The Night Porter
The Night Porter is a 1974 film from Italy and Austria, directed by Liliana Cavani, running 118 minutes. reelscum files it under nazisploitation.
- Year
- 1974 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy · Austria
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Director
- Liliana Cavani
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (13/100)
- Banned in
- Italy
Defined in the glossary: Nazisploitation
Banned in Italy on release, its eroticised concentration-camp premise deemed obscene.
A serious, much-argued-about film that producers immediately misread as a template.
A serious film that producers immediately misread as a template for the nazisploitation cycle. Years after the war, a former SS officer working as a Vienna hotel porter encounters a concentration-camp survivor, and their old relationship resumes in a study of trauma, power and complicity that critics have argued over ever since.
Liliana Cavani, who had made documentaries about the camps, directs Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling in something difficult and serious. It was attacked on release and remains contested, but it belongs to a different order than the films it inspired.
Not exploitation at all, and the one film in this tag with a real argument.
Trailer
The numbers
Nobody has rated this yet. Be the first to make a claim you'll have to defend.
Your call
Where to watch
Legal options in USA
Links open in a new tab (↗). Availability data via TMDB and changes constantly, so confirm on the service. Legal options only. Checked 8 Nov 2026. All options ↗
Discuss with AI
Open a chatbot with a question about this film already typed out. Useful for a second opinion, plot detail, or where to find a copy.
The cycle in depth
- Banned, cut and confiscated
A Fulci print flown out of the country, an Australian rating that just means no, and a German court that filed The Evil Dead under criminal violence. Three states, three machines for making a film disappear.
Filed alongside
Salon Kitty
Nazisploitation with a real budget and Tinto Brass's dirty fingerprints. Ilsa was the knock-off.
Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
Shot on the leftover Hogan's Heroes set. Nothing here is defensible; it's catalogued, not recommended.
The Gestapo's Last Orgy
The most extreme of the sadiconazista cycle, and the only one shaped like a love story.
Love Camp 7
The film that invented nazisploitation six years before Ilsa made it a genre.
SS Experiment Camp
A DPP video nasty far better known for its poster than for anything in the film.