Exploitation The Early Years

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.

Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.

An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue.

A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.

A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.

A gang boss sees a new way to make money--kidnapping high school girls and forcing them to work in the brothels he owns.

A district attorney goes after an illegal abortion ring that preys on desperate young girls.

A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."

A schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.

A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.

A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?

A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line.

A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.

Small-time showgirl, loved by two decent men, poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.

In this vintage "adults-only" exploitationer, whiskey and fast cars lead an innocent young girl into a life of prostitution and murder.

Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater.

The head of an illegal drug ring uses a women's health spa as a front for his sleeping-pill racket.

Harry Musk is one in a million. Adult, pint-sized Harry longs to be part of the big world.

A happily-married couple having no luck with starting their family finally discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered to be quite scandalous.

This exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use.

A young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.

A money launderer uses women's wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster.

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the conclusion the film an addict is shown collapsing on a sand dune as the booming voice of the narrator announces that the addict has perished.