Cult Epics (Firm)
1) The Howl
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Howl is a true surrealist cult classic, filled with eye-shattering imagery, visual jokes, impossible characters, riotous comedy, and punk rock music well before its time. A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and mournful exhibitionists, converse with a discoursing rock, journey through a surrealist's psychedelic...
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
In this inspiring fantasy film, three children befriend a young Cambodian boy who dreams of returning home. When the children meet an eccentric railroad engineer (Mickey Rooney) with an abandoned steam locomotive, they hatch a plan to restore the train and embark on a wondrous journey to return the young boy to his family. Rarely seen outside of a brief theatrical run and a long out-of-print videocassette release, The Emperor of Peru returns to thrill...
3) Deadly Sweet
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
Starring a seventeen-year-old beauty-contest winner, DEADLY SWEET is a most unusual crime story. In the film, a French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the floor. Rather than call the police, he decides to protect the young woman at the scene and nail down the true killers, putting him on a collision course with the London underworld. DEADLY SWEET leads us through a mind-bending series of pop-art visuals by renowned erotic cartoonist...
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Guernica is both a town that was leveled in a night of horror during World War II and an image, captured in paint by Pablo Picasso and on film by renegade surrealist Fernando Arrabal. The Guernica Tree is Arrabal’s most unflinching and personal film. It is a testimony to the horrors of war, the absurd chaos of life turned upside down and the ache of love. The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain’s civil war...
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
An erotic drama about the impossible love between an older man and a young girl.It tells the controversial story of an architect, Roue Giulio Marengo, who is unhappy in his marriage, and starts a romance with the young and beautiful girl Florentine (Nastassja Kinski.) When he finds out thru his wife that she may be his daughter, he has to make a decision.
6) Attraction
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
One of the great taboo-smashers of the late '60s, directed by Tinto Brass, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. ATTRACTION (NEROSUBIANCO) will stun anyone expecting a standard softcore European sex flick as released originally in the US thru Radley Metzger's Audubon Films under the title THE ARTFUL PENETRATION OF BARBARA, then brace yourself for a whirlwind trip with a married woman whose journey through the...
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Long available in incomplete or full screen editions, Abel Ferrara's 1979 cult classic THE DRILLER KILLER here receives its definitive presentation. THE DRILLER KILLER stars Ferrara himself (under the pseudonym 'Jimmy Laine') as Reno Miller; an artist being driven mad by the pressures of New York life who takes to the streets and begins murdering derelicts with a power drill. Although Ferrara intended to make a film in the tradition of The Texas Chainsaw...
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Arrabal's second film; I WILL WALK LIKE A CRAZY HORSE (J'Irai Comme in Cheval Fou) forsakes the politcal allegory present in Viva La Muerte for a dramatic discovery of faith and organized religion. The story follows a man, Aden, who flees society after the death of his controlling mother. Out in the wilderness he encounters the beauty of nature, and under the tutelage of a hermit named Marvel, becomes a "normal homme." Aden falls desperately in love...
9) Slogan
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Serge is a hip and successful film director who leaves his pregnant wife to attend the annual advertising awards festival in Venice, and enters into a passionate affair with a young British woman. This sexy satire formed the background for one of the swinging sixties' most famous real-life romances. During the rehearsals for Pierre Grimblat's "Slogan", Serge Gainsbourg met the woman who would forever change his professional and personal life: Jane...
10) A Song of Love
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
The only film made by the French novelist Jean Genet. Visually reminiscent of Jean Cocteau's Blood of a Poet, Belle et la Bete and Kenneth Anger's Fireworks. The story, set in a prison with three main characters, a guard and two prisoners, is a voyeuristic, confrontational, poetic masterpiece. Forbidden in France upon its release, and only available in the US in censored form and through underground distribution, UN CHANT D'AMOUR is now released from...
11) Love Rites
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
When Hugo meets Myriam, a prostitute who picks up her clients on the Paris metro, he soon becomes obsessed with her sultry beauty and follows her to a flat owned by the mysterious Sara Sand, where he consummates his passion. Suddenly he finds the rules of the game have changed as Myriam is now in charge of his body and his soul. A macabre love poem from the Director of The Beast and Immoral Tales.
12) Genet
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Français
Description
Documentary by Antoine Bourseiler about the work of writer, director, Jean Genet.
15) Car Cemetery
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal’s outrageous adaptation of his infamous 1958 stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia.
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
An erotic film set in a convent, where a Mother Superior tries to maintain order to prevent the nuns from temptation. But when things get out of control, the church inflicts cruel punishment to the nuns for their sins. BEHIND CONVENT WALLS is an erotic arthouse films by Cult director Walerian Borowzcyk (The Beast). One of the most beautifully shot Nunsploitation films, alongside School of the Holy Beast, with cinematography by Luciano Tovoli (Suspiria)...
17) Moon Child
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
Español
Description
Inspired by famed occultist Aleister Crowley’s 1923 novel of the same name, Agusti Villaronga’s film centers around an extraordinary 12-year-old who has been adopted by a treacherous scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common. He begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as "Child of the Moon". Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Winner of Best Original Screenplay and nominated...
18) Angst
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Erwin Leder (*Schindler’s List*) plays a maniacal killer based on the real-life serial murderer Werner Kniesek. ANGST is a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle. "*The rarest masterpiece of cinema.*” – **Gaspar Noé**
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
Italiano
Description
Arguably the most insanely idiosyncratic giallo ever directed, DEATH LAID AN EGG is a true wayward masterpiece of kaleidoscopic Italian counterculture cinema. Starring legendary leading man Jean-Louis Trintignant (THE CONFORMIST) as a married man that may or may not be a serial killer, Gina Lollobrigida (BEAT THE DEVIL) as his delectable yet overly domineering careerist wife, and Ewa Aulin (CANDY) as his murderous double-crossing mistress, the film...
20) Pastorale 1943
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.