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Plot Summary:
Shug, a rich old man, throws out his longtime live-in mistress and moves in his young, sexy niece, who's just returned home after making a living as a stripper in New Orleans. The mistress doesn't intend to go without a fight, however, and while Shug tries to make peace between the two women, he doesn't realize that his niece has her own plans for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: black and white, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Swamp Girl (1971)
Plot Summary:
A little blonde girl who is abandoned by her parents in the Florida swamps is rescued and raised by a black man she calls her "Pa".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lighter Fluid (2016)
Plot Summary:
An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anne and Tom, a married nudist couple, work in a real estate office. When the agency's owner discovers that Tom is a nudist, he fires him. Unfortunately, Tom was just ready to close a big real-estate deal with Al Jenkins. Tom goes to his favorite nudist camp to take his mind off his problems and discovers that Al Jenkins is also a member of the nudist camp. Together they come up with a plan to get Tom's wife and their boss to get to the nudist camp so they can close the deal.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Visit (1964)
Plot Summary:
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Screentest Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two naive young women, Sue and Linda, arrive in Hollywood seeking acting jobs and meet Mr. Zoltan, a sleazy producer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Five Minutes to Love (1963)
Plot Summary:
Ben, Edna and their baby daughter are headed to California when their car breaks down. Ben ventures off to the junkyard in search of a spare part to fix his car. Coincidentally, Harry (the seedy junkyard owner) has just been accused by the police of selling stolen auto parts, and claims that he gets his cars from someone else. Ben wanders into the junkyard just in time for Harry to frame him and use him as a scapegoat. When Ben doesn't return after quite a while, Edna goes looking for him. She is then chased around the junkyard by Harry's odd, dim-witted friend Blowhard.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Rent-a-Girl (1965)
Plot Summary:
A naive young woman looking for fun stumbles upon strange neighbors living in the same apartment building which she resides in. They start her off with a career in nude modeling, but in actuality turn out to be a ruthless brother and sister team who spearhead a kinky "girl renting" business for eccentric rich folk who get their jollies out of bondage and "whipping little girls 18 to 22".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: underground film, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Uta (1969)
Plot Summary:
Girl-on-girl lust with a nubile 20-year-old discovering herself in hippie-covered San Francisco by -- what else? -- becoming a hooker.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tension, grindhouse, suspense, sexploitation film
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The Love Merchant (1966)
Plot Summary:
Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his next conquest, but the married and straight-laced Peggy turns down his proposal. However, after her husband's advertising business finds itself in a financial slump, Kendall offers to help out but only if Peggy agrees to be his intimate companion for two days.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Alley Cats (1966)
Plot Summary:
Amid Europe's superwealthy jet set, lovely Leslie (Anne Arthur) feels neglected by her cheating fiancé, Logan (Charlie Hickman). She gets even by pursuing a few dalliances of her own and, in the process, falls for a gorgeous lesbian socialite (Sabrina Koch). Slip on your oversized sunglasses and slide back to the swinging '60s for director Radley Metzger's fab erotic confection, a shocker at the time of its initial release.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, independent film
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Free, White and 21 (1963)
Plot Summary:
A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Belle da morire (2002)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is a cynical but attractive business man, owner of a strip-club. He has to replace his best dancer, Katy, after her suicide. Applicants would do anything to get this job, but only Damy, gorgeous and mysterious girl, catches his attention. What he doesn’t know is that she only has one thing on her mind: revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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The Brick Dollhouse (1967)
Plot Summary:
Five women explain to the police the events leading up to the murder of their roommate, an exotic dancer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Big Bounce (1969)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Satan Was A Lady (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wishman's plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her tender trade. Lord help anyone who lays in her way.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, sexy, captivating, suspense
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Lustful Addiction (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ruby is a hot young waif looking for kicks and raunchy pleasures anywhere she can find them. First it's with Johnny the Pusher, and she uses her tight little body like a knockout punch - exhausting him into unconsciousness with a delirious bout of lovemaking. With Johnny's stash now easy for the picking, Ruby wanders off to her next adventure clad in a pharmaceuticals-induced haze and thigh-high vinyl boots. She quickly makes the acquaintance of Misty, and the two of them hit it off in an orgasmic blur of chemical stimulation, lingerie and quivering excitement. But too much is never enough for these luscious young things, and Misty high-tails it in search of another bag of goodies. Feeling abandonned, Ruby gives a holler to her dealing strip-club friend Darian, and the two of them indulge their habits.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, tense, captivating, suspense, erotic drama, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film
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Mudhoney (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she is married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surreal, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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The Hookers (1967)
Plot Summary:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Abnormal Female (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems, each as each relates her particular case, we see it in flashback.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic
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I Walk the Line (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tawes is the sheriff in a godforsaken little hole somewhere in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fibre he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma, a young beautiful girl who turns his world upside down. Unable to ignore his feelings he starts having an affair with her. But in small town nothing is secret for long.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Another Day, Another Man (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young couple move into an expensive new apartment after the husband gets a big pay raise. Unfortunately, he is soon stricken with a mysterious ailment and becomes bedridden. The wife, unable to find a job and with bills piling up, runs into a seedy pimp who suggests a way she may be able to make a lot of money in a short time.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Sixteen (1972)
Plot Summary:
Hickspoiltation film from the early 1970s ostensibly starring Oscar nominee Mercedes McCambridge, but really more a film looking for an excuse to show off Simone Griffeth's beauty. She plays a daughter of a swamp family. The whole family goes to a carnival where she is seduced by an older male performer, while her teen brother is seduced by an older female performer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Threes, Menage a Trois (1968)
Plot Summary:
Meet a couple of hipster swingers addicted to love. He's a novelist and she's a leather fetishist who provides valuable and stimulating research for his lurid erotic adventure tales! Their open marriage allows the couple to travel a delirious, flesh-filled but barren human landscape where endless carnal thrills can take their toll on the soul!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: sensual
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One Shocking Moment (1965)
Plot Summary:
Hunky businessman Cliff and his sweet wife Mindy move from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Los Angeles, California. They take up residence in an apartment complex where several lovely young ladies also live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird, cult film
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Sin You Sinners (1963)
Plot Summary:
A stripper/fortune teller uses a magical Haitian amulet to keep young, and in so doing forces others to kill for her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Black Klansman (1966)
Plot Summary:
After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, political, grindhouse, black and white, entertaining, independent film, black cinema
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Country Hooker (1974)
Plot Summary:
A couple of musicians are on their way to a show at a country bar. Along the way, they pick up a couple of sexy hitchhiking ladies and decide to pull over for a pitstop. Eventually, they make it to the bar and uncover that the deep voiced country singer that also plays there is also a pimp who uses the "waitresses" to make him some extra cash. It is up to our musician heroes to put an end to the singer and his operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Confessions of a Lap Dancer (1997)
Plot Summary:
An erotic melodrama about the public and private lives of sex workers. Josie Hunter (aka Blake Pickett) co-starred in the role of Erica, a single mother who works a stripper, and sometimes as a prostitute to support her daughter. But when the threat of losing parental rights to her child looms, Erica tries to escape from the dark world of the sex industry, but it turns out to be not so easy to do.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film
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The Alley Tramp (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl sets out on a sexual odyssey of having affairs with various men including her mother's secret boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999)
Plot Summary:
A Vermont town in the 1950's hires a new minister based on his war record and capable presentation, but then are shocked when he shows up and is a black man. Things go completely wrong for.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative