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Plot Summary:
Barbara is a sexy stripper, but she is dedicated to her husband. When a rich and above-the-law land-owner orders the murder of her husband to get her, she plans, and conducts, deadly revenge. She starts by intriguing between the rich man and his sons, who also had abused her, so that he has two of them killed, and then she sets out against the actual killers, shooting them herself, and leaving the old lecher and his older son to the last. The final confrontation has some surprises, though.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
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The Road to Katmandu (1969)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious socially-conscious man travels to Nepal to find his dead-beat dad. There, he meets Jane, a beautiful hippie girl hooked on drugs. He's forced to steal artefacts for his father's slimy employer to earn money to help Jane.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
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Date with a Kidnapper (1976)
Plot Summary:
A woman living in a boarding house is kidnapped by a small-time criminal. Soon others in the gang try to take her away from him so they can get the ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: independent film, bizarre
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The Hot Days (1966)
Plot Summary:
The story is about a woman traveling to the islands of the Parana River Delta to claim rightful inheritance, and begins to relate to fruit growers in the region.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min
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User (2002)
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Cathy, a young and innocent freshman, has a crush on senior hunk, Nick, the campus' basketball star. One day, he came to her and asked her to have dinner and drive her home. One thing led to another until she ended up giving her virginity not knowing that he made a bet with his friends. He dumped her right after he got what he wanted without any explanation. Filled with hatred, she seduced Louie, her classmate who had a crush on her, to get back at Nick - and as a favor she would go to bed with him. Things got out of hand and led to a tragic ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
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Veneno Cura (2008)
Plot Summary:
In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Pink Pussy: Where Sin Lives (1964)
Plot Summary:
An attractive songstress (Libertad Leblanc) lands herself a performing contract and leaves her home in Buenos Aires. She travels to Venezuela, and when arriving in Caracas, she soon discovers that her contract is a hoax made by a major drug baron. She finds that she is knee-deep in trouble herself and must be careful if she is to get out of her predicament in one piece in this 70-minute sexually oriented action feature from Argentina. When imported to the U.S., the film was dubbed into English, new footage (shot in New York City) was added and it was given the memorably salacious title The Pink Pussy: Where Sin Lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Venezuela
Duration: 70 min
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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
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The Buttercup Chain (1970)
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Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when Margaret is sent abroad for schooling. Now a young woman, Margaret returns to London and resumes her intimate connection with France.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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Heat Wave (1991)
Plot Summary:
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
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The Flesh (1991)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, grotesque
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Nightmares Come At Night (1970)
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Diana Lorys, Collette Jack and Soledad Miranda star in this sexy thriller about two alluring dancers, Cincia and Anne, who embark on an erotically charged partnership. But when Anne starts to have nightmares that feature her as a murderous killer, she begins to lose her grip on reality. Or is reality merely rearing its ugly head in her dreams? She's determined find out what's causing this turmoil before something deadly happens.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Liechtenstein
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark drama
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Carne (1968)
Plot Summary:
The misadventures of an attractive woman who works in a cold store.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
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The Game Is Over (1966)
Plot Summary:
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Act of Revenge (1989)
Plot Summary:
A dying man gives his lawyer a tape that manipulates her into taking a posthumous revenge on those who made his life Hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Fever (1971)
Plot Summary:
After falling from a boat on the Parana River, a woman (Isabel Sarli) spends time in the jungle with five rough men.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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May (2008)
Plot Summary:
After success of Kytice, which is based on the famous collection of poems of K.J.Erben, one of the most well-known character of classic Czech literature, Mr. Brabec went for even more famous poem Máj of K.H. Mácha, which is considered the peak of Czech romanticism.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy
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A Butterfly in the Night (1976)
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The story is quite simple and effective, a street whore in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord, of course family life is not the most suited for our girl, even worst when the rich guy has an acicdent that leaves him crippled, and soon all men in the Pampas wan't to rape her (go figure why), but there's a hero that really likes our gal and he will fight for her, will she stay in the Pampas or return to Paris?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)
Plot Summary:
A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Happy End (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set during the 1999 Asian fiscal crisis Ki-Mun has lost his job and feels ashamed at having to act as domestic housekeepr for his career woman wife Bo-ra. Bo-ra feels trapped in a passionless marriage and is having an affair with a former college boyfriend. Min-ki gradually pieces together the evidence of Bo-ra's infidelity, and is devastated by what he finds.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sincere, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Muhair (1967)
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Jose, a mountain rancher in northern Argentina, meets and begins an affair with Eva, a beautful but mysterious woman who is the mistress of Simon, a local gangster from a nearby village, which complicates things more when Jose's son Mario returns and also begins a romantic relationship with Eva which brings out jealousy in Jose.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Erotic Passion (1981)
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Since her parents' death, 19-year old Della lives with her aunt Marsha and Andrew, her old husband. One morning Marsha has sex with Alex, her husband's doctor. Right afterwords, Della seduces him at the beach while Marsha watches them from her window. The two women have a fight which results to Della leaving the house. She finds refuge at Maria's (a friend of hers) place but as it appears she is missing and the house is inhabited by Aris and Samantha. Della makes a pass at Aris, managing to infuriate Samantha. In the meanwhile, the local authorities are investigating the murder of Aris' business partner, Steve Brynner. When all trace leads to Aris, Della suggests a swap: She'll travel to Italy to get fake passports for the couple as long as they accept to murder Marsha.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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Marsha: The Erotic Housewife (1970)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful housewife discovers that her husband is having an affair, so while he's away on business she decides to embark on some erotic sexcapades of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Hoodlums (1980)
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Loretta is a singer and escort in a mob-owned NYC nightclub and illegal casino. The favorite working girl of manager George, Loretta is unhappy with her current occupation and looking for a way out. George, meanwhile, is losing his stranglehold on the business. Complications arise when Loretta finds herself falling for a man she meets in her off-hours.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Seduction (1973)
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After returning to Catania after a long period of time, Giuseppe reunites with his old lover, Caterina. Her 15 year-old daughter, Graziella begins to seduce her mother's lover and he soon breaks down and begins an affair with her. As time passes Caterina begins having sneaking suspicions about Giuseppe's & Graziella's relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy (1979)
Plot Summary:
This is an uneven presentation of the tragedies plaguing the lives of two women from the lower economic strata in Naples. Immacolata is married, is bisexual, and runs a butcher shop that is not bringing in much money. Concetta is a lesbian, doing manual labor and now serving time for taking a potshot at her lover’s husband. Immacolata has also been put in jail for guiding a young woman into prostitution. Immacolata and Concetta develop an intensely passionate relationship in prison and after being released, they defy Immacolata’s husband and society’s scorn by moving in together. But external threats are not as destructive, in the end, as internal contradictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Eros, the God of Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Young Mother 3 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Twenty year-old Ki-chan lives alone with his father. One day Yoon-seo (Kim Jeong-ah), his stepmother comes to live with them. She tries to be friendly with Ki-chan but he appraoches her as a woman and starts showing her that. Yoon-seo strongly rejects him but he knows that she wants him too. Their relationship turns into something dangerous. Then one day, Min-jeong, who has had a crush on Ki-chan for a long time, finds out what is going on between the two. The young stepmother fools her husband and falls in love with his son and the son falls in love with his father's woman. They make a deal with Min-jeong to make sure she doesn't say anything.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Next 365 Days (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Massimo's relationship hangs in the balance as they try to overcome trust issues while a tenacious Nacho works to push them apart.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disgusting, erotic
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The Ambitious Lover (1982)
Plot Summary:
A husband and his lover plan the killing of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, detective
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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