Subgenre Sampler
      Controversy: 194 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
 Driller Killer (1979) Driller Killer (1979)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
 Feat. Abel Ferrara
- Somewhat notorious as a 'video nasty' of the 80s video boom, this debut from bad boy auteur Abel Ferrara was perhaps misunderstood (like The Texas…
 Life of Brian (Monty Python's Life of Brian) (1979) Life of Brian (Monty Python's Life of Brian) (1979) 
- Dir. Terry Jones
 Feat. John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin
- This parody of the life and times of Jesus Christ is the funniest and most successful of the Monty Python features. A cult favourite.
 I Spit On Your Grave (Day of the Woman, aka I Hate Your Guts) (1978) I Spit On Your Grave (Day of the Woman, aka I Hate Your Guts) (1978)
- Dir. Meir Zarchi
 Feat. Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace…
- Legendary 1970s video nasty in which a feminist writer (Keaton) holidaying in the countryside is menaced and repeatedly raped by four locals, whom…
 Midnight Express (1978) Midnight Express (1978) 
- Dir. Alan Parker
 Feat. Brad Davis, Randy Quaid
- Brad Davis stars in this riveting fact–based story as a young American facing a 30–year sentence in a brutal Turkish prison for a minor…
 Desperate Living (1977) Desperate Living (1977) 
- Dir. John Waters
 Feat. Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
- The third in John Waters' unholy trilogy again succeeds in his aim to simultaneously shock and incite hysterics. No Divine this time, but Liz Renay,…
 Fight For Your Life (1977) Fight For Your Life (1977)
- Dir. Robert A. Endelson
 Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd
- A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
 Last House on Dead End Street (1977) Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
- Dir. Roger Michael Watkins
 Feat. Roger Michael Watkins
- Both notorious and obscure, this 1970s shocker concerns a drug–dealer who upon being released from jail enters the shady world of porno…
 In the Realm of the Senses (Ai No Corrida) (1976) In the Realm of the Senses (Ai No Corrida) (1976)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
 Feat. Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda
- Hailed as an erotic masterpiece in some quarters and condemned as mere sexually explicit exploitation in others, Oshima’s indisputably elegant…
 Maitresse (1976) Maitresse (1976) 
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
 Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
- An eye–watering, willfully transgressive tale of a petty crook (Depardieu) who enters into a seemingly conventional romance with a…
 Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The (1976) Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The (1976) 
- Dir. Lewis John Carlino
 Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Sarah Miles
- A sadistic young boy with an unusually strong attachment to his mother greatly resents her new suitor. Intriguing adaptation of Yukio Mishima novel…