Candida Royalle

Acting

Candida Royalle

Born — Died

1950-10-15 — 2015-09-07

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

81 titles

Candida Royalle, born Candice Vandala, grew up in New York City and trained in dance and music before entering the adult film industry in 1974. Candida starred in about 25 Golden Age films before retiring from performing in 1984 - after which she became the first woman to start her own studio, Femme Productions, and was one of the earliest female directors. In her later years, she, with the help of a private investigator, managed to track down her birth mother, who had abandoned her at 18 months, but she had already passed away from ovarian cancer. Not long after, Royalle was herself diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which she succumbed to on September 7, 2015.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Morgana poster
7.0

A lonely house-wife’s plan to end it all takes an unexpected turn when her last hurrah begins a radical journey of sexual exploration and personal re-invention.

Morgana

2019

Candice poster
4.4

Candice Vadala aka Candida Royalle is known to many as the “godmother of feminist porn.” In Candice, director Sheona McDonald crafts a layered portrait of the woman behind the icon. The film captures Vadala in her sixties when, confronted with a Cancer diagnosis, she is eager to tell her story and to confront questions that have haunted her since childhood. Candice is a tribute to a resilient woman whose impact on sex positivity and women’s sexual autonomy echoes far beyond the adult film industry.

Candice

2019

Inside Her Sex poster
5.9

Inside Her Sex is a thought-provoking, feature-length documentary that explores female sexuality and shame through the eyes and experiences of three women from different walks of life, each brave enough to chart her own course of sexual discovery: Elle Chase, a popular sex blogger; Candida Royalle, the creator of Femme Productions Inc., a feminist adult film company designed to speak with a woman's voice; and Samantha Allen, the ex-devout Mormon and current gender, sex, and tech writer for The Daily Beast.

Inside Her Sex

2014

Leslie Bovee Blue Ecstacy Triple Feature poster
8.0

Includes: Blue Ecstasy In New York Dual personalities inhabit Veronica, a sexy young woman with prudish tendencies. Her friend Niki encourages her to explore her secret desires, culminating in a degrading S&M session with Jamie Gillis. Lustful Feelings. A girl starts fulfilling mens' fantasies to raise money for her desperate coke dealer boyfriend. Leslie Bovee's Fantasies. Rare loops include Leslie in lesbian action with Chris Cassidy and getting stuffed in all 3 holes by 3 guys.

Leslie Bovee Blue Ecstacy Triple Feature

2014

2000s · 6 titles

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism poster
4.8

Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archives about the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances.

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

2009

The Naked Feminist poster
5.0

THE NAKED FEMINIST challenges the myths surrounding women in the porn industry while exploring preconceived notions of control, pleasure and exploitation. Through candid behind the scenes interviews with pornstars, academics and feminists this informative and straight-talking documentary strips away the ideological straitjacket surrounding the decades-old porn versus feminist debate by demonstrating that strong, inspirational women are found in all walks of life - including pornography.

The Naked Feminist

2004

How to Make Love to My Wife poster
NR

A comedy that follows the sexual misadventures of Greg Lawrence, a forty-something dud in the sack. The show features Greg and his real life wife Kathy Lawrence as they try to bring the spark back into the bedroom. The laughs are mixed with good advice, sweetness and charm.

How to Make Love to My Wife

2008

The Real Linda Lovelace poster
3.5

Takes a look at the rise and fall of Linda Lovelace, the first major porn star.

The Real Linda Lovelace

2001

Stud Hunters poster
7.0

Erotic film director Carla Divine and her star, Giselle Lorngette, head East to hunt for the perfect new stud for their next movie. Dozens of guys show up to auditions in New York, but things don´t go so smoothly as Carla would hope: as she finds herself spending more time keeping her wannabe studs off the casting couch than on set! Things spin hilariously out of control, but in the end, the director always gets her way! This satirical look at the adult entertainment business spoofs every aspect of XXX - from the backstage shenanigans to the egos, fans, and paparazzi ... even director Candida Royalle herself!

