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Reviews featured here are of adult X-rated DVDs or R-Rated DVDs (Australian Classification system) with explicit sexual content (real sex). All films featured herein are reviewed in the same style and format as reviews featured in the mainstream DVD Review Archive accessible through the main home page. Though pornographic, these films are subject to the same scholarly attention to discourse that greets mainstream cinema throughout the site. Reviews are illustrated with actual screenshots and embedded video where appropriate. Purchase information has been added where possible, although the majority of these films are not available through the website's Amazon.com affiliation and are sold through Adult film retailers - links here are to DVD Pacific.

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ADULT DVD TITLE INDEX

Adventures of Mikki Finn, The (1991: d. Jack Remy) She's fresh off the bus in the big city and looking to make it big in the record industry. When a record producer steals her work, she wants revenge (and Rocco Siffredi).

Black Angel (2002: d. Tinto Brass) Returning to the forbidden genre of Nazi erotica, master Italian director Tinto Brass examines the affair between an Italian aristocrat's wife and a corrupt but strikingly handsome Nazi officer.

Black Orchid (1993: d. Michael Ninn) The beginning of the new era of porno chic / yuppie porn. CNN editor Michael Ninn convinced a studio to give him the money to make a better porn film than then available. He did: this is it!

Caligula (unrated) (1979: d. Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione) The most expensive and infamous adult movie of all time. Peter O'Toole, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren head a pornographic look at the decadence that was Ancient, pagan Rome. (links to review in main DVD Review archive)

Caligula 2 - Messalina, Messalina (1976: d. Sergio Corbucci) The two Penthouse Pet stars from Caligula are re-united for this sexploitation comedy about a lascivious Roman Empress, utilizing leftover sets and costumes from the Brass-Guccione epic.

Caligula - The Untold Story (1979: d. Joe D'Amato) Veteran porn-horro maestro D'Amato takes on everyone's favourite demented Emperor, this time exploring his bisexual excesses an his persecution of Christians throughout the Empire (featuring Laura Gemser in a guest role).

Chameleon, The (1989: d. John Leslie) Tori Welles stars as a shape-shifter, a woman who can alter her physical appearance to take the form of many women, a sexual enigma who reveals all in therapy sessions with a psychiatrist she intends to seduce.

Cheeky (2000: d. Tinto Brass) Tinto Brass looks at the question of women's natural sexuality, finding that its uninhibited liberation is ill-served by the monogamous morality that Patriarchal culture often seeks to project upon young women. (links to main DVD Review Archive)

Dark Garden (1999: d. Michael Ninn) A device satisfies men's deepest sexual fantasies, but at the cost of their sanity and their life in this sci-fi tinged religious allegory from the master of transgressionist cinema, Michael Ninn.

Dog Walker (1994: d. John Leslie) One of the most acclaimed adult films of the 1990s: a dark, despairing film noirish vision of a two-time loser crossed, double-crossed and looking to sex to stake his claim on the world.

Emanuelle in America (1976: d. Joe D'Amato) The most controversial of the notorious Emanuelle movies starring Laura Gemser as the intrepid photo-journalist, this time involved in a world of no sexual restraint, a world where LSD and snuff movies feature with equal verve. (links to main DVD Review Archive)

Hot Buttered Blues (1997: d. Jace Rocker) Guest starring the legendary bluesman Louisiana Guitar Red, this is throwback to the 1960s as struggling blues club owner Ron Jeremy tries to recruit acts to stay in business, while his musicians and their groupies get it on!

Last Whore House on the Left (2004: d. Fred J. Lincoln) Star of Wes Craven's infamous slice of violent horror Last House on the Left Fred Lincoln returns to his evil persona from that film (once banned in Australia by the OFLC) to introduce this series of porn vignettes with young girls: "nice cum sir."

Models (1998: d. Kris Kramski) One of the most acclaimed of contemporary adult films. A vibrant behind -the-scenes expose of the world of hardcore porn photography - the business, the profession, the morality, the models and, of course, the sex: from the perspective of a cynical photographer.

Paprika (1991: d. Tinto Brass) Life in a Brothel. Before the Christians in Italy shut down the brothel society it thrived. This is a tale of a young woman who becomes a prostitute and finds that she enjoys the sexual freedom and control the job gives her in her own life. (links to main DVD Review Archive)

Sex Life of the Prophet (2002: d. Anonymous) The Koran of Sex! Based on the sex life, sex after death and the re-birth of the Prophet Muhammad is this John Coil release detailing Muhammad's sexual escapades on earth and in paradise.

Sex Zone, The (1996: d. Paul Thomas) A hard-boiled tale of contemporary morality revolving around an after house sex club and a man who falls for an independent woman onlt to find that violence and amorality will threaten his ideal. Warning: contains explicit sex and violence.

Sextraterestrials (1999: d. Fred J. Lincoln) Agents Scuzzy and Mulder investigate the disappearance of an FBI agent, lured into a sexual frenzy by visiting aliens curious to learn the coital practices of earthlings in this porno pastiche of The X Files.

Stormy (1980: d. Joseph Blanski) The legend himself, John Holmes, stars opposite one of the first Chinese-American porn stars Linda Wong in this tale of pimp Big John, his business, his woman and the girls eager to join his operation.