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Plot Summary:
The theme of the delightful Hungarian fantasy film "A Very Moral Night," made in 1977 and now playing at the Public Theater, could well be innocence, even if the action does take place in a bordello. It is a good bordello, so sweet and wholesome that it seems a place of pure beauty and Eden-like charm.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Cha-Cha-Cha (1982)
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Gruber is a normal 16-year-old growing up in Budapest in 1962, but he has a problem -- how does he get to know the opposite sex? At the Sunday afternoon dance classes the young "ladies and gentlemen" hold each other while dancing, and that makes the lessons worth something. Otherwise, the pianist's attention wanders and the orchestra does not exactly play with a single-minded dedication. In fact, everybody seems to have other things on their minds, except for the enthusiastic dance instructor and his ever-smiling assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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The Toth Family (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (1989)
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A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy amateur philosopher who quotes the Koran. Man's habit of picking up young white women makes many young white men jealous.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Feeling Sexy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Feeling Sexy is a story about Vicki, a passionate and vivacious artist with a voracious appetite for life and love. When she meets and marries medical student Greg, she feels she has found true happiness, but two kids and hours, weeks, years of house chores later soon shatter the dream. Vicki wants freedom, release and self-expression, and despite her love for Greg, falls into a lusty affair with art student Hugo. But dishonesty and deceit are not for Vicki. She fatally confesses all to Greg and home life becomes hellish, with Vicki left crushed and demoralized and Greg suspicious and mistrusting. A radical solution is called for and Vicki discovers that the answer may lie within her own creativity and imagination. Vicki is 'married with children' and caught in the universal dilemma - how do you keep the passion alive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sexy
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, slang
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The Telegraphist (1993)
Plot Summary:
Set against the beautiful backdrop of northern Norway, this film tells the story of a telegraphist in a very small community at the turn of the century.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway
Duration: 102 min
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Brothers in Trouble (1995)
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Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy
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Funes, un gran amor (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
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The Balcony (1963)
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Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: political, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, grotesque, hot
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Killing Zelda Sparks (2007)
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When Zelda Sparks comes back to the small town of New Essex, two old high school buddies Craig Blackshear and Terry Seville decide to pull a vicious prank on Craig's meddling former girlfriend Zelda -- but Terry is appalled to learn that the prank may have taken a deadly turn.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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Fatso (2008)
Plot Summary:
Overweight loner Rino spends his days in seclusion, until his dad rents a room to an overtly sexual girl who challenges Rino to break down his walls.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, sexy, sex comedy, sensual, cult classic, teen
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Requiem (1982)
Plot Summary:
When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into the consulting room instead. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and then notes that his manner of eating is just like that of her previous husband, who died in prison many years earlier. It turns out that the young man had been his cell mate for a year, and he tells her the story of how her husband died. She then remembers (in flashbacks) how she had helped her first husband rid himself of his sexual repression, and how she had promised him she would marry her current husband if she were widowed. It seems her doctor-husband was a man who could remain untouched through any political climate, and was much admired by her first husband. Now that her memories have been awakened by the young man's account, she ignores the repeated phone calls of her current husband and decides to rid this young man of his own sexual repressions.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Batton Story (1976)
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Femi is accused of being a prostitute and is thrown into jail with the rest of the clan. Their she befriends the prostitutes and decides to set up an organization for prostitutes' rights.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, sexploitation film
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The French Woman (1977)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sensual
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The Body of the Stick (1979)
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Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Oh, Bloody Life (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from a high-born family. The government bias against persons of wealth threatens to destroy her career before it begins. As a final blow, she is threatened with deportation. The exasperation inherent in the film's title is only the tip of the iceberg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Spanish Woman (2001)
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Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sexy, captivating, light, realistic, witty, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy
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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
Plot Summary:
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Ranch (2004)
Plot Summary:
A comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, NV. "The Ranch" is a legally operated brothel that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical check-ups) and the semi-benevolent leadership of Mary, the manager. While the women on staff don't have to dodge the law like their comrades elsewhere, that doesn't mean they don't have their problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual
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Nana, the True Key of Pleasure (1983)
Plot Summary:
In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, entertaining, silent, erotic, period drama, silent film
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China and Sex (1994)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man falls for a woman who does not accept his courtship which forces him to enters a dangerous and erotic dream world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, suspense, sexploitation film
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Forbidden Legend of Sex and Chopsticks (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on the classic Chinese novel "Jin Ping Mei," written during the Ming Dynasty. The novel itself is the first full length Chinese fictional work to depict sexuality in explicit manner. The movie (as well as novel) takes place during 1111-1127 and centers around Ximen Quing, a corrupt social climber and lustful merchant who is wealthy enough to marry a consort of wives and concubines.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, light, humorous, sincere, feel good, sexy, contemplative
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The Reader (1988)
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A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days...".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, erotic, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, masterpiece
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The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Rich and powerful Simon Qing has been schooled in the ways of sex by his virile father, but is still a virgin. That is, until he meets his first love Violetta who has fun with him all over his father’s estate. Their love does not last, so Simon embarks on a journey. Along the way he meets the comely nun Moon whom Simon deflowers and then marries. He then becomes enamored of Golden Lotus but she is married to dwarf Wu Da-Lang.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, captivating, sexy, hot
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Wetlands (2013)
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Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sexy, erotic, controversial, intense, humorous, cynical, semi serious, surreal, art house
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Sex & Mrs. X (2000)
Plot Summary:
A woman regains her sense of self through a sexual reawakening after her husband leaves her for another woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, sentimental, semi serious, inspirational, realistic, contemplative, sexual
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The Key to Sex (1999)
Plot Summary:
When brainy office assistant Simon is left in charge of the boss's Hollywood mansion, the weekend becomes an opportunity of a lifetime. Entrusted by power-hungry movie producer Alan to guard the estate, Simon thinks he's finally made the grade until he learns that his friends and co-workers have their own plans for the place.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexploitation film
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Mandi (1983)
Plot Summary:
This classic film is based on a classic Urdu short story 'Aanandi' by Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas. It deals with a brothel at the heart of a city, in an area that some politicians want for its prime locality. They rally up against the brothel and its inhabitants in the name of morality, and soon everyone in the area jumps on the bandwagon. The politicians offer to put up an alternative residence for the prostitutes, only this place is miles away, isolated from the city. The madam of the house has no choice but to comply, but by the end things take a (logical) turn for the better. After all, men will be men.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: satirical, art film, parallel cinema, black comedy
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Nationale 7 (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator rookie. He confesses he wants to make love to a woman before her degenerative disease definitely catch it. Then Julie goes after one of the prostitutes who work in caravans along the N7.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, offbeat, realistic, sexual
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The Witness (1969)
Plot Summary:
Known as the best satire about communism, banned for over a decade in Hungary. 'The Witness' has become a cult classic, well received by critics and general audiences when it was finally released outside of Hungary. 'The Witness' takes place during the height of the Rákosi Era, which was closely modeled after the ruthless and brutal Stalin regime. The film follows the life of an ordinary dike keeper, József Pelikán, who has been caught for illegally slaughtering his pig, Dezsõ. Instead of doing hard time for his "heinous" crime, Pelikán is elevated into an important position, generally reserved for the communist elite. His new benefactor, the mysterious Comrade Virág, is reluctant to reveal the real reason behind Pelikán's preferential treatment. Thus, begins Pelikán's hilarious adventure deep within the "sophisticated" communist society... Until one day, when he gets called for to return the "favour" by falsely testifying against his long-time friend in a mock-up show trial.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: satirical, parody, black comedy, cult classic, dark comedy, thought provoking, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic