This report examines highly anisotropic tribological behavior of multiwalled nanotube films oriented in mutually orthogonal directions. The average values of coefficient of friction varied from extremely high values (µ=0.795) for vertically aligned nanotubes grown on rigid substrates to very low values (µ=0.090) for nanotubes dispersed flat on the same substrates. The results were insensitive to humidity, in contrast to graphite materials, and indicate that nanotubes could be utilized as both super-low and super-high frictional surfaces. Micro-brushes of vertical nanotubes fabricated in polymer embeds show enormous adhesive forces, orders of magnitude larger than well-known super-adhesives, such as Gecko-hairs found in nature.