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Plot Summary:
The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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That Summer (1971)
Plot Summary:
The mother of a girl decides to trust his father, with whom he is separated, when he learns that it is seriously ill. This summer will be the last for both of them and all that is left to Peter is to stand by their child.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker, cult film
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Woe to young people (1961)
Plot Summary:
Two rich old friends, Andreas and Agisilaos are in love with young Rita. Andreas believes that youth and not money drive the word. He sells his soul to the devil, becomes young and flirts Rita. However, in the end it is Agisilaos that wins, as both the girl and her mother, chose him because he is rich. The film ends as Andreas wakes up to discover that he is old and nothing from what he dreamed has happened. He understands that youth alone is not enough and decides to give a dowry to lovely Rita so that she can marry the one she loves.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Roza of Smyrna (2016)
Plot Summary:
An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood and an old photograph that send him on a journey to bridge the past with the present.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, sincere, romantic, captivating, melancholic
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Risotto (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two mothers/wives devise a solution to the downsides of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Downhill (1961)
Plot Summary:
Greek teenage drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Matchbox (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dimitris, a grumpy middle-aged man, is having a hard time with his business partner on a particular decision as to opening a new business; and he's also having a hell of a time with his family members. He has a really short temper, and the unpleasant behaviour of his nasty wife and his disrespectful children don't contribute much to his health.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, weird
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A Quiet Death (1986)
Plot Summary:
Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more than just a doctor-patient relationship. As Martha travels through a deserted city landscape in a storm, the external world reflects something of her inner turmoil. Flashbacks are interspersed throughout the film to enhance the suspense of Martha's inner and outer journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Red Lanterns (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story of 6 or 7 prostitutes, at Pireas harbor.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Bachelor (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of a thirties bank employee whose wife becomes a luxury prostitute. The same would happen with the next woman who knows. Xouan a promoter says he belongs to a particular class of people and asks him to work together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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Evdokia (1971)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay together and overcome their inner conflicts, but the social environment crushes them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Love Me Not? (1989)
Plot Summary:
Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Revanche (1983)
Plot Summary:
During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girlfriend who allows him to sleep next to her feeling her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos’ jealousy as well as the ups and downs of their own affair. Since they all seem to be suffering, they form a trio and manage to live together in harmony for some time but then a well-hidden secret from the men’s political activism in the past is about to hit them like a new earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Worlds Apart (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, suspenseful, extraordinary
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Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: allegory, black comedy, cult film
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Dedicated to the Aegean Sea (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dedicato al mare Egeo is a forgotten and bizarre co-production produced between Italy and Japan from 1979, starring the famous Italian porn star Illona Staller (Cicciolina) and directed by the famous Japanese pinter, printmaker and novelist Masuo Ikeda (1934–1997) from his own script based on his novel “Ege-kai ni sasagu”, for which he won the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Japan. Ikeda’s vigorous artistic activity even included screenplay writing and film directing. With this movie, Masuo Ikeda has undoubtedly left his mark on the ’70s Italian skin cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Lover's Leap (1995)
Plot Summary:
An architect is struggling to get over his wife's death. He meets a young woman who brings him happiness only to find out she is his son's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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Speaking Parts (1989)
Plot Summary:
A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a screenwriter, who is casting for a TV movie based on the true story of her deceased brother. She hires him to play the lead and the two begin an affair. She becomes increasingly distraught as it becomes evident that the movie's producer is changing her story. Egoyan's trademark tangle of bizarre relationships surrounds the protagonists on their way to a mind-blowing conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, erotic, sexy, tech noir, independent film, contemplative
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What If... (2012)
Plot Summary:
Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a female German Shepherd called Lonesome. One night, after supper, Lonesome wants to be taken out. Demetris tries to change her mind but Lonesome insists Its at this moment that he comes to a decision. This decision will change his entire life. If Demetris goes out he will meet Christina, the love of his life. If he stays in, he will not meet her. Does true love exist? What is the impact of a severe economic crisis on people and how can the crisis destroy a couple? One story shown from two different angles.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, clever, breathtaking, heartbreaking, cerebral, mind blowing, romantic drama
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Candy Regentag (1989)
Plot Summary:
Flesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel. Join Bambi, Candy and the girls for an evening or two and find out what happens in the violent world of sex for sale. Candy is new to the business. She follows all of the rules of the house - she arrives on time, doesn’t take drugs, is polite to customers, and numb to all the men who used her. Then she meets Reg and breaks the most important rule - don’t fall in love with one of your customers. Their first encounter leaves her longing to see him again. She fantasizes about the love they share and how idyllic their life together would be. But the facts are clear. Candy is a hooker and she will never be a real part of his world … she’s one of Bambi’s girls. She has seen his life and felt his love, a brief glimpse is all she’ll ever have, KISS THE NIGHT!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film
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By the Sea (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Malta, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, melancholic, scenic, artsy, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, cult classic, aesthetic
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The Captive (2000)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, serious, erotic, slow cinema, aesthetic, sexual, realistic, gloomy, crying
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Animal Attraction: Carnal Desires (1999)
Plot Summary:
When business becomes pleasure at a massage parlor, someone has to lose.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, sexual, hot, sexploitation film
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Blackmail Boy (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind that lie well-hidden in the mists of the nearby lake. An intense plot and a totally unexpected ending make up this film, which features characters who are vulnerable, innocent and ordinary, but who become ruthless and callous, worrying only about protecting their financial resources. The offences are disproportionately serious compared to the financial benefits they try to secure.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, crying, humorous, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003)
Plot Summary:
Bored, horny, and frustrated, a woman begins an affair with a teenage boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, atmospheric, erotic, emotional, sexy, gloomy, dark, sensual, romantic drama
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Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
Biarritz. 16 year-old George, the high-school hottie, falls in love with Alex. To get his attention, she initiates a group game with Alex, Nikita, Laetitia and Gabriel. They will discover, test, and push the limits of their sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, captivating, eros, sensual, steamy, erotic, unusual plot structure, hot
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Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Plot Summary:
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, weeping, serious, realistic, biting, sexual, controversial, crying, independent film, sexy
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9½ Weeks (1986)
Plot Summary:
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual, controversial, psychological, visual, visually stunning, eros
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L'ennui (1998)
Plot Summary:
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexy, emotional, sexual, psycho sexual, sensual, transgressive, serious, realistic
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The Venetian Woman (1986)
Plot Summary:
Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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House on the Rocks (1974)
Plot Summary:
Elena, the wife of a very rich man, spends the summer on an island in the Aegean Sea, doing archaeological research. One day her son comes to visit her son from her first marriage. The sea, the sun, the shepherds with ancient half-lingual rites, a handsome youth, not yet an old woman - no one remembered what happened in Ancient Greece.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial