José Bénazéraf

Directing

José Bénazéraf

Born — Died

1922-01-08 — 2012-12-01

Place of birth

Casablanca, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]

Known for

Directing

Credits

58 titles

José Bénazéraf (8 January 1922 – 1 December 2012) was a French filmmaker and producer who specialised in erotic films. Bénazéraf was born in Casablanca, French Morocco on 8 January 1922. After completing his studies in political sciences, he started his film career in 1958 producing Les lavandières du Portugal, a film by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and went on to direct and write numerous erotic films in the 1960s. He started to direct erotic feature films in 1961 with L'éternité pour nous. At the end of the 1970s, he moved his attention to the direct-to-video market. He died in Chiclana de la Frontera. Source: Article "José Bénazéraf" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Samedi soir

1971

Breathless poster
7.5

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Breathless

1960

French Love poster
NR

Between the first stripping of Brigitte Bardot, at the end of the 1950s, and the beginning of the 1980s, French cinema developed a certain taste for eroticism and pornography.

French Love

1998

Paris Ooh-La-La! poster
4.5

A "documentary" that purports to show the history of women through the ages, but is mainly an excuse for various female historical figures to take off their clothes. There are stripping cavewomen, stripping vampires, strippers during the French Revolution and strippers in a nightclub act. Several of the scenes from this film found their way into other movies, among them The Wild World of Jayne Mansfield.

Paris Ooh-La-La!

1963

Sin on the Beach poster
5.0

A moody pianist-composer and his voluptuous strip-tease dancing babe are avoiding reality at a French seaside resort. The resort's young female manager has a dying husband on her hands, and becomes attracted to the composer. When the husband dies, accusations and recriminations fly, combined with various betrayals and jealousies.

Sin on the Beach

1963

Perverted Adolescence poster
4.9

Professor Mirella Buzzati, recovering from a failed relationship that ended with a divorce from her husband, travels to Perugia where she has obtained a mathematics teaching position at a high school. Her hatred of men, evident during the train ride and in her interactions with male colleagues who quickly flock to her, quickly yields to the attractiveness of Alain, a student nicknamed "the dark and handsome" by the high school girls. He already has a relationship with Giorgina, a fellow student of the same age and a fanatical militant of "Lotta Continua." In an effort to win over her idol, Mirella becomes unscrupulous in her teaching, preaches political and sexual revolution; she earns the headmaster's rebukes, and heaps scathing criticism on her rival Giorgina. After a stint in Paris with a lesbian colleague, the professor resumes her attack and obtains Alain's physical performance, but not her love: the boy understands her well and deeply despises her.

Perverted Adolescence

1974

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 7 titles

Breathless poster
7.5

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Breathless

1960

Sin on the Beach poster
5.0

A moody pianist-composer and his voluptuous strip-tease dancing babe are avoiding reality at a French seaside resort. The resort's young female manager has a dying husband on her hands, and becomes attracted to the composer. When the husband dies, accusations and recriminations fly, combined with various betrayals and jealousies.

Sin on the Beach

1963

Night of Lust poster
3.8

A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals, and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz Score, (rivaling Miles Davis's for "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud") and the most beautiful French Babes the World has ever seen. It pricks the Conscience, probes the libido, and excites the senses!

Night of Lust

1963

Sexus poster
4.0

A beautiful heiress is kidnapped and held hostage until her wealthy father comes up with a ransom. The heiress develops an attraction to one of her kidnappers, but another member of the gang tries to rape her, leading to a deadly triangle.

Sexus

1965

Hell on the Beach poster
3.6

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Around this trio, revolves Heidi, an angelic blonde catalyst tragic events that will succeed when his troubled past catches up Alex.

Hell on the Beach

1966

Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men poster
3.7

A young crook called Joë Caligula and his crew make war on a Parisian gang.

Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men

1969

St. Pauli Between Night and Morning poster
5.0

Helmut Schmidt is an ambitious Interpol inspector. He follows a trail of dangerous drug dealers that leads to Hamburg. With the colleagues there, he decides to infiltrate the gang. The beautiful dancer Arlette helps him.

St. Pauli Between Night and Morning

1967

Series credits

Behind the camera

Paris Ooh-La-La! poster
4.5

A "documentary" that purports to show the history of women through the ages, but is mainly an excuse for various female historical figures to take off their clothes. There are stripping cavewomen, stripping vampires, strippers during the French Revolution and strippers in a nightclub act. Several of the scenes from this film found their way into other movies, among them The Wild World of Jayne Mansfield.

Paris Ooh-La-La!

1963

Paris Ooh-La-La! poster
4.5

A "documentary" that purports to show the history of women through the ages, but is mainly an excuse for various female historical figures to take off their clothes. There are stripping cavewomen, stripping vampires, strippers during the French Revolution and strippers in a nightclub act. Several of the scenes from this film found their way into other movies, among them The Wild World of Jayne Mansfield.

Paris Ooh-La-La!

1963

Paris Ooh-La-La! poster
4.5

A "documentary" that purports to show the history of women through the ages, but is mainly an excuse for various female historical figures to take off their clothes. There are stripping cavewomen, stripping vampires, strippers during the French Revolution and strippers in a nightclub act. Several of the scenes from this film found their way into other movies, among them The Wild World of Jayne Mansfield.

Paris Ooh-La-La!

1963

Sin on the Beach poster
5.0

A moody pianist-composer and his voluptuous strip-tease dancing babe are avoiding reality at a French seaside resort. The resort's young female manager has a dying husband on her hands, and becomes attracted to the composer. When the husband dies, accusations and recriminations fly, combined with various betrayals and jealousies.

Sin on the Beach

1963

Sin on the Beach poster
5.0

A moody pianist-composer and his voluptuous strip-tease dancing babe are avoiding reality at a French seaside resort. The resort's young female manager has a dying husband on her hands, and becomes attracted to the composer. When the husband dies, accusations and recriminations fly, combined with various betrayals and jealousies.

Sin on the Beach

1963

Sin on the Beach poster
5.0

A moody pianist-composer and his voluptuous strip-tease dancing babe are avoiding reality at a French seaside resort. The resort's young female manager has a dying husband on her hands, and becomes attracted to the composer. When the husband dies, accusations and recriminations fly, combined with various betrayals and jealousies.

Sin on the Beach

1963

Perverted Adolescence poster
4.9

Professor Mirella Buzzati, recovering from a failed relationship that ended with a divorce from her husband, travels to Perugia where she has obtained a mathematics teaching position at a high school. Her hatred of men, evident during the train ride and in her interactions with male colleagues who quickly flock to her, quickly yields to the attractiveness of Alain, a student nicknamed "the dark and handsome" by the high school girls. He already has a relationship with Giorgina, a fellow student of the same age and a fanatical militant of "Lotta Continua." In an effort to win over her idol, Mirella becomes unscrupulous in her teaching, preaches political and sexual revolution; she earns the headmaster's rebukes, and heaps scathing criticism on her rival Giorgina. After a stint in Paris with a lesbian colleague, the professor resumes her attack and obtains Alain's physical performance, but not her love: the boy understands her well and deeply despises her.

Perverted Adolescence

1974

Perverted Adolescence poster
4.9

Professor Mirella Buzzati, recovering from a failed relationship that ended with a divorce from her husband, travels to Perugia where she has obtained a mathematics teaching position at a high school. Her hatred of men, evident during the train ride and in her interactions with male colleagues who quickly flock to her, quickly yields to the attractiveness of Alain, a student nicknamed "the dark and handsome" by the high school girls. He already has a relationship with Giorgina, a fellow student of the same age and a fanatical militant of "Lotta Continua." In an effort to win over her idol, Mirella becomes unscrupulous in her teaching, preaches political and sexual revolution; she earns the headmaster's rebukes, and heaps scathing criticism on her rival Giorgina. After a stint in Paris with a lesbian colleague, the professor resumes her attack and obtains Alain's physical performance, but not her love: the boy understands her well and deeply despises her.

Perverted Adolescence

1974

Night of Lust poster
3.8

A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals, and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz Score, (rivaling Miles Davis's for "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud") and the most beautiful French Babes the World has ever seen. It pricks the Conscience, probes the libido, and excites the senses!

