Since the dawn of cinema, sex workers have served as muses to movie-makers. Cinematic sex workers are often fantasy figures, or cautionary tales, or just punchlines. Even in well-meaning documentaries reality is distorted by filmmakers who are determined to show trauma, violence and pathos rather than the resilient and thriving communities that are the norm for many sex workers. The Celluloid Bordello brings sex workers to the cinema. With equal parts historical overview, critique, and homage, this eye-opening film lets real-life dommes, escorts, porn stars and hustlers tell you which films they love and which they hate, which get it right and which miss the mark, and, most importantly, how perpetuating stereotypes in media affects real peoples' lives.
Self
The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook tells a story of historic activism and community art through the works of two San Francisco artists and long-term AIDS survivors. During one of the darkest periods in US history, two men decide to bring joy and color to a broken community for which an entire movement has emerged. Supporters, fellow activists and members of the queer art community join the film to help paint this vivid portrait of perseverance, compassion and outrageous dime-store fashion.
Self
Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.
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Light your black candles and start the chant! Culled from 16mm prints found in Something Weird’s attic, SMUT WITHOUT SMUT: SATANIC HORROR NITE is an exclusive feature-length mixtape curated by the Lucifer-worshipping maniacs at the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA). Best viewed during the witching hour at a haunted drive-in, this mixtape features “Smut Without Smut” versions of six Satan-themed features, as well as trailers, commercials, and ephemera from the vaults. WATCH! Demon killers wearing makeup in the style of the band KISS! SEE! Sacrificial rites performed on kitchen tables! OBSERVE! Credits like “Co-starring Raquel Belch!” Dreamy, outrageous, and filled with naked people wearing velvet capes, SMUT WITHOUT SMUT: SATANIC HORROR NITE is a spicy treat for those souls who are brave enough to jump into the fire.
Self
20 years after Gendernauts, Monika Treut seeks out the pioneers of the transgender movement back then to find out how their lives and their activism have evolved, how they have grown into their identities and how their energy continues to have an impact today.
Herself
A documentary journey, both investigative and autobiographical, into the world of female ejaculation, covering the fields of film, literature, performance, activism and sex education.
Director
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel around California with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they explore water in the Golden State. Ecosexuality shifts the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover” to create a more reciprocal and empathetic relationship with the natural world. Along the way, Annie and Beth interact with a diverse range of folks including performance artists, biologists, water treatment plant workers, scholars and others, climaxing in a shocking event that reaffirms the power of water, life and love.
A feature documentary about the commercial sex industry on Guam.
Director
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle activate the metaphor "Earth as lover" and join the fight against mountain top removal (MTR) in Appalachia.
Herself
When Patrick Moote's girlfriend rejects his marriage proposal at a UCLA basketball game on the jumbotron, it unfortunately goes viral and hits TV networks worldwide. Days after the heartbreaking debacle, she privately reveals why she can’t be with him forever: Patrick’s small penis size. "Unhung Hero" follows the real life journey of Patrick as he boldly sets out to expose this extremely personal chapter of his life confronting ex-girlfriends, doctors, anthropologists and even adult film stars. From Witch-Doctors in Papua New Guinea to sex museums in Korea, Patrick has a lot of turf to cover on his globe trotting adventure to finally answer the age old question: Does size matter?
Self
A love story about the legendary sexploitation director Joe Sarno and his loyal wife and business partner Peggy. The film relates their part in the history of sex film, their lives between New York and Sweden, and their struggle to produce one last erotic film.
Experienced women discuss and demonstrate female ejaculation.
Casting Director
With things growing a bit stale in the bedroom, lesbian couple Claudia and Dylan agree to seek sexual experiences outside their relationship. Dylan discovers new pleasures at a sex club, while Claudia, in drag as Claude, finds a surprising partner
Self
The film investigates explicit representations of female sexuality by women, exploring the pragmatic and philosophical questions they pose, with emphasis on the ways in which the creation of women-friendly pornography confronts and alters the expectations of male consumers. Ultimately, Nitoslawska is concerned with how we comprehend desire, gender and identity, how we understand and represent its history, and the resulting affect on culture and human relations.
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If you are a fan of huge and natural mammories and hairy bush and you love porn from the 70's and 80's, then this DVD is for you. There is nothing like those beautiful girls of yesteryear, when the tits were real and not filled with silicon implants or saline solution. Desiree Cousteau had one of the nicest, most juicy pair of breasts in the adult industry and a beautiful bush to match. She was a natural beauty with a pretty pair of peaches.
Herself
Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archives about the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances.
New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, police, schools, and social services. There was a city wide blackout with major looting, a serial killer on the loose, and the Bronx was burning. And yet out of the chaos emerged one of the most creative times any city has ever encountered.
Herself
This documentary about the 70s porn legend attempts to verify his existence as there are practically no Asian male porn stars in the history of American adult cinema. A controversial mystery akin to Bigfoot and alien abduction, Dick Ho was so well endowed that rumors arose of a conspiracy within the porn industry to eliminate any knowledge of his existence. Includes alleged film footage and testimonials from porn veterans.
Herself
Self
When _____ Ruled the World looks at pop culture phenomenona and explores why and how the subject of the show so effectively captured the imagination of the populace. Take a trip down memory lane and explore the zeitgeist of yesterday.
Self
A series of interviews with notorious porno filmmaker Phil Prince, intercut with outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage from his best known films.
Self
Takes a look at the rise and fall of Linda Lovelace, the first major porn star.
Self
A snapshot of the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley focusing on a handful of people: Luke Ford, a reporter who breaks the industry's gentlemen's agreement and writes about actors who have HIV/AIDS; Kimberley Jade, a veteran actress who contracts AIDS; Katie June, who arrives in Los Angeles from the South, going on 20, with dreams of becoming a porn star and with her mother's approval; Jim South, who runs a talent agency; and, William Margold, an aging factotum. Others appear on camera to round out a portrait of a busy industry that's lucrative for some and dangerous for others.
Self
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The characters in this film have a lot to complain about, and they do. They are people whose physical appearance (female) does not match their inner sexual identity (male). The subject is pinpointed in the film independant of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
Herself
Documentary film diary tracing Annie Sprinkle's and society’s 30 year evolution throughout the sexual revolution. Take a look at the history of porn via Annie's filmography.
Director
Documentary film diary tracing Annie Sprinkle's and society’s 30 year evolution throughout the sexual revolution. Take a look at the history of porn via Annie's filmography.
An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal globalisation through amateur wrestling, gun juggling and anarchist debate.
Lucky People Center International takes us on a journey around the world through human souls. Music's rhythms and the film's pulsing form reminiscent of the music video aesthetics and gives the documentary a new face. The film traveled around the world for two years to find people and lifestyles that reflect the world before 2000.
Self
This feature-length documentary explores a wide range of lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women’s erotic fantasies and sexual practices. It reveals the conflicts and complexities of female sexuality as well as the joys and triumphs of self-discovery and personal empowerment.
Herself
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker is a humorous, no-holds-barred autobiographical film about the director’s former career as a sex worker and his relationship with his Jewish family. From graphic, erotic massages to a revealing interview with his grandmother, Roth tells a unique tale and explores themes of sexual wellness, connection and self-realization. Featuring guest appearances by German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim and sexologist/performer Annie Sprinkle.
God
A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.
This 45 minute documentary by Mark Hejnar is a sort of Whitman's Sampler of sickness, chronicling such wildly diverse and extreme personalities as G.G. Allin, Mike Diana, Full Force Frank, GLOD, Annie Sprinkle, and others. This collection of short clips and vile moments is certainly NOT for the squeamish, as these are the artists and performers who have taken the term "free expression" to it's limits--and beyond.
Herself
Eight lesbian and bisexual women who work as prostitutes, strippers, porn stars, and phone sex workers discuss how they negotiate their jobs, intimacy with lovers, and values. With "sexperts" Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Scarlot Harlot, and Joan Nestle who provide insight into the historical presence of queer sex workers.
Post-Porn Modernist documents Sprinkle’s various personae: virgin, whore, sex-positive feminist, tantric sex explorer, business woman, and goddess, which she performed in over 20 countries from 1989 through 1994. The show deconstructed and explored her careers as a sex worker, porn star, erotic educator, sexual healer, pro domme, and artist.
Director
Post-Porn Modernist documents Sprinkle’s various personae: virgin, whore, sex-positive feminist, tantric sex explorer, business woman, and goddess, which she performed in over 20 countries from 1989 through 1994. The show deconstructed and explored her careers as a sex worker, porn star, erotic educator, sexual healer, pro domme, and artist.
Herself
From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One has Camille Paglia explaining her ways of thinking. One has Annie Sprinkle explaining her approach to performance art, which includes inviting audience members to view her cervix with a speculum. One interview investigates a professional woman's preoccupation with sadomasochism. The fourth documents the life adjustments of an F2M (female-to-male) sex change who looks like a dangerous biker, with slick black hair, a matching motorcycle jacket, and tattoos.
Writer
A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.
Director
A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.
Herself
A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to communicate with dolphins, while another cadre of survivors have made it their crusade to destroy all the world's religions.
Annie
Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit. The main problem is that Vicky has told him she is a successful actress and happily married. She enlists the help of a gay friend to play her husband. Using a large range of characters—gay, lesbian, straight, transsexuals—the film creates a funny and touching view of family dynamics and sexuality.
Herself
"This tape is an exploration of my latent heterosexuality with porn star / performance artist Annie Sprinkle as instructor and sage. After assuaging my fears that I can have sex with a woman & still maintain my gay identity, Annie warms me up with some playful, sensual wrestling. She then instructs in the use of a tampon while relating men's need to make war with their inability to menstruate. For the rest of the tape, she guides me through the specifics of sexual exploration, positions of coital congress as well as post- coital ritual."
Waitress
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams. In the course of their adventures, Austin pursues his object of desire - a Mexican soap opera star - and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players, whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of God's existence.
Ex-Girlfriend
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon
Director
A fun, unique, sexy and informative video docudrama about Les Nichols, a trans man. It includes an intimate view of the night he and Annie Sprinkle tried out his new, surgically-constructed genitalia for the first time. His dual genitalia and all of their amazing functions are shown in detail. Revealing interviews, medical photographs, and Annie's heart-warming diary excerpts make this a chronicle of interest to film buffs, trans people, and those that love them. This seminal film from 1989 was the first of its kind.
Herself
Photographer Charles Gatewood offers insight and comments on a variety of his work. His subjects include exhibitionism, transvestites, fetishism, scenes from Mardi Gras, and body modification such as tattoos, body piercing, and extreme weight gain.
Rapping & Rocking
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo ceremony, an S&M club, and a number of very interesting performance artists. These are just a few of the sights and sounds of New York that she encounters.
A xxx satire of the TV classic.
Twin Falls
Russian agents raid an American sperm bank in order to get the sperm of geniuses Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein to take back to Russia with them.
A painting session gets raunchy.
Sam is a chauvinistic man who thinks he (and his penis) are God's gift to women. He's had women all of his life, and he's telling his best friend all about it, when he accidentally slips into New York's Hudson River. Through some strange twist of fate, Sam becomes a woman, who must now deal with men like she (or is it he?) used to be.
Head Stripper
A nerdy college student is pressured to help a jock write love letters to the campus beauty, even though the nerd is in love with her himself.
Lulu
Conservative congressman Victor Kidd appears to be living the American dream, complete with a loving, faithful wife, Lacey, and a decent, respectful, and above all, virginal daughter, Katherine. After all, he’s based his entire political career on representing all that is moral and virtuous, particularly favoring pro-abstinence and monogamy legislation. But Victor has a major problem: his supposedly chaste daughter is, in fact, a vivacious nymphomaniac whose actions threaten to destroy the life and career he’s worked so hard to build. Unfortunately, Katherine isn’t the only person in Victor’s life who has an unquenchable thirst for sex…
Shelly (segment "Bobby's Boobies")
The wraparound story this time is “Bobby's Boobies,” a Charlie's Angels parody with three top heavy private investigators - computer programmer Shelly (Annie Sprinkle), psychiatrist Katrina (Candy Samples) and nuclear physicist Jill (Julia Parton) - searching for a missing aphrodisiac. Other vignettes include Ginger Lynn in "Slow Dancer," a "Sex in Amsterdam" segment featuring a look inside the upscale brother the Yab Yum Club and Kay Parker and John Holmes discussing their work in adult films.
