Dig through the crates. Every sleeve hides a secret.
Yellow pulp novels as cinema. Gloved hands, elaborate kills, synth scores.
Most prolific exploitation director — 200+ films. Recurring actresses (Lina Romay, Soledad Miranda, Alice Arno, Chantal Broquet), jazz scores, dreamlike aesthetic.
Respected Polish animator became Europe's most elegant pornographer. Every frame a medieval painting.
The Italian Franco — with real budgets. Caligula is the most infamous production ever.
American who made European-style erotica. Films looked like Visconti, played in grindhouses.
Horror, erotica, surrealism. Franco, Rollin, Jodorowsky.
Italy's Dirty Harry — nastier. Made during domestic terrorism.
Staged and real extreme footage. Ancestor of reality TV.
Fassbinder made 40+ films before dying at 37. Herzog went insane making his.
Australian tax incentives spawned wild genre films.
Poet, Marxist — murdered at 53. Every film is a political act.
Painter who makes films. Renaissance canvases filled with decay and excess.