Subgenre Sampler
Cult > Sexploitation: 85 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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)…
- 99 Women (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom, Mercedes McCambridge
- Fiery, if comparatively contained first–time outing for cult dir. Jess Franco in the ‘women in prison’ genre: a rowdy sexploitation romp…
- 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…