Richard Kern

Richard Kern

Richard Kern is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Kembra Pfahler, and Henry Rollins. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion. He was one of the leading lights of the Cinema of Transgression movement.

  • Popularity : 1.493
  • Known For : Directing
  • Birthday : 1954-12-20
  • Place of Birth : Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
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Richard Kern Movies

  • 1997
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    Lunch on Kern

    Lunch on Kern

    1 1997 HD

    Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid

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  • 2004
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    Arakimentari

    Arakimentari

    6.3 2004 HD

    A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.

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  • 2011
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    The Advocate for Fagdom

    The Advocate for Fagdom

    5.3 2011 HD

    The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts...

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  • 2007
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    Llik Your Idols

    Llik Your Idols

    4.6 2007 HD

    Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.

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  • 1993
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    Red Spirit Lake

    Red Spirit Lake

    5.7 1993 HD

    After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece...

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  • 1989
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    We Are Not To Blame

    We Are Not To Blame

    1 1989 HD

    The apparent strangeness of two sisters becomes easily understood as they wreak appropriate revenge on one of their abusive husbands, by tying him up...

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  • 1991
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    IDn4

    IDn4

    1 1991 HD

    I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real...

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  • 1993
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    No Age New York

    No Age New York

    7 1993 HD

    A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick...

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  • 1998
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    Bullet on a Wire

    Bullet on a Wire

    1 1998 HD

    An unattractive social outcast (Jeff Strong) visits a stranger (Lara Phillips) in prison after setting off the events that landed her there.

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  • 1993
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    My Nightmare

    My Nightmare

    6.4 1993 HD

    The filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery.

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  • 1985
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    Submit to Me

    Submit to Me

    5.3 1985 HD

    A No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide.

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  • 1997
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    Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

    Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

    1 1997 HD

    Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc....

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  • 2013
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    Shot by Kern

    Shot by Kern

    1 2013 HD

    Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot...

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  • 1987
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    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now

    4.6 1987 HD

    Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to...

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  • 2012
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    The Hardcore Collection

    The Hardcore Collection

    7.7 2012 HD

    This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...

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  • 1986
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    Sublapse Video Mag 1

    Sublapse Video Mag 1

    8 1986 HD

    Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie...

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  • 2009
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    NYC Foetus

    NYC Foetus

    1 2009 HD

    A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring...

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  • 2015
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    Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

    Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber

    7 2015 HD

    A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a...

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  • 1994
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    Super 8½

    Super 8½

    5.7 1994 HD

    A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial...

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  • 1991
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    American Nightmare

    American Nightmare

    2.5 1991 HD

    A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with...

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  • 2011
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    Blank City

    Blank City

    7 2011 HD

    In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

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  • 2000
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    Divine Trash

    Divine Trash

    7.3 2000 HD

    The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

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  • 2002
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    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

    4.7 2002 HD

    This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose...

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  • 2007
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    Kill the Artist

    Kill the Artist

    2 2007 HD

    Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion...

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  • 2019
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    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    7 2019 HD

    The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's...

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  • 2008
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    Extra Action

    Extra Action

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1990
    imgMovies

    The Evil Cameraman

    The Evil Cameraman

    5.8 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Pierce

    Pierce

    5.5 1990 HD

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  • 1985
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    Thrust in Me

    Thrust in Me

    5.3 1985 HD

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  • 1993
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    My Nightmare

    My Nightmare

    6.4 1993 HD

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  • 1990
    imgMovies

    X Is Y

    X Is Y

    3.8 1990 HD

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  • 1986
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    Fingered

    Fingered

    5.5 1986 HD

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  • 1984
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    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

    4.9 1984 HD

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  • 1985
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    You Killed Me First

    You Killed Me First

    4.8 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs

    6.7 1985 HD

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  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now

    4.6 1987 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Nazi

    Nazi

    5.3 1991 HD

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  • 1985
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    Woman at the Wheel

    Woman at the Wheel

    6.7 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    I Hate You Now

    I Hate You Now

    6 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Submit to Me

    Submit to Me

    5.3 1985 HD

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  • 1992
    imgMovies

    The Sewing Circle

    The Sewing Circle

    4.6 1992 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Horoscope

    Horoscope

    4.8 1991 HD

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  • 2011
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    Face to Panty Ratio

    Face to Panty Ratio

    4.4 2011 HD

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  • 1984
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    Simonland

    Simonland

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1986
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    King of Sex

    King of Sex

    4.3 1986 HD

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  • 1985
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    Manhattan Love Suicides

