demon) (1976)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis…
- This notable yet little known 70s horror is typical of cult director Larry Cohen’s better work (Q, IT’S ALIVE) – tightly written, atmospheric…
- Grey Gardens (1976)
- Dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde
- An intimate portrait of acute eccentricity, this offers a ‘home movie’–style insight into the lives of colourful high–society…
- Gumball Rally (1976)
- Dir. Charles Bail
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Gary Busey, Raul Julia
- Dir. by stunt specialist Bail, this car race indulgence depicts an illegal jaunt across America with hotrods, motorbikes, sports cars and grand prix…
- Helter Skelter (1976)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Steve Railsback, George DiCenzo
- Frightening television dramatisation of the Manson Family murders in Los Angeles, that in Steve Railsback (THE STUNTMAN) finds an actor capable of…
- J.D.'s Revenge (1976)
- Dir. Arthur Marks
Feat. Glynn Turman, Louis Jr. Gossett
- Enjoyable, atmospheric blaxploitation pic about a student who finds his body inhabited with the vengeful soul of a long dead street hustler.
- Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Ben Gazzara
- Cassavetes' most personal film concerns a strip–club owner (Ben Gazzara) who becomes indebted to the mob. An acquired taste for this one as…
- Lipstick (1976)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King…
- A trashy yet compulsive thriller in which a gorgeous fashion model (Margaux Hemingway) is raped by a seemingly benign admirer, who dabbles in bizarre…
- Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, The (1976)
- Dir. Nicolas Gessner
Feat. Martin Sheen, Jodie Foster, Alexis Smith
- A precocious Jodie Foster, 13–years–old and home alone, attempts to ward off nosy neighbours and a perverted Martin Sheen in this…
- Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
- Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Dennis Hopper, David Gulpilil, Jack Thompson…
- Graphic, mostly entertaining account of the exploits of bushranger Daniel Morgan, who terrorised the Australian goldfields in the 19th…
- Massacre at Central High (1976)
- Dir. Renee Daalder
Feat. Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine
- An estranged new student uses his homicidal tendencies for the public good, by eliminating trouble–makers in imaginative ways. The superior…
- Mikey and Nicky (1976)
- Dir. Elaine May
Feat. Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty…
- Loosely improvised drama, with a wild–eyed John Cassavetes calling on old pal Peter Falk to help escape the Mob. Turns out he may not be such a…
- Monster Squad (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Fred Grandy
- Short–lived kids show has wax museum figures Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein come to life to help young mortal Fred Grandy (Gopher from THE…
- New Avengers, The (TV Series) (1976-1977)
- Dir. James Hill
Feat. Patrick Macnee, Joanna Lumley, Gareth Hunt
- The 1970s revision of the 60s show is simultaneously grittier and sillier than the original. Patrick Macnee returns, but Joanna Lumley and Gareth…
- Oz (A Rock 'n' Roll Road Movie) (1976)
- Dir. Chris Lofven
- A boozy, inspiringly moronic Australian version of 'The Wizard of Oz', in which a young groupie accidentally knocks her head and wakes up on the road…
- Queen Kong (1976)
- Dir. Frank Agrama
Feat. Robin Askwith
- One of several knock–offs timed to coincide with the 1976 remake of KING KONG, this lamentable spoof imagines a gender reversal on the 'Kong'…
- Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The (1976)
- Dir. Lewis John Carlino
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Sarah Miles
- A sadistic young boy with an unusually strong attachment to his mother greatly resents her new suitor. Intriguing adaptation of Yukio Mishima novel…
- Salon Kitty (1976)
- Dir. Tinto Brass
Feat. Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin
- It's spies in the house of love – lavishly art–decoed bordellos of Nazi Germany, though this mild strain of SS sexploitation film plays…
- Signalman, The (1976)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Denholm Elliott
- Smallscale but nicely crafted adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story 'The Signalman'.
Concerning the spectral experiences of a signalman…
- Snuff (1976)
- Dir. Michael Findlay, Roberta Findlay
Feat. Ana Carro, Roberta Findlay
- 'Notorious' thriller set amid a world of South American drug–smuggling sleazebags, which supposedly climaxes with an actual filmed murder.…
- Sweeney, The (TV Series) (1976)
- Dir. David Wickes, Tom Clegg
Feat. John Thaw, Dennis Waterman
- Before THE PROFESSIONALS and MINDER came the ground–breaking Brit cop show starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman. A highly influential action…
- Tenant, The (1976)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters
- Polanski himself plays an introverted office clerk who undergos a psycho–sexual mutation while residing in a seedy high–rise apartment.…
- Beast, The (La Bete) (1975)
- Dir. Walerian Borowczyk
Feat. Lucy Broadhurst
- This unsexy, frequently hilarious art–porn parable from the easily aroused dir. of IMMORAL TALES consists of a hairy sasquatch in heat chasing…
- Black Moon (1975)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Joe Dallesandro
- A vastly ambitious and haunting fantasy excursion for dir. Malle proffers an allegorical future world in which civil war rages between the sexes,…
- Boy and His Dog, A (1975)
- Dir. L.Q. Jones
Feat. Don Johnson
- Intriguingly subversive film about a youth and his telepathic canine friend who scour the post–holocaust landscape in search of civilisation.…
- Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)
- Dir. Chuck Bail
Feat. Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens
- Buxom blaxploitation flick. The 6'2 Tamara Dobson is Cleopatra Jones, a karate–chopping government agent sent to Hong Kong to bring her special…
- Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Linda Hayden
- Risque British farce about the meteoric rise and fall of a band called Kipper. Being part of the "confessions" series the band's downfall will no…
- Death Race 2000 (1975)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone
- Hilarious black comedy from the director of EATING RAOUL, about a road race across the States where one can gain points from killing pedestrians…
- Devil Times Five (1975)
- Dir. Sean MacGregor
Feat. Leif Garrett
- Chillingly effective 70s horror about a stranded group of children (yes five of them) with a collective penchant for adult–icide. While it…
- Dolemite (1975)
- Dir. D'Urville Martin
Feat. Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin
- Blaxploitation classic is a showcase for cult hero Rudy Ray Moore, whose talents include spouting long–winded rhyming fables, and stretching…
- Friday Foster (1975)
- Dir. Arthur Marks
Feat. Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge…
- Pam Grier plays a fashion photographer leading a double–life as an vigilante, here going up against a racist terror group. The charisma of…
- Guernica Tree, The (1975)
- Dir. Fernando Arrabal
- Final part in dir. Arrabal's cinematic trilogy (see VIVA LA MUERTE and I WILL WALK LIKE A CRAZY HORSE) is set amidst the carnage of the Spanish Civil…
- Gunston Tapes, The (1975)
- Feat. Garry McDonald
- A compilation of clips from the original 1970s 'Norman Gunston Show', when the pale combed–over interviewer lured fresh celebrities from around…
- Johnny Firecloud / Bummer! (1975-1973)
- Dir. William Allen Castleman
Feat. Ralph Meeker, Victor Mohica
- A double–bill of "roughies" (combining sex and violence) from shameless exploitation producer, David F. Friedman.
Native American JOHNNY…
- Lisztomania (1975)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Roger Daltrey, Ringo Starr, Fiona Lewis
- Ken Russell's erotic send–up of the bawdy life of virtuoso composer Franz Liszt – whose piano performances were attended by hordes of…
- Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975)
- Dir. Yu Wang
Feat. Yu Wang
- Legendary martial arts anomaly cited by Quentin Tarantino as his favourite kung fu film, this stars (and is directed by) Jimmy Yu Wang as a…
- Overlord (1975)
- Dir. Stuart Cooper
Feat. Brian Stirner
- Remarkable one–off that seamlessly interweaves archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this accounts a twenty–year–old’s…
- Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- Dir. Jim Sharman
Feat. Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick…
- The Godfather of cult movies – a highly original, kinky horror/spoof musical that still maintains a curious brilliance. Written by and starring…
- Salo (1975)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Paolo Bonacelli, Giogio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle…
- More extreme in content than anything else in our library, an embittered Pasolini spares the viewer nothing in his faithful adaptation of The Marquis…
- Sheba, Baby (1975)
- Dir. William Girdler
Feat. Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, Rudy Challenger
- Blaxploitation action film with Pam Grier playing a Chicago private detective who returns to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky to fight the…
- Street Fighter's Last Revenge, The (Gyakushû! Satsujin ken) (1975)
- Dir. Teruo Ishii
Feat. Sonny Chiba
- Second sequel to THE STREET FIGHTER featuring Sonny Chiba, one of Japan’s great action stars of the 70s.
Sporting zero grace, a certain street…
- Supervixens (1975)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Charles Napier, Haji
- At the more cynical end of the Russ Meyer spectrum (and career), the legendary smut–peddler abandons the playfulness that marked his sixties…
- Switchblade Sisters (1975)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail
- Packing leather, knives and proto–feminist wiles, the innocent–looking Sisters run the local drug and prostitution rackets with the…
- Take a Hard Ride (1975)
- Dir. Anthony M. Dawson
Feat. Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson…
- Fun western cheapie with Jim Brown heading to Sonora to deliver a payroll....Lee Van Cleef has other ideas.
- Tommy (1975)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton…
- The Who's ground–breaking rock opera about the deaf, dumb and blind kid who plays a mean pin–ball. It's a bad taste extravaganza that…
- True Story of Eskimo Nell, The (1975)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
- One of the 'best' (though tamest) of the Australian sexploitation genre which enjoyed brief favour in the 1970s, spins a story around the mythic…
- Velvet Smooth (1975)
- Dir. Michael Fink
Feat. Johnnie Hill
- Minor blaxploitation starlet Johnnie Hill gets to strut her stuff as a "fighting whirlwind" in this cheesey 70s effort.
- Black Samson (1974)
- Dir. Charles Bail
Feat. Rockne Tarkington
- Yo better not f*** with Samson! The soft–spoken Rockne Tarkington wields a six–foot Japanese Kendo stick to defend his nightclub and…
- Caged Heat (1974)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Jonathan Demme, Barbara Steele, Erica Gavin
- The definitve women–in–prison movie – directed with economy, flair and atypical integrity (for the genre) by a fledgling Jonathan…
- Cars That Ate Paris, The (1974)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Terry Camilleri, John Meillon
- This no–budget wonder marked the auspicious debut of Peter Weir. It's a delirious black comedy in which an outback community ambush passing…
- Case of the Smiling Stiffs, The (1974)
- Dir. Sean S. Cunningham
- Amusing exploitation vampire flick in which a hungry vampress sates her appetite in a uniquely memorable fashion.
- Cockfighter, The (1974)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Patricia Pearcy…
- A typically raw–boned performance by Warren Oates centres this cult gem of 1970s American cinema, playing a cockfighting specialist who refuses…
- Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Robin Askwith, Linda Hayden, Joan Hickson…
- First in the series of bawdy "true life" tales is generally regarded as the strongest with Askwith as the naughty windowcleaner with voyeuristic…
- Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke…
- Countercultural couple Mary and Larry commandeer a muscle car, a mechanic, and a whole lotta highway in this hard and fast rev–up of the chase…
- Double Agent 73 (1974)
- Dir. Doris Wishman
Feat. Chesty Morgan
- Outrageous detective spoof custom–built for its stars, Chesty Morgan and her 73" upper torso. The genius here is that Chesty works undercover…
- Emmanuelle (1974)
- Dir. Just Jaeckin
Feat. Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny, Marika Green…
- Landmark 'erotic' film with Sylvia Kristel on a journey of sexual awakening in Thailand. Plenty of soft focus oohing and aahing shot in an 'arty' and…
- Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira
- The title refers to the only case of a man who was 'born' as an adult. He has lived in a dark cellar all his life and has never seen another human…
- Female Trouble (1974)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
- Waters' funniest trash–a–thon with Divine following up her unforgettable turn in Pink Flamingos as loathsome loser Dawn Davenport –…
- Foxy Brown (1974)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry Carter…
- Badass Pam Grier vehicle from director Jack Hill, the "Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking" according to Tarantino.
When mobsters murder her…
- Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
- Dir. H.B. Halicki
Feat. H.B. Halicki
- Cult action–classic rides shotgun with car–converter Maindrain Pace (dir. Halicki) as he attempts to steal 48 high–performance…
- Holy Mountain, The (1974)
- Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Feat. Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders
- Jodorowsky's determinedly surrealist vision of mystical enlightenment about a man (the mad Mexican himself) who journeys mountain–ward to…
- House of Whipcord (1974)
- Dir. Pete Walker
Feat. Anne Michelle, Sheila Keith
- A pick–up at a groovy London party leads to a stint in purgatory for 'permissive' Bardot–lookalike Anne Michelle, thrown into the…
- Immoral Tales (1974)
- Dir. Walerian Borowczyk
Feat. Charlotte Alexandra, Florence Bellamy, Lorenzo Beriniz
- Four 'historical' chapters make up this softcore but nonetheless controversial portmenteau film.
Contains such spectacular low–lights as…
- Klansman, The (1974)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell…
- Samuel Fuller co–wrote this trashy Southern potboiler, graced with the acting chops of Richard Burton and Lee Marvin as landowner and sheriff…
- Land of the Lost (TV Series) (1974)
- Feat. Wesley Eure, Philip Paley, Kathy Coleman
- Oddly camp Saturday morning TV show following forest ranger Rick Marshall and his two children who inadvertently opened a rift in time, and now must…
- Lone Wolf & Cub 6: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
- Dir. Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi…
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
Lone wolf and Cub return for their final battle…
- Macon County Line (1974)
- Dir. Richard Compton
Feat. Alan Vint, Jesse Vint, Cheryl Waters…
- An under–rated, gritty kids vs. rednecks thriller in the EASY RIDER tradition about three youngsters pursued on Georgian byways for a gruesome…
- Mahler (1974)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Robert Powell, Lee Montague, Georgina Hale…
- Ken Russell's biopic on the life of the Jewish composer. As one critic observed – 'Whether the title of the opus is Mahler, Strauss or Elgar,…
- Night Porter, The (1974)
- Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
- Bizarre yet sensual melodrama about an ex–gestapo officer who resumes a sado–masochistic affair with his Jewish former–prisoner.…
- Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, The (1974)
- Dir. Robert Taylor
- Lively animated sequel to the Bakshi original, originally taken from Robert Crumb’s counter–cultural comic–hero. Having graduated…
- Phantom of Liberty, The (1974)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti
- The great surrealist's penultimate film uses a Chinese–box structure to weave a dream–like tableau of set pieces that waver from to the…
- Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper…
- A genuine oddity, this musical/horror spans both dir. De Palma’s satirical and horror periods, with the story of the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA updated…
- Phase IV (Phase 4) (1974)
- Strange structures are appearing in the desert. Scientists are shocked to find that they are the work of super intelligent ants with sinister motives.
- Rancho Deluxe (1974)
- Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Harry Dean Stanton
- An admired oddball comedy with a young Jeff Bridges as one of a pair of drifters whose disdain for the establishment leads them to trouble with an…
- Shocking Asia Vol.1 & 2 (1974-1985)
- Dir. Rolf Olsen
- One of the original ‘video nasties’, this mondo–style reportage on extreme social practices on the Asian continent includes cremations in…
- Space 1999 (TV Series) (1974- 1978)
- Dir. David Tomblin
Feat. Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse…
- A live–action creation from puppet–master Gerry Anderson about a crew of scientists stationed on "Moonbase Alpha". With sterling…
- Steppenwolf (1974)
- Feat. Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi
- A strange yet spiritually faithful adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel about a solitary intellectual in 1920's Germany who is a half–human,…
- Street Fighter, The (1974)
- Dir. Shigehiro Ozawa
Feat. Sonny Chiba
- Career–making martial arts outing for Japanese icon Sonny Chiba, mugging his heart out as a brutal enforcer who turns the tables on his…
- Sun Ra - Space is the Place (1974)
- Dir. John Coney
- Mind–straining curiosity has freaky jazz bandleader Sun Ra and his "Intergalactic Solar Arkestra" landing on Earth in a yellow spaceship and…
- Truck Turner (1974)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks…
- Neo–noir blaxploitation with soul singer Isaac Hayes playing a professional football player who suffers an injury and turns to bounty hunting…
- Watch Out We're Mad! (Double Trouble) (1974)
- Dir. Marcello Fondato
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Donald Pleasence
- 'Spaghetti' comedy duo Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill return in one of their most popular films without chaps and spurs.
In this one, they star as…
- Zardoz (1974)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling
- Sean Connery stars in this enigmatic, garish space odyssey about a group of eternally young intellectuals in the year 2293. The bizarre visual…
- Zodiac (TV Series) (1974)
- Feat. Anton Rodgers, Anouska Hempel
- A skeptical detective opens his mind to the unorthodox when he teams up with a young astrologer in this eccentric, short–lived crime series.
- Alvin Purple / Alvin Rides Again (1973)
- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Graeme Blundell
- The first of a wave of Australian sex–comedies that proved exceptionally popular in 70s Oz. Here Bludell plays an ordinary Ocker who has a "way…
- Arena, The (Naked Warriors) (1973)
- Dir. Steve Carver
Feat. Pam Grier
- Unusual B–movie, even by Roger Corman standards, this has Pam Grier and various buxom cohorts fight in all–women gladiatorial contests in…
- Black Mama, White Mama (1973)
- Dir. Eddie Romero
Feat. Pam Grier, Margaret Markov
- Pam Grier plays a prostitute who teams up with a white revolutionary after they bust out of jail together, with guerrillas, bounty hunters and the…
- Callan - The Movie (1973)
- Dir. Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Peter Egan
- Expanded from the first episode of the hit British TV Series, this feature film depicts secret agent Callan (Edward Woodard) at his wordly…
- Candy Snatchers, The (1973)
- Dir. Guerdon Trueblood
Feat. Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza
- An unheralded gem of the 70's exploitation 'golden age', this subversive yet taut and surprisingly controlled abduction thriller concerns the brutal…
- Carnal Violence (Torso) (1973)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Suzy Kendall, John Richardson
- Effective 'giallo' from the obscure but prolific dir. Sergio Martino (whose filmography covers everything from spaghetti westerns to cannibal…
- Cleopatra Jones (1973)
- Dir. Jack Starrett
Feat. Tamara Dobson, Shelley Winters
- Beautiful black Amazon Tamara Dobson stars as 6–foot–2–inch CIA narcotics agent, Cleopatra, who deploys James Bond–style…
- Deadly Weapons (1973)
- Dir. Doris Wishman
Feat. Chesty Morgan, Harry Reems
- Chesty Morgan ("73–32–36!") first teamed–up with cult dir. Wishman for this interestingly cheap gangster flick. Morgan plays a…
- Doll Squad, The (1973)
- Dir. Ted V. Mikels
Feat. Francine York, Tura Satana
- Legendary crackpot polygamist Mikels moaned how they ripped this off to make 'Charlie's Angels'. A thing to be proud of? Leaden direction and acting…
- Don Juan (or if Don Juan Were a Woman) (1973)
- Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carriere
- Notable mainly as the last appearance from screen goddess Brigitte Bardot, this erotic drama sees the sex–kitten playing a lusty seductress who…
- Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
- Dir. James William Guercia
Feat. Robert Burke
- Patrolling the Arizona desert highways, a naïve, lonely motorcycle cop (Robert Burke) makes up in idealism what he lacks in height, and dreams of…
- Fantastic Planet (1973)
- Dir. Rene Laloux
- Cannes award–winning, delightfully animated film concerning the class struggle and eventual war between two alien races.
Videotape edition…
- Female Yakuza Tale (Yasagure anego den: sôkatsu rinchi) (1973)
- Dir. Teruo Ishii
Feat. Reiko Ike
- A scorned Reiko Ike returns in this remarkably trashier sequel to SEX AND FURY, ready to unleash another roaring rampage of revenge on sadistic…
- Firehouse (1973)
- Dir. Alex March
Feat. Richard Roundtree, Michael Lerner, Val Avery
- Tensions arise amongst a team of firefighters when the new recruit (Richard Roundtree, SHAFT) is the first black man on their team, in this 70's take…
- Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier
- Fleshy and bloody companion piece to BLOOD FOR DRACULA. Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro and others Warhol troupsters re–animate the well–worn…
- Godspell (1973)
- Dir. David Greene
- Musical version of the Gospel of St Matthew, which unlike Andrew Lloyd Webber's version, takes place in the modern world of New York City.
With a…
- Grande Bouffe, La (1973)
- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli…
- A wonderful bare–faced satire that indulges its social metaphor through a dinner party of four rich, bored middle–aged men who decide to…
- Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Julius Harris…
- Appropriately violent but inventive sequel to 'Black Caesar' shot amid the bustle of NYC.
- I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse (J'irai comme un cheval fou) (1973)
- Dir. Fernando Arrabal
Feat. Emmanuelle Riva, George Shannon
- With VIVA LA MUERTE, this represents the peak of the cinematic surrealism of dir. Arrabal, threading another quasi–medieval fable with liberal…
- Lone Wolf & Cub 5: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Michiyo Ookusu…
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
In this 5th instalment, Itto must battle 5 samurai to…
- O Lucky Man (1973)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts…
- Often surreal account of a young coffee salesman's unconventional rise to power. Malcolm McDowell is in fine form in this unusual yet satisfying…
- Revolver (Blood in the Streets) (1973)
- Dir. Sergio Sollima
Feat. Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi
- Equal turns punchy and preposterous, this 'spaghetti crime thriller' involves a prison warden (Reed) who is drawn into an intricate web of deceit…
- Score (1973)
- Dir. Radley Metzger
Feat. Claire Wilbur, Calvin Culver, Lynn Lowry…
- This seductively entertaining sexploitation flick from softcore stylist Radley Metzger is one of the best of its type, before the industry…
- Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)
- Dir. Bob Kelljan
Feat. William Marshall, Pam Grier
- William Marshall re–capes for this sequel to BLACULA in which he resumes hi–camp havoc on an LA ghetto.
- Sex and Fury (Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô) (1973)
- Dir. Norifumi Suzuki
Feat. Reiko Ike
- Japanese exploitation cinema proves itself unrivaled with this slice of 70s celluloid anarchy, trailing a mostly nude Reiko Ike as she slashes and…
- Six Million Dollar Man, The (TV Series) (1973-1978)
- Feat. Lee Majors
- As the quintessential TV action figure of 70s, Steve Austin, Lee Majors was the coolest guy on the planet. The show ran for eight years until…
- Sssssss (1973)
- Dir. Bernard L. Kowalski
Feat. Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies
- Despite the campy name, this is a surprisingly slow–burning, creepy throwback to 50's creature–features concerning a mad scientist who…
- Themroc (1973)
- Dir. Claude Faraldo
Feat. Michel Piccoli
- Satirical in a most primitive, bestial way, this astonishing fable sees frustrated factory–worker Michel Piccoli cease to speak one morning,…
- Walking Tall (1973)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman
- A professional wrestler decides to become a sheriff after discovering his home town in Tennessee is beset by corruption, and sets about delivering a…
- Wicker Man, The (1973)
- Dir. Robin Hardy
Feat. Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland…
- Policeman Edward Woodward investigates the death of a child on a remote isle where he discovers a sinister pagan cult. An engrossing journey into the…
- Adventurer, The (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Gene Barry, Catherine Schell, Barry Morse…
- Cult favourite crime series sees Barry as a government agent posing as a Hollywood star as he travels the globe in search of danger and intrigue. At…
- Baffled (1972)
- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Vera Miles…
- Following a disturbing 'vision', racing–car driver Leonard Nimoy becomes engulfed in a supernatural vortex of baffling incidents, haunted…
- Big Bird Cage, The (1972)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Pam Grier
- Spoofish sequel to THE BIG DOLL HOUSE with Grier as an inmate who helps a brutalised newcomer in an escape attempt from their Philipino…
- Blacula (1972)
- Dir. William Crain
Feat. William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas…
- Dracula is alive, well, African–American and living below the ghettos of 70s Los Angeles. William Marshall has a funky time blood–lusting…
- Body Beneath, The (Vampire's Thirst) (1972)
- Dir. Andy Milligan
Feat. Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis
- Grindhouse dir. Milligan creates his best effort and the English equivalent of PLAN 9 into the bargain with this endearingly inept horror.
Set…
- Bonnie's Kids (1972)
- Dir. Arthur Marks
Feat. Tiffany Bolling, Scott Brady, Alex Rocco…
- Grindhouse thriller about a pair of sisters who murder their abusive step father and escape to Los Angeles, where they find themselves in trouble…
- Ciao! Manhattan (Edie) (1972)
- Dir. Sam Green, David Weisman
Feat. Roger Vadim, Isabel Jewell, Viva
- The notorious documentary portrait of Andy Warhol 'superstar' Edie Sedgwick, whose beguiling good looks and dissolute lifestyle came to symbolise the…
- Crystal Voyager (1972)
- Dir. George Greenough
- A psychedelic surf oddity which sees a lone narrator build a boat and cross the ocean to find that perfect wave. Hippie tomfoolery climaxes in a…
- Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Alan Bates, Janet Suzman
- Rewarding black comedy stars Alan Bates and Janet Suzman as a couple with an autistic child whom they consider mercy–killing. Bizarre yet…
- Dealing (1972)
- Dir. Paul Williams
Feat. John Lithgow, Barbara Hershey, Charles Durning…
- Entertaining hippy comedy about a law student who runs a pot scam on the side. A young John Lithgow and Barbara Hershey display cool flares. Written…
- Death Line (Raw Meat) (1972)
- Dir. Gary Sherman
Feat. Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington
- A cannibal zombie stalks the local stations of the London Underground picking off unlucky passengers for nourishment in this British 70's horror gem,…
- Deep Throat (1972)
- Dir. Gerard Damiano
Feat. Linda Lovelace
- Your opportunity to peruse the hardcore porno blueprint of the 70s, 'starring' Linda Lovelace. Ten minutes in, and you'll have the idea...
- Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing…
- Vincent Price reprises the Phibes, and this time gets to go to Egypt.
- Erotic Adventures of Zorro, The (1972)
- Dir. William Allen Castleman, Robert Freeman
- Penned by the notorious 'exploitation baron' David F Friedman (BLOOD FEAST), this is a sleaze–ridden, yet ultimately light–hearted…
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (TV Series) (1972-1984)
- Feat. Bill Cosby
- Great compilation of episodes from the long–running 70s cartoon series, based on Bill Cosby's own childhood.
