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...
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 daughter grows up inside a madhouse of sex, jealousy and damaged love, then tries to turn the family circus into a life of her own. Based on actress Piera Degli Esposti’s autobiographical account, Marco Ferreri’s strange, bruising drama begins with Piera’s birth into a family where affection is genuine but boundaries barely exist. Her father Lorenzo is a melancholy intellectual and political idealist, forever wounded by the behaviour of his wife Eugenia, a beautiful, unpredictable woman whose...
Two old flames meet at a wedding, trade wicked little barbs, share a hotel bed and discover that nostalgia is a dangerously persuasive wingman. At a New York wedding reception, an unnamed man in a tuxedo spots an unnamed woman hiding behind a cigarette and an unflattering bridesmaid’s dress. Aaron Eckhart approaches with the confidence of a practised flirt; Helena Bonham Carter parries him with the dry amusement of a woman who knows exactly what sort of trouble he is. Their banter initially...
Tune into Barbara Broadcast: where a celebrity call girl’s witty interview unfolds amid a Manhattan eatery serving gourmet dishes... and open-air orgasms on the side. In this playful 1977 gem, world-famous liberated author and high-class escort Barbara Broadcast sits for a probing interview with eager journalist Roberta in a lavish hotel restaurant. While they chat casually about her success and sensual philosophy, the surreal “menu” delivers erotic specials prepared right at the...
Horny teen Philly gets the ultimate summer crash course in passion from Emmanuelle's Sylvia Kristel as his sultry French maid—until blackmail and fake death spice up their forbidden lessons. Fifteen-year-old Philip "Philly" Fillmore, left home alone in his wealthy dad's Albuquerque pad for the summer, is a walking bundle of raging hormones when glamorous new French housekeeper Nicole Mallow arrives. Chauffeur Lester quickly spots the lad's crush and pressures the illegal immigrant Nicole into...
A bored English husband boards a cruise, meets a French temptress, and gets trapped in the filthiest marriage-from-hell confession imaginable. Nigel and Fiona are a respectable British couple sailing toward Istanbul on their way to India, hoping the trip will put some spark back into their comfortable but stale marriage. Then Nigel notices Mimi, a gorgeous young Frenchwoman dancing alone in the ship’s bar, and his good manners rapidly lose their grip. Her husband Oscar, an older American writer...
Two lonely Victorian artists meet on a windswept beach, swap poetry for foreplay, and discover that the muse looks considerably better without her corset. In 1883, the unhappily displaced writer Byron arrives from Paris seeking peace in Baycliff, an isolated English village on the Irish Sea. There she meets Cynara, a solitary sculptor who finds provincial respectability every bit as suffocating as Byron finds her own troubled past. Their courtship unfolds through beachside encounters, horse...
A bicycle, a bakery and one gloriously impatient bride-to-be turn provincial Italy into Tinto Brass’s cheeky battleground between virginity, jealousy and lust. Lola is engaged to Masetto, a handsome young baker with a thoroughly crooked idea of virtue: he insists that his future wife remain untouched until their wedding night while quietly satisfying his own appetites elsewhere. Lola has no intention of entering marriage as an innocent parcel waiting to be unwrapped, and most of the film...
When a horny boyfriend jokes about paying his reluctant girlfriend for sex, the transaction turns real and their whole relationship gets flipped upside down in the most deliciously awkward way. Felix and Sofia, a young couple deep in the comforts of coupledom, wake tangled in sheets; he’s raring for a morning roll while she’s less enthusiastic. A flippant offer of cash to tip the scales seals the deal, they dive into the act, and afterward she fully expects him to cough up the dough. What...
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...
A restless sixteen-year-old steals pretty things, chases love in all the wrong places and learns that becoming an adult is much easier to dream about than to survive. Janine Castang has been abandoned by her mother, has never known her father and lives with an aunt and uncle who offer discipline but precious little affection. Bored with school and hungry for the elegance she sees in shop windows and at the cinema, she steals cigarettes, lingerie, money and anything else that lets her briefly...
A sweet American hitchhiker enters a sun-drenched Italian madhouse where every man is horny, every rule is crooked, and keeping her clothes on becomes impossible. Nancy is a pretty, wide-eyed American touring Italy with little more than a backpack and her diary. After three men offering her a lift attempt to assault her, she escapes in torn clothing and discovers a private cable lift descending to a magnificent seaside villa. Mistaken for an expected guest, she is given a room and wakes the...
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...
Two broke Parisian beauties discover sex is the ultimate power tool—and deploy it ruthlessly to fuck their way up the corporate ladder, only to meet a master player who turns the tables. Street-smart stripper Nathalie takes naïve barmaid Sandrine under her wing after they're both tossed out of their sleazy club for refusing the extra "services." Sharing a flat and unfiltered desires, they hatch a plan: weaponize their bodies and bed their way into a big bank, seducing bored executives for...
Medieval Naples becomes a filthy, funny carnival of horny nuns, cheating wives, false saints, grave robbers and ordinary folk grabbing pleasure while they can. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Decameron is not a tidy costume drama with polished nobles discussing love over silver goblets. It is a rough, episodic street feast adapted from Boccaccio, full of crooked teeth, bare backsides, sweaty bodies, religious hypocrisy and the cheerful knowledge that respectable society has always been a racket. The...
A naked young muse, a furious wannabe auteur and an older director with wandering eyes turn a quiet Breton holiday into Chekhov with cameras, egos and sex. Claude Miller’s loose, modern take on The Seagull opens with Julien and Lili making love, which is about the last uncomplicated moment anyone enjoys. Julien is a touchy young filmmaker spending summer at his mother Mado’s country estate in Brittany. Mado is a celebrated actress; her current lover, Brice, directs her films; and Julien can...
A harmless German loses his car, his identity and his innocence, then hides inside Vienna’s strangest family while the state prepares a televised lynching. Peter Herzl is an unemployed West German sociology graduate driving home from Yugoslavia when two hitchhikers turn out to be armed terrorists. They rob him, take what they need and leave the authorities with enough muddled evidence to identify Peter as the mastermind behind a kidnapping. Before the poor fool knows what has happened, his face...
A smoky, slow-burn erotic drama in which a promiscuous blonde writer meets the one person she cannot seduce, dismiss or easily understand. Claire Jabrowski is a successful Los Angeles satirist nursing writer’s block and the remains of a failed relationship when she drives north to an all-women writers’ retreat on the Oregon coast. Claire is clever, untidy, fond of French cigarettes, tequila and casual sex with men; her cabin mate, Dr. Noel Benedict, is a controlled, disciplined psychiatrist...
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...
