Carmelo Petix

Between 1975 and 1983 a new kind of film could be seen in French cinema : home-grown gay pornography. The films were shot in 16mm and most of them were passed and given certificates by the CNC (National Cinema Centre). They were screened in a small number of Parisian cinemas dedicated to gay pornographic films : Le Dragon, La Marotte and Le Hollywood Boulevard as well as several in the provinces. They were essentially the work of three production companies : Les Films de La Troïka (Norbert Terry), AMT Productions (Anne-Marie Tensi) and Les Films du Vertbois (principally Jacques Scandelari). The genre met an untimely end with the advent of video, the last being made in 1983 "Mon ami, mon amour (My friend, my lover)". Since then, gay pornography has not been screened in French cinemas. This film is the result of five years of painstaking research and investigation. It features extensive interviews with the directors and actors illustrated by numerous extracts from their films.

Between 1975 and 1983 a new kind of film could be seen in French cinema: home-grown gay pornography. They were essentially the work of three production companies: Les Films de La Troika (Norbert Terry), AMT Productions (Anne-Marie Tensi) and Les Films du Vertbois (principally Jacques Scandelari). The genre met an untimely end with the advent of video, the last being made in 1983 'Mon Ami, Mon Amour (My Friend, my Lover)'.

In drive out across the beautiful country innocent women find themselves in perversions and torrid revenges. Caught in a sexual web of twisted desire these women are ridiculed and subjected offer themselves without reserve to the most incredible passions!

A young married couple in deep marital crisis decides to turn to an unusual and mysterious individual in hope of resolving their problem. The therapy recommended involves a degrading descent to hell, during which the women experiences perversions she has never faced before…

Mechanics, oil, pistons, demanding customers make you tired. One day, you have to hand over... This is what a garage holder says to his two pretty daughters. In order to inherit the garage, which of them will be the best? The one who will get married first. A harsh competition starts between the two sisters...

These girls know the intimate details of the taxi business, that's how they're seducing fares away from the local cabbies of LA. In retribution the cabbies capture one of the girls. So what are hot sultry taxi girls to do? Why call on their nymphet French connection of course. Watch as these ladies cum all over town fucking and sucking everyone to find their missing girl.

The head of state of a small African country arrives incognito on a visit, but causes scandal and trouble with his wild parties and sexual escapades.

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...

Three frivolous girls travel to Paris in the course of a student exchange and plunge into every imaginable erotic adventure.

Papy is sick and tired of living in the country. He goes to Paris with the money he has stolen from his son and daughter-in-law. After he has paid a visit to a prostitute, he goes to Alain’s place (his grandson) who gives him shelter for the night. Papy’s son who fears that he might not inherit from his father goes after him with his wife. Thanks to a pendullum they also go to Paris and check at Alain’s who tells them that he is unaware of Papy’s location. He then tells him to go to one of his female friend’s place. The son and his wife ask for the help of a private detective who first proceeds to pay himself in kind with the wife. Papy who has found what real life is, decides to stay in Paris and get married. His son and daughter-in-law go back home disappointed

Barbro and Ulla are two Swedish friends who maintain the myth of Swedish liberty and sexual appetite. Evert and Jan-Olof, their spouses, are not worse, and have competitions about who can give their respective wife the most pleasure.

Jacques Gateau with his wife Dominique Saint Claire leads a theatrical troupe round country districts in a red double-decker Leyland bus (passenger entry at rear, but there is no anal in this film!). A rich man asks them to stay at his mansion and performs in a play he has written. This turns out to be hard core and they leave, but their bus breaks down. After Jacques sends his daughter to seduce a mechanic from the next village to repair it and two other girls lead the mechanic off into the woods for a threesome to avoid paying, they return to the mansion and do the play. Jacques' daughter marries the rich man and there is a wedding party orgy on the bus.

This very representative masterpiece of a libertarian era revives a tradition of French erotic literature. Here we have teenagers spanked in a Perverse Initiation.

Desperately seeking orgasms, a married couple go to a clinic where they treat sexual problems. The moment they arrive they're separated and sent to experience a multitude of orgasmic experiences, fulfilling all of their fantasies and beyond. They don't enjoy being separated so they both run away, finally able to reach orgasms and suddenly realizing what was missing from their lives: a change of scenery. A masterpiece of X French adult cinema released in 1980!

