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Plot Summary:
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, beautiful
Best tv shows and movies like Mata Hari (1985):
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Jezebel's Kiss (1990)
Plot Summary:
Someone runs a woman (Katherine Barrese) off a beach road; she sleeps with a developer (Malcolm McDowell), his son and a sheriff to get even.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Bust Out (1973)
Plot Summary:
The Browns take their Catholic high school students on a picnic. As one student sneaks to her boyfriend, two others seduce escaped convicts who rape the fourth. Buxom Mrs. Brown and her husband fall victims to their prudence.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, perverse, independent film
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Mind Twister (1993)
Plot Summary:
Two former exotic dancers devise a plot to expose a physciatrist as the murderer of their friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Animal Instincts II (1994)
Plot Summary:
An unhappy divorcée has the bad fortune to move next door to a voyeur of a security systems installer, who's hobby is planting hidden video cameras in the bedrooms of all his clients. He then monitors the sex lives of his customers through an elaborate TV monitor system in his garage. Shannon becomes his latest victim, but when she discovers the camera by accident, she begins putting on sex shows for his pleasure. The plot gets ugly when Jim professes his love for her but is rebuffed.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexual, independent film, sexy, suspense, hot, sexploitation film
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The First 9 1/2 Weeks (1998)
Plot Summary:
An investment banker travels to Louisiana to snag the account of an eccentric millionaire but gets involved with his lusty wife, Mardi Gras, and (possibly) a satanic cult. The events in and around New Orleans change him forever and give a new slant on The American Dream.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, sexy, sexual, surprise ending, independent film
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Indecent Behavior III (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sex therapist finds herself forced to cooperate with the police in tracking down a killer who has been targeting other sex therapists by using her as a decoy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: hot, sexploitation film
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Illicit Dreams 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a man's wife dies, the new executive of his company makes a move. Though they know that sexual relations could cause problems, that does not stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic
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The Seduction of Maxine (2000)
Plot Summary:
Maxine Strickland is an up-and-coming sexy film star who is being pursued by a half-crazed fan. When she hires a bodyguard to deal with the problem, she awkwardly learns to put her trust in him quickly because whoever is stalking her is close at hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, erotic
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Hollywood Sins (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood. Tinseltown. Sin City. A town that's built its reputation on money, power and sex. A typical talent agent, Simon Teller is no different that the rest of the Hollywood elite. He'll do anything to seal a deal. And he and his starlet fiancee, Lacy Lloyd, like to push the envelope of their sexual boundaries. They get off by video-taping their erotic indiscretions with other men and women and watching them together. But eventually Simon picks the wrong woman to fool around with. When Donna, the sultry conniving wife of the agency's CEO, seduces and then black-mails him, he'll have to summon more than the usual tricks to land on his feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, melancholic, suspense, disturbing
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The Beguiled (1971)
Plot Summary:
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, suspense, psychosexual thriller, period piece, sexual, atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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Animal Instincts III (1996)
Plot Summary:
An exhibitionist female author is drawn to a "blind" voyeur record producer. Her exhibitionist tendencies draw the interest of his musical clients and leads to visual fireworks. Her sexual romps take place in view of her blind lover but does he see more than he lets on?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, sexploitation film
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Body of Influence (1993)
Plot Summary:
A successful psychiatrist has his world turned upside-down by the appearance of a mystery woman who cannot recall her own past.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, sexual, erotic, independent film, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
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Sinful Obsession (1999)
Plot Summary:
A sexually unfulfilled housewife begins working in a high class brothel and starts a mutually obsessive relationship with a creepy regular customer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, erotic drama, sexploitation film
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Diary of a Rape (1971)
Plot Summary:
Young Lena is trapped in a complex situation of sex and lies.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, art house, sensual, suspense, erotic
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Laura's Toys (1975)
Plot Summary:
Archaeologist Walter and his wife Laura are working at a dig on a small island off the coast of Sweden. One day Laura catches Walter having a go at it with his sexy assistant, Anna. Laura calls in her old friend--and former lesbian lover--Hanni to help get her revenge on Walter by having she and Hanni seduce Anna.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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Bare Deception (2000)
