A blonde goddess swims away from polite society, steals a hermit from his dog, then decides that becoming his new pet is the surest way to keep him. Giorgio, played with rumpled, distracted charm by Marcello Mastroianni, is a middle-aged artist who has abandoned his wife, children and bourgeois Parisian life for a rocky island in the Strait of Bonifacio. He lives inside a peculiar bunker-like home, catches fish, draws comic strips and enjoys the company of Melampo, the dog who understands his...
A grizzled cop's midlife lust turns dirty when he beds his young partner's wife amid a web of crime and corruption—Sale comme un ange leaves you reeling with its raw heat. Georges Deblache, a solitary fifty-something alcoholic detective with a soft spot for the underworld, schemes to shield his old pal Manoni, a drug dealer marked for death. He parks his newlywed junior colleague Didier on round-the-clock protection duty with Manoni's family, freeing himself to move in on Barbara, Didier's...
Virtue walks out of a brothel and into two hours of proof that eighteenth-century Europe has far worse rooms waiting. Framed by Klaus Kinski’s silent, fever-eyed Marquis scribbling in prison while naked phantoms torment his imagination, Jesús Franco’s lavish adaptation follows orphaned sisters Justine and Juliette as they choose opposite ways to survive. Juliette confidently enters a Paris brothel, embraces vice and begins climbing society’s greasy ladder; Justine bolts for the door, determined...
A stray key unlocks a Venetian marriage, two dirty diaries and Stefania Sandrelli’s gloriously overdue sexual awakening. Venice, 1940. Nino Rolfe is an ageing English art professor whose twenty-year marriage to the younger Teresa has settled into polite affection and bedroom frustration. He still worships his wife’s body, but Teresa has been trained by religion and convention to keep her desires buttoned up tighter than her sensible dresses. Unable to say what he wants, Nino writes it all in a...
Five tangled Madrid love lives discover that getting turned on is easy; admitting what turns you on is where the real foreplay begins. Paco León’s sunny, shameless ensemble comedy follows five sets of lonely, frustrated or simply baffled adults whose sex lives have wandered off without leaving a forwarding address. Paco and Ana are a long-term couple trying to revive their bedroom; when Ana’s attraction to Paco’s uninhibited friend Belén becomes obvious, an awkward attempt at broadening the...
A prim Dutch violinist discovers her earlobe is the volume knob for desire—and suddenly every audition requires a very adult warm-up. Nineteen-year-old Belle is technically gifted with a violin but emotionally locked tighter than its case. Raised in a small Dutch village where her sex-therapist mother runs a couples’ club and practically everyone treats shagging as casual recreation, Belle would rather practise scales than join the fun. Her boyfriend Hendrik has other ideas, and when she...
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...
My Fair Lady loses the songs, keeps the makeover and adds enough hardcore sex to make Professor Higgins drop his monocle. Seymour Love, a smug, worldly sexologist played with dry comic authority by Jamie Gillis, discovers Misty Beethoven hustling in a grubby Pigalle cinema and decides this bored, blunt-spoken streetwalker could become his erotic masterpiece. With sophisticated Geraldine assisting, he wagers that he can transform Misty into the most exciting new woman in the international sexual...
A Biarritz summer holiday turns into a cold, unsettling duel between a girl desperate to feel grown-up and a man old enough to know better. Fourteen-year-old Lili is stuck camping with her parents and older brother, simmering with boredom, resentment and the conviction that virginity is one more childish thing she ought to discard. She slips into Biarritz nightlife, tests her effect on men and meets Maurice, a cynical forty-year-old businessman staying at the luxurious Hôtel du Palais. What...
A Handsome Brahmin Rejects Priests, Holy Men and Buddha Himself, Then Finds His Hardest Lessons in a Beautiful Courtesan’s Bed, a Merchant’s Gold and the Voice of a River. Siddhartha follows a privileged young Brahmin who has everything except peace of mind. Certain that inherited beliefs cannot give him the truth he wants, he leaves his family with his devoted friend Govinda and joins a band of wandering ascetics. Fasting, meditation and physical hardship teach him discipline, but they still...
A gun-running millionaire stages a three-day pagan sex party on a Greek island, only to learn that Aphrodite brings jealousy, espionage and one hell of a hangover. Set in the uneasy summer of 1914, Aphrodite follows Harry Laird, a rich English arms dealer who sails into the Mediterranean with his mistress Valérie and a fashionable collection of friends. Their destination is the secluded island estate of Harry’s old companion, Baron Orloff, where ordinary holiday manners are promptly tossed...
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...
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...
A married filmmaker meets a Paris hooker who looks like his wife, follows his cock instead of his conscience, and turns one blowjob into a decade-long disaster. Minutes before his third wedding, Caveh Zahedi faces the camera and cheerfully explains that he used to be addicted to prostitutes. That grin matters: this is not a solemn recovery sermon but an autobiographical comedy in which the accused is also the director, narrator and star witness. His trouble begins in Paris in 1983, when the...
