Exploitation films

Assault! Jack the Ripper

A couple who find that killing is the only thing that works, followed all the way down.

Ecstasy of the Angels

Wakamatsu wires the pink film to a detonator and steps back.

The Lickerish Quartet

The most elegant film ever filed under sexploitation, and the reason Metzger belongs in the canon.

Violated Angels

The Richard Speck murders restaged as avant-garde pink film. Wakamatsu's coldest hour.

Camille 2000

Dumas restaged in a mod furniture showroom. The best-looking softcore of its year by a mile.

Schoolgirl Report

West Germany's pseudo-documentary sex series. Thirteen entries, vast profits, zero shame.

Flower and Snake

The film that made Nikkatsu's S&M line a going concern. Rope, and lots of it.

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks

Same Ilsa, new empire. The harem keeps the whip, loses the swastika.

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Black Emanuelle wanders into a cannibal picture, and D'Amato lets both halves misbehave.

Salon Kitty

Nazisploitation with a real budget and Tinto Brass's dirty fingerprints. Ilsa was the knock-off.

In the Realm of the Senses

The art film that shipped its own negatives abroad to beat Japan's censors. Unsimulated, and deadly serious about it.

Emmanuelle

The film that made softcore respectable at the box office. Glossy, empty, and enormously profitable.