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Exploitation movies

Explore films with exploitation genres and themes.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 349 films · Page 12.

Point of Terror (1971)

Drama, Horror, Mysterie, drama film, exploitation film, horror film

Lounge singer Tony Trelos is approached by a buxom blonde woman on a beach one afternoon. Her name is Andrea Hilliard, and she is a wealthy woman whose crippled husband Martin owns a record label. That night, Andrea goes to watch Tony perf…

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The Road to Ruin (1934)

drama film, exploitation film

Ann Dixon and Eve Monroe are high school friends. Eve is more "experienced" and shows Ann some things that are new to Ann, like smoking and drinking alcohol. Eve laughs when Ann asks her, "Do you let boys kiss you?" One weekend, Ann and Ev…

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High School Hellcats (1958)

drama film, exploitation film, teen film

Joyce Martin is a transfer student at her new school. On her first day, she is sized up by the leader of the Hellcats, Connie. For her first test of initiation, Joyce is tricked into wearing slacks to school even though it is verboten by s…

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Bury Me an Angel (1971)

exploitation film

After learning that her brother has been murdered, biker Dag (Dixie Peabody) sets out on the road with two close friends to find the killer. As they travel, they encounter various people and conflicts, and Dag’s emotional struggle becomes …

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Ticket to Heaven (1981)

Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, drama film

Following a relationship breakup, David Kappel, a twentysomething school teacher, visits what turns out to be a training camp for a religious cult. At the camp, everything is done in groups, including chanting and singing. There is also a …

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The Pace That Kills (1935)

drama film, exploitation film

Small-town girl Jane Bradford (Lois January) falls for Nick (Noel Madison), a big-city guy who offers her a chance to escape her small-town life. He introduces her to "headache powder," which she later discovers is cocaine, and it turns ou…

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Mad Cowgirl (2006)

drama film, exploitation film, horror film

The central character in Mad Cowgirl is Therese, a meat inspector who is dying of a brain disorder. The film follows Therese on her surreal descent into violence, in which men in her life become the Ten Tigers of Canton that she must kill …

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Cover Girl Models (1975)

exploitation film

Three fashion models travel from Los Angeles to Hong Kong for a shoot. Barbara accidentally comes in possession of some microfilm and is chased by secret service agents. Claire tries to get a role in a film.

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Assassin of Youth (1937)

exploitation film

The journalist Art Brighton goes undercover to investigate the granddaughter of a recently deceased rich woman, killed in a drug-related car crash. The girl, Joan Barrie, will inherit the fortune of her grandmother if she is able to fulfil…

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Mad Youth (1940)

drama film, exploitation film

Divorcée Lucy Morgan hires a male escort Count DeHoven, who has an affair with her teenage daughter, Marian. After her wild parties, with jitterbugs and strip poker, Helen's grandmother, locks her out of the house, and she runs away to mar…

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Schizophreniac: The Whore Mangler (1997)

LGBTQ-related film, exploitation film

The film follows Harry Russo, a psychotic, drug-addicted crossdresser and screenwriter who is obsessed with a puppet named Rubberneck, a gift from his girlfriend Drew, which is also the mascot of his favorite film. Harry believes Rubbernec…

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Death Drug (1978)

exploitation film

The film begins with a news anchor reporting on a crazy man, suspected to be high on angel dust, attacking a group of roller skaters at a park in Venice, California; the man was apprehended by police and handcuffed, but broke free of the h…

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Rogues' Regiment (1948)

action film, exploitation film

An American Intelligence Agent and Nazi hunter is on the trail of a former SS war criminal reminiscent of Martin Bormann believed to be hiding in the French Foreign Legion in French Indochina. He joins forces with a French Intelligence age…

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The Dark Side of Tomorrow (1970)

LGBTQ-related film, drama film, exploitation film

The film follows two bored Los Angeles housewives, Adria and Denise, living in a housing development called Rockpointe who begin an affair while their husbands are away on government business. When the two start fighting, Denise enters int…

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Blast-Off Girls (1967)

Action, Drama, Musical, Thriller

Boojie Baker is a ruthless, greedy talent manager who "discovers" and then exploits unknown rock bands. The film opens in a nightclub with one of Boojie Baker's protégé acts, a band named Charlie, who have clearly been put through the grin…

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Starhops (1978)

exploitation film

Three girls - Danielle, Cupcake and Angel - work at a drive in restaurant in Venice owned by Jerry who is financially struggling. Jerry decides to quit and sells the restaurant to the three girls.

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Cain's Cutthroats (1971)

Action, Splatter Film, Western, Western film, exploitation film

After the end of the Civil War, Confederate army captain Justice Cain (Scott Brady) retires from the military. He becomes a farmer and lives a peaceful life with his son, Jody (by his deceased first wife) and his new wife, Angie (Tereza Th…

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Criminally Insane 2 (1987)

exploitation film, horror film

Due to budget cuts, an asylum for the criminally insane releases the infamous Ethel Janowski, a morbidly obese woman whose obsession with food caused her to murder six people 13 years earlier, into a halfway house operated by the elderly H…

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