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Directed by: Wiktor Ericsson
Stars: Joseph W. Sarno, Peggy Steffans, John Waters, Annie Sprinkle, Jamie Gillis, Michael J. Bowen
Behind some of the most provocative films of the 1960s and 1970s stood an unexpectedly romantic partnership. The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies tells the intimate story of legendary sexploitation filmmaker Joseph W. Sarno and his devoted wife and creative companion, Peggy Steffans, whose lives became inseparable…
Directed by: Herschell Gordon Lewis (as R.L. Smith)
Stars: Joseph L. Turner, James Chisem
Presented as a supposedly serious study of sexuality within Chicago’s Black community, Black Love is actually a strange hybrid of adult cinema, pseudo-documentary narration, social observation, and early-1970s exploitation. Joseph L. Turner provides an almost continuous voice-over, offering explanations about relationships, desire, marriage, and sexual behavior while a…
Directed by: Derek Ford
Stars: James Donnelly, Larry Taylor, Valerie St. John, Bunty Garland, Sandra Satchwith, Fiona Fraser, Joan Hayward
Behind the respectable curtains of suburban Britain, something scandalous is supposedly spreading. That is the warning tone of The Wife Swappers, a British pseudo-documentary that presents partner-swapping as both a modern social experiment and a dangerous game of emotional risk. The film frames itself as an exposé, mixing…
Directed by: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Susan Hampshire
Two documentary filmmakers appear to travel back through time into the pre-Civil War American South, carrying their cameras into a society built on slavery. Rather than following one central character, Goodbye Uncle Tom moves through a series of staged encounters, presenting the slave economy as an entire world…
Directed by: David Cohen
Stars: Vida Farthing, Katy Brooks, Katya Wyeth, Ann Waller, Veronica McEvoy, Tina McDowall, Maureen Renzen, Julie Ege, Françoise Pascal, Barbara Cartland, Lynn Barber
Would you let your daughter pose nude? That blunt question sits at the heart of The Anatomy of a Pin-Up, a short documentary exploring the shifting attitudes surrounding glamour photography and nude modelling at the beginning of the 1970s. Moving between studio sessions, street interviews, and conversations with…
Directed by: Wakefield Poole
Stars: Jeff Addison, Philip Borden, Tony Franco, Sal Guange
In late-70s San Francisco, filmmaker Wakefield Poole sits down with a group of gay men and asks a deceptively simple question: what fantasy have you always wanted to explore? Their answers become the foundation of Take One, an unusual hybrid of documentary, underground cinema, and adult-era experimentation. Rather…
Directed by: Jørgen Leth
Stars: Sue Prado, Angeli Bayani, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Paula Jubé, Sarah Gaugler, Helena Cerello
Spanning nearly ten long years of filmmaking, Danish experimental director Jørgen Leth's richly coloured mosaic of intimate encounters and liaisons, vividly portrays a man's need to capture a fleeting eroticism. Over and over again, against the same background of a random hotel's bedroom, Leth travels across the globe…
Directed by: Alberto Sedano
Stars: Richard Harrison, Adolfo Celi, Margaret Lee
For decades, Spanish cinema lived under the pressure of censorship, moral restriction, and political control. Then Francisco Franco died, the old rules began to crack, and the screen suddenly became a place where an entire culture could breathe, rage, experiment, and provoke. Narrated by Iggy Pop and directed…
Directed by: Luigi Scattini
Stars: Edmund Purdom, Enrico Maria Salerno, Jean Topart
A narrated pseudo-documentary about sexuality in Sweden. It shows contraceptives for teen girls, lesbian nightclubs, wife swapping, porno movies, biker gangs, and Walpurgis Night celebrations. It also examines Sweden’s purported drug, drinking and suicide problems. It features the original appearance of the Piero Umiliani’s nonsense song “Mah Nà…
Directed by: Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti
Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Rossano Brazzi, Yves Klein
Nominally a documentary, this film combines a number of unrelated sequences (both real and staged) -- including a South Pacific "cargo cult", the ritual slaughter of a bull, tribal dances and rituals, and a visit to an ornate pet cemetery -- all focused on the lurid, sensational, and…
Directed by: Matt Cimber
Stars: Lindis Guinness, Judy Angel, Debra Christian, Jan Davis, Ron Darby, Pete Dawson
Writer/Director Matt Cimber pokes wickedly witty fun at the basic educational white coater crock doc that uses the premise of being "educational" basically as a flimsy excuse to expose oodles of bare distaff skin and depict sexual intercourse in all its graphic glory. Posh Brit-accented Lindis Guinness makes…
Directed by: Werner Kunz
Stars: E.V.H. Emmett (Narrator)
The travelogue of a trip through Germany, Switzerland and France, where the crew and the youngsters arrive on the beach of Le Lavandon on the French Riviera. Three Danish travelers are followed during their vacation to this famous nudist beach in France. They discover the many pleasures that…
Directed by: György Dobray
Stars: Ferenc Tóth (All others are unknown)
This documentary about street prostitutes is surprisingly revealing. A good selection of personalities and types, including males, are interviewed, and they seem to be pretty open about their lives and work, despite working illegally. From this collection of impressions the filmmaker cleverly shifts focus to the prettiest prostitute,…
Directed by: Danny Wolf
Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Martine Beswick, Linda Blair, Clara Bow, Phoebe Cates, Claudette Colbert, Sybil Danning, Bo Derek
The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films, from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films, while emphasizing the political, sociological, and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin also studies…
Directed by: Malcolm Leigh
Stars: Alex Sanders, Maxine Sanders, Guy Standeven
Part “documentary,” part occult odyssey, Legend of the Witches offers a haunting exploration of European paganism and underground witchcraft — a journey that drifts between ritual, mythology, and the shadowy allure of forbidden knowledge. The film claims to retrace witchcraft’s roots in Britain: from ancient moon-worship and sun-gods,…
Directed by: Jennifer Welles, Joseph W. Sarno
Stars: Jennifer Welles, Ken Anderson, Peter Andrews, Cheri Baines
A semi-documentary portrait of one of the 1970's most magnetic underground performers, blending dramatized scenes with autobiographical reflections. The film follows Jennifer Welles as she recounts her journey through show business — from early modeling gigs and theatrical ambitions to her rise as a counter-culture icon during a…
Directed by: Lee Grant
Stars: Monica Lynn B., Steve Dain, Lee Grant, Christine Jorgensen, Renee Williams, Veronica York
Directed by Lee Grant, What Sex Am I? is a groundbreaking 1985 documentary that offers an intimate, human-centered look at transgender life in America during a decade marked by misunderstanding, marginalization, and social stigma. Through candid interviews, personal testimonies, and raw observational footage, the film follows several transgender…
Directed by: Renato Polselli
Stars: Isarco Ravaioli, Franca Gonella, Bruna Beani, Mirella Rossi, Melissa Chimenti, Anna Rita Fodde, Anna Ardizzone
Very rare xXx adult mondo-style film in which a psychiatrist explains to his students several stories of sexual deviants. Each vignette begins with the doctor citing a fact-based newspaper/magazine story of abhorrent sexual behavior. Amazing stuff! Purports to be a documentary with a psychiatrist interpreting the bizarre newspaper…
Directed by: Charles W. Broun Jr., Joel Holt, Arthur Knight
Stars: Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay
Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the Isle of Levant, where she almost kind of joins in.…
Directed by: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
The most banned film in American history — because it told the truth. Before One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, before exposé journalism turned institutional abuse into headlines, Frederick Wiseman took his camera into the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane — and captured what no one…
