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Stephanie Rothman

Stephanie Rothman

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Biography

Stephanie Rothman (born November 9, 1936 Paterson, New Jersey) is a film director, producer and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s. She was the first female to be awarded the Directors Guild of America fellowship. Her commercially successful film The Student Nurses broke ground in the exploitation film genre as it featured women in leading roles. Her next film, The Velvet Vampire has become a cult hit.

Known For

Terminal Island
5.3

After the U.S. Supreme Court banishes the death penalty, California decides to exile all convicted murderers to the remote island of San Bruno, overseen by a tyrannical camp leader who forces all female inmates into sex slavery.

Terminal Island

1973
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
4.3

A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.

Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.

1970
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
4.1

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land. Re-edited version of Soviet sci-fi Planet of Storms (1962) by Pavel Klushantsev, dubbed into English with additional scenes.

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

1965
Beyond Atlantis
3.9

A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.

Beyond Atlantis

1973
The Velvet Vampire
4.6

A married couple accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.

The Velvet Vampire

1971
Blood Bath
5.5

A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.

Blood Bath

1966
The Student Nurses
5.0

Four female college students in Los Angeles, who live together and have nursing internships at the same hospital, have their lives complicated by love, sex, drugs and revolution.

The Student Nurses

1970
Queen of Blood
5.2

A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963).

Queen of Blood

1966
Starhops
4.0

After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a French chef try to turn it around.

Starhops

1978
We Blew It
5.2

How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it today? Did they really blow it? Shot in Cinemascope - from New Jersey to California - this melancholic and elegiac road-movie draws upon the portrait of a confused, complex and incandescent America one year after the start of the electoral campaign. That golden age has become its last romantic border and an inconsolable America is about to pull on a trigger called Trump.

We Blew It

2017
Group Marriage
5.5

Chris is not getting along with boyfriend Sandor and has an affair with parole officer Dennis. Dennis invites the couple to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jan. At a picnic on the beach, Jan meets lifeguard Phil, who later sleeps with Chris and moves in with the other five. Phil brings in a person, lawyer Elaine. The "group marriage" of the six of them attracts media attention, which brings trouble and prejudice.

Group Marriage

1973
Beach Ball
4.4

Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.

Beach Ball

1965
It's a Bikini World
3.9

Male chauvinist Mike attempts to get an intelligent burgeoning feminist Delilah into his harem. When she resists, Mike then poses as his brother Herbert, but in the process falls in love with Delilah.

It's a Bikini World

1967
The Working Girls
4.7

A groupie, an escort, and a strip club dancer get thrown into danger by the illegal activities of the men they love.

The Working Girls

1974