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Plot Summary:
Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: controversial
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Lunch Box (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic drama
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Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)
Plot Summary:
Ecstasy of the Angels (Tenshi No Kokotsu), a jarring exercise in experimental cinema, was also shown as Angelic Orgasm, which should tell you something. While Go, Go features a somewhat linear narrative to couch its more bizarre flights of fancy, this film dispenses with conventional storytelling to plunge into a melange of political dissertations, rough and violent sex, explosions, and swanky nightclubs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, underground film, avant garde
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Dotonbori River (1982)
Plot Summary:
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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A Few Hours of Sunlight (1971)
Plot Summary:
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
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Budapeste (2009)
Plot Summary:
Certamente, o personagem de Budapeste, José Costa responderia ironicamente "nada". José Costa, um angustiado ghost-writer (escritor fantasma) e também amante da linguagem e da escrita, aos seus 30 anos, é o eu-lírico dessa narrativa que viaja do Rio de Janeiro à Budapeste.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Hungary, Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Impossibly Yours (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mit seiner pedantischen und verklemmten Art trieb Leonhard (Tobias Moretti) einst seine Gattin Marlene (Barbara Auer) geradewegs in die Arme seines besten Freundes Jan (Ulrich Thomsen). Nur mit Mühe gelang es dem Trio danach, die gemeinsame Freundschaft aufrecht zu erhalten. Inzwischen ist die Situation wieder einigermaßen stabil. Da heiratet Leonhard eine sehr viel jüngere Studentin. Und auch Anja (Jessica Schwarz) wird es in der Obhut Leonhards bald zu kalt und eng. Starke Darsteller in einer dramatischen Beziehungsgeschichte. Torsten C. Fischer inszenierte nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Dieter Wellershoff.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Mouvements du désir (1994)
Plot Summary:
During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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True and Tender is the North (2008)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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Perfect Education 3 (2002)
Plot Summary:
A lonely young Japanese student, Ai Narushima (Kana Ito) goes on a field trip with her school. At night she decides to take a taxi into the city. The Chinese taxi driver, Bo Tony Ho, is also a lonely soul and on a whim, decides to kidnap the young student. He takes her to the countryside and confines her in a room for days. The taxi driver doesn't abuse the student, but at night attempts to cuddle next to her. Eventually the lonely young Japanese student realizes he is as lonely as she is.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 102 min
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Anatomy of Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Erotic Diary of an Office Lady (1977)
Plot Summary:
Asami Ogawa in his first leading role as an office worker with an extremely kinky private life. She not only has an affair with her boss and others in the company but also organizes women to her widower to father.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Christ of Nanjing (1995)
Plot Summary:
Tony Au directed this Hong Kong-Japanese co-production lovingly adapted for the screen by Joyce Chan. Tony Leung stars as Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China and has been sick ever since his return home. While in China, Okagawa had met a devoutly religious girl named Jin-hua. Okagawa was born with a predisposition to agonizing recurrent migraines, but found happiness with Jin-hua and married her. Unfortunately, he already had a wife in Japan, and this revelation crushed Jin-hua. When Okagawa returned home, leaving Jin-hua behind, she was forced to work as a prostitute, catching both a severe case of the flu and a rather less socially acceptable condition. Meanwhile, Okagawa's guilt has torn him apart enough for him to return to China in an attempt to bring Jin-hua home with him to get medical attention, but the girl is already too far gone for his help.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Perfect Education: 40 Days of Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young girl, who lost her father at her early age, is kidnapped by a school teacher. He strips, binds and attempts to rape her. For the next few days she tries to escape but in vain. Later, she becomes used to the life with him. Even when she has a chance to run, she chooses to stay. Slowly, their relationship becomes a creepy half-paternal, half-romantic liaison.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Swastika (1964)
Plot Summary:
The four principles in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, hot
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Dedicated to the Aegean Sea (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dedicato al mare Egeo is a forgotten and bizarre co-production produced between Italy and Japan from 1979, starring the famous Italian porn star Illona Staller (Cicciolina) and directed by the famous Japanese pinter, printmaker and novelist Masuo Ikeda (1934–1997) from his own script based on his novel “Ege-kai ni sasagu”, for which he won the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Japan. Ikeda’s vigorous artistic activity even included screenplay writing and film directing. With this movie, Masuo Ikeda has undoubtedly left his mark on the ’70s Italian skin cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Slave Widow (1967)
Plot Summary:
