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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)'.

A handsome young stud rides his motorcycle through a myriad of sexual encounters, from a soccer game’s locker room to a dreamy and unsettling orgy where the film reaches its melancholic peak.

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.

Documentary about the making of LA FEMME-OBJET, the landmark French adult movie.

Clement, a 60 years old teacher, retires and live alone with his Cat Zeus. One night, the cat becomes a man to entertain Clement in his loneliness and to help him accept his true sexual attraction.

A Frenchman finds a new lover on the set of a gay adult film.

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.

Journey into the secret Parisian underground where boys are convinced to become sluts and learn to love to perform in outrageous sex shows for debauched audiences!

As he gradually turns mad, the dancer Nijinsky evokes the important episodes of his life. In costumes and sets of lush beauty, the divine puppet performs in a final show where the secondary characters are named: Diaghilev, Isadora Duncan, Stravinsky, Auguste Rodin, Léon Bakst.

Johan details the director's quest for an actor to play his titular lover, the real deal having been incarcerated just prior to shooting on charges of petty theft.

Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead.

An inventive Euro sex film, set in Paris and Rome.

A man is shot down in a provincial airport. Despite his wounds he manages to drag himself to his plane bound for Italy, unaware that the killers are already waiting for him at his destination. During the flight he reminisces about the events that led him there. His name is Matou and he was a Formula 1 champion before being banned from racing circuits for causing a fatal accident. Matou ran away in the company of Lena, his employer's girlfriend. But while they were in the open country they got shot at by mysterious pursuers, which was the beginning of a wild manhunt.

Documentary on industrial lubrification.

The tenth installment of "Make Me An Offer" featuring extreme erotic situations and sex eager girls are the common points of these seven taboo less stories. 1 - The deal 2 - The maid 3 - Anita 4 - Rebecca 5 - The date 6 - The florist-girl 7 - Taxi

Parisian Phillippe is obsessed with a former lover named Doug, and seems only capable of experiencing sex through his delirious, popper-induced memory.

A Frenchman gets a job at a gay bar after moving to New York.

A Frenchman gets a job at a gay bar after moving to New York.

Parisian Phillippe is obsessed with a former lover named Doug, and seems only capable of experiencing sex through his delirious, popper-induced memory.

A Frenchman finds a new lover on the set of a gay adult film.

A Frenchman finds a new lover on the set of a gay adult film.

Axelle, an attractive stewardess, will join her boyfriend Phil, in one of the many paradise islands of the famous West Indies. The latter introduces Elvira, his mistress of the moment and makes him aware of the incredible aphrodisiac effects of the love flower whose pollen exacerbates pent up love desires. She will also be acquainted with a "gift" offered by Phil: the seductive Coralie ...

This film is a real document: it is a report taken on the spot, without any special effects. All of the images that are presented to you are rigorously authentic. We warn sensitive people about the violence of certain scenes. Why does one of the protagonists hide his face behind a mask?

Paul and Gabriel meet in front of the Château de Vincennes. Paul is arrogant, domineering and cavalier while Gabriel is gentle, helpful and conciliatory. Despite their differences in character, they decide to “settle down”. After an orgy and sex with gigolos in a hotel, is Paul, who has always considered himself a hardened worker, now tempted by sodomy? An early homo social and domestic patterns or paid love.

Jérôme, a Frenchman, arrives in New York from Paris with only one idea in mind: to find his lover Paul, 'swallowed' by the New York S&M gay life. Encounter after encounter, Jérôme will delve into the leather pit... and find Paul.

Through the wonders of virtual reality, Emmanuelle tries to help a former schoolmate to overcome a traumatic sexual past.

A documentary about French naturism with some perspectives from Germany. The film includes discussion on the history of French naturism; distinctions between naturism and nudism; nudism in various historical, social, cultural and political contexts; and personal shares from many individuals. Naturists from a wide age range, young children to adults in their 80s, speak to how naturism supports self-acceptance, acceptance of others, deep meaninful relationships, wellness and vitality.

Helene is a young, sexually inexperienced women. That all changes after she drinks some milk laced with an aphrodisiac. Now she is overcome by sexual desire, and will do anything to achieve fulfillment.

From East Berlin, alone in Paris, Virginia, a young unemployed actress, finds a job as a reader in a strange villa, with a blind man. Between a domineering housewife and a submissive employee who plays sadistic games, Virginia must find her place.

From East Berlin, alone in Paris, Virginia, a young unemployed actress, finds a job as a reader in a strange villa, with a blind man. Between a domineering housewife and a submissive employee who plays sadistic games, Virginia must find her place.

From East Berlin, alone in Paris, Virginia, a young unemployed actress, finds a job as a reader in a strange villa, with a blind man. Between a domineering housewife and a submissive employee who plays sadistic games, Virginia must find her place.

A man has haunting dreams of his future lover being raped and killed by a gang of eagle-tattooed sex thugs.

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

A priest succumbs to the charms of his lovely cleaning lady and decides to find a husband when she finds herself pregnant with her works.

A young woman comes to despise her lover because his bike has just broken down.

