Two strangers fuck first and ask the dangerous questions later, turning a Montreal one-night stand into an all-night striptease of bruised souls. (imdb.com) Clara, a 27-year-old elementary-school teacher with a taste for raves, drugs and anonymous sex, spots 31-year-old Nikolaï amid a mass of sweating dancers. They return to his shabby apartment, barely pausing to exchange names before tearing off their clothes and having the sort of urgent, awkwardly convincing sex that is more about escape...
A forbidden Dutch delight where a ripe 14-year-old schoolgirl tumbles into a steamy secret affair with her dad's married 41-year-old mate, waking passions that burn bright then bite back. Carolien, a pigtailed high-schooler, locks eyes with Hugo, the charming family friend just back from abroad for the holidays, and what starts as innocent sparks quickly ignites into full-blown intimacy. Their clandestine trysts bring mutual heat and happiness for a while, as she explores desire with a grown...
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 Restless Farm Girl leaves her loyal but dull boyfriend, hitches her way to Munich, and slips into the bed of a wealthy nightclub owner—only to discover that his glamorous world comes with other women already in it. Denise seems to have everything a young woman is supposed to want: fresh country air, an uncomplicated life and handsome Freddy, a decent man who plainly desires her. The trouble is that she is bored stiff. She dreams of becoming a model in the city, but Freddy refuses to abandon...
Lewis Carroll’s prim little dreamer tumbles into a horny ’70s Wonderland where every riddle is a double entendre and even Humpty Dumpty needs a helping hand. Bud Townsend’s 1976 film—specifically IMDb title tt0074113—is far more than a familiar fairy tale with random sex pasted over it. Alice is now a shy young librarian who rebuffs her randy mechanic boyfriend William, partly because she has swallowed the old notion that anything pleasurable must be wicked. Left alone with Lewis Carroll’s...
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...
A sunlit bourgeois paradise turns into a moral crime scene when a cool, successful wife takes one reckless step towards her teenage stepson—and keeps walking. Anne is a respected lawyer who represents abused minors, a poised professional able to discuss predatory adults, damaged children and ugly family secrets without losing her nerve. At home, she enjoys the expensive calm of country life with Pierre, her older businessman husband, and their two adopted young daughters. Then Pierre’s troubled...
Val wants sex, then love, then a way back to herself—a steamy diary of freedom, bad decisions and the dangerous men who confuse desire with ownership. Val is a bright, comfortably raised 28-year-old living in Barcelona who treats sex as appetite, adventure and personal philosophy. Lovers come and go because few can match her libido, while her wonderfully unshockable grandmother encourages her to write everything down and live without shame. After Val’s nocturnal enthusiasm begins wrecking her...
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 vain old columnist, a sharp young student and one jammed bathroom door turn a Madrid heatwave into 105 minutes of naked ego, desire and generational warfare. Miguel is a celebrated, feared and thoroughly self-satisfied newspaper columnist from an age when a man could smoke, drink whisky and pronounce judgement on civilisation without anybody asking him to hurry up. Ángela is a first-year journalism student who has interviewed him and now wants his opinion of her work. Meeting in a café...
A decadent 1930s Italian household becomes a pressure cooker of lust, jealousy and revenge when a fascist officer brings home Zerbal, a beautiful African princess he treats as his personal war prize. Elio returns from the Abyssinian campaign to his grand country villa, where his young second wife Alessandra has been easing her boredom in the arms of his cool, possessive secretary, Velma. Then Zerbal enters the house—enslaved, watchful and far more intelligent than her captors imagine...
One endless Icelandic summer night turns a shy schoolboy crush into a raw crash-course in manhood, drugs, desire and the irreversible fall from innocence. In this taut 15-minute Icelandic short, a timid lad nurses a classic puppy-dog longing for pretty classmate Lára, who's pals with his mate. The foursome drift through the luminous night into a wilder house party packed with older kids. Ketamine pills get handed round; inhibitions and consciousness dissolve. What follows is the harsh jolt from...
A hidden camera, a red dress and a hammock turn one film-school assignment into Mexico’s cheekiest lesson in sex, performance and married life. Virginia, a film student with more nerve than equipment, hides a bulky video camera beneath a chair and prepares her apartment for the arrival of Marcelo, a man she claims not to have seen in four years. She has dressed for the occasion in red, arranged the lighting and even hung a hammock in the hallway, all while pretending this is merely an intimate...
Three shipwrecked beauties wash ashore looking for shelter and find a Mediterranean playground where clothes, common sense and fidelity are strictly optional. Caroline, Hélène and Dorothée set off by boat for a nearby island, only for a violent storm to dump them into the sea and scatter their holiday plans. Caroline awakens naked in a beach hut, rescued by a stranger who has vanished before she can identify him, and soon becomes convinced that the man was Jordan, the wealthy, brooding owner of...
A hard-nosed magazine queen turns men into beauty-pageant meat—then a proud lion tamer shows her that romance cannot be measured under studio lights. Elisabeth is the cool, ambitious editor of a New York women’s magazine, and she has a publicity stunt big enough to dominate Europe: a televised contest to discover the world’s “last romantic lover.” Tens of thousands apply, but only a handful of handsome specimens survive the selection process. They are judged by women and gay men, posed like...
A sweet country girl enters a brothel for fifteen days, discovers her fiancé is a rat, and becomes Italy’s most voluptuous working girl with a heart. In 1957, eighteen-year-old Mimma leaves Pola believing she is making one practical, temporary sacrifice: a fortnight in Madame Colette’s Trieste brothel to help her cash-strapped fiancé Nino start a business, after which they can marry and live respectably ever after. Naturally, the respectable man is the first thing in this cheerful carnival of...
A double-crossing thief finds gold, a lonely château and two gorgeous women—then learns that being the only man in the house is not always the winning hand. Set in 1905, Jean Rollin’s erotic Gothic daydream begins with fashionable Parisian women drinking fresh ox blood as a supposed cure for anaemia—an image at once refined, repulsive and strangely sexy. Elsewhere, Marc, the smug young leader of a gang of thieves, steals the gang’s gold and bolts for the countryside with his former partners on...
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...
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 Dirty, Sun-Baked Sicilian Sex Comedy where a homesick “American” uncle returns with money in his pocket—and finds his brother’s beautiful young daughter and voluptuous wife competing for his attention. After thirty years of working as a cobbler and shoe shiner in New York, Salvatore Cannavone comes home to Sicily carrying enough cash to look like a rich man. His brother Raffaele welcomes him into the family house, but the warm reunion soon becomes a shameless little business arrangement...
