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Plot Summary:
23 year old Jame Dean Ray is a small time drug dealer bent on self destruction. The product of a broken home, Jimmy refuses help from those around him and spends his final hours hanging out and selling drugs with of course and occasional robbery.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Piano Room (2013)
Plot Summary:
A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country:
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Lip Service (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two very different former college roomates reunite under strange circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nothing Else Matters (2007)
Plot Summary:
Carla, the runaway with high aims. Lucie, the street girl. Interchanged identities and a shared baby. Collage of a fateful year.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Marcy (1969)
Plot Summary:
Marcy is forced to change her sexual orientation because of town rumors.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Norma (1970)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes to a doctor hoping he will cure her nymphomania. Scenes of her with her various lovers and pick-ups of both sexes are shown. through therapy she remembers being discovered and punished by her "mother" while making love to a neighbor guy for the first time and that is the source of her trauma.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy
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Dedicated to the Aegean Sea (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dedicato al mare Egeo is a forgotten and bizarre co-production produced between Italy and Japan from 1979, starring the famous Italian porn star Illona Staller (Cicciolina) and directed by the famous Japanese pinter, printmaker and novelist Masuo Ikeda (1934–1997) from his own script based on his novel “Ege-kai ni sasagu”, for which he won the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Japan. Ikeda’s vigorous artistic activity even included screenplay writing and film directing. With this movie, Masuo Ikeda has undoubtedly left his mark on the ’70s Italian skin cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 109 min
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As Feras (1995)
Plot Summary:
Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
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Viaje redondo (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lucia is a Mexican girl from a poor town who sets her mind to cross the border to The United States to find her son's father who she hasn't heard from in years. On the road she meets Fernanda, a high middle class girl that has unresolved issues with her ex-boyfriend and is willing to travel hundreds of miles to resolve them once and for all. Lucia and Fernanda are two girls from two very different social backgrounds, yet they travel the same road hoping to reconnect with the men they love. But it seems destiny has brought them together in their individual quests to share a path, to know each other and to know themselves a little better and discover if happiness is at their destinations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min
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Le salamandre (1969)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population could only reach freedom by declaring violence towards their occupiers, Cavallone’s tale sees a white photographer (Erna Schurer) who seduces a black model (the lovely ebony Beryl Cunningham). A doctor then arrives on the scene – Anthony Vernon (Antonio Casale) who took his pseudonym from Jesus Franco stalwart Howard Vernon – and Schurer falls for his charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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The Books of John (2007)
Plot Summary:
"The Books Of John" is a movie that follows the lives of three different people, Frank McLean, Will and Caryn. Frank finds himself alone after losing his longtime partner suddenly and without warning. Months later he finds that his partner had been keeping secret diaries. With the information in the diaries, Frank delves into his lover's past in an attempt to get to know more about the man that he never really knew. Will is a party boy who is a friend of Frank and Frank's late lover John.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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The Berlin Affair (1985)
Plot Summary:
In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador's daughter Mio Takaki. Soon afterwards, the two women begin a passionate lesbian affair. This leads to a chain reaction of disaster and tragedy, culminating with the inevitable intervention of the Gestapo. Despite the film's galloping sexual passions, The Berlin Affair is an exercise in aloofness, keeping the characters at arm's length-surprising, considering that the director was Liliana Cavani, auteur of the erotic classic The Night Porter (1974). The film was based on The Buddhist Cross, a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, sensual, queer cinema
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Little Girl... Big Tease (1976)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year-old society girl is kidnapped and exploited by a group of people including one of her high school teachers. One by one Virginia seduces her captors and is able to gain the upper hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, independent film
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Submission (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psycho sex-fiend keeps his infantile girlfriend Vicky in Submission with candy bars, toys and, yes, hot wax. But when they plan on killing a wealthy lesbian, Vicky discovers she likes a woman's touch and plans a nasty surprise for her boneheaded boyfriend!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Love in the Mirror (1999)
Plot Summary:
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Don Juan (1973)
Plot Summary:
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: manga
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Tatlo... Magkasalo (1998)
Plot Summary:
