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Plot Summary:
An alpha female barrister complicates her professional and personal life when she falls for a client.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
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Broken Ghost (2017)
Plot Summary:
On the face of it, they’re just another family moving to the wide open spaces of the Big Sky Country for a tree change. But for teenage Imogen Day and her parents Samantha and Will, the move to Montana is an escape from quite a unique kind of bullying. Desperate to make a new life for herself, Imogen must overcome new tormentors, old secrets, and a strange presence in the attic.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending
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River of Desire (2022)
Plot Summary:
Three brothers find themselves sharing a home with the alluring new wife of the middle sibling. As they become infatuated with the same woman, a complex and enthralling tale ensues in this tropical paradise.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
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Love Matters (1993)
Plot Summary:
Married couple Tom and Julie begin to question the stability of their relationship when an old friend comes to visit... with his latest mistress in tow.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Dama de Noche (1998)
Plot Summary:
A woman who was maltreated during her younger years gets revenge on the people who abused her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min
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The Escape (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Dutch woman escapes her family life in search for happiness in the Portuguese Algarve.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Serve the People (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mu-kwang volunteers to be a kitchen police of Sa-taek, the divisional commander, dreaming of success. One day, Mu-kwang meets Su-ryeon by chance, who is a young and beautiful wife of the commander. Soon, he feels a strong attraction by her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Two Faces of Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
Eleana (played by Anna Fonsou) is a prostitute who appears to have been abused when she was younger. During her daily encounters with various clients, she meets a young labourer called Christos whom she momentarily tries to develop a normal relationship with. Old habits die hard and she soon hits the streets again but it's too late, Christos has become infatuated with Eleana and plans to marry her. Gradually, the pressure and stress of the situation starts to take it's toll on Eleana's sanity and leads to a surreal, nightmarish climax!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Ask Martha (2022)
Plot Summary:
Marta is a brilliant lawyer with an absolute rule: she only protects women. She is ambitious and can win any case, though her meth- ods may not always be above board. Martha’s clients are very di- verse - from the most successful women to victimized teenagers. She does not select them by affluence her core goal is to protect those who need protection. Martha is ready to use any means, even those that are on the wrong side of the law, whether it be, blackmailing, bluffing, bribery, elaborate hijinks. even in the modern world, a woman can be completely defenseless when the deck is stacked. Ask Martha and she will surely find a way out of any situation. However, the cost of it is not always clear even for herself. Martha protects other women, but is not able to deal with her own problems. Winning a high-profile case - she loses her husband a custody of her own daughter, Sasha (9). How can she rewind it all? How can she bring back the most the dearest she had?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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The Devil Inside (2020)
Plot Summary:
Catherine Borowiak, 50 years old, is the head of a conditional release agency. Being in charge of 20 years old Hugo's case, recently released from jail on parole, she starts a relationship with him, a highly risky one.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
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Touch and Go (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nick and Alison, a young couple although married for several years, find their sex-life is uninspiring. After much agonising, they decide to visit a wife-swapping club in a risky attempt to reinvigorate their marriage. However, after initial positive effects on their relationship, the activity begins to threaten the basis of their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Pretty Rosebud (2014)
Plot Summary:
Drama - A career woman stuck in an unhappy marriage struggles to find happiness. - Chuti Tiu, Kipp Shiotani, Dana Lee.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, independent film
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Knifer (2010)
Plot Summary:
After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his relationship with his aunt changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Greece
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, realistic, stylized, gloomy, weird
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Young Casanova (1974)
Plot Summary:
Gerard Casanova is the man that all the rich and beautiful women call when they need a little more then the husbands to give them. He's always on call to satisfy their every sexual urge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Tonight You're Sleeping with Me (2023)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a passionless marriage, a journalist must choose between her distant but loving husband and a younger ex-boyfriend who has reentered her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Kreola (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kreola arrives in Santa Domingo to join her photographer husband Andy. Although Andy is initially jealous of Marco, who is in town looking for his missing girlfriend who did not return from Santa Domingo with her coworkers after a girls getaway. When Kreola and Andy site the missing girl Iris in the company of their gruff, dominating sea captain Leon, Andy suggests Kreola distract him so that Marco has a chance of getting Iris back. Kreola scoffs at this but eventually does fall under Leon's spell. Andy's writer friend Jo Ann blames the island atmosphere for the tendency for puritanical Westerners to reject their inhibitions. When Andy and Marco cannot free their women from Leon's influence, things get drastic.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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The Butcher (1998)
Plot Summary:
Alina is married to Daniele, a famous conductor. While Daniele is away, she finds herself attracted to Bruno, a butcher. One day, Bruno left a message… “Tomorrow morning I’ll knock on your door. If you don’t want me, don’t be there.” Next morning Bruno keeps his word. The apartment door is ajar. He finds Alina on a sofa, pale, bathed in sweat, fearful and expectant. While Daniele conducts his final concert in Samarkand, Bruno and Alina make love in every way imaginable… and Alina will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, erotic drama, gay cinema
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The Year of Awakening (1991)
Plot Summary:
A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Gisela (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Anger (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sex, violence, betrayal and madness coalesce in this disturbing drama from Argentinean filmmaker Albertina Carri. Nati is a disturbed young girl living with her father Poldo and mother Alejandra in a remote, hardscrabble farming community. Nati, who cannot speak and strips off her clothes when she's angry, has few friends and has no one to play with besides Ladeado, the older son of Pichon, who works the neighboring farm. One of the reasons Nati is distraught is Alejandra has been having an affair with Pichon, and the two do little to hide their aggressive, sado-masochistic lovemaking from their children. Witnessing the brutal sex play between Alejandra and Pichon has also had a profound effect on Ladeado, who has taken to capturing and killing wild weasels. Nati begins drawing pictures depicting what she's seen her mother doing, and when Poldo gets a good look at them, he's determined to make his wife pay for her infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspense, eros
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Turbine (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nick, an adulterous New Yorker, and his wife, Sarah, relocate to the Midwest for a fresh start. Nick soon befriends a wealthy local farmer and discovers a secret he's been keeping is not so easily left behind in this erotic and surreal drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Close Quarters (2020)
Plot Summary:
Manuel and Lupe want to have a baby. When Manuel discovers he is infertile, he starts to fall apart both physically and emotionally. After exploring several options, Manuel turns to Rubén, his new friend, to act as their donor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tension, suspense
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Rule: Fidelity to the Limit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mariana and Julian are a couple that have been happily married for many years. They have two kids: Juan Maria and Bibiana. They are in love and are very successful in their professional lives. They have a wonderful sex life and in the foreplay that they enjoy in privacy, he tells her that she can have sex with other man if she tells him everything in detail.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, hot
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Laruan (2022)
Plot Summary:
Thea, Rene’s wife, always invites her other man, Geoff, over dinner for them to make out in the house. But when a new woman, Camille, enters the picture, Thea’s wild and crazy gameplay changes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Talk to Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Talk to Me is a British television serial, written by writer Danny Brocklehurst, produced by Company Pictures for ITV. The four-part serial began on 10 June 2007 and stars Max Beesley as Mitch Moore, a womanising radio host whose producer is also his best mate and about to get married to Claire. She is a new mother, experiencing the emotional crunch of returning to her office job after maternity leave. Mitch was in love with Clare and after Clare had an argument with her fiancé, she and Mitch slept together. Clare walked out on him telling him it was a one-off but later they had sex in his car. Clare eventually breaks her affair with Mitch off, but feeling guilty she tells her fiancé what she has done. He walks out on her and takes their baby son. He then punches Mitch and tells him they are no longer friends. Clare and her fiancé eventually reconcile when Mitch makes a heartfelt plea on his radio station, Mitch is left with no one. It was announced in early 2007 under the working title Is This Love?. ITV commissioned the show in a bid to rebrand their channel for a younger audience, Laura Mackie's first show since becoming controller of drama, she stated that Talk to Me is the template for their new output - sexy, stylish and contemporary. The first episode attracted 4.2 million viewers, growing to 5.5 million in its second week. The series was released on DVD by Granada Ventures on 9 July 2007.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, sexual, sexy, hot
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The Museum (2021)
Plot Summary:
Trace the self-destructive fall of Della Howells, Museum Director in her 40s who begins a dangerous relationship with a young man, and descends from a respectable middle-class woman into the criminal underworld of the art world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags:
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The City Below (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both married - toy with their unexplainable fascination for each other. Svenja is curious and finds herself in a hotel room with Roland, but she does not consummate an affair. A powerful executive at the large bank where Svenja's husband works, Roland is used to getting what he wants. He manipulates the transfer of her husband to Indonesia to replace a recently murdered bank manager. Unaware of Roland’s actions, Svenja now ceases to resist.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Love Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, captivating, emotional, witty, erotic, sexy
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The Natural Sweetness of Skin (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events disrupt her professional, family and intimate life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic, contemplative, erotic
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Fidelity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, serious, disturbing, erotic, scenic, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, crying
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Our Time (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in a traditional world of bullfighting ranches in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, “Where Life is Born” tells the story of Juan and Ester, a couple who have an open relationship, and the problems that arise when Ester falls in love with another man and Juan struggles to meet the expectations he has of himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA, Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, psychological, rough, suspenseful, art house