Movies: Exploitation cinema

Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom....

Aspiring comedian Peter is encouraged by his friend Ben to perform at the local comedy club. But stage fright isn’t Peter’s only fear. When confronted with one of today’s most divisive issues, he feels compelled to speak, but can he? Challenged by hi...

A dark secret connects middle-aged Katze and Brauth. The former has the clue that his end is near. The two meet again after years to share their last days in the old house of their past. With three women they met on their way, the atmosphere begins t...

El vampire y el sexy (or Santo in the Treasure of Dracula in its censored version) is a 1968 Mexican film starring El Santo and directed by René Cardona. ​The Vampire and Sex was filmed as the adult version of Santo in the Treasure of Dracula. While...

Take a front row seat as we sit down to chat with some of the creators and stars of the best and most beloved exploitation and grindhouse films of the 1970s and 80s. Featuring interviews with John Dugan (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Craig Reed (The ...

Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose members incl...

A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that exploited cinematographic fashions: westerns, horror movies, erotic comedies and thrillers about pet...

Denying his flourishing compulsive homosexuality, a forgotten celebrity confronts his incestuous obsession along the path of self-discovery....

Giulia love her young lover, an architect, that she'll do sexual favors for influential people to help him. Anna, the younger sister, returns from college and is abused by the architect. But she will not allow things to stay that way....

After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a French chef try to turn it around....

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation...

Months after the gruesome events of Ramen Hell, Alejandro and Frank try to escape to Colombia with the help of René, a mysterious driver, and Tarántula, a thug drug dealer....

Hippie Dippy Julien's doped up antics have gone too far. His moonshine glugging hick fam are sick of his silly shit and want his ass out, leaving poor little Julien lost, stoned and lonely. Until Mama Casserole sets her beady eyes on him. Take a tri...

A look at the life and work of Christina Lindberg, the most famous Swedish model of the 1970s and star of exploitation cinema....

Depictions of famous Biblical stories as well as the end times accompany an overarching plot of a man who continues to avoid church even as the end of the world draws closer....

After losing her life in a gruesome way, 12-year-old Emma philosophizes about everything, for which she had no time in life. Meanwhile, her murderers have to get rid of the girl's body....

A boy is thrown into the middle of an increasingly bizarre local disturbance....

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