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Plot Summary:
Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been confined to a mental institution by Normande's uncle, the wealthy lawyer Jean-Paul. But Normande, who does not believe her mother is insane, kidnaps her from the institution and brings her home. Also living with them is Normande's sister Pierette, who has asthma and a drug addiction, Normande's boyfriend Bouliane, who is unemployed and in no hurry to find a job, and a strange young magician named Carol she took in after he was kicked out of his home. All of these people depend on Normande in various ways and exploit her; Normande, desperate to be loved, is driven mad by the demands of her parasite family. When she receives an eviction notice stating that the building will be demolished and rebuilt into a restaurant, it all becomes too much for Normande and her mind retreats into fantasy to protect her from the harsh realities.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: erotic, weird
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Witchcraft vs. Curse (1991)
Plot Summary:
Hung is disappointed when her man, Yuk Lung, becomes engaged to pretty Pai Lin. Hung and her scheming mother engage a sorcerer, Ko Yin Yau, to place a spell on him. Yuk Lung becomes possessed by the Adultery Ghost, and he leaves Pai Lin in the middle of having sex with her, going to Hung. Pai Lin and her friend Nancy rush to Thailand, seeking the help of another sorcerer, Simol. The title alludes to the battle of the two spell-casters, through their two hosts. Along the way, plenty of excuses are found to get all the clothes off a number of lovely young women.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic
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Day of the Idiots (1981)
Plot Summary:
In this non-story of the mentally and emotionally impaired inhabitants of a clinic for the insane, the medical profession along with humanity is distorted into a long, filmic exhibition of sado-masochism, urination, and ample nudity for its own sake. Critics that support the avant-garde might feel that the lack of apparent purpose in each "idiot's" (the title is "Day of the Idiots') physical and emotional problems is a form of high art. The viewers will have to decide for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: weird
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Daddy (1973)
Plot Summary:
Daddy, filmed in cooperation with movie director Peter Whitehead, discovers the connection between a father and little girl. Like the majority of Niki De Saint Phalle’s films, the flick combines autobiography with imagination, mixing erotic scenes of incest with a reverse of energy as the female character humors the daddy figure. Saint Phalle narrates the film, offering an almost psycho-analytical explanation of its content and explains the different inexplicable.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: creepy, independent film, weird
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The Angel and the Woman (1977)
Plot Summary:
Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mysterious stranger, who heals her wounds and reanimates her by blowing on them. After he takes her back to his cabin, they fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: controversial, explicit
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The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
Plot Summary:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Giulia (1999)
Plot Summary:
Giulia is an independent young woman who is prepared to offer her body and her spirit against all the religious taboos.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house
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Abe Sada: The Last Seven Days (2011)
Plot Summary:
In May 1936, the “Abe specific incident.” shook the entire country of Japan. It is said that Abe had a live-in maid (Yuma Asami), the owner of the restaurant’s employer Ishida (Nobuyuki Matsuda) was killed, that the cut is more localized. With respect to neither confirm nor deny the crime, frustrated by the testimony of the specific criminal Urakawa Abe (Shun Sugata). And the relentless questioning of Urakawa, we are told the circumstances leading to death and cut from the bodies of penis. Result of fierce passion between men and women debauched erratic, and saw two people … and the constant questioning after the incident, and the constant “last seven days” to depict that Katsuaki the in the here and now Abe no specific story that you have to watch it!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Laurentia (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young quebecer descends into alienation and depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
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The House of Lost Women (1983)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Jess Franco.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Frente al mar (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of people, both men and women, get together to exchange their points of view, practical and theoretical, about sexual life and the relations between couples.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Annie (1976)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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La strana voglia (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man who is a theater director and music composer picks up a young homeless woman off the street. But as soon as she starts living with him she becomes his object of desire. Soon his ex-girlfriend finds out about his new lover in his life and decides to seduce his new lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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Maladonna (1984)
Plot Summary:
In late XIX century, rich and bored Maria (Paola Senatore) is after a more sexually interesting life and gets involved with Alessio who shows her other kinds of love. She soon becomes his sex slave but some unexpected consequences will arise from her desperate search for sexual fulfillment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Marsha: The Erotic Housewife (1970)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful housewife discovers that her husband is having an affair, so while he's away on business she decides to embark on some erotic sexcapades of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Red Bikini (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couples' trip to Pattaya turns into hell when each others' secrets come out into the open! Soo-jeong and Tae-hyeon decide to go abroad with Sang-jin and Ji-hyeon to celebrate Ji-hyeon's birthday. However, Ji-hyeon can't make it last minute and the three set off. However the local tour guide tricks them into losing everything they've got. Then they meet Lizzie, who Sang-jin falls for right away. They cross the line and Soo-jeong who secretly had a crush on Sang-jin, films them quietly. She then threatens Sang-jin to tell Ji-hyeon with the video of their affair and demands he takes her in. Tae-hyeon finds out about everything and the dreamy vacation turns into hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Lovestruck: The Housemate (1993)
