Best movies like Madame Bovary
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Plot Summary:
Emma Bovary is bored by her country doctor husband and gives in to the affections of several rich suitors as well as the temptation of living beyond her husband's means.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Golden Lotus (1974)
Plot Summary:
Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsiang adapted part of the story into this film, which starts with Hsi Men Ching, a successful merchant, wooing Pan Chin Lien, the beautiful wife of one of the townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min
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Lady Caliph (1970)
Plot Summary:
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Passion and Romance: Double Your Pleasure (1997)
Plot Summary:
Romance novelist Kathleen Connell meets the suave Jack at one of her book signings. He asks for a date, and she agrees. Through various mishaps, their date is postponed twice, and we are shown the erotic wanderings of Kathleen's mind as her next book is written in her head.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sexploitation film
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The Love Merchant (1966)
Plot Summary:
Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his next conquest, but the married and straight-laced Peggy turns down his proposal. However, after her husband's advertising business finds itself in a financial slump, Kendall offers to help out but only if Peggy agrees to be his intimate companion for two days.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Belle da morire (2002)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is a cynical but attractive business man, owner of a strip-club. He has to replace his best dancer, Katy, after her suicide. Applicants would do anything to get this job, but only Damy, gorgeous and mysterious girl, catches his attention. What he doesn’t know is that she only has one thing on her mind: revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Snake Dancer (1976)
Plot Summary:
With the oppressive climate of 1970s South Africa as the backdrop, this erotic biopic tells the story of Glenda Kemp (playing herself), a former Sunday school teacher who becomes an exotic dancer -- and provocatively shares the stage with a python. Creating an uproar and breaking every taboo in the book with her act, Kemp soon finds herself charged with indecency as the government attempts to ban her seductive performance art.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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The Divine Nymph (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Gift Girls (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Madame and Her Niece (1969)
Plot Summary:
Michelle De Winter lives the good life, wining and dining with only the richest men who are fortunate to cross her path. Her daughter Yvette, whom Michelle insists on introducing as her 'niece', is a fashion model. She is saving herself for the right man, despite the fact that she is part of the free love generation and lives with a group of promiscuous creative types. While Michelle is searching for a new millionaire playboy, Yvette falls for the handsome Peter Von Hallstein. She asks the fatherly Dr. Fink to help her come up with a scheme to get Peter to propose to he.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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The Abnormal Female (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems, each as each relates her particular case, we see it in flashback.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Smooth Operator (1995)
Plot Summary:
Megan Hughes plays Grace Nichols, a businesswoman constantly competing with men to get ahead. Unfortunately, her love life is also suffering. One day, while chomping on a donut, she realizes she's put on a few pounds. She decides to get back in shape, and asks her secretary Angie Li (Candace Kita) if she could recommend a good personal trainer. Angie recommends Brian Lerner (Doug Jeffery), a guy Angie's also been sleeping with for the last few months. Of course, Grace doesn't know that. Grace meets up with Brian, and it's innocent at first. She tosses on the workout clothes, he comes over to help her out with exercising, and goes home. Simple enough, right? However, this is a softcore flick, so you know the sex is coming. Eventually, Grace asks Brian to accompany her to a formal dinner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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As Long as One Is Intoxicated (1974)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece
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Until the Night (2004)
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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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Cam Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Desperate after losing her job, Alice starts a sexy webcam site with three friends. Successful at first, their new-found decadence sends them on a downward spiral of mutual resentment and dangerous excess.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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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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Simona (1974)
Plot Summary:
While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George. Her relationship with George was one of open sexual discoveries which eventually led to revenge and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, sexy
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A Woman on Fire (1969)
Plot Summary:
Clara, the sexually frustrated wife of a businessman goes on vacation with her husband, daughter and best friend. While there, she finally learns that sex can be passionate and wonderful, something she was never able to discover with the help of her husband. Unfortunately, she learns this with a handsome lifeguard, who finally makes her succumb to his psycho-sexual games.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Marquis de Sade's Justine (1977)
Plot Summary:
Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange desires, perverse pleasures and the ultimate corruption of innocence as told by the Marquis de Sade.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sadistic, sexy, sexual, sensual, grindhouse, independent film
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Yellow Emmanuelle (1977)
Plot Summary:
In this sexpolitation effort, a British pilot is assaulted by a gang of hoodlums and left on the street. He's eventually taken to a hospital, where he is nursed back to health by Dr. Emy Wong, a beautiful Asian physician. As the pilot is restored to full health, he becomes increasingly infatuated with Emy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Teenage Sex Report (1971)
Plot Summary:
In this one we look at the cases of a number of young women and their plumbing problems as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a moralizing but well meaning gynaecologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, fake documentary
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11 Days, 11 Nights 2 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Asproon returns to New Orleans to act as executrix of the estate of a millionaire whom she was once the mistress of. She must decide which one of his surviving family members will inherit his fortune. It's not a decision that she's willing to make alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, sexploitation film
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When Love Is Lust (1973)
Plot Summary:
A decadent countess (Françoise Prévost), middle-aged but still attractive, forces her young and timid daughter (Agostina Belli) to marry a rich butcher. But the couple’s sexual relation is troubled, because the girl has her fair share of inhibitions. So she abandons her house and seeks refuge at her sister’s place. During her absence, her husband finds consolation in his mother in law’s arms.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Killer Sex (2001)
Plot Summary:
A doctor falls in love with his patient, a beautiful tennis star who has just been diagnosed with a condition from which she could die if she doesn't have an operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexploitation film
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Young Lady Chatterley II (1985)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia, new lady of Chatterly, feels neglected by her husband. During his absences she tries to amuse herself with gardener Thomas, but always gets interrupted by new visitors. While she's busy her staff amuses itself. One of her guests is a professor who wants to do research in her land-seat. He's quite repressed, but she knows how to lighten him up.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, independent film, sexploitation film
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I, a Woman, Part II (1968)
Plot Summary:
Newly married to a sexually perverted German millionaire, Siv submits herself to endless degradation before discovering that her husband harbors a diabolical secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
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The Story of O: Untold Pleasures (2002)
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"O" is a talented photographer in her late twenties with a promising career ahead of her. She is torn, however, between the tasks financial realities are forcing upon her and between her own artistic aims. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Rene, "O" decides that she should pursue her artistic passion without reservation, setting aside financial realities until she has completed her very beautiful, avant-garde book of original photos. In hopes of enabling "O" to focus her energies on the book, Rene introduces her to a mysterious benefactor, the wealthy and powerful Sir Stephen. What starts out as a promising arrangement, turns out to be self-destructive for "O". She allows outside influences to corrupt her artistic vision, as she is drawn into a seductive world of deceit, power, and eroticism.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, disturbing, romantic, sexual
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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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The Night and the Moment (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes her through his time in prison where he was unknowingly incarcerated in the cell beside hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, talky, sexual, erotic
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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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