Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer

Born: March 21, 1922
Died: September 18, 2004
in Oakland, California, USA
Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer was a U.S. motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer.

Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and large breasted women.

Movies for Russ Meyer...

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Title: Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Character: Self
Released: April 21, 2020
Type: Movie
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
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Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities Edition
Title: Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities Edition
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 31, 2006
Type: Movie
Featuring Robert Crumb, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiny Tim, Russ Meyer and more this volume of the “Midnight Blue” collection focuses on celebrities.
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Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
Title: Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Documentary about the late cult film-maker, Russ Meyer, with a penchant for strong, curvaceous women.
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Pandora Peaks
Title: Pandora Peaks
Character: Himself / Narrator
Released: December 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Documentary on famed erotic icon Pandora Peaks. Last film directed by Russ Meyer.
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Shooting War
Title: Shooting War
Character: himself
Released: December 7, 2000
Type: Movie
A remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by one of the more unsung heroes of World War II: the combat photographer. Through the unflinching eye of their camera's lenses, these courageous soldiers continually risked their lives in their brave attempts to capture history.
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Playboy: Voluptuous Vixens II
Title: Playboy: Voluptuous Vixens II
Character: Himself
Released: July 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Those Vixens are back and bigger than ever. Once again Playboy brings you an ample sample of the buxom and the beautiful. Plus auteur Russ Meyer offers up his unique perspective on awesomely hot twosomes.
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Playboy: The Story of X
Title: Playboy: The Story of X
Character: Self - Producer and Director
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as "King of Sexploitation" Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they're now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the 60s when women's rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn's arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris. In the 70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind The Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.
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Hollywood Rated 'R'
Title: Hollywood Rated 'R'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. Over 25 interviews of the greatest purveyors of weird films of all kind from 1940 to 1975. Illustrated with dozens of films clips, trailers, extra footage, etc. This documentary as a shorter companion piece focusing on exploitation king David F. Friedman.
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Liebe ist Geschmackssache
Title: Liebe ist Geschmackssache
Character: Thanks
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A director tries to get his porno musical off the ground.
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Playboy's Voluptuous Vixens
Title: Playboy's Voluptuous Vixens
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Get ready for excitement with Playboy's spectacular tribute to well-endowed women.
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The Tip of the Iceberg
Title: The Tip of the Iceberg
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A documentary on the ways in which the symbolism of the breast is expressed in film, fashion and filth, how the bosom is idealised and the means by which it is trivialised and denigrated. Contributors include Barbara Windsor, Jane Russell, Marina Warner, Sheila Kitzinger, American poet Audre Lorde, Vivienne Westwood, Anna Raeburn and Russ Meyer.
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Cult People
Title: Cult People
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. Included are such well-known genre figures as Russ Meyer, Curtis Harrington, Cameron Mitchell and James Karen.
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The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Russ Meyer
Title: The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Russ Meyer
Character: Interviewee
Released: September 9, 1988
Type: Movie
American independent filmmaker and lover of cleavage Russ Meyer recounts his groundbreaking early sexploitation melodramas, his scandalous 20th Century Fox Production Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and his aborted Sex Pistols project.
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Title: The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Character: Self
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: TV
A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.
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Amazon Women on the Moon
Title: Amazon Women on the Moon
Character: Video Salesman
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.
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All the Way In!
Title: All the Way In!
Character: Wondering flyer
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Under takeover threat, the workers of a porn magazine harass and seduce each other. But their main attraction - and also stripper - buxom Candy Keen is too broken-hearted to join in. Will the new owner's identity make the difference?
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Up!
Title: Up!
Character: Hitchcock (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Adolf Schwartz has been killed. Who did it? No-one knows or cares, as they're too busy being distracted by busty Margo Winchester, who hitch-hikes into town and gets involved with all the local men.
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Supervixens
Title: Supervixens
Character: Motel Manager
Released: April 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Clint Ramsey has to leave his job working at Martin Bormann's gas station and flee after his wife is murdered by psycho cop Harry Sledge, who tries to pin the murder on Clint. Crossing America, Clint gets sexually harassed on all sides by various voluptuous nymphomaniacs, and it all ends in a literally explosive climax.
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Title: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Character: TV Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1970
Type: Movie
An all-female rock group finds fame, love, and drama when they move to LA in order to claim the lead singer’s inheritance.
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Vixen!
Title: Vixen!
Character: Tourist (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1968
Type: Movie
Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she makes it clear that she won't do the wild thing with her brother's biker friend, who is black.
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Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers
Title: Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers
Character: o.A.
Released: May 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Paul, the owner of a topless go-go bar on the Sunset Strip, isn't having a good day. His girlfriend, unbeknownst to him, is planning to rob his club, and his wife is having an affair with the hunky bartender.
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Motor Psycho
Title: Motor Psycho
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A biker gang, led by a Vietnam veteran, rapes a veterinarian's wife. When the man decides to seek revenge and hunt down the perpetrators himself, he ends up joining forces with a Cajun woman whose husband they killed.
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Mudhoney
Title: Mudhoney
Character: o.A.
Released: May 25, 1965
Type: Movie
In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she is married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
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Skyscrapers and Brassieres
Title: Skyscrapers and Brassieres
Character: Himself
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Heavenly Bodies!
Title: Heavenly Bodies!
Character: Fetischist
Released: June 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Taking a look at the connection that glamour models have to photography, a group of film makers follow a number of glamour magazine photographers around, to discover the skill involved in getting "magic" to appear on the photos.
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Wild Gals of the Naked West
Title: Wild Gals of the Naked West
Released: May 9, 1962
Type: Movie
An old geezer recalls some of the antics of the men and women of his western town, more wild and woolly than Tombstone or Dodge City. In this town no one is a good shot, the women are hungry for new meat, and practical jokers abound. A stranger strolls into town, proving resistant to the mayhem, and after donning some cowboy duds begins cleaning up that town.
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Erotica
Title: Erotica
Character: Cameraman
Released: July 14, 1961
Type: Movie
Exploitation auteur and mammary-enthusiast Russ Meyer directs this lurid journey into female sexuality told in six segments: “Naked Innocence,” “Beauties, Bubbles, and H2O,” “The Bear and the Bare,” “Nudists on the High Seas,” “The Nymphs,” and “The Bikini Busters
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The Immoral Mr. Teas
Title: The Immoral Mr. Teas
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman for dentists' appliances. Everywhere he goes he encounters beautiful "well-developed" nude women, which of course stir his interest. The only sound in the film is the voice of a narrator and a very monotonic musical theme played on the clarinet or some similar instrument.