Classic Erotica
How did directors show classic erotica on screen in the conservative, censor-bullied years of cinema?
One way was to show sex as a sin. In The Joy of Sex Education, sex is a shown as being a one-way ticket to venereal disease, unwanted pregnancy and social rejection in a number of early documentaries (although the astonishingly progressive Growing Up from 1971... [+]
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Classic Erotica Film Listing
2012
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Offbeat: British Cinema's Curiosities, Obscurities and Forgott...
While critics sing from an over familiar hymn sheet...
Roger Vadim, 1968
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Barbarella
In this infamous film version of the popular French comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest, Jane Fonda...
Robert Young, 1976
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Keep It Up Downstairs
A bawdy British period romp in the classic Seventies 'sex comedy' mould, Keep It Up Downstairs la...
Jess Franco, 1969
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Venus in Furs (Franco, 1969)
A Euro-sleaze shocker by cult director Jess Franco in which a musician finds the ...
Luis Bunuel, 1967
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Belle de Jour (40th Anniversary Edition)
A bored doctor's wife discovers a form of liberation from her mundane existence b...
Jess Franco, 1969
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The Girl from Rio
A kinky cult favorite in the tradition of Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik, The Girl from Rio is 1...
Radley Metzger, 1969
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Camille 2000
Radley Metzger's erotic 1969 film is brimming with Italian opulence, liberated sex and modish inf...
Kenneth Anger, 1947-81
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Kenneth Anger: Magick Lantern Cycle
Self-styled magician Kenneth Anger is one of the most distinctive artists in cine...
Arnold L. Miller, George Harrison Marks, 1961; 1966
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Naked as Nature Intended / Secrets of a Windmill Girl
A double-bill to mark the 50th anniversary of Georg...
William Rotsler, Peter Perry Jr, 1969
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The Harry Novak Collection: Volume 1
The legendary 'sultan of sexploitation', Harry H. Novak produced a slew of entert...
Norman J Warren, 1968
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Her Private Hell
A cautionary tale of an innocent girl abroad caught up in London’s sleazy world of modelling, Her...
King Donovan, 1963
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Promises! Promises!
Jayne Mansfield bares almost all in this sexy shipboard romp in which, after a drunken spree, two...
Vilgot Sjoman, 1967-8
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I Am Curious Yellow / I Am Curious Blue
Combining fiction and documentary techniques, Sjoman's films tell the story of Le...
Arnold L. Miller, 1961
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West End Jungle
'The sex-film that London Banned! Made in the actual places of vice!' Originally banned by th...
Luchino Visconti, 1942
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Ossessione
Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice translates laconic Americ...
Jens Jorgen Thorsen, 1969
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Quiet Days in Clichy
The orgiastic Paris of Henry Miller comes alive in this good humoured and sexually explicit adapt...
Various , 1917-73
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The Birds and the Bees
From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology takes...
Luis Bunuel, 1951
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Susana
Anticipating future classics such as That Obscure Object of Desire, Susana is Luis Buñuel’s inven...








