1970s

  • Jaime Humberto Hermosillo – La pasión según Berenice AKA The Passion of Berenice (1976)

    Jaime Humberto Hermosillo1971-1980DramaMexicoThriller

    Berenice (Navarro) is a woman with a mysterious past. A scar crosses her face and nightmares of fire and horses fill her lonely nights. She maybe killed her husband but nobody can be sure. In the present, Berenice lives with her godmother (Roldán) a money lender so fragile that she’s always resting in her bed. The two women live in an almost perpetual seclusion, except on Sundays when they go to the church and to the movies. One day, the godmother’s doctor dies and she asks Berenice to go to his velatory. There they meet Rodrigo (Armendáriz Jr.) the doctor’s son, a handsome and free-spirited young man for whom Berenice falls in love.Read More »

  • Roberta Findlay – Mystique (1980)

    1971-1980EroticaRoberta FindlayUSA

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    Alma, a famous photographer, needs to move away from work and the city due to a serious cancer illness, and will live alone in a beach house. Surrounded by award-winning photos of her past, and haunted by memories, she ends up getting involved with Cosima, a young woman from the neighborhood. But what begins as a love affair between the two women soon turns out to be a nightmare when Cosima starts manipulating Alma and bringing others into the house – and their lives.Read More »

  • Zebedy Colt & Howard North – The Devil Inside Her (1977)

    1971-1980EroticaHoward NorthUSAZebedy Colt

    A mind-blowing, demon-infested tale of incestuous mayhem! Zebedy Colt plays a puritanistic farmer who rules over his family with an iron hand. He sadistically punishes his daughters, attempting to repress their sexual urges.

    The film is set in England in 1826. Faith loves the gardener Joseph, but her father forbids it. Faith’s sister Hope lusts after Joseph and sells her souls to the Devil to get Jospeh for herself. Zebedy Colt was the director of several truly depraved porno roughies including “Sex Wish” and “Unwilling Lovers”.”The Devil Inside Her” is also a pretty twisted film with rather interesting plot. The location sets are great as they add to the overall mood of the film. So if you enjoyed “Sex Wish” or Alex De Renzy’s “Femmes de Sade” you may give this porno horror a try.Read More »

  • Denys Arcand – Gina (1975)

    1971-1980CanadaCrimeDenys ArcandDrama

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    Gina (Céline Lomez), a Montreal striptease dancer, is sent by her agency to small-town Louisville to give a show at a local hotel. Also arriving in Louisville that same day are Bob Sauvageau (Claude Blanchard), leader of a gang of snowmobilers known as “Les Pinguins,” and a director (Gabriel Arcand) and a small crew of filmmakers from the Office National du Cinéma who are making a film on the oppressive working conditions at the local textile factory (a reference to Arcand’s own NFB-banned documentary On est au coton). The friendly relationship that is established between Gina and the filmmakers upsets the snowmobilers, while the filmmakers, having persuaded the manager of the factory to allow them to film, are discovering a long history of alienation and submission among the workers.Read More »

  • Walt Davis – Sex Psycho AKA The Demon in Miss Jones (1970)

    Walt Davis1961-1970EroticaHorrorUSA

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    While ‘Sex Psycho’ has little to no credibility as a serious piece of film-making; when it comes to exploitation cinema, this is exactly what the sort of film that we degenerates look for! Sex Psycho starts off shockingly, and then constantly builds on itself, and it’s clear that director Walt Davis made this film with the intention of going a little further every time he decides to break a taboo. The plot centres on theme of an adulterous relationship between two unscrupulous individuals. Jerry and Eva are having an affair, and decide that Eva’s husband has to go. Naturally, they decide to take on the services of Eva’s brother; and while he and the husband are having sex (…), the boyfriend comes in and graphically inserts a butcher’s knife into the husband’s throat. From there, we watch as things go from sick to sicker, with the opening homosexual sex scene being topped by a sequence that sees the wife have sex with her lover on the bed that her husband’s corpse still lies on, before an incestuous sex scene is followed by a five person orgy. Read More »

  • Bernard Morris – Mary! Mary! (1977)

    1971-1980Bernard MorrisComedyEroticaUSA

    A married man with premature ejaculation problems agrees to sell his soul to solve his problem.Read More »

  • Mark Robson – Earthquake (1974)

    Drama1971-1980ActionMark RobsonUSA

    Earthquake is a 1974 American ensemble disaster film that achieved outstanding box office returns, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.

    Directed by Mark Robson and with a screenplay by George Fox and Mario Puzo, the film starred a large cast of well-known actors, including Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Marjoe Gortner, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Victoria Principal, and (under an alias) Walter Matthau. It is notable for the use of an innovative sound effect called Sensurround which created the sense of actually experiencing an earthquake in theatres.Read More »

  • Arthur Omar – Triste Trópico (1974)

    1971-1980ArthouseArthur OmarBrazilDocumentary

    Traffic on the roads of São Paulo, old family photographs, and the voice-over tale of Arthur Alvaro de Noronha, a doctor coming back from Paris after finishing his Medicine studies in Europe. Arthur with his family, Arthur in Paris… The voice tells us of the doctor’s adventures with friends André Breton, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, and Pablo Picasso. This is how Omar announces the surrealist biography he weaves in Triste Trópico around the figure of an imaginary doctor who ends up as indigenous messiah. Described as a “anthropological mock documentary,” Triste Trópico is a film whose title alludes to Levi-Strauss’s ethnographic memoirs of Brazil and triggers a chain of evocative references to the carnival-cannibal avant-garde of Oswald de Andrade’s Cannibal Manifesto.Read More »

  • Peter Gill – Play for Today: Fugitive (1974)

    1971-1980DramaPeter GillTVUnited Kingdom

    Written by Sean Walsh
    After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially “fugitives” who must be persuaded back to their order.Read More »

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