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Plot Summary:
One of Al Pacino's directory experiments, Salomé was filmed over 5 days in 2011, but has yet to be widely released. It is a part of a double feature on the Oscar Wilde short play "Salomé", together with the Venice-shown documentary "Wilde Salomé", that shows the making of this film. The synops shown on IMDb for the 1923 take on the play goes as following: "Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist.".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: spiritual, erotic, philosophical, cerebral, cult classic, thought provoking
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Stuck (2002)
Plot Summary:
Four people, four walls, four stories, four truths.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Passover Plot (1976)
Plot Summary:
Dramatization of the controversial best-seller that posits an alternate version of the birth of Christianity. In this version, Jesus planned for His crucifixion by taking a drug that would simulate death. After His unconscious body was placed in the tomb, a religious sect known as the Zealots would secretly steal Christ's body from the tomb, then spread the rumor that He had risen, thus fulfilling Biblical prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Nicole (1976)
Plot Summary:
Nicole is a beautiful, rich and neurotic woman who lives in a mansion alone with her maids and chauffeur. But without someone to really account to, Nicole begins to spin out of control. Her decadent and lustful life leads to murder, despair and, ultimately, mournful regret in this cautionary tale for the idle rich who have too much money and time.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, independent film
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Russ Meyer's Lorna (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim's buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna's supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it's their anniversary.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, grindhouse, black and white, independent film
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Swedish Fly Girls (1971)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous Danish international stewardess flirts brashly with her male passengers then beds them one after another in her Copenhagen home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, independent film
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A Place Called Truth (1998)
Plot Summary:
Love, pride and jealousy are aroused when a ranch owner's daughter, called Lizzie, has an affair with a cowboy. Meanwhile a mysterious woman seduces the various lovers of Lizzie, who has fled to New Orleans to escape her arranged marriage.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, erotic drama
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Smooth Operator (1995)
Plot Summary:
Megan Hughes plays Grace Nichols, a businesswoman constantly competing with men to get ahead. Unfortunately, her love life is also suffering. One day, while chomping on a donut, she realizes she's put on a few pounds. She decides to get back in shape, and asks her secretary Angie Li (Candace Kita) if she could recommend a good personal trainer. Angie recommends Brian Lerner (Doug Jeffery), a guy Angie's also been sleeping with for the last few months. Of course, Grace doesn't know that. Grace meets up with Brian, and it's innocent at first. She tosses on the workout clothes, he comes over to help her out with exercising, and goes home. Simple enough, right? However, this is a softcore flick, so you know the sex is coming. Eventually, Grace asks Brian to accompany her to a formal dinner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Until the Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka fashions a stunning film about love and excess. Robert (Norman Reedus) is a writer who hasn't done much writing lately; instead, he's busy pushing the envelope with his toxic mix of boredom, drugs and a dalliance with a married woman, Elizabeth (Kathleen Robertson). In spite of Elizabeth's marital status, Robert falls for her completely -- a commitment that just may blow up in his face, along with the rest of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Seventh Sense (1999)
Plot Summary:
A blind street musician, shut off from everything but her music, begins working with a reclusive composer who uses sensual metaphors as teaching tools. Farced with the possibility of regaining her eyesight she fears she will lose her musical inspiration.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Color of the Cross (2006)
Plot Summary:
A retelling of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, based on the idea that he was a black man whose death was a racially motivated hate crime.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: biblical
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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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Life of a Gigolo (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Danielle decides to do a story on the life of a sex worker to please her boss and lover Peter, she meets Gage a professional gigolo. She quickly becomes interested in his work and starts to see a change in herself and her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, 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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Seduce Me: Pamela Principle 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Charles is bored with being a wealthy, successful architect. He takes a temporary job photographing undressed women and falls for Pamela. His wife, Elaine, has little sympathy for this mid-life crisis.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Masseuse (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jack is a real scum-bag who is going to marry Kristy. He has a bad habit of sleeping with other women and stealing all of her money. Two weeks before their marriage, Kristy sees Jack having sex with their maid, Rosa. It turns out that he was threatening Rosa into having sex as well as his secretary Diane. When he goes away on business, Kristy, Rosa, and Diane devise a way to get him back for all of the things he has put them through. They also decide to turn his house into a special massage parlor for a few nights so Kristy can try to make some of the money back that Jack stole from her.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sensual, independent film, sexual
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Paul: The Emissary (1997)
