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Stephanie Rothman
Born November 9, 1936 · Paterson, New Jersey, USA (age 89)
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 lea…
Known For
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet · 1965Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
★ 4.01965
MovieScience FictionAdventure
In 2020, following the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They're to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. 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 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. (Re-edited version of Pavel Klushantsev's 1962 Soviet sci-fi Planet of Storms, dubbed into English with additional scenes.)
Queen of Blood · 1966Queen of Blood
★ 5.21966
MovieScience FictionHorror
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).)
Terminal Island · 1973Terminal Island
★ 5.21973
MovieActionDrama
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.
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. · 1970Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
★ 4.31970
MovieComedyScience Fiction
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
The Working Girls · 1974The Working Girls
★ 4.91974
MovieComedy
A painter, a stripper and a newcomer with no money and a math degree... Three young, ambitious roommates navigating the eccentric and dangerous underworld of 1970s Los Angeles to achieve financial independence
Blood Bath · 1966Blood Bath
★ 5.51966
MovieHorror
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.
The Velvet Vampire · 1971The Velvet Vampire
★ 4.61971
MovieHorror
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.
Beach Ball · 1965Beach Ball
★ 4.41965
MovieComedyMusic
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.




