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Antichrist (2009): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg; Delivering laughter and revulsion in equal measure, Lars von Trier’s hugely controversial psychosexual opus – about a grieving couple who retreat…
Human Centipede, The (2009): Dir. Tom Six
Feat. Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie…; The "mad scientist movie" taken to a perverse extreme with crab–faced Dieter Laser as the gonzo doc delighting in his latest experiment –…
Destricted (2006): Dir. Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Sam Taylor-Johnson; A challenging – though some may argue, laughable – exercise in reclaiming the pornographic film, this omnibus commissions seven artists to each…
Dirty Sanchez: The Movie (2006): Dir. Jim Hickey; Deplorable, downright heinous version of JACKASS sees four British louts subject themselves to a myriad of irresponsible stunts and…
Dudesons Movie, The (2006): Dir. Jarno Laasala; It's JACKASS, Scandinavian–style, with a group of equally insane extremists subjecting themselves a series of painful and humiliating…
Taxidermia (2006): Dir. Gyorgy Palfi
Feat. Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi; Grostesque though exquisitely crafted oddity from the dir. of HUKKLE degenerates well beyond the threshold of bad taste in its history of three…
9 Songs (Nine Songs) (2004): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Margo Stilley, Kieran O'Brien; A controversially explicit sex'n'rock'n' roll drama about two stray souls – an American student and a British bloke – who over a year…
Old Boy (Oldboy) (2004): Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo; Wowing audiences wherever it's played (including being nominated for the Palm D'Or at Cannes), this achingly intense thriller from Korea raises the…
Jackass: The Movie (2002): Dir. Jeff Tremaine
Feat. Steve-O , Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze…; Hugely successful movie version of the cult MTV show, whose fearless stars submit to various painful and perilous stunts. Bound by a sense of…
Spun (2002): Dir. Jonas Akerlund
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo…; A cinematically exhilarating depiction of existence among a group of methamphetamine (P) addicts in Los Angeles, that is sure to divide audiences as…
Dog Days (2001): Dir. Ulrich Seidl
Feat. Maria Hofstatter, Alfred Mrva, Erich Finsches…; A wilfully transgressive Euro–drama examining middle–class dysfunction and despair in a Viennese suburb over a few days in a summer heat…
Jackass (TV Series) (2001): Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O , Bam Margera…; Compilation of the 'best' moments from MTV's cult TV–series in which a group of warped individuals inflict pranks, painful,…
Audition (1999): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina; An almost–masterpiece of the macabre that sets up and sustains itself brilliantly with a restrained pace and jewel of a premise, then careens…
I Stand Alone (Seul Contre Tous) (1998): Dir. Gaspar Noe
Feat. Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain…; Staunch attempt to shake up the “bourgeois” values in French cinema, first–time director Gaspar Noe fleshes out his short film about a…
Another 9 1/2 Weeks (Love in Paris) (1997): Dir. Anne Goursaud
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Angie Everhart, Steven Berkoff…; Depending on your sensibilities this Parisian set sequel either represents a career nadir for Rourke or some kind of gonzo triumph. Either way…
Crash (1996): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger…; Auteur David Cronenberg's latest vision is an anti–fable about accident victims James Spader and Holly Hunter, who become sexually obsessed…
Kids (1995): Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson, Justin Pierce…; Cult photographer Larry Clark's debut, 24hrs of New York streetkid life, attracted immediate controversy. The unblinking depictions of sex, drugs and…
Boy Meets Girl (1994): Dir. Ray Brady
Feat. Tim Poole, Danielle Sanderson, Margot Steinberg; For many years banned in the UK on video at least, this abrasive, low–budget drama plays out the wilfully unpleasant scenario of a man who gets…
Natural Born Killers (1994): Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis; Oliver Stone turns a Tarantino script into a mean–spirited satire that points fingers at the decline of America without any measure of…
Beavis and Butthead (TV Series) (1993-1997): Dir. Mike Judge; Once rejected by our television networks on moral grounds, this might've been your only chance to catch America's favourite miscreants in animated…
Man Bites Dog (1992): Dir. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde; Disturbing black comedy unravels itself as a media satire but its barbaric humour won't tickle everyone's funnybone. Staged as a documentary, a film…
Wild at Heart (1990): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd…; Disturbing, provocative and always stylish, the director parodies himself and many other great film–makers in this mother of all road movies.…
Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988): Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Nick Cave; Despite the uncompromising, raw depiction of brutal prison life, this film is a non–exploitative essay that ultimately indicts the future of…
