Carlos Tobalina
Directing
Biography
Efrain "Carlos" Tobalina was born on April 5, 1925 in Peru. Tobalina emigrated to Brazil prior to moving to America in the early 1950's and eventually settling in California in 1956. Carlos worked as a used car salesman at various automobile dealerships and had a second moonlight gig as an announcer on a Spanish language radio station. Tobalina started his own film business C. Tobalina Productions, Inc. as well as married bookkeeper Maria Pia in 1964. Tobalina was a stepfather to Maria's daughter Gloria. Maria gave birth to another daughter named Linda in 1966. Carlos made his first adult movie with the softcore feature Infrasexum (1969). Tobalina became the owner of the Mayan Theater on Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles two years later (the Mayan Theater was the primary theatrical venue that Tobalina's films were shown at). Moreover, Carlos not only owned two homes in Corona Del Mar, but also owned both the Star Theater in La Puente and the X Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. A lot of Tobalina's explicit hardcore pictures were made at his house on 14930 Corona Del Mar. Carlos made well over forty X-rated movies starting from the early 1970's up until 1987. In addition, Carlos had several run-ins with the law about his constitutional right to make and distribute explicit hardcore fare and even went as far as to fight for his First Amendment rights in court. Tobalina committed suicide at age 63 on March 31, 1989. He explained in a suicide note that the reason he took his own life was because he was suffering from terminal liver cancer.
Known For
A middle-aged man is having problems trying to regain his sexual drive. He leaves behind his old life and tries to discover a simpler happiness through painting and meeting new friends. Wanting to save him from a sexless fate, his friend (director Carlos Tobalina in a supporting role) attempts to solve the mystery of his sexual shortcomings, through any means possible. Filled with incredible footage of Las Vegas, the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere, as well as subplots involving kidnapping, and even a bit of unexpected gore, filmmaker Carlos Tobalina’s debut feature is a totally unique sexploitation experiment that showcases many of the stylistic touches that would become his trademarks, along with a cast of beautiful starlets, including Sharon Matt and Marsha Jordan.
Infrasexum
Previously lost reconceptualization of Bill Cable's unfinished early 70s epic titled "What is Love," which deals with themes of romantic obsession and Christian blasphemy.
What's Love
A group of unhappy couples are taught the joys of having a quality marriage.
Carnal Haven
Two men who meet in a bar in Las Vegas discover that they have one big problem in common, their wives. They decide to do something drastic about it.
Flesh and Bullets
A look inside the swinger subculture. It played theaters in both a cut version and an "extra hot" version.
Orgy American Style
Bill Westland is a wealthy industrialist who now only intends to devote himself to his pleasures. He barely manages to make a few decisions about his myriad businesses or sign a few checks every week. He spends most of his time in a magnificent Hollywood villa in the company of his young wife and her many friends living a life of love that is as inventive and renewed as possible.
Tonite... I Love You
A pair of tough guys hole up in an inn in the slums of Hong Kong. One of them is murdered and the other narrowly avoids several attempts on his life. He goes into hiding in the room of the working girl Yen. Yen uses her secret lovemaking technique on the assassin Wang.
Sexual Kung Fu in Hong Kong
Claude, a wealthy man in his 30s, arrives in Rio de Janeiro to check out the plush and expensive brothels he's heard about. At one of them he meets Sonia, and the two are soon engaged in a hot and heavy relationship, making the rounds of Rio's fabulous night life. Claude is shocked, however, when he discovers that Sonia isn't just a beautiful prostitute he's patronizing--she's his long-lost daughter. He brings her back to his mansion in the United States, which he shares with his jealous girlfriend Silvia. Complications ensue.
Affaire in Rio de Janeiro
A prehistoric tribe comes into conflict with another tribe in the jungle. Complications ensue when opposing tribe members fall for one another.
The Kulies
Sexploitation comedy about a Russian female spy who uses a machine that can see through walls to spy on peoples sex lives.
I Am Curious Tahiti
When an exploitative doctor reveals a woman's husband gave her gonorrhea, she separates from her husband and immediately mounts a lover. She then heads from a yacht-owning friend to a women-only sex party. Can makeup sex fix everything?
Lady Dynamite
A man takes his friend on a 'peeping Tom' tour of LA
Notorious Big Sin City
A fake documentary about the early adult film industry.
Refinements in Love
A sex therapy camp where unsatisfied couples live out their fantasies in a non-stop orgy of carnal delights.
Love Champions
A couple, their two daughters and two sons go on a vacation. The daughters decide to explore each other, two Asian beauties offer to service everyone and dad has a dream about family orgy which disturbs him much more than it does mom.
Oriental Hawaii
A man commits a series of murders due to his dual personalities and his zodiac birth sign.
The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio
A member of a motorcycle gang meets an innocent young girl and takes her with him. They join the rest of the gang whose adventures include some sexual ones.
Love on Wheels
Two friends have decided to take their lusty passions on the road, and to help them on their journey, purchase a big rig truck. They're soon inundated with more beautiful women than they can handle, including Seka, Brook West, and Juliet Anderson, and find themselves going from one sex filled adventure to the next, along the Carnal Highways.
Carnal Highways
A young woman drifts into a life of prostitution after being sexually assaulted by her father. On a trip to Acapulco, she falls in love with a handsome bullfighter.
The Last Tango in Acapulco
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