Stud Hunters

2003

Seka's Oriental Massage poster
7.8

Seka's pairing with top heavy Asian porn goddess Mei Ling may have been the pornographical highlight of all time! Here these two true perfect 10s of hardcore take it in relentless cumfests both together and apart in our favorite loops from Diverse Industries, Swedish Erotica, and more! Includes A Private Affair, Heavenly Bodies, Oriental Massage and many more loops that could come no closer to erotic perfection!

Seka's Oriental Massage

2003

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 23 titles

I, the Jury poster
5.7

Jack Williams was the best friend of Vietnam veteran and detective Mike Hammer. When Jack is murdered, Mike makes it his business to solve the crime. He is helped by his secretary Velda, and partly helped, partly hindered by the Chief of Police, Pat Chambers. On the trail of the killer, Mike discovers government conspiracies, and plots used by the CIA and the Mafia.

I, the Jury

1982

Sex Appeal poster
3.5

This is the story of young Tony Cannelloni as he attempts to break away from his overbearing mom and strike out on his own. He sets himself up with a new apartment, look, and lifestyle to improve his "sex appeal". Through a series of encounters with a variety of women he gets ever closer to achieving his goal. However, a never-ending series of calamities always seem to interrupt his progress.

Sex Appeal

1986

This Is America Part 2 poster
5.2

The sequel to This is America, aka Jabberwalk. This film goes inside the real America circa 1980 - a world of punks, orgies and worm-eating hicks! Romano Vanderbes back on the film making side and Norman Rose back on narrating duty for the second of the This Is America trilogy. Things kick off slightly louder this time with a performance by The Dictators doing a version of America the Beautiful while the titles role, then right into piece about punk star Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedy's running for mayor of San Francisco. Then back into a more This Is America feeling segment about a crazy fat bloke called Captain Sticky. Among some of the other more interesting segments we get a look at underground vagrants, a piranha attack, martial arts nuns, a family of worm eaters, a drug abusing church and ends with a death row electrocution.

This Is America Part 2

1980

Blue Ecstasy poster
7.8

BLUE ECSTASY is an unusual film that explores with candor the sexual conflict acted out by dual personalities inhabiting the single body of a young woman. Veronica has an unusual companion - Ronnie who is the exact opposite of Veronica. Her friend Niki is a fun loving person and cannot at all understand Veronica's prudishness. At Niki's suggestion, she and Veronica go shopping for some new, sexy clothes for Veronica's changing personality - which becomes the catalyst for a film revealing many layers of sexual denial and redemption.

Blue Ecstasy

1980

Ultra Flesh poster
5.1

An alien comes to Earth to save the planet by curing its men of impotence.

Ultra Flesh

1980

Outlaw Ladies poster
7.0

Henri Pachard like Louis Malle is a gifted, prolific, visionary film-maker, Pachard's films idolize women, and skillfully educate the most sophisticated viewer of eroticism (both male and female) with exquisite, and mesmerizing "true to life" encounters.

Outlaw Ladies

1981

Legends of Porn poster
6.0

Adult film historian Jim Holliday narrates this collection of clips from films from porn's "golden ages" featuring dozens of stars.

Legends of Porn

1987

I Made Daddy Do It poster
NR

There’s just something about older guys and young girls. These little, young deviants have a thing for their step-father, while mother is away the girls come out and play…

I Made Daddy Do It

1985

Urban Heat poster
6.3

The second film from Candida Royalle's Femme Productions which released erotic videos for women. The movie follows several couples dancing at a night club as they go home and make love in private.

Urban Heat

1984

Sensual Escape poster
5.7

Media superstar Gloria Leonard takes us on a touchingly funny walk through the minds of two people who have been dating and are about to take the leap into bed. After that, a young artist’s recurring erotic dream leads her to an encounter with a mysterious man who helps her discover her long hidden and explosive passion.

