Laura Gemser

Laura Gemser

Born: October 5, 1950
in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser (born October 5, 1950, Java, Indonesia) is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emmanuelle films. Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most notably in Love Is Forever (1983).

Gemser left Indonesia in 1955, at the age of four, and moved with her parents to the Netherlands. She grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where she attended the MULO Regentesseschool high school. After that, she attended the Artibus Art School in Utrecht, where she specialized in fashion design. In 1975 she moved to Italy.

After modelling in various magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium, Gemser began to take part in some soft erotic films. She became internationally recognised after starring in a number of Black Emanuelle films in the 1970s.

Her most mainstream and well-received role was as Laotian refugee Keo Sirisomphone in Michael Landon's 1983 American television movie, Love Is Forever, in which she was credited as Moira Chen.[citation needed] Gemser continued to do films: at times, she worked with her actor husband, Gabriele Tinti. In the 1990s, she left the movies to do costume designing for film. In addition, she lost her husband, who died of cancer in 1991. Today she lives in retirement and low profile in Rome, but she is still remembered as one of the many beautiful women who played the sensual adventuress Emmanuelle.

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Come In Un Film: La Vera Storia Di Gabriele (Gastone) Tinti
Title: Come In Un Film: La Vera Storia Di Gabriele (Gastone) Tinti
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of Italian actor Gabriele Tinti.
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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Title: Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
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Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience
Title: Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience
Character: Black Emanuelle / Various Characters (archive footage)
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of Joe D'Amato, Italian director of sexploitation and gore, narrated by himself.
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Il vizio infinito
Title: Il vizio infinito
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Joe d'Amato collects scenes from his movies that deal with two topics: voyeurism and masturbation.
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Love Project
Title: Love Project
Character: Karen's secretary
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Karen is a forty-year old woman who works in one of the largest hospitals in the town. She has an affair with Alan, the head physician of the same hospital. One day she meets Dennis, a handsome young man, very self-confident with whom she falls in love.
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Web of Desire
Title: Web of Desire
Character: Jackie Forrest
Released: October 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Sarah Asproon returns to New Orleans to act as executrix of the estate of a millionaire whom she was once the mistress of. She must decide which one of his surviving family members will inherit his fortune. It's not a decision that she's willing to make alone....
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Passion's Flower
Title: Passion's Flower
Character: Hooker (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1991
Type: Movie
After years in prison, Jeff finally returns to his home town. Along the way he meets a beautiful girl. After a while he gets to the pharmacy owned by his brother, Gordon, who barely manages to hide from the unexpected surprise of the meeting. After some confusion Gordon offers Jeff to stay with him for a while. Gordon introduces his wife to Jeff. Linda was none other than the girl with whom he had recently met. She seduces Jeff and trying to persuade him to murder his brother in order to get his business.
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Any Time, Any Play
Title: Any Time, Any Play
Character: Sales Clerk
Released: November 15, 1990
Type: Movie
When her ex-lover takes a job at her club as a dealer, a beautiful but bitter casino singer avenges herself by conspicuously bedding everything in pants, including their Mafioso boss. But when the two reunite, the double crossed Mobsters demand payback.
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Deep Blood
Title: Deep Blood
Character: Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Several young men have to stop an ancient native American evil in the form of a killer shark which is attacking a small beach community.
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Ator IV: The Hobgoblin
Title: Ator IV: The Hobgoblin
Character: Grimilde
Released: August 29, 1990
Type: Movie
Once upon a time a god gave a mighty sword to the king of Aquiles to bring justice to his people. Now he wants it back - but the king rather gives his life than the sword. Goddess Dehamira, who spoke for him, is being taken all her privileges and banned in a circle of fire, until a human arrives who's strong enough to free her. When prince Ator becomes 18, he gets the sword from the mean sorcerer gnome Grindl, to free Dehamira and his people. On his journey he has to fight against dragons and other fantastic figures.
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Metamorphosis
Title: Metamorphosis
Character: Prostitute
Released: August 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A geneticists working on a drug to stop ageing tries it upon himself with horrendous consequences.
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The Room of Words
Title: The Room of Words
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An unauthorized / uncredited / unofficial adaptation "based on the diaries of Anaïs Nin," this was made to compete with the same year's big budget and critically acclaimed Henry & June.
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High Finance Woman
Title: High Finance Woman
Character: Prostitute
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman on her way to the top.
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Blue Angel Cafe
Title: Blue Angel Cafe
Character: Photographer
Released: September 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Raymond Derek is a up and coming hotshot young politician who seems to have it all. A great career, a wife, friends and a expensive home. But that all changes when he encounters sexy cabaret singer Angie. The two begin a steamy affair until the press find out and it becomes front page news. As his life falls to pieces, Raymond and Angie try to build a life together, but some things just weren't meant to last.
