SOFT X
In free nations that which is not forbidden is permitted so you see a lot of crowding at the edge of restrictions. Where buildings are limited to ten stories you see a lot of ten story buildings. It is accepted that people drive as fast and pay as little in taxes as the law allows. Hollywood is expert at maximizing sex and violence within the PG-13 rating. Regular movies skate to the edge of T&A while T&A movies skate to the edge of frontal nudity, and so on. The thing not shown on TV is nipples. The thing not shown in contemporary cable soft core is genitalia.

In Soft X (roughly 1969-1972) the thing not being shown was explicit sex. But you could be anatomically explicit, go right to the edge of sex and imply whatever you wanted. The result was an hilariously inept genre that did a world of good by demonstrating the inane folly of the whole concept of content restrictions.  (more)

The sexiest of all trash
sex film genres, and the shortest-lived

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Everything in this section is a soft X film, but there are also many soft X films in the sexploitation sections. The solo girls section contains many vintage soft X (and sometimes not so soft) 16mm loops of just girls. Fans of soft X might enjoy European movies by Tinto Brass, Erwin Dietrich and others.

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Amazon Jail (DVD)    1982
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
Sleazy women in Brazilian jungle prison movie from the director of BARE BEHIND BARS. "Their only hope of salvation from their abnormal suitors was escape into a jungle hell!" That pretty much covers it. Deep in the Am... (See full description)
 
Angels / Getting Into Heaven (Dbl Feature DVD)    1970
Image/SW DVD / Region 1 (USA).
GETTING INTO HEAVEN Directed by EDWARD L MONTORO starring Uschi Digart. Born too soon to become Arnold Schwarzenegger’s perfect leading lady, and too late to be a calendar pin-up babe for... (See full description)
 
Bacchanales Sexuelles (Uncut DVD)    1973
Synapse DVD / Region 1 (USA)
Directed by Jean Rollin. Amusing and weird Jean Rollin Soft X offering featuring numerous cast members better known for classic French XXX films, including Joelle Couer and the Castel Twins. The US release title was "Fly me the French way."... (See full description)
 
Bulls Market / Weekend Convention (Softx05) (DVD-R)    1971
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
Superlative soft-x with a difference. An example of a transitional softie veering off into hardcore territory. There were 100 definitions of softcore vs. hardcore, and one thing they almost all had in common was "soft"… no erect nothin'! So... (See full description)
 
Cosmos Collection: Caged Women (DVD-R)    1970
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
Produced by COSMOS with Bill Jones, Tess Drake, Nen Beal. COSMOS was the cheapest and most extreme Soft X producer, and thus arguably the best. Their movies are as relentlessly explicit as possible without crossing the line into XXX. "A gr... (See full description)
 
Cosmos Collection: College Corruption (DVD-R)    1970
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
Vintage Soft-X (not XXX) Another ultra-explicit soft x cheapie from the Cosmos collection. Debbie is a virginal college freshman who's "not too hip on sex." She'd rather spend her time studying than screwing. Her roommate Fran is the... (See full description)
 
Cosmos Collection: Contest, The (DVD-R)    1970
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
Another ultra-explicit soft x cheapie from the Cosmos collection. Produced by COSMOS with LEW BLAKE, TESS BRITT, ALAN YALE. "Two beefy construction workers get into an argument over who can bust more booty. The two cretins, Frank and Tom, d... (See full description)
 
Country Cuzzins / Midnight Plowboy (DVD)    1970
Image Entertainment/SW DVD / Region 1 (USA).
These early 1970s soft-X drive-in movies are more explicit than conventional R-rated drive-in sleaze, but just as corny. Rene Bond looks wonderful here. Country Cuzzins (1970) Grandma Peabody wants to see all ... (See full description)
 
Cry Uncle! (DVD)    1972
Troma DVD / Region 1 (USA)
Directed by John Avildsen (Rocky, Karate Kid) Avildsen is the only full-time trash director I can think of to have directed a Best Picture winner. He did every job in movies at one time or another, an... (See full description)
 
Curiously Obsessive Peep Show (DVD)    1968
DVD / All Regions
This Volume is included in the Soft-X section as a reminder that there is a whole section of Solo Girls material Here. Swell collection of fairly explicit late-1960s girlie loops in the "Starlight" ... (See full description)
 
Danish Connection (DVD-R)    1970
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
"Quality" soft-x producer Manuel Conde is the mastermind behind this first appearance of camp porn detective Johhny Wadd (John Holmes). Did you know the Johnny Wadd series started before XXX? Well photographed pretend sex, and hilariously i... (See full description)
 
