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Plot Summary:
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. Meanwhile Kay was sent to foster parents, where she met the successful business man Mike, whom she married and bore two kids. Now Frank is released from prison and immediately starts wooing Kay again. Although she's happy with Mike, she can't withdraw herself completely. Old memories and her husband's jealousy make her spend more and more time with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Woodpeckers (2017)
Plot Summary:
Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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Kuduz (1989)
Plot Summary:
After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for years. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
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Green Hat (2004)
Plot Summary:
A sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Women (1996)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Moshé Mizrahi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Too Far to Go (1979)
Plot Summary:
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Emily & Tim (2015)
Plot Summary:
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women (1995)
Plot Summary:
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Flesh and Lace (1965)
Plot Summary:
Beverly a teaser bar girl, that think she hates men, but is in fact suffering from repressed nymphomania. She finds out when she flirts with her best friends man and gets thrown out in the street. Beverly runs into a toy store owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Suburbia Confidential (1966)
Plot Summary:
In this '60s sexploitation double bill, director Stephen C. Apostolof proves that sex is sex -- whether it takes place in the wilds of suburbia or the confines of the workplace. In Suburbia Confidential, the housewives are horny -- and doing it with everyone from carpet salesmen to TV repairmen. In Office Love-In, Kathy Williams, Lynn Harris and Marsha Jordan star as Date-a-Mate employees who take their work seriously.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Love Merchant (1966)
Plot Summary:
Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his next conquest, but the married and straight-laced Peggy turns down his proposal. However, after her husband's advertising business finds itself in a financial slump, Kendall offers to help out but only if Peggy agrees to be his intimate companion for two days.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rolling Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Stuck! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek homage to 1950s women-in-prison films.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir
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Variety (1983)
Plot Summary:
A repressed young woman develops a fascination for pornography and voyeurism while selling tickets to adult movies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, neo noir
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Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan (1998)
Plot Summary:
Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future with him. Frank finds Laura and they become a couple, but Luise shows up and makes it a menage a trois.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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The Layout (1969)
Plot Summary:
Lesbians. A giant vibrator. Joe Sarno.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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A Place Called Truth (1998)
Plot Summary:
Love, pride and jealousy are aroused when a ranch owner's daughter, called Lizzie, has an affair with a cowboy. Meanwhile a mysterious woman seduces the various lovers of Lizzie, who has fled to New Orleans to escape her arranged marriage.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, erotic drama
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Until the Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka fashions a stunning film about love and excess. Robert (Norman Reedus) is a writer who hasn't done much writing lately; instead, he's busy pushing the envelope with his toxic mix of boredom, drugs and a dalliance with a married woman, Elizabeth (Kathleen Robertson). In spite of Elizabeth's marital status, Robert falls for her completely -- a commitment that just may blow up in his face, along with the rest of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Key (2014)
Plot Summary:
A disillusioned Los Angeles based married couple's twisted sexual relationship is told exclusively through their own private journal entries. What results is a visually stunning exploration of obsession, desperation, and lust in this deeply erotic, uncompromising, visually adventurous story of a marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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A Woman on Fire (1969)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Hindsight (1996)
Plot Summary:
Things heat up when a promising young actor begins an affair with a glamorous model in order to advance his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic
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All the Sins of Sodom (1968)
Plot Summary:
Henning is a fashion photographer driven by visions of artistic glory. He is encouraged by a literary agent to produce a volume of erotic nudes and works to create the perfect layout with his favorite model, Leslie. All seems to be going well until the mysterious Joyce appears; dark and sensual, Joyce plays games with the photographer's ego, driving a wedge between Henning and Leslie and seducing one of his other models. Blinded by his own ambitions, Henning is unable to see the ruinous web that Joyce is weaving.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Climax (amenaza en las aulas) (1977)
Plot Summary:
Ana is a young girl with the same problems as any girl her age.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Indelicate Balance (1969)
Plot Summary:
A prolonged stay at his attractive and overbearing mother's home prompts Harald and his Karin to question their relationship, ultimately driving Karin into the arms of another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: crying
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That Tender Touch (1969)
Plot Summary:
When Terri (Sue Bernard) marries and moves to the suburbs, her lesbian lover, Marsha (Bee Tompkins), doesn't take kindly to Terri's desire for a "normal" life. Determined to win her love back, Marsha worms her way into the newlyweds' happy heterosexual home. Meanwhile, Marsha's seductive beauty converts several other women in the neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, cult film
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Swingers Sex Party (2007)
Plot Summary:
Five friends at a gathering to celebrate the upcoming marriage of two of them and discuss sex, marriage and infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)
Plot Summary:
David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, disturbing, serious, art house, independent film
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The Affair (2004)
Plot Summary:
A lonely housewife finds new life in a liaison with a free-spirited man in this romantic drama. Isolated in a remote home, Jean (Kelsey Oldershaw) feels suffocated in her marriage to uptight architect Paul (Horatio Ledon). An affair with her husband's exact opposite -- an unrestrained bohemian named Viggo (Andy Mackenzie) -- leads to a newfound feeling of liberation, but ultimately, Jean must forge her own path to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Urban Feel (1999)
Plot Summary:
An estranged couple receives an unexpected visitor who throws everything in their family off balance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Dog Days of Summer (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir