A runaway prostitute becomes a château maid and cures an entire bourgeois household of its stiff morals, stale marriages and tragic shortage of naked women. When the police raid her provincial brothel, Célestine bolts into the countryside with little more than her nerve and a strategically inadequate scrap of clothing. She hides in the barn of a grand estate, where gardener Sébastien and valet Malou quickly discover that the fugitive is friendly, practical and not burdened by false modesty...
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...
A jealous professor can lecture on voyeurism, but when his wife vanishes and his randy father keeps scoring, looking becomes a full-time nervous breakdown. Edoardo, known as Dodo, is a young French-literature professor who understands desire perfectly well on paper and hardly at all in his own life. His beautiful wife Silvia has grown tired of his withdrawn, joyless nature and leaves him for another man, although she keeps drifting back into his bed just often enough to preserve his hope and...
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 woman starved of affection walks out in search of sex—and finds desire, humiliation and power waiting in the same cold bed. Marie is a young schoolteacher living with Paul, a handsome fashion model who enjoys being admired but has lost all sexual interest in the woman beside him. She loves him, wants him and repeatedly offers herself, yet he treats intimacy as an irritating demand and leaves her lying naked, frustrated and ashamed. Rather than end the relationship, Marie begins separating...
A Lost Phone Full of Sex Videos Brings Three Women, One Desperate Man and a Levitating Yogi Together in a Strange, Intimate French Tale of Lust, Jealousy and Spiritual Escape. Camille, a mature photographer, finds Suzy’s mobile at a railway station and naturally becomes curious about its owner. What she discovers is a private archive of Suzy filming her anonymous sexual encounters in public places—raw little souvenirs that seem daring at first but gradually reveal a lonely young woman trapped...
Bigas Luna’s 1990 erotic drama begins with fifteen-year-old Lulú being initiated into sex by Pablo, an older family friend she has adored from a distance. Lulu (played well by Italian actress Francesca Neri) who has a childhood crush on her brother's best friend Pablo, loses her virginity to him & eventually gets married to him. Thereafter the film narrates the story of her descent into the world of perversion, kinky sex & BDSM in the underground sex clubs of Madrid. The film, made in...
A suicidal beauty pays a gay stranger to study her naked body for four nights; what follows is less a seduction than a sexual autopsy conducted without anaesthetic. A nameless woman walks into a pounding gay nightclub where the men seem perfectly content without her. Feeling invisible, unwanted and almost alien, she slips into the lavatory and cuts her wrist. A brooding stranger finds her, stops the bleeding and escorts her out, only to receive a startling proposition: she will pay him to visit...
A breakup, a half-unpacked flat and one beautiful Chilean woman discovering that solitude can be considerably more stimulating than self-pity. Victoria has just moved into a Santiago apartment, surrounded by cardboard boxes, newspaper and the emotional debris of a relationship that has clearly ended badly. An unwelcome phone call leaves her irritated and restless; she lights a cigarette, lies back on the carpet and gradually turns her attention from the absent man to her own neglected body...
A novice Parisian beauty dives headfirst into lust, madness and murder when a volatile Czech director turns her life into a live-action Dostoyevsky fever dream. Ethel, a struggling young actress scraping by with private nude modeling sessions, catches the eye of intense filmmaker Lucas Kessling. He casts her as the lead in his wild adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, quickly claiming her body and soul as his mistress. Reality and role dissolve as he pulls her into a dangerous game...
A lonely lady, an impotent lord and a brooding gamekeeper turn a respectable English estate into a very discreet battlefield of sex, class and forbidden love. Constance “Connie” Chatterley is married to Sir Clifford, an aristocrat left paralysed and impotent by the Great War. They still share companionship, but life at Wragby Hall has become cold, formal and painfully sexless. Clifford knows his wife has physical needs and gives her permission to find satisfaction elsewhere—even suggesting that...
Two gorgeous commitment-phobes try to keep things strictly sexual, only to discover that the naked body is much easier to expose than the heart. Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) is a sexually fearless Toronto twentysomething who treats men like takeaway food: choose one, enjoy him while he is hot, then toss the packaging before feelings make a mess. At a crowded party she locks eyes with David (Eric Balfour), an equally brazen animal who watches her take charge of another man while he is busy with his...
Fifteen, bored and furiously horny, Alma discovers that in a tiny Norwegian village, one awkward brush with a boy’s erection can become everybody’s bloody business. Alma lives with her weary single mother in Skoddeheimen, a backwater where the buses are slow, the gossip is fast and sexual adventure mostly happens inside her overactive head. She masturbates, calls expensive sex lines and spins elaborate fantasies about Artur, the handsome, blank-faced schoolboy she desperately wants. Then...
A pregnant Ornella Muti walks into a childless couple’s life, slips into their home and bed, and turns domestic boredom into a very Italian war over sex and motherhood. Anna and Gordon live like ageing bohemians stranded in the wrong decade. She creates surreal cultural displays for a suburban supermarket, surrounding groceries with waxen tributes to Garbo and Dietrich; he is a former doctor now planting trees among concrete apartment blocks. They have no children, and their restless nightlife...
Two bored swingers, two buttoned-up newlyweds and one sabotaged telephone turn a quiet Croatian coast into the cheekiest bisexual game of the 1970s. In the mythical seaside town of Leisure, Jack and Elvira are a happily married pair who treat seduction like a competitive sport, keeping score as they charm strangers into bed. Casual pickups have become too easy, so Elvira proposes a more interesting challenge: she will seduce Betsy, a shy young newlywed, while Jack takes aim at Betsy’s handsome...
Sunny Spanish coast, a curious American girl, and an aristocratic couple with very bad hobbies — Jess Franco's slow-burn sleaze fable ends in blood and seawater. Forget the famous French novel — the title is pure bait. This one has little to do with Histoire d'O; it's one of Franco's riffs on Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom. Odile, a young American on holiday, spies on a decadent household — a wicked woman of title, her sickly, impotent husband, and their two servants — and gets pulled into...
Fate crosses a closeted pastor's wife with a jaded lesbian writer, sparking a torrid soul-deep affair that undoes every careful life rule she ever followed. Elena Winters, dutiful mother and wife to an anti-gay pastor, locks eyes with celebrated out author Peyton Lombard in a park and feels an instant, impossible pull. What starts as charged glances and wary friendship ignites into full-blown passion as Elena, trapped in a passionless marriage, surrenders to desires she never knew she had...
A pure Italian nun seeks her doctor's sage counsel, only to have him seize her wrists and awaken every forbidden desire she swore to lock away. In this tight 23-minute Italian erotic short, beautiful young nun Erica Savastani visits Dottor Murolo for advice, little realizing the consultation will strip away her habit and innocence alike. What begins as medical guidance swiftly turns physical: he holds her wrists firm, guides her through sensations her vows never prepared her for, with a cameo...
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 1667, 28-year-old all-powerful king of France, Louis XIV, decides to build the greatest palace in the world - Versailles. But drained budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.
