Modish documentary exploring attitudes to nude modelling in Britain. Models, photographers, magazine editors and members of the public express their opinions about those who pose for top-shelf magazines, raising various questions about the depiction and presentation of women in such publications. Featuring the journalist and author Lynn Barber, who worked at Penthouse magazine during the 1960s-70s.
The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, about the special moments one remembers, and about the director’s own circling around the essence of eroticism.
Spain, 1975. Franco’s death opens the door to the possibility of uncensored cinema. After two years of relaxed censorship, it is abolished in 1977, and the “S” rating is created to protect viewers from films that may “offend their sensibilities.”
A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.
Sex Freaks is a catalog of all things kinky – voyeurism, nymphomania, sadomasochism – with a few unusual novelties thrown in along the way (sex in a carwash, at a bullfight, underwater, in the snow). This unusual example of a Sex-Shockumentary posits that the Devil is responsible for our deviant ways!
“Mondo Inferno”- This shockumentary takes us on visits to a restaurant that serves up delicious dog meat dishes, mud-wrestling clubs, a chastity belt store. We get to see bizarre funeral rites, snake charmers, bloodsuckers and a hidden-camera expose into the local baby selling and slave markets!
This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.
Mondo Rocco is a collection of short films weaved together as it was seen in the Park Theater in Los Angeles in 1969/1970. Charming in their innocence, Rocco’s films captured important moments in gay history and are an invaluable resource.
An Italian mondo documentary about Finland. Among other things, it showcases intricacies of local mating culture, sports, Midsummer festivities and sauna.
A documentary analyzing the social, political and cultural climate of Hollywood in the mid-1960s.
A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
Germans on the Mondo Cane tour, meaning an overview of “our bizarre world” in more than 30 revealing fragments with commentary that twists and turns to give things a universal, and in some places even cosmic, meaning.
A “hidden camera” takes the viewer on a worldwide tour of sexual practices and rituals, including Tijuana strippers, Asian sex shows, British prostitutes, New York devil worshipers and a Mexican slave market.
Completely topless. Completely uninhibited. The craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe.
