Monica Swinn
Acting
Biography
Monica Swinn, born Monika Swuine, is a Belgian actress, best known for her roles in French and European soft pornographic films of the 1970s, particularly those of the sexploitation and horror film genre.
Born: September 19, 1948
Place of Birth: Charleroi, Belgium
Known For
Eurotika!
Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.
Paris Porno
A couple from the French countryside/provinces visit their country's capital city. A guide leads them to Paris' seedy side such as sex shops, adults-only cinemas, live-sex-show clubs, etc.
The Duke of Burgundy
Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.
The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills for him while the entire police force desperately tries to catch him.
The Demoniacs
A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.
Celestine
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment. In a manner recalling Terence Stamp's effect on the household in TEOREMA, Celestine's open and relaxed attitude toward sexuality has a transformative effect on the isolated, moribund inhabitants of the mansion, imbuing them with gift of renewed life for the men and women alike, that remains even after a third act twist that forces her to betray them.
Le sexe enragé
A bourgeoisie client is transformed into a mouse and cannibalized by a prostitute in flagrante delicto with the camera changing focus in time to her breathing.
Downtown
A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds up with three bullet holes that seem to have come from the private eye's own gun, he's got to prove he's not the murderer meanwhile getting tangled deeper in a web of deceit, lies, and steamy night club dancers!
Doriana Grey
A mysterious aristocrat and her mentally challenged sister are the subject of public curiosity aimed at unveiling their strange bond and respective sex lives.
The Other Side of the Mirror
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.
Filmography
as Lorna
as Self
as The Prison Director
as Greta
as Maria (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Sandra Mauro
as Maria
as Ingrid Schüler
as Madame Pécame
as Pindar
as Alba Ory
as The Wardress
as Draguse
as Barmaid
as Marthe
as The journalist
as Prisoner (uncredited)
as Olga Ramos
as Maria, a sadist
as Simone
as Lorna Steiner
as Mrs. Lapierre
as Princess de Rochefort
as Journalist
as Miss Hayes
as Girl in Tavern
as Mademoiselle Ursule
as Marie's Girlfriend (French version only)
as Fabienne Meunier
as La femme dans le lit (as Monelle)