A married philosophy teacher risks his quiet life and career when a brilliant, troubled 17-year-old pupil draws him into a doomed and forbidden affair. François Hainaut is a stern, middle-aged philosophy teacher living a settled, childless life with his wife Catherine in Saint-Étienne. His routine shifts when he finds Mathilde Tessier, a frequently absent pupil, collapsed near a bus stop and takes her home. She lives largely alone, with a suicidal mother in hospital and a father in Paris, yet...
A lusty plumber, a smouldering coffee girl and one very ominous photocopier turn a workplace crush into Mexico City’s grimmest spring awakening. Igor is a maintenance man buried in the rusty bowels of a vast office building; Pina is the attractive, virtually invisible woman who serves coffee upstairs. Their first encounter in the basement skips introductions and heads straight for animal appetite—clothes open, mouths busy, bodies ready—until Igor abruptly loses his nerve and Pina walks away...
A Smouldering Erotic French Film with Two of the Most Gorgeous French Beauties. Cécile is a Total Slut & Alice is a Shy Conservative girl... Q (2011), also known as Desire (2011), is a french film set in France, in a time of country wide economic crisis, when people are losing jobs and there's anxiety everywhere, Cécile (played by the Drop Dead Delicious Déborah Révy) becomes a Total Slut, wanting to fuck everything that moves in pants or skirts, apparently as a coping mechanism to deal...
A Nazi brothel wired for secrets, staffed with beauties and run by monsters—Tinto Brass turns espionage into a two-hour cabaret of sex, power and moral rot. Berlin, 1939. Kitty Kellermann runs the city’s grandest house of pleasure, a warm, unruly haven where uniforms are checked at the door and powerful men loosen their tongues along with their trousers. That changes when the coldly ambitious SS officer Helmut Wallenberg commandeers the salon for an intelligence operation. Kitty’s regular women...
Chaucer gets the Pasolini treatment: muddy pilgrims, horny wives, foolish husbands, crooked clergy and enough naked mischief to make an English teacher choke on his tea. Pier Paolo Pasolini plays Chaucer himself, quietly observing the pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury and turning their appetites, lies and disasters into eight loosely linked tales. This is no polite illustrated classic. It opens with wealthy, ageing Sir January buying himself a beautiful young bride, May, only to...
A draft-dodging fake count meets a naked would-be starlet beside Lake Geneva, and one lazy summer turns into a very French cocktail of lust, lies and regret. Victor Chmara is a young Frenchman hiding from military service during the Algerian War, lodging under a borrowed identity and passing himself off as a Russian count with money to burn. Drifting through the grand hotels of Lake Geneva, he falls in with two splendid oddballs: René Meinthe, a flamboyant doctor who calls himself the Queen of...
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...
A murderous father takes charge of his wild, paraplegic daughter, forcing two damaged souls into a battle of discipline, hatred and uneasy affection. Christian Tessier is a celebrated biologist, a cold, imposing man who abruptly leaves his work at the Pasteur Institute and retreats to the family property in southern France. His purpose is to take control of Isabelle, the thirteen-year-old daughter he barely knows, whose paralysed legs and years of abandonment have left her furious with the...
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 English husband boards a cruise, meets a French temptress, and gets trapped in the filthiest marriage-from-hell confession imaginable. Nigel and Fiona are a respectable British couple sailing toward Istanbul on their way to India, hoping the trip will put some spark back into their comfortable but stale marriage. Then Nigel notices Mimi, a gorgeous young Frenchwoman dancing alone in the ship’s bar, and his good manners rapidly lose their grip. Her husband Oscar, an older American writer...
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 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...
Paz Vega lights the fuse, Leonardo Sbaraglia loses his uniform, morals and mind, and Vicente Aranda watches nineteenth-century Spain burn with lust and jealousy. A French traveller named Prosper Mérimée meets the condemned outlaw José and visits him in prison, where the former soldier tells the story of the woman who demolished his respectable life. José begins as a stiff, dutiful Basque sergeant stationed near Córdoba’s sweltering cigar factory. When Carmen slashes a co-worker during a vicious...
A gorgeous road movie with a rotten engine: one cultivated man’s “romance” becomes a child’s stolen adolescence and a long drive into hell. Adrian Lyne’s *Lolita* traps us inside the polished, self-pitying narration of Humbert Humbert, a European literature professor who arrives in postwar New England and rents a room from the eager, lonely Charlotte Haze. He can barely tolerate Charlotte, but the sight of her fourteen-year-old daughter Dolores gives him a reason to stay. He renames the girl...
A passionate love story set in 1895 Paris, featuring the Super Gorgeous Noémie Merlant ❤️🔥 loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs & Marie de Régnier. Marie de Heredia is clever, beautiful and born into a celebrated literary family that has prestige to spare but very little cash. Two poets circle her: Henri de Régnier, wealthy, respectable and painfully earnest, and his friend Pierre Louÿs, a handsome traveller, libertine and collector of erotic...
A burnt-out lawyer checks into a seaside hellhole and finds neon, naked women and a teenage gangster planning the tackiest Las Vegas this side of Rome. Giancarlo Giannini plays a disgraced, recently imprisoned lawyer who has traded the courtroom for grubby debt-collection work with his criminal associate Sapo. He arrives at a nameless coastal resort with Milena, his beautiful and emotionally distant girlfriend, who is pregnant by Sapo and has come to undergo an abortion. That awkward...
In an early 20th century Beautiful Polish village, a painter with an unusual commission finds two pretty girls to model for him. The girls slowly come of age while exploring their sexuality and finding liberation in a repressed society. Stephanie and Julia are close friends in a small Eastern European village where the church keeps a firm grip on everybody’s morals—and apparently an even firmer interest in their sex lives. A nude swim on a hot summer day awakens a physical attraction between...
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...
A barefoot village innocent meets a devil in black who teaches her that books, Mozart, fine food and naked desire can all belong to the same delicious education. Gosia is a sheltered milkmaid living with her widowed mother in a poor Polish village at the end of the nineteenth century. While bathing naked in a secluded river, she senses that someone is watching. The next day, a mysterious painter dressed in black appears beside the water and shows her a portrait he has made of her nude body. She...
A devout Scottish bride gives herself body and soul to her husband, only to see love, sex and faith twisted into a harrowing test of sacrifice. Bess McNeill is a sweet, emotionally fragile young woman living in a stern Calvinist village on the Scottish coast in the early 1970s. She marries Jan, a worldly Danish oil-rig worker, against the wishes of church elders who distrust outsiders and expect women to remain quiet and obedient. Their early married life is warm, playful and intensely sexual...