    Manhattan Love Suicides

    5.4 1985 HD

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  • 1983
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    Goodbye 42nd Street

    Goodbye 42nd Street

    5 1983 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Manhattan Love Suicides

    Manhattan Love Suicides

    5.4 1985 HD

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  • 2012
    imgMovies

    The Hardcore Collection

    The Hardcore Collection

    7.7 2012 HD

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  • 1992
    imgMovies

    The Bitches

    The Bitches

    5.6 1992 HD

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  • 1992
    imgMovies

    The Bitches

    The Bitches

    5.6 1992 HD

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  • 1992
    imgMovies

    The Bitches

    The Bitches

    5.6 1992 HD

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  • 1986
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    Death Valley '69

    Death Valley '69

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1994
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    Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

    Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Goo

    Goo

    4.8 1991 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Goo

    Goo

    4.8 1991 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Goo

    Goo

    4.8 1991 HD

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  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Fingered

    Fingered

    5.5 1986 HD

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  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Fingered

    Fingered

    5.5 1986 HD

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  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Extra Shot by Kern

    Extra Shot by Kern

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Tumble

    Tumble

    6 1991 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Catholic

    Catholic

    5.8 1991 HD

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  • 2013
    imgMovies

    House Sitter

    House Sitter

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1983
    imgMovies

    American Obsessions

    American Obsessions

    1 1983 HD

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  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Shot by Kern

    Shot by Kern

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2007
    imgMovies

    Extra Action

    Extra Action

    4.9 2007 HD

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  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Medicated

    Medicated

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Medicated

    Medicated

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Submit to Me

    Submit to Me

    5.3 1985 HD

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  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now

    4.6 1987 HD

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  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now

    4.6 1987 HD

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  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now

    4.6 1987 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Submit to Me

    Submit to Me

    5.3 1985 HD

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  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now

    4.6 1987 HD

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  • 1990
    imgMovies

    Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)

    Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Worm Movie

    Worm Movie

    5 1985 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

    4.9 1984 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

    4.9 1984 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    I Hate You Now

    I Hate You Now

    6 1985 HD

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  • 2007
    imgMovies

    Extra Action

    Extra Action

    4.9 2007 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Nazi

    Nazi

    5.3 1991 HD

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  • 1993
    imgMovies

    My Nightmare

    My Nightmare

    6.4 1993 HD

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    F.F.P.

    F.F.P.

    4.5 2015 HD

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    F.F.P.

    F.F.P.

    4.5 2015 HD

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  • 1986
    imgMovies

    King of Sex

    King of Sex

    4.3 1986 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Horoscope

    Horoscope

    4.8 1991 HD

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  • 1990
    imgMovies

    X Is Y

    X Is Y

    3.8 1990 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Tumble

    Tumble

    6 1991 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Catholic

    Catholic

    5.8 1991 HD

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  • 1990
    imgMovies

    The Evil Cameraman

    The Evil Cameraman

    5.8 1990 HD

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    F.F.P.

    F.F.P.

    4.5 2015 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    You Killed Me First

    You Killed Me First

    4.8 1985 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Zombie Hunger 2

    Zombie Hunger 2

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Zombie Hunger 2

    Zombie Hunger 2

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1992
    imgMovies

    The Sewing Circle

    The Sewing Circle

    4.6 1992 HD

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    F.F.P.

    F.F.P.

    4.5 2015 HD

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  • 2004
    imgMovies

    Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

    Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

    8.7 2004 HD

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  • 2014
    imgMovies

    The Girl Who Followed Marple

    The Girl Who Followed Marple

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2007
    imgMovies

    Extra Action

    Extra Action

    4.9 2007 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Thrust in Me

    Thrust in Me

    5.3 1985 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Zombie Hunger

    Zombie Hunger

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Zombie Hunger 2

    Zombie Hunger 2

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Zombie Hunger

    Zombie Hunger

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Zombie Hunger

    Zombie Hunger

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs

    6.7 1985 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Zombie Hunger 2

    Zombie Hunger 2

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1999
    imgMovies

    Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

    Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

    8.8 1999 HD

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Woman at the Wheel

    Woman at the Wheel

    6.7 1985 HD

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  • 2011
    imgMovies

    Clean

    Clean

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2003
    imgMovies

    Cutter

    Cutter

    1 2003 HD

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  • 1999
    imgMovies

    The Hardcore Collection

    The Hardcore Collection

    2 1999 HD

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  • 2013
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    Shot By Kern

    Shot By Kern

    1 2013 HD

    Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot...

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