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Plot Summary:
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, sensual, allegory
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Good Morning... and Goodbye! (1967)
Plot Summary:
Tales of eleven losers are told and interwoven. Burt can't satisfy Angel, so she seeks the arms of another man, who is caught by Angel in the arms of another woman. Angel ends up with Justin, who ends up with a co-worker's wife. As Angel and Burt argue, a sorceress watches, and eventually seduces Burt while Angel gets to know Ray, who had previously chased a blonde girl down on the coast. You get the idea.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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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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Today and Tomorrow (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in Buenos Aires, this powerful Argentinean tale from director Alejandro Chomski stars Antonella Costa as aspiring actress Paula, who's desperate to find a way to pay her mounting stack of debts. Out of options and about to be evicted, she turns to streetwalking but soon learns that her new occupation of choice comes with disastrous repercussions. The film's supporting cast includes Carlos Lipsic and Romina Ricci.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Love Rites (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man meets a prostitute who takes him to a boudoir.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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The Story of Sin (1975)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, beautiful
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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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As Long as One Is Intoxicated (1974)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece
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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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Emmanuelle on Taboo Island (1976)
Plot Summary:
Daniel is washed ashore after a shipwreck and discovers the beautiful Haydee in a tropical island paradise. However, Haydee's father and brother aren't as willing to accept their romance.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Venezuela
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, cult film
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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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The Bitches (1973)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes very jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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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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Sister Emanuelle (1977)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle has renounced her life of lust to become a cloistered nun. But when she is assigned to a remote convent school for wayward girls, this delectable Bride Of Christ will face temptations that include a teenage nymphomaniac, a horny escaped criminal, and a class fill of curious virgins eager ti experience sins of the flesh. Can Emanuelle resist the erotic pleasures of her past, or will she break her vows and surrender to the ultimate orgy of unholy desire?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: naughty, erotic, surprise ending, sexploitation film
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Black Emanuelle (1975)
Plot Summary:
In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment. Questions of her own racial and sexual identity come to a head as she observes the troubled marriage of her hosts, Ann and Gianni Danieli. Matters are complicated further when Emanuelle finds herself in affairs with both of them, after which she flees Africa, only to be persued by Gianni, who had earlier rejected her and ridiculed her advances.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, grindhouse, sexual, sexploitation 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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Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the desert paradise of pleasure and pain, a glamourous fashion model and a free-spirited beauty surrender themselves to complete sexual ecstasy. But will an unhinged holy man now lead these new lovers - as well as their friends and even family members - into the most shockingly immoral acts imaginable?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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The Beast (1975)
Plot Summary:
The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, serious, stylized, controversial, surreal, psychotronic, romantic, sexy, thought provoking
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House of Tolerance (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, rough, sexy, disturbing, eros, sensual
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The Streetwalker (1976)
Plot Summary:
A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, mad
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Fruits of Passion (1981)
Plot Summary:
A girl loves a rich and much older man and is willing to do everything he wants to show her love, but he is playing a sick game with her. As part of this game he sends her to a Chinese brothel. A poor young boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he joins "the revolution". Additionally the movie shows the fate of some of the other prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, eros, retro, sensual, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, hot
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Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, cult classic, grindhouse, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Exterminating Angels (2006)
Plot Summary:
François, a French director, is conducting a rather unorthodox casting. He tries to understand how women desire and especially how they get pleasure. But by getting too close to their fire, he hasn’t sensed the Angels coming.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, surreal, sensual, realistic, psychological, art house, captivating, suspense, sexy
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The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
Plot Summary:
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, "Who has the gun?" Will there be violence before it's over?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychedelic, surreal, grindhouse, sensual, atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Emmanuelle 5 (1987)
Plot Summary:
Emmanuelle, the sexiest woman in the world, endures a streak of bad luck that begins when she's stripped by a mob of adoring fans at an international film festival. Emmanuelle's lousy luck continues when she's abducted from her yacht off the South of France and forced to submit to the erotic desires of an Arab sheik.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, independent 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
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To the Adventure (2008)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with her present lifestyle, and more particularly sexually unsatisfied by her boyfriend Fred, Sandrine decides to find a new way in life. Intrigued by her friend Sophie, who tells her about her sexual experimentations, she will find, through various encounters, new pleasures and new experiences, whether physical or spiritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, realistic, psychological, serious, sexy, art house, controversial, sexual
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Another Nine & a Half Weeks (1997)
Plot Summary:
John flies over to Paris to find out his girlfriend Elizabeth. He finds a mysterious fashion designer named Lea and her assistant Claire, and it turns out that Lea was Elizabeth's friend in Paris. Lea says to John that Elizabeth married and moved away. The passion starts to appear between John and Lea, when Lea's business partner Vittorio tells John another version of Elizabeth's fate.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, realistic, crying, sexy, serious, sexual, suspense, tense, independent film
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Showgirls (1995)
Plot Summary:
A young drifter named Nomi arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become a top showgirl.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, realistic, sensual, cynical, controversial, satirical, psychological, retro
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Love Strange Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, weird