Sensual Escape

1988

Studio of Lust poster
NR

Miss Amy has been in the skin flick business for a long time and has done many things in front of the camera. In "Studio of Lust" she takes you behind the lens to enjoy the sights and sounds of hardcore sex like you've never seen before. Your private tour begins on the sound stage of her current "steamy" endeavor...the soft sensual sounds of sex soon become shouts of ecstasy as she joins in a wild orgy. Studio of Lust is bursting with the hot, sweaty sexual action most movies only begin to show. With an eager and 'talented' cast including hungry nymphettes like Debbie Shaw, Sally Douglas and Sandy Kane this nasty flick will even make your exposure meter blush! You won't want to miss the outrageous, non-stop sex in Studio of Lust; not to mention Miss Amy. She's waiting...just for you! Lights, Camera, Action!

Studio of Lust

1984

Forbidden Worlds poster
6.5

Compilation movie featuring various scenes from the adult films 800 Fantasy Lane (1979), F... And Lots of It. (1980), Ultra Flesh (1980), The Blonde Next Door (1982), Bad Girls (1981), and Bad Girls II (1983).

Forbidden Worlds

1988

Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story poster
6.2

It's difficult to remember what porn was like in the 70s. In this era when pornstars are on TV, date movie stars, and are on album covers, the secret world of men in raincoats attending sleazy theaters is hard to imagine. Now most people see porn on their TV or internet. Once upon a time, though, it was a big deal for a porn star to hit the mainstream, and John Holmes did just that. With a 14 inch endowment and not so good looks, Holmes made thousands of movies and slept with thousands of women. He became well-known for his Johnny Wadd series, where he was an international man of mystery, and hardcore sex. Eventually he got heavily into drugs, got involved in a brutal murder, and finally died of AIDS.

Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story

1981

October Silk poster
4.8

The weather's cool and the sex is hot when nine world famous cover girls set the town burning in this autumn indulgence. A naughty boutique is the meeting place for the devious and sensual women of OCTOBER SILK. Young women go shopping for lingerie and realize their sexual fantasies.

October Silk

1980

Night Hunger poster
7.0

A traveler stopping in at a roadside tavern overhears the bartender relating the tale of the local Blair family, whose women have been cursed with an insatiable desire for sex.

Night Hunger

1983

Ballgame poster
5.6

Here's the pitch - 12 of the most beautiful, talented women ever to play ball, 24 of the most incredible breasts to ever hide in a wet T-shirt. 10 of the most handsome, virile men ever seen in an adult movie. The top-in-line in anyone's double-header, it's a home run guaranteed to make everyone score! Beautiful Lolita, queen of all the hookers, incarcerated in the city jail, finds more thrills than bargained for when she aggressively solicits her warden for improved jail conditions. She finds the sex starved public servant has one goal - to be governor - and has spent the jail refurbishing funds for his campaign. Lolita and the warden decide to have a "whing ding" of a baseball game to refill the jail fund and to quell his desires. The burly studs of Cellblock B, a melee that contests brawn against brains, and bawdy bodies, see the Beavers against the Dicks, it's a game you'll never forget and a ballgame played like you've never seen before!

Ballgame

1980

Champagne for Breakfast poster
6.3

Champagne, a successful young professional, has just been promoted to Vice President of her company. But all work and no play can fizzle out anyone's social life! Champange takes a break from work to blow off some steam and heats up this romp in the process.

Champagne for Breakfast

1980

Fascination poster
5.4

A loser with women follows the advice of a "how-to" book on seduction.

Fascination

1980

Blue Magic poster
10.0

Candida Royalle is a woman with a past a long, long past. Rumor has it she's lived for a few hundred years. The question is how she's managed to remain such a luscious piece of woman flesh after three centuries. That question gets answered when she invites three couples over to her ritzy mansion for a dinner party. Things quickly slide from cordial dinner conversation to kinky wife swapping and group groping. The secret to eternal youth, it turns out, is sex, sex and more sex.

Blue Magic

1981

The Tale of Tiffany Lust poster
5.8

The call girl Betty sends her housewife client Tiffany to Florence Nightingale, a radio show host who lets listeners of all genders make suggestions and then live out their dreams on stage right in front of her live audience. Tiffany later peeps on her husband's own cheating.

The Tale of Tiffany Lust

1981

Three Daughters poster
6.5

The story, as the title suggests is about the loves of three young women, the youngest of whom has yet to learn the joy of lovemaking.

