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Plot Summary:
A Chilean couple, Tomás and Helena, living in Barcelona in the grip of a heat wave receive an unexpected visitor: Sandra, the girlfriend of Helena’s recently deceased younger brother. Nymph-like Sandra is in no hurry to leave and slowly manages to wind both Tomas and Helena around her little finger. Tomas is trying to finish his self-help book in spite of his writers’ block and Helena can’t get her dead brother out of her mind. Sandra provides a welcome distraction, and soon becomes the object of the couples desire. With relationship boundaries blurred, passions are ignited in this erotic arthouse drama. ~ sydneylatinofilmfestival.org.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Misa is an underground idol and being filmed closely for a documentary. One day, an owner of BDSM club “H” perceives Misa’s potential and headhunts her as a dominatrix. Misa is confused at first, but when she meets the top dominatrix Kanon, she learns sexual pleasure she never knew.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
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Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
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Lucia is a Mexican girl from a poor town who sets her mind to cross the border to The United States to find her son's father who she hasn't heard from in years. On the road she meets Fernanda, a high middle class girl that has unresolved issues with her ex-boyfriend and is willing to travel hundreds of miles to resolve them once and for all. Lucia and Fernanda are two girls from two very different social backgrounds, yet they travel the same road hoping to reconnect with the men they love. But it seems destiny has brought them together in their individual quests to share a path, to know each other and to know themselves a little better and discover if happiness is at their destinations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min
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Paul Freeman (of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK fame) and Kate O'Mara plays a couple who can't have a baby, so they go to the doctor to have an artificial insemination...blackmail, dark secrets and drama ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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23 year old Jame Dean Ray is a small time drug dealer bent on self destruction. The product of a broken home, Jimmy refuses help from those around him and spends his final hours hanging out and selling drugs with of course and occasional robbery.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gift Girls (1980)
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Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Tattoo Bar (2000)
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Although she's still hung up on the man who broke her heart (Miguel Molina), club dancer Simona (Mercedes Ortega) pledges to eradicate all memories of him by removing the tattoos he put on her body. Complicating matters is Mariel (Alexis Valdes), the owner of a Barcelona tattoo shop whose obsession with Simona's undulating form leads him to steal the money to help her pay for the necessary laser treatments.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Love in the Mirror (1999)
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In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
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Don Juan (1973)
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Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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A social drama about a woman who is obligated to return to her parents’ home and agrees to work for her uncle in a doghouse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The All-American Girl (1973)
Plot Summary:
Debbie's boyfriend Bobby has left for Guatemala for three months and Debbie is expecting a boring summer. But then she hasn't considered her neighbours and their 15-year old son Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Affairs of Aphrodite (1970)
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The god Antiochus purchases a female slave for the gods Aphrodite and her brother Apollo. She is not only to perform the expected duties of a slave but is also to take part in the depraved sexual activities the two gods constantly engage in. What they don't know is that the slave is actually Sappho, the exiled Cretan queen. They buy another female slave, Katenga, and take them back to their home on Mount Olympus. When young Paris, who is in love with Sappho, hears about it, he shows up at Mount Olympus to try to rescue her, but fails and is taken prisoner by Aphrodite and Apollo, who use him in their perverted sexual games. Paris and Sappho seemingly go along with them, but are actually plotting their escape. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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Marsha: The Erotic Housewife (1970)
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A beautiful housewife discovers that her husband is having an affair, so while he's away on business she decides to embark on some erotic sexcapades of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Siren's Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
A painter has serious creative block. He decides that two nude models living in his house might help. His wife objects, or does she?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lap Dancer (1995)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Madame Olga's Pupils (1981)
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Madame Olga is the owner of a luxurious brothel in London, England. One of the brothel's new clients, a young man, falls in love with her. He wishes to have more than sexual relationships with the woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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The Bitches (1973)
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A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes very jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
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Emmanuelle y Carol (1978)
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A young married couple seeks out erotic adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
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Billy - young photographer engaged spicy photo shoot. Its main customers - women who want to revive the feelings and desires in their husbands. Three girlfriends are asked to photograph them: first - Janet, the wife of a police officer, the second - Lauren, a banker's wife, and the third - Evelyn is married to a lawyer. During operation Billy seduces three women, and one begins to blackmail them. Photographer Janet asks her husband to investigate. As a result, the blackmailers are, but Evelyn's husband kills her and Billy. I do not know if you can not satisfy a woman, give her love, kindness, warm heat - shot himself, IMHO, and his wife let him be happy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, erotic drama, sexploitation film
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The Beginning at Fifteen (1978)
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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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Climax (amenaza en las aulas) (1977)
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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
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Women (1983)
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Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, vintage, sexploitation film
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Karina, Object of Passion (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
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A voyeuristic tycoon orchestrates a risky, passion-charged triangle between himself, his right-hand man, and a beautiful executive. Another classy, erotic production from Zalman King.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Reform School Girl (1994)
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Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Young Casanova (1974)
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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
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A woman wishes to model nude for a men's magazine. The only problem is, her husband (a retired photographer) is against the whole idea.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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