Emanuelle Around the World

1977 [ITALIAN]

Action / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller

32
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 1294 1.3K

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Plot summary

The increasingly politicised Emanuelle gets deeper into fighting an international trade composed of sex, violence and high profile players.

Director

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Joe D'Amato

Top cast

Don Powell Photo
Don Powell as Jeff Davis
Angelo Boscariol Photo
Angelo Boscariol as Party guest
Paul Powell Photo
Paul Powell as (uncredited)
Ivan Rassimov Photo
Ivan Rassimov as Dr. Malcolm Robertson
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810.67 MB
1280*682
Italian 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 5
1.47 GB
1920*1024
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CrimsonRaptor 5 / 10

Dark Rooms, Dirty Secrets, and Broken Boundaries ???

Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne? Is a film that flirts with the illusion of investigative journalism, but ultimately becomes a grim, fragmented journey through exploitation cinema. From the moment the film begins, its tone is unmistakably sleazy, yet strangely self-aware. The atmosphere vacillates between the bizarre and the brutal, with a sense of voyeurism that's both its core theme and its narrative device.Cinematographer Joe D'Amato (credited under his real name, Aristide Massaccesi) also handles the camera work himself, and despite the film's often sordid content, he shows a surprisingly keen eye for mood and composition. The use of soft lighting, shadow, and natural locations gives certain scenes an almost dreamlike quality, especially during Emanuelle's travels through Venice and the Caribbean. These sequences offer a strange calm before the film veers back into murkier, more disturbing territory. However, this contrast also exposes the film's uneven pacing and tonal dissonance. Scenes jump abruptly between travelogue-like serenity and shock material, leaving viewers disoriented rather than intrigued.Laura Gemser, in the role of Emanuelle, brings her usual enigmatic poise to a character who is often thrown into implausible situations with little context or buildup. Her calm, steely presence anchors the chaos around her, and though the script gives her little depth, Gemser carries each scene with confidence. She's by far the film's most consistent performer, managing to bring dignity to a role that frequently undermines her. The supporting cast, meanwhile, ranges from wooden to wildly over-the-top. Ivan Rassimov adds some charm in a minor role, though his screen time is limited, and others drift in and out of scenes with barely any development or motivation.What drags the film down is its reliance on shock for shock's sake. D'Amato flirts with taboo not for narrative or thematic depth, but to provoke, titillate, or appall. The inclusion of extreme content (including a sequence strongly implying bestiality) crosses the line from provocative to gratuitous. There's a difference between confronting discomfort for artistic reasons and wallowing in it for cheap effect. Unfortunately, the film rarely seems interested in exploring anything beyond surface-level depravity.Despite all this, there is something oddly compelling about the film's rawness. It captures a specific moment in 1970s European genre cinema when anything felt permissible, when boundaries were pushed not always with purpose, but with bold, often reckless energy. That lack of polish, while frustrating, also gives the film a certain grimy authenticity.
Reviewed by IndustriousAngel 5 / 10

Worthwhile for the temple sequence

I gave this movie an overall 5/10, but it's very episodic, and I'd like to mention that there's one gem in there, the "temple" or "Guru" sequence which starts exactly 15 minutes in and lasts for about 20 minutes. Firstly because it's sexy (okay, most everything with Gemser in it is). Secondly, because it's shot beautifully - the temple itself as well as the proceedings. But what I liked most was the excellent sense of humour, with real gags - something not frequent in "erotic" movies and mostly absent in porn. The humour is building throughout the sequence, starting with Emanuelle encountering an only half-convinced believer girl, then rudely disturbing a mass meditation/orgy (by joining and bringing a guy to orgasm prematurely), then observing the proceedings in the "training hall" which are really a hoot, but this all gets topped when finally, of course, the skeptical Emanuelle gets her hands on the Guru himself ... I don't want to spoil anything here but their encounter and its aftermath form one of the funnier moments in film history and would fit equally well in a Monty Python movie. Usually with this kind of movies you expect to laugh out because it's "so bad it's funny" - in this case, it's the real thing.Highly recommended for this scene alone; everything else is more or less the usual "Black Emanuelle" stuff plus some rather violent scenes (fitting the sex trade theme but definitely not erotic).
Reviewed by elo-equipamentos 5 / 10

Low profile and soft porn movie!!!

Taking a ride in Blaxploitation's success, Joe D'Amato came with a new version of endless Emanuelle, a black one, Laura Gemser is almost perfect for the role, a little skinny to my taste but works, not so voluptuous like your partnership Karin Schubert, actually this movie has an original and fresh idea about Emanuelle whereabouts, she moves around the world as suggest the title, some scenes are too hard for a soft porn imply, boring certainly not!!!Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 5.25
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