Elsie has a mistress named Alice. Tito has a mistress named Susan. Tito and Elsie are married to each other and expecting a baby!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Siren's Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
A painter has serious creative block. He decides that two nude models living in his house might help. His wife objects, or does she?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mercy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Detective Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie (Peta Wilson), who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M. Matters become even more complicated when Palmer finds herself attracted to Kittrie, leading to a brief lesbian encounter. Palmer soon learns that each victim belonged to this club of prominent, sexually experimental women. In order to catch the killer, Catherine must trust Vickie to guide her through the dangerous and illicit underground.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, erotic, psychological thriller, independent film, tense, realistic, suspenseful, experimental
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The Bitches (1973)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes very jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Scandal: Body of Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young handsome millionaire marries former prostitute. During lovemaking happy husband dies after drinking before this heart pills. Wife accused of murder, but the lawyer ably proves that she is not to blame, and the case is closed. But everything is so simple in fact, as it seems? Not behind this apparent simplicity of some terrible secret?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, sexploitation film
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Secret Games II (1993)
Plot Summary:
A performance artist has an affair with a call girl and then starts having a crisis over the adultery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beautiful Women (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Schöne Frauen“ handelt genau davon: von schönen Frauen. Fünf Schauspielerinnen finden sich nacheinander zum Casting für einen Fernsehfilm ein. Sie schweigen, taxieren sich, begutachten sich und ihre Gegenüber. Und kommen sich mitnichten näher. Das Casting allerdings, das findet einfach nicht statt. Irgendwo hinter einer unheilvoll dräuenden Tür müßte sich zwar das Filmteam befinden, aber aus unerfindlichen Gründen wird keine der fünf hineingerufen. Die fünf beginnen, sich zu unterhalten. Erst zögernd, dann offener. Tauschen sich über das betreffende Drehbuch aus, über ihre berufliche Situation, über ihr Privatleben. Jede von ihnen hat einleuchtende Gründe, die Rolle bekommen zu müssen. Aber irgendwann stellt sich auch heraus: Keine von ihnen hat Lust, in diesem Film zu spielen. Also folgen sie einem spontanen Impetus - und gehen. Alle bis auf eine.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Surrender (2003)
Plot Summary:
A wild journey through the dark S&M underworld. Salene, a struggling Hollywood writer with a haunting past gets drawn into the world of S&M as she is researching a novel about a dominatrix. Georgia Brown, a native hometown friend arrives for a visit. She is soon seduced into a forbidden affair with Salene. When a murder occurs in an underground club, Salene is prime suspect. While the shock of the murder accusation brings Salene back to the mainstream, roles are reversed and Georgia takes on the role of the dominatrix.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Karina, Object of Passion (1982)
Plot Summary:
A stripper is arrested for killing her gigolo who exploited her as a prostitute under the name of Karina. Her despair turns to ardent passion when she meets a lady lawyer who promises her that she will be able to get her out of jail very quickly. But both ladies will have to fight an outlaw who will do whatever he can to possess Karina.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Between Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
Elodie and Laetitia live in close love and dream of having a child. As Elodie discovers that she cannot get pregnant because of a health problem and encounters financial troubles, they decide to take a roommate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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That Tender Touch (1969)
Plot Summary:
When Terri (Sue Bernard) marries and moves to the suburbs, her lesbian lover, Marsha (Bee Tompkins), doesn't take kindly to Terri's desire for a "normal" life. Determined to win her love back, Marsha worms her way into the newlyweds' happy heterosexual home. Meanwhile, Marsha's seductive beauty converts several other women in the neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, cult film
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Die Konkurrentin (1997)
Plot Summary:
Katharina, a successful management consultant, has to face Maren as a new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Katharina's career. Despite all circumstances they work perfectly well as a team - and fall in love. Katharina, wife and mother to teenage twins, is shaken up by the new situation. Is she willing to live her life with Maren, an open lesbian?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Reform School Girl (1994)
Plot Summary:
Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, sexy
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Raven's Touch (2015)
Plot Summary:
Blaming herself for a tragic accident, Raven Michaels secludes herself at a remote family cabin. She wanders the woods on the verge of a breakdown, seeking peace in isolation. In a last ditch attempt to save her family, Kate Royce takes her two teenagers camping far from the distractions of technology and young romance. When Raven and Kate's worlds collide they offer each other unexpected opportunities for intimacy and healing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, deep, independent film, queer cinema
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Bar Girls (1994)
Plot Summary:
The life and loves of gay women hanging out at a local tavern are examined in this slice of life film.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual, sexy, queer cinema