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Plot Summary:
Crippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled, however, he must choose one of them over the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, captivating, art house, sensual, erotic drama, biting, suspense
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Day and Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hot
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Sexually Insatiable (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three women make a pact to experience as much uncommitted sex as possible, but when one of them falls for the guy next door, the others stick to their agreement and seduce their friend's new love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, erotic
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Sexual Heat (2007)
Plot Summary:
Andy and his new girlfriend Sasha go to Matt and Kim’s house for Matt’s birthday. When the guys begin to reminisce about all the one night stands they had in college, Sasha states that one night stand sex is the hottest on the “sexual heat” scale. Grace arrives and joins the conversation about which types of relationships have the best sex, with everyone sharing erotic tales about people they know to illustrate their points. As the debate heats up, it slowly becomes apparent that Grace and Andy used to date, which leads to lots of cattiness between Sasha and Grace, forcing Andy to make a decision.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Kamasutra - The Indian Art of Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Learn the thousands year old art of love and give your partner or your partner more sensuality. This DVD takes you into a mysterious and exotic world full of thrilling eroticism in which your dreams come true. Various sex techniques and positions, but also wisdom around the topic partnership will enrich your love life, but also your couple relationship. The beguiling images flood and beautiful music will enchant your senses.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing, art house
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Insatiable Desires (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Karin Clemmons specializes in group therapy and subdues patients Tania and Justin to help them realize their fantasies. Each session heats up and soon Karin can’t help but join in the fun.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexploitation film
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The Mechanics of Women (2000)
Plot Summary:
Un homme est confronté au desir insatiable des femmes, à leurs pulsions sensuelles et carnassières, leurs jeux de séduction hilarants, leur grace, leur obscénité, leur besoin d'amour.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, sexploitation film, scatology
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Swingers Sex Party (2007)
Plot Summary:
Five friends at a gathering to celebrate the upcoming marriage of two of them and discuss sex, marriage and infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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24/7 - The Passion of Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eve, a hotelier’s daughter, and Magdalena, a sociologist who works as the dominatrix “Lady Maria” in an S & M studio, meet coincidentally through a motorcycle accident. Fascinated by the bizarre world of Lady Maria, Eve begins to search for her own identity and sexuality and goes on an odyssey through the hidden locations of lust - dominatrix studio, swinger club, striptease bar – and meets other people torn between their desires: Dominik, who wants to empathize with the life and suffering of Jesus, and Mike, who pretends to be Eve's travel guide of desire and falls madly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: explicit, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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Touch Me Not (2018)
Plot Summary:
Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, explicit, aesthetic, transgressive, experimental, touching, avant garde
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Guardami (1999)
Plot Summary:
Nina is a young and very independent porno actress. She doesn't need the help of any agent or manager. She has a daughter and a lesbian relationship with Cristiana, a porno editor. Following a usual medical check she discovers she has a cancer. Her life is completely different now. Nina decides to visit her father. Also the real love finds now space in her heart. In fact at the hospital, she knows Flavio, a patient following her same therapies. Nevertheless their liaison Nina still continues to act in porn movies. But for one of them there won't be a future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, explicit, hot, weird
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Dog Days (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife died long before on the search for some sexual entertainment live their lives while their lifelines cross from time to time.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexy, disturbing, depressing, controversial, art house, sexual, erotic, contemplative, dread
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Liberated (2003)
Plot Summary:
Liberated tells the story of a group of friends with focus on the two lead stars Zubiri and Prieto. Zubiri plays a sexually liberated (hence the title) young woman who falls in love with the beau of her morally-inclined best friend (played by Prieto). The discovery of the illicit affair then results to one of the main characters' suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sexy, naughty
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My Best Friend's Wife 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Doug is happily married to the beautiful, perfect Jenny, so naturally when he is called away on business, he wants to make sure she is well provided for. Who else could he turn to but his best friend, Jeff, whom he charges to satisfy Jenny's every desire.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic
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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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The Story of Richard O (2007)
Plot Summary:
