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Directed by: Donald A. Davis, David F. Friedman
Stars: David F. Friedman, Gal Friday, Frank Henenlotter
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate…
Directed by: John B. Murray
Stars: Graeme Blundell, Barry Humphries, Gordon Rumph
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, vice activity, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm. While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed…
Directed by: Gianni Proia
Stars: George Sanders, Alexander, Maria Ansaldi
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, footage of reindeer being castrated, and more footage of lesbians and strippers.
Directed by: Ray Greene
Stars: F.X. Feeney, Vampira, Michael Copner
You’ve heard of Hollywood, a town of tinsel and glamour, the town of Paramount, Columbia and MGM. But there is another Hollywood, a place where maverick independent EXPLOITATION FILMMAKERS went toe to toe with the big guys and came out on top! “SCHLOCK! THE SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICAN…
Directed by: Frank Howard
A mixture of documentary footage and re-enactment scenes, some filmed on the action locations, of the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders committed by the gang known as the Manson Family.
Directed by: Gail Hardman
Stars: Gail Ward, Miles Taylor, Tony Monroe, Ann Green, Carl Warwick
A timid college student, Julie, is assigned to write a research paper on "Nudity in the 1980's"... She and her boyfriend, Steve, visit several nudist clubs in England, the south of France and in Florida to learn about why people like nudism... Making a "nudist" movie following the…
Directed by: John Lamb
Stars: Karen Biller, Lizzie Bundgaard, Ruth Dymose, Dorrit Frantzen, Ole Varde Lassen
This movie is about the morality, education, and responsibilties pertaining to sexual freedom. Not only that, it has the most amazing child birth sequence that could and should be used as a training tool and viewed by anyone that is interested in the miracle of child birth. This…
Directed by: Dag Yngvesson
Stars: Jeanna Fine, William Margold, Gina Everett, Nena Cherry, Nina Hartley, Jenna Jameson, Ron Jeremy
Director Dag Yngvesson begins making a documentary about the porn industry, until he is asked by a desperate director to shoot film for his next adult movie. After agreeing, he is led deeper and deeper into the world of porn, speaking frankly with many of the industries most…
Directed by: François Reichenbach
Stars: Jean Cocteau, Paul Klinger, June Richmond
Known in France as L'Amérique Insolite, or Unusual America, this film is all about the 18 month journey that Francois Reichenbach, who shot the video for Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's "Bonnie and Clyde" as well as parts of F for Fake) took across America. With a script…
Directed by: Lee Frost (uncredited)
Stars: Claude Emmand, Bob Cresse, Lee Frost
A faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the women's dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor, goes inside the mailroom at Frederick's of Hollywood, watches an Australian who sticks nails through his skin and…
Directed by: Barry Mahon
Stars: Darlene Bennett, Linda Bennett, Bob Bensen
In colorful Greenwich Village, an art dealer asks some aspiring artists to create paintings of nudes inspired by the great masters for an exhibition he is curating. 1,000 SHAPES OF A FEMALE is a peek-a-boo nudie-cutie film, dressed or undressed if you will as a pseudo-documentary. To its…
Directed by: Julia St. Vincent
Stars: John Holmes, Seka, Jesie St. James, Annette Haven, Georgina Spelvin, Linda Wong
Exhausted is a self-serving softball "documentary" about John C. Holmes, who was the biggest star in the adult film industry in two ways. He was the most famous, and he was just the biggest where it really counts in that business, about 13 inches worth. The film combines…
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Stars: Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, Lisa Blok-Linson
A young French woman, separated from her lover, tries to find a lodging in L.A. for herself and her son. This has to be one of the most underrated film in the history of cinema and for sure among the best films to come out of the 80s.…
Directed by: John Alan Schwartz (as Conan Le Cilaire)
Stars: Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton
A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross, a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an unknown Arab country) and…
Stars: Margaret Sanin, Richard Scottar, Dan Bushnell
A look at porn in the USA following the publication of the Government's 1967 Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.
Directed by: Benjamin Andrews, Lee Frost
Stars: Baby Bubbles, Bob Cresse, Pat Hall
This documentary explores assorted "forbidden" topics from all over the world. Among the subjects depicted herein are a racy TV commercial for a female martial arts school, rowdy teenagers protesting a strict curfew on the Sunset Strip, an underground lesbian club in Geneva, a portable topless bar, and…
Directed by: Jean-François Davy
This is a documentary on the 70's French porn industry that I was fortunate enough to see with English subtitles (and it actually does matter here). There are generally two kinds of porn documentaries--those that actually take an insightful look behind the scenes, and those that are just…
Directed by: Bitto Albertini
Stars: Anthony La Penna, Romano Malaspina
Documentary about strange or grotesque things around the world: the sacred city of Benares, India, where old men go to die and be cremated; an american tourist in Hong-Kong, who buys a "baby-prostitute"; many animals having sex; the celebration in honor of a totem with the shape of…
Directed by: Harry Hurwitz
Stars: Bonnie Werchan, Rick Cassidy, Mitch Evans, Linnea Quigley, Carolyn Burch, Linda York, Molly Manning, Jennifer West, Rhonda Jo Petty
A pseudo-documentary about the processes involved in putting together and casting actors and actresses for a porn film. Although several actual porn stars are in the film, it is not a porn film itself. A rare historic glimpse at the unique actors and bizarre personalities that showed up…
Directed by: Bruno Mattei
Stars: Norbert Gastell, Esther Moser, Gennarino Pappagalli
Various sexual aberrations and perversions found in Africa and Asia. Libidomania is a “documentary” about various sex-related topics, most labelled as “perversions”, to distance the filmmakers from the material. This harkens back to the classic mode of exploitation, the cautionary film. First, we get a classy bible quote…