The Sewer Mother
Michelle and Walter are a monogamous couple who have never made love to anyone but each other and are burning to try new experiences. Meanwhile their friends Louise and Andy are seasoned swingers who routinely explore and enjoy new fantasies.
Annie (as annie Sprinkles)
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.
Wife / Justine (as Annie Sprinkles)
After a young man marries, he starts having hallucinations that he is the Marquis De Sade. He begins having nightmares that he is attending deviant S&M orgies, where he engages in whippings, piercings and other degradations against women, and ending with his tying up and strangling his new wife. Terrified of these images, he turns to a doctor who specializes in these problems, but he doesn't know that the doctor has her own kind of "treatment" in mind for him.
Still Photographer
From pioneer eroticist Gerard Damiano come a startling, shocking, no holds barred look at the steamy, seamy side of a sexual revolution. Voluptuous bosom-buddies Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera hostess you through a panoramic who's who is kinky diversity.
Annie Sprinkle
From pioneer eroticist Gerard Damiano come a startling, shocking, no holds barred look at the steamy, seamy side of a sexual revolution. Voluptuous bosom-buddies Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera hostess you through a panoramic who's who is kinky diversity.
Writer
From pioneer eroticist Gerard Damiano come a startling, shocking, no holds barred look at the steamy, seamy side of a sexual revolution. Voluptuous bosom-buddies Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera hostess you through a panoramic who's who is kinky diversity.
Annie
A fashion show turns into a perverse S&M exhibition. The most electrifying S&M footage ever filmed, with two of todays top porno stars giving their wildest and weirdest performances ever.
Annie
An intern at a New York adult magazine company seeks out the perfect model for the current front cover, both aided and hindered by her sleazy editor, and a sex-addicted photographer with the ironic name of 'The Maniac'.
Self
Annie Sprinkle presents a personal account of her life, introducing vignettes showing off her sexual fantasies.
Writer
Annie Sprinkle presents a personal account of her life, introducing vignettes showing off her sexual fantasies.
Director
Annie Sprinkle presents a personal account of her life, introducing vignettes showing off her sexual fantasies.
The Queen of the Club
While out for lunch with a friend, Pandora feels an unexplained compulsion to visit a small antique shop. While browsing, a large mirror catches her attention, seemingly casting a spell over her. Despite warnings by the shop keeper to be wary of its enveloping powers of sensuality, Pandora cannot overcome her strange desire to gaze into it, visiting the store again and again. Each time learning a bit more about the mirror’s debauched past and corrupting powers – a sensation Pandora is soon a slave to…
Satisfier
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.
Girl at Party
A divorcee relives her sexual past while in hopes of reviving her sexual present, but her age and waning looks make it difficult.
First Caller
Jack and Jill decide to liven up their marriage by exploring the wild, kinky and surprising world of a couple who are married but not to each other.
Sherry Herring
Toni is a smart drug smuggler, living in a luxuriously home by the beach. The pot (ganja) producers pack it in crates, take it from Jamaica to a precise point of New England waters, and dump it in the sea. With no apparent connection with them, a couple of scuba-divers later retrieve the crates to their own boat, then take it in an old low-flying biplane to the continent. And then a third party will distribute to the consumers. The Narcotics Bureau has its informers, of course, but it seems the monthly Ganja Express can't be stopped. Eventually it will come ashore, in a mix of sex and violence, during an orgy at Toni's place.
Sprink
An accountant embezzles $80,000 from his company, in cahoots with a beautiful company executive. However, he starts worrying about getting caught and lets his partner know that he wants to stop. She, however, doesn't want to dry up her cash cow, so she finds some "persuasive" ways to convince her partner to keep up his end of the deal.
Orgy Girl
In 1826 New England, the two daughters of a repressed farmer (played by director Colt) secretly fawn over a blonde farmhand. The farmer finds out about the farmhand's relationship with the younger daughter and fires him, then punishes the younger daughter. Meanwhile the older daughter, secretly in love with the farmhand hopes to win him back by invoking the Devil with the help of a forest witch.
Muff
When a New York lawyer realizes that he is the latest in a long line of Holly's discarded lovers he decides to get even with her. In order to blackmail her, he gets a gangster to secretly film Holly with her new lover in their hotel room.