Night of Lust

1963

Night of Lust poster
3.8

A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals, and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz Score, (rivaling Miles Davis's for "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud") and the most beautiful French Babes the World has ever seen. It pricks the Conscience, probes the libido, and excites the senses!

Night of Lust

1963

Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf poster
4.0

A compilation of censored pornographic and subversive scenes from the films of José Bénazéraf.

Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf

1975

Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf poster
4.0

A compilation of censored pornographic and subversive scenes from the films of José Bénazéraf.

Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf

1975

Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf poster
4.0

A compilation of censored pornographic and subversive scenes from the films of José Bénazéraf.

Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf

1975

Sexus poster
4.0

A beautiful heiress is kidnapped and held hostage until her wealthy father comes up with a ransom. The heiress develops an attraction to one of her kidnappers, but another member of the gang tries to rape her, leading to a deadly triangle.

Sexus

1965

Sexus poster
4.0

A beautiful heiress is kidnapped and held hostage until her wealthy father comes up with a ransom. The heiress develops an attraction to one of her kidnappers, but another member of the gang tries to rape her, leading to a deadly triangle.

Sexus

1965

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Anatomie d'un meurtre

1986

Hell on the Beach poster
3.6

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Around this trio, revolves Heidi, an angelic blonde catalyst tragic events that will succeed when his troubled past catches up Alex.

Hell on the Beach

1966

Hell on the Beach poster
3.6

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Around this trio, revolves Heidi, an angelic blonde catalyst tragic events that will succeed when his troubled past catches up Alex.

Hell on the Beach

1966

Hell on the Beach poster
3.6

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Around this trio, revolves Heidi, an angelic blonde catalyst tragic events that will succeed when his troubled past catches up Alex.

Hell on the Beach

1966

Frustration poster
5.2

A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and brother-in-law, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies.

Frustration

1971

Frustration poster
5.2

A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and brother-in-law, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies.

Frustration

1971

Cover Girls poster
7.2

Photographer Philippe Abregas teams up with a Swedish model he met in Roman high society and tells her the story of the four other girls he has chosen to feature on the cover of his magazine.

Cover Girls

1964

Cover Girls poster
7.2

Photographer Philippe Abregas teams up with a Swedish model he met in Roman high society and tells her the story of the four other girls he has chosen to feature on the cover of his magazine.

Cover Girls

1964

Port of Desire poster
5.3

Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours they have to waste in the city, Pierre is seized by the memory of a young German girl, Maria, whom he had known and probably loved when he was a prisoner of war in the bombed-out port of Hamburg. He abandons his companions in search of her, but is unable to trace her, her house having been destroyed and the search services having no record of her.

Port of Desire

1958

Naked Sex poster
5.0

After a disappointment in love, Alain tells his mistress how he gradually sank into libertinage: from his beginnings with a teacher in art history, then with a supermarket saleswoman, until his discovery libertine parties.

Naked Sex

1973

Naked Sex poster
5.0

After a disappointment in love, Alain tells his mistress how he gradually sank into libertinage: from his beginnings with a teacher in art history, then with a supermarket saleswoman, until his discovery libertine parties.

Naked Sex

1973

The Infamous House of Madame X poster
7.3

Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War.

The Infamous House of Madame X

1974

The Infamous House of Madame X poster
7.3

Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War.

The Infamous House of Madame X

1974

Flesh and Fantasy poster
6.2

Sorenson uses diamond robbery money to buy clinic in Corsica. His accomplice Dyonis has disappeared. Sorenson takes Dyonis' wife Valerie as mistress. Valerie takes coral fisherman Bernard as lover. Dyonis appears, Sorenson hopes Dyonis will kill Bernard. Bernard becomes lover of Sorenson's wife Katia. Bernard is found murdered, Valerie blames Sorenson, who tries to escape with his robbery fortune. He is pursued by Dyonis, who kills him. Dyonis is caught by police at airport. Katia drowns herself in the sea.

Flesh and Fantasy

1967

Flesh and Fantasy poster
6.2

Sorenson uses diamond robbery money to buy clinic in Corsica. His accomplice Dyonis has disappeared. Sorenson takes Dyonis' wife Valerie as mistress. Valerie takes coral fisherman Bernard as lover. Dyonis appears, Sorenson hopes Dyonis will kill Bernard. Bernard becomes lover of Sorenson's wife Katia. Bernard is found murdered, Valerie blames Sorenson, who tries to escape with his robbery fortune. He is pursued by Dyonis, who kills him. Dyonis is caught by police at airport. Katia drowns herself in the sea.

Flesh and Fantasy

1967

The French Love poster
4.4

Bryan is an American journalist, married with two young daughters. Assigned to cover the Paris Conference on Vietnam, he is approached at the airport by two stewardesses, Corinne and Lucile. They meet again, talk politics, but the discussion veers off course: “Do you know how to make love? - Of course, I'm married.” Bryan sleeps with Corinne as Lucile looks on, then confesses to both women: he feels no remorse, but he's sad that it's so easy to cheat on your wife. “Corinne is a free woman,” as Lucile later tells Bryan. The latter is too puritanical and romantic to accept being just another fling. He thinks of nothing but the young woman, and is constantly on the lookout for her.

The French Love

1972

The French Love poster
4.4

Bryan is an American journalist, married with two young daughters. Assigned to cover the Paris Conference on Vietnam, he is approached at the airport by two stewardesses, Corinne and Lucile. They meet again, talk politics, but the discussion veers off course: “Do you know how to make love? - Of course, I'm married.” Bryan sleeps with Corinne as Lucile looks on, then confesses to both women: he feels no remorse, but he's sad that it's so easy to cheat on your wife. “Corinne is a free woman,” as Lucile later tells Bryan. The latter is too puritanical and romantic to accept being just another fling. He thinks of nothing but the young woman, and is constantly on the lookout for her.

The French Love

1972

The French Love poster
4.4

Bryan is an American journalist, married with two young daughters. Assigned to cover the Paris Conference on Vietnam, he is approached at the airport by two stewardesses, Corinne and Lucile. They meet again, talk politics, but the discussion veers off course: “Do you know how to make love? - Of course, I'm married.” Bryan sleeps with Corinne as Lucile looks on, then confesses to both women: he feels no remorse, but he's sad that it's so easy to cheat on your wife. “Corinne is a free woman,” as Lucile later tells Bryan. The latter is too puritanical and romantic to accept being just another fling. He thinks of nothing but the young woman, and is constantly on the lookout for her.

The French Love

1972

Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men poster
3.7

A young crook called Joë Caligula and his crew make war on a Parisian gang.

Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men

1969

Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes poster
2.0

Five bourgeoisie women. Five men - husbands or companions - who, in different fields, possess a certain power. Characters who live in embassy lounges, frequent palaces and large houses, travel in expensive cars and yachts, eager for pleasure, guided by ambition.

Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes

1982

Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes poster
2.0

Five bourgeoisie women. Five men - husbands or companions - who, in different fields, possess a certain power. Characters who live in embassy lounges, frequent palaces and large houses, travel in expensive cars and yachts, eager for pleasure, guided by ambition.

Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes

1982

No Time for Ecstasy poster
8.0

Michel, a young man of Ukrainian origin, flees the Red Army and joins the International Brigades in Perpignan to fight Franco. He was arrested for being Russian, Communist and deserter. He was wounded by his involvement, but fell in love with an American journalist.

No Time for Ecstasy

1961

No Time for Ecstasy poster
8.0

Michel, a young man of Ukrainian origin, flees the Red Army and joins the International Brigades in Perpignan to fight Franco. He was arrested for being Russian, Communist and deserter. He was wounded by his involvement, but fell in love with an American journalist.

No Time for Ecstasy

1961

St. Pauli Between Night and Morning poster
5.0

Helmut Schmidt is an ambitious Interpol inspector. He follows a trail of dangerous drug dealers that leads to Hamburg. With the colleagues there, he decides to infiltrate the gang. The beautiful dancer Arlette helps him.

St. Pauli Between Night and Morning

1967

The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine poster
4.2

Four tales of Jean la Fontaine tell in a libertine way. The pleasure of infidelity is described in all forms: a woman seduced by her servant, a man seduce his servant, the wives of Messire Guillaume, and a bourgeois and a nun.

The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine

1980