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Plot Summary:
In the mid-1920s, four young men and women have decided to spend their summer holiday studying together and have rented a wonderful house in the Swedish archipelago. Rationally, they realize that this cohabitation may lead to some of the members being attracted to one another. Thus, in order to avoid unnecessary passions, conflicts, jealousy, grief and enmity, the women sleep in a separate house on the other side of the creek. In spite of believing that they are prepared for anything, and even though they share the task of cooking, their feelings get carried away.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 98 min
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Anna (1970)
Plot Summary:
A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 82 min
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The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)
Plot Summary:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
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Seduction by the Sea (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Broken Dolls (1999)
Plot Summary:
A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest personalities.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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I Am Dina (2002)
Plot Summary:
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: talky, intense, emotional, stylized, touching, sincere, semi serious, period piece, erotic, gothic
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La mia preda (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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Mandara (1971)
Plot Summary:
About two student couples who become members of an obscure sect. The cult seeks a prehistoric utopia with free sex and without society's norms and values. The students are torn between ambient pressure and the sect leader's authority to organ music in the creative camera angles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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The Divine Nymph (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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As Long as One Is Intoxicated (1974)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece
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Lovers Are Wet (1973)
Plot Summary:
Katsu, a fugitive youth on the run from the yakuza, returns to his birthplace and begins an affair with the cinema owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Diving (2017)
Plot Summary:
A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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James Joyce's Women (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora remembering their time together, Flanagan captures the era and the author in lyrical detail. As Sylvia Beach, the woman who first published Ulysses, new dimensions concerning the importance of Nora in Joyce's literary visions of women emerge, and when Flanagan interprets Joyce characters like Molly Bloom or a washerwoman from Finnegan's Wake, the beauty of Joyce's language shines through the melodious words.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
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Frente al mar (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of people, both men and women, get together to exchange their points of view, practical and theoretical, about sexual life and the relations between couples.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Aloa: Festivity of the Whores (1988)
Plot Summary:
A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic attraction to each other. After some time, a tension develops between the young man, Meyra and Manfred. Nobody knows Meyra's secret, or her true reason for coming to Hvar.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tension, sexual, sexy, suspense
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Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place in a seemingly abandoned house where a group of people engage in wordless acts of passion. It covers a period from evening to morning, and the sexual couplings among the members of the house becomes increasingly harrowing as daylight arrives.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, independent film
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Sadness and Beauty (1985)
Plot Summary:
Hugo is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea, a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years later to rekindle the flame of romance and creativity. Lea soundly rejects him, and her student Prudence feels a burning hatred for the man who deserted the teacher she admires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tragic
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Summer Temptations (1988)
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In a villa on an island (St. Peter) a little out of season, inhabit Vanessa, a young widow, and stepdaughters Kikki and alive. Vanessa had married their father above all because it was very rich. After her husband's death, Vanessa decided to keep him Alive and Kikki and also call Roberto, her former lover, now a professor with the aim of preparing the two girls to the maturity examination. Shortly after his arrival, he establishes an atmosphere heavy with half-empty Island the villa that seems almost a luxury prison do understand immediately that the stepmother and stepdaughters will hate and despise each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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A Fit of Rage (1999)
Plot Summary:
The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his fence. This simple fact raises accusations and discord between the two lovers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, weird
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Us (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, sexy, bleak
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Desideria (1980)
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An overweight teenage girl walks in on her mother having a three-way. She later confronts her mother and gets her birthday cake shoved in her face. She then tries to commit suicide, but survives and loses a lot of weight. Now attractive to boys and men for the first time, she turns into a world-class tease, manipulating a smitten boy her age, her mother's middle-age jerk of boyfriend, an older would-be revolutionary, and so on.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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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
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Games of Desire (1991)
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Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband's impotency, she searches for outside affection and seduction within brief, but often passionate encounters. During this web of desire she encounters Dorothy. Unknown to Florentine she is her husband's accomplice. In this twisted, frenzied fantasy her husband Jake becomes excited and aroused by the seduction of his wife. With his secret darkrooms and two-way mirrors he begins to desire his wife once more. Florentine, with the help of their adopted son, discovers his world of distorted fantasy. Amazed, but realising that Jake still loves her, she must act.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
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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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Night Calls: The Movie (1999)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Playboy TV stars take their show on the road and encounter erotic adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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I, a Woman, Part II (1968)
Plot Summary:
Newly married to a sexually perverted German millionaire, Siv submits herself to endless degradation before discovering that her husband harbors a diabolical secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Libido (1973)
Plot Summary:
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, independent film
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Two Goes Into Two, Once (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sexual therapist watches sex to correct problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags:
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The Diary of Lady M (1993)
Plot Summary:
She's a beautiful gifted performer, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Despite the fact that she is unlikely to become famous, she enjoys her life as a performer who lives just outside the mainstream. Awaiting her backstage one evening is a Spanish painter who has seen her show and wants to make her acquaintance. They walk around Paris getting to know one another, and then the painter returns to Spain. Something about the man has moved Lady M to passion: she flies to meet him in Barcelona and he shows her his beloved Catalonia. This time, however, their relationship is as much about passionate lovemaking as it is about compatibility. So smitten is Lady M with her new man that when she discovers that the painter has a black wife and child, she is only a little bit taken aback and she invites his whole family to join her in Paris. Surprisingly, they do, and the number of people sharing their love and sexual appetites changes from two to three.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, erotic drama
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The Lost Daughter (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Israel, Greece
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, art house, existential, grim, independent film, weird