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Plot Summary:
Andras Varda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, cult classic, insightful, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, cult film
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A Thousand Kisses (2006)
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Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, erotic, contemplative
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The Harrad Experiment (1973)
Plot Summary:
At fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this movie deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution which took place in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, sincere, serious, realistic, controversial, sexual, sexy, student film
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Lady Libertine (1984)
Plot Summary:
Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, art house
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Gabriela (1983)
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In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways, and annuls the marriage when he finds her in bed with his friend Tonico. The political ways of the town modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sexy, pornochanchada, humorous, semi serious
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Tieta of Agreste (1996)
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Just when her family starts believing that she is dead, and that they can expect a rich heritage, Tieta returns from São Paulo to her native village in Bahia, which she had been forced to leave long ago because of some involvement with a goat herd. Believed to be fabulously rich - and nobody knows how - she brings to the great disappointment of her family a young step-daughter and heir. With the arrival of Tieta turmoil enters into the life of her family and their fellow villagers. Most particularly into the life of her nephew - promised to the Church - and the young aspiring mayor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, UK, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, manga, humorous, serious, realistic, semi serious
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the romantic enchantment of a 90 year old reporter with a girl 70 years younger than himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, erotic, sensual, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Princess and the Call Girl (1984)
Plot Summary:
Two women--one a wealthy society débutante, the other an elegant call girl--with a remarkable resemblance to one another decide to trade professions and social positions temporarily and see what results from it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, erotic, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexploitation film
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Sex, Lies and Renaissance (1983)
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Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. This is the story, with many erotic asides, of her struggle to regain her pride in herself and find happiness in life once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, manga, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, erotic, sexy, hot
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Tadpole (2002)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve. Oscar is certain that he could be a better mate to Eve than his work-obsessed father. He fails to win Eve's heart and is consequently dejected. Oscar's path to his true love is further crossed by Diane, Eve's best friend who, one night while wearing Eve's borrowed perfumed scarf, offers him temporary comfort in an unconventional tryst. For Diane, Oscar fills a void in her life. For Oscar, Diane is somewhat of a distraction, as his continued pursuit of Eve leads to an unexpected resolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, funny, sweet, talky, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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I Love You Too (2001)
Plot Summary:
While camping in France, Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He tells her the story and we see it in flashbacks: Reza explodes into his boring life, she's unpredictable and their relationship becomes intense.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, exciting, sexy
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A Night in Heaven (1983)
Plot Summary:
Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, sexy, sex comedy, cult classic, independent film, sentimental, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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White Wedding (1989)
Plot Summary:
The plot centres around moody 17 year old Mathilde (Paradis) who has no parents. Her philosophy teacher François (Cremer), happens to stumble across her path and is eager to help her learn more. He starts to come over to her house everyday going over her homework, and teaching her the art of the study. Eventually, Mathilde starts placing little hints that she finds the 47 year old François attractive. He tries to resist her, but he finds himself falling for her as well. They soon blossom into a passionate love, but they must keep their affair a secret from his wife (Mikaël) and the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, sexual, sentimental, emotional, realistic, retro, neo noir, art house, deep, poetic
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Cousins in Love (1980)
Plot Summary:
Teenage Julien (Thierry Tevini) loves his teenage cousin Julia (Anja Shute) among flowers in summer of '39 France.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, romantic, controversial, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere
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Laura (1979)
Plot Summary:
A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, controversial, serious, realistic, sexual, beautiful
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Green Chair (2005)
Plot Summary:
When an ordinary housewife is convicted for seducing a minor, reckless love leads to obsession and creeping doubt. Mun-hee (Seo Jung), a married woman in her thirties, has been arrested and convicted for having sex with an underage, Hyun. After being sentenced for 100 hours os social work, Mun-hee is released only to find reporters hungry to sell her story to the press, and among them, Hyun is standing alone. Leaving those hyenas, the two head for nowhere and stop at a small hotel. Day and night they indulge into each other through endless sex. After 5 days of sex and enjoyment, Mun-hee undergoes extreme changes of emotion, and suddenly says goodbye to Hyun. However, Moon-hee finds herself still lingering on to Hyun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, romantic, sensual, sexual
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Brief Crossing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. Filming a guy's "first time", filming him like a girl. Gut level skin deep... Nostalgia for vast ocean liners, for places "beyond the law" where you can venture outside of life, safe within an interlude. Describing a passion while respecting classical tragedy's unity of time and place, setting the stage for the eternal play of Masculine/Feminine. A hot-blooded Latin temperatment versus an apparently cool English one. A ship - one night - Sudden intimacy between an Englishwoman whose complexion is frosted by bitterness and a teenager whose gaze glows like ardent coals.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexy, slasher, clever, contemplative
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Cheri (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, period piece, romantic, costume drama, sincere, humorous, captivating, erotic, offbeat
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The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Plot Summary:
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, anthology, art house, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, clever, touching, humorous
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Summer of '42 (1971)
Plot Summary:
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her. Written by Bob Dawson.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, sad, serious, captivating, realistic, crying, weeping, romantic drama
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
Plot Summary:
A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's 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: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, controversial, sensual, sexual, manga, serious, realistic, crying, atmospheric
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In Praise of Older Women (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sexual
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And God Created Woman (1988)
Plot Summary:
In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out of prison, but soon decides to seduce James Tiernan, who runs for state governor.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, intense, semi serious, humorous, erotic, independent film, melancholic, romantic, feel good
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Lies (1999)
Plot Summary:
A story about the bizarre sexual relations of 38-year-old married man J and 18-year-old student Y. After an initial encounter, they embark on a sexual odyssey that visits the realms of obsession and sadomasochism.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, controversial, sensual, erotic drama, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
Plot Summary:
Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, manga, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Malicious (1973)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful housekeeper becomes a romantic attraction to a widower and his three sons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, humorous, sex comedy, romantic, eros, naughty, semi serious
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Lie with Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Happily unattached, the sexually voracious Leila satisfies her desires with a host of rapidly changing bed partners, unconcerned about the emotional consequences. But that all changes when she meets an artist looking for a deeper commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, sexual, serious, romantic, sincere, bleak, realistic, eros
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All Things Fair (1995)
Plot Summary:
This film is set in 1943 when the whole of Europe was embroiled in WWII. It deals with attraction of a 15 year old boy Stig to his teacher Viola. The whole movie revolves around the sexual encounters between Stig and Viola and how he eventually grows out of it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, touching, sexy, emotional, romantic, controversial, sensual, intelligent, erotic drama
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Clement (2001)
Plot Summary:
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, psychological, sexy, disturbing, hot
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The Dreamers (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, disturbing, sensual, serious, explicit, erotic drama, atmospheric