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Plot Summary:
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she encounters on her way to the top. When she's discovered dead in her apartment in 1957, the police try to piece together the clues to find out who murdered her … but to no avail.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 135 min
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Up Against Them All (2004)
Plot Summary:
A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
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Jargo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jargo is a German teen brought up in Saudi Arabia. Moving to Berlin, Jargo maintains his Arabian clothing until he encounters a similar aged German Turk Kamil and here begins his introduction into the world of juvenile cool (read delinquency). He then has to decide which girls he likes while being pressured by his father to get laid.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Iceland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: hot
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Sass (2001)
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Der Skorpion (1997)
Plot Summary:
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while May has grown into a straight laced, refined woman. The plot thickens when April avenges her mother's death by killing her father, and May is sent to jail as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Detective Arman, instantly taken with May, fights for her innocence and tries to get her out before she is taken down by other hostile prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
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La mia preda (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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Desert Passion (1993)
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Two show-business women leave Los Angeles for Las Vegas, but phoney state troopers abduct them in the desert and they are taken to a laboratory/prison. Here, males come to experience sexual fantasies, which it is the job of the two girls and other attractive captives to flesh out. The captors force an hypnotic drug upon them to aid their performances. Then a country hitchhiker they met earlier at a gas station decides to rescue the girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, rough, suspenseful, sexy, independent film
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Hard Vice (1994)
Plot Summary:
A vice cop and her partner investigate a string of murders apparently tied to high-priced Las Vegas call girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 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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Madame Claude 2 (1981)
Plot Summary:
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny. She knows too much about the dissolute mores of the French political class. She knows so much that several ministers, particularly inclined to the attendance of her call-girls, condemn her to death. Her girls, Karine, Hélène, Alexandra and Vanessa, each goes "to fulfill their mission": to coax an Emir on his yacht in the Bahamas, to satisfy the voyeurism of a British financier, to play "do me wrong" with a crafty American or to satisfy the lesbian instincts of a Hong Kong banker. But a journalist discovers these close relations with these powerful people.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, erotic, vintage, cult film
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Downfall (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
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Sametoví vrazi (2005)
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A thriller loosely based on one of the most violent Czech criminal cases of the nineties, popularly known as the Orlík murders. The film delves into the motivation behind the killings, exposing their exceptional cruelty and an absolute absence of moral values. The perpetrators executed four people on their way to achieving material gain. Two of the bodies were found at the bottom of Orlík reservoir, the third perished in a bomb blast, and the forth was shot at home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 137 min
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If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic
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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)
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In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman and goes to the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, heartbreaking
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A New Love in Tokyo (1994)
Plot Summary:
A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company (along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service), while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Madame Claude (2021)
Plot Summary:
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, captivating, crying
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The Wolf at the Door (1986)
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This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin, follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011)
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Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, erotic, social, sensual, erotic drama, sexual
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Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, Mike Newell's Dance With a Stranger (1985) concentrates on Ellis's (Richardson) short-lived relationship with motor-racing driver David Blakely (Rupert Everett).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, neo noir, psychological, touching, serious, realistic, reflective, tense, light
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Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
This film is based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos a prostitute-turned-serial killer who preyed mostly on truck drivers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Murderous Maids (2000)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter. Christine Papin (Sylvie Testud), and Léa Papin (Julie-Marie Parmentier) are sisters with an already troubled past. Madame Lancelin takes them into her home and employs the girls as maids. Christine sees in Madame Lancelin an ideal mother figure — in spite of her severity. But their wretched background — an indifferent mother and drunken abusive father — casts a shadow over the girls and over time their ill-fated situation darkens. The sisters withdraw into themselves and finish by committing the worst — killing Madame Lancelin and her daughter after six years of service, on the 2 February 1933 in Le Mans.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, realistic, suspense, exciting, captivating, independent film, queer cinema, weird
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Pasolini (2014)
Plot Summary:
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, intellectual, independent film, contemplative
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A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Bully (2001)
Plot Summary:
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy, stylized, melancholic, depressing, intense, teen
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Richard Jewell (2019)
Plot Summary:
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, tense, sad, realistic, factual, emotional, suspense, historical drama, touching, depressing
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The Whistleblower (2010)
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Based on the experiences of Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) who discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, political, educational, heartbreaking, factual, intellectual, suspenseful, suspense, thought provoking, sincere
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3096 Days (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, dark, saga, disturbing, controversial, teen, twisted, captivating, serious
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American Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, harsh, hood, clever, detective, suspenseful, entertaining