Not for the easily embarrassed, “The Story of Richard O.” is an explicit take on sex as a way to connect with other people. Richard feels cornered and takes some time off from his girlfriend in order to come to terms with his relationship to women and to find a better version of himself. During the last month of summer, he goes on an erotic exploration through the streets of Paris, where he has 13 encounters with 13 women.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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Night Calls: The Movie (1999)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Playboy TV stars take their show on the road and encounter erotic adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Love Birds (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman meet eachother in a hotel suite for a day full of fantasy, they are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and this is their routine celebration. But this year is different. Through this day secrets, lies, will coming out while they are both living their sexual fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic
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The Erotic Diary of Misty Mundae (2004)
Plot Summary:
College Coed Misty Mundae can no longer contain her surging sexual desires, and it transforms her secret diary into an ultra-erotic journal of her most intimate thoughts. With each new entry, Misty feverishly conjures up female lovers to indulge every insatiable urge and mouth-watering pleasure that her eager mouth craves and her hot young body demands. Fantasy is made flesh as Misty is seduced by her wildest lesbian creations (Darian Caine, Anoushka, AJ Khan, Julian Wells and Ruby LaRocca) who take her to heights of ecstasy never before experienced. It's 100% naughty as Misty's uninhibited lust and hunger for satisfaction at any cost set the screen on fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing, sexy, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Secrets of a Chambermaid (2000)
Plot Summary:
In this erotically-charged drama, a group of people are gathered at a secluded mansion to hear the reading of a rich man's will. The assembled guests are to stay the night and learn of their inheritance the next day, but as the night wears on, many of the guests find it impossible to curb their sexual appetites. What they don't know is that their bedroom activities are being observed, and that there's more to this gathering than they've been led to believe.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexual, sensual, independent film
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Testing the Limits (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Toni are on their way to the mountains for a romantic weekend, when their car breaks down. The couple take shelter in an empty cabin, unaware that it is being used by bisexual photographer Jan who is on an erotic shoot with model Kristin. Things get more complicated when Glen, a fashion editor, arrives. Soon inhibitions (and underwear) are being freely cast aside. But the lovers' reverie is broken when Kristin's psychotic boyfriend breaks in, seeking vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, explicit, independent film, hot, sexploitation film
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The Blood Oranges (1997)
Plot Summary:
Cyril and Fiona are a long-married couple who travel to an unnamed tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. There they meet another couple, Catherine, Hugh and their three children. Hugh is a photographer who specializes in nude photographs of peasant women. The Cyril/Catherine and Hugh/Fiona relationships start.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, independent film
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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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Private (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tinto Brass - The maestro of Italian erotica is back! Lies, subterfuge, betrayal and mischief. Fallo! is a collection of six stories based on the joys of sexuality and the eroticism of a new generation of women.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, psychological, captivating, romantic, anthology
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Newness (2017)
Plot Summary:
In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, social, art house, erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, independent film
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Hide and Seek (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four fragile young people flee London to start an unconventional utopia, creating a world of fantasy that overwhelms them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, realistic, serious, erotic, independent film, sensual, offbeat, experimental, atmospheric
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Fidelity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, serious, disturbing, erotic, scenic, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, crying
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Monamour (2005)
Plot Summary:
Marta is a young housewife, married to Dario, a successful book publisher. Although she still loves her husband, Marta hasn't been able to achieve sexual satisfaction for months due to their dull and predictable love life. While staying in Mantua for the Festivaletteratura, a book fair, Marta follows the advice of her scheming friend Sylvia and pursues an affair with a handsome and mysterious artist named Leon, which leads to surprising results regarding her failing marriage with Dario.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, captivating, romantic, controversial, art house, sex comedy, sensual, erotic drama
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Desire (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cecile, a character who symbolizes desire.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, erotic drama, sexual, sexy, eros, psychological, captivating, serious, art house, independent film
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Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, art house, controversial, romantic, stylized, visual, intense, art film
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Plot Summary:
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, psychological, art house, controversial, philosophical, surreal, sensual