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Plot Summary:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Altar of Lust (1971)
Plot Summary:
A sexually confused young woman in a session with her psychiatrist relates her tale of coming to New York City from Sweden after being raped by her stepfather, falling in love with a young man named Don and then realizing that she is finding herself attracted more and more to women.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Berkeley (2005)
Plot Summary:
Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet, an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism which turns his world upside down and leaves him on a path of exploration and self-discovery, far from the life of his father, Sy Sweet.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Seduction by the Sea (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Indecent Desires (1968)
Plot Summary:
Zeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. Then, he sees Ann going to work with her friend Babs. He thinks she looks like the doll. When he gets home, he caresses the doll... Ann feels it! When Zeb finds out about Ann's fiance Tom, he really gets mad, burns the doll, and beats it up, which makes Ann think she's losing her mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, weird
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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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Hollywood After Dark (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young girl comes to Hollywood to try to break into the movies, but winds up being taken advantage of by sleazy producers, and is forced to become a stripper.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Fluctuations (1970)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre don't-even-try-to-make-sense-of-it bombardment of sexual imagery that plays like stream of consciousness from a degenerate: threesomes, foursomes, lesbians, bondage, hair-whipping (!) and, believe it or not, even kung-fu. Avant-garde masterpiece or pure gutter trash? Perhaps both.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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Tainos (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sara, a young archaeology student, organizes an expedition to La Mora Cave. Guided by Yabey, Sara and her four friends, discover a hidden Taíno tribe, believed to be extinguished 500 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: independent film
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La mia preda (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Night Games (1980)
Plot Summary:
A Californian housewife is terrified of having sex because of a past assault. When this phobia threatens to destroy her marriage, she takes refuge in a series of erotic fantasies about a masked man. But is it really all just a fantasy?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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A Sweet Sickness (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation 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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Escort Girls (1974)
Plot Summary:
It s Christmas Eve in London, 1974 - and seven lonely people are on the town, looking to grab that elusive slice of enjoyment. So who better to contact than an escort agency- providing high-class ladies and gentlemen for anyone willing to pay the right price. But even in the saucy seventies, things weren t that easy- and our intrepid pleasure seekers have to face everything from inadequacy, rejection and catharsis to racism, violence and grand theft. Just goes to show how lonely a place the throbbing metropolis can be, especially during the holiday season.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Fallen Angel (1997)
Plot Summary:
Caught in a seedy underworld of lies, lust and murder, Antonelli, the local mob boss, and his sultry young wife, Michelle, share a game of deception and jealousy that soon turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Private Passions (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Mark goes to visit his cousin Toni in Austria for the summer, he develops a serious crush on Toni's pretty stepsister Clair and at the same time tries to fend off Toni's efforts to get him set up with prostitutes. As much as he likes Clair, Mark cannot bring himself to start a sexual relationship with her and ultimately goes to Clair's mother Katherine to vent his feelings. It is that meeting that ultimately sends Mark home more experienced than when he arrived.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, France, Austria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Another Day, Another Man (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young couple move into an expensive new apartment after the husband gets a big pay raise. Unfortunately, he is soon stricken with a mysterious ailment and becomes bedridden. The wife, unable to find a job and with bills piling up, runs into a seedy pimp who suggests a way she may be able to make a lot of money in a short time.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Sixteen (1972)
Plot Summary:
Hickspoiltation film from the early 1970s ostensibly starring Oscar nominee Mercedes McCambridge, but really more a film looking for an excuse to show off Simone Griffeth's beauty. She plays a daughter of a swamp family. The whole family goes to a carnival where she is seduced by an older male performer, while her teen brother is seduced by an older female performer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Too Much Too Often! (1968)
Plot Summary:
When swaggering and conceited teddy boy Mike (played by fleshy-faced BUCK STARR) isn’t combing his wavy hair in a stance reminiscent of The Fonz, he’s latching onto each and every female who crosses his slimy path. The guy is bad news and has everybody fooled, except Mr. Dite (rotund BOB ORAN), an advertising executive and recent recipient of Mike’s services as a whip-wielding sadist. Taking advantage of the weak-willed masochist, Mike blackmails Dite into giving him a cushy job, then takes advantage of his new position by stealing Dite’s clients, seducing Dite’s elegant daughter, Sara (JOANNE CUNNINGHAM), and climbing his way up the social ladder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Female Animal (1970)
Plot Summary:
A sultry Latin peasant woman, who has overstayed her welcome in her relatives' home, is run off the road while bicycling by a wealthy aristocrat. Immediately attracted to her, he hires her as his "maid", and introduces her to the good life. She soon finds herself in a bitter power struggle between the man and his spoiled playboy son.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, psychotronic, sexploitation film, cult film
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Kleinhoff Hotel (1977)
Plot Summary:
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ex-girl-friend through a hole. Then she follows him to a questionable place where she is arrested by the police during a revolutionists raid. When she returns to the Kleinhoff Hotel, Pascale finds Karl crying, and enters his room to console him and they have a love affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Runaway, Runaway (1972)
Plot Summary:
An unhappy teenager hits the road to meet up with a man in California whom she barely knows. Along the way the naive teen stumbles around trying to do her best to get by, but eventually falls prey to some unseemly characters willing to take advantage of her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Downfall (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Lap Dancer (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sexy but cash-poor young working woman finally stands up for herself, not wanting to depend on "her man" all the time and not accepting the rules men around her want her to observe, by deciding to simultaneously take a walk on the wild side and make some extra bucks by working in a stripclub as an exotic dancer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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An Independent Life (1992)
Plot Summary:
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Russia, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Teenage Sex Report (1971)
Plot Summary:
In this one we look at the cases of a number of young women and their plumbing problems as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a moralizing but well meaning gynaecologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, fake documentary
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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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Desideria (1980)
Plot Summary:
An overweight teenage girl walks in on her mother having a three-way. She later confronts her mother and gets her birthday cake shoved in her face. She then tries to commit suicide, but survives and loses a lot of weight. Now attractive to boys and men for the first time, she turns into a world-class tease, manipulating a smitten boy her age, her mother's middle-age jerk of boyfriend, an older would-be revolutionary, and so on.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Maid in Sweden (1971)
Plot Summary:
Maid in Sweden tells the story of Inga, a 16-year-old Swedish girl who leaves her rural home to spend a weekend in the Swedish capital. An innocent with no experience, but with prodigious physical attributes, she has a series of romantic adventures as she throws off the frustrations of her small-town environment.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sexual, grindhouse, sensual, erotic, touching, serious, realistic, independent film, sexy
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Night Calls: The Movie (1999)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Playboy TV stars take their show on the road and encounter erotic adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Alley Tramp (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl sets out on a sexual odyssey of having affairs with various men including her mother's secret boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film