Rare & Forgotten Erotica

Has

3-hour Polish nested stories. Lost for decades. Garcia and Scorsese funded restoration. One of the rarest in European cinema.

Chytilová

Surrealist feminist chaos. Banned.

Yamatoya

Japanese avant-garde from Art Theatre Guild. Detective, sex doll, Tokyo underworld. Wrote scripts for Seijun Suzuki. Almost impossible to find.

Matsumoto

Oedipus in Tokyo's queer underground. Kubrick watched this before A Clockwork Orange.

Jireš

Czech surrealist fairy tale. Vampires, priests, grandmother. Czech New Wave. Dreamy, beautiful, deeply strange.

Becker

Scandinavian sex comedy. Nordic skin flick wave.

Wishman

Only female sexploitation director of the era.

Terayama

Children overthrow adults. Terayama was Japan's most radical theater director. Almost every frame would be illegal to produce today.

Terayama

Feature debut. Young man's rebellion. Mixes documentary, animation, direct-to-camera provocation. Complete works unavailable outside Japan.

Franco

Erotic noir in a cabaret underworld.

Pierson

French De Sade adaptation. Alice Arno. Literary erotica as cover for explicit content. Pierson made dozens of similar films.

De Sisti

'Commedia sexy all'italiana' wave.

Has

Man visits dying father in surreal sanatorium where time moves differently. Jewish mysticism meets avant-garde. Almost unknown outside Poland.

Yamamoto

Japanese animation. Peasant woman deals with Devil. Watercolor animation like nothing else. Explicit, feminist, psychedelic. Bankrupted its studio.

Robbe-Grillet

Woman accused of murder in convent. Between giallo, nunsploitation, and French avant-garde. No genre can claim it.

Terayama

Terayama visits his own childhood. Adult director enters childhood scenes. Most accessible Terayama. Genuine masterpiece.

Robbe-Grillet

Novelist turned BDSM filmmaker. Art-house bondage.

Obayashi

Schoolgirl visits aunt's haunted house. Piano eats someone. Made by asking his 11-year-old what scared her. Completely insane. Now cult phenomenon.