Debauchers, The (DVD)    1970
DVD / All Regions
Directed by Sidney Knight. This film is filed in both classic American XXX and in Soft-X because it's a transitional form. Director Knight was a soft-X director who made a few explicit films when that became the social fashion in 1971-1972.... (See full description)
 
Fantasm (DVD)    1976
Synapse DVD / Region 1 (USA)
I'm pleased, and somewhat surprised, to report that FANTASM and FANTASM COMES AGAIN are both pretty good, with varied scenarios, good photography (and editing), beautiful performers and some genuinely erotic scenes. Even more surprising, th... (See full description)
 
Fantasm Comes Again (DVD)    1977
Synapse DVD / Region 1 (USA)
I'm pleased, and somewhat surprised, to report that FANTASM and FANTASM COMES AGAIN are both pretty good, with varied scenarios, good photography (and editing), beautiful performers and some genuinely erotic scenes. Even more surprising, th... (See full description)
 
The story behind this Midnight Movie classic is well known - producer Bill Osco was following up MONA, the first US theatrical XXX feature, and shooting for a porn film of really high quality. At some point it became obvious to everyone tha... (See full description)
 
Fraulein Leather (DVD)    1971
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
Artistic and spectacular looking all-female soft-x film that looks and feels like a serious movie yet wanders briefly into not-so-soft-x. The three really strong Nick Phillips softies (DELICATO, FRAULEIN LEATHER and PLEASURE SPOTS) are mast... (See full description)
 
Very good triple feature of late pre-XXX softcore. LUSTY NEIGHBOR and PIMP PRIMER are dead-on color, widescreen SoftX, being from 1971, the last major year of Soft X (DEEP THROAT was 1972). UTA is a s... (See full description)
 
Lauras Toys (DVD)    1975
DVD / All Regions
Beautiful looking remastering job. Legendary arthouse sexploitation auteur Joseph Sarno was the brilliant creative force behind dozens of the greatest erotica films ever produced (Inga, Swedish Wildcats). His psycholo... (See full description)
 
Lei-Ed In Hawaii / Ski Party (Softx08) (DVD-R)    1970
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
Lei'd in Hawaii An ambitious little 70s mellow-drama shot on location in and around Waikiki and shown in regional storefront theaters in places where porno feared to tread. Two pretty debutantes, Myra and Cilly, on holiday from the m... (See full description)
 
Love Bocaccio Style (DVD-R)    1971
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
Despite the title, this movie is about as Italian as a kangaroo. I does, however, boast an amazing early 70s softX cast including John Holmes, Candy Samples, Marsha Jordan, Sandi Carey, and Sandy Dempsey. "An all-star cast of sexploitatio... (See full description)
 
Macumba Sexual (DVD)    1983
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
Semi-remake of Vampyres Lesbos. Franco was living a wonderful life – he would check into a Mediterranean resort hotel with a couple of tootsies and film a "horror" movie that consisted largely of the actresses getting naked and thrashing ar... (See full description)
 
Monella (Frivolous Lola) (Uncut US DVD)    1998
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
Devastatingly sexy movie with a heart of gold. Lola (Anna Ammirati; looking like a precise cross between Isabella Rosellini and Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the world's worst behaved virgin. She recognizes the power of her sexuality but with n... (See full description)
 
Motel For Lovers / Splendor In Bed (Softx15) (DVD-R)    1970
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
Motel for Lovers the brainstorm of some '70s genius who discovered the intimate connection between motels and sex. Look for SUZANNE (Flesh Gordon) FIELDS in Room 121 and RAINBOW (Marriage and Other Four-Letter Words) ROBBINS, engaged... (See full description)
 
Naughty Nudes Of The 1960s (DVD)     
DVD / All Regions
This Volume is included in the Soft-X section as a reminder that there is a whole section of Solo Girls material Here. Late 1960s Starlight (or Starlight style) "beaver" loops; obsessive studies of ... (See full description)
 
Passport to Pleasure (Delicato) (DVD)    1971
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
Spectacular looking soft-x film that wanders briefly into not-so-soft-x. The three really strong Nick Phillips softies (DELICATO, FRAULEIN LEATHER and PLEASURE SPOTS) are mastered as well as mainstream movies and are spectacular looking and... (See full description)
 
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Among the only modern DVDs I've seen that capture some
of the teasing charm of the bygone Soft-X genre