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Plot Summary:
Raji is forced into prostitution to support her brother's education after their parents' death. She falls in love with Babu, who faces social ridicule after their affair becomes public.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy
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Das Andechser Gefühl (1975)
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An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not alone" - provides sustenance. Despite an unexpected series of events, longing in Achternbusch's world ultimately remains stronger than fulfilment and thirst better than beer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: depressing
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Special Education (1977)
Plot Summary:
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: educational
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Sirens (1999)
Plot Summary:
Who can you turn to when protectors become predators? Dana Delany, Keith Carradine, and Brian Dennehy star in this moving, suspenseful drama about one woman's courageous battle to bring a rogue cop to justice. Sally Rawlings (Delany), a corporate executive with a bright future, watches her life spin out of control after a policeman, Officer Wexler (Carradine), cold-bloodedly kills her ex-husband before her very eyes. Wexler is acquitted of any wrongdoing, and Sally finds herself standing alone against a shocking police department cover-up. Thwarted at every turn by a system steeped in deceit and corruption, Sally takes the law into her own hands. Hacking into computer files, staking out Wexler and questioning witnesses, Sally will risk everything – including her own life – to expose the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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Werther (1986)
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This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
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A (1998)
Plot Summary:
"A" is a 1998 Indian Kannada language blockbuster psychological love story film written and directed by Upendra. It starred Upendra and Chandni as the lead couple. It was about an unusual love story between a film director and an actress which was narrated through multiple flashbacks within flashbacks and reverse screenplay. The film dealt with various dark truths of film world like the casting couch. Due to the reverse screenplay, the audience were forced to watch it multiple times to understand the story. The movie generated a lot of attention, which began with its rather unusual name. Then there was the subject matter, which dealt with the love affair between a director and his heroine and the dreaded casting couch. The movie discovered human emotions through a different dimension and showed how emotions change with circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: kannada, psychological thriller, cult classic, cult film
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Subarnarekha (1965)
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Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been separated from his mother. To keep the two children from poverty, Ishwar abandons the colony to take an administrative job at an iron mill. Years pass. During one school vacation, the now-grown Sita and Abhiram acknowledge their love for each other. Ishwar, turned grimly bourgeois, opposes their match, and his interference leads to disaster for all three.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Chakra (1981)
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Amma (Smita Patil) is a woman who has been raped and then forced to flee her home with her husband and child after her husband kills the rapist. Her life plunges even lower in the overwhelming and crowded city when her husband, in turn, is killed by smugglers. Left alone to fend for herself and her little boy, she desperately tries to instill moral values in her son in spite of the immorality of life all around them. She is indirectly aided in this effort by a dubious hero-type, but there does not seem to be much hope for her future and that of her son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: art film, parallel cinema, ambiguous ending
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Thappu Thalangal (1978)
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Thappu Thalangal is a saga of emotional and selfish world of human feelings. Devu, a local thug whose weapon of choice is a bicycle chain he sports casually around the neck. On one of his nightly rounds, Devu is pursued by a cop and seeks refuge at a whorehouse run by a hooker Sarasu. Despite her vehement protests, he stays put and leaves only at daybreak, but her persistent cough stays with him. At a theatre, Devu watches an advertisement for Glycodin Cough Syrup and proceeds to buy her a bottle. Devu and Sarasu bond over the cough syrup and philosophize late into the night, exchanging notes on their immoral lifestyles. Devu's assault on a trade union leader delivering medicine to a critically ill worker leads to a mishap. In an inspired moment, he suggests they remap their lives and chart a moral course. The couple's plans for normality never attain fruition. The inevitable return to lives of vice is especially tragic and heartbreaking.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
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Vidheyan (1994)
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Thommy, a Christian migrant labourer from Kerala is an obedient slave of his aggressive, tyrannical landlord Bhaskara Pattelar. Thommy obeys all the orders of his master, whether it is to make his own wife sexually available to his master or in killing Pattelar's kindly wife, Saroja. When Pattelar escapes to a jungle, due to his own deeds, Thommy escorts him like a pet. But when Pattelar is killed Thommy exults in freedom.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: slang, sexual, cult classic, sexy, cult film
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Regina (1990)
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The beautiful, educated and independent Regina hears from her partner Tiit that he has decided to marry a young pregnant girl. Then, she gets an inheritance - a house in a small borough. There's both a reason and an opportunity for a life-change so Regina moves away from the capital. She cannot handle the house and garden on her own and while looking for help, finds Ants, a skilled handyman, yet also a drunkard. Because he's the best she could find in the borough, she decides to marry him, but have children with abstinent and healthy men. Her plan works until something she didn't take into account appears.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 108 min
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Excitement Class: Love Techniques (1972)
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Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents all sorts of stratagies to disgust Ikuko´s fiance, a professor of chemistry in the same school. As his plan fails, he plans a radical solution...and the results turns out to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Witch Hunt (1981)
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Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli (Lil Terselius) returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter (Anita Bjork), eventually tending a plot that once belonged to her family. But Eli has been gone a long time, and the opaque villagers see her as an outsider -- she is suspicious from the start. The year is 1625, and stories of witches conjuring up evil are a part of the daily culture. Eli unwittingly makes matters worse for herself when she is able to cure the sick with herbs, and when she begins an affair with Aslak (Bjoern Skagestad) a farmhand -- clearly she must have cast a spell on him. This all adds up to a witch hunt with a ready-made "witch." Eli, in the end, is officially accused of witchcraft by a devious bailiff, while Ingeborg makes every attempt to save her, and Aslak himself does not survive the stress -- hardly a good omen for the outcome of the trial.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Bugis Street (1995)
Plot Summary:
It’s monsoon season in Singapore. Bugis Street, the epicentre of multisexual nightlife and unchained libido, is where a band of hedonistic, transidentical poeple has taken root at wacky love hotel SinSin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, gay cinema
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La bambola (1991)
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A man without scruples mistreats his lover and her daughter, a teenager. also in his mind a diabolical plan to force the girl into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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The Two Faces of Love (1972)
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Eleana (played by Anna Fonsou) is a prostitute who appears to have been abused when she was younger. During her daily encounters with various clients, she meets a young labourer called Christos whom she momentarily tries to develop a normal relationship with. Old habits die hard and she soon hits the streets again but it's too late, Christos has become infatuated with Eleana and plans to marry her. Gradually, the pressure and stress of the situation starts to take it's toll on Eleana's sanity and leads to a surreal, nightmarish climax!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Lakshmi (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, Lakshmi is a story of heroism and untold courage. Lakshmi, a 13 year old girl is kidnapped and sold into prostitution. Thrown into this horrific, inhuman world where she is raped and brutally beaten she barely survives with the help of the other girls and her own will to never give in. Finally she is rescued in a police raid. Against all odds, Lakshmi shows courage where everybody else fails. Resisting all pressure - violent threats, coercion and bribes, she stands up in court and in a landmark case in India, succeeds in putting the traffickers behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, splatter
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Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women (2003)
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A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to attract the attention of all the villagers,.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, India
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, dark, social, art house, sexual, mind blowing, bleak, realistic
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The Last Monk (2006)
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The Last Monk is the journey of a young newly-married woman from the world of the newly-rich, 30-something IT engineers and corporate managers in New Delhi, to the vast, stark beauty of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. It is a journey from the superficial materialism of the new young Indian middle class to the universal mysticism of Buddhism. The otherworldly landscape becomes inseparable from the cosmic power of the physical and mystical universe as she discovers her own spirituality and a sexuality beyond the physical, led and mentored by a young khempo, or lay Buddhist monk vital, verbose, funny, and a fountain of cosmic truths. The Last Monk is part of a growing movement in Indian cinema, approaching the societal and spiritual issues raised by todays rapidly-changing India.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
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The Little Death (2010)
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An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) and a corrupter of innocence battle over the fate of a young woman (Christie Vozniak) who seems to be held there in sexual captivity. While the owner attempts to mesmerize and seduce the would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) wanders into the house and becomes a tragic pawn in the psychological game of cat-and-mouse that is rapidly unfolding.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, erotic, offbeat, contemplative, talky, independent film, period piece
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Shanghai Belle (2011)
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The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women who all go through 'hell' to finally receive an unexpected redemption. Each of them states her intimate confessions through daily diaries. They experiment a journey on the 'edge'. The result of which is the loss of their innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Yellow Emmanuelle (1977)
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In this sexpolitation effort, a British pilot is assaulted by a gang of hoodlums and left on the street. He's eventually taken to a hospital, where he is nursed back to health by Dr. Emy Wong, a beautiful Asian physician. As the pilot is restored to full health, he becomes increasingly infatuated with Emy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Let's Talk About Sex (1998)
Plot Summary:
Woman interviews her friends, talking about sex.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, independent film, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sex comedy, multicultural, erotic
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Country Hooker (1974)
Plot Summary:
A couple of musicians are on their way to a show at a country bar. Along the way, they pick up a couple of sexy hitchhiking ladies and decide to pull over for a pitstop. Eventually, they make it to the bar and uncover that the deep voiced country singer that also plays there is also a pimp who uses the "waitresses" to make him some extra cash. It is up to our musician heroes to put an end to the singer and his operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Katie Tippel (1975)
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In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Plot Summary:
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, social, tense, period piece, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, thought provoking, realistic, rough, serious, sexual, semi documentary, independent film, sexy, hot
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Paraiso Travel (2008)
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PARAISO TRAVEL is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his girlfriend Reina leaves his comfortable life in Medellin and flees with her through Guatemala and Mexico, across the borders, illegally into the United States. Marlon's journey, which takes him through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, ultimately takes him to a place he could have not predicted.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, gloomy
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Girls to Buy (2021)
Plot Summary:
Emi is a young ambitious girl who has been dreaming about a big world for years. Whenever an opportunity arises, she jumps into its modes without hesitation, becoming an exclusive escort. Soon it is she who, at the invitation of Arab sheikhs, begins to recruit Polish misses, celebrities, screen stars and models. However, this inaccessible, luxurious world will soon show its dark side.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Slovenian Girl (2009)
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Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, captivating, realistic, sentimental, sexual, transgressive, sincere, thought provoking, serious
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Showgirls (1995)
Plot Summary:
A young drifter named Nomi arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become a top showgirl.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, realistic, sensual, cynical, controversial, satirical, psychological, retro