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Plot Summary:
Lenz leaves England and returns to Paris in search of Madeleine who disappeared in uncertain circumstances. He meets Helena, a nurse still struggling with the loss of her infant son. Thus begins a fevered love story set against a backdrop of sorrow, passion, jealousy and self-destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, bleak, captivating, experimental
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Bali (1970)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy, West Germany, Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Sentiment of the Flesh (2010)
Plot Summary:
During a medical exam, Helena, a student in anatomical drawing, meets Benoit, a young radiologist. Their mutual fascination for the human body incites them to start a passionate romance. Helena's capability to memorize every detail of Benoit's body and Benoit's irresistible curiosity to uncover the 'interior' secrets of Helena's body lead them to a dangerous journey with no limits.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, naughty, explicit
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No One (2017)
Plot Summary:
Vera is a young psychologist who visits her father's cottage in the mountains after he passes away. Her boyfriend Tony surprisingly arrives together with her best friend Tanya, they have a secret affair and they are about to confess to Vera. Meanwhile Niki and Lily appear out of the blue. Niki is a wealthy man who has bought all of the properties but Vera's land. However, he wants to buy it at any price. Vera expects support and compassion but over the following days, her seemingly settled life will shatter, with surprising consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Frank and Eva (1973)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Women Without Innocence (1978)
Plot Summary:
Margarita is found, naked and bloody in a luxurious house and is promptly taken to a mental institute. The doctors and nurses meant to take care of her aren't exactly who they seem and a mysterious figure, clad in black, circles the premise at night, offing nubile young women.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, eros, sexploitation film
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E-Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Giselle (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her father's stepson, and with the farm housekeeper. She and some friends are also raped by some bad guys. But they all celebrate the ruin of traditional family values.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Drakkar (2015)
Plot Summary:
A girl and a boy live apart men, with just dogs ans internet for company. In their isolation, they try to live their love as freely as possible.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, erotic, hot
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The Blue Room (2002)
Plot Summary:
Toño (Juan Manuel Bernal) and his wife, Ana (Elena Anaya), decide to return to the town of Toño's parents after a long stay in Mexico City. But things get complicated little by little when Toño meets again with Andrea (Patricia Llaca), a friend of the time of the institute, because they unchain the desires that both had repressed when they were adolescents. Their passion brings them to places never explored while, in the town, the rumors are not made to wait.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, hot
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Intimate Parts (2013)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Moscow, home to several people who apparently lead a totally carefree life. They have all acquired status in society, and at first sight seem to have everything they desire. But each of them is lacking something, and each has their own intimate secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, captivating, ironic, sex comedy, explicit, crying, erotic
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Restless (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina (Laura Malmivaara), something unexpected happens - he falls in love. For the first time, Ari finds himself pursuing a long-term relationship, and he makes a genuine effort to remain faithful to her. But old habits die hard; Tiina introduces Ari to her circle of friends and temptation arises as he encounters Hanna-Riikka, a theology student, and Ilona, who is soon to be married. Despite Ari's feelings for Tiina, he begins having affairs with both Hanna-Riikka and Ilona, leading to an unpleasant revelation on the day of Ilona's nuptials. ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sexual, touching, humorous, sexy, erotic, romantic, realistic, semi serious, feel good
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The Diary 2 (1999)
Plot Summary:
A sequel movie to The Diary (1999). The movie succeed to replicate the 30's, between the two world war, between Paris and London. Anna (Lila Baumann) arranges Dr. Cristina Inger, a female physician for her paralyzed husband's treatment and she joins the shows at nightclubs as a stripteaser and prostitute to pay her. Husband is cured but fell in love with Dr. Cristina.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Husbands and Lovers (1991)
Plot Summary:
Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her on the weekends. At the same time the wife finds herself increasingly drawn to the violence of her lover versus the adoration of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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365 Days: This Day (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple's new beginning is complicated by Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura’s life to win her heart and trust, at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, feel good, disgusting
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The Last Mistress (2007)
Plot Summary:
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, stylized, realistic, sensual, sexy, disturbing, erotic drama, sexual, crying
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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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Addiction - When Nothing Is Enough (2004)
Plot Summary:
30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual
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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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The Big Swap (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this British drama, Ellen (Sorcha Brooks) and Jack (Antony Edridge) recall a time when they traded partners, and their remarks set a partner-swapping party in motion among four other couples. As the long night's journey into sex progresses, various fears and anxieties surface. Shown at Montreal's 1997 World Film Festival and the 1997 San Sebastian Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, independent film
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Emmanuelle 3 (1977)
Plot Summary:
Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, serious, realistic, hot
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Capriccio (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, romantic, manga, sex comedy
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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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Bilitis (1977)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, manga, sensual, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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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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Kiss of the Damned (2012)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, gothic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, erotic
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The Venetian Woman (1986)
Plot Summary:
Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Sex and Lucia (2001)
Plot Summary:
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, art house, cerebral, sensual, erotic drama, sentimental, serious, captivating
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Antares (2004)
Plot Summary:
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, psychological, anthology, explicit, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic
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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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Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, art house, controversial, romantic, stylized, visual, intense, art film