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Plot Summary:
This well-executed biographical docudrama is a plunge into the madness (and the sanity) of a writer living life on its rawest edges. Agnes Von Krusenstjarna (Stina Ekbland) was a Swedish novelist (1894-1940) whose works ranged from the idyllically romantic to crushingly sardonic, sexually explicit autobiography. Von Krusenstjarna teamed up with the eccentric bisexual David Sprengel (Erland Josephson) and continued to suffer bouts of mental instability that Sprengel felt were best cured by sexual abandon. Von Krusenstjarna was not a model of emotional health when she first met Sprengel. She had inherited madness from her family while at the same time passionately rebelled against the narrow-minded mores of her genteel but poor parents. With his own wildly unorthodox behavior, Sprengel both helped and hindered Von Krusenstjarna throughout their turbulent relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: art deco
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To Forget Venice (1979)
Plot Summary:
A brother, Earland Josephson, returns to his family home to visit his sister in the Italian countryside. He brings with him his young male lover. In the house with the sister are two women, one of whom, Mariangela Melato, takes care of the farm. The two women are friends and lovers since childhood and one senses that Melato's relationship is shadowed by the relationship she had with her mother shown through wonderful flashbacks. The brother also has wonderful memories of his and his sister's childhood in that same house with their father who was a magician. Following a night out at a lovely restaurant in the woods, other memories of the past are aroused in the Brother. The next day they all plan to drive to Venice where his sister sang opera in her youth for a holiday. Fate intervenes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Hunger (1966)
Plot Summary:
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: philosophical, neurotic, black and white, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, odd
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Beyond Good and Evil (1977)
Plot Summary:
The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: philosophical, spiritual, surreal
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Doctor Glas (1968)
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Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 novel by author Hjalmar Söderberg but is updated to the time of the release of the film in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min
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Like Night and Day (1969)
Plot Summary:
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min
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The Consul of Sodom (2009)
Plot Summary:
Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's 'gauche divine' in the 60s, Gil de Biedma liked to describe himself as a 'poet of experience' while he suffered dreadfully from the dichotomy strangling him: bourgeois and executive for a multinational by day, communist and homosexual poet by night.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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The Lady of Monza (1969)
Plot Summary:
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Aarhus by Night (1989)
Plot Summary:
A biographical drama from writer and director Nils Malmros in which reality is mixed with childhood memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 101 min
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Liz (1976)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth and David are getting married. One day a sailboat anchor outside their villa in the archipelago. Elisabeth feels a vague threat from the unknown sailor aboard.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
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Le salamandre (1969)
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Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population could only reach freedom by declaring violence towards their occupiers, Cavallone’s tale sees a white photographer (Erna Schurer) who seduces a black model (the lovely ebony Beryl Cunningham). A doctor then arrives on the scene – Anthony Vernon (Antonio Casale) who took his pseudonym from Jesus Franco stalwart Howard Vernon – and Schurer falls for his charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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Amir (2016)
Plot Summary:
Amir, a young musician retired from the scene, must face a tough decision: To stay by Ely's side, his girlfriend, during an unwanted pregnancy or Jeanette, cute lead singer of a band that will restore not only his passion for music, also for love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Night Games (1966)
Plot Summary:
Jan (Keve Hjelm) fights impotence (literal and symbolic) and anguished childhood memories in a decadent Swedish castle where risqué parties and daring scenes defy 1960s' movie censorship, reaffirming the ground-breaking role of Swedish films in helping advance adult, sexually concerned themes in international cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, atmospheric, experimental, controversial, art house, expressionism, erotic drama
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Young Playthings (1972)
Plot Summary:
They're the erotic toys of the mindless generation... trapped in a never-neverland of distorted sexual practices.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house
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Lucrezia Giovane (1974)
Plot Summary:
In the early 16th century Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by Cesare Borgia and his sister Lucrezia. In a ruthless power play, Cesare plots to have his sister’s husband murdered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976)
Plot Summary:
Norma Jean Baker finds her way to Hollywood and is turned into sex symbol Marilyn Monroe.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Becoming Colette (1991)
Plot Summary:
Erotic French author Colette during her formative years in Paris at the turn of the century, married to a hedonistic bounder who publishes her writings under his name until she leaves him to embark on her own career.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, UK, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
Plot Summary:
A woman who was promised to a powerful family's son at birth falls in love with another man, refuses to renounce him, and is sent to a nunnery by her shocked parents. Once there, she first undergoes degradation to acclimatize her to convent life; then she experiences rampant lesbianism by the repressed nuns, and becomes pregnant by her lover. Finally, her refusal to accede to one nun's lascivious lesbian advances leads to plotting and treachery, and her lover being murdered out of jealousy. Her life now ruined, she further scandalises her family by refusing to take her vows, and leaves the convent, devoting her existence to those in need. Claims to be based on a true story!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: naughty
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Chinese Chocolate (1995)
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Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as the men in their lives reveal dark, unsettling secrets which change the lives of everyone forever. Intimately and honestly exploring for the first time the sexuality of Chinese women living in a foreign culture, this award-winning study of love and relationship makes for a unforgettable treat.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Untold (2014)
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A hate crime triggers disturbing flashbacks for a young veteran, finding herself reluctantly joining a PTSD support group. The eclectic group of women veterans encourages her to peel away her families' lies and confront her mother who holds the truth. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film
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When Love Is Lust (1973)
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A decadent countess (Françoise Prévost), middle-aged but still attractive, forces her young and timid daughter (Agostina Belli) to marry a rich butcher. But the couple’s sexual relation is troubled, because the girl has her fair share of inhibitions. So she abandons her house and seeks refuge at her sister’s place. During her absence, her husband finds consolation in his mother in law’s arms.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Story of Piera (1983)
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This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, neorealism, independent film, psycho sexual, grotesque
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That Tender Touch (1969)
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When Terri (Sue Bernard) marries and moves to the suburbs, her lesbian lover, Marsha (Bee Tompkins), doesn't take kindly to Terri's desire for a "normal" life. Determined to win her love back, Marsha worms her way into the newlyweds' happy heterosexual home. Meanwhile, Marsha's seductive beauty converts several other women in the neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, cult film
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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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Die Konkurrentin (1997)
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Katharina, a successful management consultant, has to face Maren as a new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Katharina's career. Despite all circumstances they work perfectly well as a team - and fall in love. Katharina, wife and mother to teenage twins, is shaken up by the new situation. Is she willing to live her life with Maren, an open lesbian?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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An Angel at My Table (1990)
Plot Summary:
Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, erotic, depressing, spiritual, ironic, neurotic, cult classic, spooky, sincere
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Daphne (2007)
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Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband Frederick 'Boy' Browning, and her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Benedetta (2021)
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The story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, a 15th century nun who was hailed as a visionary but later accused of fabricated miracles, homosexuality and other charges, and imprisoned for 35 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: sexy, sentimental, lgbt cinema, erotic, psychological, tense, suspenseful, stylized, period piece, costume drama
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Tove (2020)
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Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, romantic, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, contemplative, queer cinema, comic
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Quills (2000)
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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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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
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Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 206000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, captivating, heartbreaking, touching, teen, gothic, gloomy