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Shake Before Use (1983) watch uncut

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Directed by: Mariano Ozores

Stars: Fernando Esteso, Andrés Pajares, Antonio Ozores, Alfonso del Real, Jenny Llada, Beatriz Escudero

Argimiro and Fabricio are two small-time swindlers who meet at La Operadora, a disreputable private clinic on the Costa del Sol. Neither man has any meaningful medical knowledge, but that does not prevent them from disguising themselves as hospital workers and becoming involved in the clinic’s increasingly chaotic…

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Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil (1986)

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Directed by: Lina Wertmüller

Stars: Mariangela Melato, Michele Placido, Roberto Herlitzka

Fulvia Bolk is a fabulously wealthy, self-made Lombard businesswoman who has grown tired of seeing Italy’s richest families terrorized by professional kidnappers. Bold, arrogant, and convinced that money can solve almost anything, she devises a private act of revenge: kidnap one of the kidnappers and force his organization…

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Space Is the Place (1974) watch uncut

Directed by: John Coney

Stars: Sun Ra, Raymond Johnsonm, Christopher Brooks, Barbara Deloney, Erika Leder

After years missing in the far reaches of space, Sun Ra returns to Earth aboard a music-powered spaceship. He has discovered a distant planet where the atmosphere vibrates differently — a place untouched by earthly racism, violence, and historical oppression. His mission is to offer Black people an…

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Mutant Action (1993) watch uncut

Directed by: Álex de la Iglesia

Stars: Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo, Frédérique Feder

In a grotesque future ruled by beauty, fitness, celebrity, and corporate power, anyone considered ugly, damaged, disabled, or undesirable has been pushed to the margins. From that resentment rises Acción Mutante, a terrorist group of misfits who wage war against the glossy world that rejected them. Their targets…

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Little Orphan Sammy (1977) watch uncut

Directed by: Don Walters

Stars: Jennifer Welles, Neil Flanagan, Rocky Millstone, Andrea True, Kim Pope, Nikki Hilton, Lynn Bishop, Jennifer Jordan, Helen Madigan, Jamie Gillis

Little Orphan Sammy is a wild and cheeky adult parody that blends political satire with vintage comic strip absurdity. In a gender-flipped twist on the classic “Little Orphan Annie” story, red-headed Sammy is adopted by the sultry Mata Hari-inspired villainess, Hata Mari, who is scheming to intercept a…

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Spirit of Seventy Sex (1976) watch uncut

Directed by: Stu Segall

Stars: Annette Haven, John Holmes, Tyler Reynolds, John Seeman, Angela Haze, Sandy Pinney, Abigail Clayton, Kristine Heller, Desiree West

If Martha Washington looked like luscious star Annette Haven, our history books would probably read like the "Kama Sutra." Spirit of Seventy Sex is a playful, tongue-in-cheek romp backward in time, but giant steps forward in eroticism. It's a costume piece with wardrobe mostly from the Garden of…

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The Presidential Peepers (1975) watch uncut

Directed by: Latour Lamour

Stars: Richard M. Dixon, Tina Russell, Helen Madigan, Gretchen Mann, Mei Ling, Margo Smith, Beth Satan, Lorraine Alraune

Story of President Richard Nixon’s secret war on pornography during the days of Watergate Scandal. Here for the first time is porn icon Tina Russell’s final known feature, taken directly from the original 16 mm negative. What is more, the film contains cameos by New York porn favorites…

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The Dirtiest Game (1970) watch uncut

Directed by: James Bryan, Titus Moede

Stars: Jean Stone, Cheryl Powell, Titus Moede, Bruce Beard, Francis Fey, Frank Millen, Debra Christian, Kathy Hilton, Barbara Mills

A candidate for California state representative wants to get the vote of pot smoking hippies to win,so he runs on a platform to legalize marijuana. The politician quickly becomes some kind of a guru for local group of hippies,smokes a lot of weed and has tons of sex…

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Marilyn and the Senator (1975) watch uncut

Directed by: Carlos Tobalina

Stars: Nina Fause, William Margold, Heather Leigh, Sharon Thorpe, Liz Renay, Serena (as Zarina Guillian)

Female CIA agent wants to have a baby, and selects a senator to be the father. He is married, but accepts to meet the sexy agent at the Watergate Hotel, and also her US$10,000 as front payment. First, he can’t perform; then, real trouble ensues.

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The Third Generation (1979) watch uncut

Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released in 1979, largely unavailable until 2004. International kapitalist PJ Lurz's…

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Shake Before Use (1983) watch uncut

Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil (1986)

Space Is the Place (1974) watch uncut

Mutant Action (1993) watch uncut

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