Three Daughters

1986

That Lucky Stiff poster
5.8

That Lucky Stiff is the wild and wacky story of Burt Taylor and his rags to riches climb from New York elevator operator to European high-roller. A bank computer error turns Burt's $300 account into $300,000,000.

That Lucky Stiff

1980

Delicious poster
5.3

A man with a cold wife and a husband who can't keep his hands off the maid.

Delicious

1981

1970s · 21 titles

10 poster
5.8

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

10

1979

Hard Soap, Hard Soap poster
7.2

Penny and Linda are two happy housewives who just can't help but want to solve everyone else's personal problems. But Penny has big problems of her own, namely with her psychiatrist husband, Dr. John Holmes, whose romantic abilities have been unbearably hindered. As Penny and Linda find themselves besieged by a never-ending supply of perverts, weirdos, and other types of misfits they decide it's time to take matters into their own hands to return their lives to idyllic suburban bliss.

Hard Soap, Hard Soap

1977

Hot Rackets poster
8.2

Herb and Liz Adler, an indecently rich couple, are members of an exclusive tennis club whose members indulge themselves in more than a workout on the courts.

Hot Rackets

1979

Taxi Girls poster
6.6

A sexy hooker comes up with a plan to operate her own taxi service for her fellow streetwalkers as a safe way to make easy money, with their male customers.

Taxi Girls

1979

The Starlets poster
9.0

An inside look at the most exclusive sex club in Hollywood, and the beautiful actresses who will do anything to screw their way to the top.

The Starlets

1976

International Intrigue poster
7.0

The Embassy Girls

International Intrigue

1977

Femmes de Sade poster
7.0

After Rocky gets out of prison, he makes up for lost time by terrorizing some prostitutes. But the women are not going to take it and make it their business to get revenge on him.

Femmes de Sade

1976

The Ultimate Pleasure poster
4.7

A cab driver who is having marital problems with his beautiful but frigid wife finds a suitcase full of money left in his cab by a passenger, and realizes that he now has the means to fulfill all of his and his wife's sexual fantasies.

The Ultimate Pleasure

1977

Jungle Blue poster
5.2

Jungle Blue tells the story of a group of sinister explorers hunting for fortune in the jungles of South America. Along the way they meet a tree-swinging wild man, his sex-crazed companion gorilla, and hoards of scantily clad natives.

Jungle Blue

1978

Carnal Haven poster
6.2

A group of unhappy couples are taught the joys of having a quality marriage.

Carnal Haven

1978

Easy Alice poster
6.5

Joey, a San Francisco lowlife and occasional porn star, takes a one day shoot, after which he wanders aimlessly around the city meeting random people and having anonymous sex.

Easy Alice

1976

Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls poster
7.0

A struggling pizzeria starts adding a sexy surprise with each unique topping, as their skateboarding delivery girls give each customer a special tip. But when a major fried chicken chain attempts to muscle in on the neighborhood fast food trade, with the help of the mysterious “chicken rapist,” the dough slingers are forced to outwit their big business competition.

Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls

1978

Baby Rosemary poster
6.6

After the death of her father, a beautiful, though sexually traumatized, young woman enters an erotic nightmare while awaiting his funeral.

Baby Rosemary

1976

Sissy's Hot Summer poster
4.7

An X-rated take on that TV show about three roommates, Jack, Janet, and Sissy. They're behind on their rent and do the only thing that they know how to do to make it!

Sissy's Hot Summer

1979

Pro-Ball Cheerleaders poster
9.0

Three cheerleaders, Roxy, Pepper, and Goldie use their natural assets to make the cheerleader squad despite being inept. Meanwhile Tamara is secretly plotting to upset the team's chances of success by seducing the quarterback.

Pro-Ball Cheerleaders

1979

Kinky Tricks poster
6.5

Candy is a young hooker recently released from prison. Showing up on old flame Elliot's doorstep she begs for a place to stay. To help make the mortgage payments, Candy and her friends start using the house to pull Kinky Tricks, doing everything from Cowboy to Bigfoot themed role-plays. Anything and everything goes in this San Francisco shot, unconventional, free for all.

