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Beauties of World Cinema

Ornella MutiEmmanuelle SeignerFlorence GuérinMarina PierroSylvia KristelMaria ValverdeNoémie MerlantDéborah RévyPaz VegaAdele ExarchopoulosValérie KapriskyNastassja Kinski

La Minoretta (1974)

It's a Gloria Guida film, so don't bother about what it is, what happens, story, script... Just grab a drink and watch her Glorious presence on the screen. Suffocated from the strict atmosphere of her high school, Valeria has been experiencing erotic dreams about motorcycle gangs raping her, a doctor who takes advantage of her and a priest whipping her in pure delight. After leaving school she finds out that the her bourgeois family setting has something to do with her recurring dreams and...

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Frivolous Lola (1998)

A bicycle, a bakery and one gloriously impatient bride-to-be turn provincial Italy into Tinto Brass’s cheeky battleground between virginity, jealousy and lust. Lola is engaged to Masetto, a handsome young baker with a thoroughly crooked idea of virtue: he insists that his future wife remain untouched until their wedding night while quietly satisfying his own appetites elsewhere. Lola has no intention of entering marriage as an innocent parcel waiting to be unwrapped, and most of the film...

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Nana (1983)

Zola gets the Cannon Films treatment: corsets, courtesans, dirty moving pictures and a Paris full of rich fools begging Nana to bankrupt them. Dan Wolman’s Nana—the 1983 film identified as IMDb tt0084387—opens in a decadent Parisian bordello called the Minotaure, where magician and cinema pioneer Mellies entertains wealthy customers with erotic shadow plays and primitive “moving photographs.” His star attraction is Nana, a seemingly guileless newcomer who soon discovers that desire is a...

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Melissa P (2005)

A bruising Sicilian coming-of-age tale where first love turns sour, sex becomes a weapon, and a teenager mistakes male attention for control. Melissa is a shy, frightened sixteen-year-old living with her shopkeeper mother Daria and chain-smoking grandmother Elvira, while her engineer father works on a distant oil platform. Elvira is the one adult who seems to understand her; Daria is physically present but emotionally somewhere else. Melissa has spent a year worshipping handsome, wealthy...

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Art of Love (1983)

Ovid teaches Rome how to seduce, but Marina Pierro proves that love lessons become dangerous once jealous husbands, loose servants and free-range lust join the class. In Augustan Rome, the celebrated poet Ovid lectures an eager crowd on his Ars Amatoria, treating seduction as something halfway between philosophy, military strategy and a dirty weekend. His most attentive pupil is Cornelius, a handsome young man who fixes his sights on Claudia, the voluptuous wife of the tribune Macarius. Claudia...

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Submission (1976)

A bored pharmacist lets Franco Nero into her shop, her bed and finally her head—just as France prepares to surrender to an even nastier kind of domination. Set in provincial France on the eve of the German invasion, Salvatore Samperi’s Scandalo is no soft-focus tale of adultery but a dark, increasingly poisonous study of lust, class resentment and willing self-destruction. Eliane Michoud is an elegant pharmacist trapped in a bloodless marriage to Henri, a vain intellectual more attentive to...

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Weekend in Lecco (1999)

Stefy invites her lesbian friend, Serena to her house in Lecco to spend a weekend together. They watch an erotic movie, play sex games and Serena invites the gardener to have sex with Serena. Mischievous and spicy chronicle of the meeting between two friends who, after playing the slave and the mistress, vent their excitement on a talented and enthusiastic gardener.

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Room in Rome (2010)

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...

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That Malicious Age (1975)

Bored painter Napoleone ditches his nagging wife for a gardening gig on dreamy Elba, only to get snared by a cheeky teen siren and her restless mother in a steamy tangle of tease, desire and sudden savagery. Napoleone, a frustrated artist, lands a job tending the gardens of a sun-drenched villa on the island of Elba. En route he crosses paths with the irresistible Paola, who flirts shamelessly; shock arrives when she turns out to be the employers' daughter, sharing the house with her bored...

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Bizarre (1987)

A battered wife, an androgynous gardener and one seriously warped husband collide in a glossy Italian erotic thriller where liberation soon develops a kinky dark side. Lorenza is the beautiful, increasingly numb wife of wealthy engineer Guido Corbi, a respectable businessman whose private appetites are anything but respectable. Guido treats marriage as his personal sex laboratory, staging voyeuristic encounters and sadomasochistic games that grow more humiliating and violent each time. Finally...

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La Bonne (1986)

A bored politician’s wife, a wickedly curious maid and a provincial house where respectable manners vanish faster than the ladies’ underwear. In 1956 Vicenza, Anna is the beautiful, frustrated wife of Giacomo, a lawyer and municipal politician who devotes more attention to council business than to his marriage. Left at home nursing his sour, bedridden mother, Anna is suffocating inside a life of duty, silence and good furniture until Angela arrives from the countryside to work as the maid...

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The Last Subway (1999)

A young man at a Rome Metro Subway gets infatuated with a woman waiting on the opposite platform. He tells her that sh's the "most beautiful girl in the world" and she loves it & pays him back by playing a silent, erotic game across the platforms while waiting for the last train of the night. It can happen. Any night in any metro station. It can happen that a hurried girl comes out of the bathroom without realizing that she is badly arranged in her skirt. And it can happen that two guys are...

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Caramelle (1995)

Hungry for her husband's touch, fortysomething Anna downs magic caramelle that rewind her youth seven years a pop—turning the bedroom into a comic erotic free-for-all until greed bites back hard. In this cheeky 29-minute Italian erotic short, neglected housewife Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) tries every seduction trick on her work-obsessed or perpetually tired husband Filippo, only to get blank stares. Desperate, she hits up mysterious medium Madame Olga for love potions that spectacularly...

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The Sentimental Education of Eugenie (2005)

A virginal EugĂ©nie enters a libertine’s boudoir for two days of philosophy, seduction and naked tuition—De Sade with the sharp edges sanded down. Aurelio Grimaldi’s film begins with the Duke of Mistival handing his sheltered eighteen-year-old daughter EugĂ©nie over to the beautiful, calculating Madame de Saint-Ange for a rather specialised education. Madame intends to free the girl from religion, modesty and every other rule likely to interfere with a good time, but she has another appetite to...

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Devil in the Flesh (1986)

A reckless Roman affair pits raw desire against terrorism, psychiatry and bourgeois respectability—with Maruschka Detmers lighting the fuse. Andrea is a high-school senior supposedly preparing for his final exams when a disturbance on the rooftops opposite his classroom draws his eye to Giulia, a beautiful, nervy woman watching the drama unfold. One glimpse is enough: he climbs through the classroom window, follows her across Rome and eventually tracks her to a courthouse. Giulia is attending...

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Appassionata (1974)

A respectable Roman dentist, his unstable pianist wife, two dangerously curious young women—and enough forbidden desire to make Beethoven sound positively well-adjusted. Gianluigi Calderone’s Appassionata is not a breezy Italian sex comedy but a clammy domestic melodrama in which lust spreads through an already fractured family. Emilio Rutelli is a handsome, prosperous middle-aged dentist married to Elisa, a former concert pianist who abandoned her career for him and now suffers severe...

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Stay as You Are (1978)

A jaded married architect falls for a fearless young student, then learns she may be his daughter—welcome to one of the Seventies’ most elegantly dressed moral nightmares. Giulio Marengo is a successful middle-aged Roman architect with a stale marriage, a pregnant daughter and the weary air of a man who has acquired everything except a reason to feel alive. While working in Florence, he meets Francesca, an adopted student whose impulsive manner and complete lack of embarrassment hit him like a...

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