Art Films and Cult Favorites: The 1970s "adults only" genre
Classic XXX movies that have something distinctive going for them—more "real movie" than average, famous, historically important or just in some way cool or unusual.
I can't name a '70s adult film that belongs in the first-rank of world cinema but a number of these are good movies. (By "good" I mean in the top half of all movies ever made.) American and European movies combined I'd guess this genre produced somewhere between 100 and 1000 good movies. Call it 250 ballpark. In their heyday these were uncommonly influential films. I doubt that it's possible to understand film history 1970-present without some familiarity with the best of the genre. (...more)

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1001 Erotic Nights  1982  DVD / All Regions

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Glamour girl Annette Haven makes a very cute Scheherazade in this lavish production. People ride horseback on the beach and wear some fancy Arabian get-ups. Pasolini's ARABIAN NIGHTS was surely an inspiration.... Full Description >>>
Annette Haven  Lisa De Leuw  Lysa Thatcher  Tigr (Chelsea Manchester)  Nicole Noir  

3 A.M. (Nutech DVD)  1975  DVD / All Regions

Director Robert McCallum's real identity is Gary Graver, the prolific cinematographer who shot a lot of famous exploitation films like I Spit on Your Corpse and Invasion of the Bee Girls. 3 AM is his first high quality explicit adult film, and... Full Description >>>
Georgina Spelvin  Sharon Thorpe           

7 Into Snowy  1977  DVD / All Regions

One of two well-made and female-friendly adult films directed by Antonio Shepard (Chorus Call being the other) that rate among the best of the 1970s San Francisco scene. Features a notably romantic beach interlude.... Full Description >>>
Kay Parker  Abigail Clayton           

7 Into Snowy (VCA Gold Classics)  1977  DVD / All Regions

Part of the new VCA/Hustler "VCA Gold Classics" line. One of two well-made and female-friendly adult films directed by Antonio Shepard (Chorus Call being the other) that rate among the best of the 1970s San Francisco scene. Features a no... Full Description >>>
Kay Parker  Abigail Clayton           

8 to 4  1981  DVD / All Regions

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One of the highest grossing 80s theatrical XXX features. Well photographed office-girls revenge feature starring as intriguing a cast as any adult film. Starring cover girl pretty Annette Haven, Lee Carrol, voluptuous true redhead Lisa De Leeuw, Juliet Anderson (Aunt Peg), and waifish Penthouse centerfold Loni Sanders.... Full Description >>>
Annette Haven  Loni Sanders  Lisa De Leuw        

800 Fantasy Lane  1979  DVD / All Regions

Erotic and inventive story of 17 delectable beauties who are employed by a real estate firm to lure their well-heeled clients into buying the highest priced Beverly Hills mansions available. Features a memorable dungeon scene and a spectacular hot tub climax.... Full Description >>>
Lisa De Leuw  Serena  Desiree Cousteau  Nancy Suiter     

800 Fantasy Lane (Nutech DVD)  1979  DVD / All Regions

Erotic and inventive story of 17 delectable beauties who are employed by a real estate firm to lure their well-heeled clients into buying the highest priced Beverly Hills mansions available. Features a memorable dungeon scene and a spectacular hot tub climax.... Full Description >>>
Lisa De Leuw  Serena  Desiree Cousteau  Nancy Suiter     

Alexandra  1983  DVD / All Regions

Intelligent and well made – and why not? The scenario is lifted from Joseph Mankewicz's delightful LETTER TO THREE WIVES. Makes a great companion piece to THE BUDDING OF BRIE, the XXX version of Mankewicz's ALL ABOUT EVE. Very elegant, and with a beautiful cast.... Full Description >>>
Joanna Storm              

Amanda By Night  1981  DVD / All Regions

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Veronica Hart (among the best actresses of the US adult film stars – she's even in some real movies) plays Amanda, a classy call-girl stalked by a killer. Two of her co-workers are murdered after visiting a client and a detective is brought in who feels that the cases are linked and that Amanda is also in danger.... Full Description >>>
Lisa De Leuw  Samantha Fox  Veronica Hart  Nicole Noir     

American Desire  1981  DVD / All Regions

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This movie, along with BODY LOVE and SENSATIONS, make up Braun's good stuff and all three belong on a list of the best adult films ever. In making his one great American film Braun sought out American stars who could act. The intellectual and emotional demands of a Braun role are way over the heads of most adult film stars. Veronica Hart was the best actress of the US sex stars (Her only competition would have been Georgina Spelvin, but Hart is a lot prettier) and Lysa Thatcher is... Full Description >>>
Veronica Hart  Lysa Thatcher           

Angel Above and the Devil Below  1974  DVD / All Regions

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A girl (Linda York) accidentally conjures the devil by masturbating while reading the Necronomicon (who hasn't done that?) and her vulva becomes possessed by a talkative demon. As in PUSSY TALK, the muscle control involved in making one's vagina "talk" is admirable. Briskly edited, and with some elements most cheap porn doesn't have. One actor does creditable stunt work (while naked) taking... Full Description >>>
Rene Bond  Maria Arnold           

Angel Buns  1981  DVD / All Regions

Veronica Hart is an angel sent to earth to help mortals like, a shoe salesman who spends all day looking up the dresses of his lady customers, but who never gets the chance to get his hands on any of them. She teaches him all about the joys of sex, and especially about the illicit joys of dorsal luvin', an activity at which she proves herself an expert... Full Description >>>
Veronica Hart  Tiffany Clark           

