Female Exploitation Films (60s 70s 80s)
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- DirectorJoseph W. SarnoStarsMarla EllisEve HarrisSheila BrittThree College friends go off to New York to become Broadway stars and they endure an endless parade of casting couches and frauds in their pursuit of Limelight, which puts more and more strains on their friendships.Joe Sarno’s 'Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures' follows three ambitious college girls eager to make their mark on Broadway to New York City. After renting an apartment, in a building where the landlady poses for sexy pics, the girls are immersed in a lurid world of wild parties, men’s clubs and sleazy casting couches. Soon, each one must decide how far she is willing to go for stardom.
Like many Sarno pictures, this one focuses on the women and their misadventures. Despite some simulated sex and brief nudity, the film plays out more like a drama than a straight nudie flick, with its tragedy, despair, debasement and betrayal.
So basically, what you got here is a 60s NYC sleaze-lite B&W exploitation drama, with some great trashy moments, and a jazz soundtrack that doesn’t quit. - DirectorJoseph W. SarnoStarsJudy YoungW.B. ParkerAudrey CampbellSeveral unhappy suburban housewives partake in numerous affairs. One of them gets the neighbors to join her and her fake brother's secret sex club. Meanwhile, the prudish closeted daughter of one of the women starts an affair with her.In 'Sin In the Suburbs', writer/director Joe Sarno keeps his focus on swinging. Lonely housewives are swinging at a discreet location and wearing masks to protect their identities, in this pretty well executed exploitation film, with a never-ending jazz-soundtrack. For this particular era the film was probably liable to shock the sexually-repressed audience of the 60s.
It is quite possible that Stanley Kubrick ripped off various elements here and used them in 'Eyes Wide Shut', like some people are saying, there are unquestionably some similarities! - DirectorRuss MeyerStarsTura SatanaHajiLori WilliamsThree go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him.With a non-existent plot and characters like shallow B-movie stereotypes, Russ Meyer still entertains as this is about as 'cult' as it gets. Shot in crisp black and white, it follows three big breasted women, dancers by night, fast car riding killers by day.
Noted feminist film critic B. Ruby Rich said that when she first saw 'Faster, Pussycat!' in the 1970s she "was absolutely outraged that [she had] been forced to watch this misogynist film that objectified women and that was really just short of soft-core porn." Upon viewing it again in the early 1990s, however, she "just loved it" and wrote a piece in The Village Voice reappraising the film and discussing her change in opinion. - DirectorDoris WishmanStarsGigi DarleneCharles E. MazinSam StewartAfter hubby Ted goes to work, Ellen putters around the apartment in her nightgown cleaning up. When she takes the trash out, the janitor forces her into his apartment and rapes her. When he tries to rape her again, she dispatches him and then hits the road, a fugitive from injustice. She goes to the Big City and encounters a string of situations where she gets used and abused. When she finally finds a nice woman to rent from, the woman's son turns out to be a detective, which threatens her newly found identity and peace of mind.B&W sexploitation film from writer/director Doris Wishman; the woman who pretty much single-handedly popularized the so-called "roughie" exploitation movies during the sixties.
Like a typical 60s sexploitation film, it includes a beautiful but sleazy female character walking around nude (or nearly-nude), violence, rape and lesbian sex-scenes.
This film, and other films like it, were on the cutting-edge of sensationalistic sex and violence, during the swinging 60s. Quite shocking, back when they were made. Now, films like these seem ludicrously melodramatic. - DirectorDoris WishmanStarsJune RobertsSam StewartBob OranA man's wife starts having an affair with her brother-in-law, who is temporarily staying at their apartment.In this soft-core B&W sexploitation, also by Doris Wishman, a wife is having an affair with her husbands sleazy brother. A little T&A and simulated sex went a long way back in the 60s.
- DirectorMichael FindlayStarsSuzanne MarreAngelique PettyjohnMichael FindlayA distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge.Michael Findlay and his wife Roberta were responsible for quite a few cult classics of sleaze in the 60s and 70s.
In this horror sexploitation a man catches his wife in bed with another guy, gets hit by a car and confined to a wheelchair then seeks revenge on any hooker/stripper he comes across.
This was the first of a cheap B&W sexploitation trilogy of "FLESH" films that proceeded to get more and more violent, perverted and misogynistic with each installment. If this one ('The Touch of Her Flesh') makes your cookie crumble, be also on the lookout for:
'The Curse of Her Flesh' (1968)
'The Kiss of Her Flesh' (1968).
