A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.
With the coming of summer, three high school buddies–Kenny Leeds, Mike Decker, and Tommy Kingsley–anticipate their initiation into the pleasures of manhood. But Kenny is separated from his friends and sent to stay with his grandparents in Buffalo while his father, a widowed salesman, leaves on a business trip with his secretary-fiancée. Bored and alone in a strange city, Kenny writes his two friends letters about his adventures at “Rosie’s,” a fictitious brothel across the Canadian border in Niagara Falls. His lie quickly backfires.
A pretty young blonde shows up for an audition for a job as a model for a famous artist. She’s surprised when he informs her that she will have to pose nude for him.
A surgically enhanced super-spy is sent to dismantle a heroin ring, snapping photos of every kill with a camera hidden in her breasts – only to discover the man she’s falling for is the target she’s been hunting all along.
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette’s estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment. In a manner recalling Terence Stamp’s effect on the household in TEOREMA, Celestine’s open and relaxed attitude toward sexuality has a transformative effect on the isolated, moribund inhabitants of the mansion, imbuing them with gift of renewed life for the men and women alike, that remains even after a third act twist that forces her to betray them.
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir’s “Picnic At Hanging Rock,” a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene’s most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string and a G-bestringed waiter.
Pina and Tina, two cabaret artists with a passion for espionage and theft, discover that a carpet seller named Kashfi has some extraordinary diamonds stolen from the millionaire Radeck.
In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On the death of it, rather than return to Italy, Fiorenza decides to spend some time there, and met the extravagant Getulio, determined to make him discover Africa.
Adrien is a journalist specialised on the “strange”. He is asked to interview a man who is said to know succubi. He meets a woman at the cemetery’s entrance who offers him a ring which had belonged to Casanova and has magic powers which enable the journalist to make his fantasies come to reality. But he must sell this ring within seven days for fear of a terrible death
Jamal and Jimmy dream about prostitutes who become sexually aroused when they listen to new wave music.
A private investigator uncovers a group of super ultra filthy hookers led by the superbly filthy Madison who sucks and grinds her way as if her life depended on it.
A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a “civilized” society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man’s cruelty, etc. was actually only a part of some ‘greater good’. After all, God (being perfect) could not ‘logically’ have created anything but the ‘best of all possible’ universes.
