Roberta Findlay

Directing

Roberta Findlay

Born 1943-12-30 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

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 with Michael in the early 1970's, Roberta went on to direct a handful of explicit hardcore movies for producer and distributor Allan Shackleton. Moreover, Findlay also worked on various films as an editor, composer, producer, and cinematographer. Roberta ended her directing career toiling away on low-budget horror and grindhouse fare throughout the mid to late 1980's. In addition, Findlay and her late partner Walter E. Sear founded the recording studio Sear Sound in New York City. - IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders

Acting credits

The Ultimate Degenerate poster
4.8

Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.

The Ultimate Degenerate

1969

Take Me Naked poster
4.3

A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.

Take Me Naked

1966

A Thousand Pleasures poster
4.7

Henpecked 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

Snuff poster
3.0

The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.

Snuff

1976

Janie poster
4.4

A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.

Janie

1970

Satan's Bed poster
3.9

A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.

Satan's Bed

1965

Body of a Female poster
3.8

A 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

Lusting Hours poster
3.6

Presented 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

The Touch of Her Flesh poster
4.8

Richard 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

The Curse of Her Flesh poster
5.5

Continuing 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

The Kiss of Her Flesh poster
5.3

Richard 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

The Slaughter poster
5.0

A 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

The Widespread Scandals of Lydia Lace poster
6.0

Jennifer 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

The New York City Woman poster
5.5

John 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

Sweet, Sweet Freedom poster
7.0

Faced 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

The Altar of Lust poster
5.3

A psychiatrist probes deep into the erotic traumas experienced by a young woman who has turned to lesbianism.

The Altar of Lust

1971

Bacchanale poster
5.0

A sleeping woman leaves her body and finds herself in a series of bizarre, surreal and highly lascivious scenarios.

Bacchanale

1970

Dear Pam poster
6.0

The 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

Anyone But My Husband poster
6.1

After 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

Liquid A$$ets poster
6.8

Mr. 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

Raw Footage poster
8.0

A randy guidance counselor personally tests the talents of his female students before they get jobs.

Raw Footage

1977

Love in Strange Places poster
5.5

When 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

Angel Number 9 poster
6.2

After dumping his pregnant girlfriend, an arrogant chauvinist is hit by a van and reincarnated as a woman.

Angel Number 9

1974

Behind the camera

Tenement poster
5.3

A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.

Tenement

1985

The Ultimate Degenerate poster
4.8

Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.

The Ultimate Degenerate

1969

Take Me Naked poster
4.3

A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.

Take Me Naked

1966

Take Me Naked poster
4.3

A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.

Take Me Naked

1966

Prime Evil poster
4.4

Nestled 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

Blood Sisters poster
4.6

Seven girls must spend the night in an old house, which once was a brothel, as part of an initiation.

Blood Sisters

1987

Blood Sisters poster
4.6

Seven girls must spend the night in an old house, which once was a brothel, as part of an initiation.

Blood Sisters

1987

A Thousand Pleasures poster
4.7

Henpecked 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

The Clamdigger's Daughter poster
4.0

The 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

The Clamdigger's Daughter poster
4.0

The 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

The Clamdigger's Daughter poster
4.0

The 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

Janie poster
4.4

A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.

Janie

1970

The Oracle poster
4.1

A 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

Banned poster
4.4

A mellow jazz guitarist is possessed by the ghost of a wild punk rocker.

Banned

1989

Vice Versa! poster
4.7

List film. A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality.

Vice Versa!

1971

Lurkers poster
3.5

When 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

The Touch of Her Flesh poster
4.8

Richard 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

The Curse of Her Flesh poster
5.5

Continuing 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

The Curse of Her Flesh poster
5.5

Continuing 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

The Kiss of Her Flesh poster
5.3

Richard 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

The Kiss of Her Flesh poster
5.3

Richard 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

Take My Head poster
3.7

Shot 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

Mnasidika poster
2.9

A 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

Mnasidika poster
2.9

A 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