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Plot Summary:
In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in Kosovo, when she was saved from rape by a deserter called Srdjan Vasiljevic in 1999. They move to Belgrade where Srdjan becomes a gangster, dealing weapons and becoming an assassin. Adria learns how to shoot and helps Srdjan with his work at first, becoming his mistress later.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, interesting, weird
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Valerie Flake (1999)
Plot Summary:
Valerie Flake is an overqualified supermarket cashier in her early thirties with a graduate degree and a past as a talented painter. Since her husband’s death, she has successfully severed all bonds with the people who love her and replaced intimacy with a succession of one-night stands. After a fight with her sister, she drives to Palm Springs to attend a party for her late husband’s parents, whom she still holds dear. On her first night, she meets newly divorced Tim Darnell, who is a saint and the polar opposite of Valerie. They begin a fast and furious romance that fulfills a need each has but ultimately leaves Tim brokenhearted. Valerie reveals through a videotaped “confession” to her in-laws exactly why she has had trouble coping with her pain before she leaves it all behind in Palm Springs to start anew.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Demain (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman taking care of her diabetic father gets involved in a one way relationship. Portrait of a generation about to replace another, Demain is a film based on an inertia marked youth, and on it's precursors confronted to their own disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Witches' Sabbath (1988)
Plot Summary:
The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, weird, baroque
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Black Sun (2007)
Plot Summary:
After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Molly & Gina (1994)
Plot Summary:
Molly is the former secretary of a murdered private detective. Gina, a budding actress, witnessed the shooting which also killed her boyfriend. Together, they set out to bring the culprits to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Public Woman (1984)
Plot Summary:
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assasination.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: erotic, avant garde, art house, deep, existential, cult classic, experimental, postmodern, political, weird
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Eden and After (1970)
Plot Summary:
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: allegory, disturbing, erotic, psychological thriller, enigmatic, experimental, surreal, controversial, avant garde, weird
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I Am Frigid...Why? (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sultry Sandra Julien stars as a teenage virgin who is traumatized after being raped by her 2 "friends", a young man and his sister, leaving her with no interest in sex. Discouraged, she embarks on a journey of sexual awakening in hopes of curing herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Today and Tomorrow (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in Buenos Aires, this powerful Argentinean tale from director Alejandro Chomski stars Antonella Costa as aspiring actress Paula, who's desperate to find a way to pay her mounting stack of debts. Out of options and about to be evicted, she turns to streetwalking but soon learns that her new occupation of choice comes with disastrous repercussions. The film's supporting cast includes Carlos Lipsic and Romina Ricci.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Windows on Monday (2006)
Plot Summary:
A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is having her doubts; she stands about in the half-empty rooms, feeling thoroughly alienated. Suddenly, without saying a word, she decides to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Frustration (1971)
Plot Summary:
A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and the latter's husband, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, weird
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Until the Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka fashions a stunning film about love and excess. Robert (Norman Reedus) is a writer who hasn't done much writing lately; instead, he's busy pushing the envelope with his toxic mix of boredom, drugs and a dalliance with a married woman, Elizabeth (Kathleen Robertson). In spite of Elizabeth's marital status, Robert falls for her completely -- a commitment that just may blow up in his face, along with the rest of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Lazaro's Girlfriend (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lazarus is a Cuban appeal that makes a living in Madrid. When his girlfriend Dolores travels from Cuba to Spain to live with him, he is in prison for kidnapping and attempted rape. Dolores tries to survive with a broken heart, but his sympathy and sensuality will make adjusting to life in Madrid and try to exceed the Lazarus drug addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic
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Honey (1981)
Plot Summary:
A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Sinful Desires (2001)
Plot Summary:
Radio host Gia (Jacy Andrews) rules the Los Angeles airwaves with her disarming tales of sex, lust and intrigue. But when one caller seems to know a few too many details of Gia's titillating past, the sexy DJ is soon plunged into a world of blackmail and danger. While the police struggle to make sense of the befuddling case, Gia must fight to keep her sordid past silent as the threat mounts in this erotic thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexploitation film
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The House of Lost Women (1983)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Jess Franco.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Game of Seduction (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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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
Similar in 76%
Lovestruck: The Housemate (1993)
Plot Summary:
Juliette and Paul move into their dreamhouse but they soon realize that the rent is too high for the two of them alone so that they decide to rent out their spare room to a young woman named Nathalie. She becomes Paul’s mistress but cannot get him to leave Juliette. She tries to make him jealous by inviting a friend of hers named Stepen to stay over for the night.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic
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The Last Woman (1976)
Plot Summary:
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial
Similar in 79%
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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Life of a Gigolo (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Danielle decides to do a story on the life of a sex worker to please her boss and lover Peter, she meets Gage a professional gigolo. She quickly becomes interested in his work and starts to see a change in herself and her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, sexploitation film
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A Fit of Rage (1999)
Plot Summary:
The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his fence. This simple fact raises accusations and discord between the two lovers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, weird
Similar in 78%
Too Much Flesh (2000)
Plot Summary:
In an Illinois farming community, Lyle lives quietly with his wife Amy. But their life is set spinning when Lyle's friend Vernon visits with his girlfriend Juliette. Soon Lyle and Juliette have embarked on a passionate affair which has the town talking and the religious community frowning.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
Plot Summary:
A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Confessions of a Lap Dancer (1997)
Plot Summary:
An erotic melodrama about the public and private lives of sex workers. Josie Hunter (aka Blake Pickett) co-starred in the role of Erica, a single mother who works a stripper, and sometimes as a prostitute to support her daughter. But when the threat of losing parental rights to her child looms, Erica tries to escape from the dark world of the sex industry, but it turns out to be not so easy to do.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film
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Gift from Above (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: rough, semi serious, erotic, sexual, captivating, disturbing, offbeat, realistic, sexy
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The Story of Richard O (2007)
Plot Summary:
Not for the easily embarrassed, “The Story of Richard O.” is an explicit take on sex as a way to connect with other people. Richard feels cornered and takes some time off from his girlfriend in order to come to terms with his relationship to women and to find a better version of himself. During the last month of summer, he goes on an erotic exploration through the streets of Paris, where he has 13 encounters with 13 women.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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Whatever (1999)
Plot Summary:
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, explicit, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, cynical, gloomy
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Suspicious River (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young married woman (Parker) sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, rough, disturbing, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual