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Plot Summary:
Set against the beautiful backdrop of northern Norway, this film tells the story of a telegraphist in a very small community at the turn of the century.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway
Duration: 102 min
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Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (1970)
Plot Summary:
Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (Norwegian: Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland) is a 1970 Norwegian drama film directed by Knut Andersen, and starring a broad cast of notable Norwegian actors, headed by Per Jansen as Ole Høiland. Ole Høiland was an actual Norwegian Robin Hood-figure in the early 19th century. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor, enjoying numerous affairs with attractive women along the way. The story culminates in the ambitious burglary of Norges Bank, Norway's central bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Adam in Sweden (1966)
Plot Summary:
Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min
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Crazy Paradise (1962)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
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The Lustful Vicar (1970)
Plot Summary:
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
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Feeling Sexy (1999)
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Feeling Sexy is a story about Vicki, a passionate and vivacious artist with a voracious appetite for life and love. When she meets and marries medical student Greg, she feels she has found true happiness, but two kids and hours, weeks, years of house chores later soon shatter the dream. Vicki wants freedom, release and self-expression, and despite her love for Greg, falls into a lusty affair with art student Hugo. But dishonesty and deceit are not for Vicki. She fatally confesses all to Greg and home life becomes hellish, with Vicki left crushed and demoralized and Greg suspicious and mistrusting. A radical solution is called for and Vicki discovers that the answer may lie within her own creativity and imagination. Vicki is 'married with children' and caught in the universal dilemma - how do you keep the passion alive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sexy
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A Woman with Red Hair (1979)
Plot Summary:
Kozo and his colleague rape their boss's daughter and have sex with an unnamed woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Wide Open (1974)
Plot Summary:
A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, hot
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Housewives on the Job (1973)
Plot Summary:
German sex comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: fake documentary
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National Adultery (1982)
Plot Summary:
A man falls in love with his friend's wife and plots the different ways to get rid of his current wife and also his friend so he can have his new found love all to himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min
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Her mit den kleinen Schweinchen (1984)
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Wolfgang cannot make up his mind whether to choose a pretty young thing without money or a rich widow. Egon his friend advises him to choose the young girl and leads rich and ugly widow Olga to the altar himself. Now he lives in the lap of luxury, but his jealous wife never lets him out of her sight. Wolfgang takes the hen-pecked husband to the "Ball of the Piggies", where Egon promptly succumbs to the charms of an ever so sweet and sexy Piggy, those of his wife. While Olga ransacks the hotel in search of Egon the next morning, the real beneficiaries are Wolfgang and Eva who chalk up the nocturnal happenings to experience.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
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Kanarifuglen (1973)
Plot Summary:
Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
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Syndare i sommarsol (2001)
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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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Jumpin' at the Bedside (1976)
Plot Summary:
Jumpin' at the Bedside.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Let It All Hang Out (1969)
Plot Summary:
The girlfriend of a beatnik-hippy artist enjoys having her body painted, posing naked for her boyfriend and seducing other men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy
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Madame Bovary (1969)
Plot Summary:
Emma Bovary is bored by her country doctor husband and gives in to the affections of several rich suitors as well as the temptation of living beyond her husband's means.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
Plot Summary:
An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Butterfly in the Night (1976)
Plot Summary:
The story is quite simple and effective, a street whore in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord, of course family life is not the most suited for our girl, even worst when the rich guy has an acicdent that leaves him crippled, and soon all men in the Pampas wan't to rape her (go figure why), but there's a hero that really likes our gal and he will fight for her, will she stay in the Pampas or return to Paris?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974)
Plot Summary:
50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, freeze frame
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A Woman on Fire (1969)
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Clara, the sexually frustrated wife of a businessman goes on vacation with her husband, daughter and best friend. While there, she finally learns that sex can be passionate and wonderful, something she was never able to discover with the help of her husband. Unfortunately, she learns this with a handsome lifeguard, who finally makes her succumb to his psycho-sexual games.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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The Sensual Man (1973)
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From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, hot
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The French Woman (1977)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sensual
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Wilbur Falls (1998)
Plot Summary:
A teen gives her graduation address and reveals her involvement in the disappearance of one her classmates, a boy who had taunted her. The film then moves into flashback to tell the story. Danny Aiello appears as her unorthodox, but compassionate, father.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Dirty Tricks (2000)
Plot Summary:
Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, thrilling
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Scumbag Hustler (2014)
Plot Summary:
Soloman Crow pays a visit to his god fearing, bible quoting, closeted homosexual brother and his sexually repressed wife. He enters their home with a proclamation to kick a drug habit that almost cost him his life. Broke, it doesn't take Soloman long to start conning and scheming his way around the city to feed his ravenous cravings for dope and sex. Even his brother's wife isn't immune to Soloman's mind games... If you want a hero with redeeming qualities, look somewhere else.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, light, feel good, contemplative, sex comedy, independent film, teen comedy, cult film
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Pan (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very strong in their opinions, and both are behaving a little strange. Love turns to hate, and instead of doing all they can to please each other, they do all they can to hurt the other person psychological. They both do a great job, and what began as a love story turns into a sad and depressing story of two ruined persons. The story is told by Thomas Glahn from his "exile" in Thailand, where he in the beginning of the movie receives two green feathers from Edvarda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min
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Man About Town (2006)
Plot Summary:
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical, romantic drama, clever, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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Forbidden Legend of Sex and Chopsticks (2008)
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Based on the classic Chinese novel "Jin Ping Mei," written during the Ming Dynasty. The novel itself is the first full length Chinese fictional work to depict sexuality in explicit manner. The movie (as well as novel) takes place during 1111-1127 and centers around Ximen Quing, a corrupt social climber and lustful merchant who is wealthy enough to marry a consort of wives and concubines.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, light, humorous, sincere, feel good, sexy, contemplative
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Sex & the Other Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Bill catches his girlfriend and her boss in bed, an unusual cure for impotence is found.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, raunchy, sexy, independent film, hot
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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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Quiet Days in Clichy (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jens Jorgen Thorsen's freewheeling adaptation of Henry Miller's notorious novel offered a different kind of American in Paris and pushed the boundaries of sex on the screen.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, black and white, serious, realistic, sexual, banned film, banned, masterpiece, sexploitation film
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