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Plot Summary:
Rose, a 16-year-old girl who was abandoned by her parents and taken in by social services, and her fiancé, 22-year-old Michel, are enjoying their first great and innocent love affair in Paris in 1979, at the height of the popularity of the Le Palace nightclub. They are part of the trendy bunch who only live for partying and exuberance. At a party one evening, they meet Lucille and Hubert, a couple of fifty-something middle-class bohemians, who will take them under their wing and turn their lives upside down.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, disturbing, unusual plot structure
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Frente al mar (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of people, both men and women, get together to exchange their points of view, practical and theoretical, about sexual life and the relations between couples.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Through The Fire (2018)
Plot Summary:
Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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This Summer Feeling (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, sad, disturbing, contemplative
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My Little Princess (2011)
Plot Summary:
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, sad, sincere, captivating, erotic, sensual, spooky, controversial, contemplative, realistic
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Twisting Fate (2016)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is unfamiliar and intense. Distraught and consumed by guilt in the belief that she is somehow responsible for the death of her family, she runs away and decides to let fate, which saved her from death, guide her from now on.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: France, South Africa
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Sparrows (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, suspenseful, melancholic
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Even Lovers Get the Blues (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden death of one of them a group of friends grieves trough sexual encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, homoerotic, psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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The Night (2016)
Plot Summary:
Martin moves around Buenos Aires at night, picking up guys, going to clubs, scoring drugs and having sex. Sometimes he’s paying and sometimes his trans sex-worker friend or another woman takes him along for a threesome.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, lgbt cinema, suspenseful, contemplative, gay cinema, hot
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Peter von Kant (2022)
Plot Summary:
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema. Several months later, Amir becomes a star. But as soon as he acquires fame, he breaks up, leaving Peter alone to face himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: stylized, queer cinema
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Lazy Hazy Crazy (2015)
Plot Summary:
Childhood friends Tracy, Chloe and Alice share an apartment over the summer. They live close together, meet guys and sell their company as well as sex. With a romantic imagery and sometimes provocative theme the female debutant director Luk Yee-sum give the audience a playful story about sexuality, desire and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, crying, erotic
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Suburban Swingers Club (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple makes a huge mistake by agreeing to participate in a secret swingers' party in their suburban neighborhood, and soon both of them are being targeted by a jealous and homicidal neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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The Stud (1978)
Plot Summary:
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, erotic drama, cult film
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Woman, Woman (1979)
Plot Summary:
Recently turned into a widow, Alice (Helena Ramos) goes to the country to think about her life. There, she's courted by Luis Carlos (Carlos Casan), but falls in love with Marta (Petty Pesce). However, Jumbo, a horse, also arouses strange feelings in her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexy, serious, realistic, disturbing, controversial, sexual
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Jesus (2016)
Plot Summary:
18-year-old Jesús lives with his stern, somewhat unaffectionate father in Santiago, Chile. When not doing drugs, having casual sex or simply slouching in front of the TV, Jesús and his friends perform in a K-pop boyband. But his routine is thrown into chaos one evening when he and his drunken posse viciously assault a young gay man and leave him for dead. It’s an act that propels Jesús into a profound moral crisis which have severe consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Colombia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, homoerotic, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
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The Young Lovers (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While Pierre’s family life is soon turned upside down, Shauna struggles with feelings she thought belonged to the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Fragments of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rodrigo, a piano-tuner and former composer fallen on hard times, begins a love affair with the soon-to-be-married Susana. When a bomb in the city of Medellín nearly kills them, Rodrigo and Susana surrender to their attraction and fall into each other’s arms. Cocooned in her apartment above the vibrant city, Susana opens up to him every night and tells him a story of each of the different men from her past. Her stories inspire him to compose again, but his obsession makes him jealous and paranoid. When Susana finally leaves her fiancée to be with Rodrigo, he becomes obsessed with her fidelity.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, Colombia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, eros, entertaining
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Erotica: Moonlight (2008)
Plot Summary:
These three stories are about sex, relationships and fantasy. A couple in their 30's is looking to satisfy their sexual fantasies, so they invite a nurse to join them for a threesome. A nurse falls in love with the wrong man, an old doctor friend. A young kid meets a troubled girl outside a club.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Afinidades (2010)
Plot Summary:
Faced with the emptiness and lack of rational explanation for many of the problems of the contemporary world, it sometimes seems that the only solution is to take refuge in the instincts ... and instincts lead us to sex. At least this is the exit that find the protagonists of this story: sex as a shock to stay alive, the manipulation of others as a way to ward off impotence and reaffirm their personalities torn by loneliness. But the result is ephemeral and the attempt has unforeseen consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, talky, sexual, sexy, sex comedy
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Too Close to Our Son (2015)
Plot Summary:
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child. Instead of recusing herself, the magistrate pursues the case further.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, no music
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Rule: Fidelity to the Limit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mariana and Julian are a couple that have been happily married for many years. They have two kids: Juan Maria and Bibiana. They are in love and are very successful in their professional lives. They have a wonderful sex life and in the foreplay that they enjoy in privacy, he tells her that she can have sex with other man if she tells him everything in detail.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, hot
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Love Birds (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman meet eachother in a hotel suite for a day full of fantasy, they are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and this is their routine celebration. But this year is different. Through this day secrets, lies, will coming out while they are both living their sexual fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic
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High Society (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of the journey of married couple up the social latter. The husband is professor at Seoul National University who is running for the National Assembly, and his wife is a painter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sexy, awful
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Dreamchild (2020)
Plot Summary:
François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they give up on having a baby of their own and turn to adoption. But then François meets Patricia, new to the neighborhood. They begin a passionate affair. Soon after, Patricia gets pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Belgica (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a family business. Their brotherhood turns into rivalry, through no fault of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, psychological, sexy, captivating
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Longing Nights (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aitana, Pierrick, Rita and Jorge are all in their twenties and all look for ways to make their nights in the city of Madrid a little less lonely. Aitana is a sweet girl trapped in a men’s body; Pierrick is a cute French gay; Rita doesn't much care about her partner, Carolina, and walks through life with no expectations; Jorge is trapped in a relationship with no future: the one he has with Maria. Set against a background of drugs, sex, multiple partners and differing sexualities, Longing Nights follows the individual stories of these young people. A candid portrait of four relationships highly loaded with eroticism from beginning to end. Four stories told without no borders between fiction and reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, romantic, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, contemplative, eros, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Chosen Ones (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution network in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel, set in the world of juvenile prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, sexy
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Time to Leave (2005)
Plot Summary:
Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing death, he pushes people away - what's the point? He visits his grandmother to tell her; on the way, he chats briefly with a waitress. He looks at old photos, visits a childhood tree house. He takes pictures. Returning from his grandmother's, he stops for food and sees the waitress, Jany, again. She makes a request. He returns to an empty flat - his lover has left. Can Jany's proposition give him a way to move past self-pity?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, talky, lgbt cinema, art house, contemplative, gloomy, intellectual
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Savage Grace (2007)
Plot Summary:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexy, erotic, emotional, controversial, talky, psychological, intense, sincere, serious
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Sibyl (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, crying, surprise ending, enigmatic