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Directed by: Virginie Despentes, Coralie
Stars: Raffaëla Anderson, Karen Lancaume, Céline Beugnot
Manu and Nadine lose their last tenuous relationship with main-stream society when Manu gets raped and Nadine sees her only friend being shot. After a chance encounter, they embark on an explosive journey of sex and murder. Perhaps as a revenge against men, perhaps as a revolt against…
Directed by: Amy Holden Jones
Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bonnie Bartlett, Matt Clark, James Keach, Amy Madigan
Anna is a young woman who discovers her mother had an affair with a married man for 15 years, so she starts her own affair with a married man. She works for a Los Angeles public radio station. She often must care for her alcoholic father and comply…
Directed by: Shirley Barrett
Stars: Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith, George Shevtsov, Jessica Napier
In Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the station; he's mid-40s, detached, thrice divorced, hatchet faced. But both sisters next door find…
Directed by: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Stars: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Satô, Eriko Tanaka
Oshare (Gorgeous) is excited about spending summer vacation with her father, until she finds out that his beautiful, freakishly serene girlfriend Ryouko would be going as well. Oshare decides she will be going to her aunt's house in the country instead. She brings with her her friends from…
Directed by: Liliana Cavani
Stars: Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki, William Berger
Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany. Louise's husband Heinz soon finds out and tries to break up…
Directed by: Francis Leroi, Iris Letans (uncredited)
Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Mia Nygren, Patrick Bauchau, Deborah Power, Sophie Berger, Sonja Martin
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle. With this new identity comes a sexual awakening which is complicated by her memories of Marc. As with other entries in this series, the plot twists…
Directed by: Gail Palmer
Stars: Carol Connors, Georgina Spelvin, John Holmes, Gail Palmer, John Leslie
This classic take off of the Terry Southern novel, with shades of "The Wizard of Oz" thrown in, is a huge best seller for good reason. It is one of the truly funny sex film comedies. The inimitable Carol Connors is magnificent as the big busted blonde with…
Directed by: Jack Deerson, Barbara Peeters
Stars: Elizabeth Plumb, Alisa Courtney, John Aprea
While their husbands are away on a hunting trip, two bored housewives get together to commiserate. One thing leads to another, and they wind up in bed. For one of the women the incident was just a pleasant diversion, but for the other it’s turned into a fixation,…
Directed by: Roberta Findlay
Stars: John Holmes, Georgina Spelvin, Crystal Sync, Eric Edwards, C.J. Laing
Who is....... The New York City woman...? Is it: ...Georgina Spelvin? ...C.J. Laing? Johnny The Wadd Holmes is going to find out... or die trying!! The film features clips from several Roberta Findlay-directed films along with unused footage from the Anyone But My Husband (1975) shoot. Newer talking…
Directed by: Frank Perry
Stars: Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented…
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny
The Marriage of Maria Braun (MMB) is about a German girl (Maria) getting married to a German soldier (Herman Braun) just at the ending of the war. After being married for half a day and a night, Herman is send to the front again. To make ends meet,…
Directed by: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Frédéric Quiring ,Faye Gatteau, Emmanuel Morozof, Brigitte Roüan, François Cluzet, Carole Lemerle
Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing from France to Africa and nearly destroys his mother, who clings to her remaining child, Nadine, and…
Directed by: Andy Milligan
Stars: Maggie Rogers, Candy Hammond, Anthony Moscini, Lucy Silvay, Eileen Hayes, Patricia Dillon, Rita Benning, Magie Dominic
Claris Manning is an alcoholic invalid who tyrannizes her children when her youngest daughter, Carol, invites her family to spend a Christmas week together. They include Matthew, a crackpot clergyman; Michael, a misogynist businessman whom is sexually attracted to Carol, but abusive to his wife Susan; Margaret, the…
Directed by: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Lana Clarkson, Katt Shea, Frank Zagarino, Dawn Dunlap, Susana Traverso, Andrea Barbieri
Set during the days of the Roman Empire. A simple village is raided by Roman troops, and most of the people are whisked off to be slaves or killed. Three women survive and set off to liberate their people. When they arrive at the Roman city, they team…
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 Sayles
Stars: Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries
Lianna and her husband Dick have been married for a few years but the marriage isn't a happy one, since Dick treats her with arrogance. One day Lianna falls in love - with Ruth, a teacher. The people who know them act different: her husband with feelings of…
Directed by: Ulrike Ottinger
Stars: Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins
In the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story of five episodes.
Directed by: Nouchka van Brakel
Stars: Monique van de Ven, Maria Schneider, Marijke Merckens
Eve lives with her husband Ad and two children somewhere in Amsterdam. Eve seems reasonably happy although she sometimes has the feeling that there's something missing in her life. Her husband, thinking Eve is depressed, sends her on a holiday to France with her girlfriend Sonja. In the…
Directed by: Gail Palmer
Stars: Carol Connors, Wendy O. Williams, John Leslie, Desiree Cousteau, Sharon Kane
Gail Palmer's thoroughly entertaining sequel to the "Candy" original. Candy comes to Hollywood and is immediately pounced upon by a wacky talent agent. She becomes the sexual toast of Tinseltown. One of the very best first hours ever produced, in that it is either no-stop comedy or great…
Directed by: Fhiona-Louise
Stars: Bob Flag, Martin Byrne-Quinn, Geoffrey Greenhill
"Cold Light Of Day" is more of a dramatisation than a film; fairly short, it explores the psychology of one of modern Britain's monsters. Dennis Nilsen murdered twelve, possibly more, young men, purely for his own gratification. A necrophiliac as well as a sexual sadist, his fascination with…