"Greatest Hits" Disc 1: Lying,…
- Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
- Dir. Shunya Ito
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Kayuko Shiraishi
- A classic of Japanese 70s exploitation cinema, this charts the grim road to freedom for a gaggle of women escaped–convicts with a feverish…
- Flesh Gordon (1972)
- Dir. Mike Light
Feat. Jason Williams, Cindy Hopkins, Joseph Hudgins…
- Infamous sex parody is a pared–down hard–core production in which Flesh and friends attempt to dodge the influence of Emperor Wang and…
- Fritz the Cat (1972)
- Dir. Ralph Bakshi
- Robert Crumb's infamous cartoon feline indulges his foul–mouthed, oversexed adventures in this sordid Hollywood feature that the author…
- Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. John Astin, Tom Smothers, Allen Garfield…
- Quirky Brian de Palma comedy about an exec who wants to become a tapdancing magician.
- Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973)
- Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…
- Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
- Hammer (1972)
- Dir. Bruce D. Clark
Feat. Fred Williamson, Bernie Hamilton, Vonetta McGee…
- Blaxploitation film about a hotheaded dock worker who rises up the ranks as a boxer, but his manager has links with the mafia and soon his girlfriend…
- Hanzo The Razor Trilogy (The Razor: Sword of Justice; Razor 2: The Snare; Razor 3: Who's Got the Gold?) (1972-1974)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu
- Mind–boggling samurai film series combines a 1970s taste for heroic bloodshed with a strongly Japanese sexploitation angle.
Featuring the…
- Harder They Come, The (1972)
- Dir. Perry Henzell
Feat. Jimmy Cliff, Carl Bradshaw
- A classic that has found lasting significance as a music film, political film, and above all as a unique, authentic product of Jamaica. A young,…
- Heat (1972)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro
- A great trash drama, this is the most polished production of all the Warhol–esqe features, with a bravura performance from Sylvia Miles. It's…
- Kung Fu (TV Series) (1972-1975)
- Feat. David Carradine, Jodie Foster, Jose Feliciano…
- The memorable TV series starring David 'Grasshopper' Carradine as a Shaolin monk wandering the wild west, armed only with his martial–arts…
- Legend of Boggy Creek, The (1972)
- Dir. Charles B. Pierce
Feat. Vern Stierman
- Giggle inducing 'documentary' examines the mysterious happenings in lil' ol' Fouke Arkansas where some big ape creature has been stirrin' up folk…
- Liza (Love To Eternity) (1972)
- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Corrine Marchand
- Another fetish piece from dir. Ferreri (GRANDE BOUFFE & BYE BYE MONKEY) sees Liza (Deneuve) stranded on an island playing a 'dog' for Giorgio's…
- Lone Wolf & Cub 1: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Fumio Watanabe…
- The LONE WOLF AND CUB series chronicles the adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro, who sell their services to…
- Lone Wolf & Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
In this second episode, Ogami battles a group of…
- Lone Wolf & Cub 3: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Go Kato…
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
Ogami volunteers to be tortured by the Yakuza gang…
- Lone Wolf & Cub 4: Baby Cart In Peril (1972)
- Dir. Buichi Sato
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Michie Azuma…
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
In the fourth installment of the series, Itto is…
- Protectors, The (TV Series) (1972-1973)
- Feat. Robert Vaughn, Ngaire Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt
- A suave, jet–setting suspense series that was Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's (THUNDERBIRDS) second foray into live–action, depicting the…
- Rainbow (TV Series) (1972-1992)
- Cult kids show both educational and slightly surreal, and responsible for introducing generations to Bungle, George, Zippy and horrendously colored…
- Ruling Class, The (1972)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
- An eccentric comedy about English eccentricity, with schizophrenic aristocrat Peter O’Toole succeeding the Earlship of Gurney, and proceeding to…
- Season of the Witch (Hungry Wives) (1972)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jan White, Raymond Laine, Joedda McClain…
- The third feature film from director George Romero is a self–described "feminist" horror following a neglected and dissatisfied housewife who…
- Siddhartha (1972)
- Dir. Conrad Rooks
Feat. Shashi Kapoor
- A young Brahmin Indian goes in search of knowledge, wisdom and spirituality in this gloriously shot version of Hermann Hesse’s cult novel.
Set…
- Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche
- Though a conservative adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's time–tripping novel, this is still a significant entry to the genre, with a wide cult…
- Superfly (1972)
- Dir. Gordon Parks Jnr.
Feat. Ron O'Neal
- Ron O'Neal is a supercool drug pusher who wants to make one last score before getting' out, yo. Quintessential blaxploitation film laced with hot sex…
- Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1972)
- Dir. Richard Compton
Feat. Joe Don Baker, Paul Koslo, Alan Vint…
- Glum cult item with four Vietnam vets finding themselves persecuted upon their return home. Brash, unsubtle flick that will be chiefly on interest to…
- Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli…
- Another brilliantly lurid psycho–sexual horror from Italian giallo master Sergio Martino (THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH).
Edwige Fenech…
- 200 Motels (1971)
- Dir. Frank Zappa, Tony Palmer
Feat. Theodore Bikel, Ringo Starr, Frank Zappa…
- This trippy, ad–hoc Zappa production purports to be about life on the road as a touring musician. In reality, it’s a series of psychedelic,…
- Best of the Best of the Electric Company, The (1971-1977)
- Feat. Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno…
- A generous selection of excerpts from the long–running 1970s children's TV show, which mixed up its educationalist intentions (especially…
- Big Doll House, The (1971)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Pam Grier, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins…
- This salacious yet good–natured women–in–prison picture set in a steamy jungle penal colony exploited its premise well, made a…
- Billy Jack (1971)
- Dir. Tom Laughlin
Feat. Tom Laughlin
- A 'peace and love' youth pic that became a box office bonanza when the producers sued Warner for mismarketing the movie. It's easy to see why the men…
- Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates…
- From Anthony Burgess' novel, Stanley Kubrick flexes his genius with this electrifying satire about an ultra–violent gang of 'droogs' whose…
- Devils, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave
- Ken Russell's subversive foray into Catholic guilt is as bold and disturbing as it is brilliant. Amidst the witch trials of medieval France, Oliver…
- Dracula vs. Frankenstein (Blood of Frankenstein) (1971)
- Dir. Al Adamson
Feat. J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney, Anthony Eisley
- J. Carrol Naish plays a mad scientist in a wheelchair who conspires with Dracula to resurrect Frankenstein, in this C–grade horror that finds…
- El Topo (1971)
- Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Feat. Alejandro Jodorowsky
- The first official midnight movie – Jodorowsky's legendary vision is a bonafide 'head' picture (confusing yet stimulating), committing enough…
- Evel Knievel (1971)
- Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. George Hamilton, Sue Lyon
- Low–budget drive–in movie version of the famed motorcycle stuntman’s life, growing up in Montana to be comes the world’s most famous…
- Get Carter (1971)
- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine
- A small–time London hood takes on tough Northerners while investigating his brother's death. Exciting, violent thriller shows off the once…
- Hired Hand, The (1971)
- Dir. Peter Fonda
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom…
- An unusual directorial debut for Peter Fonda, who turns out a small masterpiece with this revisionist Western bathed in the hippie afterglow of the…
- Hustler Squad / Wild Riders (1971-1976)
- Dir. Cesar Gallardo, Richard Kanter
Feat. Alex Rocco, Elizabeth Knowles, Sherry Bain…
- A double feature of 70s drive–in "classics".
WILD RIDERS (1971) has Alex Rocco playing a misogynistic biker who goes on a sleazy killing…
- J.C. (Iron Horsemen) (1971)
- Dir. William McGaha
Feat. William McGaha, Slim Pickens
- Fairly typical hippie turkey, in which dir. McGaha stars as a deluded bikie who thinks he is Jesus Christ reborn and leads his pack of…
- Jason King (TV Series) (1971-1972)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Wyngarde
- Spinoff series from DEPARTMENT S, following the flamboyant titular writer (Wyngarde) on further secret agent–international playboy adventures.…
- Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
- Dir. Dalton Trumbo
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards Jr.…
- Excoriating anti–war statement based on the dir.'s own novel, concerns an ordinary infantryman in WW1 and his nightmare experiences.
In a…
- Kill Django... Kill First (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Garrone
Feat. Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Aldo Sambrell, Krista Nell
- Brutal spaghetti western with a ruthless cowboy teaming up with an old prospector to take down an unscrupulous banker and his network of killers.
- Music Lovers, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson
- A wonderfully audacious film fantasia based on the life of Russian composer Tchaikovsky, the homosexual who married a nymphomaniac! Richard…
- Percy (1971)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer…
- Hywell Bennett undergo the world's first members only transplant and turns private dick to discover the donor was a notorious ladykiller. Will he be…
- Pink Flamingos (1971)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey…
- John Waters' creative pinnacle (or nadir!) remains the ultimate statement in bad taste – a pure, unadulterated exercise in shock value!…
- Pink Narcissus (1971)
- Dir. Jim Bidgood
Feat. Bobby Kendall
- Major gay cult film with a non–narrative structure and opulent ‘garage’ aesthetic comparable to Kenneth Anger, but with more explicit…
- Point, The (1971)
- Dir. Fred Wolf
- Animated fable (and later a succesful childrens' book) set in a world where everyone has a pointed head, and therefore a 'point'.
When…
- Punishment Park (1971)
- Dir. Peter Watkins
- Extraordinary, 'fictionalised' docu–drama from the unique and largely unheralded talent of British director Peter Watkins, portraying the…
- See No Evil (Blind Terror) (1971)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey…
- An especially effective suspenser, with Farrow playing a blind woman on a country farm who gradually suspects – then confirms – that her…
- Shaft (1971)
- Dir. Gordon Parks Snr.
Feat. Richard Roundtree
- The first, enormously successful blaxploitation film sees funky cop Richard Roundtree sniffing out kidnappers on mean Harlem streets to the coolest…
- Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Bruno Corazzari…
- Mesmerising giallo horror starring 70's Italian cinema queen and frequent Martino collaborator Edwige Fenech as the socialite wife of a diplomat who…
- Straw Dogs (1971)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Susan George
- With dir. Sam Peckinpah in top form, this powerful study of male territorial instincts pushed out the boundaries of movie violence in the…
- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
- Dir. Melvin Van Peebles
Feat. Melvin Van Peebles
- The 'blaxploitation' classic that is often celebrated as ostensibly the first film truly created by a black person in America, starring "The Black…
- They Call Me Trinity (1971)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Terence Hill, Bud Spencer
- The film that triggered the careers of B–movie icons Terence Hill and Bud Spencer is an engaging spaghetti–western spoof. Something of a…
- Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates
- Ambling across a relentless roadscape of diners and gas stations, young petrol–heads James Taylor (yes, the pop singer) and Dennis Wilson (yes,…
- Vanishing Point (1971)
- Dir. Richard Serafian
Feat. Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger…
- A loner accepts a challenge to drive his Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours, with the fuzz in pursuit and help from blind DJ,…
- W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
- Dir. Dusan Makavejev
- Documentary footage, late sixties counter–culture and fictional elements are freely mixed to explore the ideas of radical sexologist, Wilhelm…
- Wake In Fright (Outback) (1971)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty…
- After many years in obscurity, this drama has been dusted off and deservingly reappraised as an Australian classic – a waking nightmare of…
- What's the Matter With Helen? / Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971-1972)
- Dir. Curtis Harrington
Feat. Shelley Winters, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver…
- A double feature disc in the "Grande Dame Guignol" genre (directly inspired by WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE), with Shelley Winters hamming/slumming…
- Women in Cages (1971)
- Dir. Gerry De Leon
Feat. Pam Grier, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins
- Early exploitationer playing on the 'women in prison' formula, raised to dubious prominence by producer Roger Corman. The iconic Grier plays a…
- Women in Revolt (1971)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis
- Aspiring 'stars' Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn try their hand at breaking into Hollywood, but end up joining a womens' rights group. Warhol…
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Edy Williams…
- Russ Meyer's studio–backed 'sequel' to Jacqueline Susann's soap opera turned the material on its head and sent law suits and Hollywood reeling.…
- Bloody Judge, The (Trono di fuoco, Il) (1970)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn…
- More lavish than the usual fare of horror dir. Franco, here telling the tale of a corrupt witchfinder (Lee) in 16th century England, based around the…
- Bloody Mama (1970)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Shelley Winters, Robert De Niro
- 'The family that stays together slays together!'. Shelley Winters is Ma Barker, the mad matriarch who led her brood's violent reign in the '30s.…
- Bukowski at Bellevue (1970)
- Feat. Charles Bukowski
- A then little–known Charles Bukowski recites his poems and stories at Bellevue College in 1970. Videotaped by students in murky and shaky…
- Catch 22 (1970)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Orson Welles
- An acerbic anti–war statement based on the much–hailed novel about a WW2 fighter pilot's reluctance to fight, in order to preserve his…
- Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
- Believably unsettling cold war parable concerning a huge electronic brain called Colossus, designed to control the American missile defense system.…
- Crimes of the Future (1970)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty…
- Cronenberg's sophomore feature "Crimes of the Future" takes Stereo's stylings even further into the realms of intentional loopiness. The plot…
- Cult of the Damned (Angel, Angel, Down We Go) (1970)
- Dir. Robert Thom
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Jordan Christopher, Roddy McDowall…
- Low budget 'acid movie' from Nicolson/Arkoff productions. Like much of their output, most of the hippy cast and crew seem totally out of it.
- Deep End (1970)
- Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Diana Dors
- Remarkable, darkly comic story of 15–year–old Mike who takes a job at the local swimming baths and becomes obsessed with a beautiful…
- Equinox (The Beast) (1970)
- Dir. Jack Woods, Dennis Muren
Feat. Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Bonner…
- A group of teenagers stumble upon a tome of ancient mysticism and find themselves being pursued through canyons by a demon in this low–grade…
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer
- A group of dwarfs run riot and take over their penal colony on a bleak volcanic island. Bizarre and unsettling parable will leave an indelible mark…
- Figures in a Landscape (1970)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell
- A unique ‘chase’ thriller from dir. Losey, taking place in an enigmatic near future – with Malcolm Macdowell and Robert Shaw fleeing a menacing…
- Gas-s-s-s (1970)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams
- Strange comedy about a leaked gas that kills everyone over the age of 30. Warped social commentary from young idealists of the era.
- Harold and Maude (1970)
- Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon
- Much adored black comedy about a lonely teenager who befriends an old woman who shares his morbid fascination, among other interests. This cult hit…
- Hercules in New York (Hercules Goes Bananas) (1970)
- Dir. Arthur Allan Seidelman
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, James Karen
- Ludicrous, but hilarious debut for the young Arnie as the muscular Greek who lands on Earth from Mt Olympus and becomes involved in wrestling…
- Hi Mom! (1970)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Robert De Niro, Charles Durning, Allen Garfield…
- One of dir. De Palma's underrated early satires is loosely a sequel to 'Greetings', with Robert De Niro returning from the Vietnam War to try and…
- Honeymoon Killers, The (1970)
- Dir. Leonard Kastle
Feat. Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco
- Fascinating, tabloid tale of the 'lonely hearts' murderers of the 40's and 50's. Grimly realistic, ultimately tragic story of obsessive love and…
- I Drink Your Blood (1970)
- Dir. David Durston
Feat. Bhaskar , Rhonda Fultz, Lyn Lowry
- A Manson–style hippie–cult make trouble in a small village but taste the wrath of a young boy who infects their meat pies with rabies –…
- Lancelot Link Secret Chimp (TV Series) (1970)
- A still amusing TV cult from the early 1970s, which put a hairy satirical twist on the spy series that were popular at the time, by populating its…
- Lickerish Quartet, The (1970)
- Dir. Radley Metzger
- What Andy Warhol regarded as an 'kinky masterpiece' is this film within a film that explores what effect an erotic film has on its viewers. Treads…
- Multiple Maniacs (1970)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce…
- John Waters' second film is this gloriously gory send–up of both mainstream and counter–culture. Populated by a cast of beloved Waters…
- Myra Breckinridge (1970)
- Dir. Michael Sarne
Feat. Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch
- Director Sarne's career sunk after he made a fine mess of Gore Vidal's gaudy Tinseltown satire about a woman who yearns for a complete…
- Ned Kelly (1970)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Mick Jagger
- Standard Biopic treatment of the infamous Aussie bushranger, livened up by casting of Mick Jagger.
- One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1970)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Controversial work from dir. Godard's 'Mao–ist' period intercuts a fascinating, disorganised recording session by the Rolling Stones…
- Performance (1970)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
Feat. Mick Jagger, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg…
- Mick Jagger plays a reclusive rock star in this notorious film that bedazzled an entire hippy generation with its penchant for tits, bums, violence,…
- Projectionist, The (1970)
- Dir. Harry Hurwitz
Feat. Chuck McCann, Rodney Dangerfield
- An experimental, off–beat collage of social commentary, in–jokes and satire, about a projectionist who constantly imagines himself as…
- Quiet Days in Clichy (1970)
- Dir. Jens Jørgen Thorsen
Feat. Paul Valjean, Wayne Rodda, Ulla Koppel
- Fascinating Danish adaptation of Henry Miller's ribald novel set around the sexual adventures of a young writer and his roommate in 1930s Paris.…
- Satan's Sadists (1970)
- Dir. Al Adamson
Feat. Russ Tamblyn, Scott Brady, Robert Dix
- Alarming bikey exploitation flick about a bunch of motor–psychos with a penchant for killin' people.
- Secret Of Dorian Gray, The (Dorian Gray) (1970)
- Dir. Massimo Dallamano
Feat. Helmut Berger, Herbert Lom, Richard Todd
- Fleshy retelling of Oscar Wilde's classic tale with Helmut Berger living it up as the decadent naif who fails to age.
Certainly the raunchier of…
- Trader Hornee (1970)
- Dir. Jonathan Lucas
Feat. Buddy Pantsari, Elisabeth Monica, Deek Sills
- A goofy sexploitation farce of the 'jungle' sub–species, billed typically by legendary smut producer David F. Friedman (who also writes) as…
- Trash (1970)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn
- Only the inimitable Joe Dallesandro could play a drug–addicted loser with a sex problem and still come off cool. Holly Woodlawn and other…
- Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
- Dir. Jess Franco
- Notorious sexploitation–er from German bad boy dir. Jess Franco, peddles the softcore tale of a real estate agent trapped on an island ruled by…
- Venus in Furs (1970)
- Dir. Massimo Dallamano
Feat. Laura Antonelli, Renate Kasche
- Leopold Sacher–Masoch’s ‘infamous’ novel made over as a 70s soft–core excursion that is typically more faithful to (male)…
- Viva La Muerte (1970)
- Dir. Fernando Arrabal
- This trippy anti–war rarity is a key work from the 1960s Mexican 'Panic Movement' that also produced EL TOPO.
Dir. by playwright Fernando…
- Walkabout (1970)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Gulpilil
- An English schoolgirl and her brother end up abandoned by their father in the Australian Outback, before meeting Aboriginal boy David Gulpilil. Dir.…
- Wanda (1970)
- Dir. Barbara Loden
Feat. Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
- The sole writing/directing credit of Barbara Loden, whose command of verite storytelling is matched by her own astonishing performance as a feckless…
- Where's Poppa? (Going Ape) (1970)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman…
- George Segal becomes determined to hurry along the demise of his ultra–demanding, super–senile 87 year–old mom (Ruth Gordon). Few…
- Wizard of Gore, The (1970)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Ray Sager
- One of gore–merchant Lewis’ (BLOOD FEAST) best, involving a bogus stage magician, whose act carves murderous carnage through his…
- Zabriskie Point (1970)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Rod Taylor, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin…
- Antonioni explores the psyche of young radicals who try to find the meaning of life after fleeing from riotous protests. Engaging hippie fare.
- Zachariah (1970)
- Dir. George Englund
Feat. John Rubenstein, Don Johnson
- Counter–culture oddity, a surreal 'rock western' worked up by the avant–garde improvisational troupe, The Firesign Theatre, so as to…
- Alice's Restaurant (1969)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick…
- Loosely built around the adventures of hippie troubadour Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody and star of WOODSTOCK), as he wanders rural America asking…
- All the Right Noises (1969)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Tom Bell, John Standing…
- The story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl, this forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such…
- Bullet for Sandoval (Vengeance is Mine) (1969)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, George Hilton
- Reasonable foray into the Spaghetti Western genre for splatter king Fulci and as always with Fulci narrative is secondary to violent…
- Castle of Fu Manchu, The (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin
- The final bungled entry in the FU MANCHU series, with Christopher Lee on the same quest for world domination as ever, this time conducted from his…
- Cherry, Harry and Raquel (1969)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Larissa Ely, Linda Ashton, Charles Napier
- Tawdry follow up to Meyer's VIXEN is more scattershot plotwise, but the bodies, the bonking, the tongue–in–cheek and the '60s stylings…
- Department S (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Peter Wyngarde
- Perhaps the last elaborate flourish in its genre, this AVENGERS–style TV series was set around three 'special agents' who solve the unsolvable…
- Dillinger is Dead (1969)
- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot
- Indefinable late–sixties curio finds gas mask designer Michel Piccoli at a loose end in his gaudy suburban home. A gun that may have belonged…
- Easy Rider (1969)
- Dir. Dennis Hopper
Feat. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
- The definitive rebel movie sees Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper motorcycle across the southwest in search of the 'Real America'. Jack Nicholson's…
- Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Soretsu) (1969)
- Dir. Toshio Matsumoto
Feat. Shinnosuke Ikehata (aka Peter), Yoshio Tsuchiya
- A bold and significant product of the Japanese New Wave that loosely transposes Oedipus Rex to the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo with a…
- Girl From Rio, The (Future Women) (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, George Sanders
- Daft sexploitation flick from old hand Jess Franco (VAMPYROS LESBOS, VENUS IN FURS), in which a diabolical temptress (Eaton) hatches a plan to…
- Hell's Angels '69 (1969)
- Dir. Lee Madden
Feat. Sonny Barger, Danielle Com, G.D. Spradlin
- Two rich kids infiltrate the Hell's Angels to rob a casino. When the big boys in leather find out, they ain't too happy. Features the Oakland Hell's…
- Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 4 (1969-1980)
- Dir. Kenneth Anger
- Underground film–maker Kenneth Anger manifests his dark artistic vision in two shorts that almost defy description.
"Lucifer Rising"…
- Medium Cool (1969)
- Dir. Haskell Wexler
- Filmed against the backdrop of the Democratic National convention in 1968 Chicago, this remarkable directorial effort by renowned cinematographer…
- Model Shop (1969)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay
- A mesmerizing, shamefully neglected stateside film from French New Wave director Jacques Demy that follows an aimless, unemployed architect who ends…
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series) (1969-1974)
- Dir. John Howard Davies, Terry Gilliam, Ian Macnaughton
Feat. John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle…
- Britain's most infamous comic ensemble present four seasons of inspired madness. Complete seasons 1–4 available over seven discs.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus - Personal Best (TV Series) (1969-1974)
- Dir. John Howard Davies, Terry Gilliam, Ian Macnaughton
Feat. John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle…
- Britain's most infamous comic ensemble, the Phython alumni, collate their personal favourites from four years of sketches on the Flying Circus TV…
- Perversion Story (1969)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Jean Sorel, Elsa Martinelli, Marisa Mell
- Erotic shocker from the priest of perversion. An unfortunate doctor falls in with an amoral stripper who happens to resemble his dead wife.
- Plot Against Harry, The (1969)
- Dir. Michael Roemer
Feat. Harry Plotnik
- Repentent racketeer Harry Plotnik is released from jail, but his plans to go legit in New York's Jewish community become inadvertently thwarted by…
- Spirits of the Dead (Histoires Extraordinaires) (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Terence Stamp, Alain Delon…
- A classy compendium of three Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Europe's finest.
Metzengerstein (Dir. Roger Vadim) – Jane and Peter Fonda…
- Stereo (1969)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Clara Mayer, Jack Messinger, Iain Ewing…
- Highly experimental debut for Canada's king of body horror revolves around a small group of telepathics who experiment with the mind, sexuality and…
- Tales of the Bizarre (1969)
- Dir. Anthony Balch
- Hammer–style sexploitation anthology, each with 'a battle of the sexes' theme. Worth a look for sleaze–buffs.
- Touch of Zen, A (Hsia Nu) (1969)
- Dir. King Hu
Feat. Hsu Feng
- A dazzling blend of medieval potboiler, religious fable and martial arts spectacular, set in an ancient China wracked by civil war.
Centred on the…
- Venus in Furs (Paroxismus) (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. James Darren, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski…
- A high point for dir. Franco's psychedelic Euro–sleaze vision, with a jazz musician becoming obsessed with a beautiful woman, her bloodied…
- Wedding Party, The (1969)
- Dir. Cynthia Monroe, Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Robert De Niro
- Brian De Palma collaborated with others to make this while still at college in 1963. Improvised film details the sparring between a couple before…
- Wrecking Crew, The (1969)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate…
- Daft final outing for Martin as erotic photographer/super–spy Matt Helm with bonkers plot centering on a villain stealing a billion dollars…
- Angels from Hell (1968)
- Dir. Bruce Kessler
Feat. Tom Stern, Arlene Martel, Ted Markland
- Motorcycling subversives get into trouble with the law, but hey, anything is better than Vietnam, man!
- Banana Splits, The (1968)
- Psychedelia for kids! The first three episodes of the cult kids show featuring the mind–boggling antics of Drooper, Snorky, Bingo and Fleegle.