The other films in the series follow the same "plot" of women getting naked and killed. - DirectorRalph ThomasStarsRichard JohnsonElke SommerSylva KoscinaBritish agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.'Deadlier Than the Male' is a silly and enjoyable romp of a British Eurospy film, set in beautiful exotic locations, and one of the many take-offs of James Bond produced during the 1960s.
The real stars in this film are the knock-out killer girls, principally Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina, whose in or out of their bikinis throughout the lively movie. - DirectorRoger VadimStarsJane FondaJohn Phillip LawAnita PallenbergIn the 41st century, an astronaut partakes in sexy misadventures while seeking to stop an evil scientist who threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.Many peoples interest in cult and bizarre began from seeing this classic 60s mild-exploitation film, starring Jane Fonda, which is campy, psychedelic and ahed of its time.
- DirectorCliff OwenStarsJohn RichardsonOlga SchoberováEdward JuddCarol, a beautiful young girl is possessed by Ayesha's spirit who was once the queen of Kuma. Ayesha's spirit gains control over Carol to achieve her malevolent goals.This entertaining HAMMER movie is hardly a great film epic and doesn't compare favorably with the solid 'She' (1965), which this is a sequel to. But it does got a nice score and a beautiful blonde (Olga Schoberová), whose lack in acting-skills only adds to the fun.
- DirectorDoris WishmanStarsSharon KentTrom LittleMichael AlaimoZeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. Then, he sees Ann going to work with her friend Babs. He thinks she looks like the doll. When he gets home, he caresses the doll... Ann feels it! When Zeb finds out about Ann's fiance Tom, he really gets mad, burns the doll, and beats it up, which makes Ann think she's losing her mind.Very cheap B&W soft-core exploitation film about Ann who is feeling she is being touched every time Zeb is rubbing a doll he found in the trash.
Like many other exploitation movies of the era the film seems rather redundant and it's really going nowhere. Mostly it's just some fairly attractive ladies walking around in lingerie or half-naked.
Technically speaking, this is like every other Wishman movie, it was recorded with no sound and later all the dialogue was dubbed in. - DirectorMichael CortStarsJames Robertson JusticeCharles HawtreyRobin HawdonA race of sexy women from Angvia, a planet in another dimension, comes to Earth to kidnap women to repopulate their planet.This appalling English soft-core sci-fi sexploitation should only to be watched for nostalgic purposes. 'Zeta One' got a plotless story with no continuity and endless scenes of naked and half-naked women wandering aimlessly around.
- DirectorLee FrostStarsBob CresseMaria LeaseKathy WilliamsTwo female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.Although certain later nazisploitation movies (particularly those out of Italy) would outdo 'Love Camp 7' in terms of excess in virtually every department, the film still offers enough depravity, sleaze and general schlock to please most fans of the genre.
It is famous for being the very first in the wave of sleazy nazisploitation movies and for being classified as a video-nasty in the UK. - DirectorRalph ThomasStarsRichard JohnsonDaliah LaviBeba LoncarA series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner (SST1). A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date. The evil Petersen has developed a number of "robots" (actually rather beautiful girls with "electronic brains") to help him sabotage the SST1 project by means of "infrasound" (extreme low frequency sound waves) which can be directed at people or objects with devastating results.Non-Bond spy movie, a campier sequel to the British classic romp 'Deadlier than the Male’.
Like Bond, Drummond is well skilled, serious and intelligent and is out to investigate what is behind a series of murders disguised as accidents, that are carried out by what appears to be beautiful young women (hence it's title 'Some Girls Do').
Tightly edited, nice locations, a small army of female automatons extremely well disguised as bathing-suit babes, this film moves so fast you don't have time to dwell on its absurdities. - DirectorRuss MeyerStarsDolly ReadCynthia MyersMarcia McBroomThree girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs, and sleaze.This exploitation picture, by Russ Meyer, is basically 'Valley of the Dolls' (1967), which is chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business, made fun and trashy.
- DirectorJack HillStarsRoberta CollinsPam GrierJudith BrownBeautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.Jack Hill introduces Pam Grier (though not the star in this film) in this chicks-in-chains AKA women-in-prison (WiP) exploitation classic about beautiful women prisoners being abused in a Philippine prison, until five of them plot an escape.