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The Final Chapter
Title: The Final Chapter
Character: Dancer
Released: March 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Courtney a young reporter is assigned to report on the story of a young woman who lost her husband in a bizarre voodoo ritual. He decides to take his highly sexed wife Connie on the trip to New Orleans. Connie is drawn into a secret affair with one of the locals. Gradually captivated by his spell she eventually flaunts her affair in front of her husband and finally leaves with her new lover to join the voodoo follower. Torn between contempt for his wife's infidelity and fear for her life Courtney is left to decide their destiny in the highly charged climax....
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Dirty Love
Title: Dirty Love
Character: Massage Girl
Released: October 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Valentine Demy and Susan Little star in this erotic tale of a young girl who sets off from the suburbs of New York City to seek fame as a dancer on Broadway. She finds that her exuberant body brings her into contact with many different facets of the Broadway nightlife, with sex as the dominant factor.
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Reflections of Light
Title: Reflections of Light
Character: Chiara
Released: October 20, 1988
Type: Movie
After a car incident, in which he lost his wife, a musician remains paralytic on a wheelchair. He retires in a lonely villa. Incidentally together with him in the villa there are also a bisexual, a lesbian and a vicious kid. The lascivious atmosphere drive all the protagonists into depraved games. But the pain for the lost couldn't be medicated.
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Top Model
Title: Top Model
Character: Dorothy / Eve
Released: January 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Gloria works as a top nude model and prostitute, but she has a secret. In reality she is writer and social critic Sarah Asproon researching her new book. Peter finds out and blackmails her by demanding sex for his silence. Meanwhile Sarah develops feelings for computer whiz Cliff, who struggles to resolve his own sexual orientation.
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Skipper
Title: Skipper
Released: June 10, 1987
Type: Movie
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Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
Title: Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
Character: Dorothy Tipton
Released: March 27, 1987
Type: Movie
In eleven days time, Michael is due to wed his fiancée Helen. However, a chance meeting with Sarah, a total stranger, threatens to destroy all his plans as he is seduced on the spot and finds himself unable to resist her.
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Interzone
Title: Interzone
Character: Panasonic's Brother's Wife (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Humans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world.
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Delizia
Title: Delizia
Character: Brian's Lover
Released: November 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Italian fashion model living in New York decides to sell a villa located in the central Italian countryside and to make it back to their homeland.
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Want to Watch
Title: Want to Watch
Character: Josephine
Released: February 28, 1986
Type: Movie
A distinguished surgeon, married to a beautiful woman, has the habit of watching his wife in secret. The man decides to grant his wife to the owner of a refined brothel to be able to observe her from behind a mirror.
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The Pleasure
Title: The Pleasure
Character: Haunani
Released: July 31, 1985
Type: Movie
Edgard has just lost his wife Eleonore he had met at the carnival in Venice. It evokes his memory by listening to tapes . His brother's wife Ursula and his son Edmond come to move in with him. If the teen tries to seduce his aunt, Ursula wants to replace Eleonore in the heart of Edgard . He refuses until the day Ursula sold at auction to local brothel ...
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The Alcove
Title: The Alcove
Character: Zerbal
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: Movie
In 1936 Italy, Elio returns home from Africa with a present for his wife in the form of Zerbal (Laura Gemser), the daughter of a tribal king. Unbeknown to him, his neglected wife Alessandra (Lili Carati) has formed a relationship with Elio’s otherwise frigid secretary Velma (Annie Belle) who is less than pleased at Elio’s return
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Endgame
Title: Endgame
Character: Lilith
Released: November 5, 1983
Type: Movie
A telepathic mutant recruits a post World War III TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.
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Manuela's Perverse Outburst
Title: Manuela's Perverse Outburst
Character: Manuela / Emanuelle (archive footage)
Released: July 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Investigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an "international expedition" in Hong Kong. This film was made entirely of footage from Joe D'Amato films released between 1976 and 1980, quickly becoming popular within the bootleg video market.
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Blade Violent
Title: Blade Violent
Character: Emanuelle Arsan
Released: May 6, 1983
Type: Movie
Emanuelle is framed by a corrupt D.A. while investigating a drug smuggling operation and has to tough it out under lock and key, dealing with a strict warden and abusive guards.
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Love is Forever
Title: Love is Forever
Character: Keo Sirisomphone
Released: April 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he will go for his girlfriend.
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The Blade Master
Title: The Blade Master
Character: Indun (archive footage)
Released: December 13, 1982
Type: Movie
Muscle-bound Ator and his mute Asian sidekick travel from the ends of the Earth to save his aged mentor from the evil mustachioed Zor.
