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Plot Summary:
A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Loüys and Marie de Régnier.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, emotional, erotic, romantic, controversial, visual, erotic drama, tragic, nostalgic
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Night and Day (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Concubine (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set during the early Joseon Dynasty, the film begins with the queen mother and former concubine (Park Ji-young) in a precarious position of having no blood ties to the childless king (Jung Chan). She schemes to replace him on the throne with his stepbrother and her submissive young son Seong-won (Kim Dong-wook). Indifferent to his mother’s plans, the timid prince falls in love at first sight with Hwa-yeon (Jo Yeo-jeong), an aristocrat’s daughter, who has already found love with Kwon-yoo (Kim Min-joon), a commoner. The king is eventually poisoned to death by the queen mother, who is desperate to be in power. Hwa-yeon is moved to a closely watched humble residence, with the queen mother planning to assassinate Hwa-yeon and her son to secure her position in the palace.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark, sensual, erotic, period drama
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The Story of Piera (1983)
Plot Summary:
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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Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)
Plot Summary:
The son of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Crown Prince Rudolf, is believed to have shot his female lover and himself in a tragic suicide pact in 1882 in Mayerling. Due to Imperial cover-ups, the full story may never be known. This story has been filmed several times, in French in 1935 and in English in 1968. Hungarian director Miklos Jancso recreates those events for his own purposes, continuing his favored theme of the rejection of paternal authority. In the film, which has very little dialog, Rudolf is a good-natured pan-sexual golden boy, who cavorts on his rural estate with a host of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. He refuses to leave his country idyll even though he has been ordered to by the Emperor, his father. Despite the fact that for a large part of the film, attractive young people go about unclothed and engaging in erotic encounters, the mood is one of melancholy rather than prurience.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, manga, eros, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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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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Forbidden (2001)
Plot Summary:
At his bachelor party, Jason has a one-night fling with Nikki, a radiant beauty with whom he forms an immediate bond. They agree to keep their secret locked away forever. Two years later, Jason, his wife, Andy and his fiancee plan a reunion weekend. Jason is shocked to discover that Andy's fiancee is Nikki. Now, secret and passionate affairs are played out.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Kreola (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kreola arrives in Santa Domingo to join her photographer husband Andy. Although Andy is initially jealous of Marco, who is in town looking for his missing girlfriend who did not return from Santa Domingo with her coworkers after a girls getaway. When Kreola and Andy site the missing girl Iris in the company of their gruff, dominating sea captain Leon, Andy suggests Kreola distract him so that Marco has a chance of getting Iris back. Kreola scoffs at this but eventually does fall under Leon's spell. Andy's writer friend Jo Ann blames the island atmosphere for the tendency for puritanical Westerners to reject their inhibitions. When Andy and Marco cannot free their women from Leon's influence, things get drastic.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Gift from Above (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: rough, semi serious, erotic, sexual, captivating, disturbing, offbeat, realistic, sexy
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Máncora (2008)
Plot Summary:
Following the suicide of his father, haunted by inner demons and his hatred for the world, Santiago decides to escape from Lima and take refuge in Máncora, a beach to the north of Peru where it is always summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Peru, Mexico, Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexual, sentimental, contemplative, sexy, road movie, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Diary of Lady M (1993)
Plot Summary:
She's a beautiful gifted performer, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Despite the fact that she is unlikely to become famous, she enjoys her life as a performer who lives just outside the mainstream. Awaiting her backstage one evening is a Spanish painter who has seen her show and wants to make her acquaintance. They walk around Paris getting to know one another, and then the painter returns to Spain. Something about the man has moved Lady M to passion: she flies to meet him in Barcelona and he shows her his beloved Catalonia. This time, however, their relationship is as much about passionate lovemaking as it is about compatibility. So smitten is Lady M with her new man that when she discovers that the painter has a black wife and child, she is only a little bit taken aback and she invites his whole family to join her in Paris. Surprisingly, they do, and the number of people sharing their love and sexual appetites changes from two to three.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, erotic drama
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Tabu: The Soul Is a Stranger on Earth (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl was in love with her sister. And she loved him back. Their relationship became sexual and caused quite a stir in the local society. But when his sister asked him to flee with her to Australia where no one knew them and they could live as husband and wife, he refuse for he could not live without the beauty of the German language. Torn between his love for words and his love for Grete, Georg turned to drugs and entered a downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Plot Summary:
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sexy, manga, explicit, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, erotic
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Sade (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, sensual, tense, erotic, independent film
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Caligula and Messalina (1981)
Plot Summary:
Messalina (played by gorgeous Betty Roland) is a power-hungry nymphomaniac who will stop at nothing to become Empress of Rome. She brings herself to the attention of Caligula by battling in the gladiator arena and it is not long before she achieves her goal, upsetting the Emperor's youngest sister Agrippina, who hopes that her son Nero will eventually become ruler of Rome. Agrippina successfully plots Caligula's downfall, but Messalina rains on her parade by immediately jumping into the sack with his successor, Claudius. But naughty old Messalina can't commit herself to one man, and shags everyone in sight, including a grotesque, but well-endowed, frequenter of brothels, a randy midget, her eunuch(!?!?) and an ex-lover. When she ends up pregnant, and it is obvious that the father is not Claudius (since he has been away fighting in foreign lands), Agrippina finally sees her opportunity to be rid of her nemesis once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, mockbuster, sensual
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Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and first muse Gerti, and 17 year old Wally, arguably Schiele's one true love, immortalized in his famous painting 'Death and the Maiden'. Schiele's radical paintings scandalize Viennese society while daring artists like Gustav Klimt and art agents alike are sensing the exceptional. But Egon Schiele is also prepared to go beyond his own pain and to sacrifice Love and Life for his Art. Art that inspires us up to this day.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, artsy, art house, non-linear
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Paula (2016)
Plot Summary:
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, humorous, captivating, touching, melancholic, suspenseful, artsy
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Vanessa (1977)
Plot Summary:
Olivia Pascal stars as Vanessa who was raised in a convent after the death of her parents. Due to an inheritance she travels to Hong Kong to find out the inheritance is a chain of bordellos.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, serious, realistic
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The Secret (2000)
Plot Summary:
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, erotic, captivating, sexual
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Sweet Sex and Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
They meet and they make love. They live together and they make love. Dong-Ki has one night stand with Shin-Ah, a woman who has hardly any faith in true love but indulge herself in sex. Shacking up and making love with each other day in and day out, these two young persons, however, find themselves argue about tiny little things and soon they grow tired of each other. Separation, nevertheless, makes Dong-Ki realize that he has already found the love of his life and a marriage proposal is his next step. Shin-Ah, on the other hand, has no intention to settle down.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, erotic, sincere, realistic, captivating, sexual
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Private (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tinto Brass - The maestro of Italian erotica is back! Lies, subterfuge, betrayal and mischief. Fallo! is a collection of six stories based on the joys of sexuality and the eroticism of a new generation of women.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, psychological, captivating, romantic, anthology
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Breaking the Surface (2006)
Plot Summary:
Having just landed a gig with a trendy magazine, young photographer Nadja celebrates at the local disco, where she bumps into Darius, a 20-year-old skateboarder. Although her frankness at first scares him, the two quickly become a couple, and as their intoxicating affair takes off, they seem like passionate soul mates. Soon, however, career demands and emotional intensity gradually put a strain on their rapport, and things turn even more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, atmospheric, emotional, art house, sensual, sexy, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Emmanuelle (1974)
Plot Summary:
Emmanuelle, a svelte, naive young woman, is en route to Bangkok where she'll join her new husband. He works for the French Embassy and has a lovely home, several dedicated servants, and an expensive car at his disposal. Once Emmanuelle arrives, her husband and a few friends introduce her to a realm of sexual ecstasy she'd never imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, controversial, cult classic, romantic, grindhouse, eros, erotic drama
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Intimacy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, sensual, erotic, controversial, bleak, disturbing, enigmatic, artsy, depressing
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Come Undone (2010)
Plot Summary:
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sincere, touching, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, art house, explicit
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All Ladies Do It (1992)
Plot Summary:
Diana is a Roman wife happily married to sympathetic Paolo but she is keen on playing benign games of seduction with other men while resisting the advances of chic lingerie shop owner Silvio. She narrates her adventures to Paolo in order to stimulate their otherwise monotonous sexual life. However, under the influence of her lesbian friend Antonietta and raunchy sister Nadia, Diana starts to move the ongoings further while Paolo is still prone to believing that events narrated by her are merely fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, entertaining, light, romantic, art house, transgressive, realistic, sex comedy
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Unfaithful (2002)
Plot Summary:
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, suspenseful, sensual, gloomy, psychological, suspense, psychosexual thriller
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Monamour (2005)
Plot Summary:
Marta is a young housewife, married to Dario, a successful book publisher. Although she still loves her husband, Marta hasn't been able to achieve sexual satisfaction for months due to their dull and predictable love life. While staying in Mantua for the Festivaletteratura, a book fair, Marta follows the advice of her scheming friend Sylvia and pursues an affair with a handsome and mysterious artist named Leon, which leads to surprising results regarding her failing marriage with Dario.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, captivating, romantic, controversial, art house, sex comedy, sensual, erotic drama
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Queen Margot (1994)
Plot Summary:
The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: period piece, sexy, epic, visually appealing, historical drama, atmospheric, captivating, bleak, costume drama, romantic
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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
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Cheeky (2000)
Plot Summary:
While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment that overlooks the Thames. There she meet the lesbian hyper-horny real estate agent Moira.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sex comedy, sensual, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic, realistic