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Plot Summary:
Johanna (Katharina Thalbach) has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johanna passionately argues with her friend's pro-Nazi brother and at the same time, falls for the second, good-looking brother who shares her own anti-fascist feelings. The two are soon engaged in an active sexual relationship that continues as they travel north to an Arctic port.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Finland
Duration: 117 min
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Marcy (1969)
Plot Summary:
Marcy is forced to change her sexual orientation because of town rumors.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Claude et Greta (1970)
Plot Summary:
A stylish sensual sample of European erotica about an aspiring model in Paris who becomes a participant in a relationship with a lesbian.Her female lover becomes too possessive, the model takes a job with an homosexual painter.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic
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Permissive (1970)
Plot Summary:
When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But tragedy is never far away. With its effective blend of gritty location work, brooding flash-forward devices, and a soundtrack by cult acid folk and prog rock legends Comus, Forever More - who also star - and Titus Groan, Permissive is a dark British counter-cultural artefact that's shot through with grim authenticity. As a bonus, this release also includes Stanley Long's ultra-rare Bread, a film which, whilst exploring the same cultural milieu as Permissive (and featuring its own bona fide cult British rock band, Juicy Lucy), takes a somewhat more lighthearted approach to its subject.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Proxy (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Le salamandre (1969)
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Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population could only reach freedom by declaring violence towards their occupiers, Cavallone’s tale sees a white photographer (Erna Schurer) who seduces a black model (the lovely ebony Beryl Cunningham). A doctor then arrives on the scene – Anthony Vernon (Antonio Casale) who took his pseudonym from Jesus Franco stalwart Howard Vernon – and Schurer falls for his charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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The Books of John (2007)
Plot Summary:
"The Books Of John" is a movie that follows the lives of three different people, Frank McLean, Will and Caryn. Frank finds himself alone after losing his longtime partner suddenly and without warning. Months later he finds that his partner had been keeping secret diaries. With the information in the diaries, Frank delves into his lover's past in an attempt to get to know more about the man that he never really knew. Will is a party boy who is a friend of Frank and Frank's late lover John.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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The Berlin Affair (1985)
Plot Summary:
In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador's daughter Mio Takaki. Soon afterwards, the two women begin a passionate lesbian affair. This leads to a chain reaction of disaster and tragedy, culminating with the inevitable intervention of the Gestapo. Despite the film's galloping sexual passions, The Berlin Affair is an exercise in aloofness, keeping the characters at arm's length-surprising, considering that the director was Liliana Cavani, auteur of the erotic classic The Night Porter (1974). The film was based on The Buddhist Cross, a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, sensual, queer cinema
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Love in a Fish Bowl (1993)
Plot Summary:
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Love in the Mirror (1999)
Plot Summary:
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
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I Feel Strange (1977)
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Laura (Rocío Dúrcal) is a pianist who leaves her home fed up with her abusive husband's mistreatment. Then she meets Marta (Bárbara Rey), a vedette and television star with whom she will work on the preparation of her new show. From the moment Laura moves to Marta's home, the neighbors' gossips and rumours begin.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Don Juan (1973)
Plot Summary:
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: manga
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Starlet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two seedy producers work to make a star out of a former stag-film actress while an aging rival conspires to ruin her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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La strana voglia (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man who is a theater director and music composer picks up a young homeless woman off the street. But as soon as she starts living with him she becomes his object of desire. Soon his ex-girlfriend finds out about his new lover in his life and decides to seduce his new lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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Nest of Vipers (1978)
Plot Summary:
During the Fascist era in Venice, a young music student has affairs with two beautiful women.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Place by the Sea (1988)
Plot Summary:
A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Siren's Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
A painter has serious creative block. He decides that two nude models living in his house might help. His wife objects, or does she?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place in a seemingly abandoned house where a group of people engage in wordless acts of passion. It covers a period from evening to morning, and the sexual couplings among the members of the house becomes increasingly harrowing as daylight arrives.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, independent film
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'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (1986)
Plot Summary:
The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we encounter the couple in the lovely springtime weather their future is full of promise. They are determined to stay clear of politics. Yet in the climate of the time, nobody of her prominence or his religion can remain apolitical. Although Martin's journalist friend, Drechsler, calls to inform them that the Nazis plan to take over Austria soon, they concentrate on their work and their private happiness and dismiss the warnings.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Chinese Chocolate (1995)
Plot Summary:
Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as the men in their lives reveal dark, unsettling secrets which change the lives of everyone forever. Intimately and honestly exploring for the first time the sexuality of Chinese women living in a foreign culture, this award-winning study of love and relationship makes for a unforgettable treat.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Bitches (1973)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes very jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Joy (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, independent film
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Arranged Marriage (1996)
Plot Summary:
American Drama: When a man fails to pay his rent again, his landlord offers him a deal. He can stay only if he accepts to enter an arranged marriage between him and the landlord's sexy French mistress who faces deportation. Things heat up quickly.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Sadness and Beauty (1985)
Plot Summary:
Hugo is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea, a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years later to rekindle the flame of romance and creativity. Lea soundly rejects him, and her student Prudence feels a burning hatred for the man who deserted the teacher she admires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tragic
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Language of Love 2000 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kärlekens språk is a 2004 Swedish sex educational film directed by Anders Lennberg. “Language of Love” is a show for night owls, which gives details of sex, problems with impotence, venereal diseases, etc, with detailed demonstrations. The title is a reference to the 1969 sex educational film "Ur kärlekens språk".
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, erotic, educational
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Young Lady Chatterley II (1985)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia, new lady of Chatterly, feels neglected by her husband. During his absences she tries to amuse herself with gardener Thomas, but always gets interrupted by new visitors. While she's busy her staff amuses itself. One of her guests is a professor who wants to do research in her land-seat. He's quite repressed, but she knows how to lighten him up.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, independent film, sexploitation film
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Die Konkurrentin (1997)
Plot Summary:
Katharina, a successful management consultant, has to face Maren as a new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Katharina's career. Despite all circumstances they work perfectly well as a team - and fall in love. Katharina, wife and mother to teenage twins, is shaken up by the new situation. Is she willing to live her life with Maren, an open lesbian?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Milka - A Film About Taboos (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to marry Ojanen, and her daughter's pregnancy turns their lives around. Set in the Lapp country of northern Finland, the scenery is breathtaking, made even more so by the isolation of the region. A sense of natural solitude is underscored by a slow-moving dialogue interspersed with long silences, and the connection between nature and the dialogue is underscored as the young Milka recites poetry while out in the countryside. The fate of Milka and her mother, however, is connected to the decision that Ojanen makes at the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min
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I, a Woman, Part II (1968)
Plot Summary:
Newly married to a sexually perverted German millionaire, Siv submits herself to endless degradation before discovering that her husband harbors a diabolical secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Testing the Limits (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Toni are on their way to the mountains for a romantic weekend, when their car breaks down. The couple take shelter in an empty cabin, unaware that it is being used by bisexual photographer Jan who is on an erotic shoot with model Kristin. Things get more complicated when Glen, a fashion editor, arrives. Soon inhibitions (and underwear) are being freely cast aside. But the lovers' reverie is broken when Kristin's psychotic boyfriend breaks in, seeking vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, explicit, independent film, hot, sexploitation film
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Porno (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual hostage in her swanky mansion home.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic