Tom DeSimone

Directing

Tom DeSimone

Born — Died

1939-01-01 — 2026-10-17

Place of birth

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

44 titles

Tom DeSimone (born 1939) is an American director, writer, producer and editor, perhaps best known for directing the cult films Chatterbox (1977), Hell Night (1981), and The Concrete Jungle (1982). DeSimone was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emerson College. He relocated to Los Angeles, California in the 1960s, and enrolled at the University of Southern California to earn a Master's degree in filmmaking. DeSimone began his career as a director of numerous adult films in the late 1960s, including several gay pornography films under the pseudonym Lancer Brooks. He would later become known for directing the cult film Chatterbox (1977), produced by B…

Known for

Hell Night poster
5.5

As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.

Hell Night

1981

Angel III: The Final Chapter poster
5.4

Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she might be her long missing mother. Following her trail to Los Angeles, Molly finds herself in the center of a major crime syndicate who will stop at nothing to execute their diabolical plans.

Angel III: The Final Chapter

1988

The Concrete Jungle poster
6.0

An unfortunate and naive girl is set up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.

The Concrete Jungle

1982

Chatterbox! poster
5.1

A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.

Chatterbox!

1977

Reform School Girls poster
5.6

Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.

Reform School Girls

1986

Prison Girls poster
3.9

Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up.

Prison Girls

1972

Film credits

Behind the camera

Hell Night poster
5.5

As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.

Hell Night

1981

Angel III: The Final Chapter poster
5.4

Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she might be her long missing mother. Following her trail to Los Angeles, Molly finds herself in the center of a major crime syndicate who will stop at nothing to execute their diabolical plans.

Angel III: The Final Chapter

1988

Angel III: The Final Chapter poster
5.4

Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she might be her long missing mother. Following her trail to Los Angeles, Molly finds herself in the center of a major crime syndicate who will stop at nothing to execute their diabolical plans.

Angel III: The Final Chapter

1988

The Concrete Jungle poster
6.0

An unfortunate and naive girl is set up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.

The Concrete Jungle

1982

Chatterbox! poster
5.1

A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.

Chatterbox!

1977

Reform School Girls poster
5.6

Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.

Reform School Girls

1986

Reform School Girls poster
5.6

Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.

Reform School Girls

1986

Prison Girls poster
3.9

Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up.

Prison Girls

1972

The Game poster
8.0

In a cluttered attic studio, a former actress and her younger male artist's model engage in an escalating role-playing session.

The Game

1965

The Game poster
8.0

In a cluttered attic studio, a former actress and her younger male artist's model engage in an escalating role-playing session.

The Game

1965

Inside A.M.G. poster
3.3

Rick "Jim" Cassidy and Bob Mizer, one of the founders, and head, of the Athletic Model Guild, profile the A.M.G., its history, and how it operates. The purpose of the A.M.G. is to prepare (mostly gay) young men who meet its specifications for careers in modeling and showing themselves off as "gay-boy beefcake" (the male gay equivalent of young female models as "cheesecake"). Questions arise as to where these young men come from, how they are recruited, what it is like to work for A.M.G., and if all the young men who apply and are accepted are, indeed, gay.

Inside A.M.G.

1970

Terror in the Jungle poster
5.2

Little boy Henry Clayton Jr. survives a plane crash in the untamed Amazon jungle. However, he's discovered by a tribe of vicious savages who plan on sacrificing him. Meanwhile, Henry's father ventures into the jungle to find the missing lad before it's too late.

Terror in the Jungle

1968

No artwork available
NR

An early (probably softcore) film that is rarely mentioned.

Aphrodisiacs in the Male Animal

1975

Wooden Lullaby poster
NR

Black and white UCLA student film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A dramatic short about the wooden horse that is witness to the chaotic late night of a mother, awaking her son. Student film from Tom DeSimone, known for directing gay pornographic films such as Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana (1917) and cult films such as Chatterbox (1977), Hell Night (1981), and The Concrete Jungle (1982), Reform School Girls (1986).

Wooden Lullaby

1956

Pool Party poster
NR

When two handsome young buddies are hanging around the affluent surroundings of their backyard pool getting high and enjoying the sun, anything can happen. When the goodlooking hunk of a poolman shows up, the two ask him to join in the fun. Declaring he's straight, the poolman says he'll return later to finish his chores. Fantasies abound, as we are taken through a kaleidoscope of sexual experiences, none of which can match the fantasies inspired by the muscular poolman. Finally he returns to finish the pool, but as it turns out, it's only the beginning.

Pool Party

1975

Blue Movie Auditions poster
9.0

In a “male model studio,” six oddball studs are interviewed, then given Blue Movie Auditions for “sex movies for the homosexual market.”

Blue Movie Auditions

1972

Flesh and Fantasy poster
3.0

13 horny, hot and super hung studs mix it up in non-stop action.

Flesh and Fantasy

1980

Catching Up poster
8.5

When an older man tells his younger lover that he wants to open up their relationship, the younger man decides to make up for lost time.