Marilyn Jess is a girl with a very strong sex drive but an impotent fiance. As her wedding approaches she writes in and reads over her diary and examines her wedding outfit. This is a cue for numerous flashbacks, but the film begins with Marilyn, in a white T-shirt, black hot pants and black thigh boots, dancing for and with and then having sex with Pjotr Stanislas. Then we see her in her bedroom in the same outfit on the bed with several cuddly toys

Each person makes a sex-related word on a scrabble board and then some of the participants enact it. Finally Marilyn Jess makes the word 'partouze' and there is an orgy.

A pornographic filmmaker dies, and his last will and testament is shown to his survivors in the form of a self-made film. In the film, he tells them that he is going to show them a porn "loop" (short film) that contains clues to the location of his fortune, and whoever solves the mystery and finds the hidden treasure will get his entire fortune. In this way, the lucky winner will avoid paying an inheritance tax.

Le beau mec is many things to many men. Introduced to the homosexual lifestyle by soldiers, Karl later enlists in the military. After leaving the service, Karl plunges into civilian life as an athlete, a hustler, a stripper, and an insatiable loner desperately trying to find himself. But this is only the beginning of his journey toward his inescapable destiny.

One drunk explains to another how he had to give up his work as a gynecologist because women kept throwing themselves at him.

A lord's fortune is threatened if he can't stop his young niece from gambling it away.

Adrien is a journalist specialised on the "strange". He is asked to interview a man who is said to know succubi. He meets a woman at the cemetery's entrance who offers him a ring which had belonged to Casanova and has magic powers which enable the journalist to make his fantasies come to reality. But he must sell this ring within seven days for fear of a terrible death

Four short films for sex-shops that have never been released in theaters!

Martine is a spoiled socialite who loves to tease, chasing every thrill and every high. On her 21st birthday she has to make a decision between the love she knows and the lust she is to learn.

When a French kid leaves home for the first time, he's at the mercy of every hot number he meets.

Helga, a woman who runs a strict prison camp, forces her female prisoners into slave labor and to be love toys for her own personal pleasure, as well as for her soldiers. Issuing torture and whippings to anyone who dares defy her, man or woman.

One of the first hardcore films of Brigette Lahaie. Still scared, she is made to go beyond her inhibitions; she gives her body and soul in front of the camera. Spectators will not be disappointed, for it is to them that she gives herself. A triumphant success for this film upon its release on May 25, 1977.

Nothing but sluts, still sluts, always sluts. The revelations of love, a virgin by whores.

Madame Anaïs, a countess, whose wealth has been squandered by her husband, runs a brothel. One day she hires a girl and offers her a necklace against a mysterious job. Madame Anaïs's former husband, the count, immediately falls in love with the girl who is dressed as a teenager. After whetting his appetite on the maid, the count expects a very nice time with the girl and they quickly find themselves together in bed. After the first lovemaking, the young lady asks for more, which he provides but gets exhausted and begs for mercy. The girl, by putting a piece of cloth round his neck and nearly strangling him, brings his strength back. Then she definitely strangles him and leaves the house after receiving the necklace from Madame Anaïs (the countess), who then bursts into tears.

Marie-Madeleine is a shopgirl who, at the persuasion of her lecherous boss, has begun exchanging sexual favors with the store's most affluent clientele. After being fired for refusing one of her customer's advances, she finds solace in a squalid bar, which turns out to be a haven for prostitutes. Deciding to try her hand at the profession once again, but this time on her own terms, Marie is quickly immersed into a world of increasingly debauched and hedonistic experiences which soon threaten to destroy her in body and soul.

Lena, the operator of a lingerie shop where she models the merchandise for some of her male customers in order to make a sale, is approached by a mysterious woman.

In the form of an investigative report, Super Woman offers a dive into the world of transvestites and transsexuals who, in 1975, brightened up certain Parisian cabarets such as the Carrousel, the Etrier, the Alcazar or Chez Michou... The latter introduces us to two of its stars, Duduche and Fifi, who evokes his encounters with Sylvie Vartan, whom he imitates to perfection. Then an investigator goes to the Carrousel and meets Claudie, Laurence, Peggy, Albane, Griselleda, Maryline and Kristel.

Laure is heartbroken after her husband leaves her for another women. She checks into the resort hotel where they spent many happy moments, in order to kill herself. Her plans change after she overhears the lovemaking of a honeymoon couple in the next room, and her fantasies rekindle her passion.

A married Parisian couple whose sex life has lost a little bit of its spark reveal their respective dissatisfaction to a friend, and both receive the same advice: put an ad into a swingers magazine.