Paul Morrissey – MRQE

Flesh

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs and decadence.

Mixed Blood

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.

Trash

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe’s problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend. During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.

Heat

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Former child star Joe Davis, reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he meets, including Jessica Todd, a tightly wound feminist who has recently come out as a lesbian. When Jessica’s mother, Sally, an emotionally needy has-been actress, meets Joe, she moves him into her enormous, tacky mansion as her new boy toy and attempts to get him acting work.

Spike of Bensonhurst

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.

Le Neveu de Beethoven

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

The plot centers around old Beethoven’s fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a lengthy custody battle against his brother’s former wife. Beethoven thought she was a bad influence on the boy. Sadly, the nephew isn’t receptive to Beethoven’s “overtures”, and resents his boorish uncle’s efforts on his behalf. The nephew is a complete nonentity, lacking in both interest and talent. He seems to wish only to be left alone.

Forty Deuce

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.

Blood for Dracula

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin’s blood. They’re welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who’s desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who’s suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Women in Revolt

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn’t make them any happier.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Comedian Peter Cook takes on the role of brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, who’s not so gifted here as he relegates much of the investigation of demonic dogs to his bumbling sidekick, Watson (Dudley Moore), while he spends time with his mother and searches for an assistant.