Phil Gries

Movies

Harlem School 1970
Director
A unique 'direct cinema' feature length documentary (no narration or interviews) originally filmed in the Spring of 1970 and concluded during the Summer of 2017 (footage added, restored, and re-edited). A day in the life of an inner-city Harlem elementary school. In 2018 filmmaker Phil Gries reunited with seven of his former Harlem elementary students whom he hadn't seen in 50 years.
The Prince of Porn
Self
A series of interviews with notorious porno filmmaker Phil Prince, intercut with outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage from his best known films.
Bogart: The Untold Story
Director of Photography
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
The Story of Lassie
Director of Photography
Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, archival footage and on-camera interviews with many figures involved with the Lassie films or television series.
Highway 61
Other
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
The Last X-rated Movie 4
Director of Photography
Sexually tormented director Walter Airhart becomes so confused between fantasy and reality, he can't tell which is which. He encounters a nymph grifter who tests the limits of his already shaky grasp on reality.
The Last X-rated Movie 3
Director of Photography
Walter Airheart is now divorced from his wife, but unable to stop thinking or talking about her, much to the frustration of his girlfriend Angelica. He is subsequently introduced to some new sexual experiences even he never thought he would do or enjoy.
The Last X-rated Movie 2
Director of Photography
Walter Airhart's wife Cheryl has a sexual reawakening after a particularly raunchy and acrobatic sexual performance with Dick Cox. Meanwhile, Walter's brother Sheffield has his own self-realization after a scorching scene with performance artist/prostitute Jane, and Walter's secretary and confidante is compromised when she is seduced by an acting coach.
Metamorphosis : The Alien Factor
Director of Photography
A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.
The Last X-rated Movie
Director of Photography
Porn star turned director Walter Airhart makes the dirtiest, nastiest, filthiest sex films in the world. But what he's really looking for in his life is purity. Trouble is, he's converted his formerly innocent storybook princess wife into an insatiable woman who will do anything to please him. And it does nothing for him anymore. So he resorts to the fledgling young actress who will do anything to be in his movies.
Dreamwalk
Director of Photography
A wealthy's couple's facade covers guilt and sexual secrets. The obsessed Louise is a woman with far too much interest in her "family."
FireStorm 3
Director of Photography
International criminal, Lee Balcourt, locks horns with blackmailer, Ken Cushing, in a battle for ultimate control of Balcourt's fortune - and the richest, most voluptuous women in the world: decadent Caroline, jaded Elise, innocent Claire, devastating Liza, and more.
Sinners 3
Director of Photography
Alice strips naked on a sleazy stage before an all-male audience. Daisy lives in a glittering mansion. Both these women are in love with the same man - Jamie Fell. The night Jamie comes out of prison, Alice, who has lived on steamy memories for five years, visits Murphy, a crooked detective who helped the Holt family frame Jamie in a $6 million robbery. Murphy tells all there is to tell about the outrageous comings and goings of the richest and most ruthlessly passionate family in recent history. When Murphy has finished his incredible tale of deceit and sexual indulgence, Alice is left to face one question: Should she leave Jamie to Daisy, the woman responsible for his disastrous past - the only woman he loves?
Sinners 2
Director of Photography
The sizzling saga continues...Evil millionaire John Holt forces his insatiable wife Daisy and her vulnerable sister Lauren into a steamy menage with Jamie, a stranger. Daisy draws the affair out, then betrays Jamie, leaving him framed in a robbery by Holt's sons Louis and Scott. Now, Jamie is out of prison, enraged and sexually impotent. His former lover, Alice, comforts him, aided by voluptuous sex pro Felice. The corrupt Holts are entangled in sex games. Daisy, after John's suicide, marries Finch, a sometime gigolo who seduces Lauren. Susan plays out illicit dreams with Scott. Louis smothers his guilt in exotic Alba's bedroom antics. The blaze of lust, power and lies burns ever hotter as Jamie's moment of revenge approaches.
Sinners
Director of Photography
A dangerous beauty. An evil millionaire. A man willing to risk anything. A multi-million dollar master plan. A family swimming in corruption. A nymph gripped by passion. A streetwise seductress. A blonde designed for pleasure. A detective enslaved by a platinum heiress. A jealous mistress. Lesbian games. A man imprisoned by a woman's desire. The ultimate dynasty of lust, power and lies.... Cecil Howard's greatest erotic achievement, created shamelessly for everyone who ever dreamed of a secret sin.
Snake Eyes 2
Director of Photography
Crazy jealous ad executive David has finally gone and done it. With suspicion, infidelity and his own raging guilt, he has pushed his loving wife away and into the arms of a macho cop. Now he is a man possessed by sexual daydreams he can't distinguish from reality. And to make matters worse, after each one, there always seems to be some indication that it was not all fantasy.
FireStorm II: The Angel Blade
Director of Photography
The sequel to Firestorm which follows the memoirs of a wealthy family.
Shoah
Director of Photography
Claude Lanzmann directed this 9½ hour documentary on the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing, by asking for the most minute details, is effective at adding up these details to give a horrifying portrait of the events of Nazi genocide. He also shows, or rather lets some of his subjects show, that the anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still alive and well in many people who still live in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere.
Don't Mess with My Sister!
Director of Photography
Steven, a meek accountant-in-training, is living contentedly with his wife Clara and working for her brothers, managing the books at their junkyard. All of this changes when the belly dancer they hire for Steve's birthday turns out to be Anke, one of his classmates. Suddenly smitten, Steven begins to pursue Anke, who falls for him when he protects her from an overly lecherous customer. News travels fast in a close-knit neighborhood, however, and soon Clara and her brothers find out about the illicit relationship. Pushed to the edge, Steven will have to decide between his marriage with Clara and his love for Anke.
Turn On with Kelly Nichols
Cinematography
Kelly Nichols hosts this educational outing in which various beautiful women demonstrate assorted ancient practices and techniques pertaining to carnal fulfillment.
Savage Sadists
Cinematography
A duo of hoodlums hold a pornographer and his wife hostage, forcing them into acts of debauchery.
Forgive Me, I Have Sinned
Camera Operator
A cult leader called "The Confessor" hears confessions from rape victims, "cleanses" the female ones with sex and then arranges for all victims and sometimes himself to rape their own male or female rapists.
Forgive Me, I Have Sinned
Director of Photography
A cult leader called "The Confessor" hears confessions from rape victims, "cleanses" the female ones with sex and then arranges for all victims and sometimes himself to rape their own male or female rapists.
Oriental Techniques in Pain and Pleasure
Director of Photography
A woman who has accidentally come into possession of an ancient Chinese manuscript is kidnapped by a gang trying to find the manuscript, and when she refuses to tell where it is, she is tortured, raped and forced to perform in a B&D/S&M sex show.
Tales of the Bizarre
Director of Photography
Four young women recall their freakiest sexual experiences, and in flashbacks we see them all.
The Story of Prunella
Director of Photography
Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young woman is being given a wedding shower, and they proceed on a rampage of violence, rape and sexual assaults.
The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue
Cinematography
The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue is set in a futuristic society which adores its sexual Satisfiers more than anything else. A space-age resort environment exists where Satisfiers and their guests raise sex to a fine art, creating a society whose entire purpose is sexual fulfillment.