A Paris photographer enters a velvet-lined world of whips, vows and ownership, where surrender becomes less a bedroom game than a dangerous proof of love. O is a beautiful, independent fashion photographer whose lover René asks for a rather extreme demonstration of devotion. He takes her to the secluded Château de Roissy, a private club where masked gentlemen rule and women are trained to obey. O agrees to stay, accepting ritual nudity, bondage, flogging and the loss of nearly every ordinary...
By day Giulia helps the elderly; by night she changes names, collects men and keeps love outside—until a lovestruck young student refuses to disappear. Giulia is a respectable social worker in Sicily, but that daytime identity is only one face of a woman who refuses to be pinned down. At night she becomes Viviana, Alessandra or whoever suits the moment, cruising for men and taking her pleasure without promises, apologies or sentimental complications. Businessmen, students, soldiers and casual...
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...
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...
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...
A smug Paris fashion buyer follows a dark-haired beauty off the Métro expecting an easy afternoon in bed—and walks straight into an erotic trap designed to strip more than his trousers. Hugo Arnold is a polished, self-satisfied ladies’ man who spots Myriam Gwen applying her makeup on a Paris train and decides that she is his for the taking. She is gorgeous, amused by his confidence and just elusive enough to keep him trotting behind her. Their flirtation continues across platforms and through...
When feminism steals his wife, a jobless engineer bags his baby's stunning Italian nanny and Marco Ferreri rubs your nose in the wreckage of a real man's last stand. Gérard Depardieu is this hulking young engineer, motorbike and all, working a petrochemical plant that's just gone on technical unemployment in the mid-70s slump. His wife Gabrielle has already packed up and joined the MLF, that women's lib circus, leaving him stuck raising their nine-month-old boy Pierrot alone in a soulless...
They have sex first and ask questions later: one hot French night turns two naked strangers into lovers, liars, philosophers and possibly fools. Émilie and Louis have barely finished making love when the real seduction begins. She is a schoolteacher, he works with plants, and this is their first night together in her spacious apartment. Émilie initially expects him to dress and leave, but Louis lingers, and soon the usual awkward post-coital small talk becomes a teasing battle of curiosity...
A haunting Spanish romance about two step-siblings whose secret passion keeps circling through chance, guilt and longing until fate draws them north. Otto and Ana first meet at eight years old in one of those strange childhood moments that feels meaningless until it changes everything. He is chasing a football outside school; she is running from her mother and refusing to accept that her father has died. Their eyes meet, and Ana begins imagining that her father has somehow returned inside this...
A virginal Polish beauty follows one forbidden love across Europe, only to find that passion opens doors respectable society prefers to keep locked—and some lead straight to hell. Ewa Pobratyńska is a devout young woman from an impoverished noble family, living under the thumb of anxious parents and a Catholic morality obsessed with impure thoughts. Then Łukasz Niepołomski rents a room in their Warsaw home. He is handsome, educated, attentive—and inconveniently married. Their attraction begins...
Three women, three eras, and a trail of bruised male vanity: Borowczyk serves sex, revenge and black comedy with the manners of an art lover and the morals of a tomcat. Walerian Borowczyk’s 1979 erotic triptych follows three women whose names begin with M—Margherita, Marceline and Marie—and whose appetites bring trouble to every man foolish enough to underestimate them. The richest episode opens in Renaissance Rome, where Margherita Luti divides her attention between the painter Raphael and her...
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...
Bored aristocratic bombshell Cecilia teases her servants raw until they snap and take her hard, unlocking a carnal free-for-all that swallows her marriage whole. Cecilia, the glamorous yet restless wife of wealthy diplomat André, drifts through privileged ennui by flashing her flawless nude form at the household staff in teasing exhibitionist games. One day her chauffeur and his mates stop playing along, dragging her into a rough assault in the back of the limo. Far from broken, she discovers...
A sunny island, a beautiful innocent and two smiling libertines: Jess Franco turns a dirty weekend into a dreamy descent through sex, sadism and dread. Eugenie is a sheltered young woman with just enough curiosity to make bad company look exciting. When the elegant Madame Saint Ange persuades Eugenie’s father to let her spend a weekend at a private island retreat, the invitation sounds like a glamorous taste of freedom. The place is warm, luxurious and cut off from ordinary life, while Saint...
A sculptor, his old flame and her teenage daughter drift into a soft-focus triangle where art, jealousy and obsession blur into something far darker. Paul Wyler is a successful sculptor whose creative spark has gone cold when Sarah, the great love of his past, suddenly re-enters his life. Time has changed Sarah, but her fifteen-year-old daughter Laura looks uncannily like the young woman Paul remembers, and his fascination quickly shifts from nostalgic affection to artistic and personal...
A bored young wife meets a French erotic artist in Mantua, and soon jealousy is doing more for her marriage than candles, counselling or common sense. Marta is young, voluptuous and newly married, yet her husband Dario—a busy Milanese publisher obsessed with work—has already begun treating sex like another chore to clear from his desk. She accompanies him to Mantua’s annual literature festival, where he rushes between writers and social obligations while she wanders through galleries simmering...
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 sun-drunk erotic puzzle where love, guilt and fiction strip naked on a Mediterranean island—and Paz Vega makes confusion look dangerously inviting. Lucía is a Madrid waitress with the nerve to approach novelist Lorenzo, confess that she has followed him since reading his book, and announce that she is already hopelessly in love. Instead of calling security, he falls for her, and their affair erupts into the sort of playful, uninhibited sex that makes domestic life look like an extended...
A joyless beauty, a patient lover and a kitchen full of edible therapy turn one Spanish romance into a cheeky tasting menu of sex, food and emotional repair. Ágata has spent years moving from one man and one bed to another, hoping the next encounter will finally make her feel something. It never does. She does not yet understand that she suffers from anhedonia, a psychological inability to experience pleasure, so she assumes her lovers are the problem and keeps running whenever disappointment...
Architect Yannis nears the altar while nightly visits from a sultry dream siren leave him hard, haunted and hungry for more than marital monotony. Yannis, a Greek architect with wedding bells looming, finds his sleep invaded by a recurring fantasy of a blithe, breathtaking beauty who teases him mercilessly with her smile, curves and uninhibited sensuality—everything the perfect lifelong companion should be. His real-life fiancée Anna is the sweet, steady, down-to-earth sort any sensible man...
