Art Films and Cult Favorites: The 1970s "adults only" genre
This section is reserved for noteworthy 1970s sex movies produced for exhibition in adult theaters. The best were an historically important type of real movie deserving every consideration afforded other real movies. And because the theatrical adult film is an extinct genre we can now look back at the entire range of them to find those of unusual merit.

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 third 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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Bad Girls (DVD)    1981
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One of the great fun, simple-minded sex films. 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 stumbl... (See full description)
 
Bang Bang (DVD)    1975
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When someone says "a porno version of Kentucky Fried Movie" my instincts are to run, but this Chuck Vincent directed collection of sexually explicit sketches is pretty entertaining and has at least one genuine laugh in it—the pictures accom... (See full description)
 
Barbara Broadcast (DVD)    1977
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Directed by Radley Metzger (as Henry Paris) The best looking American explicit film. Extremely sexy follow-up to Misty Beethoven (including a bondage scene with Constance Money and Jamie Gillis that was filmed for Misty Beethoven but not us... (See full description)
 
Blow Dry (DVD)    1976
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The mini-wave of high quality DVD releases of fun 1970s XXX classics continues with another company, Halo Park, offering this handsome, feature packed edition of obscure 1976 porn comedy Blow Dry. A STYLISH knock-off of SHAMPOO about enterp... (See full description)
 

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