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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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Hearts & Minds (2009)
Plot Summary:
Conscription has been introduced in Britain. Across the country, young people are being called upon to serve the nation in another reactionary Middle-Eastern conflict. They face war on a scale not seen in any of their lifetimes. hearts & minds follows ten of these young people in the weeks leading up to the first wave of departures, as they are forced to question their own principles and come to terms with what they stand to lose.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, bleak
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Sex In Philippine Cinema 1 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Arouse your curiosity. Take off your inhibitions. Disrobe your desires. Soak up in the most steamy scenes ever to scorch the screens. Revel on Rosanna, Sizzle with Sunshine. Jack it up with Joyce. Risk it with Rica. Mash it with Maui. Pant over Patricia. Go booba over Rufa. This is raunchfest at its best with the flaming femmes of the Philippine moviedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere:
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, emotional, realistic, controversial, anthology
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Made in Ash (2012)
Plot Summary:
A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexy, gloomy, sexual
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Vegetarian (2009)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary housewife, Yeong-hye, who has nightmares every night, finally becomes a vegetarian, throwing away all the meats in her refrigerator. Her husband Kil-soo starts to complain about her actions. Her family also worries about her health. During a family lunch, Yeong-hye tries to kill herself due to her father's abrupt violence. Observing all the happenings, Yeong-hye's brother-in-law, Min-ho, a videoartist, hears from his wife that Yeong-hye has a Mongolian spot on her hips. Min-ho gets inspiration from this and starts to sketch.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sexy, disturbing, gloomy, contemplative
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Fair Sex (2012)
Plot Summary:
Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking, explicit, realistic, hot
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S#x Acts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school. Their encounters get more and more sexual, each time exploring their limits a little further. The boys are eager to take what is so generously offered, and Gili is thrilled with the attention. Just as Gili is trapped in the zone where it's not certain if she is giving her consent to what is happening or not, the viewer too feels trapped in the same zone, feeling for certain that something terrible is happening, but unable to pin point exactly when, and what.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexual, atmospheric, serious, captivating, erotic, sexy, gloomy
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Lea (2011)
Plot Summary:
Léa lives in Le Havre, where she attends college whilst taking care of her elderly grandmother. To make ends meet, she works as a waitress in a night club. Her admittance to the Institute of Political Studies in Paris offers her new opportunities, but at a high price. Léa finds work as a striptease artist, so that each evening she can put into practice the theory of economic liberalism which she learns by day.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, explicit, gloomy, sexual, hot
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Life in a Fishbowl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and drinks himself to death over a twenty-year period.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sexy, anthology, gloomy
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When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013)
Plot Summary:
A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: contemplative, sincere, clever, postmodern, thought provoking, serious, realistic, cynical
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A Caretaker's Tale (2012)
Plot Summary:
A custodian in a housing project discovers that a naked, mute woman he found in one of his apartments has miraculous healing powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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I Am from Titov Veles (2007)
Plot Summary:
Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid landscape of post-Communist Macedonia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, bleak, contemplative, gloomy
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Adrift (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially since her childlike husband is uninterested in her efforts of intimacy and the marriage remains unconsummated. Cam, secretly in love with Duyen, is bitter about the marriage. Cam has Duyen deliver a letter to Tho, a handsome lothario and tourist guide who physically hurls himself on Duyen when she visits his home to deliver the letter. After Tho reports back to Cam that Duyen is sexually inexperienced, Cam diabolically persuades Duyen to take a temporary job as a translator on one of Tho’s beach tours, knowing what will happen. Duyen's time at the beach with Tho results in an affair leading to Duyen's sexual awakening but continued uncertainty about herself, marriage, and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, psychological, sexy, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy, sexual
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I Love You (1981)
Plot Summary:
Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: pornochanchada, psychological, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, weird
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Dance Town (2010)
Plot Summary:
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, touching, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, contemplative, gloomy
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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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The Pornographer (1999)
Plot Summary:
A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, psychological, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, sexual, independent film
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Untold Scandal (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' this film is set in aristocratic 18th-century Korea at the end of the Chosun Dynasty. The irresistible temptress Lady Cho asks her cad of a younger cousin, Jo-won, to deflower the innocent young Soh-ok, who is to become her husband's concubine. But, his attentions soon shift to the graceful and aloof Lady Sook, who lives according to her convictions as a Catholic. Jo-won becomes obsessed with seducing this chaste woman who has remained celibate for nine years since her husband's death. However, conquering the most virtuous woman in the land proves to be more difficult than Chosun's notorious playboy expects.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, psychological, captivating, serious, stylized, erotic, offbeat, dark, period piece
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InSearchOf (2009)
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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The Erotic Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, about the special moments one remembers, and about the director's own circling around the essence of eroticism.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, sexy, erotic, offbeat, contemplative, independent film
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Webdultery (2010)
Plot Summary:
A couple in a failing marriage begin to cheat on each other using the power of the internet.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, gloomy
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A Reason to Believe (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sorority gal Charlotte's innocence is lost after she is raped during a frat party. Confused, terrified and shunned by her peers, she finds solace and the courage to confront her attacker after she is befriended by the leader of a campus women's group.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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The Sex Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four friends spend an evening together after time apart. Differences in sex and sexuality reveal deep-rooted conflicts and long-hidden longings.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Harrad Summer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the 'free sex' Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, controversial, sexual, sexy
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Five Senses of Eros (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, anthology, sexy, erotic, sexual
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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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Nuit #1 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is an erotic and candid portrait of their lovemaking. When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, talky, emotional, realistic, erotic, sexy, contemplative, gloomy, 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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Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ten women give monologues to camera, each remembering a man who was important in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, clever, touching, realistic, talky, contemplative, serious, sexual, sexy
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Slovenian Girl (2009)
Plot Summary:
Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, captivating, realistic, sentimental, sexual, transgressive, sincere, thought provoking, serious