Atomic Cinema: classic adult films on DVD

Classic Erotic Cinema (1970-1985)

These films on DVD are selected for artistic and historical interest, and some sort of sincere and relatively wholesome eroticism. Many of these classic era movies were made for theatrical exhibition, and remain the sexiest and most engaging adult films ever. (The few more recent items here are selected for an affinity to what makes the classic XXX film so swell, and for being somehow better than the bulk of modern porn.)

These movies are for sale only to Adults 18 and over
All performers are consenting Adults

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Educating Tricia (Les Bas de Soie Noire)
Serviced With A Smile (Couple Cherche Esclave Sexuel)
Andrew Blake's revolutionary House of Dreams

New Releases
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Unbelievable
Alice in
Wonderland

New Section: The Mitchell Brothers
Some of the fanciest, most distinctive adult films. Marilyn Chambers, too!

Private Afternoons Of Pamela Mann

Romantic
Annette Haven
in Brief Affair

Just Gorgeous!
The Grafenberg Spot

Superb
Barbara
Broadcast

Three Lasse Braun Masterpieces
Europe's great 1970s Wildman/Genius director
Sensations • Body Love • American Desire

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One of a Kind
New Wave
Hookers

Italian Big Budget Sex Epics
Glossy 90s Joe D'Amato productions
a cast of thousands... or dozens

Porcelain Doll Pretty Euro-Star Olinka
Sprightly Olinka looking like the the
girl on a box of hot chocolate...

Abby Winters: real girls, real orgasms

Cafe Flesh
The ultimate XXX cult film

Golden Age Stars Collections
Nice, reasonably priced compilations
from Gentlemen's Video

The Beautiful Constance Money
Opening of Misty Beethoven
Mary! Mary!

Dr. Desire
Harold Lime
Christy Canyon

Brigitte Lahaie
Indecencies 1930 (Parties Fines)

French
Finishing
School

Unusual
Naughty
Victorians

Uschi Digard Multi-film Packages
• Alpha Blue Triple Feature w/ Madam
• Dr Christina of Sweden / Sex Nurse

French Classic
Erotic
Pleasures

All-American Double Features
All-American Girls 1 / Oriental Jade
All-American Girls 2 / Delicious

Historic Erotica
cheap DVDs of old stuff

Wow!
Sirpa Lane goes XXX, for real

Current Museum Exhibition

Diane Webber: Naturist Goddess

Alpha France
Best Adult DVDs in the World

Prestige 'mainstream quality' Editions
Young, Hot n' Nasty Teenage Cruisers
Blow Dry

Kitty Media Classic X Collection
Re-mastered two disc sets including quality extras like director/star commentaries

Weird & Wild
R. Findlay's
Slip Up

Classic
Harold Lime's
Ecstasy Girls

Fantastic
Marie Forsa in Justine & Juliette

Great Series
Vintage Erotica
Anno 1960

Through The Looking Glass
Eerie!!!

Girls Gone Wild!
This DVD series is surprisingly sexy...
pretty intriguing 'reality erotica'

Devil's Ecstasy
Bizarre
porn/horror hybrid

Dark Brothers
Biarre, intense Devil In Miss Jones 3 & 4

Triple Feature
2 DVD Set w/
Hard-On Wheels

All-American Double Features
All-American Girls 1 / Oriental Jade
All-American Girls 2 / Delicious

It is hard to overstate how little adult entertainment from the pre-VCR era (1960-1985) has in common with the ugly, false junk that is contemporary pornography. Pre-1985 sex films are not all great works of art but even the most blunt and perfunctory 1970s sex film contains some trace of the mystery of sex; some sense of passion, rapture, danger, fulfillment, expression... something. One reason is that the 1970s performers and directors grew up in a world without explicit adult films and were thus drawing to some degree on real sexual experience.

Vintage adult films are valuable because 1) they were a subset of all international cinema, 2) many of them were made with clear artistic intent 3) they provide a record of sexual culture from an era that was, arguably, less pathological than our own and 4) they are human-made artworks that many people enjoy. That last is all the justification the genre requires.

If I seem to be defending these movies it is because they are what's always under attack. If Tarzan movies or Val Lewton horror films faced the same attacks we would all find ourselves defending them, rather than discussing them. The defensive posture is dictated by others. I am not interested in justifying old adult films any more than I am interested in justifying scrimshaw or macramé. I am, however, interested in seeing how these works fit into the big picture.

I don't know of a 1970s adult movie I would call a great film but some 1970s adult films are good movies–in the top 50% of all films. I'd guess that America and Europe combined to make a few hundred adult movies that are better than the average movie. Hundreds more exceed the minimal "real movie" standard set by THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (1957) or John Wayne's THE TELEGRAPH TRAIL (1932). (More)

All performers over 18 years of age without exception

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