Hooker with Stole
Timmy, a grown man, still lives as a child with his domineering mother in the backwoods. Traumatized by memories of his parents having sex, he begins to kill women so that he can play with their corpses.
Susan
Many men go in and out of Janice's life, she's used to it. But one of them might take it even further, and if he can't have her, no one will!
Tess Albertino
A man finds his wife cheating on him with his best friend; he kills both of them and then himself. Fifty years later, his ghost haunts the same apartment building. He repeatedly has sex with the young woman who moves into the apartment - making her think she's gone insane - kills her male admirers, and for good measure kills her neighbor's lover as well.
Tracy Dixon
An evil aunt abuses an orphan girl.
Russian Porn Actress
A coming of age comedy loosely based on the characters of Archie Comics. Archie thinks about sex constantly, to the point of distraction. He periodically envisions hardcore sex fantasies which are so vivid that they come to life on the screen.
Stella Wilkins
Crystal Sync – a sly, charismatic, and assertive Southern girl – works as an erotic model who seduces a female artist and her friends with the help of her submissive quiet hunky brother.
Girl at the Bridge Party #1
Editor's Mistress
These women are in for a very long night! This 70’s vintage film features intense bondage practices on these delightful beauties and it’s going to go all night for them! Rough sex auteur director, Joe Davian, delivers a straight faced black magic story. New York reporters investigate the bizarre sex rituals of an underground voodoo cult. Wall to wall graphic orgies, up close whip wounds, and crucifixion!
Samantha
Robin
Harry "Frosty" Knight, an New York City private eye who must find a missing young man -- heir to a fortune left by his father -- but soon finds himself framed for murder.
Hentai
Satanic cult leader Mandarin and his servant Charlie tempt lovely young ladies into an abyss of sexual abandon.
Ella
Annie moves in with cousin Audrey where she is raped by Audrey's boyfriend Hank and later accused of trying to steal Hank away.
Blow Job Annie
The writers at Metro magazine have come up with a hot story and fast before they all lose their jobs. One of the sex-crazed hot women who works there starts reading through all the steamy letters from readers about their wildest sex adventures, and she has a winning idea--publish the best sex adventure she can find.
Susan
A porn movie editor learns about his wife's sordid past
Three movies in one set! Interlude - Annie dominates and is dominated with her huge tits hanging out in this 80’1 fetish video from cult director Carlos Tobliana. My Erotic Fantasies - Strange and campy comedy which should satisfy any collector of oddball 70’s smut. Mash’d - A XXX parody of MASH with military nurses taking extra special care of their patients.
Gail
A XXX parody of MASH with military nurses taking extra special care of their patients.
Harry's Girl
Lascivious detective Sherlick Holmes and his equally randy partner Dr. Watson discover a time machine that transports them to New York City in the swinging 1970's. The duo encounter a pimp whose ire Holmes rises after Holmes proceeds to seduce said pimp's stable of hookers.
Anita
Young Kathy is an honors student who graduates from high school with straight A's. However, at her graduation party her friends--who know that she is a virgin--decide to give her the kind of "final exam" that she wasn't counting on.
Annie
Bored and neglected housewife Stella feels like her workaholic husband Ronald doesn't care about her anymore, so she decides to get a job working as a hooker at a Times Square prostitution ring.
Margaret's Brunette Client
Darby Lloyd Raines stars as a vicious dominatrix who lives with her beautiful slave girl. When her brother comes to visit, he immediately becomes smitten with the slave and plots to steal her away.
First Nurse
Four nurses are waiting for a team of divers as they emerge from the New York City sewer system after searching for alligators. The big question is what the divers saw down there, and they're kept in quarantine in the meantime. . .
Terry
Terry has always been jealous of her sister Claudia, but pretends to be happy that she’s gotten engaged to Victor, with whom Terry has been having an affair. However, unknown to Claudia, she’s been set up as a pawn by those even closer to her in a bid to drive her insane.
B.J.
Annie Sprinkle models for the Hump cigarette company's new "Blow Some My Way" ad campaign. The slogan attracts prudish protesters and the company must demonstrate just what they mean by "blow".
June
A new kind of video dating service not only matches you up with people with like interests, but will also show you exactly what kind of sex acts they are willing to perform.
