A hidden camera, a red dress and a hammock turn one film-school assignment into Mexico’s cheekiest lesson in sex, performance and married life. Virginia, a film student with more nerve than equipment, hides a bulky video camera beneath a chair and prepares her apartment for the arrival of Marcelo, a man she claims not to have seen in four years. She has dressed for the occasion in red, arranged the lighting and even hung a hammock in the hallway, all while pretending this is merely an intimate...
A bored aristocratic family brings a beautiful motorcycle daredevil home for a drink, then discovers she may be the blue-movie fantasy already living in their heads. A wealthy husband, his elegant wife and their grown son are lounging in a vast Italian castle, watching a grubby black-and-white stag reel as casually as another family might watch the evening news. The blonde performer catches their interest, but even pornography bores this jaded trio before long, so they head to a nearby carnival...
A rich publisher picks up a beautiful stranger on a forest road; soon Lulu is in his house, his bed and every man’s head—including his own. Leon Mortier is a wealthy, ageing publisher whose comfortable life goes spectacularly off the rails when he spots Lulu walking alone through a forest. Moments after she climbs into his car, Leon accidentally strikes a wandering violinist who appears in the road, so he takes both injured man and mysterious girl back to his country house. The arrangement...
A sun-soaked Italian sex comedy where a restless sixteen-year-old falls hard for Laura, his older brother’s stunning and dangerously playful wife. Versilia, summer 1956. Sandro is holidaying with his comfortably bourgeois family, sneaking cigarettes, devouring dirty books and spying on whatever amorous activity the beach provides. His world shifts when his brother Renzo arrives with Laura, then promptly leaves her behind while business calls him back to Milan. Sandro is initially annoyed at...
A bored philosopher meets a young model who is easy to bed, impossible to read and perfectly equipped to turn his clever mind into jealous mush. Martin is a middle-aged philosophy lecturer adrift after the collapse of his marriage, prowling Paris in his car and pretending that detachment is the same thing as freedom. One night he notices Cécilia, a placid young artist’s model, with the much older painter Meyers. Curiosity leads Martin to the painter’s studio, but when he returns, Meyers has...
A raw, strange and deliberately uncomfortable coming-of-age film in which a lonely teenage girl spends one suffocating summer wrestling with desire, shame and an obsessive attraction to a handsome sawmill worker. Alice returns from boarding school to spend August 1963 with her parents in the rural Landes. Home offers little comfort: her mother is bitter and frustrated, her father is coarse, and the family sawmill fills the days with noise, sweat and monotonous labour. Left largely alone, Alice...
"Would you still love me if I didn't have my money?" "I love you the way you are, with your money..." The Lover (1992) is a story of a 15 year old french girl (played by english actress Jane March) in Vietnam, who has an older, wealthy chinese man fall for her (note, she does not fall in love with him, he does) and has a steamy affair with him. The gist of this film was, like most men born in money, the chinese fella was looking for, and hoping, that she loves him 'for himself and not for his...
Two strangers, one Roman hotel room, and twelve hours to strip off their clothes, their lies and perhaps a little piece of each other’s hearts. On the final night of their holidays, confident Spaniard Alba persuades Natasha, a wary young Russian who insists she is straight, to come up to her hotel room. Natasha nearly bolts before anything happens, then returns for the phone she has left behind—and walks straight back into the temptation she was fleeing. What begins as flirtation becomes an...
A runaway blonde escapes one predator only to wake in a château ruled by another—one with better manners, darker appetites and a dungeon full of bad intentions. Amy is fleeing through the woods when a would-be rapist attacks her, knocks her unconscious and leaves her in a pond. She awakens inside the rambling castle of Gideon, an elegant, melancholy count who has apparently rescued her and now treats her with suspicious tenderness. He dresses the shaken girl in a flimsy gown belonging to his...
Two happy marriages, four restless adults and one dangerously simple idea: swap partners, tell no lies and hope jealousy has the weekend off. Rachel designs jewellery and seems perfectly content with Franck, while tattooed web designer Vincent has built an equally settled life with Teri, a former gymnast. Then Rachel and Vincent meet at work, trade a little brutally honest banter and spark at once. A dinner brings both couples together; before anyone has time to invent excuses, Franck and Teri...
A marriage gone cold returns to Capri, where old lovers, ripe memories and shameless temptation turn nostalgia into a very Italian erotic reckoning. In 1947, Fred and Jennifer return to Capri, the island where they met and fell in love during the war. They now have a child and the outward shape of a respectable marriage, but tenderness has curdled into indifference, and both are secretly more excited by memories of other lovers than by each other. When Fred is sent away on UNESCO business, he...
A schoolgirl’s summer crush drifts into a soft-focus tangle of desire, damaged marriage and heartbreak—beautifully photographed, morally queasy and in no hurry whatsoever. Bilitis leaves her girls’ boarding school for a summer with Melissa, an older married friend whose handsome home and apparently grown-up life soon reveal some ugly cracks. Melissa’s husband Pierre is unfaithful, domineering and sexually aggressive, and witnessing their poisonous marriage shakes Bilitis’s romantic ideas about...
Jess Franco takes a 17th-century literary scandal, drags it into a Satanist convent, and lets a 16-year-old novice discover that hell has better plumbing than heaven. Maria Rosalia is a peasant girl in Inquisition-era Portugal who makes the fatal error of frolicking in the woods with a boy — and being spotted by Father Vicente (William Berger), the sleaziest cassock in cinema. He calmly haggles her poor, impressionable mother out of her savings and packs Maria off to the Serra D'Aires convent...
Three shipwrecked beauties wash ashore looking for shelter and find a Mediterranean playground where clothes, common sense and fidelity are strictly optional. Caroline, Hélène and Dorothée set off by boat for a nearby island, only for a violent storm to dump them into the sea and scatter their holiday plans. Caroline awakens naked in a beach hut, rescued by a stranger who has vanished before she can identify him, and soon becomes convinced that the man was Jordan, the wealthy, brooding owner of...
A bored bourgeois wife has a husband at home, a polished lover in Paris and every luxury money can buy—then one night with a near-stranger makes the whole arrangement look like a lifeless sham. Jeanne Tournier is thirty, beautiful, comfortably married and quietly suffocating in a grand country house near Dijon. Her husband Henri owns a newspaper and treats her partly as an ornament, partly as a problem to be managed, while Jeanne escapes to Paris whenever she can, supposedly to visit her...
A lonely wife, a workaholic husband and his handsome young brother under one roof—hardly the safest recipe for domestic peace, but a fine one for trouble. B.Adiya plays a married woman who wants something painfully ordinary: affection, a child and a husband who occasionally notices that she is still warm-blooded. Unfortunately, her spouse is buried in work, household responsibilities and plans for a doctorate, treating intimacy as one more task he can postpone. Into this cold marriage walks his...
Val wants sex, then love, then a way back to herself—a steamy diary of freedom, bad decisions and the dangerous men who confuse desire with ownership. Val is a bright, comfortably raised 28-year-old living in Barcelona who treats sex as appetite, adventure and personal philosophy. Lovers come and go because few can match her libido, while her wonderfully unshockable grandmother encourages her to write everything down and live without shame. After Val’s nocturnal enthusiasm begins wrecking her...
Sex, secrets and state power collide as Paris’s iciest madam discovers that even the rich and untouchable look nervous when a camera enters the bedroom. Madame Claude runs her luxury escort empire less like a brothel than an international intelligence service. Her carefully groomed girls entertain industrialists, politicians, princes and government officials, while Claude remains cool, discreet and firmly in command. Trouble begins when David Evans, a restless photographer sleeping with one of...
A horny 17-year-old Chilean angel blogs her bisexual carnal romps while dodging hellfire from her strict evangelical clan. Daniela, a restless 17-year-old raised in a devout Protestant household in Santiago, gets caught mid-fornication and expelled from her Christian school, sparking family meltdown. Undeterred, she channels her raging curiosity into a confessional blog titled Young and Wild, candidly chronicling her firsts—self-pleasure, oral adventures, anal thrills, and steamy couplings with...
A wealthy wife who has never had an orgasm hires a gorgeous female escort—and discovers that the most dangerous secret in her perfect home is her own desire. Rebecca Westridge (Barbara Niven) has money, grown children, a grand house and a marriage polished to a suburban shine, yet she moves through it all like a woman slowly suffocating in expensive clothes. Her controlling husband Mason treats intimacy as another dreary obligation, while bitter arguments over the family business—and his...