The film contain gratuitous nudity, mud-wrestling, sexual assault and some scenes of torture. That being said, director Jack Hill makes the most of the exploitation genre and does it in a stylish, colorful way that makes this low-budget film fun to watch. - DirectorJesús FrancoStarsSoledad MirandaDennis PricePaul MullerAn erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.The Spanish/German co-production ‘Vampyros Lesbos’ is loaded with symbolic language, an almost dream-like atmosphere, a fantastic score and frequent nudity by the German Ewa Strömberg and the beautiful and ill fated Spanish Soledad Miranda as the vampire Countess Nadine Carody who harasses women and sucks their blood.
It is a psychedelic mixture of sex, art, trash and horror. It's one of the better exploitation films by legendary writer/producer/director Jess Franco (or Jesús Franco) who has made more cult movies than the mind can conceive of. - DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsJudith BrownRoberta CollinsJennifer GanAmerican women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.'Women in Cages' reunites the three main cast members of 'The Big Doll House' (Pam Grier, Roberta Collins and Judith Brown), but the result is a less funny and more raw and gritty women-in-prison (WiP) exploitation film with a little gore and your typical nude shower scenes.
Pam Grier plays a pot-smoking, white race-hating, sadistic lesbian prison guard, who is the matron in a sleazy Filipino prison, where some women prisoners are plotting their escape. - DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAnitra FordCandice RomanGrier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.Jack Hill's follow-up (not a sequel) to his earlier 'The Big Doll House' is a glorious camp exercise in trash cinema and a real treat for women-in-prison (WiP) fans. Just like 'The Big Doll House’, 'The Big Bird Cage’ is set in an unnamed Banana Republic (but shot in the Philippines) and proves to be far less offensive than many of its contemporaries and almost impossible not to enjoy.
- DirectorRay AustinStarsAnn MichelleVicki MichelleKeith BuckleyA pair of miniskirted birds who travel to a remote castle in order to land a contract in the modeling agency of the mysterious lesbian Sybil Waite (In HD).Underneath the frequent nudity provided by the two Michelle sisters there's somewhat of a plot; two sisters are drawn into a coven of witches after Christine accepts a job with lesbian modeling agent/high priestess Sybil Waite (Patricia Haines) in this British exploitation cinema.
- DirectorBo Arne VibeniusStarsChristina LindbergHeinz HopfDespina TomazaniA young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.This Swedish rape & revenge exploitation picture inspired Quentin Tarantino to make Kill Bill.
The first half contain several sex-scenes of actual penetration performed by stunt-doubles.
In the second half the girl becomes one of the coolest anti-heroines of 70s exploitation cinema before she delivers her sweet revenge. - DirectorEddie RomeroStarsPam GrierMargaret MarkovSid HaigA Black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.Eddie Romero's 'Black Mama, White Mama' AKA 'Women in Chains' is a stylish and funny women-in-prison (WiP) exploitation classic full of the usual ingredients like violence, occasional torture, catfights and nude women.
Story by pre-fame Jonathan Demme (who two years later directed his first film 'Caged Heat'). Starring Pam Grier as a defiant former black prostitute and Margaret Markov as a blonde revolutionary, constantly having beef with each other, makes this (partly) an homage to the 1958 classic 'The Defiant Ones', in which two chained-together escaped convicts, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture. - DirectorPaul GlicklerStarsStephanie FondueDenise DillawayJovita BushA group of cheerleaders from the local high school decide to show their school spirit for their football team by sleeping with the opponents the night before the game so that they can be so worn out the opposition won't be able to play.This sexploitation classic is overall light and innocent despite the frequent T&A and simulated sex. These girls make no attempt to be actresses and will sleep with anything resembling a man.
- DirectorErwin C. DietrichStarsElisabeth FelchnerKarin HeskeRenate KaschéIn the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with Nazi soldiers.The German 'Frauleins in Uniforms' (AKA She Devils of the SS) features none of the mean-spirited nastiness and sexual degradation that is generally associated with the nazisploitation genre.
There is some attempt at a story, but it doesn't really go anywhere since the whole excuse for the film is for the women to get naked and to have simulated sex. - DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierBooker BradshawRobert DoQuiA sexy Black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.Female-avenger themed blaxploitation film starring Pam Grier (the queen of blaxploitation).
Possibly Pam Grier's best movie.
Check out Sidney Freidman from M*A*S*H as a sleazy bad guy! - DirectorDenis SandersStarsWilliam SmithAnitra FordVictoria VetriA powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.Great B film from the 70s that is pure exploitation and a cheesy delight to watch.