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Ator, the Fighting Eagle
Title: Ator, the Fighting Eagle
Character: Indun
Released: October 7, 1982
Type: Movie
The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister/love interest from the evil Dakkar and his spider cult.
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Invaders of the Lost Gold
Title: Invaders of the Lost Gold
Character: Maria
Released: September 20, 1982
Type: Movie
Japanese soldiers battle a tribe of cannibals while protecting a gold shipment.
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Violence in a Women's Prison
Title: Violence in a Women's Prison
Character: Emanuelle / Laura
Released: September 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Laura Kendall, also known as Emanuelle, arrives at a remote prison with a long, fictional rap sheet that will allow her to go undercover to report on the cruelties behind bars.
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Municipal Messenger Practically a Spy
Title: Municipal Messenger Practically a Spy
Character: Dr. Selenia Anselmi
Released: June 1, 1982
Type: Movie
When Selenia arrives in the small Italian village heads start turning and eyes start popping. All males in the town are falling all over themselves trying to get a look -- or a feel -- of the new doctor.
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The Best of Sex and Violence
Title: The Best of Sex and Violence
Character: (archive footage)
Released: February 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Hosted by John Carradine, this tape is a compilation of scenes from and previews for various exploitation films.
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Caligula: The Untold Story
Title: Caligula: The Untold Story
Character: Miriam
Released: February 2, 1982
Type: Movie
The deranged Roman emperor Gainus 'Caligula' (Little Boots) Caesar (12-41 A.D.) rules Rome with an iron fist and has anyone tortured and exectued for even the slightest insubordination. Mostly set during his last year of his reign, as Caligula loses support due to his brutal and crazed excess, a young Moor woman, named Miriam, becomes his lover while ploting to kill him to avenge the murder of a friend which Caligula was responsible for. But Miriam is torn between her personal vandeda against Caligula and her own personal feelings towards him despite his madness and debauched lifestyle of orgies and bloody torture murders.
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Famous T & A
Title: Famous T & A
Character: Emanuelle (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A collection of nude and/or topless scenes from various films featuring actresses who were either famous at the time or who became famous later on.
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Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert
Title: Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert
Character: Sheila
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Armed soldiers, thirsty and lost, run into the mysterious Sheila, who claims to be able to guide them to safety.
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The Bushido Blade
Title: The Bushido Blade
Character: Tomoe
Released: June 19, 1981
Type: Movie
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.
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Divine Emanuelle
Title: Divine Emanuelle
Character: The Divine One
Released: April 10, 1981
Type: Movie
The young daughter of a US Senator is drawn into a hippie “free love” cult called “The Children of Light” by the blond boyfriend of the cult’s leader, a mysterious and beautiful Asian woman. The cult turns out to be not quite the “free” love community it presents itself to be.
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Murder Obsession
Title: Murder Obsession
Character: Beryl
Released: February 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.
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Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
Title: Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
Character: Luna
Released: November 6, 1980
Type: Movie
A sailor takes an American businessman and his girlfriend to an island where the businessman wants to build a resort. Soon a weird voodoo couple show up and warn them of bad things that are going to happen. It doesn't take long for the zombies to show up and start chowing down on human flesh.
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Porno Esotic Love
Title: Porno Esotic Love
Character: Eva
Released: August 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Hybrid adult film composed of new footage shot in the Caribbean, and the remainder recycled and re-dubbed scenes from Joe D'Amato's 1976 horror-thriller, Black Eve.
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International Prostitution: Brigade criminelle
Title: International Prostitution: Brigade criminelle
Character: Tazzi
Released: June 18, 1980
Type: Movie
A French police inspector with the help of Tazzi, a woman involved in a prostitution ring, track down the man who murdered Tazzi's sister.
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Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados
Title: Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados
Character: Emanuella Brindisi
Released: February 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.
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Looking Good
Title: Looking Good
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Rare workout video from the 1980s hosted by Laura Gemser, delivering her instructions to a team of toned and athletic dancers as they sweat and groove on a set drenched in abstract 80s design sensibilities.
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Private Collections
Title: Private Collections
Character: (segment "L'île aux sirènes")
Released: June 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
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...And Give Us Our Daily Sex
Title: ...And Give Us Our Daily Sex
Character: Amiga de Verónica
Released: February 26, 1979
Type: Movie
A pair of sexy bisexual nurses live in an apartment building, one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is busy putting his new science project—a periscope—to good use by spying on the lingerie-wearing lovelies. Meanwhile, Albert’s mother is being even naughtier than her precious boy, sneaking off for some extra-marital action while her hair-obsessed husband is at the salon, having his follicles tended to.
