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Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971) watch uncut

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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…

Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada ‘S’ watch uncut

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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…

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020) watch uncut

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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…

Legend of the Witches (1970) watch uncut

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,…

The Frenchman’s Garden (1978) watch uncut

Directed by: Paul Naschy (as Jacinto Molina)

Stars: María José Cantudo, Ágata Lys, Paul Naschy

In early-20th-century Andalusia, a charming yet ambitious man named Juan Andrés Aldije “El Francés” (Paul Naschy) runs a countryside inn that hides a far darker secret. Beneath the respectable façade of gambling tables, fine wine, and beautiful women lies a murder ground — where wealthy patrons vanish without…

Titicut Follies (1967) watch uncut

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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…

Cinema Perverso (2015) watch uncut

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Directed by: Oliver Schwehm

Stars: Christian Anders, Ben Becker, Uwe Boll, Jörg Buttgereit, Mechthild Großmann, Kai Novak, Gertrud Sonnenburg, René Weller

Before home video, before streaming, and long before the internet made everything instantly available, West Germany’s “Bahnhofskinos” — the smoky train-station cinemas tucked between platforms and ticket booths — were the last refuge of the curious, the lonely, and the perverse. This stylish and affectionate documentary by Oliver…

Mark of the Devil Part II (1973) watch uncut

Directed by: Adrian Hoven

Stars: Erika Blanc, Anton Diffring, Percy Hoven, Lukas Ammann, Jean-Pierre Zola, Astrid Kilian, Ellen Umlauf

Set in a remote, superstitious village plagued by fear and repression, the film centers on the arrival of a sadistic inquisitor who unleashes a reign of terror under the guise of rooting out heresy. As accusations spiral and innocence means nothing, the line between justice and barbarism dissolves…

Africa: Blood and Guts (1966) watch uncut

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Directed by: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi

Stars: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Moise Tshombe, Richard Gordon Turnbull, Ian Yule

Africa: Blood and Guts (original title: Africa Addio) is a harrowing and controversial documentary that captures the turbulent aftermath of colonial rule across the African continent during the 1960s. Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, the film presents a raw, unfiltered look at the collapse of European…

Bible! (1974) watch uncut

Directed by: Wakefield Poole

Stars: Bo White, Caprice Couselle, Georgina Spelvin, Nancy Wachter, Gloria Grant

From acclaimed erotic filmmaker, Wakefield Poole, comes The Bible, like you’ve never seen information technology before! The tales of Adam and Eve, Bath Sheba and Samson and Delilah are provided sexual twists within this aesthetically stunning and sensually charged masterpiece of the erotic avant-garde. Featuring Georgina Spelvin, Gloria…

My Daughter Hildegart (1977) watch uncut

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Directed by: Fernando Fernán Gómez

Stars: Amparo Soler Leal, Carmen Roldán, Manuel Galiana, Carles Velat

Based in the novel Aurora de Sangre (Eduardo de Guzman) and in the real events happened during the II Spanish Republic. Aurora Rodriguez goes to police to assume the death of her daughter Hildegart, that she has had plans to convert in a clever philosopher, model for the…

The Bloody Judge (1970) watch uncut

Directed by: Jesus Franco

Stars: Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Hans Hass Jr., Maria Rohm, Margaret Lee, Peter Martell, Howard Vernon, Diana Lorys, Serena Vergano

Unaware of the torture that takes place in the dungeons, Judge Jeffries condemns women as witches and rebels as traitors on a regular basis. A sister of one of the condemned prisoner approaches the judge for clemency but is rejected when she doesn’t give in to the lust…

The Five Days (1973) watch uncut

Directed by: Dario Argento

Stars: Adriano Celentano, Enzo Cerusico, Marilù Tolo, Luisa De Santis, Glauco Onorato

In 1848, as Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrians, a patriotic prisoner named Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell. Suddenly, a cannonball comes…

Circle of Love (1964) watch uncut

Directed by: Roger Vadim

Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Francine Bergé, Marie Dubois, Jane Fonda, Claude Giraud, Anna Karina, Jean Sorel, Catherine Spaak, Valérie Lagrange, Alice Cocéa

A bed-hopping coterie of soldiers, women, maids, actors, and aristocrats swap lovers amid the opulence of pre-World War I Europe. Having previously been filmed under the same title by Max Ophüls, Arthur Schnitzler's once-controversial play "Reigen" got an appropriately scintillating update courtesy of swinging-sixties eroticist Roger Vadim. Jane…

Hideout in the Sun (1960) watch uncut

Directed by: Larry Wolk, Doris Wishman

Stars: Greg Conrad, Dolores Carlos, Earl Bauer, Carol Little, Ann Richards, Mary Line, Pat Reilly, Fran Stacey

Two brothers who are bank robbers kidnap a young woman and force her to bring them to a nudist colony so they can hide out. Things become more complicated when one of the brothers falls for the hostage, who in turn falls for him. Strange mix of crime,…

De Sade (1969) watch uncut

Directed by: Cy Endfield, Roger Corman, Gordon Hessler

Stars: Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer, Anna Massey, Sonja Ziemann, Christiane Krüger, Uta Levka, Barbara Stanek, Susanne von Almassy

Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion. This colorful movie depicts DeSade's life from childhood to manhood. A life infamous for erotic behavior, going from woman to woman, seeking a love that eludes…

Queen Margot (1994) watch uncut

Directed by: Patrice Chéreau

Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Virna Lisi, Dominique Blanc, Asia Argento

The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France, a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace, a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic king, Charles IX, and the Hugenot king, Henri…

Mandingo (1975) watch uncut

Directed by: Richard Fleischer

Stars: James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward, Brenda Sykes

It's the mid-nineteenth century Louisiana. Falconhurst, a run down plantation, is owned by Warren Maxwell, and largely run by his son, Hammond Maxwell, who walks with a limp due to a childhood accident. Hammond is under pressure to get married and produce a male heir to continue the…

The Canterbury Tales (1972) watch uncut

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Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust. A host of passionate lovers unite for a glorious, sometimes unexpected journey through Chaucer’s medieval England...

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