Birthday:
01-08-1922
Deathday:
12-01-2012 (90 years)
Birthplace:
Casablanca, Morocco
Biography
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.
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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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Act like Self
event1993 star_border 7
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Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.
Sin on the Beach
event1963 star_border 4.9
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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.
Hell on the Beach
Act like The boss
event1966 star_border 1
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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.
Anthologie des scènes interdites érotiques et pornographiques de José Bénazéraf
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event1975 star_border 2
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A compilation of censored pornographic and subversive scenes from the films of José Bénazéraf.
The French Love
event1972 star_border 2
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A drama directed by José Bénazéraf.
Night of Lust
event1963 star_border 3.8
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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!
Sexus
event1965 star_border 3.8
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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.
Breathless
Act like Man in a White Car (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 7.5
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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.
St. Pauli Between Night and Morning
event1967 star_border 5
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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.
Saint Tropez interdit
event1985 star_border 3.7
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Saint Tropez, a paradisaical place, but also a symbol of debauchery, sins and vices. In this dreamy place, there is no longer any boundary between good and evil, vice and virtue.
Naked Sex
Act like A spectator at the cinema (uncredited)
event1973 star_border 4
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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.
Spanish Fly
Act like (voice)
event1985 star_border 3
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Spain, mysterious and passionate ... It is an erotic fantasy for many tourists. So the brave matador performed by Gabriel Pontello indulges in passionate sexual joys with his fans. Moreover, on bullfighting it is clearly less common than on fans.
Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men
Act like L'homme qui suit Brigitte à Pigalle (uncredited)
event1969 star_border 3.6
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A young crook called Joë Caligula and his crew make war on a Parisian gang.
Port of Desire
Producer (1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 3.5
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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.
Backdoor to Paris
Director (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 3
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Paris is a great city. But Paris the girl is even a better sight to see. She lets us into every door she has not just her back door, giving us an all access pass to a fuck fest frenzy from the 70's that you are going to love.
Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes
Director (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 2
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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.
Bordel SS
Director (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5.5
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A glamorous brothel in Nazi-occupied Paris becomes a popular attraction for the SS Officers, but the beautiful prostitutes within the compound are not what they appear to be. The girls are actually working for the Resistance, gathering data from their unsuspecting German clients and forwarding it to the Allies.
Frustration
Director (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 5.6
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A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and the latter's husband, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies.
Cover Girls
Writer (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 6.8
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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.
Je mouille aussi par derrière
Director (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 3
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In the business of making a porn movie, the camera rolls, but the cast and crew do, too, in sexual embraces of all sorts.
Le désirable et le sublime
Writer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 4
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A couple has found peace in a strange manor by the sea but, on a hot evening, a visitor comes, troubling their solitude. However, three is not actually a crowd and they start start talking, exchanging points of view about philosophy, sociology and politics, eroticism as well.
Paris Ooh-La-La!
Producer (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 3.5
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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.
Lusty Widow
Director (1 ep.)
event1984
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The mourners return from the funeral and begin to 'console' each other almost immediately.
Perverted Adolescence
Writer (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 4.2
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Mirella, a sultry middle-aged maths teacher, falls in love with a student, Alain. But her bourgeois upbringing comes in the way of this fantasy love, until she finds out that her best friend had sex with the young man.
Flesh and Fantasy
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 5.5
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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.
J.B.1
Director (1 ep.)
event1975
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A castle on a island: while television broadcasts ridiculous images of the presidential campaign, three characters - a couple and a visitor - exchange radical views on France, cinema, censorship and the proletarian world revolution.
Les contes de La Fontaine
Director (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 4.3
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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.
Du foutre plein le cul
Director (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 4
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A trio of female burglars plan to break into a house by going through the garage. However, they find a stash of porn mags and various sex toys in the garage, and busy themselves with those items. Meanwhile, two cops find the burglars' car, investigate and find the burglars in the garage, and they decide to also busy themselves, but with the burglars. Things get even more complicated when the owner of the house and his wife show up.
Les deux gouines
Director (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 3
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A prominent Parisian lawyer, at the dawn of a political career, is welcomed by an old friend and her wife and daughter during a journey in the provinces.
No Time for Ecstasy
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1961
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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.
The Infamous House of Madame X
Writer (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 7
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Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War.
Baise-moi partout
Director (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 3
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The sex is heavy and often in this French classic with a title that literally translates to "Fuck me everywhere".
Love Is My Job
Director (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 8
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Four short films for sex-shops that have never been released in theaters!
Black Love
Director (1 ep.)
event1974
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A member of the Black Panther organization steals party funds and flees to Paris.
Olinka, Goddess of Desire
Director (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 4
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Lesbian themed sex movie with an orgy at the end. Apparently the American release was re-edited into randonmess.
Anna cuisses entrouvertes
Director (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 4
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In a limp libertine a young bourgeois is caught by a client. She observes at the same time a couple that is arguing. The young bourgeois is obsessed with the beauty of the woman, a sublime blonde. While the bourgeois makes a blowjob to the client, the blonde left alone, observes them caressing. She ends up joining them in a party without taboo ...
La veuve lubrique
Scenario Writer (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 3
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Pierre opens his car to two hitchhikers who he brings to his wife Anne.
The Fourth Sex
Supervising Technical Director (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 1
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Michel and Paul earn money from passers-by by doing chalk drawings outside the Louvre. They also make the scene at the hot spots of Paris. Sand is a wealthy and luscious blonde artist who paints nude girls and houses at her loft. When Michel's gorgeous sister shows up from out of town, both Paul and Sand fall for her.
Perverse Isabelle
Director (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 4.5
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At her palatial estate, Miss Isabel is interviewing private-duty nurses to take care of Jacques, her horny bedridden cousin. But, the only one who ends up getting "bed ridden" are the nurses.
The Accident
Producer (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 5.2
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A young beautiful teacher is transfered to a remote island's school, where her colleague (also the principal of the school) falls in love with her. This banned love provokes the jealousy of the principal's wife and makes her seek revenge.
Lady X 2: Lady Winter et la C.I.A.
Director (1 ep.)
event1984
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The adventures in 4 episodes of the most beautiful, most exciting porn star in situations that none of you could have imagined.
Revolution
Director (1 ep.)
event1983
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Coup d'état in a small South American country. The perpetrators of these troubles are a paranoid government, formed of a handful of perverse ministers who, inside the Presidential Palace, imperturbably debauchery the women of the world and the small staff of the Presidency. Outside, the Revolution is raging. An American journalist arrives in this golden hell of orgies and lust. This depraved government is far from imagining that the beautiful American woman only indulges in these sexual effusions to facilitate the entry into the Palace of the pack of revolutionaries who will resolve the country's political problems in the orgy.
Lady X 3: Ingrid, putain de Hambourg
Director (1 ep.)
event1984
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Lady X 3: Ingrid, Whore of Hamburg
Lady X 1: L'amant de Lady Winter
Director (1 ep.)
event1984
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Lady X 1: Lady Winter's Lover
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