After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that Kito's intentions are anything but pure, as she's forced to become his personal concubine. Her only, improbable hope for redemption lies with her one true admirer: Kito's very own son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Lover's Leap (1995)
Plot Summary:
An architect is struggling to get over his wife's death. He meets a young woman who brings him happiness only to find out she is his son's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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Wife to Be Sacrificed (1974)
Plot Summary:
A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. In three years, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order, when suddenly he returns. Obsessed with rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and brings her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines her vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Astonishingly, through the rage and lust, the pair develops a relationship that pushes the boundaries of lurid passions and perverse obsessions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, depressing, controversial, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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The Key (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Fairy in a Cage (1977)
Plot Summary:
During the latter part of World War II, Judge Murayama, head of the Japanese military police, uses his position to falsely accuse, capture, imprison and torture women in whom he is interested. Namiji Kikushima, a high-class business woman, is one such lady. Kikushima is accused of using her Ginza jewellery shop to finance an anti-government organization. Judge Murayama has Lady Kikushima arrested, and orders the new recruit Taoka to torture her. Taoka falls in love with Kikushima, at first hating torturing her then growing to enjoy it. After a long series of tortures and humiliation, while the Judge espouses his twisted version of morality, Taoka sacrifices himself to enable Lady Kikushima’s escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, sexual, sexy
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Kindergarten (1989)
Plot Summary:
The movie focuses on the marriage of Graciela and Arturo, who operate a kindergarten in their mansion. They live with Graciela's widowed mother, Luisa. Graciela is particularly keen on one boy, Luciano, on whom she makes sexual advances. As the movie progresses, the relationship between Graciela and Arturo tenses. Scenes show them celebrating kids' birthdays while having sex in hiding, practicing a ritualistic burning of a wrecked car, mistreating their comatose grandfather (victim of said car wreck) and generally torturing Luciano.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: explicit, controversial, art house
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It Feels So Good (2019)
Plot Summary:
When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there in order to attend her wedding. Naoko surprises him by proposing that they have sex again. The one night stand is the new beginning.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexy
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E-Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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MAID-DROID (2008)
Plot Summary:
The main plotline concerns retired Mr Ueno, who since a child has been cared for by his late parents’ robot maid ‘Maria’ (Akiho Yoshizawa) – a lifelike humanoid in a maid’s outfit! Over the years, Ueno has developed an unconsummated love for Maria, but although she has not ‘aged’ as such, she is now classed as an obsolete model and Ueno is finding it difficult replacing her fading battery… The secondary plotline involves Detective Yuri Akagi, who is investigating a series of rapes, which she believes may be being committed by a rogue droid… As this is a Japanese erotic ‘Pinku’ movie, it does not take itself too seriously and there’s plenty of gratuitous sex and nudity along the way! ;-).
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic, pink cinema
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Swastika (1983)
Plot Summary:
Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko’s husband gets involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young widow, Noriko, lives with her senile father-in-law, Shukichi, on a farm. He believes his favorite cow, long gone, is still alive. Noriko pretends to be the cow and lets him milk her - a satisfying arrangement for them both.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, sexy, psychological, controversial, eros, pink cinema
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Lady Libertine (1984)
Plot Summary:
Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, art house
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Mistress (1976)
Plot Summary:
A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her "train" her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually he discovers that she does this in order to support her son, and he attempts to help her out of this life, which she is not sure she really wants to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, disturbing, intellectual, controversial, sex comedy, twisted, crying, offbeat, realistic
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Forbidden Love (1990)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age drama from the fall of the Berlin Wall era.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: controversial
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Dirty Sexy Saint (2019)
Plot Summary:
Clay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn't do committed relationships. This is before he meets Samantha Jamieson, an heiress turned runaway in need of help. When she starts to work as a waitress at his bar, he discovers that she is someone truly special and amazing… someone that could warm his damaged heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, sexy, emotional, sensual, erotic