Kinky Tricks

1977

Sunny poster
6.6

Sunny, a high class prostitute, has been hired to manipulate a young society man to marry her as part of an inheritance scheme.

Sunny

1979

Thoroughly Amorous Amy poster
4.5

Amy can't turn down anybody who arrives at her door, including an Avon team peddling free sex rather than their load of cosmetics. An impromptu visit home from Amy's husband escalates the "hiding in the closets" pantomime of an apartment literally filling up with secret sex partners.

Thoroughly Amorous Amy

1978

The Liberation of Honeydoll Jones poster
9.0

It's a sex-laced Tobacco Road. A slice of life on the raunch, a rural ribald Romeo and Juliet! Country & sex always go well together!

The Liberation of Honeydoll Jones

1977

Honey Pie poster
6.6

The writers at Metro magazine have come up with a hot story and fast before they all lose their jobs. One of the sex-crazed hot women who works there starts reading through all the steamy letters from readers about their wildest sex adventures, and she has a winning idea--publish the best sex adventure she can find.

Honey Pie

1976

Love Secrets poster
8.5

Lil and her husband Arthur, bored with their sex life, find themselves lapsing into long and separate periods of erotic daydreams. Those dreams are so real that the couple loses all sense of reality. At work, Arthur fantasizes about his luscious secretary, while Lil's renewed acquaintance with a former boyfriend takes on a frenzied sexual encounter that heads up when another girl drops in on the two. They finally open up to each other about their unlocked sexual passions one day, and proceed to the bedroom. Their marriage, strengthened by a more honest approach, starts a whole new phase of delightful sexual encounters

Love Secrets

1976

Series credits

Behind the camera

Candida Royalle's Under the Covers poster
8.5

A humorous look at women who live and work in the sex industry. Regina West is a TV personality who is doing a special about women who have changed how we view sex. Through a series of mishaps, we discover that what these women present to the public isn't always what they are in private.

Candida Royalle's Under the Covers

2007

Urban Heat poster
6.3

The second film from Candida Royalle's Femme Productions which released erotic videos for women. The movie follows several couples dancing at a night club as they go home and make love in private.

Urban Heat

1984

Urban Heat poster
6.3

The second film from Candida Royalle's Femme Productions which released erotic videos for women. The movie follows several couples dancing at a night club as they go home and make love in private.

Urban Heat

1984

Sensual Escape poster
5.7

Media superstar Gloria Leonard takes us on a touchingly funny walk through the minds of two people who have been dating and are about to take the leap into bed. After that, a young artist’s recurring erotic dream leads her to an encounter with a mysterious man who helps her discover her long hidden and explosive passion.

Sensual Escape

1988

Sensual Escape poster
5.7

Media superstar Gloria Leonard takes us on a touchingly funny walk through the minds of two people who have been dating and are about to take the leap into bed. After that, a young artist’s recurring erotic dream leads her to an encounter with a mysterious man who helps her discover her long hidden and explosive passion.

Sensual Escape

1988

Sensual Escape poster
5.7

Media superstar Gloria Leonard takes us on a touchingly funny walk through the minds of two people who have been dating and are about to take the leap into bed. After that, a young artist’s recurring erotic dream leads her to an encounter with a mysterious man who helps her discover her long hidden and explosive passion.

Sensual Escape

1988

Eyes of Desire poster
6.0

A photographer decides to take some time off for herself and stays at a friend's house. She discovers that the house is equipped with a high-powered telescope. She also discovers two other things: there is a voyeuristic side to herself that she didn't know about, and that not only is she watching other people's activities, but that someone is watching hers.

Eyes of Desire

1998

Eyes of Desire poster
6.0

A photographer decides to take some time off for herself and stays at a friend's house. She discovers that the house is equipped with a high-powered telescope. She also discovers two other things: there is a voyeuristic side to herself that she didn't know about, and that not only is she watching other people's activities, but that someone is watching hers.

