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Plot Summary:
A Hong Kong "Category 3" (exploitation) classic set during the Sung Dynasty, as a corrupt magistrate subjects a lovely, innocent young bride to inconceivable physical punishments after "convicting" her of killing her husband (by causing his penis to explode, of course). Plenty of raunch and unintentional humor. Viewer discretion advised.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, sexual, transgressive
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Don't Open Your Eyes (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Tao of ghostbusting; religion and policing. On January 2, 2006, three fateful things happen to Sergeant Yiu, a lackluster Hong Kong cop: he shoots a notorious criminal who vows to haunt him, his aunt dies and passes to him the ability to see ghosts, and he's given a desk job at the 7th precinct. There he's supervised by the hard-nosed Madame Tsui, he meets Bing, the force's expert on the supernatural, and he works with Fiona, a lovely colleague with her own secret. Can Yiu (called "Seven") manage his gift, face the ghost, and find the gang that's still at large? Help comes from Taoists, a young medium, and the venerable precinct itself, but the forces of evil are great.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, captivating, scary, serious
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Red Nights (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman acquires a box with a seal made of white jade, it is rumored that the box belonged to the first Chinese emperor. She journeys to Hong Kong in an attempt to sell the artifact.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, realistic, stylized, sexual, sexy
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Penetration Angst (2003)
Plot Summary:
Helen finds herself having intimacy problems with men. Her private parts are devouring all lovers and leaving her with an insatiable thirst for blood. In order to satisfy her cravings she becomes a prostitute which leads to a death filled tale of murder, madness, and sex.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, sexy, suspense, sex comedy, serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, erotic
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The Eternal Evil of Asia (1995)
Plot Summary:
A fun-filled trip to Thailand turns out to be a deadly one for four best friends when they accidentally killed the sister of a local sorcerer. When one of them mysteriously died upon returning the remaining trio discovers that a curse has been cast upon them. They must turn to a Thai magician for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, horror comedy, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy, transgressive
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Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture (1992)
Plot Summary:
Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: controversial, extreme horror, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, experimental, surreal
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A Chinese Torture Chamber Story II (1998)
Plot Summary:
A pair of country thieves make friends with a general rising within the imperial army. After the general finds himself falling in love with the beautiful sister of one of the thieves (who is the fiancee of the other) he decides to do whatever it takes to get rid of the competition and have her for himself. Viewer discretion advised: this film contains extreme violence and sexual situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, crying, transgressive
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Boarding Gate (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexual, psychological, tense, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, erotic
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Wanda, the Wicked Warden (1977)
Plot Summary:
Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, grindhouse, controversial, sensual, cult classic, explicit, queer horror, independent film, rough
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Run and Kill (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man (Fatty) returns home to find his wife with another man. He goes to a bar and begins to drink, waking up the next day to find that he owes a mafioso money for killing his wife. Not wanting to pay the money, he enlists a malitia organization only to find the leader a psychopath who seeks revenge on his brother, who the mafioso tortured. The psycho blames Fatty, and kills his mother and young daughter. Fatty must kill the psycho to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: controversial, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, banned film
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Bad Biology (2008)
Plot Summary:
Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience, resulting in a truly god awful love story.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, scary, rough, erotic, sexy, controversial, psychological, suspense, mystic
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Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)
Plot Summary:
Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, bloody, suspense, controversial, sensual, cult classic, independent film, erotic, rough
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School of the Holy Beast (1974)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Freeze Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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China White Serpentine (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dave's brother Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, the drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. It was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and dangerous mind games. This was Tracey's world, and it eventually killed Trent. Another junkie named Beth, who was also seduced and killed by Tracey, appears to Dave. Beth begins to pull Dave into the nightmare that killed his brother Trent. Dave's sanity spirals out of control as he is assaulted by realizations of Trent's dark past. The prick of needles, the pain of violence, the pleasures of naked flesh. This tempest of desire and agony engulfs Dave. It is his task to unlock the dark, seedy mysteries of Trent's past while surviving the journey himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, realistic, experimental
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Naked Killer (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is trained by a martial arts specialist to become a professional assassin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, suspenseful, rough, sexy, serious, stylized, controversial, sexual, fast
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Gut (2012)
Plot Summary:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around him. Dan has the solution... something Tom's got to see to believe... tonight. What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, flooding his mind with disturbing images, and binding the two friends together with its ugly secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating, controversial, scary, realistic
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We Are Monsters (2015)
Plot Summary:
Emma is kidnapped and imprisoned by a trio of psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, retro, suspense
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Scrapbook (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard has forced his victims to personally write in the scrapbook about their individual ordeals. Clara is beaten, raped, starved, and locked up like an animal, filthy and naked. She is forced to write in the scrapbook, adding her agony to the pages. She soon realizes that her only hope for survival is to manipulate Leonard through her writings in his cherished scrapbook.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, sexy, controversial, bloody, suspense, dark, intense
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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
Plot Summary:
Ilsa is a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners. Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and should be allowed to fight on the front lines.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic
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Julia X (2011)
Plot Summary:
Meeting a man on the Internet, Julia decides to see him in person, only to get abducted and branded with the letter "x" by that guy. A game of cat and mouse follows, but the story has an unexpected twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, serious, suspense, slasher, sexual, horror comedy, rough
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Nobody Loves Alice (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nobody Loves Alice is about Alice, a sad and lonely woman who always dreamed of finding the right person to be with.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, scary, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Dead On (1994)
Plot Summary:
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding well, he plans an elaborate scheme to kill Erin's husband. However all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, creepy
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Heart of Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
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Sex and Zen (1991)
Plot Summary:
A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people's wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees to help him find women, but only if he attains a penis as big as a horse's. The scholar has a surgeon attach said unit, and he's off and running on his mission, only to find that there are obstacles to his new lifestyle, such as jealous husbands and treacherous females.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sensual, surreal, sexual, disturbing, controversial, serious, realistic
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3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story is loosely based on a 17th century erotic Chinese story named The Carnal Prayer Mat and follows a young scholar named Yangsheng who gets married to the beautiful daughter of a local merchant. When their sex life proves unsatisfactory, Yangsheng leaves home and journeys to the Pavilion of Ultimate Bliss.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, serious, realistic, parody, captivating, sex comedy, sexual, sexploitation film
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Craig (2008)
Plot Summary:
CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own problems to deal with, he's not a bad guy, he's just in over his head as it is with his own problems. Craig has suffered some severe trauma and takes Lithium on a daily basis, but when he loses his pills, things slowly, but safely, starts taking a turn for the worse and the voices inside his head is getting louder and louder.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic, slasher, detective, cult film
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Visitor Q (2001)
Plot Summary:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger, somehow gets involved and enters the bizarre family whose son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, controversial, tense, dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, atmospheric, rough
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Trouble Every Day (2001)
Plot Summary:
Scientist Shane Brown neglects his new bride, instead spending their honeymoon searching for an old colleague who disappeared after a research paper he had written was discredited by the medical community. It turns out that Dr. Semeneau is living in obscurity in order to protect his wife, whom he keeps prisoner in a room with boards nailed across the doorway. The narrative unfolds the dark secret that drives each party.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, bloody, art house, atmospheric, rough, brutal, surreal
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The Ordeal (2004)
Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Scorned (1993)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexy, tense, suspense, melancholic, cult classic, sexual