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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 Song of Sway Lake (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of his father’s suicide, young record collector Ollie Sway returns to the family lake house with his friend Nikolai in tow to lay claim to an invaluable jazz recording. An unexpected visit from Ollie’s estranged grandmother and a chance encounter with a girl from across the lake derail their search, forcing them to confront the Sway family history and a suffering that has resounded through generations.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: crying, period piece
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The Widow Couderc (1971)
Plot Summary:
Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is enjoying being in control of the farm. And then she hires the handsome stranger who helped her carry the new incubator for chicks from the bus and across the canal. In the house by the canal with the job of raising and lowering the bridge for passing boats lives the widow's envious sister-in-law along with husband and nubile daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying, freeze frame
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Deadly Embrace (1989)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful but horny and neglected Beverly Hills wife hires a hot young stud as a gardener. It eventually gets through to her husband that some hanky-panky may possibly be going on, and he begins to spy on her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surprise ending, crying, independent film, gay cinema
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My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie (1975)
Plot Summary:
Susan has chosen a hermit's life on a dilapidated farm over the shallowness of her previous jet set modeling life. When Anton, a hunky courier, comes along to pick her up for an assignment on the French Riviera, he's so fascinated by Susan's odd assortment of house guests that he decides to stay with them for a couple of days.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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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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Hastrman (2018)
Plot Summary:
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, folk tale, crying, psychotronic, allegory, dark comedy
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White Whore (1974)
Plot Summary:
Pinku from 1974.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: naughty
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Monday (2020)
Plot Summary:
A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Greece
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sexy, ambiguous ending
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Hotel Fear (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, expressionism, neo noir, crying, freeze frame
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The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, sexy, slasher, psychotronic, southern gothic, perverse, psycho sexual, offbeat
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Our Lady of Lust (1972)
Plot Summary:
When it looks like the plane that Cristina is travelling on is about to crash, she makes a pledge to become a nun if her life is spared. The plane lands safely & Cristina uphold her end of the bargain, but even as a nun she cannot leave her promiscuous ways behind her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, crying
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Madness (1980)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, controversial, grindhouse, neo noir, crying, psychotronic, freeze frame, poliziottesco, sexploitation film
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Obsessions (1969)
Plot Summary:
A young medicine student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, suspense thriller
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Deep End (1970)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: offbeat, controversial, artsy, psychosexual thriller, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual
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Darlings! (1984)
Plot Summary:
A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and disrupt the lives of their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, offbeat, humorous, witty, semi serious, psychotronic, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Cross the Line (2020)
Plot Summary:
A good-natured man has an unexpected deadly confrontation. Instincts kick in to clean up the mess caused in the name of self-defense but does one really get away free after killing someone?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, surprise ending, tricky, ambiguous ending, crying
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Love in the Strangest Way (1994)
Plot Summary:
Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sensual, neo noir, crying, freeze frame, french noir
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The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, threaten his new fiancée's life. George Hilton plays a peculiar neighbor with voyeuristic tendencies who has an obsession with Deborah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological thriller, neo noir, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, freeze frame
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The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slasher, gothic, neo noir, crying, freeze frame, slasher horror
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The Word (2014)
Plot Summary:
Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, neurotic, crying
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The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)
Plot Summary:
Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, psychological, harsh, scary, tense, brutal, enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric
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2 Masks for Alexa (1971)
Plot Summary:
Curd Jurgens as the betrayed husband is incredibly expressive and believable; Rosabla Neri, as the philandering Alexa, delivers her usual thoughtful performance and, in doing so, makes her potentially cardboard cut-out character multi-dimensional, and Juan Luis Galiardo, as Alexa'a heartthrob Pierre, also cares enough about his craft that he avoids the trappings of a potentially stereotypical character and, like Neri, makes him real and full of depth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychotronic, freeze frame, grindhouse
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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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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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The Ceremony (1977)
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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Under Your Bed (2019)
Plot Summary:
Naoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and tries to find her. Finally, after 11 years, he locates her, but she is a totally different person now. Naoto becomes obsessed with her. Naoto sneaks into her house and stays under her bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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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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Center of My World (2016)
Plot Summary:
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, lgbt cinema, erotic, cute, teen, crying, freeze frame
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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
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Scorned (1993)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexy, tense, suspense, melancholic, cult classic, sexual