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Plot Summary:
Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client, and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care of her girls and resist pressure from a suburban thug who is charging her money.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, tense, psychological, captivating, sensual, sexy, serious, stylized, sexual
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Terminal City (2005)
Plot Summary:
Terminal City was a Canadian mini-series about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer while running a failing reality tv show turning it into a hit as her life and body begin to change.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious
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Beverly Hills Bordello (1996)
Plot Summary:
Beverly Hills Bordello was a softcore series aired on premium cable. It was an anthology series that centered around the fictional Winston Spa located in Beverly Hills. The spa was a bordello run by Madam Veronica Winston. The only recurring character was Veronica Winston who was played by Nicole Gian, Monique Parent and Gabriella Hall during the various seasons the show ran.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Call Me Bruna (2016)
Plot Summary:
Raquel is a girl, adopted by an upper-middle-class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in São Paulo to become a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera, erotic, sexy, hot
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The Final Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three Parisian women discover that their lives are delicately interconnected to a mysterious fourth woman, who remains tantalizingly out of reach.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, stylized, erotic, independent film
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Satisfaction (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, sexy, sensual, serious, sexual
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The Ranch (2004)
Plot Summary:
A comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, NV. "The Ranch" is a legally operated brothel that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical check-ups) and the semi-benevolent leadership of Mary, the manager. While the women on staff don't have to dodge the law like their comrades elsewhere, that doesn't mean they don't have their problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual
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Chefs (2015)
Plot Summary:
Every year Le Chef (English: The Chef), owner of the restaurant Le Paris, and a figure in French cuisine incorporates a young offender on probation into his team. Romain, just released from prison, arrives in this new world where gastronomy and excellence mix. After a difficult integration, he shows a real talent for cooking and climbs the ranks.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, captivating, realistic
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Blue (2012)
Plot Summary:
Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, sexual, sexy
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The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Plot Summary:
Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 274 min
Plot tags: costume drama, historical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, sexual, psychological thriller, rough, grim
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Breathless (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hospital drama set in London during the early 1960s, following the staff of a busy gynecology ward at a time when abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, period piece, sweet, medical drama, touching, period drama
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Hip Moves (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair of lovers: his colleague and his wife who sells her body with her husband's blessing.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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Girlfriends (1968)
Plot Summary:
Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Gigola (2010)
Plot Summary:
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, queer cinema
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Same-Sex Parents (2001)
Plot Summary:
A jealous classmate exposes the fact that Olympe has 2 gay parents. Feeling ostracized and humiliated, Olympe lashes out at her closeted mother. Life unravels so that the truth can set them free.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, tense, sexual, sexy
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She's Lost Control (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, sexy, captivating, independent film, sexual
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House of Tolerance (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, rough, sexy, disturbing, eros, sensual
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The Girlfriend Experience (2016)
Plot Summary:
Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, serious, captivating, realistic, anthology, sexy, atmospheric, sitcom, sensual
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Made in Jersey (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete among her pedigreed Manhattan colleagues at a prestigious New York law firm.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, talky
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Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Plot Summary:
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. Elle trouve du réconfort dans son travail auprès de ses deux « cow-boys » de patrons, Jean-Jacques et Jean-Loup, qui dirigent un cinéma du quartier latin spécialisé dans les films classiques américains….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
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The Night and the Moment (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes her through his time in prison where he was unknowingly incarcerated in the cell beside hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, talky, sexual, erotic
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Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Plot Summary:
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sexy, manga, explicit, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, erotic
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Desperate Romantics (2009)
Plot Summary:
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: costume drama, serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental, period piece, bleak, disturbing, sitcom, historical drama
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The Impressionists (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three hour mini-series tells the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists - Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Manet. Entirely based on documentary evidence, special effects transport the viewer inside some of the world's best-loved paintings, The Impressionists will recreate the illuminated landscapes, and haunting portraits of late 19th-century France.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, realistic, serious, historical drama, stylized, period drama
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The Minister (2011)
Plot Summary:
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, contemplative, stylized, political, clever
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Harlots (2017)
Plot Summary:
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, costume drama, captivating, period piece, thought provoking, historical drama, erotic, rough, dark
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Canterbury's Law (2008)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Canterbury is a force of nature. An attorney on the rise, she puts her career on the line to take on risky and unpopular cases, even when they take a toll on her personal life. Elizabeth and her law professor husband, Matt Furey, haunted by the unsolved disappearance of their young son, struggle to distance themselves from the tragedy and put their relationship back together. But those goals become elusive whenever Elizabeth's work provides a stark reminder of the justice absent in their own lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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The Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, erotic, gloomy, philosophical, bleak, grindhouse
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Red Shoe Diaries (1992)
Plot Summary:
Red Shoe Diaries is an erotic drama series that aired on the American cable television network Showtime from 1992 to 1997 and distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas. Most episodes were directed by either Zalman King, Rafael Eisenman or both.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, realistic, anthology, sexual, sensual, serious
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Masters of Sex (2013)
Plot Summary:
William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances on Johnny Carson's couch. He is a brilliant scientist out of touch with his own feelings, and she is a single working mother ahead of her time. The series chronicles their unusual lives, romance, and unlikely pop culture trajectory.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, erotic, realistic, captivating, sad, dramatic, soap opera, costume drama, sensual
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The Paradise (2012)
Plot Summary:
An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, stylized, realistic, period piece, serious, intellectual, historical drama, historical romance, period drama