Plot Summary:
The ratings of a radio sex-talk show are dropping. But after a listener is murdered, the sexy host finds her popularity is rising again. Is she behind the killings, or is it her producer--or someone else?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexploitation film
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Kept (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's lover (kept in a classy flat she owns and observed via closed-circuit TV by the applauding Lance). Kyle is Barbara's latest intern and lover, and he may be in danger. He also starts to fall in love with Barbara, and the feeling may be mutual. In the background are Erin, Lance and Barbara's myopic administrative assistant, and Tony, Kyle's one-time roommate who also knows Barbara. Can the cops solve this before too many more die?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, touching, bleak, captivating, disturbing
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Animal Instincts (1992)
Plot Summary:
A cop and his sexually frustrated wife are struggling to keep their failing marriage intact, when by chance he finds that he is at heart a voyeuristic peeping tom. To satisfy him, his wife has numerous affairs, which her husband watches on closed-circuit televison. However, the pair soon learn that when you play with fire, you'll always get burned.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, retro, steamy, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, hot
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Human Desires (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alicia Royale is a fashion mogul who decides to have a large pajama themed party as a promotion for her new line of clothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Sin Sisters (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a classmate is accidentally killed, real-life sisters Misty and Chelsea Mundae have to work together to try and hide the body. At a remote cabin in the hills they encounter Juli, who tests their loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, weird
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Body of Evidence (1992)
Plot Summary:
Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, suspense, intense, rough, serious, realistic, stylized
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I Like to Play Games Too (1999)
Plot Summary:
An advertising agent (Maria Ford) comes up against a client (Bobby Johnston) she is unable to manipulate through her seduction games.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, romantic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, erotic, independent film
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When Will I Be Loved (2004)
Plot Summary:
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, talky, stylized, psychosexual thriller, sexual, serious, realistic, erotic, independent film
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Inner Sanctum (1991)
Plot Summary:
A woman attempts suicide when she suspects her husband doesn't love her and is having an affair. Now she's wheelchair-bound, and her husband, who indeed doesn't love her and is having an affair, hires a private nurse to look after his wife. The nurse begins to suspect that she was hired because of unproven allegations that she murdered someone's wife in a similar situation, that the husband wants her to murder his wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, absurd, sexual, erotic, tension, realistic, sexy, serious, suspense
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Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)
Plot Summary:
TV producer CLAIR ARCHER, charged with the murder of her co-producer, hires top attorney Simon Mitchell to defend her. Though happily married, Simon falls for Clair's seductive wiles and then, in the middle of the trial and the torrid affair, discovers that Clair is guilty. Simon's associate, Lane, finds incriminating evidence against Clair. Simon tries to end the affair. But Clair cleverly sets up Lane so that when Clair kills Simon, Simon's wife suspects Lane -- and shoots her. Clair Archer is judged "not guilty" and walks away free.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, hot, cult film
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Poison Ivy II (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young and naive college art student becomes obsessed with assuming the identity and personality of a departed coed who used to live in her room, and in so doing causes complications that result in two men, a student and her art professor, lusting after her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspense, psychological thriller, sexual, romantic, serious, realistic, independent film
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Emmanuelle IV (1984)
Plot Summary:
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, realistic, grindhouse, offbeat, serious, sexual, sexploitation film, exotic
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Friend of the Family (1995)
Plot Summary:
A free-spirited natural beauty teaches an entire family to reconnect with their own sexuality. Elke is invited to stay with the Stillman family in their luxurious home in Malibu. The outward appearances of a happy and successful family soon dissolve as Elke finds each to have emotional and sexual problems that only she can help them overcome.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexy, hot, sexploitation film
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Black Book (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, erotic, psychological, realistic, dramatic, political, suspense, breathtaking, emotional, intense
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Lust, Caution (2007)
Plot Summary:
During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Taiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: sexual, disturbing, sexy, erotic, tense, neo noir, captivating, sensual, suspense, political