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Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Sex Hunter (1980)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a much, much darker side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: erotic
Similar in 87%
Nathalie: Escape from Hell (1978)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful American doctor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp uses her skill to save the life of an SS officer, who falls in love with her. However, a sadistic female SS officer considers him her personal property, and has no compunction about using her riding crop to whip, beat and torture to make sure it stays that way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sensual
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Venus in Furs (1969)
Plot Summary:
A couple who get involved in an underground scene of kinky sex and sadism have a surprise coming to them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychedelic, suspense, romantic, grindhouse, existential, sensual, perverse
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Flesh for Olivia (2002)
Plot Summary:
Olivia, a beautiful hooker under the influence of the violent and degenerate pimp Claudio, uses her charms to seduce young women so Claudio can film them. Things take a turn for the worse when Melody, one of Olivia's willing "victims", suddenly disappears one day. Her roommate Alice fears that she may be next.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: erotic drama
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Convent of Sinners (1986)
Plot Summary:
Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, are jealous and angry, they want Susanna for themselves, and accuse her of being possessed by the Devil.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexploitation film
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SS Experiment Love Camp (1976)
Plot Summary:
Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the Arian race.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, sensual, terrifying, erotic, sexploitation film, banned film
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Wanda, the Wicked Warden (1977)
Plot Summary:
Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, grindhouse, controversial, sensual, cult classic, explicit, queer horror, independent film, rough
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Plot Summary:
Matsu, known to the prisoners as Scorpion, is locked away in the bowels of the prison as revenge for disrupting the smooth operation of the prison and for her disfiguring attack on the warden. Granted a one day reprieve due to the visit of a dignitary, she takes advantage and attacks the warden again. This leads to more brutal punishment and humiliation. But the punishment gives her an oppurtunity to escape along with six other female prisoners. Their surreal flight from prison pits the convicts against the guards, the warden and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, slasher, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Sex and Fury (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, sensual, bloody, disturbing, controversial, crime drama, cult classic, action thriller, exciting
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Plot Summary:
After being cruelly set up by a crooked detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi), whom she loved, Nami Matsushima (aka Matsu the Scorpion) (Meiko Kaji) is sentenced to do hard time in a women's prison, which is run by sadistic and horny male guards. There are 700 other prisoners, making Matsu number 701. Her crime was making a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters because he used her to win favor with the Yakuza. While in prison she meets inmates like Yuki Kida (Yayoi Watanabe) who was committed for fraud and theft, Otsuka (Akemi Negishi), jailed for burglary and extortion, and Katagiri (Rie Yokoyama) who has been impounded for arson and illegally disposing of a body.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, erotic, slasher, manga, crime drama, cult classic
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The Killer Nun (1979)
Plot Summary:
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, suspense, surreal, sensual, cult classic, terrifying, queer horror
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Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)
Plot Summary:
Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, bloody, suspense, controversial, sensual, cult classic, independent film, erotic, rough
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Trauma (1976)
Plot Summary:
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film, scary, sexy, mind bending
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Inferno of Torture (1969)
Plot Summary:
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, queer horror, crying, transgressive, pink cinema, sexploitation film, cult film
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Freeze Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, controversial, serious, sexual, suspense, slasher, cult classic, philosophical, psychedelic
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Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)
Plot Summary:
"Beautiful Girl Hunter" by Norifumi Suzuki is based on manga by Maasaki Soto.The film portrays the life of Tatsuya,a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.This handsome rapist seduces women,then brings them to the basement of the mansion he inherited from his well-to-do parents,where he indulges in lengthy sessions of sado-sexual violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: controversial, naughty, erotic, sexual, erotic drama, disgusting, sexy, scatology
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Mark of the Devil (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, slasher, satanic, bleak, dramatic, controversial, demonic, extreme horror, creepy
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Scrapbook (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard has forced his victims to personally write in the scrapbook about their individual ordeals. Clara is beaten, raped, starved, and locked up like an animal, filthy and naked. She is forced to write in the scrapbook, adding her agony to the pages. She soon realizes that her only hope for survival is to manipulate Leonard through her writings in his cherished scrapbook.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, sexy, controversial, bloody, suspense, dark, intense
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Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969)
Plot Summary:
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, disturbing, sexual, controversial, sensual, psychological, rough, bleak, serious
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Flavia the Heretic (1974)
Plot Summary:
After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, gothic, suspense, slasher, controversial, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
Plot Summary:
Ilsa is a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners. Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and should be allowed to fight on the front lines.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic
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Flower and Snake (2004)
Plot Summary:
The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can while he watches. She’s put on stage in an underground BDSM sex show and begins a spiraling decent from strongly independent woman to submissive sex slave.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, surreal, controversial
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House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
Plot Summary:
Alex (David Hess) is a darkly sinister thug driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman (Karoline Mardeck) driving alongside him. He follows the woman to a nearby park where he cuts her off, gets out of his car, and runs into hers where he throws her into the back seat and proceeds to savagely rape her before strangling her to death. He takes her locket as a trophy to another one of his many killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, sexual, surprise ending, suspense, controversial, dread, cult classic, terrifying
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Strange Circus (2005)
Plot Summary:
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, suspense, scary, mind bending, surprise ending, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological thriller
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Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: disturbing, mondo, grindhouse, suspense, creepy, cult classic, twisted, black comedy, dark comedy, rough
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Run! Bitch Run! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Things go horribly wrong when Catherine and Rebecca, two Catholic School girls, knock on the wrong door while selling Religious paraphernalia.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, grindhouse, brutal, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological thriller
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The Seasoning House (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, bleak, realistic, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, spooky
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I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychological, disturbing, rough, bloody, independent film, bleak, splatter, slasher
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Visitor Q (2001)
Plot Summary:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger, somehow gets involved and enters the bizarre family whose son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, controversial, tense, dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, atmospheric, rough