An Easy Girl (2019) – AKA Une Fille Facile
A sun-drenched Cannes summer where a naive 16-year-old gets schooled in luxury, yachts and free-spirited charms by her alluring cousin who's nobody's "easy" mark.
I Am a Sex Addict (2006)
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...
All About Anna (2005)
The 2005 Danish All About Anna is an anti-rom-com with real sex, bruised hearts and one stubborn heroine discovering that “no strings” can still tie you in knots. Anna is a Copenhagen costume designer who has rebuilt herself around one firm rule: enjoy men, enjoy sex, but never hand anyone the keys to your heart. Five years earlier, Johan—the adventurous lover who seemed to offer excitement, conversation and terrific sex in one handsome package—sailed out of her life without warning. Since...
Ready for Anything (1977) – AKA Disposta a Tutto
A Beautiful, Naive Young Woman Surrenders Herself to an Older Married Man—Body, Heart and Pride—Until His Games of Desire and Humiliation Push Her Towards a Reckoning of Her Own. Anna is a sweet, impulsive twenty-year-old student who meets Marco, a wealthy engineer old enough to know exactly how to handle her innocence. He is married, has a daughter and speaks about love with the weary cynicism of a man who thinks he has already understood women. Anna, however, falls for him without reserve...
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1981)
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...
My Little Princess (2011)
A glittering Parisian fairy tale curdles into a nightmare as a lonely girl mistakes her photographer mother’s exploitation for love. Ten-year-old Violetta lives in 1970s Paris with her loving, deeply religious Romanian grandmother, while her flighty mother Hanna drifts in and out of her life. Violetta aches for Hanna’s attention, so when her mother invites her to play dress-up and pose for the camera, it feels like the beginning of the closeness she has always wanted. The early sessions have...
Tempting Devils (2018) – AKA Que le Diable Nous Emporte
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...
Love, Math and Sex (1997) – AKA C’est la Tangente Que Je Préfère
A teenage maths prodigy tries to solve poverty, desire and a much older lover with the same cool logic—then discovers the heart is lousy at equations. Sabine is fifteen, frighteningly bright and already carrying more adult responsibility than the adults around her. Her cash-strapped home in Lille is such a mess that she earns money doing classmates’ mathematics homework and helps keep the household afloat, retreating into numbers because numbers, unlike parents and feelings, obey rules. Then...
All Ladies Do It – 1992
A faithful husband, a wife with an itch for adventure, and Tinto Brass behind the camera—marriage counselling was never going to stay fully dressed. Diana is a beautiful young Roman wife who genuinely loves Paolo but has begun to find their comfortable marriage rather too comfortable. She spices up their bedroom by describing flirtations with other men, and Paolo enjoys these stories because he assumes they are fantasies. Trouble arrives at a risqué literary party, where the elegant, predatory...
Kiki: Love to Love (2016) – AKA Kiki, el Amor Se Hace
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...
Emmanuelle (1974)
A bored diplomat’s wife lands in Bangkok, slips into an open marriage, and becomes the exquisite centre of a very French lesson in sex, jealousy and dangerous freedom. Emmanuelle arrives in Bangkok to rejoin Jean, her diplomat husband, and quickly discovers that married life among the wealthy French expatriates runs on cocktails, boredom and discreet adultery. Jean makes it clear that he does not expect fidelity; in fact, he encourages his wife to explore, convinced that jealousy can add heat...
La Belle (2000) – AKA 미인
A nude model moves into a lonely writer’s white apartment; her body stays with him, while her heart keeps answering another man’s phone calls. A magazine writer first notices the unnamed woman crying over a lover who treats her like an afterthought. When she later turns up as the nude model he is meant to interview, curiosity becomes attraction, attraction becomes rescue, and rescue soon becomes the sort of bad romantic decision that keeps a film critic pleasantly nervous. He finds her soaked...
Sex and Lucia (2001) – AKA Lucía y el Sexo
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...
The Idiots (1998)
A raw, funny and deeply uncomfortable Danish drama about respectable adults playing at madness—until one quiet woman forces them to face the real thing. Karen is eating alone in an expensive restaurant when a disruptive group of supposedly disabled adults turns the room upside down. One of them, Stoffer, takes her hand and refuses to release it, drawing her into their taxi and then revealing that the whole performance was an act. Curious, lonely and strangely unwilling to return home, Karen...
Siddhartha (1972)
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...
Le Sourire (1994) – AKA The Smile
An aging shrink learns his next heart attack will be the last, so he sets his sights on bedding a juicy young beauty before checking out for good. Pierre-François, a veteran psychiatrist running a quiet countryside clinic, gets the grim news that another coronary could finish him. Defiant and yearning for one final spark, he dumps his routines and hits the train to the coast. There he locks eyes on Odile, a sensuous free spirit with a mysterious nosebleed affliction and dreams of cutting loose...
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
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 Perfect Ending (2012)
A wealthy wife who has never had an orgasm hires a gorgeous female escort—and discovers that the most dangerous secret in her perfect home is her own desire. Rebecca Westridge (Barbara Niven) has money, grown children, a grand house and a marriage polished to a suburban shine, yet she moves through it all like a woman slowly suffocating in expensive clothes. Her controlling husband Mason treats intimacy as another dreary obligation, while bitter arguments over the family business—and his...
Malicious (1973) – AKA Malizia
A grieving Sicilian household hires an angel with a killer figure—and suddenly the father’s marriage plans face stiff competition from under his own roof. Set in late-1950s Acireale, Salvatore Samperi’s sly erotic comedy begins at a funeral, where widowed cloth merchant Ignazio La Brocca is left with three sons and a house that plainly needs rescuing. Rescue arrives that very day in the shapely form of Angela La Barbera, the new maid: modest, capable and apparently innocent, yet possessed of...
Anatomy of Hell (2004) – AKA Anatomie de L’enfer
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...