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1987): Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Michael Rooker, Tom Towles; Theatrically banned, this uncut version ranks as one of the more unsettling works ever committed to film. In short, a low–budget masterpiece…
Liquid Sky (1983): Dir. Slava Tsukuman
Feat. Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard; A geniune punk artefact about an over–sexed woman who unwittingly hosts an alien parasite that kills off her lovers at the point of orgasm. Its…
Class of 1984 (1982): Dir. Mark Lester
Feat. Perry King; A new school–teacher (Perry King) finds himself intimidated by members of his unruly class – to the point where he must exact brutal…
Angel of Vengeance (Ms.45) (1981): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Zoë Tamerlis, Jack Thibeau; Surreal drama about a deaf–mute who seeks revenge after two sexual assaults. Taut and disturbing, with minimal dialogue, it has the distinction…
Scum (1980): Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Ray Winstone, Phil Daniels; Life in a British borstal painted in unflinchingly realistic hues. Clark's deeply affecting indictment of the penal system plays out barbaric rituals…
Angel Mine (1979): Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Derek Ward, Jennifer Redford, Myra De Groot; A punk, Bunuel–esque social satire in which a married couple escape their material lives through anarchic fantasies, staged as dream–like…
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…
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…
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): 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): 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…
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…
Snuff (1976): Dir. Michael Findlay, Roberta Findlay
Feat. Ana Carro, Roberta Findlay; 'Notorious' thriller set amid a world of South American drug–smuggling sleazebags, which supposedly climaxes with an actual filmed murder.…
Beast, The (La Bete) (1975): Dir. Walerian Borowczyk
Feat. Lucy Broadhurst; This unsexy, frequently hilarious art–porn parable from the easily aroused dir. of IMMORAL TALES consists of a hairy sasquatch in heat chasing…
Salo (1975): Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Paolo Bonacelli, Giogio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle…; More extreme in content than anything else in our library, an embittered Pasolini spares the viewer nothing in his faithful adaptation of The Marquis…
Immoral Tales (1974): Dir. Walerian Borowczyk
Feat. Charlotte Alexandra, Florence Bellamy, Lorenzo Beriniz; Four 'historical' chapters make up this softcore but nonetheless controversial portmenteau film. Contains such spectacular low–lights as…
Night Porter, The (1974): Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling; Bizarre yet sensual melodrama about an ex–gestapo officer who resumes a sado–masochistic affair with his Jewish former–prisoner.…
Themroc (1973): Dir. Claude Faraldo
Feat. Michel Piccoli; Satirical in a most primitive, bestial way, this astonishing fable sees frustrated factory–worker Michel Piccoli cease to speak one morning,…
Clockwork Orange, A (1971): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates…; From Anthony Burgess' novel, Stanley Kubrick flexes his genius with this electrifying satire about an ultra–violent gang of 'droogs' whose…
Devils, The (1971): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave; Ken Russell's subversive foray into Catholic guilt is as bold and disturbing as it is brilliant. Amidst the witch trials of medieval France, Oliver…
Pink Flamingos (1971): Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey…; John Waters' creative pinnacle (or nadir!) remains the ultimate statement in bad taste – a pure, unadulterated exercise in shock value!…
Straw Dogs (1971): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Susan George; With dir. Sam Peckinpah in top form, this powerful study of male territorial instincts pushed out the boundaries of movie violence in the…
W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (1971): Dir. Dusan Makavejev; Documentary footage, late sixties counter–culture and fictional elements are freely mixed to explore the ideas of radical sexologist, Wilhelm…
Vixen (1968): Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Erica Gavin, Harrison Page; An A–grade exploitation picture, with Uncle Russ at his most playful, creative and virile. His purely kitsch instinct and virtuoso editing…
Leather Boys, The (1964): Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton; Gritty study of an impulsive young woman's incompatible marriage to motorcycle–loving mechanic, and his subsequent 'close' relationship with a…
Beat Girl (1960): Dir. Edmond T. Greville
Feat. Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee…; Providing a rare peek into the British 'beat scene', this groovy juvenile delinquency drama proves there was teenage wildlife before the Beatles, and…
Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 3 (1949-1965): Dir. Kenneth Anger; Three more shorts from Mssr. Anger, including "Kustom Kar Kommando" (1965), "Puce Moments" (1949), and his most famous and controversial work,…

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