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Eurotika!

1999 · 1 season

A fond, chatty stroll through sleazy vintage European genre cinema, more affectionate archive tour than lurid spectacle.

Created by
Andrew Starke, Pete Tombs
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Penelope McGhie, Jean Rollin, Brigitte Lahaie
Overview
Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.

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Created by
Andrew Starke, Pete Tombs
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Penelope McGhie, Jean Rollin, Brigitte Lahaie
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  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
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  • art
  • sexuality
  • obsession
  • media
  • identity
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  • documentary
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
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Genres
documentary
Created by
Andrew Starke, Pete Tombs
Starring
Penelope McGhie, Jean Rollin, Brigitte Lahaie, Catherine Castel, Monica Swinn, Jesús Franco, Michel Lemoine, Daniel Lesoeur
Length
1 seasons, 12 episodes, 24 min each
Network
Channel 4
Country
United Kingdom

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