Angel On Fire  1975  DVD / All Regions

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Low-budget, but narratively ambitious Roberta Findlay classic. Up in heaven, Angel #9 (Barbara Jordan) is instructed to punish a Casanova named Steven for a lifetime of cruelty towards the oppos... Full Description >>>
Darby Lloyd Rains  Jennifer Jordan           

Anna Obsessed  1977  DVD / All Regions

A dark and ambitious sex psychodrama about a lesbian affair between Annette Haven and Constance Money–the two women most often described as "the most beautiful woman in classic adult film." Constance Money is Anna, whose marriage has lost its passion. After falling victim to a masked serial sex-offender, she is befriended by the beautiful Maggie (Haven), and succumbs to her charms... Full Description >>>
Annette Haven  Constance Money  Susan McBain        

Aphrodesias Diary  1984  DVD / All Regions

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European erotic sensibility combined with an American cast and photography. All in all, a fine effort. "It was at a very early age that Adrienne first realized that she could excite men. From that day forward, she kept her most intimate thoughts and salacious experience in a locked diary. Now after many years... Full Description >>>
Vanessa Del Rio  Joanna Storm  Desiree Cousteau        

Aunt Peg (Nutech DVD)  1980  DVD / All Regions

Terrific Golden Age cast of Juliet Anderson, Serena, Sharon Kane, Mike Horner, John Holmes, Jamie Gillis and Seka makes this a winner. This film was so popular that Anderson ended up being billed as "Aunt Peg" in later films. British Ms. Anderson was anomolous, genrally having orgasms during her on-screen sex.... Full Description >>>
Seka  Juliet Anderson  Serena        

Autobiography Of A Flea  1976  DVD / All Regions

One of the super classy productions the Mitchell Brothers were able to do after the runaway success of Behind the Green Door. "This is the official Mitchell Brothers version - the most complete version sold. Set in 1810. A flea, who inhabiting the pubic hair of a young woman narrates the erotic adventures of his host, including some pretty wild stuff with a couple of lascivious priests who seduce virgins... Full Description >>>
Annette Haven  Jean Jennings           

Autobiography of a Flea (Arrow)  1976  DVD / All Regions

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Excellent classic starring Jean Jennings, John Holmes, Paul Thomas, Annette Haven, Joanna Hilden, John Leslie, Dale Meador, Mitch Mandell.... Full Description >>>
Annette Haven  Jean Jennings           

Babylon Blue  1984  DVD / All Regions

Well made and generally hot vehicle for extra-pretty (though perpetually stunned looking) Bridgette Monet. "Martin is released from prison… He served six months for receiving money for sex… Big money… He’s a first class gigolo. When Missie picks him up and... Full Description >>>
Bridget Monet  Joanna Storm  Jacqueline Lorians        

"Vanessa Del Rio, a tigress in heat, Samantha Fox in total submission, Merle Michaels, an erotic plaything for naughty Arcadia Lake and stud Eric Edwards. There's Georgina Spelvin, outstripping all her previous performances in unspeakable ecstasy, Debbie Revenge, queen of defiled sensuality being eaten alive by desire, Georgette Sanders, all wicked innocence and burning curiosity, and more!... Full Description >>>
Samantha Fox  Vanessa Del Rio  Georgina Spelvin  Arcadia Lake     

Bacchanale  1970  DVD / All Regions

Filmed in 1970 by the notorious Amero Brothers, Bacchanale is the ultimate hardcore film of its time. Follow our gorgeous leading lady into a depraved dream world warped by subversive desire, flagrant indulgence and lascivious lust. Bacchanale broke all the rules of traditional film making while establishing the foundation from which the porn industry would grow in the coming years... Full Description >>>
               

Bad Girls  1981  DVD / All Regions

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BAD GIRLS plays like a 1970s drive-in summer camp comedy–teasing, flippant and taking a purely recreational view of sex. Pretty forest settings. Big fun, with characters almost literally stumbling from one sexual encounter to the next. The girls really are very pretty, and the story (such as it is) is engaging... Full Description >>>
Michelle Bauer              

Bang Bang  1975  DVD / All Regions

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C.J. Laing telephoned by Jeffrey Hurst, who tells her that he is horny and is playing with himself. Soon she reaches a climax and sighs, "That was really nice, Freddie." But that isn't his name, it's a wrong number. Jennifer Jordan demonstrates the bulgarian blowjob. Mother Goose, with C.J. Laing playing the girl and Wade Nichols playing the wolf. Rebecca Brooke at her psychiatrist's office talks about how she became frigid. He begins screwing her, but she pays no attention to him. A show called "What The Fuck Do You Do?," in which a panel guesses Annie Sprinkle's line.... Full Description >>>
Rebecca Brooke  C J Laing  Annie Sprinkle  Susan McBain  Jennifer Jordan Marlene Willoughby

Behind The Green Door  1972  DVD / All Regions

After DEEP THROAT (also 1972), probably the most famous and historically noteworthy adult film, a star-making role for Marilyn Chambers, and the only XXX film that has a review quote from Saturday Review (!) "It is sex as ritual, sex as fantasy, sex as it could be only in the movies."... Full Description >>>
Marilyn Chambers              

Bel Ami  1976  DVD / All Regions

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A perfect breezy XXX sex entertainment. It's not serious or prententious, just light and lively. Everything is sexy, nothing is ugly. Gorgeous and varied cast, excellent photography, and sincerely erotic sensibilities.... Full Description >>>
Marie Forsa              

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