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Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of Detroit's underworld, 17000 Block tells the story of Buck, a young man trapped in the middle of a street family rivalry - he is coerced, by his unscrupulous Uncle Eddie, to pull a robbery. When the job goes bad Buck finds himself running from the law, and the streets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Gypsy Angels (1990)
Plot Summary:
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Pineapple (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Texas publishing exec who's on the wagon and in A.A., walks in on his wife in bed with another man, and in the nasty divorce that follows, he falls off the wagon and takes up Crystal. Alternating between concern for his pre-teen daughter, his enjoyment of rough sex and cocaine with Crystal.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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On the Block (1990)
Plot Summary:
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s Baltimore, Maryland. -- KillerMovies.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Crying for Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a professional swimmer relentlessly urged on by her ambitious father, was deprived of her only real chance of happiness. Mette has left her deeply religious family, finding it too hard to bear that they have accepted her fate while she hasn't. And Stephanie has brutally rejected her boyfriend in fear of being rejected herself. Although their stories are very different, the three girls are brought together in their search for love and companionship. Based on the Oscar nominated short fiction »At Night«.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
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Dragonflies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
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Melissa (1995)
Plot Summary:
Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister love triangle puts both her heart and her life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
Plot Summary:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
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Le sphinx (1995)
Plot Summary:
A school teacher falls in love with a stripper/singer. He even leaves his wife and children for her. He soon spends a lot of time at the club where he works part-time as the M.C.. But the owner, a mobster, interferes in the relationship which brings fear and violence into the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min
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Uta (1969)
Plot Summary:
Girl-on-girl lust with a nubile 20-year-old discovering herself in hippie-covered San Francisco by -- what else? -- becoming a hooker.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tension, grindhouse, suspense, sexploitation film
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Gemini Affair (1975)
Plot Summary:
A hopeful young actress is lured to Hollywood by the seduction of fame and fortune. A friend she lives with while in Hollywood becomes her lover, and they both soon come to realize that the seedy Hollywood lifestyle is not for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Hollywood After Dark (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young girl comes to Hollywood to try to break into the movies, but winds up being taken advantage of by sleazy producers, and is forced to become a stripper.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Molly & Gina (1994)
Plot Summary:
Molly is the former secretary of a murdered private detective. Gina, a budding actress, witnessed the shooting which also killed her boyfriend. Together, they set out to bring the culprits to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Passion Fever (1969)
Plot Summary:
This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other lost the dialogue sheets needed for dubbing the films into English. With the original dialogue a mystery, and not understanding Greek in the first place, the Grand Dame of Sexploitation simply re-invented the entire plot blissfully dubbing it away without any clue as to what was really being said, and then adding some steamy sex scenes with her own anonymous adulterers to liven things up.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Sweet Sickness (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film
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Sex for Sale (1974)
Plot Summary:
This lurid, ultra-stylish expose on the 1970's Hong Kong modeling circuit, is something to behold.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
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Beyond Honor (2004)
Plot Summary:
A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by tradition. Beyond Honor is an emotionally resonant meditation on gender roles and the dynamics of power within a small community.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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Child's Play (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, social
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Paul Raymonds Erotica (1981)
Plot Summary:
Brigitte Lahie stars as a stunning French reporter who Paul Raymond personally invites into Soho's sleaziest sex locales. This experience convinces the young woman that she wants to be a stripper too. This slice of erotica features a lineup of Reyuebar Girls, as well as ladies from the pages of Men's Only and Escort Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Nature's Playmates (1962)
Plot Summary:
Chicago private detective Russell Harper and his assistant, Diana, travel to a Florida nudist camp to find a missing husband and both of them soon become embroided with the life of nudists while falling in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: detective, grindhouse, independent film
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Threes, Menage a Trois (1968)
Plot Summary:
Meet a couple of hipster swingers addicted to love. He's a novelist and she's a leather fetishist who provides valuable and stimulating research for his lurid erotic adventure tales! Their open marriage allows the couple to travel a delirious, flesh-filled but barren human landscape where endless carnal thrills can take their toll on the soul!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: sensual
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One Shocking Moment (1965)
Plot Summary:
Hunky businessman Cliff and his sweet wife Mindy move from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Los Angeles, California. They take up residence in an apartment complex where several lovely young ladies also live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird, cult film
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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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On the Road (2016)
Plot Summary:
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs and daily life backstage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Personal Search (1973)
Plot Summary:
Basia and Krystyna are trying to smuggle clothes, perfumes and other things purchased abroad through the border back to Poland during communist period. They are accompanied by Basia's son Piotrek, infatuated with Krystyna. At the beginning everything appears to go smooth. Suddenly, however, the custom officer Roman stops pretending being fooled and demands body search which has to be carried out by next shift.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 75 min
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Lap Dancer (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sexy but cash-poor young working woman finally stands up for herself, not wanting to depend on "her man" all the time and not accepting the rules men around her want her to observe, by deciding to simultaneously take a walk on the wild side and make some extra bucks by working in a stripclub as an exotic dancer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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The Beginning at Fifteen (1978)
Plot Summary:
A story of the sexual adventures of three fifteen year old girls: Elisa, Marian and Susi.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Sleepwalker (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia's secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia's sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, emotional, realistic, serious, erotic, gloomy
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Lap Dancing (1995)
Plot Summary:
Angie is having no luck auditioning for movies. She thinks about going back home, but her roommate Claudia convinces her to try working at the "gentleman's club" with her in order to gain more life experience. Angie hopes to be able to turn the experience toward more effective acting but is having difficulty overcoming her inhibitions. She meets a burned out movie director at the club who helps her with her dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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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
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Carny (1980)
Plot Summary:
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: stylized, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, semi serious, light, road movie, atmospheric, sexy, feel good