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Plot Summary:
Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband's impotency, she searches for outside affection and seduction within brief, but often passionate encounters. During this web of desire she encounters Dorothy. Unknown to Florentine she is her husband's accomplice. In this twisted, frenzied fantasy her husband Jake becomes excited and aroused by the seduction of his wife. With his secret darkrooms and two-way mirrors he begins to desire his wife once more. Florentine, with the help of their adopted son, discovers his world of distorted fantasy. Amazed, but realising that Jake still loves her, she must act.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
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Masquerade (1971)
Plot Summary:
Banned for over a decade because of its "explicit" sexual situations, when this film was released in Yugoslavia in 1983 the "explicit" scenes had become tame. Other than the notoriety it obtained through censorship, the film has an undistinguished story about the forbidden love affair between the older wife of a sports director and a young athlete.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, homoerotic, weird
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Invitation to Pleasure (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two friends discuss their love adventures, and the emptiness ensuing each new conquest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min
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Scorpio Nights (1985)
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In a crowded, multi-appartment house, a young student peeps on his neighbours making love and subsequently develops a steamy affair with the neighbour's wife. The affair slowly becomes an obsession and spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 126 min
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Amante: The Lover (1991)
Plot Summary:
Joelle (Malú) lives on a large estate with her crippled husband, Il conte (Anthony Steffen). Just as he begins to feel he can't match up to his wife's sexual needs, his wife's ex-lover, Charles (Kieran Canter) is released from prison. Her husband invites him to become a groundskeeper on the estate, knowing that the two will eventually hop in the sack. And thus, satisfy Malú. The ex-lover sure has an appetite to match Lady Chatterly's!! He makes love his priority with basically all the female folk around. At one point jealousy overwhelms her and she locks him in a giant humidor. Also, she opens up her inhibitions and makes love with a woman that her ex-lover introduces her to (the model she was painting). Lots and lots of sex, nudity, soft focus and slow motion. And plus an out of the blue pitchforking.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)
Plot Summary:
A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
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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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The House of Pleasure (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lord Gregory Hutton takes his beautiful young wife Eleanore on a business trip to the Far East for their honeymoon. They stay at the house of Lin, a young local owner of a silk farm and fashion factory whose father only recently died. Lady Eleanor finds herself attracted to Lin and soon is tempted by his advances. But it is not all as it seems. Lord Gregory seems more and more indifferent, and Lady Eleanor starts to get confused. Money is in the game.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Hindsight (1996)
Plot Summary:
Things heat up when a promising young actor begins an affair with a glamorous model in order to advance his career.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic
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La storia di Lady Chatterley (1989)
Plot Summary:
An Italian film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's classic erotic novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Intrigo d'amore (1988)
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Billy - young photographer engaged spicy photo shoot. Its main customers - women who want to revive the feelings and desires in their husbands. Three girlfriends are asked to photograph them: first - Janet, the wife of a police officer, the second - Lauren, a banker's wife, and the third - Evelyn is married to a lawyer. During operation Billy seduces three women, and one begins to blackmail them. Photographer Janet asks her husband to investigate. As a result, the blackmailers are, but Evelyn's husband kills her and Billy. I do not know if you can not satisfy a woman, give her love, kindness, warm heat - shot himself, IMHO, and his wife let him be happy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, erotic drama, sexploitation film
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Tradita a morte (1989)
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Unhappily married rich lady Emanuelle is fed up with her sleazy, disgusting and overbearing lout husband Michael and other men insensitively treating her like a piece of meat. So Emanuelle dumps Michael and gets involved in a torrid lesbian affair with enticing novelist Leona.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Summer Temptations (1988)
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In a villa on an island (St. Peter) a little out of season, inhabit Vanessa, a young widow, and stepdaughters Kikki and alive. Vanessa had married their father above all because it was very rich. After her husband's death, Vanessa decided to keep him Alive and Kikki and also call Roberto, her former lover, now a professor with the aim of preparing the two girls to the maturity examination. Shortly after his arrival, he establishes an atmosphere heavy with half-empty Island the villa that seems almost a luxury prison do understand immediately that the stepmother and stepdaughters will hate and despise each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Candido erotico (1978)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl falls in love with a man who works in live sex shows, and who just happens to be having an affair with the girl's stepmother--with her father's knowledge.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, erotic drama, sexploitation film
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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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Roxanna (1970)
Plot Summary:
Uninhibited swinger Roxanna can't control her raging libido, sinking her into despair, insanity, and loneliness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Husbands and Lovers (1991)
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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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Monika (1974)
Plot Summary:
Monika is young, beautiful and a virgin. She is only 16 years old, and, beside getting the attention of all her classmates, she also attracts older men. She has a relationship with a boy, Leo, but she doesn't know that he uses to pimp the girls he seduces to rich businessmen. One of Leo's client befriends Monika and becomes so obsessed that he pays Leo to get her. But Monika turns her attention to her art professor, unknowing that he too has his secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sensual, sexploitation film
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Young Casanova (1974)
Plot Summary:
Gerard Casanova is the man that all the rich and beautiful women call when they need a little more then the husbands to give them. He's always on call to satisfy their every sexual urge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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Love Scenes (1984)
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Acclaimed actress Val Binnes decides to play a bold and uninhibited role in a controversial new movie for her ambitious, but neglectful and self-absorbed director husband Peter. Val finds herself becoming too caught up in the risqué part, throws caution to the wind, and has an adulterous affair with her hunky, but arrogant leading man Rick. Can Val and Peter's marriage survive the pressure and problems of making the picture?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, sensual, independent film, sexploitation film, hot
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Eros, the God of Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
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Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976)
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A wealthy man (played by former James Bond villain Adolf Celli) suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife (Carroll Baker). Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor (Luigi Pistilli) instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Before long he is rolling in the hay with a young lovely and needless to say his impotence problem is cured (it's amazing that he doesn't have a heart attack though). His wife is a little bitter, however, and decides to embark on her own affair. And if you're wondering with whom, well, just look at the title.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, crying, sex comedy
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Two Queens and One Consort (1981)
Plot Summary:
At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
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A Lustful Mind (1986)
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Alessio, a young man from a well to do family, has been mute since the death of his mother two years ago. His father, who has subsequently remarried, sends him to his sister-in-law's house in the country to recuperate. While staying there Alessio has erotic fantasies concerning his stepmother, his aunt and a young art restorer working on the estate, all of whom his father is sexually involved with.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
Plot Summary:
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, "Who has the gun?" Will there be violence before it's over?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychedelic, surreal, grindhouse, sensual, atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Little Lips (1978)
Plot Summary:
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, serious, melancholic, romantic, sexy, sexual, erotic, art house
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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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The Stepmother (1972)
Plot Summary:
Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affair with his wife and murders the man. His feelings of guilt and attempts to conceal the crime lead to more complications and death.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, detective, grindhouse, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, suspense, independent film, freeze frame
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Fidelity (2019)
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Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, serious, disturbing, erotic, scenic, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, crying
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Monamour (2005)
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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 of Hearts (2019)
Plot Summary:
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, sexy, emotional, melancholic, disturbing, erotic, absurd, controversial, crying, tragic