A raw, strange and deliberately uncomfortable coming-of-age film in which a lonely teenage girl spends one suffocating summer wrestling with desire, shame and an obsessive attraction to a handsome sawmill worker. Alice returns from boarding school to spend August 1963 with her parents in the rural Landes. Home offers little comfort: her mother is bitter and frustrated, her father is coarse, and the family sawmill fills the days with noise, sweat and monotonous labour. Left largely alone, Alice...
Two wicked governesses, one leering baron and a pair of respectable families ripe for ruin: class warfare was never so keen to remove its stockings. Set in France around the turn of the 1930s, Dressage follows Nathalie, the illegitimate daughter of wealthy financier Leroy-Murville, who has grown up scorned while her father’s legitimate child, 17-year-old Sophie, enjoys the privileges denied to her. At one of Baron Plessis du Regard’s cheerfully depraved parties, Nathalie announces a revenge...
A married man's Parisian fling with a lookalike hooker spirals into grief-soaked obsession and suicide in this dreamy erotic tragedy. Sigismond Pons enjoys a passionate, idyllic life in the countryside with his lovely wife Sergine and their young son—until a business trip dumps him in Paris. There the square-jawed Joe Dallesandro falls hard for Diana, a high-class streetwalker who eerily resembles his spouse. He monopolizes her time, clashes with her pimp and takes a beating for it, only to...
A lonely wife, a workaholic husband and his handsome young brother under one roof—hardly the safest recipe for domestic peace, but a fine one for trouble. B.Adiya plays a married woman who wants something painfully ordinary: affection, a child and a husband who occasionally notices that she is still warm-blooded. Unfortunately, her spouse is buried in work, household responsibilities and plans for a doctorate, treating intimacy as one more task he can postpone. Into this cold marriage walks his...
A shy beauty reads her stepfather’s dirty books, slips into his bed, and learns that his idea of romance leaves corpses cooling in the snow. Eugénie is introduced not as an innocent waiting to be corrupted, but as a wounded young woman recounting the road that brought her to ruin. Raised in a secluded household by Albert Radeck, her elegant, controlling stepfather, she has grown up surrounded by his reputation as a respectable writer—and by the forbidden books locked away in his library. When...
A clever parrot spouts filthy secrets in a Rajasthan palace, freeing a forbidden lover to slip through the cloud door and claim the ravishing princess for one unforgettable night of pure Desire. In this exquisite 29-minute gem, a Hindu king rages when he overhears the palace parrot whispering filthy erotic tales to his sheltered daughter, Princess Kurangi. She saves the bird from the knife by claiming it merely repeats words. During a lush pool frolic the green parrot escapes, gets recaged far...
A doomed-love legend, a Goan drug lord, an undercover priest and a wet-sari temptress collide in one gloriously daft ’90s erotic thriller. American naval officer Kenneth Blake arrives in Goa with his fiancée, Sally, expecting sunshine, sightseeing and perhaps one last carefree holiday before marriage. Instead, he meets Leela Miranda, a beautiful local woman who looks at him as though she has been waiting five hundred years—and, according to her, she has. Leela believes they are the...
A teenage wank filmed on an iPhone turns one respectable French household into a three-generation census of who is shagging whom—and why. Eighteen-year-old Romain is caught masturbating in biology class while recording himself on his phone, part of a foolish challenge his classmates have been quietly scoring. Expulsion is threatened, embarrassment spreads, but his mother Claire reacts less like a furious parent than a woman suddenly wondering why sex remains the one subject her otherwise close...
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...
Young french teen Faustine goes for holidays to her grandfather's farm in the French countryside. A dream cast: Isabelle Adjani, Francis Huster, Georges Marchal, Jacques Weber, etc. A wonder of cinematography by Ghislain Cloquet (Oscar, BAFTA, César for "Tess") and the OMG! lovely Muriel Català. Lame script, dumb acting... BUT watch this juiced film for the Beauty of French Country Nature and the Young Nymphet Faustine. It's an Aesthetic and Romantic film, conveying the feeling that Josh Pyke...
A dead blonde in a fur coat walks into a Rio jazz club, and one haunted trumpeter learns that desire, guilt and revenge can all keep the same wicked beat. Jimmy Logan is an American jazz trumpeter drifting through Istanbul in an alcoholic, druggy fog when the sea delivers a sight capable of sobering any man: the half-naked corpse of Wanda Reed, a beautiful blonde he recognises from a party hosted by the sinister playboy Ahmed. At that gathering, Jimmy stumbled upon Ahmed, art dealer Percival...
A Film Director Goes Looking for the Truth About Female Pleasure—and Finds Three Beautiful Women Willing to Take His Dangerous Experiment Much Further Than Expected. François is a filmmaker preparing a project about female desire, but ordinary screen tests cannot give him the honesty he wants. After a string of actresses refuse his increasingly intimate requests, he finds Julie and Charlotte, two young women prepared to cross the usual line between acting and genuine arousal. Their auditions...
An ageing painter, his wounded son and a flame-haired muse find beauty, desire and a new artistic future under the warm sun of wartime Provence. In 1915, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is living out his final years at his estate near Cagnes-sur-Mer. His wife is dead, his legs are failing and rheumatoid arthritis has twisted his hands so badly that a brush must be placed between his fingers. Yet the stubborn old master continues to paint, surrounded by female servants who carry, wash and fuss over him...
A rich publisher picks up a beautiful stranger on a forest road; soon Lulu is in his house, his bed and every man’s head—including his own. Leon Mortier is a wealthy, ageing publisher whose comfortable life goes spectacularly off the rails when he spots Lulu walking alone through a forest. Moments after she climbs into his car, Leon accidentally strikes a wandering violinist who appears in the road, so he takes both injured man and mysterious girl back to his country house. The arrangement...
Six lusty tales of wives, lovers, cheats and voyeurs, served with Tinto Brass’s cheerful belief that desire is healthier when nobody pretends it isn’t there. Private is an erotic anthology rather than one continuous story, with six couples discovering that jealousy, marriage and sexual curiosity make strange but willing bedfellows. In “Alibi,” Cinzia celebrates her anniversary with Gianni in Casablanca, where her husband arranges a very intimate present involving Ali, a handsome hotel waiter...
Mia spills her raw, uncensored confessions as she takes her first delicious plunge into domination and submission—pure erotic honesty in eleven steamy minutes. In this intimate short, young Spanish beauty Mia recounts her most private admissions about discovering the thrills of BDSM. No elaborate plot, just her voice-over spilling secrets of surrender, power exchange, and the unexpected passion unlocked when she kneels for the first time. Highlights hit in the unfiltered honesty—her hesitations...
A bored pharmacist lets Franco Nero into her shop, her bed and finally her head—just as France prepares to surrender to an even nastier kind of domination. Set in provincial France on the eve of the German invasion, Salvatore Samperi’s Scandalo is no soft-focus tale of adultery but a dark, increasingly poisonous study of lust, class resentment and willing self-destruction. Eliane Michoud is an elegant pharmacist trapped in a bloodless marriage to Henri, a vain intellectual more attentive to...
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 runaway blonde escapes one predator only to wake in a château ruled by another—one with better manners, darker appetites and a dungeon full of bad intentions. Amy is fleeing through the woods when a would-be rapist attacks her, knocks her unconscious and leaves her in a pond. She awakens inside the rambling castle of Gideon, an elegant, melancholy count who has apparently rescued her and now treats her with suspicious tenderness. He dresses the shaken girl in a flimsy gown belonging to his...
A hazy summer crush becomes a wicked country-house carousel just as Europe prepares to blow itself apart. Julien is fourteen-and-a-half, hopelessly besotted with his sixteen-year-old cousin Julia, and convinced that persistence will eventually make her notice him. Unfortunately, Julia has grown beyond childhood games and is far more interested in Charles, the handsome young officer engaged to Julien’s vain older sister Claire. Meanwhile Julia’s younger sister Poune adores Julien, creating a...