Catching Up

1975

Chained! poster
8.0

Two young convicts — one straight, one gay — escape from jail chained together. Will their hate for each other turn into love?

Chained!

1973

Black Heat poster
NR

The misadventures of Leroy, a drug dealer who tricks his customers with Spanish Fly.

Black Heat

1973

Young Men of the 80's Volume 1 poster
NR

The uninhibited young men of the 80's, that's when hard-core sex action was at its peak. It was raw, spontaneous excitement. The kind you'll always remember. The kind you can watch over and over again. The kind that takes you back to the beginning.

Young Men of the 80's Volume 1

2002

Anything Goes poster
6.0

A psychiatrist takes the viewer on a trip through his 'aberrant' file. Screen debut of the "Christy Twins" who do it to each other. Told as a documentary, features masterbating, porn viewing, auto-fellatio, vibrators, dildos, and the every-popular Accu-Jac machine (while on a waterbed!).

Anything Goes

1974

Nightcrawler: A Leathersex Fantasy poster
6.5

Seduced into a life of endless sexuality an empty romance our hero, Jock, finds himself moving through back alleys, bars and bathhouses until a mysterious stranger offers him a ticket to a club called "Paradise". Once inside, Jock discovers a bizarre world of perversion where every sexual appetite is satisfied and escape is impossible.

Nightcrawler: A Leathersex Fantasy

1986

Nightcrawler: A Leathersex Fantasy poster
6.5

Seduced into a life of endless sexuality an empty romance our hero, Jock, finds himself moving through back alleys, bars and bathhouses until a mysterious stranger offers him a ticket to a club called "Paradise". Once inside, Jock discovers a bizarre world of perversion where every sexual appetite is satisfied and escape is impossible.

Nightcrawler: A Leathersex Fantasy

1986

Black and Blue poster
NR

A study of sadomasochism in 1970s homosexual society.

Black and Blue

1971

Station to Station poster
7.0

A young man is forced to come out to his parents after being arrested for soliciting.

Station to Station

1974

Station to Station poster
7.0

A young man is forced to come out to his parents after being arrested for soliciting.

Station to Station

1974

Gettin' Down poster
9.2

A country boy looking for some action in Los Angeles meets a man on the outs of a relationship.

Gettin' Down

1979

Private Collection poster
NR

A collection of six short films that represent the personal obsessions and private fantasies of the filmmakers and actors involved.

Private Collection

1980

Black Heat poster
NR

The misadventures of Leroy, a drug dealer who tricks his customers with Spanish Fly.

Black Heat

1973

Bi-Bi Love poster
9.0

Psychiatrist Dr. Clark (Shane Michaels) listens to real and imaginary sex stories as told by some female patients. He occasionaly takes part in the action too.

Bi-Bi Love

1986

Bi-Bi Love poster
9.0

Psychiatrist Dr. Clark (Shane Michaels) listens to real and imaginary sex stories as told by some female patients. He occasionaly takes part in the action too.

Bi-Bi Love

1986

Comming Distractions poster
7.0

A collection of gay adult film trailers narrated by Tom DeSimone.

Comming Distractions

1983

The Collection poster
7.0

A psycho kidnaps young men to keep them captive and use them as his own personal sex slaves.

The Collection

1970

Duffy's Tavern poster
7.0

Long haired blonds (back when blonds in porn films didn't dye it!) and pool table sex.

Duffy's Tavern

1974

Gay Tarzan poster
NR

Phillip frees Tarzan and develops their love, spending their lives in the jungle making love in beautiful water pools and amongst nature. Ends with Tarzan magically appearing before Bill and filling his hole with his banana. Real jungle settings, masculine men with natural beauty, passion, a great story, an excellent and appropriate musical score, and the gorgeous Tarzan all combine to bring this legendary character to life in a memorable, believable and erotic way! Originally shot-on-filj.

Gay Tarzan

1971

Gay Tarzan poster
NR

Phillip frees Tarzan and develops their love, spending their lives in the jungle making love in beautiful water pools and amongst nature. Ends with Tarzan magically appearing before Bill and filling his hole with his banana. Real jungle settings, masculine men with natural beauty, passion, a great story, an excellent and appropriate musical score, and the gorgeous Tarzan all combine to bring this legendary character to life in a memorable, believable and erotic way! Originally shot-on-filj.

Gay Tarzan

1971

Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie poster
5.0

The film, narrated by "LA Plays Itself" director Fred Halstead, begins by looking at the muscle magazines and films of the late 1940s-early 1960s, then at the softcore films of the late 60s and the boundary-pushing and legal-testing which allowed these to evolve into hardcore loops and then features.

Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie

1973

Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana poster
8.0

A hard-core pop musical camp exposé of a young country boy led adrift by Sweet Lady Mary in Hollywood.

Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana

1971

Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana poster
8.0

A hard-core pop musical camp exposé of a young country boy led adrift by Sweet Lady Mary in Hollywood.

Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana

1971