Three ages, one lunar eclipse and enough naked ambition to turn Mexico City into a two-hour bedroom—though the drama occasionally forgets where it left the plot. The film opens without so much as buying you a drink: Beatriz masturbates for a video camera while her husband Eduardo records her, immediately establishing a marriage in which curiosity has outgrown routine. The couple go hunting online for a new sexual adventure and invite a nurse into their bed, but the promised threesome becomes...
Two nameless lovers turn anonymous hotel rooms into a secret marriage—complete with hot sex, room service, bruised egos and one hell of an emotional bill. A New York novelist and a Seattle corporate accountant meet while travelling for work, tumble into bed and agree that their one-night stand will remain exactly that. Naturally, they meet again. And again. Matt Ross tells their affair through numbered hotel-room encounters spread across nearly a decade, skipping the respectable lives lived...
Three women, three eras, and three very bad days for the men foolish enough to mistake lust for control. Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Women is a three-part erotic anthology in which desire, cruelty and black comedy keep climbing into bed together. The first and strongest tale takes us to Renaissance Rome, where the beautiful Margherita Luti poses for Raphael while conducting her own affair among the ruins. Raphael spies, wealthy banker Bini peeps through keyholes, and Margherita quickly grasps...
A blocked-up British crime writer finds her muse in Provence: young, naked, troublesome and quite possibly dangerous. Sarah Morton is successful, sour-tempered and thoroughly sick of writing the same detective novels. Her publisher, John, lends her his villa in the Luberon, where she settles into a prim little routine of laptop work, yoghurt, wine and chilly exchanges with the locals. The peace lasts until John’s French daughter Julie arrives without warning. She is everything Sarah is not...
A solitary sailor washes up on a tropical isle of nearly naked sirens who play, please and persuade him to forget rescue forever. In this 1979 erotic anthology Private Collections (Collections privées), three distinct tales unfold. The standout Island of the Sirens segment follows Benoît, a lone yachtsman who tumbles overboard and beaches on a lush paradisiacal shore. Spotting a playfully compliant beauty named Malinka amid the waves and palms, he scrapes away his SOS signals and surrenders to...
In swinging Rome, a drug-fueled courtesan ditches her orgiastic villa parties for true love—only for tragedy to crash the hedonistic high like a bad trip. A child of the sixties sexual revolution, beautiful Marguerite Gautier thrives on sex, money and excess, kept in luxurious style by a wealthy count while hosting wild parties and bedding a string of eager young lovers. Handsome bachelor Armand Duval sweeps into her decadent world and demands total fidelity; she falls hard, abandons the...
A smoky, slow-burn erotic drama in which a promiscuous blonde writer meets the one person she cannot seduce, dismiss or easily understand. Claire Jabrowski is a successful Los Angeles satirist nursing writer’s block and the remains of a failed relationship when she drives north to an all-women writers’ retreat on the Oregon coast. Claire is clever, untidy, fond of French cigarettes, tequila and casual sex with men; her cabin mate, Dr. Noel Benedict, is a controlled, disciplined psychiatrist...
A childless wife invites a nervous sperm donor home, but when his body refuses to cooperate, she turns a clinical arrangement into a saucy Italian seduction. On a hot Sunday afternoon, with the city deserted and her husband due back before long, an attractive married woman welcomes a man into her apartment for a very specific purpose: he has agreed to provide the sperm that might finally give the couple a child. The plan sounds simple, but the poor fellow becomes painfully self-conscious and...
A Wall Street stranger blindfolds an art gallery beauty, feeds her ice and jalapeños, and turns nine-and-a-half weeks of pure erotic games into delicious obsession. Elizabeth McGraw, recently divorced and working the SoHo gallery scene, locks eyes with enigmatic arbitrageur John Gray one day in New York. What starts as flirty adventure quickly plunges into a high-stakes affair of sexual power plays: he commands her to strip to Joe Cocker, crawls her across floors, blindfolds her for culinary...
Tune into Barbara Broadcast: where a celebrity call girl’s witty interview unfolds amid a Manhattan eatery serving gourmet dishes... and open-air orgasms on the side. In this playful 1977 gem, world-famous liberated author and high-class escort Barbara Broadcast sits for a probing interview with eager journalist Roberta in a lavish hotel restaurant. While they chat casually about her success and sensual philosophy, the surreal “menu” delivers erotic specials prepared right at the...
Joe's confession gets ugly: Lars von Trier's second half trades youthful romps for whips, debt collection and a truly nasty last laugh. Picking up mid-anecdote on Seligman's spare bed, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg takes over almost entirely from Stacy Martin here) walks us through the grown-up wreckage: a marriage to Jerôme, a child she can't feel much for, an orgasm that goes missing, and a decision to outsource her pleasure to a silent sadist called K (Jamie Bell, quietly terrifying) who books...
In a post-nuclear apocalypse, two men and one woman wake up speechless in the wasteland, regress to pure savagery, screw each other silly including the dog, and watch paradise go feral. Eligio Herrero’s 1983 Spanish oddity *Animales racionales* (Human Animals) is a dialogue-free, prog-rock scored post-nuke fever dream from the freewheeling early-’80s “S”-rated softcore wave right after Franco. Two seeming siblings in evening clothes and a leather-jacketed macho type open their eyes in a blasted...
A penniless pretty-boy libertine vows to quit his ferocious mistress for a virginal heiress. Unfortunately, ten years of sex, blood and obsession refuse to stay buried. Paris, 1835. Ryno de Marigny is about to marry Hermangarde de Polastron, a wealthy, sheltered aristocrat he appears to love sincerely, but society knows there is another woman smouldering behind the engagement: La Vellini, his Spanish-born mistress of ten years. Before approving the match, Hermangarde’s wonderfully broad-minded...
Two lonely Victorian artists meet on a windswept beach, swap poetry for foreplay, and discover that the muse looks considerably better without her corset. In 1883, the unhappily displaced writer Byron arrives from Paris seeking peace in Baycliff, an isolated English village on the Irish Sea. There she meets Cynara, a solitary sculptor who finds provincial respectability every bit as suffocating as Byron finds her own troubled past. Their courtship unfolds through beachside encounters, horse...