- Burn! (Queimada!) (1968)
- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Marlon Brando
- An anti–American political allegory veiled as a striking historical chronicle, Marlon Brando plays British colonialist William Walker who…
- Candy (1968)
- Dir. Christian Marquand
Feat. Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton…
- Sixties sex farce that satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive eponymous heroine, played by Swedish model, Ewa Aulin.…
- Committee, The (1968)
- Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Paul Jones
- Short, surrealist slice of British hippie arcana in which a hitchhiker decapitates a passing driver (then changes his mind and sews the head back…
- Danger Diabolik (1968)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli…
- Cat–burgling cool from the pop–art 1960's, outfitted in futuristic chic and the effortless glamour of John Phillip Law and blonde…
- Do Not Adjust Your Set (TV Series) (1968)
- Feat. Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle…
- Together with AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW, this shows the gathering forces of what would become Monty Python, with Idle, Jones, Gilliam and Palin…
- Faces (1968)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin
- A marriage in crisis lurches into a downward spiral of drunkeness and desperate affairs. The dishevelled honesty and stark camerawork may not suit…
- Fando Y Lis / La Cravate (1968)
- Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Feat. Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal
- Primitive but anarchic feature–length debut for Jodorowsky, shaped loosely on Fernando Arrabal’s play.
Unmistakably surrealist, this…
- Flesh (1968)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro
- A product of the Andy Warhol factory in which trash icon Joe Dallesandro hustles his way through a series of (homo)sexual encounters.…
- Ghastly Ones, The / Seeds of Sin (1968)
- Dir. Andy Milligan
Feat. Maggie Rogers, Candy Hammond, Veronica Radburn…
- For hardcore grindhouse fans only, comes this double bill from notorious trash hound, Andy Milligan.
"The Ghastly Ones" is his first horror film…
- Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
- Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Marianne Faithful, Alain Delon
- Straight out of the late 60s ethos of freedom, rebellion, psychedelics and women’s liberation, a leather–clad Marianne Faithful speeds away…
- Greetings (1968)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Robert De Niro, Gerrit Graham, Allen Garfield
- Anarchic early De Palma is an episodic look at three friends caught up in the heady times of 60's America. Features an early comedic turn from De…
- Head (1968)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Michael Nesmith, Annette Funicello
- This psychedelic indulgence from pop group 'The Monkees' has no plot to speak of, but is loaded with zany ideas. An amusing head trip for the eyes…
- If.... (1968)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Mona Washbourne…
- An angry yet sublimely poetic counter–cultural work in which events both real and imagined culminate in a violent revolt at a repressive public…
- Joe 90 (TV Series) (1968)
- Dir. Gerry Anderson
- All thirty episodes of Gerry Anderson's wonder boy of hi–tech espionage. With a subtext as high camp as the theme song, this may well send you…
- Magus, The (1968)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen…
- A difficult, if beguiling adaptation of John Fowles’ supposedly unfilmable novel about a troubled schoolteacher (Caine) who arrives on a Greek…
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Duane Jones
- Highly original and influential drive–in cheapie, distinguished by its realistic, documentary atmosphere and imaginative ending. Graphically…
- Petulia (1968)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain
- Peculiar relic from the late 60s, a radical studio pic – anti–narrative, bizarre angles, hip dialogue, contentious themes, Frisco…
- Pretty Poison (1968)
- Dir. Noel Black
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld
- A fan of PSYCHO? Then check out Anthony Perkins in this chilling tale of a couple of psychos in love. Tuesday Weld glitters as a teenage bad seed.
- Psych-Out (1968)
- Dir. Richard Rush
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell, Susan Strasberg…
- Quintessential '60s acid movie about a deaf runaway who encounters the psychedelic rebel culture of hippies' Jack Nicolson and Dean Stockwell while…
- She-Devils On Wheels (1968)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Betty Connell, Nancy Lee Noble, Christie Wagner
- The indefatigable 'father of gore' takes his brutal brand of B–grade to the 1960s bikie genre with the tale of an all–female gang in…
- Space Thing (1968)
- Dir. Byron Mabe
- Sexploitation in space from cult producer David F. Friedman, this dreams up a story about the spaceship S.S. Supreme Erection, which is voyaging the…
- Therese and Isabelle (1968)
- Dir. Radley Metzger
Feat. Essy Persson, Anna Gael, Barbara Laage…
- Erotic elegy from cult director Metzger with two young girls experience awakening sexuality at a Swiss boarding school.
It might be lacking the…
- Twisted Nerve (1968)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills
- Hywel Bennett is suitably creepy as a homicidal youth who befriends a nubile Hayley Mills. Unnerving gothic melodrama is well served by Bernard…
- Up Tight (1968)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera…
- In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their…
- Vixen (1968)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Erica Gavin, Harrison Page
- An A–grade exploitation picture, with Uncle Russ at his most playful, creative and virile. His purely kitsch instinct and virtuoso editing…
- Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
- Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern
- Possibly the finest of the BBC's M R James adaptations, this spooky tale concerns a closeted, sceptical professor (Hordern) whose seaside holiday…
- Wonderwall (1968)
- Dir. Joe Massot
Feat. Jane Birkin, Jack MacGowran, Irene Handl
- Sixties counter–culture curiosity about a meek middle–aged bachelor who becomes consumed with lust and envy for his…
- Yellow Submarine (1968)
- Dir. George Dunning
- 12 classic Beatles tunes and 90 minutes of bright and whimsical imagery are showcased in this surrealist fantasy from the days when all you needed…
- Ambushers, The (1967)
- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule…
- Ridiculous third entry in the Matt Helm series is considered the weakest with Deano sent to Acapulco to recover a hijacked space craft. Having said…
- At Last the 1948 Show (1967)
- Feat. John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor…
- Surrealistic sketch show that along with DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET, paved the way for the Monty Python revolution. Presenting a similar blend of media…
- Belle De Jour (Beauty of the Day) (1967)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli…
- Cool and elegant comedy of manners about a virginal newlywed who works the day shift in a high class brothel. Bunuel's surrealist…
- Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin) (1967)
- Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Feat. Joe Shishido
- The height of Seijun Suzuki’s insolence peaked in this coarse and cantankerous tale of rival assassins engaged in a game of…
- Camille 2000 (1967)
- Dir. Radley Metzger
Feat. Daniele Gaubert, Nino Castelnuovo, Eleonora Rossi Drago
- One of several films Metzger made during the sexual revolution involving exotic foreign location and casts, hip talk and that all important naked…
- Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (1967)
- Dir. Gerry Anderson
- The complete series of Gerry Anderson's most technically accomplished sci–fi puppet, Captain Scarlet, who has limitless clones of himself…
- Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (Se sei vivo spara) (1967)
- Dir. Giulio Questi
Feat. Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock
- A rather entrancing surrealistic version of the 'spaghetti western' involving a robbery gone wrong and an avenger from beyond the grave... but also…
- Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate
- Typically twisted spoof oddity on vampire movies, with Polanski's then wife Sharon Tate.
- Frank's Greatest Adventure (Fearless Frank) (1967)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Jon Voight, Severn Darden
- Curious superhero spoof in which Jon Voight is topped by gangsters and reincarnated as a crime–fighter extraordinaire. The director's career…
- Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1967)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
- The third, the funniest and most violent of Clint's association with director Leone. Set during the Civil War, three low–lifes search for a…
- Hell's Angels On Wheels (1967)
- Dir. Richard Rush
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Adam Rourke
- Rebel with little cause Jack Nicholson straddles up with the Hells Angels for skirmishes and pot–and–painting parties but remains a firm…
- House Of 1000 Dolls (La Casa De Las Mil Muñecas ) (1967)
- Dir. Jeremy Summers
Feat. Vincent Price, George Nader, Martha Hyer
- An unlikely Vincent Price stars as a nightclub magician who kidnaps young women and sends them into sex slavery in this campy cult flick. Price calls…
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe…
- A masterpiece of crime fiction adapted from Truman Capote’s novel about events surrounding the senseless murder of an innocent family by two…
- In Like Flint (1967)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Andrew Duggan…
- Before AUSTIN POWERS, there was this James Bond spoof series (of which this is the second film) where James Coburn grins his way through proceedings.…
- Just for the Hell of it / Blast Off Girls (1967-1968)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Ray Sager
- A Drive–In Double Bill of delinquency dramas from gore–king Herschell Gordon Lewis, who here keeps a lid on the red paint.
JUST FOR…
- King of Hearts (1967)
- Dir. Phillipe De Broca
Feat. Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur
- Excellently quirky mid–60s comedy that became a cult–hit in the US, has soldier Alan Bates infiltrate a French village in WWI, which has…
- Marat / Sade (1967)
- Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Patrick Magee, Glenda Jackson
- Intellectually–dense costume–drama set in an 18th century French madhouse, where celebrity inmate, the Marquis de Sade (Patrick Magee)…
- Prisoner, The (TV Series) (1967-1968)
- Feat. Patrick McGoohan
- Patrick McGoohan stars as No.6, a man who wakes to find himself the pawn of a mysterious big brother organisation in this 60's soaked sci–fi…
- Privilege (1967)
- Dir. Peter Watkins
Feat. Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton
- Paul Jones (one–time vocalist for the Manfred Mann group) fronts a government–sanctioned brainwash as a rock idol whose music is being…
- Rebel Rousers (1967)
- Dir. Martin B Cohen
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Harry Dean Stanton…
- An utterly shameless fistful of 60s exploitation, this has a biker gang tearing up a quiet little town and having races for winner's 'trophy' Diane…
- Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)
- Dir. Arthur Dreifuss
Feat. Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer
- Restless hippy kids cause headaches for parents and police as violence and recreational drugs take root in affluent Hollywood. The fashions and…
- Saint, The - Fiction Makers (1967)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Roger Moore, Sylvia Syms
- Roger Moore's successful TV portrayal provides the basis of this feature–length version of 'The Saint'. A gang of jewel–thieves plans a…
- Something Weird (1967)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
- Certainly a trip into 'something weird' by the veteran gore schlockmeister , in which a disfigured psychic (McCabe) makes a pact with a witch who…
- Targets (1967)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Bogdanovich
- The influential first feature from a young Peter Bogdanovich, that effectively contrasts the story of a retiring horror actor (played by Boris…
- Trip, The (1967)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg…
- One of several collaborations between director Roger Corman and Jack Nicholson, who wrote the screenplay. A director of TV commercials gradually…
- Valley of the Dolls (1967)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate…
- Trashy adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's novel about three young women in the show biz fast lane.
- Weekend (1967)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
- A poetic, stylised and savage vision as only Godard could dream up and/or get away with. Road chaos and carnage is his metaphor for the decline of…
- Zodiac Killer, The / Sex Killer, The / Zero In and Scream (1967-1971)
- Dir. Tom Hanson, Barry Mahon, Lee Frost
- A trio of 'sex and violence' B–grades from the interesting pre–hardcore era.
'The Zodiac Killer' (1971) – Dir. Tom Hanson. Made…
- A Bullet For the General (Quien Sabe?) (1966)
- Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick
- Spaghetti western set during the Mexican revolution where a gringo assassin infiltrates a gang of bandits in order to find and kill a rebel general.…
- Alice in Wonderland (1966)
- Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Peter Cook, Michael Redgrave, Peter Sellers…
- Cult BBC version of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, in which drowsing Alice enters the dreamscape of 'Wonderland'.
Influenced by the…
- Batman (TV Series) (1966-1968)
- Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith…
- Batman and Robin, as many would best remember them, take on a succession of colourful Gotham City villains – Catwoman, The Joker, The Penguin,…
- Black Klansman, The (1966)
- Dir. Ted V. Mikels
Feat. Richard Gilden, Rima Kutner
- Typically melodramatic exploitation from Ted V. Mikels about a pale skinned black man who joins the Klan.
- Blow Up (Blow-Up) (1966)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles…
- Nothing–is–what–it–seems in this slow yet absorbing account of a fashion photographer's suspicion that he may have witnessed…
- Color Me Lurid (1966)
- Dir. George Kuchar
- A sampler of six of the kitschest and coolest short films from the weird mind of George Kuchar. Fans of John Waters' work will be delighted and…
- Cul-de-Sac (1966)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Donald Pleasence
- Polanski's influential, absurdist comedy concerns an eccentric couple taken captive by a pair of old gangsters in their Northumbrian castle. Stars…
- Daisies (1966)
- Dir. Vera Chytilova
Feat. Julius Albert, Jitka Cerhova, Marie Ceskova
- Much–loved cinematic firecracker from the halcyon days of 60s Czech radicalism, in which two girls (both called Marie) live out their anarchist…
- Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966)
- Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks
- A mixed attempt to translate Doctor Who (Peter Cushing in this incarnation) to the big screen, with Daleks enslaving humans in a future,…
- Delirious Fictions of William Klein, The (Who are You, Polly Maggoo?; Mr. Freedom; The Model Couple) (1966-1977)
- Feat. Anemone , Jacques Boudet, Eddie Constantine…
- An American photographer in new wave Paris; Dir. Klein has been making challenging cinema for more than forty years. In his three obscure fiction…
- Django (1966)
- Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Franco Nero, Jose Bodalo, Loredana Nusciak…
- Stylish, ice–cold 'Spaghetti Western' tells the story of Django, a gunslinger who drags a mysterious coffin through the bandit–populated…
- Endless Summer (1966)
- Dir. Bruce Brown
Feat. Mike Hynson, Robert August
- Widely popular cult documentary follows two American surfers who trot the globe looking for the perfect wave, even stopping off at Raglan, NZ.…
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Tura Satana, Haji
- Russ Meyer’s most famous film is the ultimate “fast cars, fast women” fantasy about three go–go dancers who find trouble in the desert…
- Fury of the Dragon (1966-1976)
- Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Bruce Lee, Van Williams
- A 'sequel' to 1974's THE GREEN HORNET, which cobbles together four more episodes from Bruce Lee's 1966 TV series of the same title. Stylised tone is…
- Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) (1966)
- Feat. Richard Bradford, Donald Sutherland, Felicity Kendall…
- Perhaps lesser known (and less innovative) than other suspense series of the 1960s, this ITC production still packs a gritty punch.