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Fancy a Woman
Title: Fancy a Woman
Character: La principessa africana - moglie di Bruno
Released: July 22, 1978
Type: Movie
An erotic, comedic anthology film in which a young couple becomes addicted to having their trysts recorded, a woman cheats on her husband with an older man and desperately attempts to avoid the traps set for her, and a man, with the help of a mad scientist, is able to have an amorous encounter with Cicciolina.
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Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country
Title: Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country
Character: The Woman
Released: July 10, 1978
Type: Movie
A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships.
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Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2
Title: Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2
Character: Host / Emanuelle
Released: May 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Emanuelle hosts this peculiar sexploitation Mondo film that looks at several examples of bizarre sexual behavior.
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Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
Title: Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
Character: Emanuelle
Released: April 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Emanuelle returns to Kenya, trying to get an interview with a foreign gangster who's taken refuge in the African countryside while still operating an international criminal network.
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Exit 7
Title: Exit 7
Character: Air-Hostess
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airplane forces him to take stock of his life.
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Sexy Night Report
Title: Sexy Night Report
Character: Host / Emanuelle
Released: December 20, 1977
Type: Movie
Laura Gemser, as Emanuelle, takes viewers on a worldwide perv vacation and introduces footage of bizarre sexual behavior and performances in the style of a Mondo movie.
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Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Title: Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Character: Emanuelle
Released: October 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Intrepid photographer Emanuelle is taken deep into the Amazonian jungle to search for a cannibalistic tribe long believed to be extinct.
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Emanuelle - Why Violence Against Women?
Title: Emanuelle - Why Violence Against Women?
Character: Emanuelle
Released: September 16, 1977
Type: Movie
Intrepid photojournalist Emanuelle arrives in San Francisco, where she briefly meets up with fellow journalist -- and fellow feminist -- Cora Norman, before being whisked off to India to investigate a guru con artist.
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Sister Emanuelle
Title: Sister Emanuelle
Character: Sister Emanuelle
Released: August 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Sister Emanuelle and Sister Nanà go to meet Mr. Cazzabriga, who has a problem: his wild-child daughter, Monica, who he wants to send to a Catholic school to remove her from temptations around the house.
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Crime Busters
Title: Crime Busters
Character: Suzy Lee
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: Movie
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
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Emanuelle in America
Title: Emanuelle in America
Character: Emanuelle
Released: January 5, 1977
Type: Movie
In search of a good story, globe-trotting photojournalist Emanuelle meets up with an ex-prizefighter who tips her off about a rich pervert who recruits girls for his own private harem based on their astrological signs.
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Vow of Chastity
Title: Vow of Chastity
Character: Maid
Released: December 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Before Joe D'amato made 1979's Buio Omega he touched upon death several times in his earlier works. This one is the first example of the director's start working with George Eastman, who wrote the screenplay for this title. The story is about innocent boy, who is afraid of sex, so all his family starts to push on him and sent women to persuade him. The things come here to the idea of well-acted sudden death and mature perverse. Quite special film to show, but still it is a black grotesque comedy with classic Massachessi's eclectic sexual view on Italian humor. Rare to find obscure title, but we recommend it for those who like to solve the most crazy situations and fantasies in their mind.
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Estedes' Friend (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Black Velvet
Title: Black Velvet
Character: Laura
Released: August 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Crystal, a wealthy, scorned woman living in a massive Egyptian palace with her daughter Magda, finds commiseration in a dried-up Hollywood expat who surrounds himself with singing children.
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Black Eve
Title: Black Eve
Character: Eva
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: Movie
After a swift courtship, wealthy bachelor Judas Carmichael invites a topless dancer to live with him and his abundant collection of exotic snakes.
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Emmanuelle on Taboo Island
Title: Emmanuelle on Taboo Island
Character: Haydee
Released: May 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, partying biker Daniel finds an increasingly threatening family living in the forest.
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Emanuelle in Bangkok
Title: Emanuelle in Bangkok
Character: Emanuelle
Released: May 7, 1976
Type: Movie
A reporter travels the world's hot spots, looking for lurid stories that usually involve her sexual participation in gaining those behind-the-scenes exclusives.
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Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman
Title: Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman
Character: Masseuse
Released: December 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very puzzled by their openness.
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Black Emanuelle
Title: Black Emanuelle
Character: Emanuelle
Released: November 27, 1975
Type: Movie
Internationally-renowned photographer Mae Jordan, professionally known as 'Emanuelle', is hired by a wealthy British expat to go to Nairobi to shoot the ruins and wildlife. While there, she explores sexual situations with her hosts and their friends.
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Jeanine
Released: August 14, 1974
Type: Movie
An engineer named Francesco arrives on Emerald Island in the Seychelles and is instantly smitten with the local girl Jeanine, whose sister ran off with the previous engineer -- neither of them to be seen again.