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Plot Summary:
A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: stylized, realistic, serious, erotic, sexy, captivating, cult classic, sexual, semi autobiographical, independent film
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Hussy (1980)
Plot Summary:
Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, independent film, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Still Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fueled by original music by members of Guns N' Roses, Bad Religion, No Doubt, Skid Row, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Hootie & The Blowfish and more... The Still Life tells the story of artist Julian Lamont who struggles to pick up the pieces of his tattered life in this poignant drama. A reclusive alcoholic, Julian creates a new art genre called Destructionism, and his works catapult him into the limelight. But as his success in the art world grows, Julian loses touch with the artist he truly desires to be, and his personal life soon tailspins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, captivating, erotic, independent film, serious
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On the Edge (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three flatmates in Mexico City face uncertainties: Lucía who has a great job as an art director for TV commercials is abusing alcohol and cocaine. She risks losing her job, going to prison for assault, and she's woefully in love with a bullfighter who may be two-timing her. Carmen, an artist without income, can be manic - snorting lots of cocaine and hanging out with a gay man and a transvestite. What's her future? Hanna contemplates divorce from Abraham, a wealthy momma's boy, and she's disoriented by feelings of attraction to Sandra, a customer at her jewelry store. Can any of these poor little rich girls sort things out in a world of excess?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Welcome to New York (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fiction inspired from the story of the rise and the fall of french politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: cynical, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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A Very Private Affair (1962)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous teen, Jill, resides in Switzerland with her mother and harbors feelings for the handsome Fabio, an older man who is married to one of her friends. Growing restless, Jill moves to Paris to pursue ballet, but instead finds success and fame as a model and actress. When Jill, now a celebrity, seeks to retreat from the limelight and returns home to Switzerland, she begins a romance with the newly divorced Fabio, leading to an unwelcome media circus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, mind bending, realistic, witty, contemplative, stylized
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Di Di Hollywood (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bar worker Diana Diaz (Elsa Pataky) leaves Madrid for Miami and with new boyfriend, Robert (Luis Hacha), they then head for Hollywood, prepared to do anything for fame.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, cynical, sexy, serious, sexual, soap opera
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The Lonely Lady (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Cocaine Angel (2006)
Plot Summary:
A week in the life of a young drug addict.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, mumblecore, independent film, sincere, witty, gloomy
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Gigola (2010)
Plot Summary:
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, queer cinema
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Plot Summary:
The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife style and is introduced to booze and drugs and mentally, physically and sexually abused by Sarah, her lovers and her religiously fanatic family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing, realistic, art house, controversial, stylized, intense
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their strong attraction to one another. They start to sneak around but it's not long before they realize they should be together. Soon after Abby breaks up with her boyfriend, she becomes pregnant with Edgar's child - something that was not planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic, sexual, psychological thriller
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The Pornographer (1999)
Plot Summary:
A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, psychological, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, sexual, independent film
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The Last Mistress (2007)
Plot Summary:
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, stylized, realistic, sensual, sexy, disturbing, erotic drama, sexual, crying
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Tokyo Decadence (1992)
Plot Summary:
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, tense, surreal, sexy, serious, realistic, controversial, psychological, captivating
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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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A Woman, Her Men, and Her Futon (1992)
Plot Summary:
Recently divorced, aspiring filmmaker Helen (Jennifer Rubin) enters into a love triangle fueled by sexual hunger and manipulation. But as she attempts to define herself and fulfill her wants and needs, she must choose between her independence and her men. As Helen's exploits with controlling lover Paul (Michael Cerveris), casual beau Randy (Grant Show) and friend Donald (Lance Edwards) become fodder for her script, her choice becomes clear.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, sexual
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This Girl's Life (2003)
Plot Summary:
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, serious, realistic, erotic, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Wild Blood (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the Salò Republic. Accused of collaboration and torture, they were shot by the Partisans after the country was liberated.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexy, touching, tense, suspenseful, gloomy, sexual
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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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And They Call It Summer (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, sexy, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, hot
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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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Breaking the Surface (2006)
Plot Summary:
Having just landed a gig with a trendy magazine, young photographer Nadja celebrates at the local disco, where she bumps into Darius, a 20-year-old skateboarder. Although her frankness at first scares him, the two quickly become a couple, and as their intoxicating affair takes off, they seem like passionate soul mates. Soon, however, career demands and emotional intensity gradually put a strain on their rapport, and things turn even more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, atmospheric, emotional, art house, sensual, sexy, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Pornographer (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and 80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60s counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno again. Jacques's artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producer's ideas about shooting hard-core sex. Jacques has been estranged from his son Joseph for years, since the son first learned the nature of the family business. They are now speaking again. Joseph and his friends want to recapture the idealism of 1968 with a protest. Separated from his wife, Jacques strives for personal renewal with plans to build a new house by himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, art house, terrifying, sexual, hot
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Dangerous Game (1993)
Plot Summary:
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, melancholic, erotic, rough, art house, independent film, erotic drama, bleak, serious
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I Like to Play Games (1995)
Plot Summary:
Michael is looking for a woman who likes to play games, but when he finds Suzanne, she might just be more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, romantic, independent film, crying
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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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Boogie Nights (1997)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 278000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: stylized, erotic, sexy, talky, black comedy, dark comedy, captivating, sentimental, touching, sensual
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An Eye for Beauty (2014)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, touching, spiritual, stylized, sexual
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The Role of Her Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous