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Plot Summary:
Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, period piece
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La Casa que Arde de Noche (1985)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Brava (2017)
Plot Summary:
Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is attacked by two young delinquents a very old woman and Janine tries to avoid it. The young follow her and it is then that they steal and attack her sexually. After recovering from the blows and the anguish he gets up and sees his attackers raping a helpless young girl. Janine, instead of taking some initiative to stop them, flees home. From that situation her life is disrupted and her job promotion to China, her consolidated partner and her present as an independent woman become secondary and worthless issues. Janine lives in anguish and tormented by the memory of that traumatic situation. To try to recompose himself, he travels to the countryside to see his father who is a widower and is trying to rebuild his life after the death of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
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Crossway (2008)
Plot Summary:
A very interesting thriller about the coming of age of a troubled young man searching his place in this world. Teenage boy Jonathan (Fabien de Marchi) is having a hard time living with his father and stepmother. On a whim, he steals some money and embarks on a journey of forbidden pleasures. He spends the night in abandoned building and wakes up bound and is held prisoner by Antoine (Johan Libéreau), a young drug dealer wanted by the police. The two boys forge an ambiguous relationship between violence, compassion and fascination. Victim, Jonathan ends up taking a liking to his tormentor.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
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The Sheriff Behind Bars (1966)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively hopes that the sheriff will appreciate his gesture and leaves the stolen goods in a safe hideaway to later divide them fairly among the gang members. This conviction gives Jakub the strength to endure the unbearable conditions in the center. But reality is often much harsher than naive ideals and hollow relations in the gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Call Me Helen (2015)
Plot Summary:
Is. This. My. Son? No matter how often Tobias Wilke poses this question, there's always only one answer: Yes! Tobias, can't believe his eyes when he comes to the airport to pick up his 17-year-old son Finn – and learns that Finn is now calling herself Helen and wearing girls' clothes. Finn/Helen reveals that she's always felt like a girl, and that she used her year abroad in San Francisco to pass the "everyday life" test. This is required by law for everyone preparing for the sex-change operation they will undergo upon reaching majority. Reactions from Helen's friends, acquaintances and schoolmates cover the entire gamut from derision to solidarity. Especially Helen's father, a well-known chef, finds it difficult to accept a situation he cannot understand. But Helen nearly always finds the right words - and humor - to counterbalance the ignorance and jeers of those around her. It is the beginning of a long, winding road towards the sexual identity she is convinced is hers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, tragicomedy, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, crying, queer cinema
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Perfect Obedience (2014)
Plot Summary:
The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sacramento Santos,” Father Ángel begins Julian’s instruction into the mysteries of “perfect obedience,” whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superior’s actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing
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The Whispering of the Gods (2005)
Plot Summary:
Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every which way and puts religion to the test.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspense, scary, controversial
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The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce sister Virginia. But will their wicked and lustful actions continue to go unnoticed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Birdcage Inn (1998)
Plot Summary:
With a red-light district in Seoul being demolished, the residents there find they have to relocate. Jin-a opts to leave Seoul and heads to the eastern city of Pohang. There she takes up residence in a boarding house run by a small family. Besides the parents, there is a daughter attending university and a son in high school. At first Jin-a is very happy there, however she continues to sell her body driving her into confrontation with the repressed daughter, Hye-mi. Things go from bad to worse when Jin-a meets Hye-mi's boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sad, avant garde
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Voyeur Confessions (2001)
Plot Summary:
It doesn't hurt to look... or does it? Lisa Morrison is a beautiful researcher studying voyeurism. Why are some people compelled to spy on the erotic moments of others for their own sexual pleasure? Why does this compulsion threaten to overtake their lives? As her subjects reveal their stories, Lisa is increasingly turned on by this dark obsession. But when fantasy turns into a search for her own erotic voyeuristic opportunities, the line between her professional curiosity and private desire is crossed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, disturbing, sexy, sexploitation film
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Giselle (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her father's stepson, and with the farm housekeeper. She and some friends are also raped by some bad guys. But they all celebrate the ruin of traditional family values.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Green Butterflies (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mateo is an intelligent boy who falls in love with Daniel, but when everyone reveals that relationship, Mateo is at a crossroads, and he will have to decide between fighting his adversities or giving up everything, even his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, disturbing, erotic, lgbt cinema, crying, gay cinema, queer cinema
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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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Wild Awakening (2016)
Plot Summary:
Toni and Emma are brother and sister who owns a stable farm. Ramon and his son, Aaron works for them. Toni is openly gay and loves to party, Emma has a crush on Aaron who is a closeted gay who is afraid that his father might find out, but his father also has a secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, homoerotic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Consequences (2018)
Plot Summary:
After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, social, crying, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Choice (2015)
Plot Summary:
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Concrete (2004)
Plot Summary:
A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, crying
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The Cleaner (2015)
Plot Summary:
Just out of prison, Tomáš, a taciturn loner, takes a job cleaning houses where people have recently died. Things take an alarming turn when he begins putting in overtime: hiding behind closet doors after hours to secretly watch the homes’ residents. His voyeuristic ways soon lead to a romantic obsession with a woman in distress—but in order to help her, Tomáš will have to come out of the shadows.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending, crying
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Open Future (1983)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old boy growing up in the 60's, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Beauty and the Beast (1977)
Plot Summary:
Decameron-style collection of entertaining short stories with such diverse themes as nymphomania, bestiality, and masochism.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, crying, psychotronic, sex comedy, freeze frame, sexploitation film
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My Brother Tom (2001)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a private reality that no-one else can enter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, rough, emotional, captivating, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Naked Eye (1998)
Plot Summary:
Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper middle class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters using a palm-sized video gadget called "The Owl". On Christmas Eve, reluctantly, Begoña goes to have dinner with her dysfunctional family: her stern mother, her married brother and her younger sister. Soon, Begoña, the family’s black sheep, clash with her relatives. She leaves abruptly in disharmony, only her sister seems sympathetic towards her. The same night in a bar, Begoña is befriended by Daniel a solitary handsome man in his late teens. The attractive and self assure Begoña draws his attention, but when her on and off ex boyfriend Elio, and adventurous biker, shows up at the bar, an argument ensures between Elio and Daniel.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, erotic, eros
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Nene (1977)
Plot Summary:
In the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teenagers covertly discover new prohibited games.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, crying
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Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man (played by former James Bond villain Adolf Celli) suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife (Carroll Baker). Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor (Luigi Pistilli) instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Before long he is rolling in the hay with a young lovely and needless to say his impotence problem is cured (it's amazing that he doesn't have a heart attack though). His wife is a little bitter, however, and decides to embark on her own affair. And if you're wondering with whom, well, just look at the title.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, crying, sex comedy
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Boy (2011)
Plot Summary:
18-year old Christian has just graduated from high school. At his summer job he is seduced by the 36-year old single mother Sanne. Soon he is drawn into a world of sensuality and his acquaintance with Sanne turns into an intense love affair which forces Christian to deal with his newly discovered sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, exciting, hot
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Fat Girl (2001)
Plot Summary:
Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harboring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, erotic, psychological, sexy, tense, controversial, disturbing, sensual, stylized, sexual
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Plot Summary:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: controversial, erotic, disturbing, psychological, disgusting, bleak, sadistic, art house, surreal, extreme horror
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We (2018)
Plot Summary:
During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, light, sexy, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, avant garde, cult classic, twisted
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Plot Summary:
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, freeze frame
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The Ages of Lulu (1990)
Plot Summary:
The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the young Lulu's affair with the manipulative Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the movie takes a much darker turn once they are wed. It is conventional cinematic wisdom that there's no such thing as sex after marriage, but here Lulu's husband incomprehensibly leads her into blindfolded relationships with others, then is heartbroken when she reacts with disgust.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, emotional, sensual, disturbing, sexual, serious, eros, psychological, controversial