
Directing
Roberta Findlay
Born
1943-12-30 (82)
Place of birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
64 titles
Noted adult and exploitation cinema filmmaker Roberta Findlay was born Roberta Hershkowitz in 1943 in New York City. The youngest in a family of three children, Roberta grew up in a tenement apartment in the Bronx. Findlay's Hungarian immigrant parents wanted her to be a pianist. Roberta met her husband Michael Findlay while a student at the City College of New York after she volunteered to be the accompanying pianist for a silent movie program that Michael was running on campus. Roberta married Michael at age eighteen. The couple collaborated on several sleazy and sadistic exploitation features together in the 1960's which include the notoriously nasty "Flesh" trilogy. After parting ways wi…
Known for
7.1A documentary series exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary amongst film fans and filmmakers alike. But where does the truth lie?
Cursed Films
2020
4.8Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
The Ultimate Degenerate
1969
4.6Seven girls must spend the night in an old house, which once was a brothel, as part of an initiation.
Blood Sisters
1987
4.4A mellow jazz guitarist is possessed by the ghost of a wild punk rocker.
Banned
1989
4.4Nestled in a Manhattan monastery, evil is lurking. A group of devil worshipping monks are stalking the city, looking for victims to sacrifice to the dark lord in the hope of bringing satanic rule to the world!
Prime Evil
1988
4.0The daughter of a poverty-stricken New England clamdigger falls in love with the son of her father's rival. His family, in turn, wants him to marry the daughter of a wealthy and prominent family. Complications ensue.
The Clamdigger's Daughter
1974
Film credits
1980s · 2 titles
7.1Mr. Cashbox has a money problem… He’s got too much of it and runs the risk of being hit with a huge tax bill. On the advice of his tax lawyer, he decides to fund a sure-to-flop play titled ‘Piece & War;’ the dream project of narcissistic director Stan Slavsky, in the hope of being able to use its failings to get a tax write off. But soon, Cashbox realizes that he might be in over his head, as Broadway starlet Tootsie Lamarr wants in on the production and stable girl turned hopeful starlet, Suzy, catches the romantic eye of the smug Slavsky…
Liquid A$$ets
1982
6.0Jennifer is an upwardly mobile psychiatrist married to a divorce lawyer named Duke. Each of them has their work cut out for them at their offices, and they project themselves into the stories their clients tell them.
The Widespread Scandals of Lydia Lace
1983
1970s · 12 titles
3.0The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Snuff
1976
4.4A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
Janie
1970
5.0A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Years after this flopped at the box office, it was purchased by Michael Findlay and became the backbone for the notorious film Snuff (1975).
The Slaughter
1971
5.5John Holmes is dictating his memoirs on the terrace of a penthouse in New York City. He has just left sunny California and all the wild orgies. He is desperately searching for the one woman who can deep throat his massive manhood. He's looking for...The New York City Woman.
The New York City Woman
1977
7.0Faced with patients who die before they pay their bills, the staff at Carcinoma Hospital has hit on a novel way to keep the patients alive - dispensing hourly boffings so they'll have a reason to fend off the Grim Reaper. Naturally the nubile young nursing corps plays a big part in the plan, and the gorgeous Marlene Willoughby leads the white-clad sexual shock troops into carnal combat. And then there's the incompetent Dr. Mort, played by adult cinema legend big John Holmes. He brings his formidable uh, medical knowledge to keep a string of appreciative female patients in the land of the living.
Sweet, Sweet Freedom
1976
5.3A psychiatrist probes deep into the erotic traumas experienced by a young woman who has turned to lesbianism.
The Altar of Lust
1971
5.0A sleeping woman leaves her body and finds herself in a series of bizarre, surreal and highly lascivious scenarios.
Bacchanale
1970
6.0The Decency and Morality League is about to award advice columnist Pam Slanders their coveted "Most Moral Woman of the Year" award. She tells them about her toughest "case;" a man whose stepdaughter, secretary and other women trouble him.
Dear Pam
1976
6.2After her husband rejects her, Nora Pelham is advised by Dr. Malcolm to have an affair. Soon enough, even the fortune teller Madame Chaney convinces Nora having sex with her is already determined by fate.
Anyone But My Husband
1975
8.0A randy guidance counselor personally tests the talents of his female students before they get jobs.
Raw Footage
1977
5.5When Nurse Blue gets a job at the Hospital for the Sexually Insane, she knows she'll have her work cut out for her - after all, a ward full of orgasm addicts is enough to keep anyone's hands full. But when she arrives at the hospital the situation is crazier than she expected. The two directors of the hospital, Dr. Hook (John Holmes) and Dr. Fraud, practice a rather unusual form of therapy wherein sex is the key for recovery. Soon, Nurse Blue discovers that the hospital is filled with hysterical patients who believe they're doctors and nurses.
Love in Strange Places
1976
6.2After dumping his pregnant girlfriend, an arrogant chauvinist is hit by a van and reincarnated as a woman.
Angel Number 9
1974
1960s · 9 titles
4.8Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
The Ultimate Degenerate
1969
3.8A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Body of a Female
1964
5.5Continuing his quest to rid the world of sex-crazed females, Richard ups the ante - and bodycount, devising an array of increasingly gruesome methods of dispatching his victims all while planning the ultimate revenge against his wife's lover, Steve.
The Curse of Her Flesh
1968
5.2Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and brutally slaying any and every woman who crosses his path. However, this time he might have met his match as his deceased wife's sister, Maria, is hellbent on putting an end to his orgiastic rampage.
The Kiss of Her Flesh
1968
4.7Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
A Thousand Pleasures
1968
4.8Richard Jennings returns from a business trip to discover his wife in bed with a lover. Panic stricken, he staggers to the street and is hit by a car, losing an eye. Scorned and vengeful, he adopts a new identity and begins a murderous rampage against all women he deems "immoral."
The Touch of Her Flesh
1967
4.3A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Take Me Naked
1966
3.9A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
Satan's Bed
1965
3.6Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers, then on to streetwalkers, male hustlers, and high-class call girls. The madam runs the bordello, she depends on the photographer to supply her with pornography; he's in the city, using his camera to lead him into depravity. The streetwalkers risk arrest from the cops and abuse from the johns. Even the call girls have a tough time: from their expenses to their lack of self-reflection. Their motto: "Live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse."
Lusting Hours
1967
Series credits
Behind the camera
4.8Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
The Ultimate Degenerate
1969
4.6Seven girls must spend the night in an old house, which once was a brothel, as part of an initiation.
Blood Sisters
1987
4.6Seven girls must spend the night in an old house, which once was a brothel, as part of an initiation.
Blood Sisters
1987
4.4A mellow jazz guitarist is possessed by the ghost of a wild punk rocker.
Banned
1989
4.4Nestled in a Manhattan monastery, evil is lurking. A group of devil worshipping monks are stalking the city, looking for victims to sacrifice to the dark lord in the hope of bringing satanic rule to the world!
Prime Evil
1988
4.0The daughter of a poverty-stricken New England clamdigger falls in love with the son of her father's rival. His family, in turn, wants him to marry the daughter of a wealthy and prominent family. Complications ensue.
The Clamdigger's Daughter
1974
4.0The daughter of a poverty-stricken New England clamdigger falls in love with the son of her father's rival. His family, in turn, wants him to marry the daughter of a wealthy and prominent family. Complications ensue.
The Clamdigger's Daughter
1974
4.0The daughter of a poverty-stricken New England clamdigger falls in love with the son of her father's rival. His family, in turn, wants him to marry the daughter of a wealthy and prominent family. Complications ensue.
The Clamdigger's Daughter
1974
5.3A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.
Tenement
1985
4.7List film. A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality.
Vice Versa!
1971
5.5Continuing his quest to rid the world of sex-crazed females, Richard ups the ante - and bodycount, devising an array of increasingly gruesome methods of dispatching his victims all while planning the ultimate revenge against his wife's lover, Steve.
