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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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This Crazy World of Ours (1970)
Plot Summary:
A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashbacks they are telling what did they do before they ended up in asylum.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, captivating, disturbing, freeze frame, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Bambina (1974)
Plot Summary:
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, depressing
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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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Day for My Love (1977)
Plot Summary:
The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even though hung over, he tries hard to be patient with her. The beginning of the story follows her on her little adventures. The girl comes down with a fever, which kills her before anything can be done, and the student and his photographer wife mourn and comfort one another. Little encounters with children cause the mother pain she is seldom free of, until she gives birth to their next child, a son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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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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An Unlikely Romance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no end. Erika (Alzbeta Pazoutová) is trying to work as much as possible so that she can afford to study and thereby achieve a better outlook on life, but she unfortunately runs up against a boss who doesn't have the best intentions with her. Ultimately Luisa's husband demonstratively commits suicide. Erika accidentally kills her boss in self-defense... The women blame themselves for all these failures, and that has got to change. Both have to grow up and start living again. Perhaps even together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, romantic, compassionate, crying, gay cinema
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The Country Teacher (2008)
Plot Summary:
A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. The teac... read more read more...her has no romantic interest in the woman but they quickly form a strong friendship, each recognizing the other's uncertainties, hopes and longing for love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, sexual, crying, sexy, queer cinema
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Laura: A Sexual Object (1987)
Plot Summary:
Laura is a sex educator hired to teach sex in exchange for money. A rich family hires her to give sex education to their asocial son.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Bambola (1996)
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Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another one of her boyfriends, Settimio. While visiting Settimio in jail, she meets a sadistic man named Furio, and they begin a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sentimental, feel good, tense, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful
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Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the desert paradise of pleasure and pain, a glamourous fashion model and a free-spirited beauty surrender themselves to complete sexual ecstasy. But will an unhinged holy man now lead these new lovers - as well as their friends and even family members - into the most shockingly immoral acts imaginable?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Forever Emmanuelle (1976)
Plot Summary:
At an institute in Manila, researchers and eco-tourists trade stories about the Mara tribe, who live on a remote island and have an annual festival of rebirth in which some of the tribe forget who they are and begin again. Laure is the daughter of the institute's director; she's a free spirit who has captured the fancy of Nicola, a European photographer. After a courtship in which the voyeuristic Nick indulges Laure's exhibitionism and sexual freedom, they set off for Mara land with Gualtier, an anthropologist, and his philosophical lover, Myrte. As they approach the Mara on the night of rebirth, who of the group will actually join the tribe to begin life anew?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, sexy
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Love Under the Elms (1975)
Plot Summary:
An adolescent boy and girl meet at a rural, turn-of-the-century Austrian resort where they are vacationing with their respective liberal-minded, single parents. Their budding love affair hits a serious snag when their two parents fall in love as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying
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Provocation (1995)
Plot Summary:
Passions run wildly amok at Carlo's (Gianni Demartiis) country inn as his wife, Amelia (Fabrizia Flanders), fantasizes about an affair with a guest, while his grandson Gianni (Lindo Damiani) spies on him to learn the secrets of love. And when Carlo's sexy cousin Marilinda (Erika Savastani) comes to stay, everybody sits up and takes notice. Joe D'Amato directs this spicy drama set in the 1920s.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film, cult film
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Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man (played by former James Bond villain Adolf Celli) suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife (Carroll Baker). Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor (Luigi Pistilli) instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Before long he is rolling in the hay with a young lovely and needless to say his impotence problem is cured (it's amazing that he doesn't have a heart attack though). His wife is a little bitter, however, and decides to embark on her own affair. And if you're wondering with whom, well, just look at the title.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, crying, sex comedy
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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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A Lustful Mind (1986)
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Alessio, a young man from a well to do family, has been mute since the death of his mother two years ago. His father, who has subsequently remarried, sends him to his sister-in-law's house in the country to recuperate. While staying there Alessio has erotic fantasies concerning his stepmother, his aunt and a young art restorer working on the estate, all of whom his father is sexually involved with.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003)
Plot Summary:
Bored, horny, and frustrated, a woman begins an affair with a teenage boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, atmospheric, erotic, emotional, sexy, gloomy, dark, sensual, romantic drama
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My Mother (2004)
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Based on George Bataille's posthumous and controversial novel: When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal, Austria, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexual, contemplative, controversial, sexy, thought provoking, offbeat, anthology, sensual, perverse
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Capriccio (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, romantic, manga, sex comedy
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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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Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Plot Summary:
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, weeping, serious, realistic, biting, sexual, controversial, crying, independent film, sexy
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Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sexy, art house, controversial, dark, surreal, cynical, psychological, atmospheric
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Center of My World (2016)
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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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The Venetian Woman (1986)
Plot Summary:
Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Antares (2004)
Plot Summary:
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, psychological, anthology, explicit, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic
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My Mistress (2014)
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It's a long hot summer for Charlie Boyd. He's sixteen, his hormones are raging and he's just found out his mother is having an affair with his father's best friend. One thing takes his mind off his problems, the mysterious woman down the street who has visitors day and night, and has just advertised for a gardener. But she is forgotten when a tragic family event tumbles Charlie into a world of pain, a pain so intense Charlie thinks no-one can help him. He's wrong. Someone can. Maggie, the beautiful French stranger. She's a professional, and she specialises in pain. Giving it, exploring it, sharing it, all for money. So Charlie falls in love, and despite herself so does she, drawn to this troubled boy who takes all the pain she can give and uses it to heal himself. And as Charlie heals, he turns that healing back onto her, his Mistress.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, psychological, disturbing, sex comedy, sexual, crying, sexy
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The Voyeur (1994)
Plot Summary:
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, gloomy, romantic, disturbing, controversial, eros, erotic drama, sexy
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I Am Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, meditative, intense, atmospheric, art house, sexual, visual, erotic, emotional