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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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…
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…
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…
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…

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