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Plot Summary:
Directed by Omiros Efstratiadis.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, iconic
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Immortality (1998)
Plot Summary:
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: stylized, psychological, atmospheric, emotional, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, erotic, gothic, independent film
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Maniac (1963)
Plot Summary:
The rape of his teenage daughter instigated a violent, maniacal retribution on the perpetrator for which Georges was incarcerated in an asylum for the insane. When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder for which he has been carefully and surreptitiously groomed to take full responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, noir, offbeat, suspense, grindhouse, neo noir, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame
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Below the Belt (1971)
Plot Summary:
A boxer's manager pays a prostitute to make his boxer's nights hot, and endless. Not so strange, considering all the dirty deals the manager has with the local mafia. The strong champion has to contend with the sexy girl, before he gets to the ring with the title contender. But there are other interests at play, and more girls to play.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Regina Pierce Affair (2001)
Plot Summary:
Art patron Pierce's priceless movie posters are stolen from the museum. Dashing, straight-arrow detective Dan falls for the seductive Pierce, but she's a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Too Late Tomorrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young convict named Antonis, takes a 48 hour discharge from prison. His brother wants to spent this time together, but Antonis has other plans. He meets Olia, a girl who has abandon her household and her boyfriend has pimp her. The two fall in love and the deicide to get married.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals (1978)
Plot Summary:
A team of geologists attempt to remove a native population from an island to perform atomic research. But their female Cannibal leader disposes of them one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, sensual, rough, sexy, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, erotic
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Blue Nude (1978)
Plot Summary:
Obscure, sleazy and laid back picture about a young man being dragged down into the seedy and ruthless underbelly of 70s New York pornographers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Wedding Murders (2016)
Plot Summary:
Serial Killer Henry Sparks fall in love with his childhood sweetheart Detective Prospect Jenkins who is after him.
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Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing, independent film, detective, gay cinema
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Passion's Obsession (2000)
Plot Summary:
Nicole, a female private detective, is hired by Angela Moore, a Hollywood talent agent, to locate a missing male model. The plot thickens when a ransom note is received by the police. Nicole uncovers the seamier side of Angela, the male model, and their friends, and finally discovers what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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May (2008)
Plot Summary:
After success of Kytice, which is based on the famous collection of poems of K.J.Erben, one of the most well-known character of classic Czech literature, Mr. Brabec went for even more famous poem Máj of K.H. Mácha, which is considered the peak of Czech romanticism.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy
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The Profiteer (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young seminarian who can't be ordained because of a speech impediment leaves the seminary to take a job with a wealthy baroness' crippled son. The seminarian is actually what the italian title of the movie describes as an exploitative parasite ( saprofita), first bedding the baroness and consequently pushing her impotent husband to commit suicide, then taking off to Lourdes with the boy, who hopes for a miracle, and finally seducing a very devout woman who is visiting the site with her grandmother, who unexpectedly dies. Sergio Nasca's (an assistant director of Marco Bellocchio) decadent erootic drama debut.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crying
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Oh, Ramona! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Oh, Ramona! seeks the transformation of Andrew from a teenager into an adult who lives candidly and selflessly his first love story, innocent and uninvolved, alternating with the second, intense and insane story, incapable of making a choice. Oh, Ramona! is the cinematic rewriting of Andrei Ciobanu's book "Suge-o, Ramona!".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, entertaining, humorous, light, feel good, sexy, teen, happy, teen sex comedy, crying
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Partners (2009)
Plot Summary:
Both detectives on a sickening murder case struggle with being alone and childless in their 40s. As they investigate the young man found beaten and strangled to death, platonic friends Karine and Herve unravel a love story between Vincent, and Rebecca a high school girl. The teenage lovers quickly plunged into the kind of amour fou the flics fear to chance for themselves. Rebecca is missing, and unknown to her, the boy was a homosexual Internet hustler. The ordinarily blasé male investigator is appalled to find that on-line dating is a world the sexy Karine knows well. Is Rebecca the killer, another victim or ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, sexy, neo noir, twisted, realistic, gloomy, detective, queer cinema
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Intimate Relations (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy heiress that resides in Athens, is the victim of a robbery. Not only does her jewellery disappear but her maid is murdered while attempting to protect her. A police officer named Zaras is on the case. The primary suspects are ... an army of Laura's fans and Nelly, Laura's employer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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Spring Awakening (2015)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, non-linear, freeze frame
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Innocence and Desire (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, crying, sex comedy, freeze frame
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Sweet Sexual Awakening (1978)
Plot Summary:
Paul Dellis, a young self-made shipowner, has no time for anything other than high class call girls in a luxurious resort. The girl suppliers are a photographer and owner of a model agency, Werner, and his girlfriend Samantha. A rich woman, Tina, who spends her time at the same resort, fascinated by Paul arranges to visit him taking the place of Samantha. When Samantha is found dead, Tina disappears and all suspicions fall on Paul.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy
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Strange Girl in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Roza has an affair with her boyfriend's father. Soon after, she is found dead from a fall. Was it suicide, or was she pushed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Rivals in Love (1976)
Plot Summary:
A maid at a seaside hotel nurses to health a man she found on the beach who has lost his memory.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Out of the Blue (2022)
Plot Summary:
After spending time in prison following an assault charge, Connor Bates now works in a library and spends his free time running, swimming, and trying to piece his world back together. When he meets Marilyn Chambers, the wife of a wealthy businessman, they collide into an intense physical and emotional relationship that quickly escalates into idle talk about her husband’s murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir
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Nefeli (1980)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman is going to the island of Lesbos to rest, there she will meet two other beautiful young women and it will be great having sex with everyone.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic
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First Name: Carmen (1983)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist is Carmen X, a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen's escape with the guard, her uncle's attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, art house, erotic, psychedelic, psychological, tense, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic
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Mother's Helpers (1972)
Plot Summary:
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, grindhouse, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, crying, independent film
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Hardcore (2004)
Plot Summary:
Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, stylized, erotic, controversial, art house, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Lila Says (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also falls for Lila, the ensuing love triangle initiates a journey of sexual discovery -- and sets off a chain of devastating events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, emotional, artsy, non-linear, heartbreaking, art house, multicultural, sexual, psychological
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The Book of Revelation (2006)
Plot Summary:
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, psychological, surreal, serious, sexy, independent film, bleak, realistic, rough
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The Deserter (1970)
Plot Summary:
A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mondo, crying, freeze frame
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The Ambitious Lover (1982)
Plot Summary:
A husband and his lover plan the killing of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, detective
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Frivolous Lola (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in northern Italy in the 1950's. Lola and Masetto are about to get married. Masetto wants to keep Lola as a virgin until they are married. But Lola is impatient to remain in chastity until the wedding night. She wants to be sure that Masetto is a good lover, before she commits herself into marriage. She does everything to trick Masetto into breaking the moral tradition.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sex comedy, sexy, romantic, explicit, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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House on the Rocks (1974)
Plot Summary:
Elena, the wife of a very rich man, spends the summer on an island in the Aegean Sea, doing archaeological research. One day her son comes to visit her son from her first marriage. The sea, the sun, the shepherds with ancient half-lingual rites, a handsome youth, not yet an old woman - no one remembered what happened in Ancient Greece.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial