Exploitation Movies

Synapse Films presents another volume in their best-selling series of classic exploitation trailers. Another collection from the bygone days of New York City's classic 42nd Street theatres.

In Manhattan, prostitutes are being murdered by a psycho. A detective is assigned to track him down and bring him in.

Betty (Norma Moore) moves from a farming community to Los Angeles. She falls into the clutches of a super-cad (Robert Vaughn) and ends up abandoned and pregnant. After visiting a drunken abortionist, she decides to give the baby up for adoption, but has a change of heart. The climax is a classic of melodrama from a master of melodrama, Walter Doniger, director of TV's "Peyton Place."

Instead of working for a living, Duke and Freddie steal auto accessories and sell to a fence. While Duke is out driving with his girl Peg, she tries to dissuade him from a life of crime. Angered, he taunts her with another girl, Janice, who has driven up alongside him, and they have a race. A motorcycle policeman who is chasing them is killed when he crashes into Janice's car, and she is held. Duke, who has driven off, paints his black car light blue to escape detection. Janice learns his license number, and in fear of being discovered, Duke kills her. Duke coerces Peg to leave town with him, committing holdups along the way. Realizing his luck will not hold out, but unwilling to surrender, Duke sends Peg back and remains alone in an abandoned roadside fruit stand, awaiting his fate.

American reporter doing a story on Swedish nightlife gets involved with a drug-addicted nightclub singer.

Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.

After suffering a brutal rape, a young woman discovers that she's pregnant and must resort to illicit means in order to obtain an abortion.

A planned kidnapping goes awry when the gang leader falls for the victim.

Poor Valerie just can't seem to straighten out her delinquent teenage daughter Janet, whose sleazy boyfriend is leading her down a rebellious path of crime and moral turpitude that could end in death--or could she have a chance for redemption?

A 17-year-old high-school senior must justify her wedding to a 24-year-old law student to both her parents and her unbalanced ex-boyfriend.

Selfish and shameless rich teenage tramp Joan Denton gets impregnated by her earnest, yet dim-witted working class pushover boyfriend Eddie Mercer. Although Eddie wants to get married, Joan instead decides to convince her physician father Dr. Earl Denton to help her get an abortion. But things don't go exactly as Joan planned.

Reform school for rich girls behaving badly, is a good cover for the misbehaving adults in charge.

At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island (played by Catalina Island), rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law. Enter Steve Conway (Mickey Rooney) - there to investigate the death of his son, who he had been told died in an accident. The Mick(ey Rooney, that is) finds himself quickly in 5 feet of trouble (over his eyebrows), when he's met with hostility by the school's commandant, Major Redfern Kelly (Dan Duryea), and the latter's sweetheart-secretary, Jennifer Evans (Terry Moore); intimidated by the cadet drill instructor, Vince Perley (Christopher Dark), and the P.E. instructor, Hack Marlow (Richard Jaeckel). Attempts are made on his life by a trio of cadets, known collectively as "the 3 beasts", and he's trapped in a 3-against-1 fight with rifles, Just to keep him tested, there's a big speedboat vs. small motor boat (Rooney's craft of course) chase through shark-infested waters. This happens right after he makes a startling discovery when he talks to his son's former roommate, 'Chip' Hastings (Warren Berlinger). The film was released in 1964 as Trouble At Sixteen, by Cinema Associates as part of a double-bill with Girls Town (1959) (now called The Innocent and the Damned, a rather descriptive title; considering the cast).

Two high-school sweethearts get married, then find that married life isn't what they thought it would be. In their desperation, they get mixed up with a gang of car thieves.

Lt. Lacey heads a crackdown on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas-station attendant in a holdup attempt, and another dies in a condemned empty building while fleeing from the law.

Shunned by her self-absorbed parents, a teenage girl's need for love and attention drives her to delinquency and a suicide attempt - an act that finally brings her parents to their senses.

An attractive songstress lands herself a performing contract and leaves her home in Buenos Aires. She travels to Venezuela, and when arriving in Caracas, she soon discovers that her contract is a hoax made by a major drug baron.

Three bank robbers on the lam, holing up in an isolated river cabin, catch sight of an ethereal girl. Is she real or the ghost legend the locals call the "Irupé flower"?

Psycho stalks the streets of Greenwich Village, killing and scalping his victims.

A housewife, suspecting her husband of having an affair with a younger woman, enlists the help of a make-up artist to become more attractive to him.

A gang of teenage girls, looking for kicks and ignoring their probation officers' warnings, embark on a crime spree of robberies and burglaries.