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Plot Summary:
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sensual, biting, suspense
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Female Ninja Magic: 100 Trampled Flowers (1974)
Plot Summary:
In historical times, the Shogun family employs a group of Iga ninjas to take over the Akizuki clan's lands. The Akizuki hire the Fumi ninjas, a group of female warriors who enhance their fighting ability with sexual magic such as the "white snake spell". When the Akizuki emerge victorious, Tsukinojo, the leader of the Fumi ninjas, marries Lord Akizuki.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Love and Crime (1969)
Plot Summary:
Discover 4 famous japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The World of Geisha (1973)
Plot Summary:
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece
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Sada (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nobuhiko Obayashi, director of the cult horror/comedy "House," gives his unique spin on the true story of Sada Abe, who strangled her lover and cut off his genitals as a keepsake.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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Debauchery (1983)
Plot Summary:
Ryoko Watanabe is a bored housewife named Ami who throws herself into the “Madame Machiko Society Club” to spice up her marriage by making love to random men. This world of lust turns out to be kinkier than Ami thought it would be and may end up having a reverse effect on her precious marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, sexploitation film
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Rope and Breasts (1983)
Plot Summary:
Sayo is running a travelling BDSM show with her husband, where she plays the bottom, and gets increasingly bored with her life. During their tour in Kyoto, they are arranged by a well-off couple who ask for a private show, without knowing that they will eventually be forced for the "real thing".
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags:
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Secretary Rope Discipline (1981)
Plot Summary:
Secretary Sayo (Junko Mabuki) does some corporate snooping for her boyfriend, an upstart executive with a rival company. But she gets busted by the CEO (Akira Takahashi). Poor Sayo is captured and taken to a private torture chamber in the corporate mansion. While the secretary gets punished, the bossman's son (Jun Nakahara) becomes infatuated with her beautiful white skin and he assumes the disciplinary responsibilities. Between the floggings, stretchings, and wooden-horse tortures he finds time to cover her body in an elaborate tattoo.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: erotic, crying, biting, suspense
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Slave Widow (1967)
Plot Summary:
After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that Kito's intentions are anything but pure, as she's forced to become his personal concubine. Her only, improbable hope for redemption lies with her one true admirer: Kito's very own son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Abe Sada: The Last Seven Days (2011)
Plot Summary:
In May 1936, the “Abe specific incident.” shook the entire country of Japan. It is said that Abe had a live-in maid (Yuma Asami), the owner of the restaurant’s employer Ishida (Nobuyuki Matsuda) was killed, that the cut is more localized. With respect to neither confirm nor deny the crime, frustrated by the testimony of the specific criminal Urakawa Abe (Shun Sugata). And the relentless questioning of Urakawa, we are told the circumstances leading to death and cut from the bodies of penis. Result of fierce passion between men and women debauched erratic, and saw two people … and the constant questioning after the incident, and the constant “last seven days” to depict that Katsuaki the in the here and now Abe no specific story that you have to watch it!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Satan Was A Lady (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wishman's plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her tender trade. Lord help anyone who lays in her way.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, sexy, captivating, suspense
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Snake and Whip (1986)
Plot Summary:
Young, ravishingly beautiful girl (Ran Masaki) accepts a lucrative job as a secretary. Pretty soon company boss makes a pass at her in an abrupt manner. When outraged girl slaps him in the face, the man deliberately plans a revenge. Soon the unsuspecting girl falls into a trap and is forced to become his sex-slave! Long accustomed to S&M practices, the boss (we can properly call him "Master" from now on) will stop at nothing to humiliate the poor girl and to make her feel like the common animal.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexploitation film
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Fairy in a Cage (1977)
Plot Summary:
During the latter part of World War II, Judge Murayama, head of the Japanese military police, uses his position to falsely accuse, capture, imprison and torture women in whom he is interested. Namiji Kikushima, a high-class business woman, is one such lady. Kikushima is accused of using her Ginza jewellery shop to finance an anti-government organization. Judge Murayama has Lady Kikushima arrested, and orders the new recruit Taoka to torture her. Taoka falls in love with Kikushima, at first hating torturing her then growing to enjoy it. After a long series of tortures and humiliation, while the Judge espouses his twisted version of morality, Taoka sacrifices himself to enable Lady Kikushima’s escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, sexual, sexy
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S&M Judge (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1997, the Belgian public was in shock when judge Koen A. was convicted for the S&M relationship with his wife. Although their life was destroyed by the verdict, Koen and his wife Magda remain together today. The film is a story about dark sexuality and true love, told from the lover's unique point of view.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, erotic, captivating, sexy, thought provoking, sexual
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New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
Plot Summary:
A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Guardami (1999)
Plot Summary:
Nina is a young and very independent porno actress. She doesn't need the help of any agent or manager. She has a daughter and a lesbian relationship with Cristiana, a porno editor. Following a usual medical check she discovers she has a cancer. Her life is completely different now. Nina decides to visit her father. Also the real love finds now space in her heart. In fact at the hospital, she knows Flavio, a patient following her same therapies. Nevertheless their liaison Nina still continues to act in porn movies. But for one of them there won't be a future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, explicit, hot, weird
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Woman with Pierced Nipples (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man and woman share in some bizarre and masochistic sex-games, including chain-bondage, shoe-licking, watersports, and car-antenna f!cking. There is a side-plot about a female slavery ring where the captors are imprisoned in cages to be used at the will of a group of private sex-club patrons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011)
Plot Summary:
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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Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971)
Plot Summary:
Annabella (Charlotte Rampling) marries Soranzo (Fabio Testi). She happens to also be pregnant by Giovanni (Oliver Tobias) - who also happens to be her brother. Destiny, and jealousies threaten to expose her past, and Soranzo plots revenge. Based on John Ford's play, "Pity she's a whore", respecting its poetic text, and careful Italian Renaissance settings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial
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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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Stronger (2017)
Plot Summary:
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, emotional, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, compassionate, feel good, sad, patriotic
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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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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Plot Summary:
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts the events of 25th November 1970.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, philosophical, mind bending, psychedelic, spiritual, disturbing, anthology, avant garde
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Young Lady Chatterley (1977)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia inherits a large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt's diary and finds out how she was taught in the ways of love by her gardener in 1901 at the age of 21. She decides to continue the fruitful relationship and gets it on with the handsome young gardener herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic, sexual
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Down by Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, explicit
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Star 80 (1983)
Plot Summary:
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic, depressing, thought provoking, neo noir, cynical, gloomy
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, controversial, disturbing, art house, psychological, sensual, transgressive, surreal
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Quills (2000)
Plot Summary:
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece, realistic, sexual, sexy, serious, intellectual, dramatic, sensual, melancholic
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Lovelace (2013)
Plot Summary:
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexual, stylized, erotic, sexy, emotional, entertaining, intense, sincere, captivating, teen
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Henry & June (1990)
Plot Summary:
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, controversial, erotic, melancholic, atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, intellectual