Poverty Row Cult Classics Movies

In 1921 in an alley called Melchiorgasse in the poor part of Vienna, Austria, there are only two wealthy people: the butcher Josef Geiringer and Mrs. Greifer, who runs a fashion boutique and a nightclub, patronized by wealthy Viennese. Annexed to the nightclub is Merkl Hotel, a brothel to which the women of the nightclub bring their clients. The film follows the lives of two women from the same poor neighborhood, as they try to better themselves during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation. They are Marie, a streetwalker with a cruel and abusive father, and Grete, who at the last moment, is saved from this fate.

A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.

A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.

Small town girl Jane Bradford falls for Nick, a guy from the big city who offers her the opportunity to get away from her small town life. He also offers her "headache powder", she not knowing that it's cocaine and that Nick is a drug pusher. By the time they get to the city, she's hooked on her new medicine. Jane's brother, Eddie, goes to the city to look for his sister and gets a job as a carhop at a drive-in. The drive-in's waitress named Fanny is one of Nick's customers, and soon she gets Eddie hooked on the headache powder. Due to this vice, Eddie and Fanny's life soon goes downhill.

Mae Miller wants the finer things in life, luxuries that she feels her husband, a doctor, cannot provide for her. She begins to gamble in order to ring in spending money for herself, but winds up deep in debt. To pay her dues, she is reduced to the shame of selling herself.

A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.

The film revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high school kids to stop by Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One man becomes so addicted to the killer weed that the guilt over framing a teen for murder causes a judge to order him to be committed for life to a mental hospital.
Reefer Madness is considered to be a cult classic and one of the most popular examples of a midnight movie. Its fans enjoy the film for the same unintentionally campy production values that made it a hit in the 1970's.

Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.

A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.

Miss Carol is an idealistic teacher in extremely rural mountain country. A mountain girl herself, she is determined to stop the practice of child marriage, in which older men marry teen or preteen girls. Her campaign raises the ire of some local men, led by Jake Bolby. He comes across 12 year old Jennie Colton, and when her father dies, Bolby decides to take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail her mother into letting him marry the girl, threatening that otherwise he will see her hanged for murder.

Millicent Hamilton, a reformed former burlesque dancer won a beauty contest in her hometown, which led her to New York, but a "casting couch" sexual encounter led her to contract syphilis. Millicent is told by her physician, Dr. Hamilton, that her condition can be cured, but only after slow, and painstaking treatment, and she should reject quack pseudo-cures. Millicent consents to this, eager to return to her home town and marry her boyfriend, Wendell- but will she heed the doctor's warnings? And what will the consequences be if she does not?

An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue.
Using a conventional Western story with an all-diminutive cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, climbing into cupboards to retrieve items, and dwarf cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.

Divorceé Marian Morgan, a rich society mother, hires a male escort Count DeHoven, who has an affair with her teenage daughter, Mary. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend, Helen Johnson, who is enslaved by a prostitution and white slavery ring.

Ruth Ashley is a former escort girl who now owns the Hollywood Escort Bureau in Los Angeles together with Gregory Stone. Ruth has a daughter, June, who is ignorant of her mother's occupation. Eventually June is engaged to Drake Hamilton, and when Drake travels to Los Angeles for work, June decides to accompany him to meet her mother. At the same time, Ruth and her partner learn that the district attorney is planning to put an end to illegal escort services. Since her daughter is coming to town, Ruth is concerned that the truth will come out about her business. She grows more worried when she discovers that Drake is in Los Angeles to assist the district attorney in stopping all escort operations.

Both family and community are shaken by the unexpected, tragic suicide of teenage girl Lucille Dillerton. Lucille's death is investigated by the police, to rule out any alternative causes to her death. In charge of the investigation Lt. Hanahan team-up with a reporter to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.

A young married couple find themselves drifting apart. Wife Cathy Bennet finds temporary pleasure at swinging parties or in the arms of another man, Frank Grover. Husband George Bennet confronts his wife about the widening chasm between them; she tells him she feels they are somehow incomplete without children. She undergoes testing to see why she hasn't conceived. George, who has accompanied her, is asked to also undergo testing and is found to be the problem: he is sterile. Physician Dr. Wright suggests artificial insemination using a sperm donor. This proves successful and the Bennetts begin a new and happy phase of their marriage.

Anne Lester, a young orphan trying to pay for her brother's college education. After meeting Markey, a drug dealer, Anne begins to believe that she must smoke marijuana to fit in with her friends. She then goes to a "tea party", where she tries the drug for the first time. She is unaffected by the initial experiment, and loses her fear of drugs as she continues to use it willingly. Anne's drug use results in the loss of many of her inhibitions, and the film shows her actions under the influence, including scenes implying sexual promiscuity.

The film opens with a schooner Julia heading for Tahiti. Feverish Captain Guy lies in bed, nursed by his daughter Julie. You will soon learn that Captain's illness has something to do with the "native curses and the native tabu (sic)" and precious black pearls that were stolen and hidden somewhere in the island. Knowing this, two thieving sailors plan to steal the treasure while one heroic sailor stands in their way.
The film's opening credits cite the name of Herman Melville, writer of classic novel "Moby Dick," but this B action film's story has virtually nothing to do with the original book "Omoo" Melville's second book.

The movie opens with a judge begging the audience for help in resolving a terrible dilemma. The action moves to a courtroom, where Vivian Hamilton is on trial for the shooting death of her sister's lover. The story unfolds in flashback as various characters are called to testify. Siamese twins, Dorothy and Vivian Hamilton, have a vaudeville singing act, but their manager thinks a publicity stunt will reinvigorate their career. He pays stunt shooter Andre Pariseau to fake a romance with one of the twins. Vivian, the brunette, dislikes Andre and wants nothing to do with the scheme, but Dorothy, the blonde, agrees to serve as Andre's love interest and actually falls in love for him. When Andre leaves Dorothy, Vivian, outraged that her sister was mistreated, seizes one of Andre's guns and during Andre's shooting performance, shoots him dead before a horrified audience. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?

Naive young country girl, Nancy, unexpectedly arrives in Los Angeles to move in with her sister, “fashion model” Paula. Nancy thinks that Paula has hit the big time, but Paula’s too ashamed to tell Nancy the awful truth. Paula is working as a prostitute in a string of clubs owned by the sinister “Flesh Merchant” Sogel. Paula tries to shove Nancy on the first bus back to the country, but bratty Nancy just thinks Paula is afraid of the “competition.” Finding an address of a modeling agency in Paula’s apartment, Nancy heads out to start her career. Within minutes, she’s posing nude for a room full of drooling men, and a few hours later, she’s whisked off to the mysterious “Colony” an exclusive retreat for rich men who want a weekend away from their wives.