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Plot Summary:
Sex is why we're all here. Power. Love. Sex. We're all looking for something. Ten characters each of whose lust sends them on a journey of discovery - sometimes decadent - spearhead the narrative threads in this unconventional American melodrama. The smart characterizations are counterbalanced by intense performances. From the virginal young man to the bored housewife a temptress and a womanizer with a dark secret In Search of Sex dramatizes situations where good people looking for short term solutions find themselves in bad circumstances with long term consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Love Live Long (2008)
Plot Summary:
A British car racer meets a suicidal woman while in Istanbul for the Gumball Rally.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Fyre (1979)
Plot Summary:
After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Cleopatra's Second Husband (1998)
Plot Summary:
Robert is an art photographer who is totally controlled by his wife Hallie. When they go on vacation in New York, they leave their house to their friends, Zack and Sophie. When they return, they find their house a total mess, but Zack and Sophie ask to stay a little longer, and they agree.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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My Heart Beats (2010)
Plot Summary:
A poor and lonely English professor, Juri(37), decides to become a porn actor using a mask to hide behind, after she watches an unusual porn, featuring an old and fat woman. And she visits Myungsook, a porn producer, despite their separation of 10 years. After various tests and rigorous diets Juri finally stars in a porn film with an attractive young porn star, Byul(20), who saves money for studies abroad to become a professor. He sports a flawless body except a deep scar across his chest. However on the set, she keeps pushing Byul away, and nobody knows that she is a virgin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, sexual
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Welcome to New York (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fiction inspired from the story of the rise and the fall of french politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: cynical, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Les corps impatients (2003)
Plot Summary:
Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Keyed: A Deadly Game of Sex/Lies/Betrayal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three lives are intricately linked during a New Years Eve “Key Party” for Swingers: A young newlywed is forced into an open relationship by her star-athlete husband and best friend an ill-fated club owner reunites with old friends to realize the bond they once shared is in jeopardy and a loving father has to reconcile his relationship with his estranged brother to save the life of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexy, serious, psychological, independent film, sexual
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Suburban Madness (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeatedly running over him with her car.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological
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She's Lost Control (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, sexy, captivating, independent film, sexual
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their strong attraction to one another. They start to sneak around but it's not long before they realize they should be together. Soon after Abby breaks up with her boyfriend, she becomes pregnant with Edgar's child - something that was not planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic, sexual, psychological thriller
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Blue Money (1972)
Plot Summary:
Handsome and successful Jim appears to have it all: he's married to the beautiful and supportive Lisa, has a healthy baby, and works a cool gig as the director of hardcore porno fare. Jim's seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart when he has an extramarital fling with an actress and the local Los Angeles vice cops close in to make a bust.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, cult film
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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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Jealousy (1999)
Plot Summary:
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexual, manga, eros, psychological, sexy, serious, realistic, erotic
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Bitter Sweet (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young couple in love prepares to marry, but--contrary to the popular stereotype--the woman develops a classic case of "cold feet" and seeks the advice of an older man. In no position to offer solid counsel since his own marriage is failing, he instead allows her to seduce him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Infidelity (2004)
Plot Summary:
A married family therapist cheats on her husband with a younger man and becomes trapped in her double life, unable to say anything and risk hurting either man in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, sentimental, sexy, emotional, touching, serious, sexual
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Máncora (2008)
Plot Summary:
Following the suicide of his father, haunted by inner demons and his hatred for the world, Santiago decides to escape from Lima and take refuge in Máncora, a beach to the north of Peru where it is always summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Peru, Mexico, Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexual, sentimental, contemplative, sexy, road movie, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Hemel (2012)
Plot Summary:
Divided into chapters, the film first chronicles Hemel's many sexual conquests, but then takes on a different tone as it explores her complicated relationship with her father, Gijs. A dapper auctioneer, Gijs has dated a series of younger women since Hemel's mother's death. But when Gijs starts seeing the charming Sophie, for the first time Hemel feels that her special relationship with her father is threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, realistic, disturbing, erotic, psychological, emotional, sentimental, eros, sincere
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Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, cult classic, grindhouse, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
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This Girl's Life (2003)
Plot Summary:
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, serious, realistic, erotic, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Young Lady Chatterley (1977)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia inherits a large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt's diary and finds out how she was taught in the ways of love by her gardener in 1901 at the age of 21. She decides to continue the fruitful relationship and gets it on with the handsome young gardener herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic, sexual
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Full Body Massage (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nina, an art dealer, has her weekly massage appointment and is surprised to find out her usual masseur, Douglas, has sent a replacement named Fitch. The pair develop an easy rapport during the session, with talk about past relationships. As Nina lies topless on the massage table, Fitch also takes time to explain various massage techniques, including those used by Hopi medicine men.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, talky, sincere, erotic, mystic, clever, contemplative, gloomy
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Men (1997)
Plot Summary:
A single young woman moves to Los Angeles, gets a job as a chef and has casual affairs.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, independent film
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Cruel Intentions 3 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two guys at a college prep school make wagers on seducing naive young girls, and then meet their match when they agree to see which one can seduce the most popular and devious girl who has her own agenda to everything.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: stylized, sexy, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sensual, romantic drama, twisted, relaxing
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Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001)
Plot Summary:
A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Diary of a Sex Addict (2001)
Plot Summary:
A restaurant owner leads a double life.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, contemplative, realistic, talky, sexy, independent film, sexual, sensual, biting
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Betrayal (2012)
Plot Summary:
While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, sexy, detective, contemplative, gloomy
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The City Below (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both married - toy with their unexplainable fascination for each other. Svenja is curious and finds herself in a hotel room with Roland, but she does not consummate an affair. A powerful executive at the large bank where Svenja's husband works, Roland is used to getting what he wants. He manipulates the transfer of her husband to Indonesia to replace a recently murdered bank manager. Unaware of Roland’s actions, Svenja now ceases to resist.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Plot Summary:
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, sensual, controversial, art house, psychological, witty, talky, postmodern, mumblecore, black comedy
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An Eye for Beauty (2014)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, touching, spiritual, stylized, sexual
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In Bed (2005)
Plot Summary:
It all begins at a party in Santiago, Chile, when a seemingly innocent gesture -- the offer of a ride home -- ends in a passionate night of lovemaking and intense conversation for young singles Bruno and Daniela. Shacked up at a flea-bitten motel for a one-night stand, the pair lingers deep into the night, alternating between powerful physical encounters and an ever-deepening emotional connection.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, serious, realistic, talky, sexual, explicit, romantic drama, erotic drama