Bradford plays…
- Manos The Hands of Fate (1966)
- Dir. Harold P. Warren
- Legendary cult turkey concerning a family looking for a place to stay in the desert, and picking a sinister ranch–house looked after by a…
- Mission: Impossible (TV Series) (1966- 1973)
- Dir. Bernard L. Kowalski
Feat. Peter Graves, Steven Hill, Barbara Bain…
- Forget Tom Cruise, this is the real McCoy – '60s fashion, gadgets, and plots worth talking about the day after.
On DVD rental: Season 1 (28…
- Modesty Blaise (1966)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp…
- Comic–strip style adventures of a sexy female spy, filmed at the height of the pop–art craze.
- Monkey - Journey to the West (The Monkey Goes West, Princess Iron Fan, The Cave of Silken Web, The Land of Many Perfumes) (1966-1968)
- Dir. Meng-Hwa Ho
- Generous, richly–hued Shaw Brothers adaptation of the Chinese folk tale 'Journey to the West', spread across four lushly presented widescreen…
- Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
- Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens…
- David Warner as Morgan goes to eccentric extremes to try to win back his wife (Vanessa Redgrave) after she divorces him. Quaintly weird comic tale is…
- Murderer's Row (1966)
- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden…
- Far out second Matt Helm film sees our swinging spy battling a villian and his plans to harness the power of the sun to destroy earth. Austin Powers…
- Mystery and Imagination (TV Series) (1966-1970)
- A cult British series devoted to feature–length tele adaptations of Gothic works by some of the 19th century's greatest writers, including Bram…
- Navajo Joe (1966)
- Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Fernando Rey
- Bloodthirsty Navajo Joe goes looking for revenge after his family is killed by nefarious outlaws.
Pre–fame Burt teams up with pre–Django…
- Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill / The Head Mistress (1966-1968)
- Dir. Peter Perry, Byron Mabe
Feat. Stacey Walker, Julia Blackburn, Vanessa Van Dyke
- Double–bill of cut–rate "Nudie Cuties" from producer David Friedman's 'historical' period.
Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill (1966)…
- One Million Years B.C. (1966)
- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert
- One of Hammer Studios greatest hits, this genuinely well–made adventure is set among cavemen and cavewomen struggling to survive in a world of…
- Our Man Flint (1966)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan…
- Zestful James Bond spoof with James Coburn providing the regulation braun with an equal measure of tongue–in–cheek.
- Silencers, The (1966)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi…
- Dean Martin stars as secret agent Matt Helm, the archetypal gun–toting womanizer, straight out of the kitsch 60's. Spawned 3 sequels, but this…
- Thunderbirds Are Go! (1966)
- Dir. David Lane
Feat. Cliff Richard, The Shadows
- Gordon, Virgil, Lady Penelope, Brains and other super–marionettes from International Space Rescue Service check in for their first FAB…
- Tokyo Drifter (1966)
- Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Feat. Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara
- Yakuza thriller dazzlingly exploits the palette of pop art design. Largely incoherent story involves a young punk in a pale blue–suit who gets…
- Ultraman (TV Series) (1966)
- When the world is threatened by aloien invaders and giant prehistoric monsters, There is only one agency equipped with the high tech weaponry to…
- Wild Angels, The (1966)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern
- First big bikie flick set the blueprint for the genre, with Hell’s Angel Peter Fonda and his main squeeze Nancy Sinatra, having a wild time racing,…
- Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
- Dir. William Asher
Feat. Paul Lynde, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello…
- Most successful and best known of the ‘Beach Party’ movies, though it shows signs of being fifth in a series by straying quite a way from the…
- Chained Girls / Daughters of Lesbos (1965-1968)
- Dir. Joseph P. Mawra, Peter Woodcock
- A scarcely–digestible two course meal of B–grade lesbian sexploitation.
Chained Girls (1965) – Dir. Joseph P. Mawra. A…
- Collector, The (1965)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar
- Terence Stamp plays a disturbed butterfly collector who kidnaps a girl in the hope that she will grow to love him. Truly memorable chiller maintains…
- Doctor Who and the Daleks (Dr. Who and the Daleks) (1965)
- Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Peter Cushing
- First go at putting the classic TV serial on the big–screen, with Peter Cushing giving a pleasingly daffy rendition of the Doctor, combating…
- For a Few Dollars More (1965)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte
- An improvement on the original film with Eastwood encoring to the strains of that unmistakable Morricone score.
- Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies (1965)
- Dir. Ray Dennis Steckler
Feat. Ray Dennis Steckler, Brett O'Hara
- Classic curiosity combines weird monsters, exceedingly bad acting and a musical into one laughable stew.
- Knack and How to Get It, The (1965)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Rita Tushingham, Michael Crawford, Ray Brooks
- Under–rated moddish mid–60s item with a slightly mixed reputation, concerning a youthful Crawford's attempts to learn how to have a "way…
- Motor Psycho (1965)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Russ Meyer, Alex Rocco, Haji
- Dusty sex–and–violence potboiler stars Russ Meyer–regular Haji as one of three buxom nymphs who get 'roughed–up' by a trio of…
- Party's Over, The (1965)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Oliver Reed
- Stark yet salubrious cautionary tale of wayward youth set in the Chelsea beatnik scene, where "wild and drunken partying" and a brooding Oliver Reed…
- Pink Panther (Animated) (1965-1975)
- The cartoon adventures of the fabulously slinky feline who always comes out on top, developed from the hugely popular opening credits of Blake…
- Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1965)
- Dir. Ray Dennis Steckler
Feat. Carolyn Brandt, Ron Haydock, Titus Moede
- Z–grade item from the king of inept film–making that was literally made up as it went along. It's everything a bad–movie lover…
- Repulsion (1965)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Catherine Deneuve
- Polanski's tour–de–force of urban sexual paranoia. Catherine Deneuve has an obsessive fear of men which slowly descends her into madness.…
- Ride In the Whirlwind (1965)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell
- A low–budget western shot back–to–back with THE SHOOTING and although the lesser of the two, has a few gritty moments. The VHS tape…
- Saragossa Manuscript, The (1965)
- Dir. Wojciech Has
Feat. Zbigniew Cybulski
- Captivating Polish oddity with a labyrinthine plot involving the discovery of a book which reveals all manner of beguiling…
- Shooting, The (1965)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Millie Perkins
- Avant–garde cowboy tale co–written by and featuring a typically crazed performance from Jack Nicholson, plus a memorable and unexpected…
- Simon of the Desert (1965)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook
- A short surrealist fantasy concerning the life of Simon Stylites (Claudio Brook), an early Christian ascetic, who stood for years atop a column in…
- Tattooed Life, A (Irezumi ichidai) (1965)
- Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Feat. Hideki Takahashi
- Rare period excursion for dir. Seijun Suzuki trades pistols for samurai swords, but not much else as dir’s lurid aesthetic and heady production…
- Tomb of Ligeia (1965)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price
- The last of the director's Poe interpretations is one the most memorable. Effective use is made of the eerie English locations and Vincent Price's…
- Village of the Giants (1965)
- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. Ron Howard, Beau Bridges
- From the brainchild of Bert I. Gordon, an atomic monster and ‘giant’ movie specialist who did a lot of his own special effects, comes this gaudy…
- Dead Ringer (1964)
- Dir. Paul Henreid
Feat. Bette Davis
- Enjoyable, high camp star vehicle for Bette Davis who is driven by jealousy to murder her twin sister in order to assume her identity. Bette, of…
- Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Duncan Lamont, David Hutcheson
- Number three in the renowned Hammer horror Frankenstein series set in an isolated castle. The Baron (Cushing) and his assistant, in need of help to…
- Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonte
- Perhaps the most famous of the spaghetti Westerns, with Clint Eastwood influencing a generation of tough guy anti–heroes with his formidable,…
- Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films (1964-1992)
- Dir. Jan Svankmajer
- A superb, forty–year anthology of the terrifying, eccentric short films of Jan Svankmajer, the influential and cutting edge Czech…
- Kitten with a Whip (1964)
- Dir. Douglas Heyes
Feat. Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown…
- Ann–Margaret brings white–hot intensity to this cult classic about a teenage girl on the run from the law who blackmails a clueless…
- Lady in a Cage (1964)
- Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Ann Sothern…
- A wealthy, though incapacitated de Havilland gets stuck in her own private lift and is terrorised by a group of menacing youths, led by Caan.
This…
- Leather Boys, The (1964)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton
- Gritty study of an impulsive young woman's incompatible marriage to motorcycle–loving mechanic, and his subsequent 'close' relationship with a…
- Lorna (1964)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Lorna Maitland, Mark Bradley, James Rucker
- Russ Meyer's first film with an actual plot, this gothic rural pot–boiler defined the word 'roughie', a term coined for sleaze films that…
- Monstrosity (The Atomic Brain) (1964)
- Dir. Joseph V. Mascelli
Feat. Frank Gerstle
- An elderly woman pays a mad scientist to create a new body for her in his fiendish laboratory, by somehow utilising nuclear power and three beautiful…
- Naked Kiss, The (1964)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley
- Redemptive prostitute Constance Towers assimilates into smalltown USA, only to unwittingly bait trouble and dredge up unspeakable secrets. This…
- Nasty Rabbit, The (1964)
- Dir. James Landis
Feat. Arch Hall Jr., Micha Terr
- Drive–in spoof/propaganda frolic about a Russian attempt to set loose a disease–infected rabbit in the U.S.
- Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
- Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Fabian, Tab Hunter, Barbara Eden…
- Clean–cut teenage beach party movie with Fabian, Tab Hunter and Barbara Eden looking splendid in their swimming trunks.
- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
- Dir. Nicholas Webster
Feat. Pia Zadora
- Kidnapping Santa because their children have become obsessed with Christmas due to TV broadcasts from Earth, the Martians get more than they bargain…
- Spider Baby (1964)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney
- More of a twisted black comedy than a traditional horror flick – a threesome of child monsters and their ‘uncle’ rabidly protect their rural…
- Star Trek - Season 1 (TV Series) (1964)
- Feat. Jeffrey Hunter, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy…
- The original Star Trek series was a milestone in television – as one of the best sci–fi conceptions and as the start of a remarkable…
- Strait-Jacket (1964)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Joan Crawford
- Joan Crawford fans won’t want to miss her slumming it as an axe–murderess, ‘reformed’ after twenty years in an asylum, but whose attempts…
- Woman of the Dunes (1964)
- Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
- From a simple premise – a man becomes trapped in a valley of sand in which a solitary woman lives – the director is able to draw out…
- Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
- A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack
- Masterpiece of fantasy based on Greek mythology features the best stop–motion animation work from Ray Harryhausen. The skeleton…
- Mind Benders, The (1963)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, Michael Bryant…
- A sombre and sobering thriller about the dangers of scientific experiments into sensory deprivation.
Investigating the suicide of a colleague,…
- Nutty Professor, The (1963)
- Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens
- Jerry Lewis' most hilarious, certainly most personal work uses the Jekyll–and–Hyde device to exploit his comic genius as both awkward…
- Sadist, The (1963)
- Dir. James Landis
Feat. Arch Hall Jr.
- Like BADLANDS, this little–known drive–in flick is based on the infamous Starkweather murder spree of the late 50s, and is never less…
- Santo in the Wax Museum (1963)
- Dir. Alfonso Corona Blake
Feat. Santo
- The Hulk Hogan of Mexican wrestlers, Santo, inflates his larger–than–life persona in this corny, low–rent vehicle which has the…
- Servant, The (1963)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles
- First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
- Shock Corridor (1963)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Peter Breck, Constance Towers
- An unsolved slaying in a mental hospital prompts over–ambitious journalist Peter Breck to pose as a 'lunatic', so as to find the killer. Alas,…
- That Kind of Girl (1963)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Margaret Rose Keil, David Weston, Linda Marlowe
- Another gem rescued from obscurity by the BFI's Flipside label, this one deals with the hush–hush topic of venereal disease against a backdrop…
- X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Don Rickles, John Hoyt…
- Furrow–browed scientist Ray Milland discovers the ability to see through matters, and takes advantage with card games and ladies etc., but…
- Yellow Teddybears, The (Gutter Girls) (1963)
- Dir. Robert Hartford-Davies
Feat. Annette Whiteley
- Packaged as a sexploitation movie, this is actually an earnest message movie about illicit teenage sex, set in a girl's school where those that have…
- Young Racers, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mark Damon, Patrick Magee
- Teensploitation melodrama from the king of the drive–in cheapie about motor–racing rivalry. Some great racing footage and bratty…
- Youth of the Beast (Yaju no seishun) (1963)
- Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Feat. Joe Shishido, Misako Watanabe
- Further yazuka tales from the incorrigible Seijun Suzuki: regular lead thug Shishido plays a rogue gangster who muscles in, SANJURO–style, on…
- Carnival of Souls (1962)
- Dir. Herk Harvey
Feat. Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey
- A woman's vision of the world is not quite the same after surviving a car accident in this vastly under–appreciated spook story that comes…
- Eegah (1962)
- Dir. Arch Hall, Sr.
Feat. Arch Hall Jr., Richard Kiel, Arch Hall, Sr.…
- Hailed as one of the most compellingly 'bad films' ever made, this concerns a young woman who is menaced by the world's last surviving caveman…
- Experimental Films of Osamu Tezuka, The (1962-1988)
- Dir. Osamu Tezuka
- 13 rare experimental films from the godfather of Japanese manga and anime, Osamu Tezuka.
Films: Tales of the Street Corner, Male, Memory, Mermaid,…
- Exterminating Angel, The (1962)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal
- A psychic 'disaster movie', in which guests become trapped at a dinner party by a mysterious forcefield. As the days go by, dinner–table…
- Final Academy Documents (1962)
- Two tapes of material on cult American writer/painter/filmmaker William Burroughs. First tape contains a number of his experimental films from the…
- La Jetee (1962)
- Dir. Chris Marker
- Classic science–fiction short told almost entirely in stills takes a man from the future on a terrifying journey back to his childhood. The…
- McHale's Navy (TV Series) (1962-1965)
- Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway
- Predating MASH, Borgnine and Flynn engage in naval nonsense in this fondly remembered maritime comedy of hierarchical hi–jinks and seaman…
- Saint, The (TV Series) (1962)
- Feat. Roger Moore
- The role of Simon Templar enabled a young Roger Moore to perfect the savvy quips that would mark him as a natural choice for James Bond.
Also…
- Samurai, The (TV Series) (1962- 1965)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Koichi Ose
- Shintaro (Koichi Ose) and his Samurai warriors protect feudal Japan from the black–robed society of the Koga Ninjas, armed with magic and…
- Tale of Zatoichi, The (1962)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu
- The inaugural movie in the iconic 'Zatoichi' series – which followed the intriguing adventures in mythical Japan of a blind masseur, who has…
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono…
- Joan Crawford and Bette Davis scheme and brood in this memorable gothic melodrama about an aged child star and her embittered and jealous sister who…
- Wild Guitar (1962)
- Dir. Ray Dennis Steckler
Feat. Arch Hall Jr., Nancy Czar, Ray Dennis Steckler
- A deceitful record exec stiffs our guitar–playing, motorcycling hero. Another textbook how–not–to–make–a–movie…
- All Night Long (Die Heisse Nacht) (1961)
- Dir. Basil Dearden, Michael Relph
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Richard Attenborough, Keith Michell…
- Set in London's smoky jazz scene, this updating of Othello is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best Jazz musicians of the…
- Avengers, The (TV Series) (1961-1969)
- Feat. Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson
- The impossibly hip secret agent show is a high–camp classic and a nostalgic pleasure. Well–devised scripts, quirky dialogue and playful…
- Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1961)
- Dir. Joseph Green
Feat. Jason Evers
- Ripping off other 'brain transplant' cheapies, this flick goes several steps further down the exploitation path and thus has burrowed a special place…
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
- Dir. Paul Wendkos
Feat. Deborah Walley, James Darren
- Deborah Walley as teenage Gidget #3 says ‘aloha’ in this superfluous sequel.
- Homicidal (1961)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin
- Twisted, camp and expensively photographed B–movie follows the antics of a dispicable platinum blond, whose bouts of psychotic murder serve an…
- Intruder, The (I Hate Your Guts) (1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. William Shatner, Leo Gordon
- The only Corman film ever to lose money is not surprisingly perhaps his best. William Shatner excels as a small–time drifter who preaches the…
- Mysterious Island (1961)
- Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan…
- Robust adventure yarn finds a group of Yankee soldiers escaping a Confederate jail using a hot air balloon during the American Civil War.
After…
- Naked - As Nature Intended (1961)
- Dir. Harrison Marks
- A genuine sixties 'nudie', that dodged the wrath of Mary Whitehouse–types by pronouncing its 'educational' format. After a sightseeing tour of…
- Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele
- Corman's most famous plundering of Poe extracts a host of psycho–sexual tensions out of a fine script. Vincent Price is convinced he is the…
- Viridiana (1961)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey
- Bunuel purges his spiritual demons in this potent psychological study of a novice nun who loses her innocence when she visits her…
- Young Ones, The / Summer Holiday (1961-1962)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie, Peter Yates
Feat. Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, The Shadows
- A pairing of delightfully dated musical vehicles for Brit pop sensation of the day, Cliff Richard. THE YOUNG ONES has Cliff organising a fundraising…
- Beat Girl (1960)
- Dir. Edmond T. Greville
Feat. Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee…
- Providing a rare peek into the British 'beat scene', this groovy juvenile delinquency drama proves there was teenage wildlife before the Beatles, and…
- Brides of Dracula (1960)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt
- Recognised as one of Hammer Studios' best horrors, this acclaimed sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA reconvenes director/actor team Fisher and Cushing. This…
- High School Caesar (1960)
- Dir. O'Dale Ireland
Feat. John Ashley
- John Ashley plays a budding crime–lord in this racy wee B–movie, with his own high school proving a rich source of revenue, via exam…
- Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson
- Hammy black comedy about that ferocious, carnivorous plant named Audrey. A Corman quickie, shot in two days, still remains one of his best, plus it…
- Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele
- Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
- Peeping Tom (1960)
- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Karlheinz Bohm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
- While Hitchcock's PSYCHO received raves reviews and general acceptance, Michael Powell's equally contentious but brilliant film was condemned as…
- Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)
- Dir. Albert Zugsmith
Feat. Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld
- Despite having thirteen diplomas, Mamie Van Doren (the B–Movie's Marilyn Monroe) has trouble being taken seriously as a college professor!…
- Strange World of Gurney Slade, The (TV Series) (1960)
- Feat. Anthony Newley
- An unpredictable, wildly inventive comedy where an actor (Anthony Newley) walks off the set of a banal sit–com and into an absurd fantasy world…
- Wasp Woman, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark
- A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
- Beat Generation, The (1959)
- Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. Steve Cochran, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong…
- Steve Cochran and Jackie Coogan are the fuzz who drop in to the beatnik world of cool jazz, dope and Kerouac on the trail of a sexual assaulter.…
- Bucket of Blood, A (1959)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Dick Miller, Ed Nelson
- This has the twin distinction of being both a hilarious send–up of 'beat' culture and a ripping black comedy. Dick Miller is Walter Paisley, a…
- Giant Behemoth, The (Behemoth the Sea Monster) (1959)
- Dir. Eugene Lourie, Douglas Hickox
Feat. Gene Evans, Andre Morell
- Cult low–budget creature feature where a dormant dinosaur is resurrected during botched nuclear testing, and rampages through the city of…
- Gidget (1959)
- Dir. Paul Wendkos
Feat. Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson
- Cute–as–a–button Sandra Dee goes all out to prove she can hang with surf bums James Darren and Cliff Robertson, in the first and…
- Girls Town (1959)
- Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Paul Anka…
- Wayward teen Mamie Van Doren is sent to a girls' home after being ratted out by 'greaser' Mel Torme. Loaded with rock'n'roll.
- Shadows (1959)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Lelia Goldoni
- Cassavetes' influential debut explores inter–racial relationships with improvised dialogue, gitanes, ray–bans and Charlie Mingus…
- Teenage Zombies (1959)
- Dir. Jerry Warren
- A group of teenagers fall prey to a mad female scientist whose island they happen upon. Here, other prisoners and a variety of creatures are being…
- Tingler, The (1959)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman
- B–movie classic in which mad doctor Vincent Price conjures the 'physical form of fear itself', and lets the damned thing run amok! With bizzaro…
- 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (1958- 1964)
- Feat. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Sammy Jr. Davis, Roger Moore
- Efrem Zimbalist and Roger Smith are dashing young PI's in this slick police TV series from the 60s. Two eps. include guest appearances from Sammy…
- Astounding She-Monster, The (1958)
- Dir. Ronnie Ashcroft
Feat. Robert Clarke
- Cheap drive–in fodder has a deadly female alien crash–land near the hideout of a band of kidnappers. Some fun to be had with the cheesy…
- Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958)
- Dir. Nathan Hertz
Feat. Allison Hayes, William Hudson
- After a close–encounter, Allison Hayes starts growin' while her sleazeball husband philanders the town hussy. Bad special FX, charismatic…
- Bonnie Parker Story, The (1958)
- Dir. William Witney
Feat. Dorothy Provine, Dick Bakalyan, Jack Hogan
- Dorothy Provine is sensational in this low–budget telling the story of the tommy–gun toting 1930s gangster Bonnie Parker,…
- Cool and the Crazy, The (1958)
- Dir. William Witney
Feat. Scott Marlowe, Dick Bakalyan, Gigi Perreau
- Dick Bakalyan is impressively cool and crazy in this over–the–top 50s B–movie that cautions teenagers about getting mixed up with…
- High School Confidential (1958)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Russ Tamblyn, Mamie Van Doren, Jerry Lee Lewis
- When not gathering dirt on local marijuana dealers, 'student' narc Russ Tamblyn is clinching it with Mamie Van Doren. This hard–biting 'JD'…
- Horror of Dracula (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
- How To Make A Monster (1958)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris
- A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
- Invisible Man, The (TV Series) (H. G. Well's Invisible Man) (1958-1960)
- Feat. Tim Turner
- H.G Wells’ classic sci–fi premise is preserved in this superior television adaptation of science gone awry. Tim Turner plays the eponymous…
- Machine Gun Kelly (1958)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot
- A baby–faced Bronson gives an exciting edge to this superior B–movie biopic, based around the criminal career of the Depression–era…
- Man of the West (1958)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb…
- Gary Cooper stars in this battle of nerves as a former gunman forced by his old gang to engage in their criminal activity. Solid, intelligent film…
- Queen of Outer Space (1958)
- Dir. Edward Bernds
Feat. Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell, Eric Fleming
- Campy cult fantasy with an American space crew crash landing on Venus, which is inhabited by beautiful woman presided over by a despotic Queen.
- Reform School Girl (1958)
- Dir. Edward Bernds
Feat. Gloria Castillo, Sally Kellerman
- A “shocking true story”, this cheapie concerns the rough–ride of 17 year–old Gloria Castillo, who gets mixed up with a…
- Road Racers (1958)
- Dir. Arthur Swerdloff
Feat. Joel Lawrence, Marian Collier, Skip Ward
- Utterly obscure, but this B–grade runs with a full tank of gas! Set around a melodramatic race–track plot, it features some classic 50s…
- Teenage Caveman (1958)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Robert Vaughn, Sarah Marshall, Leslie Bradley
- Prehistoric drive–in fare boosted by Roger Corman's knack for never letting action drag, and a baby–faced Robert Vaughn (Man from Uncle)…
- Touch of Evil, A (1958)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor…
- Declaring its virtuosity right from the famous opening–shot, this late film–noir weaves a tale of murder and blackmail in a Mexican…
- Vertigo (1958)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes…
- Hitchcock at his most daring and surreal weaves a complex tale of neurosis when Jimmy Stewart's detective begins trailing a mysterious woman (Novak).…
- Viking Women And The Sea Serpent (Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent) (1958)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot
- Roger Corman schlock scraped from the seabed, about a clan of viking women who head out to sea in pursuit of their missing husbands. Soon they are…
- War Of The Colossal Beast (1958)
- Dir. Robert Gordon
Feat. Sally Fraser, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz
- Colossally inept sequel to the genuinely interesting AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, has the scarred giant discovered looting government food trucks in the…
- Wild Women of Wongo, The (1958)
- Dir. James L. Wolcott
Feat. Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Anne Webb, Cande Gerrard
- Hokey low–budget adventure film following the lives of members of two different tribes on the fictional islands of Wongo and nearby Goona.…
- Delinquents, The (1957)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Dick Bakalyan
- Future luminary Robert Altman's debut feature, an "expose" of juvenile delinquency in the rock'n'roll era.
Filmed in Kansas City in a…
- Dragstrip Girl (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Fay Spain, Steve Terrell, John Ashley…
- For the thrill of it, young blonde thing Fay Spain sets up a race between her two boyfriends, one being a good–guy garage mechanic, and the…
- I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
- Campy drive–in classic about a mad scientist who pulls a teen from a car wreck and 'repairs' him. Best seen as a double feature with 'Teenage…
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
- Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Michael Landon
- A cool Michael Landon scored a big hit in his film debut – a hilarious mishmash of horror and juvenile delinquency dramas.
