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  • Alfredo Sternheim – Violencia na Carne AKA Violence and Flesh (1981)

    1981-1990Alfredo SternheimBrazilCampEroticaQueer Cinema(s)

    Three criminals escape from prison and break in a seaside house to wait for the getaway boat. They subdue four aspirant actresses and three men and rape and torture them. One of the escapees is an idealistic political prisoner that falls in love with Letícia. When the violent Jorge kills a woman camped on the beach, the police investigate the area.Read More »

  • Gary Graver – Amanda by Night (1981)

    1981-1990CampEroticaGary GraverUSA

    Synopsis:
    A killer is stalking top class prostitute Amanda Heather. Two of her co-workers are murdered after visiting a client and Detective Ambrose Hart is brought in. He feels that the cases are linked and that Amanda is also in danger. However, Amanda has no use for police and will not cooperate with him. Finally his charms get her to agree to work together to get the murderer, Unfortunately, when Amanda finally confronts the culprit, the detective has been delayed. Thus Amanda must deal with the murderer herself.Read More »

  • Adolfo Arrieta – Tam Tam (1976)

    Arthouse1971-1980Adolfo ArrietaCampFranceQueer Cinema(s)

    Adolpho Arrietta was a major figure in the new cinemas that appeared in the sixties and seventies in various countries. Thus he became one of the fundamental film directors in the history of Spanish cinema. As with Buñuel, a long exile seems to have been the condition that allowed his work to keep up with the most important trends in the cinema of his era. Throughout the seventies he produced a series of “punk à la française” films, as Severo Sarduy called them, which for their originality and influence are among the most important in French cinema of that decade. In 1989 he returned to Madrid, and despite noteable intervals, which other Spanish film directors of his generation also experienced, his work proceeded. Alone, like in the era of El crimen de la pirindola but with a digital camera, he produced what for the moment is his latest film: Vacanza permanente (2006).Read More »

  • Jeffrey Schwarz – I Am Divine (2013)

    2011-2020CampDocumentaryJeffrey SchwarzQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Quote:
    The Movie

    “Divine was my close friend and fearless muse. Who else could convincingly turn from teenage delinquent to mugger, prostitute, unwed mother, child abuser, fashion model, nightclub entertainer, murderess, and jailbird? All in the same movie? That’s why I am giving my full blessing to a new documentary feature film, I AM DIVINE, to be directed by award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz.” — John WatersRead More »

  • Mel Welles & Aureliano Luppi – La figlia di Frankenstein AKA Lady Frankenstein (1971)

    1971-1980Aureliano LuppiCampHorrorItalyMel Welles

    Co-produced by Roger Corman, “one of the most underrated horror movies of all time” (Classic Horror) features ultra-lurid direction by American-International star Mel Welles (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS) from a story by by Dick Randall (PIECES), distinctive cinematography by Riccardo Pallottini (CASTLE OF BLOOD) and score by Alessando Alessandroni (THE DEVIL’S NIGHTMARE), a cast that includes Hollywood legend Joseph Cotten (CITIZEN KANE) alongside EuroCult icons Paul Müller (NIGHTMARE CASTLE), Herbert Fux (MARK OF THE DEVIL), Marino Masé (TENEBRAE) and Mickey Hargitay (BLOODY PIT OF HORROR), and a titular performance by the remarkable Rosalba Neri (THE DEVIL’S LOVER) for whom “only the monster she made could satisfy her strange desires!”Read More »

  • Mark Robson – Valley of the Dolls (1967) (HD)

    1961-1970CampMark RobsonMusicalUSA

    Quote:
    Cutthroat careerism, wild sex, and fierce female protagonists are all on offer in this adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s sensational and wildly popular novel. Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, and Sharon Tate star as three friends attempting to navigate the glamorous, pressurized world of big-time show business—the “valley” is not a place but a narcotized state of mind, and the “dolls” are the pills that rouse them in the morning and knock them out at night. Blending old-fashioned gloss with Madison Avenue grooviness, director Mark Robson’s slick look at the early days of sexual liberation and an entertainment industry coming apart was a giant box-office hit, and has become an unforgettably campy time capsule of the 1960s.Read More »

  • Quentin Masters – The Stud (1978)

    1971-1980CampDramaQuentin MastersUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Sometimes, when life is getting too much for you with lots of stupid dramas, there’s only one thing that will really cheer you up. And that’s a really classic trashy movie. If said movie happens to star Joan Collins, even better. The Stud is a movie tailor-made for these situations.

    Oliver Tobias is the stud of the title, Tony Blake. He was a waiter, a poor working-class kid with big ambitions, a pretty face and a hot body. He attracted the attention of the fabulously wealthy Fontaine Khaled (Joan Collins), or rather his hot body attracted her attention. So she set him up as manager of a night-club, although his main duties are to satisfy her sexual appetites. He’s constantly on call in case she has a sexual emergency that requires immediate servicing. And this happens to Fontaine quite frequently.Read More »

  • Abel Ferry – Putain, la Vieille Faut Pas l’Enerver! (2001)

    2001-2010Abel FerryCampFranceShort Film

    quick plot from gabbyheinze.com:
    a dwarf & an “older woman” have just robbed a bank (it was a blood bath) and now they are hiding at the sordid Mucus Hotel.
    as a tradition, the older woman always likes to have sex after robbing a bank…but the dwarf is not too hot about it…Read More »

  • Cheryl Dunye – The Owls (2010)

    2001-2010CampCheryl DunyeDramaQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Enjoyably strange, The Owls is an ambitious mixture of lesbian noir, radically experimental filmmaking and community project; a piece of collective art about age, politics, race, desire and gender anxiety. At a house party hosted by a group of Older Wiser Lesbians a young queer is murdered and their disappearance covered up, but just as the group of women let down their guard, a mysterious stranger comes asking questions.Read More »

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