Cult Epics
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The Lickerish Quartet
An aristocratic family becomes obsessed with a striking young blonde actress (Silvano Venturelli) while watching her in what appears to be a crude, silent stag film. After a visit to a local carnival they meet the girl in person and invite her back to their lavish seaside...Watch Movie
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Score
Having explored heterosexual obsessions in the critically acclaimed CAMILLE 2000 and THE LICKERISH QUARTET, erotic cult director Radley Metzger goes all the way in SCORE, a tale of a happily married swinging couple (Claire Wilbur and Gerald Grant), who make a bet that they can seduce a couple of...Watch Movie
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Point de fuite
A beautiful art teacher arrives to class and finds her taciturn, impassive students standing at attention with their clothing in a collective pile on the floor. So begins Olivier Smolders' playfully erotic and intriguing work, inspired by Belgian surrealist and Situationist Marcel Mariën...Watch Movie
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Black Night
Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days indulging his passion for studying insects; if only there were still days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged...Watch Movie
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L'amateur
A bereft filmmaker asks a series of women to pose nude for his camera in this striking and moody short film by Belgium's Olivier Smolders. The silent encounters act as counterpoint to a contemplative internal monologue musing on love, loss and the subtle power-plays of aversion and desire...Watch Movie
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Adoration
This dazzling yet graphic and unsettling film, shot in 35mm black-and-white, features a young Japanese man (Takashi Matsuo) lovingly filming and recording the voice of his female companion (Catherine Aymerie) before proceeding in a harrowing direction. Among the best-known works of acclaimed...Watch Movie
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Camille 2000
A child of the sixties sexual revolution, beautiful, sensuous Marguerite (Daniele Gaubert) is addicted to sex and money. She is kept by a wealthy man, has a string of young lovers and hosts wild orgies in her luxurious villa. When she falls in love with the handsome bachelor Armand (Nino...Watch Movie
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Genet
"I don't know why I shouldn't talk about myself. I'm the person who knows the most about myself. Right?" So begins a fascinatingly frank conversation with the great French writer Jean Genet, conducted in the summer of 1981 (five years before his passing) by actor, theater director, and filmmaker...Watch Movie
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Pig
PIG is a film depicting the relationship between a killer and his victim, where all lines are crossed, blending fantasy and reality, in a transformation of the subconscious mind of a killer, graphically showing the manifestation of itself into abstract forms and material, all deriving from his...Watch Movie
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Seuls
In its mesmerizing montage of autistic children, seen at the same institution in discrete, vivid moments of repose, reverie or trance, SEULS marks an encounter at once rapturous and serene. Filmed in a luminous black-and-white evocative of an even earlier era, its subjects appear at times curious...Watch Movie
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Deadly Sweet
Starring seventeen year old beauty contest winner Ewa Aulin and Jean-Louis Trintignant, DEADLY SWEET is a most unusual crime story. In the film, a French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the floor. Rather than call the police, he decides to protect the young woman at the scene...Watch Movie
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Attraction
One of the great taboo-smashers of the late '60s, directed by Tinto Brass, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. ATTRACTION (NEROSUBIANCO) will stun anyone expecting a standard softcore European sex flick as released originally in the US as THE ARTFUL...Watch Movie
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Car Cemetery
Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal's outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. The inhabitants of a junkyard at the edge of a nuclear crater live hand to mouth all the while being hounded by authorities from a corrupt...Watch Movie
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La philosophie dans le boudoir
Olivier Smolders' languidly sensual black-and-white treatment of the late 18th century erotic text from the Marquis De Sade juxtaposes the graphic dialogue between a set of male and female characters (describing the sexual schooling of a young maiden while extolling the moral...Watch Movie
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In a Glass Cage
Klaus (Günter Meisner of THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL) is an ex-Nazi, a doctor whose wartime post in a concentration camp enabled him to commit the most appalling sex crimes against boys. After the war, living incognito in Spain, he again gives in to his depraved desires, until shame and despair drive...Watch Movie
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Ravissements
A small, empty boudoir slowly becomes populated by a series of young women, their still and open expressions gradually engulfing the screen, as a nun narrates an account of religious rapture. Belgian filmmaker Olivier Smolders continues a brilliant exploration of religious ecstasy, figured in and...Watch Movie
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Behind Convent Walls
BEHIND CONVENT WALLS is an erotic arthouse film by cult director Walerian Borowzcyk (THE BEAST), set in a convent, where a Mother Superior tries to maintain order to prevent the nuns from temptation. But when things get out of control, the church inflicts cruel punishment to...Watch Movie
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L'art d'aimer
The play of rich color and moments of complete darkness combined with a striking array of characters facing the viewer creates a bracing visual foundation for this quietly unsettling story of a man’s emotional life with women. Told in first-person narration over a series of moody, loosely...Watch Movie
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The Howl
THE HOWL is a true surrealistic cult classic, filled with jokes, impossible characters, riotous comedy and punk rock music well before its time. A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey through increasingly bizarre lands. They...Watch Movie
