Best movies like Path of the Beast
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Plot Summary:
17 year old Saki lives in a run-down hack with her mom who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life (she doesn't want to grow up like her mother), Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys. The sizzling Japanese Tatsumi Kumashiro’s erotic drama 'Shoujo Shofu: Kemonomichi' (aka 'Whore Girl - the Animal Trail' distributed internationally as 'Path of the Beast'), offers a venue for sex kitten Ayako Yoshimura to reveal choice areas of her nubile frame.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags:
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Passages (2023)
Plot Summary:
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, bilingual, interesting, gay cinema
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Zoom Up: The Beaver Book Girl (1981)
Plot Summary:
A sexually perverse mystery set within the adult magazine industry. A woman is brutally assaulted in an abandoned factory, and her assailant escapes into the darkness after dropping a wad of money. A few years later, a photographer specializing in schoolgirl panty shots meets his match when a mysterious femme fatale volunteers to be his new model. This woman used to be the “queen” of the skin magazines, but she is also hiding a terrible secret and may be a wanted fugitive. Will the photographer escape her sexual grasp?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: sensual
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Black Hair Velvet Soul (1982)
Plot Summary:
Tachibana is a drunk whose gambling compulsion ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife Izumi's restaurant (which she inherited from her now deceased father) in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: crying
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A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996)
Plot Summary:
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Trouble with Sex (2005)
Plot Summary:
A sexy romantic drama in which, at the outset, the characters are leading their own lives in very different worlds, though each is beset by niggling discontentment. Michelle (Renée Weldon - IFTA Best Actress) is a fast-rising young Dublin lawyer with a smart apartment overlooking the Liffey, but dissatisfied in her relationship with a doctor (Declan Conlon). Conor (Aidan Gillen) is lonely and unattached, dutifully running the traditional Dublin pub owned by his hard drinking father (Eamon Morrissey). Late one night, Michelle bursts into the bar and orders a triple vodka. The consequences are explored and developed with an honesty and credibility as these disparate characters tentatively draw closer to each other. They become lovers. There is a strong sexual attraction. But there are complications along the way and the path to love can be rocky. Something's got to give. And what's the trouble with sex? You'll see.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Tokyo Train Girls: Private Lessons (2009)
Plot Summary:
New teacher Chihiro has been on the job for three months. She does her job with great enthusiasm, but she has a secret that nobody must know. As a student, she accumulated debt in order to keep up with her well-to-do friends. She can’t pay it back on the wages of a teacher so she started working part-time as a Chat-Lady. In front of a web camera that hides her face, she shakes her breasts and hips. By chance, her student, Kazuaki discovers the web site.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing
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Lovers Are Wet (1973)
Plot Summary:
Katsu, a fugitive youth on the run from the yakuza, returns to his birthplace and begins an affair with the cinema owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Candy Regentag (1989)
Plot Summary:
Flesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel. Join Bambi, Candy and the girls for an evening or two and find out what happens in the violent world of sex for sale. Candy is new to the business. She follows all of the rules of the house - she arrives on time, doesn’t take drugs, is polite to customers, and numb to all the men who used her. Then she meets Reg and breaks the most important rule - don’t fall in love with one of your customers. Their first encounter leaves her longing to see him again. She fantasizes about the love they share and how idyllic their life together would be. But the facts are clear. Candy is a hooker and she will never be a real part of his world … she’s one of Bambi’s girls. She has seen his life and felt his love, a brief glimpse is all she’ll ever have, KISS THE NIGHT!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Inga (1968)
Plot Summary:
Inga, a 17 year-old, is sent to live with a scheming aunt who wants her to become mistress of her rich neighbour. She falls for a common young man instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, sensual, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Cruel Game (2002)
Plot Summary:
The con is on when a gorgeous LA playboy tries to juggle four beautiful women and gets more than he bargained for. When a million bucks goes missing from the Yakuza, Japan's notorious mafia, the chase is on for the culprit. But in this tale of cross and double cross, no one is who they say they are and everyone's just in it for one thing -- get the money and get out.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, surprise ending, suspense
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Swastika (1983)
Plot Summary:
Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko’s husband gets involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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11 Days 11 Nights: Part 1 - Fantasy Becomes Reality (1987)
Plot Summary:
In 11 days, Michael is to marry Helen, but a chance meeting with a total stranger threatens to destroy all his plans. En route to work, Michael is seduced on the spot by a beautiful stranger. Unbeknownst to Michael, this gorgeous woman is a writer who's about to finish her book, SARAH AND HER 100 MEN. Guess who's the 100th man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexy, sexual, erotic, sexploitation film
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Love to Eternity (1972)
Plot Summary:
Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, grotesque
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Perfect Love (1996)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl helps investigators reconstruct her mother's (Isabelle Renauld) murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: controversial, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Return to Two Moon Junction (1995)
Plot Summary:
Savannah Delongpre is a wealthy fashion model living in New York City who returns to her small town in Georgia to visit her wealthy grandmother Belle as well as walk down memory lane to remember her childhood with some of her friends still living there. During that time, Savannah meets Jake Gilbert a rugged drifter/artist living on the property called Two Moon Junction owned by Belle and whose family has a feud with Savannah's for decades. Desperate to forget her stressful life, Savannah eventually begins a sordid affair with Jake, despite opposition from Belle claiming the man is not right for her or anyone. But Savannah's strongest opposition comes from her possessive boyfriend Robert Lee who later arrives and plans to break Savannah and Jake up by buying the Two Moon Junction property to evict Jake from the area.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Sexual Roulette (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a young couple loses all of their money at a casino, the husband performs certain "favours" in order to work the debt off, while his wife is unaware of this kinky arrangement.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, romantic, sexploitation film
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Loving (2017)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Carlos love each other as if every day was the last, and perhaps that first love intensity is what will tear them apart a year later.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, explicit, sexy, erotic, touching, disturbing, hispanic
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Perfumed Garden (2000)
Plot Summary:
Imagine a world of pleasure, where passion is the ultimate obsession. When Michael and Lisa travel to India to restore an erotic sculpture, they are immediately acquainted with the Kama Sutra and introduced to the skills of seduction. But when forbidden desires are revealed, vows can be broken. Now, sexual desires are about to be reawakened and fantasies are about to come true. What you desire you cannot resist. Experience it for yourself.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, sexual, sensual, independent film
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Rendez-vous (1985)
Plot Summary:
A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous dismay, she's willing to sleep with Quentin, and wants Paulot's friendship. After a desperate act by Quentin, Nina and Paulot share a flat, but she still won't take him as a lover; instead, her energy goes into a production of "Romeo and Juliet" directed by a detached, intense man who becomes her father figure. Quentin's ghost taunts her, Paulot wants to end all contact, and the director plans to return to London. The art of the theater may be her only refuge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, anthology, art house, psychological, noir, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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Turkish Delight (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl. The story follows the arc of their relationship and his interaction with her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sensual, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, romantic, epic, experimental, manga, erotic drama, insightful
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Moonlight Whispers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Satsuki (Tsugumi) and Takuya (Kenji Mizuhashi) are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki's soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him -- but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, sensual, erotic drama, psychological, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, sexual
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The Red Thread (2016)
Plot Summary:
Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, psychological, sincere, touching, captivating, realistic, erotic
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Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
Biarritz. 16 year-old George, the high-school hottie, falls in love with Alex. To get his attention, she initiates a group game with Alex, Nikita, Laetitia and Gabriel. They will discover, test, and push the limits of their sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, captivating, eros, sensual, steamy, erotic, unusual plot structure, hot
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3some (2009)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to help his friend with his impotence, Jaime sets up two friends together. But after the failure, he comes in to help. What first appeared to be just a sexual experience evolves to a full romantic relationship of three people.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, erotic, atmospheric, sexy, captivating, eros, explicit, crying
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You & Me Forever (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Laura and Christine meet Maria, their friendship takes an intense turn to vulnerability, love and sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy, sad, crying
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Young & Beautiful (2013)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, atmospheric, sensual, controversial, art house, romantic, harsh, intellectual
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Sex and Lucia (2001)
Plot Summary:
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, art house, cerebral, sensual, erotic drama, sentimental, serious, captivating
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Antares (2004)
Plot Summary:
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, psychological, anthology, explicit, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic
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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, erotic, romantic, sweet, sincere, melancholic, period piece, realistic, talky, cult classic
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, controversial, disturbing, art house, psychological, sensual, transgressive, surreal