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Plot Summary:
A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visually stunning, enigmatic, stylized, cerebral, psychological thriller
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Plot Summary:
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: art house, sexual, erotic, philosophical, sexy, depressing, surreal, avant garde, stylized, postmodern
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The Secret Garden (1984)
Plot Summary:
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lover, whose strange death never reached clarified. Now it's time it's Arthur who put the cards on the table to get to the bottom of it.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, erotic drama
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The School of Flesh (1998)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, Dominique, a middle-aged fashion professional, solicits the services of the handsome Quentin , a bisexual bartender and prostitute who is 15 years her junior. After they first sleep together, their business transaction becomes transformed into a passionate love affair. However, the couple's romance becomes an ugly power struggle when social class and age distinctions begin to bubble toward the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, enigmatic, serious, psychological, touching, erotic, sexual, disturbing, sincere, realistic
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Compulsion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sadie, a young female novelist, and an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at his Italian villa for a weekend celebration being held to honor the release of Sadie's latest book. Once there, Sadie begins to fear his true intentions as she and Francesca become embroiled in a dangerous game of moral and sexual discovery.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, surreal, gothic horror, erotic, suspense, bleak, scary, psychological horror, psychosexual thriller, queer horror
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Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019)
Plot Summary:
Juha has lost his wife in an accident. Years after, he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Latvia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, erotic, dark comedy, sadistic, melancholic, disturbing, offbeat, queer horror, retro, crying
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Duck Butter (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two women, who are dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating and relationships, decide to make a pact to spend 24 hours together hoping to find a new way to create intimacy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, humorous, captivating, erotic, romantic, sexy, romantic comedy, independent film, queer cinema
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Bitter Moon (1992)
Plot Summary:
An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is mesmerized by the man's wife, who has perfected that trick of looking a man boldly in the eye until, by looking away, he concedes sexual supremacy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, breathtaking, clever, controversial, art house, sensual, suspense
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My Days of Mercy (2017)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, serious, sad, psychological, deep, romantic drama, queer cinema
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Summertime (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, sweet, eros, cute, aesthetic, erotic, queer cinema, pink cinema, beautiful
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Anatomy of a Love Seen (2014)
Plot Summary:
From Writer/Director Marina Rice Bader (Executive Producer Elena Undone, A Perfect Ending) comes this film within a film that explores love in all its painful and messy glory. Six months ago Zoe and Mal fell for each other while filming a love scene, which led to an intense, whirlwind affair, followed by a devastating breakup. Soon after their split, things get complicated when the two have to meet on set once more to re-shoot that fateful sequence.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, captivating, erotic, sexy, independent film, deep, humorous, realistic, sincere
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Loving Annabelle (2006)
Plot Summary:
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: erotic, touching, emotional, semi serious, sexy, heartbreaking, lgbt cinema, romantic, romantic drama, steamy
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9½ Weeks (1986)
Plot Summary:
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual, controversial, psychological, visual, visually stunning, eros
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Fire (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, controversial, sexy, romantic, offbeat, art house, art film, sincere, serious, realistic
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My Summer of Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, romantic, sexual, melancholic, sincere, teen, realistic, emotional
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Water Lilies (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, serious, realistic, sexy, psychological, sexual, erotic, sad, anthology, art house
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Plot Summary:
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, an artist is commissioned to paint a young woman's wedding portrait.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: touching, costume drama, scenic, disturbing, sexy, period piece, visual, erotic, cute, romantic
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Summer Lover (2008)
Plot Summary:
On honeymoon on the island of Lesbos, a woman falls for the daughter of a Russian archaeologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, melancholic, suspenseful, sexy, sexual, serious
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, sexual, psychological, disturbing, erotic, lgbt cinema, multicultural, sensual, sentimental, sincere
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Elena Undone (2010)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, touching, sexual, sexy, erotic, romantic drama, steamy, independent film, serious
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Disobedience (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: melancholic, depressing, sexy, sincere, ambiguous ending, romantic, touching, heartbreaking, social, sad
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I Can't Think Straight (2008)
Plot Summary:
I Can't Think Straight is a 2007 romance movie about a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding. A turn of events causes her to have an affair and subsequently fall in love with another woman, Leyla, a British Indian. The movie is distributed by Enlightenment Productions. It was released in different theatres between 2008 and 2009. The DVD was released on 4 May 2009. The movie is directed by Shamim Sarif and stars Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth. The two actresses star in another movie with lesbian characters, namely The World Unseen, released in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative, romantic, erotic, sexy, eros, humorous
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The World Unseen (2007)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, erotic, romantic, deep, historical drama, independent film, bleak, queer cinema
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Desert Hearts (1985)
Plot Summary:
The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, sentimental, realistic, sincere, captivating, erotic, independent film, lgbt cinema, romantic drama
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Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Plot Summary:
Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, only hours before they move in. What could be a nonissue becomes increasingly complicated -- since Maggie's family is unaware of her sexual orientation, and Maggie is not open to sharing that information.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sex comedy, romantic drama, offbeat
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When Night Is Falling (1995)
Plot Summary:
A prudish woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which comes to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, romantic, art house, sexual, heartbreaking, eros, romantic drama, steamy, sincere
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Below Her Mouth (2016)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, romantic, psychological, captivating, eros, erotic drama, queer cinema, hot
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Kiss Me (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mia (Ruth Vega Fernandez) and Frida (Liv Mjönes), both in their thirties, meet each other for the first time at their parents' engagement party. Mia's father, Lasse (Krister Henriksson), is about to get married to Frida's mother, Elizabeth (Lena Endre), which will make Mia and Frida stepsisters. Lasse's daughter, Mia, has not visited her father in years and arrives with her boyfriend, Tim (Joakim Nätterqvist), with whom she is about to get married. As Mia and Frida get to know one another, strong emotions begin to stir between them. Their relationship will turn everything upside down for everyone close to them with dramatic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, heartbreaking, lgbt cinema, eros, romantic drama, steamy, touching
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High Art (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, emotional, sincere, independent film, sensual, depressing, sexual, lgbt cinema, eros
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Carol (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, emotional, heartbreaking, atmospheric, realistic, erotic, costume drama, romantic, intense
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Room in Rome (2010)
Plot Summary:
A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for two young and recently acquainted women to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, atmospheric, sensual, sincere, realistic, serious, stylized, minimal cast