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Plot Summary:
The 18th-century French marquis (Keir Dullea) recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, erotic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like De Sade (1969):
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Lola (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions. When he 'tames' the daughter of the mansion supervisor and marries her, his young wife soon becomes the dominating person in the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Venezuela
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
Lie to Me the Truth (2021)
Plot Summary:
A couple in love spends time away from civilization. The sudden arrival of the younger sister first, and then the girl's ex-boyfriend, violate the country idyll. Each of the heroes has his own plan for this weekend, and together they become hostages of the situation and participants in cruel psychological games. Falling in love gives way to passion, and innocent flirting causes jealousy and can lead to mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, disturbing, rough, suspense, ambiguous ending, visually appealing, twist ending
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Deviant Obsession (2002)
Plot Summary:
Joan Alton is a lawyer who goes undercover at a strip club to gather clues that might exonerate her lover who has been accused of murder. While the defendant's secrets unveil, she will stop at nothing to catch the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film, campy
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Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)
Plot Summary:
A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sensual, suspense, grindhouse, naughty, perverse, twisted, queer horror, rough, serious, realistic
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Friend of the Family II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Alex decides to have an affair with a woman named Linda while he is on business in New Orleans. When he returns home to his wife and child, he is surprised to find that his wife has hired the off-kilter homewrecker as a nanny to their baby. Alex must find a way to stay cool and not let his wife know the true identity and intentions of Linda.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, independent film, sexual, cliffhanger
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Eugenie (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power so affects her that begins to find herself sexually attracted to her stepfather. He notices this, and eventually brings her into his dark world of sexual perversion and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Liechtenstein, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, retro, suspense, naughty, sensual, perverse, twisted, psychological, serious, realistic
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Point of Seduction III: Body Chemistry (1994)
Plot Summary:
Movie producer Alan Clay wants to make a movie about Dr. Claire Archer and her amazing life story (she's been 'forced' to kill two men in self defence). Claire falls for Alan, and Alan cannot resist temptation, so now he's hiding an affair from wife Beth. When the movie writer's investigations uncover new facts in the killings, Claire senses the danger, and responds.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, hot, sexploitation film
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Justine de Sade (1972)
Plot Summary:
Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, controversial, sensual, bleak, serious, realistic, sexual, grindhouse, sexy
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Sensation (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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In Dark Places (1997)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful woman lures her half brother into a game that may leave her the sole heir to their abusive father's fortune.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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Boxing Helena (1993)
Plot Summary:
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot is bizarre and perhaps sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, surreal, surprise ending, offbeat, bleak, sexy, mindfuck
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Kept (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's lover (kept in a classy flat she owns and observed via closed-circuit TV by the applauding Lance). Kyle is Barbara's latest intern and lover, and he may be in danger. He also starts to fall in love with Barbara, and the feeling may be mutual. In the background are Erin, Lance and Barbara's myopic administrative assistant, and Tony, Kyle's one-time roommate who also knows Barbara. Can the cops solve this before too many more die?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, touching, bleak, captivating, disturbing
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Flower and Snake (2004)
Plot Summary:
The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can while he watches. She’s put on stage in an underground BDSM sex show and begins a spiraling decent from strongly independent woman to submissive sex slave.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, surreal, controversial
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Dead On (1994)
Plot Summary:
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding well, he plans an elaborate scheme to kill Erin's husband. However all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, creepy
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Animal Instincts (1992)
Plot Summary:
A cop and his sexually frustrated wife are struggling to keep their failing marriage intact, when by chance he finds that he is at heart a voyeuristic peeping tom. To satisfy him, his wife has numerous affairs, which her husband watches on closed-circuit televison. However, the pair soon learn that when you play with fire, you'll always get burned.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, retro, steamy, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, hot
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The Housemaid (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to a dark consequences. Eun-yi is hired as an au pair for Hae-ra (pregnant with twins) and her rich husband Hoon. Eun-yi's primary task is watching the couple's young daughter, Nami. Eun-yi is eager to connect to Nami, who gradually warms to her. Hoon begins to secretly flirt with Eun-yi, enticing her with glasses of wine and his piano playing, and they eventually begin a sexual relationship. Despite the affair, Eun-yi is still warm and friendly to Hoon's oblivious wife, Hae-ra. She even expresses enthusiasm and delight at the progress of Hae-ra's pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, sexy, sensual, psychosexual thriller, sexual, psychological
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Body of Evidence (1992)
Plot Summary:
Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, suspense, intense, rough, serious, realistic, stylized
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The Pet (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young woman in dire financial straights accepts an offer to be a wealthy aristocrat's human "pet" for six months. Then ruthless modern "pet-nappers" kidnap the woman to sell her on the GSM (Global Slave Market).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, rough, realistic, sexy, suspense, erotic, serious, sexual
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Sinful Intrigue (1995)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious attacker is preying on the rich and decadent set in an elite community.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, suspense
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When Will I Be Loved (2004)
Plot Summary:
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, talky, stylized, psychosexual thriller, sexual, serious, realistic, erotic, independent film
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Inner Sanctum (1991)
Plot Summary:
A woman attempts suicide when she suspects her husband doesn't love her and is having an affair. Now she's wheelchair-bound, and her husband, who indeed doesn't love her and is having an affair, hires a private nurse to look after his wife. The nurse begins to suspect that she was hired because of unproven allegations that she murdered someone's wife in a similar situation, that the husband wants her to murder his wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, absurd, sexual, erotic, tension, realistic, sexy, serious, suspense
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Night Eyes Three (1993)
Plot Summary:
A security guard falls for a famous TV actress he is hired to protect while dealing with mobsters who want his hide for some sour business deal.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, independent film, sexual, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hot
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Bound (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a wealthy real estate mogul falls in love with a younger man, and she is introduced to the world of BDSM. With her newly awakened sexual prowess, she is finally able to take control of her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, semi serious, light, suspense, mockbuster, sensual, sexy, tense, serious
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Marquis de Sade (1996)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the notorious Marquis de Sade. In 18th century Paris, an innocent beauty's search for her missing sister leads her into the deadly sensuous realm of the infamous Marquis de Sade. Imprisoned for his sordid crimes, the Marquis likewise has the beauty morally trapped... for she must help him complete his banned book of lust, or never learn the fate of her sister. It becomes a test of wills and wit, as the Marquis attempts to convert her to his deviously sexual philosophy. When the Marquis escapes his prison, she must follow him to his remote chateau of sin to finally discover her sister's fate, and to face her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Poison Ivy II (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young and naive college art student becomes obsessed with assuming the identity and personality of a departed coed who used to live in her room, and in so doing causes complications that result in two men, a student and her art professor, lusting after her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspense, psychological thriller, sexual, romantic, serious, realistic, independent film
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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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A Harlot's Progress (2006)
Plot Summary:
Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, historical drama, sexual, sexy, period drama
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Augustine (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, realistic, tense, stylized, sexual, crying, sexy, period drama
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Killing Me Softly (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, romantic, psychosexual thriller, romantic drama
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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