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Exploitation films

519 entries. Curated, not exhaustive. A short shelf of things worth knowing about beats a long one nobody can navigate.

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Poster for Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon

1973 · USA · 98m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally

Lee died six days before release. The mirror room still works.

Poster for Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry

1971 · USA · 102m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally

The vigilante with a badge. Pauline Kael called it fascist and was not wrong.

Poster for Eraserhead

Eraserhead

1977 · USA · 89m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally

Lynch's industrial nightmare about fatherhood. It played midnight for years and made him.

Poster for Halloween

Halloween

1978 · USA · 92m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally

$325,000 into $70 million, and every slasher after it is a photocopy.

Poster for Jaws

Jaws

1975 · USA · 124m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally

The broken shark forced Spielberg to suggest instead of show. It made the film.

Poster for Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver

1976 · USA · 114m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally

The same story told by people who knew the protagonist was unwell.

Poster for The Exorcist

The Exorcist

1973 · USA · 122m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally. banned somewhere

Plays it entirely straight and takes the theology seriously. Still works.