Plot Summary:
Juliette and Paul move into their dreamhouse but they soon realize that the rent is too high for the two of them alone so that they decide to rent out their spare room to a young woman named Nathalie. She becomes Paul’s mistress but cannot get him to leave Juliette. She tries to make him jealous by inviting a friend of hers named Stepen to stay over for the night.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic
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Luna Park (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alexia Bissett, ex actress turned producer, lives in New York where she now produces gay cinema. After being called to take care of a situation which involves her young mute brother Christi, she decides to send her right hand man Maxwell to deal with it instead. Alexia owns an apartment complex in California called Luna Park, where her young actors stay while on location. Christi is the apartment caretaker and has been caught hiding in the closet of one of her actors he has a crush on. Maxwell feels indebted to Alexia for taking him off the streets and accepts the task with little protest. When Maxwell and Christi fall in love, Alexia is suddenly forced to deal with the secrets of her past, one of which threatens the boys young love in a way they can't even imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer cinema
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The Art of Love (1983)
Plot Summary:
Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy happens again in a few centuries.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sensual
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The Night That Never Happened (1997)
Plot Summary:
The events that occur the night of a bachelor party are often shrouded in secrecy--until now! The night before Claire and Brad's wedding, Claire sends her friend Tori along to make sure Brad behaves himself. But before the evening is over, a stripper will make off with the cash; a loan shark will have to be paid off; the maid of honor will be kidnapped; and the groom will be held hostage by a sexy dominatrix. But the real question is: will they make it to the church on time?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, sexploitation film
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Plot Summary:
Monique is so anxious to become a movie star that she gets naked for a producer, watches other naked girls in the producer’s other naked movies, and finally ends up starring in a naked skinflick where she’s tied up by a fetish freak. All of which is dutifully chronicled by her obsessed roommate Rita.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Beginning at Fifteen (1978)
Plot Summary:
A story of the sexual adventures of three fifteen year old girls: Elisa, Marian and Susi.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Summer Temptations (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a villa on an island (St. Peter) a little out of season, inhabit Vanessa, a young widow, and stepdaughters Kikki and alive. Vanessa had married their father above all because it was very rich. After her husband's death, Vanessa decided to keep him Alive and Kikki and also call Roberto, her former lover, now a professor with the aim of preparing the two girls to the maturity examination. Shortly after his arrival, he establishes an atmosphere heavy with half-empty Island the villa that seems almost a luxury prison do understand immediately that the stepmother and stepdaughters will hate and despise each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Mulher Objeto (1981)
Plot Summary:
Regina is a woman from a poor family and married with and former secretary of the wealthy Hélio. Regina has a block with Hélio and can not have sex with him, in spite of fantasizing kinky sex with every man she meets. She goes to a shrink and while resolving her childhood trauma, Hélio has an affair with his secretary Lúcia and leaves Regina. Later, they meet each other by chance, and the healed Regina finally satisfies Hélio.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic drama
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Dark Secrets (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman convinces her boyfriend to go to couple therapy with her friend's and things go downhill from there.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Eros, the God of Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
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Two Goes Into Two, Once (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sexual therapist watches sex to correct problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
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Anger (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sex, violence, betrayal and madness coalesce in this disturbing drama from Argentinean filmmaker Albertina Carri. Nati is a disturbed young girl living with her father Poldo and mother Alejandra in a remote, hardscrabble farming community. Nati, who cannot speak and strips off her clothes when she's angry, has few friends and has no one to play with besides Ladeado, the older son of Pichon, who works the neighboring farm. One of the reasons Nati is distraught is Alejandra has been having an affair with Pichon, and the two do little to hide their aggressive, sado-masochistic lovemaking from their children. Witnessing the brutal sex play between Alejandra and Pichon has also had a profound effect on Ladeado, who has taken to capturing and killing wild weasels. Nati begins drawing pictures depicting what she's seen her mother doing, and when Poldo gets a good look at them, he's determined to make his wife pay for her infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspense, eros
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The Story of O: Untold Pleasures (2002)
Plot Summary:
"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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Lady of the Night (1986)
Plot Summary:
Angelina is tired of long serious relationships. One day she is brutally raped and she changes dramatically. Suddenly she is getting involved in more and more dangerous relations with unknown men until her behavior leads to a fatal crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, sexual, sexy
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The Man-Eater (1999)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a Sicilian woman that tries to have avidly as many sexual adventures as possible. She uses different identities and personalities, but she can't stop collecting adventures. One day she meets Valerio, a young student who falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, controversial, independent film, gay cinema, hot, sexploitation film