Subgenre Sampler
Cult > Sexploitation: 85 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Barbarian Queen (Queens of the Naked Steel) (1985)
- Dir. Hector Olivera
Feat. Lana Clarkson, Frank Zagarino, Dawn Dunlap
- Trashy boobs and broadswords flick with the tragic Lana Clarkson leading a trio of warrior women in rebellion against the nefarious Roman Empire.…
- 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…
- UP! (1976)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Raven De La Croix, Kitten Natividad
- Wacky and extreme Russ Meyer sexploitationer takes the dir.'s cherished fascination with ample bosomage into sexually hardcore territory, but with…
- 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)…
- 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…
- 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…
- Love Camp 7 (1969)
- Dir. Lee Frost
Feat. Bob Cresse, Maria Lease, Kathy Williams
- A pioneering B–grade that initiated the minor genre of the "Nazi Sexploitation" film with tawdry sleazoid relish.
Two WAC's must break into…
- 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…
- Bettie Page Collection, The (Teaserama, Varietease, Irving Klaw Classics, Betty Page: Bondage Queen, 100 Girls) (1951-1955)
- Feat. Betty Page
- Burlesque boxset of Bettie Page's fifties pinup films. Includes the previously unreleased 'Irving Klaw Classics Vol 1', 'Betty Page: Bondage Queen '…
- 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…
- Tinto Brass Presents: Erotic Short Stories Part 1
- Tinto Brass presents and inspires a series of short erotic stories curated by commissioned directors in the sensual style of the Italian…