The Curse of Her Flesh
1968
5.5Continuing his quest to rid the world of sex-crazed females, Richard ups the ante - and bodycount, devising an array of increasingly gruesome methods of dispatching his victims all while planning the ultimate revenge against his wife's lover, Steve.
The Curse of Her Flesh
1968
3.7Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Take My Head
1970
5.2Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and brutally slaying any and every woman who crosses his path. However, this time he might have met his match as his deceased wife's sister, Maria, is hellbent on putting an end to his orgiastic rampage.
The Kiss of Her Flesh
1968
5.2Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and brutally slaying any and every woman who crosses his path. However, this time he might have met his match as his deceased wife's sister, Maria, is hellbent on putting an end to his orgiastic rampage.
The Kiss of Her Flesh
1968
4.7Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
A Thousand Pleasures
1968
Young Rosebud leaves home after finding her daddy in bed with his mistress. She becomes a drifter and has incestuous fantasies about her father and is eventually abused.
Rosebud
1972
Young Rosebud leaves home after finding her daddy in bed with his mistress. She becomes a drifter and has incestuous fantasies about her father and is eventually abused.
Rosebud
1972
Young Rosebud leaves home after finding her daddy in bed with his mistress. She becomes a drifter and has incestuous fantasies about her father and is eventually abused.
Rosebud
1972
4.8Richard Jennings returns from a business trip to discover his wife in bed with a lover. Panic stricken, he staggers to the street and is hit by a car, losing an eye. Scorned and vengeful, he adopts a new identity and begins a murderous rampage against all women he deems "immoral."
The Touch of Her Flesh
1967
4.3A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Take Me Naked
1966
4.3A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Take Me Naked
1966
4.1A murder victim reaches out from beyond the grave in an attempt to possess the body of a young woman who has moved into his old apartment.
The Oracle
1985
4.4A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
Janie
1970
3.5When Cathy was a girl, she saw her deranged mother murder her father and only narrowly escaped with her life. Haunted by memories of her macabre childhood, her nightmares turn into a terrifying reality when she's lured back to her childhood home.
Lurkers
1988
2.9A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group of lesbians find the man, tie him to a tree, then partake in an incredible deed.
Mnasidika
1969
2.9A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group of lesbians find the man, tie him to a tree, then partake in an incredible deed.
Mnasidika
1969
7.1Mr. Cashbox has a money problem… He’s got too much of it and runs the risk of being hit with a huge tax bill. On the advice of his tax lawyer, he decides to fund a sure-to-flop play titled ‘Piece & War;’ the dream project of narcissistic director Stan Slavsky, in the hope of being able to use its failings to get a tax write off. But soon, Cashbox realizes that he might be in over his head, as Broadway starlet Tootsie Lamarr wants in on the production and stable girl turned hopeful starlet, Suzy, catches the romantic eye of the smug Slavsky…
Liquid A$$ets
1982
7.1Mr. Cashbox has a money problem… He’s got too much of it and runs the risk of being hit with a huge tax bill. On the advice of his tax lawyer, he decides to fund a sure-to-flop play titled ‘Piece & War;’ the dream project of narcissistic director Stan Slavsky, in the hope of being able to use its failings to get a tax write off. But soon, Cashbox realizes that he might be in over his head, as Broadway starlet Tootsie Lamarr wants in on the production and stable girl turned hopeful starlet, Suzy, catches the romantic eye of the smug Slavsky…
Liquid A$$ets
1982
7.1Mr. Cashbox has a money problem… He’s got too much of it and runs the risk of being hit with a huge tax bill. On the advice of his tax lawyer, he decides to fund a sure-to-flop play titled ‘Piece & War;’ the dream project of narcissistic director Stan Slavsky, in the hope of being able to use its failings to get a tax write off. But soon, Cashbox realizes that he might be in over his head, as Broadway starlet Tootsie Lamarr wants in on the production and stable girl turned hopeful starlet, Suzy, catches the romantic eye of the smug Slavsky…
Liquid A$$ets
1982
7.2Teenage Justine has just learned that her father has died. Leaving her exclusive French boarding school and returning to the U.S., Justine goes to live with her estranged but extremely wealthy uncle Steven on his vast New England estate. Upon her arrival, the beautiful though naive Justine soon finds that she is an object of lust to all those she meets, man and woman alike. As she slowly unravels her own sensual desires and transforms from innocent virgin to voluptuous vixen, she begins to feel an unexpected type of emotional stirring: a desire for romance, which might just happen in the unlikeliest of circumstances.
Justine: A Matter of Innocence
1980
7.2Teenage Justine has just learned that her father has died. Leaving her exclusive French boarding school and returning to the U.S., Justine goes to live with her estranged but extremely wealthy uncle Steven on his vast New England estate. Upon her arrival, the beautiful though naive Justine soon finds that she is an object of lust to all those she meets, man and woman alike. As she slowly unravels her own sensual desires and transforms from innocent virgin to voluptuous vixen, she begins to feel an unexpected type of emotional stirring: a desire for romance, which might just happen in the unlikeliest of circumstances.
Justine: A Matter of Innocence
1980
7.4It's the tingle for which people take the ultimate risk to achieve. Anne is one such thrillseeker who delights in cheating on her husband Charles, who is a likewise nookie chaser. Join these two headstrong hedonists in their erotic escapades that set new records in sensual sexual achievement. Seeking fulfillment, the carnal fleshpots of Atlantic City provide Charles with one forbidden sex act after another, until he looses his last dime to a crooked poker player. To make matters even worse, Charles gets rolled by two outrageous and provocative hookers. The plot thickens as doublecrosses turn into romantic triangles. Deceptions and seductions run rampant, until that fateful night finally comes when Anne has to pay Charles' gambling debt.
Climax!
1985
7.4It's the tingle for which people take the ultimate risk to achieve. Anne is one such thrillseeker who delights in cheating on her husband Charles, who is a likewise nookie chaser. Join these two headstrong hedonists in their erotic escapades that set new records in sensual sexual achievement. Seeking fulfillment, the carnal fleshpots of Atlantic City provide Charles with one forbidden sex act after another, until he looses his last dime to a crooked poker player. To make matters even worse, Charles gets rolled by two outrageous and provocative hookers. The plot thickens as doublecrosses turn into romantic triangles. Deceptions and seductions run rampant, until that fateful night finally comes when Anne has to pay Charles' gambling debt.
Climax!
1985
6.7Harriet lives a repressed existence, working as a secretary in a Manhattan office. After discovering that her boss is secretly seeing a prostitute named Lucy, Harriet works up the courage to approach her to see if she can help her fulfill her sexual fantasies and overcome her inhibitions.
Mascara
1983
5.5John Holmes is dictating his memoirs on the terrace of a penthouse in New York City. He has just left sunny California and all the wild orgies. He is desperately searching for the one woman who can deep throat his massive manhood. He's looking for...The New York City Woman.
The New York City Woman
1977
5.5John Holmes is dictating his memoirs on the terrace of a penthouse in New York City. He has just left sunny California and all the wild orgies. He is desperately searching for the one woman who can deep throat his massive manhood. He's looking for...The New York City Woman.
The New York City Woman
1977
6.3Mr. Harry Flattout is used to calming his female office workers with sex. After he got carried away and raped his Boss's secretary, Ms. Elaine Ziptitz, he was fired and ended up impotent! Luckily for him, Dr. Tessy Tighttwat of the Tighttwat Institute for Sexual Research is available.
Fringe Benefits
1974
7.5During the course of his experiments at the Institute of Sexual Research, Dr. Charles Cherrypopper comes up with a rather interesting device... the Electro-Testicular Cock-Erector, which will cause every man in the nation to suffer an instant and unbelievable erection! The good doctor has a plan to put the device into action, and in the resulting confusion, take over the government! But, our heroine, Penelope Juiceslit, has other ideas, and sets out to stop the wicked doctor before it's too late.
Slip Up
1975
5.5Laura Bond, the spoiled socialite wife of a publishing tycoon, spends her time having trysts with the up and coming artists she sponsors. Things get serious when she falls in love with an aspiring writer who works for her husband.
The Playgirl
1983
