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Plot Summary:
Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter Carolina, (Anicee Alvine) is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, postmodern
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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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Black Sun (2007)
Plot Summary:
After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Gemini Affair (1975)
Plot Summary:
A hopeful young actress is lured to Hollywood by the seduction of fame and fortune. A friend she lives with while in Hollywood becomes her lover, and they both soon come to realize that the seedy Hollywood lifestyle is not for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Wild Honey (1972)
Plot Summary:
Country girl comes to the big city, gets into all kinds of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Marianne's Temptations (1973)
Plot Summary:
Innocent young Marianne works in a ski resort high in the French Alps. One night she agrees to go on a date with Bob, a young guy on vacation. Bob excites her in ways that her oafish boyfriend never could.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Slave Widow (1967)
Plot Summary:
After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that Kito's intentions are anything but pure, as she's forced to become his personal concubine. Her only, improbable hope for redemption lies with her one true admirer: Kito's very own son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Scorpio Nights 2 (1999)
Plot Summary:
Andrew (Albert Martinez) is meticulous almost to the point of obsession. From the way he carries his clothes to the manner he delivers his Physics lectures, Andrew is methodical in everything he does. But his ordered existence is suddenly disrupted when one sexually adventurous student, Valerie (Joyce Jimenez), starts seducing him. Andrew gives in to the temptation, and soon, the two are caught in an explosive relationship that knows no bounds.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Carne (1968)
Plot Summary:
The misadventures of an attractive woman who works in a cold store.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Autumn Born (1979)
Plot Summary:
A rich young woman is kidnapped and taken to a school of "discipline.".
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, sexploitation film
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Lulu (1980)
Plot Summary:
Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic
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Madame Claude 2 (1981)
Plot Summary:
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny. She knows too much about the dissolute mores of the French political class. She knows so much that several ministers, particularly inclined to the attendance of her call-girls, condemn her to death. Her girls, Karine, Hélène, Alexandra and Vanessa, each goes "to fulfill their mission": to coax an Emir on his yacht in the Bahamas, to satisfy the voyeurism of a British financier, to play "do me wrong" with a crafty American or to satisfy the lesbian instincts of a Hong Kong banker. But a journalist discovers these close relations with these powerful people.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, erotic, vintage, cult film
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Fever (1971)
Plot Summary:
After falling from a boat on the Parana River, a woman (Isabel Sarli) spends time in the jungle with five rough men.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Menina e o Estuprador (1983)
Plot Summary:
In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically raised alone by her butler and driver Pedro and the maid, Dalva. Vanessa has disturbing daydreams and sexual fantasies, but doesn't let Arlindo, a teenager that flirts with her get close to her. Her best friend is Denise, a promiscuous girl that has intercourse with different men. When Vanessa discloses to Denise her problem, Denise gives the address of her psychotherapist Dr. Artur, to her friend. The unethical shrink pushes Vanessa to the edge, bringing memories of a severe trauma of her childhood. Then the disturbed Dr. Artur induces the girls to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: pornochanchada
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Roula (1995)
Plot Summary:
Troubled Roula finds herself drawn to Leon, an author of children's books who has suffered an enormous emotional and creative blockage ever since his wife died in a motorcycle accident two years before. Leon has only his 12-year-old daughter Tanja to keep him company. As romance blooms between Leon and Roula, his daughter approves. Unfortunately, Roula is carrying heavy emotional baggage stemming from the incest she suffered at the hands of her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual
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Honey (1981)
Plot Summary:
A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Fairy in a Cage (1977)
Plot Summary:
During the latter part of World War II, Judge Murayama, head of the Japanese military police, uses his position to falsely accuse, capture, imprison and torture women in whom he is interested. Namiji Kikushima, a high-class business woman, is one such lady. Kikushima is accused of using her Ginza jewellery shop to finance an anti-government organization. Judge Murayama has Lady Kikushima arrested, and orders the new recruit Taoka to torture her. Taoka falls in love with Kikushima, at first hating torturing her then growing to enjoy it. After a long series of tortures and humiliation, while the Judge espouses his twisted version of morality, Taoka sacrifices himself to enable Lady Kikushima’s escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, sexual, 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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Reflections of Light (1988)
Plot Summary:
After a car incident, in which he lost his wife, a musician remains paralytic on a wheelchair. He retires in a lonely villa. Incidentally together with him in the villa there are also a bisexual, a lesbian and a vicious kid. The lascivious atmosphere drive all the protagonists into depraved games. But the pain for the lost couldn't be medicated.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Sensuous Doll (1973)
Plot Summary:
Witness of a murder, a young prostitute is tailed by a detective who is paid by the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, road movie
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Hail Mary (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: avant garde, controversial, disturbing, erotic, psychedelic, spiritual, art house, mind bending, surreal, absurd
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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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Joy (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, independent film
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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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Climax (amenaza en las aulas) (1977)
Plot Summary:
Ana is a young girl with the same problems as any girl her age.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce sister Virginia. But will their wicked and lustful actions continue to go unnoticed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Inhibition (1976)
Plot Summary:
After years of sexual humiliation at the hands of her sadistic husband and his friends, a wealthy heiress struggles to regain her sense of identity. To that end, not only does she become ruthless in business, but also delights in sexually dominating her young secretary, Anna. When she attempts to exert her sexual power over a blythe traveler, Peter Smart, he turns the tables on her, and she finds herself at the mercy of an unfamiliar emotion: Love.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Action (1980)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, surreal, cult film
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Justine de Sade (1972)
Plot Summary:
Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, controversial, sensual, bleak, serious, realistic, sexual, grindhouse, sexy
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Roxanna (1970)
Plot Summary:
Uninhibited swinger Roxanna can't control her raging libido, sinking her into despair, insanity, and loneliness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Paprika (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, romantic, controversial, manga, art house, cult classic, crying, disgusting