- Motorcycle Gang (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. John Ashley, Carl Switzer, Raymond Hatton…
- Two wheel thrills as rival bikers outrage the town in a fight to the death to win the girl trophy. Drive–in version of THE WILD ONE bursts…
- Rock All Night (1957)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Dick Miller, Abby Dalton
- Two fugitive killers take refuge in a rock'n'roll hotspot and terrorize the customers. Less compelling than dir. Corman's usual B–grade…
- Runaway Daughters (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Anna Sten, John Litel…
- Drive–in fare from American–International, this time about a trio of disaffected teenage girls – one wanting more than her…
- Sorority Girl (The Bad One) (1957)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Fay Baker, Dick Miller
- Nastily excellent early Corman has Susan Cabot play an evil–minded college student who blackmails, teases and dominates various social…
- Thunder Over Hawaii (Naked Paradise) (1957)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Richard Denning, Beverly Garland
- Corman drive–in melodrama exploits a Hawaiian setting and the sensuous Beverly Garland for a tale of savage passion, kidnapping, and robbery of…
- Voodoo Woman (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Tom Conway, Marla English
- A greed–and–revenge themed horror melodrama set deep in the jungle, where a mad scientist (Conway) botches his first attempts to create a…
- Bad Seed, The (1956)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones
- A taut, gripping drama about a spoilt, psychotic child who has murdered her classmate. The juicy dialogue and Patty McCormack's wicked performance…
- Bigger Than Life (1956)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
- Enormously potent, landmark melodrama is also a career high for James Mason: he plays a suburban family man struck down with a rare heart disease,…
- Female Jungle (1956)
- Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine
- Lawrence Tierney, in a rare leading role, plays a hard–drinking cop who puzzles over a nightclub murder encumbered with a 'hangover'. Careful…
- Girl Can't Help It, The (1956)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London
- This ebullient comedy is not only the best showcase for what one Jayne Mansfield had to offer, but also for many of the rock 'n' roll talent of the…
- Girls in Prison (1956)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Richard Denning, Joan Taylor
- A seminal women–in–prison movie sure to have packed the kids in at US drive–ins to see 'what happens when a group of deranged,…
- Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)
- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Bela Lugosi
- Ed Wood's 'masterpiece' is renowned as the worst film ever made, but in truth any film this enjoyable can't be so bad. Zilch production values and…
- Rock Rock Rock (1956)
- Dir. Will Price
Feat. Tuesday Weld
- Tuesday Weld (at 13) schemes to get herself a strapless gown for the prom, surrounded by an impressive array of rock'n'rollers both black and white,…
- Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1956)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Michael Connors, Lisa Gaye, Douglas Dumbrille…
- Shaky but endearing pop relic in which a group of concerned adults try to ban rock 'n' roll music in their town believing that it promotes juvenile…
- Violent Years, The (1956)
- Dir. William J Morgan
Feat. Mamie Van Doren
- Scripted by Ed Wood Jnr (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) this tawdry 50s juvenile–delinquent pic features Mamie Van Doren leading a gang of…
- Written On the Wind (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack…
- Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…
- Bettie Page - Teaserama (Betty Page) (1955)
- Dir. Irving Klaw
Feat. Betty Page
- Latterday fetish icon Betty Page dominates the screen in this near plotless curiousity from the mid–1950s: a loosely organised series of…
- Bride of the Monster (1955)
- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson
- Mad scientist Bela Lugosi and hulking monster Tor Johnson abduct passers–by in a scheme to create a super–race. Super–bad acting,…
- Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
- High–camp spectacle about treachery in ancient Egypt during the building of the great Pyramid has procured something of a cult following, with…
- Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
- Dir. Charles Laughton
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
- A disturbing yet poetic masterpiece in which Robert Mitchum is mighty mean as a psychopathic preacher pursuing two runaways across the American…
- Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955)
- Dir. Franklin Adreon
Feat. Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space
- Cult movie serial which reworks stock footage from 1941's JUNGLE GIRL. A giant crayfish monster terrorises the African jungle and it's up to the…
- Quatermass Xperiment, The (The Creeping Unknown) (1955)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner
- Effective Hammer Films feature adaptation of the 1953 BBC sci–fi TV serial written by Nigel Kneale, in which an astronaut mysteriously returns…
- Animal Farm (1954)
- Dir. John Halas
- Animated adaptation of George Orwell's dark political satire keeps faith with the book, except for the optimistic ending.
- Bettie Page - Varietease (Betty Page) (1954)
- Dir. Irving Klaw
Feat. Betty Page
- More titillating footage of one of the greatest 'underground' pinup girls of the 1950s – Betty Page – here taking part in a variety show…
- Devil Girl From Mars (1954)
- Dir. David MacDonald
Feat. Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri…
- High camp sci–fi cheapie about a female alien commander from Mars who is sent to earth to collect human males as breeding stock to save the…
- Jail Bait (1954)
- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Timothy Farrell, Lyle Talbot, Steve Reeves…
- Ed Wood gangster pic sees underworld types having plastic surgery to escape the law. Script is a model of logic by Wood's standards, but…
- Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 2 (1954)
- Dir. Kenneth Anger
- Features "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (1954), a depiction of an imaginative world of gods invoked and controlled by the untamed desires of…
- Rin Tin Tin (TV Series) (1954)
- Feat. Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joseph Sawyer
- Two episodes from the TV series about the eponymous Alsation's adventures at a cavalry outpost.
- Divine Horseman (1953)
- Dir. Maya Deren
- Interesting filmic record of Voodoo 'possession' dances from Haiti, shot by experimental filmmaker Deren, whose rhythmic editing patterns enhance the…
- Glen or Glenda (1953)
- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood Jnr.
- Ed Wood stars in his first and best film, an astonishingly brave slice of propaganda enlightening viewers on the 'normal' practice of…
- House of Wax (1953)
- Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Vincent Price
- Vincent Price portrays a vengeful sculptor who restores his showroom with the corpses of his human victims. The most famous of films originally shown…
- Johnny Guitar (1953)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Sterling Hayden…
- Cowgirls Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge come head to head over the men they love in this wild Western soap opera, brimming with quirky…
- Robot Monster (1953)
- Dir. Phil Tucker
Feat. George Barrows
- Sharing the mantle with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE as the "worst movie of all time", this lesser–known unpolished turd is just as bad, only…
- Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
- Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy
- A crudely devised, but fascinating slice of early Cold War paranoia, this has the 'Land of the Free' being invaded by hordes of Russians, with…
- Radar Men from the Moon (1952)
- Dir. Fred C. Brannon
Feat. George Wallace, Roy Barcroft, Aline Towne…
- Cracking Republic serial has Commando Cody taking on the baddies – including future Lone Ranger Moore – armed with his trusty aluminum…
- I Love Lucy (TV Series) (1951- 1961)
- Feat. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley
- Seven selected episodes from the classic 50's sitcom that never dates. Episodes are 'The Diet', 'Be a Pal', 'The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub',…
- Battle of the Bombs (1950)
- Dir. Various
- A showcase of cinematic hell, this collage of catastrophic celluloid highlights some of the world's worst movies. Proceed at your own risk!...
- Un Chant D'amour (A Song of Love) (1950)
- Dir. Jean Genet
- Sole foray into cinema for French convict–turned–playwright Jean Genet is a brief and intense visual poem about the fantasies of…
- Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 3 (1949-1965)
- Dir. Kenneth Anger
- Three more shorts from Mssr. Anger, including "Kustom Kar Kommando" (1965), "Puce Moments" (1949), and his most famous and controversial work,…
- Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 1 (1947-1953)
- Dir. Kenneth Anger
- The first of a four–part compendium of shorts from the American iconoclast: 'Fireworks' (1947), made at the tender age of 15, 'Rabbit's Moon'…
- Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946)
- Dir. Hans Richter
- A luckless artist who sets up business as a merchant of dreams is the plot device that allows the cream of European Avant–Garde – Max…
- Anchors Aweigh (1945)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
- Wartime tale of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. A milestone due to the combination of gene Kelly's live–action choreography coupled with…
- Spy Smasher (1942)
- Dir. William Whitney
Feat. Kane Richmond, Sam Flint, Marguerite Chapman
- Wartime serial adapted from the comic strip has twin brothers protecting democracy from the needle–nosed Nazi spys. 12 instalments on one…
- Captain Marvel (1941)
- Dir. Bill Witney
Feat. Tom Tyler
- Tom Tyler transforms himself into superhero Captain Marvel simply by saying the word...Shazam! Considered by some to be the finest pre–show…
- Green Hornet, The (1940)
- Dir. Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Feat. Gordon Jones, Keye Luke, Anne Nagel…
- George W. Trendle's classic masked vigilante – originally stepping out in comic book and radio form, before appearing on TV (with Bruce Lee as…
- Norman McLaren - Selected Films (1940-1983)
- Dir. Norman McLaren
- A selection of films from the influential Canadian animator, whose styles range from avant–garde abstraction to drawn cell–animation.…
- TV Turkeys (1940)
- Crazy quiz shows, moronic musicals, dopey detective–dramas and other unintentional hilarity from the TV archives feature on this entertaining…
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
- Dir. Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Feat. Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr…
- The world's best loved film down through and across the generations, and a key cultural icon.
MGM pulled out all the stops to realise L. Frank…
- Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
- Dir. Sam Newfield
Feat. Billy Curtis
- The infamous Western oddity featuring an entire cast of midgets.
- Assassin of Youth (1937)
- Dir. Elmer Clifton
Feat. Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner
- Marijuana scare–movie from the 30s is an above–par exercise in hilarious establishment uptightness, following the sorry fate of several…
- Slaves In Bondage (1937)
- Dir. Elmer Clifton
- Prototypical 1930s exploitation effort from legendary producer J.D. Kendis, about a sleazy vice ring run by evil mobsters which comes unstuck after a…
- Marihuana (1936)
- Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Harlene Wood
- Perhaps second only to REEFER MADNESS in demonstrating the perils of dope with laughably straight–faced paranoia, this sees some unsuspecting…
- Reefer Madness (1936)
- Dir. Louis Gasnier
Feat. Dave O'Brien
- Hilarious anti–marijuana film from the 1930's that depicts the likes of – 'One puff of pot can lead your clean–cut teenagers down…
- Hooked: Anti-Drug Films from the 30's to the 70's (1935-1979)
- Dir. Various
- Typically alarmist and all the funnier for it this set of nine "educational" shorts never lets research get in the way of putting the fear into…
- Maniac (1934)
- Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Woods
- Named as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, this early sexploitation/horror shocker was loosely…
- Betty Boop - The Ultimate Collection (1933-1939)
- Dir. Max Fleisher
- An early cartoon sensation, Betty Boop flashed her curves and batted her eyelids across Depression–era America in an amusing, slightly…
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…
- A commercial bomb when released, this has since emerged as The Marx Brothers' tour–de–force, and the most popular among fans on account…
- King Kong (1933)
- Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
- An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…
- Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) (1933)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
- Surrealist non–fiction short film focused around Las Hurdes, the poorest region of Western Spain. An unnervingly straight travelogue delivered…
- Freaks (1932)
- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
- The only film in history to exploit real–life 'mutants' is actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema history. Perhaps misunderstood…
- Un Chien Andalou (1928)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Salvador Dali
- Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated for this sensational short film that blew the lid off convention in a way history could never repeat. A…
- Haxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages) (1921)
- Dir. Benjamin Christensen
- This dramatised tour of the history of witchcraft is an unsettling brew of black masses and torture chambers, by which the director was clearly…
- 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
- An appropriately schlocky, American–centered countdown of the 'worst movies ever made', ranging from classic cult items like "Glen or Glenda"…
- Animation On 4
- A collection of animated shorts from England's Channel 4 stable. Featured are: Next, Feet of Song, The Victor, Early Bird, Girl's Night Out, Deadsy…
- Bizarre Music Television
- Some of the most outrageous, insane and hysterical music videos ever made are compiled here, none of which you'll be familiar with, but still…
- Brothers Quay Animation
- Dir. The Brothers Quay
- Three startling shorts from Britain's foremost experimental animators, with a distinctive eclectic style. Contains 'This Unnamable Little Broom'…
- By Brakhage: An Anthology
- Dir. Stan Brakhage
- Compiles some of the most notable works of renowned US experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.
An artist of celluloid whose work varies in style and…
- Cocaine Cowboys
- Feat. Jack Palance, Andy Warhol
- (Warhol)
- Fish Tank Tele
- Impress your party guests and turn your television set into an instant aqaurium! Contains sixty minutes of action–packed fish life.
- Grampa's Monster Movies
- Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney…
- Al Grampa Lewis from the original Addam's Family hosts this collection of 28 horror trailers unearthed from the vaults of Universal studios. This…
- Industrial Symphony No. 1
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Julee Cruise
- David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti present an eerie multi–media show featuring Julee Cruise and an assortment of cryptic characters. It's a…
- Len Lye - Vol 1. Free Radicals
- Dir. Len Lye
- Varied compilation of eight of Lye's highly original short films, ranging from the 1920s cell–animation Tusalava, the rhythmic psychedelia of…
- Rhino's Guide to Safe Sex
- A hilarious retrospective of public service sexual films from the '40s, '50s and '60s, detailing everything from proper petting etiquette to military…
- Shocking Bikers 2
- Hysterical collection of bizarre, ultra–sensational B–movie trailers of biker and other exploitation films. An ideal entree before a cult…
- Shocking San Francisco / Weirdo New York
- Dir. Charles Gatewood
- Two galleries in which Gatewood's low–tech perv–cam sniffs out dubious delights from both capitals of kink. SEE a mistress of…
- Weird Cartoons 1 & 2
- Two volumes of the weirdest cartoons from the archives of film history. Highlights include Betty Boop, WW2 propaganda, Cobweb Hotel and Little Black…