Plot Summary:
Robert Marcarelli - In this impressive drama, starring Gary Cooper, we follow Saul the angry zealot to Paul the servant of Christ, who will pay any price to bring his message to the world. - Garry Cooper, Leon Lissek, Kermit Christman.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: christian film, biblical, independent film
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Young Lady Chatterley II (1985)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia, new lady of Chatterly, feels neglected by her husband. During his absences she tries to amuse herself with gardener Thomas, but always gets interrupted by new visitors. While she's busy her staff amuses itself. One of her guests is a professor who wants to do research in her land-seat. He's quite repressed, but she knows how to lighten him up.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, independent film, sexploitation film
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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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The Sister-in-Law (1974)
Plot Summary:
Robert and Edward are brothers involved in a web of adultery and deceit. They share Edward's wife and his mistress and a mission to deliver a package of jewels across the Canadian border, but the mission turns out to be deadly.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, erotic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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Therese (1986)
Plot Summary:
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain modern language. A sense of angelic simplicity comes across without fancy lights, choirs, or showy miracles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spiritual, slow cinema, aesthetic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Lap Dancing (1995)
Plot Summary:
Angie is having no luck auditioning for movies. She thinks about going back home, but her roommate Claudia convinces her to try working at the "gentleman's club" with her in order to gain more life experience. Angie hopes to be able to turn the experience toward more effective acting but is having difficulty overcoming her inhibitions. She meets a burned out movie director at the club who helps her with her dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Erotic Diary of Misty Mundae (2004)
Plot Summary:
College Coed Misty Mundae can no longer contain her surging sexual desires, and it transforms her secret diary into an ultra-erotic journal of her most intimate thoughts. With each new entry, Misty feverishly conjures up female lovers to indulge every insatiable urge and mouth-watering pleasure that her eager mouth craves and her hot young body demands. Fantasy is made flesh as Misty is seduced by her wildest lesbian creations (Darian Caine, Anoushka, AJ Khan, Julian Wells and Ruby LaRocca) who take her to heights of ecstasy never before experienced. It's 100% naughty as Misty's uninhibited lust and hunger for satisfaction at any cost set the screen on fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing, sexy, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999)
Plot Summary:
Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: biblical, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Young Lady Chatterley (1977)
Plot Summary:
Cynthia inherits a large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt's diary and finds out how she was taught in the ways of love by her gardener in 1901 at the age of 21. She decides to continue the fruitful relationship and gets it on with the handsome young gardener herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic, sexual
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Let's Talk About Sex (1994)
Plot Summary:
Four women filmmakers examine sexuality in this anthology. Segment 1 is entitled "Let's Talk About Sex" and is the story of an aspiring actress whose day job is as a phone-sex operator. Tiring of listening to callers' fantasies, she finds a caller who is willing to listen to hers. Segment 2 is called "Taboo Palor" and tells the story of two lesbians, who, for variety, pick up a man for sex. He ends up getting more than he bargained for. Segment 3 is "Wonton Soup." Here an Australian-Chinese man tries to rekindle his affair with a Chinese woman by returning to their roots: both in the kitchen and in the bedroom.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, anthology, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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Friend of the Family (1995)
Plot Summary:
A free-spirited natural beauty teaches an entire family to reconnect with their own sexuality. Elke is invited to stay with the Stillman family in their luxurious home in Malibu. The outward appearances of a happy and successful family soon dissolve as Elke finds each to have emotional and sexual problems that only she can help them overcome.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexy, hot, sexploitation film
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Chinese Coffee (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt. Harry solicits his opinion on his latest manuscript, a work of semi-fiction based on their longtime friendship. Although he initially denies having read it, Jake later attacks it on aesthetic grounds, and deep-seated feelings of betrayal and jealousy surface and lead to a traumatic confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, serious, talky, existential, philosophical, cerebral, cult classic, independent film, realistic
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The Sunset Limited (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on the play of the same name by Pulitzer Prize Winner Cormac McCarthy, this searing two-character drama mixes humor and pathos while examining the relationship between strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men - a deeply religious black ex-con who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. Locked in a philosophical debate, both passionately defend their personal credos and try to convert the other.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: talky, philosophical, minimal cast, thought provoking, psychological, bleak, intellectual, intense, serious, cerebral
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Jolene (2008)
Plot Summary:
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, erotic, sentimental, realistic, explicit, romantic, road movie, dramatic, serious
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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