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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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Amer (2009): An experimental journey inside the mind of a sociopathic woman. Isolated chapters cover the details of her bizarre surreal childhood and sexually…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cauldron Of Death (Ricco) (1973): Dir. Tulio DeMicheli
Feat. Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Malisa Longo; Masquerading as a B–grade horror, this is actually a melodramatic Italian revenge thriller concerning the son of a murdered mobster who is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Herzog Kinski Collection (Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu, Cobra Verde, Woyzeck, My Best Fiend) (1972-1999): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski; Fabulous box–set containing six collaborations between the visionary dir. Werner Herzog and his most manic collaborator: Klaus Kinski.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Werner Herzog Collection (Signs of Life, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek, Heart of Glass, Where the Green Ants Dream) (1968-1982): Dir. Werner Herzog; Comprehensive box–set containing six early films from renowned German director Werner Herzog.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…

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