The Basilica of Monreale, near Palermo in Sicily acts as subject and springboard of Carné's final film; Its hundreds of gorgeous and intricate tiled mosaics vividly depict scenes from the Bible. Kinetic camerawork and dramatic narration of each scene compliment these stunning pieces in order to retell the Holy Book's age-old Story.

Nicolas, a sci-fi writer, having experienced a tragedy in his life, is only able to find solace through sex. No woman can completely satisfy him. Then he creates her - a robot that he programs to obey his will. The creature would seem to be the embodiment of all his desires, but...

A Frenchman gets a job at a gay bar after moving to New York.

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

A Frenchman finds a new lover on the set of a gay adult film.

Follows a high class working woman who can finally relax and meet all her lovers throughout the weekend. She spend all her free time into lovemaking but unbeknownst to her, a man is lurking wherever she goes and recording everything.

Parisian Phillippe is obsessed with a former lover named Doug, and seems only capable of experiencing sex through his delirious, popper-induced memory.

Three young Soviet women encounter a French filmmaker who is planning the first erotic film since the October Revolution.

During the Cannes Cinema Festival, two young would-be actresses walk about on the Croisette. They are spotted by a photographer who is looking for new faces and who introduces them to a producer and his secretary. From then on, their life has nothing to do with cinema and much to do with sex and orgies.

Brigitte Lahaie plays the Madame of a brothel who is busted by a sincere cop. He makes some sly remark about getting out of the brothel business and setting up a school, so guess what? She sets up a school to teach young women the fine art of pleasing their man!

The two partners of a married couple meet regularly to talk about their dates and homosexual encounters. There are two introductory scenes, the first with the husband on a bed dreaming of having sex with another man and the sceond with the wife doing housework and flipping through a gay magazine. After that scenes of the daily routine of the couple alternating with explicit scenes of the husband's gay encounters at a friend's place, with a next door couple, at his place, with three men at the bathhouse and on the roof top.

Docteur Nexus explains to the viewers about fetishisms such as leather and sadomasochism and their "predominant place in homosexual mores". Each of his 'arguments' is then visualized onscreen.

Following a recent divorce, Hélène Gallois, a well-known writer, meets Edouard Fournier in a specialized clinic where she is being treated. A kind of friendship is formed between them which evolves very quickly towards a sexual complicity ...

Unaware that his lover, who has left him, has died in a car crash, Lucien wanders through Paris, going from one gay encounter to another, as if to forget about his sorrow.

After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.

Alpha France is back with yet another blast from the past! It's a fabulous resemblance with Marilyn Monroe that made Olinka a goddess of all fantasies. It inspired Michel LeBlanc, her appointed Director, to have her go through a variety of sexual situations and scenes that she will reach through a high libido. Marilyn My Sexy Love is in the history of the Cinema X French as legendary as that which it bears the name.

It's summer in the south of France. A family decides to organize a big fest. There is Bernard, a doctor, and his sister Lise, a libertine architect, also teens Patrick and his brother Julien, both attracted to 15 year old Dina

Jean, an international trafficker, chooses from Ms. Erica, India, a call-girl whom she will pose as a fiancee during a business trip to the Caribbean. Erica then warns Pierre, chief of the secret services. Although India is a spy, he contacts Nirvana, another of his agents. When they land in the Caribbean, Jean and India are greeted by Paul. While waiting for the arrival of Medskens to whom Jean must buy diamonds and microfilms, the trio Batifole on the beach. Pretending a car breakdown, Nirvana managed to interfere in their games and photograph them. Events rush with the arrival of Medskens, gallantly accompanied.

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.

Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to keep all the loot for himself...

Introduced to the homosexual lifestyle by soldiers, Karl later enlists in the military. After leaving the service, Karl plunges into civilian life as an insatiable loner desperately trying to find himself.

A handsome young stud rides his motorcycle through a myriad of sexual encounters, from a soccer game’s locker room to a dreamy and unsettling orgy where the film reaches its melancholic peak.

While touring Paris, Thomas is cruised by an older man in a cafe, and then goes to the museum (after the guard has left and locked up). A handsome statue comes to life who embraces and kisses Thomas passionately before leading him into another room, instructing him on his innermost desires.

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.

During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. As their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should be enemies begin to bond in ways neither thought possible.

A reporter enters the world of bodybuilding at a time when there has just been a death at the gym. He befriends an unusually gregarious bodybuilder there.

The Forbidden Files, films of Jean-Teddy Filippe, flirt with fantasy featuring pictures and voiceovers to create the illusion of a documentary about the strange events from around the world.

CLAUDINE is a callgirl. One day, she finds her client dead in his bed after a night of lovemaking. A policeman played by Hervé P. Gustave conducting the investigation. There are excellent camera movement and sets and lights are baroque. There is a narration which has an opening 15 minutes without sex and details rare in this type of production are present as OVIDIE that turns a kind of passage that is unable to bend. In fact, to have advantages as surprising, the film was directed by Martin Cognito. He is a director of cinema tradionnel hiding under a hood not to be recognize! All is fine, except for an end too agreed.