Subgenre Sampler
Controversy: 192 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
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…
Lenny (1974)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Dustin Hoffman
- Dustin Hoffman exposes the self–destructive life of Lenny Bruce in this stark, explicit biopic of the maverick stand–up comic whose…
Night Porter, The (1974)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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.…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
- Unbearable tension builds when a group of teens are preyed upon by a notoriously psychotic family in the squalid atmosphere of the Deep South. The…
Exorcist, The (1973)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn
- Landmark, influential horror film tells its tale of a child diagnosed with a case of demon–possession in explicit detail. A penetrating sense…
Themroc (1973)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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,…
Last House on the Left, The (1972)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess
- Formerly banned in NZ and in many countries around the world, this disturbing film lives up to its notoriety with its documentary–like realism…
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider
- A breakthrough film of the 70s, this account of a chance encounter, then torrid affair between Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando, is artfully glossy,…
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- 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…