Eyes of Desire

1998

Eyes of Desire 2 poster
6.0

In Candida Royalle's groundbreaking feminist film, Eyes of Desire, Lisa discovers the thrill of voyeurism during her search for a more meaningful life. After being entranced by the mysterious man she spies on, this sequel to the best selling film follows their ensuing affair. Lisa's world has become consumed by the dark and sensuous Daniel Parish, as he takes her to heights of sexual pleasure that she never thought possible. But as she begins to approach her own erotic limits, Lisa is forced to make a painful choice when answering the question: is it possible to surrender to intense passion without losing yourself to another?

Eyes of Desire 2

1999

Eyes of Desire 2 poster
6.0

In Candida Royalle's groundbreaking feminist film, Eyes of Desire, Lisa discovers the thrill of voyeurism during her search for a more meaningful life. After being entranced by the mysterious man she spies on, this sequel to the best selling film follows their ensuing affair. Lisa's world has become consumed by the dark and sensuous Daniel Parish, as he takes her to heights of sexual pleasure that she never thought possible. But as she begins to approach her own erotic limits, Lisa is forced to make a painful choice when answering the question: is it possible to surrender to intense passion without losing yourself to another?

Eyes of Desire 2

1999

One Size Fits All poster
9.0

Our tale begins in a vintage clothing shop where a strangely seductive dress shows up for sale and leads us on a journey of sizzling sexual intrigue.

One Size Fits All

1998

One Size Fits All poster
9.0

Our tale begins in a vintage clothing shop where a strangely seductive dress shows up for sale and leads us on a journey of sizzling sexual intrigue.

One Size Fits All

1998

Stud Hunters poster
7.0

Erotic film director Carla Divine and her star, Giselle Lorngette, head East to hunt for the perfect new stud for their next movie. Dozens of guys show up to auditions in New York, but things don´t go so smoothly as Carla would hope: as she finds herself spending more time keeping her wannabe studs off the casting couch than on set! Things spin hilariously out of control, but in the end, the director always gets her way! This satirical look at the adult entertainment business spoofs every aspect of XXX - from the backstage shenanigans to the egos, fans, and paparazzi ... even director Candida Royalle herself!

Stud Hunters

2003

Stud Hunters poster
7.0

Erotic film director Carla Divine and her star, Giselle Lorngette, head East to hunt for the perfect new stud for their next movie. Dozens of guys show up to auditions in New York, but things don´t go so smoothly as Carla would hope: as she finds herself spending more time keeping her wannabe studs off the casting couch than on set! Things spin hilariously out of control, but in the end, the director always gets her way! This satirical look at the adult entertainment business spoofs every aspect of XXX - from the backstage shenanigans to the egos, fans, and paparazzi ... even director Candida Royalle herself!

Stud Hunters

2003

Candida Royalle's Under the Covers poster
8.5

A humorous look at women who live and work in the sex industry. Regina West is a TV personality who is doing a special about women who have changed how we view sex. Through a series of mishaps, we discover that what these women present to the public isn't always what they are in private.

Candida Royalle's Under the Covers

2007

Blue Magic poster
10.0

Candida Royalle is a woman with a past a long, long past. Rumor has it she's lived for a few hundred years. The question is how she's managed to remain such a luscious piece of woman flesh after three centuries. That question gets answered when she invites three couples over to her ritzy mansion for a dinner party. Things quickly slide from cordial dinner conversation to kinky wife swapping and group groping. The secret to eternal youth, it turns out, is sex, sex and more sex.

Blue Magic

1981

Three Daughters poster
6.5

The story, as the title suggests is about the loves of three young women, the youngest of whom has yet to learn the joy of lovemaking.

Three Daughters

1986

Three Daughters poster
6.5

The story, as the title suggests is about the loves of three young women, the youngest of whom has yet to learn the joy of lovemaking.

Three Daughters

1986

Candida Royalle's The Gift poster
7.0

When Liz returns to sell her grandmother's home, little does she know that she will leave with the most precious gift one could ever receive. A gift of sensual love and unleashed passion from the other side of life, one that will heal Liz's troubled relationship with Todd and that of every other couple that encounters it.

Candida Royalle's The Gift

1997

Christine's Secret poster
5.2

Christine goes to her friend's rustic inn hoping to find sexual fulfillment amidst the idyllic setting and the other guests.

Christine's Secret

1986