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Plot Summary:
The story of 6 or 7 prostitutes, at Pireas harbor.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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I Daskala Me Ta Xantha Mallia (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mirto, a progressive teacher, is assigned to a backward village, where her ideas find opposition from the parents. She falls in love with Stephanos, the mayor's son, whom she marries. As soon as the marriage ends, the eve of 28 Oct, 1940, the war with Italy breaks out. Stephanos is enlisted and after a while, news of his death arrives. Mirto continues her teaching job, aided by a colleague of hers Angelos. After liberation Angelos proposes marriage and Mirto accepts, although she still loves her dead husband. However, Stephanos, who was wounded and healed in an Italian hospital returns and the couple lives happily ever after.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Our Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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My Daughter, the Socialist (1966)
Plot Summary:
Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Lola (1964)
Plot Summary:
Aris, Nikos Kourkoulos, is released from prison after three years, and he turns up at Troumpa, a slum area in Piraeus. His purpose is not to settle his own accounts but to find out if Lola (Tzeni Karezi), a young woman who works at Stelios’ cabaret, was among the ones who betrayed him. Aris loves and cares about Lola and wants to get her out of there, but Stelios, who is also in love with her, assigns a thug to kill Aris.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Winter of Our Dreams (1981)
Plot Summary:
When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of his former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meats her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friends diary, she discovers she's repeating her mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, beautiful
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The Downhill (1961)
Plot Summary:
Greek teenage drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Christmas Tango (2011)
Plot Summary:
At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, sentimental, emotional, romantic
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A Foolish Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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The Bachelor (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of a thirties bank employee whose wife becomes a luxury prostitute. The same would happen with the next woman who knows. Xouan a promoter says he belongs to a particular class of people and asks him to work together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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The Scum (1963)
Plot Summary:
A string of miscalculated choices and the longing of a fresh start will drag Magda of the slums deeper and deeper into a tireless personal nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Evdokia (1971)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay together and overcome their inner conflicts, but the social environment crushes them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, UK
Duration: 97 min
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Love Me Not? (1989)
Plot Summary:
Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
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Liubi (2005)
Plot Summary:
An engagement party is interrupted by the arrival of the Russian girl, hired to help an old woman. Liubi is the girl who is going to keep company to and help the sick mother of out protagonist. Dimitris, the son of the family and Liubi eventually fall in love. Their love will be tested by the social racism that surounds the origins of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Revanche (1983)
Plot Summary:
During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girlfriend who allows him to sleep next to her feeling her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos’ jealousy as well as the ups and downs of their own affair. Since they all seem to be suffering, they form a trio and manage to live together in harmony for some time but then a well-hidden secret from the men’s political activism in the past is about to hit them like a new earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
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Love and Blood (1968)
Plot Summary:
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Whatever crosses the river separating the two families, be it man or beast, dies. The film is yet another rendering of the Romeo and Juliet tale, with intense emotions, dominated by the extreme behavior of the heroes. The film tries to imitate the style, atmosphere and action of westerns.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: allegory, black comedy, cult film
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Naked Tango (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Argentina, Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, independent film
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Jailbait Babysitter (1977)
Plot Summary:
Vicki is seventeen and her older friends call her Jailbait. Her boyfriend Robert is frustrated because Vicki doesn't want to do the wild thing, but he's willing to wait. After a party gets out of hand, Vicki escapes with the help of Lorraine, who takes her in as a houseguest. While Lorraine teaches Vicki etiquette, Robert wonders what happened to his girlfriend. And Vicki soon learns more about Lorraine's job as an "executive liaison.".
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Chastity (1969)
Plot Summary:
Go on a cross country adventure with Cher in her first dramatic film, Chastity. Chastity ('Cher') is a lonely young girl who is hitchhiking across the country in hopes of finding someone to love her and make her forget her disturbed past. She does find love with a man whom she calls Andre ('Stephen Whittaker'). Chastity feels that the relationship is getting too serious so she decides to run. She goes to Mexico where she starts working at a whorehouse, there she befriends the strange lesbian owner (Barbara London). Chastity is looking for a mother figure in the woman, but the woman has different feelings for Chastity. She soon realizes that this is not the life for her and decides to return to Andre and try to start a new normal life. Things are good, but not for long as Chastity's dark disturbed past will never let her feel loved by anyone.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Chloé (1996)
Plot Summary:
After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy
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What If... (2012)
Plot Summary:
Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a female German Shepherd called Lonesome. One night, after supper, Lonesome wants to be taken out. Demetris tries to change her mind but Lonesome insists Its at this moment that he comes to a decision. This decision will change his entire life. If Demetris goes out he will meet Christina, the love of his life. If he stays in, he will not meet her. Does true love exist? What is the impact of a severe economic crisis on people and how can the crisis destroy a couple? One story shown from two different angles.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, clever, breathtaking, heartbreaking, cerebral, mind blowing, romantic drama
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Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Plot Summary:
A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the streets on their own but they will meet physical and sexual violence. They return to the brothels, and Marie goes back to her pimp, but Gerard has his caprices and wants more and more – he's in a spiral downwards and he's leading Marie with him. There's seems to be no escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Sensuela (1973)
Plot Summary:
Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and the two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence. Years later, after the war, Hans returns to Lapland as a freelance photographer and manages to lure Laila to run away with him to capital Helsinki to start a career as a photo model, much to the chagrin of her traditional father Aslak. After initial happiness, however, Hans abandons Laila and the decadent lifestyle of a big city sends her life into a downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Madame Claude (2021)
Plot Summary:
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, captivating, crying
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Lola (1981)
Plot Summary:
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: art house, tense, realistic, stylized, neo noir, clever, serious, witty, gloomy, sexual
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A Woman's Way (2009)
Plot Summary:
George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with George. With Strella on his side he will have to find a new way out.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, captivating, erotic, sexy, surreal, disturbing, bleak, gloomy
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Beauty of the Day (1967)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexual, psycho sexual, sexy, surreal, art house, ambiguous ending, sensual, erotic, visual, psychological thriller
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The Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, thought provoking, realistic, rough, serious, sexual, semi documentary, independent film, sexy, hot
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Bad Guy (2001)
Plot Summary:
A criminal who runs a brothel becomes obsessed with a beautiful college student. When she rejects him he sets her up by introducing her to a loan shark and when she can't pay, she is forced into working in the brothel. But when she gets the chance to escape she realizes she cannot return to her former life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, psychological, sexy, brutal, melancholic, rough, surreal, controversial, atmospheric