Lulu climbs society one bewitched lover at a time, leaving dead husbands, ruined men and a very cold trail of desire behind her. Walerian Borowczyk’s Lulu is less a steamy romance than a brisk, blackly comic procession of lust, jealousy and male self-destruction. Lulu begins as the young wife of the wealthy Dr Goll, but domestic respectability plainly cannot contain her. While posing for the painter Schwarz, she turns the sitting into a seduction; when Goll walks in on them, the shock kills...
A sunny London flat, a jealous boyfriend and one gloriously uninhibited Venetian blonde—Tinto Brass turns apartment hunting into an Olympic event for the libido. Carla is a cheerful young Venetian living temporarily in London, where she works at a hotel and searches for a Thames-side apartment to share with Matteo, the boyfriend she expects to join her. This innocent bit of house-hunting immediately goes off-script when Moira, the striking and extremely forward estate agent, takes more interest...
A Sun-Baked Psychosexual Melodrama where an Isolated Family Masturbates, Fights and Slowly Falls Apart—until a Handsome Stranger Arrives and Gives Every Buried Desire Somewhere Dangerous to Go. Desdemona lives in a crumbling island household with Mario, her vain, impotent father; Dulcinea, his bitter and sexually frustrated mistress; and Paulova, Desdemona’s deeply troubled sister. With nowhere to go and nothing meaningful to do, their days have become a warped routine of naked wandering...
The Blue Lagoon swaps surf for sand as two orphaned teens dodge a lusty slaver, discover an oasis and learn that paradise rarely comes without predators. Let’s not kid ourselves: Stuart Gillard’s Paradise is The Blue Lagoon with camels, but that doesn’t mean this sun-baked romantic adventure is entirely without charm. In 1823, Sarah, the sheltered daughter of a wealthy British merchant, and David, the son of American missionaries, are travelling by caravan from Baghdad to Damascus when Sarah...
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...
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...
A Surreal "coming of age" story like no other, this Czech Gothic dream-like fairytale is possibly the most lyrical film ever made. Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager staying with her grandmother while her parents are away has her first menstruation, triggering a series of interlocking dreams about lustful vampires who prey upon her youth. As she blossoms into womanhood, the transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the...
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 gun-running millionaire stages a three-day pagan sex party on a Greek island, only to learn that Aphrodite brings jealousy, espionage and one hell of a hangover. Set in the uneasy summer of 1914, Aphrodite follows Harry Laird, a rich English arms dealer who sails into the Mediterranean with his mistress Valérie and a fashionable collection of friends. Their destination is the secluded island estate of Harry’s old companion, Baron Orloff, where ordinary holiday manners are promptly tossed...
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...
A novice Parisian beauty dives headfirst into lust, madness and murder when a volatile Czech director turns her life into a live-action Dostoyevsky fever dream. Ethel, a struggling young actress scraping by with private nude modeling sessions, catches the eye of intense filmmaker Lucas Kessling. He casts her as the lead in his wild adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, quickly claiming her body and soul as his mistress. Reality and role dissolve as he pulls her into a dangerous game...
A bored French beauty quits the job, dumps the routine and goes hunting for the ultimate orgasm—only to discover that pleasure can open some very strange doors. Sandrine has the respectable career, the steady boyfriend and the tidy adult life she is supposed to want, yet she feels trapped in a schedule that has even made sex predictable. A chance conversation with an eccentric former physics teacher on a park bench nudges her toward rebellion. With enough money to take a sabbatical, she quits...
A Biarritz summer holiday turns into a cold, unsettling duel between a girl desperate to feel grown-up and a man old enough to know better. Fourteen-year-old Lili is stuck camping with her parents and older brother, simmering with boredom, resentment and the conviction that virginity is one more childish thing she ought to discard. She slips into Biarritz nightlife, tests her effect on men and meets Maurice, a cynical forty-year-old businessman staying at the luxurious Hôtel du Palais. What...
A bruising Sicilian coming-of-age tale where first love turns sour, sex becomes a weapon, and a teenager mistakes male attention for control. Melissa is a shy, frightened sixteen-year-old living with her shopkeeper mother Daria and chain-smoking grandmother Elvira, while her engineer father works on a distant oil platform. Elvira is the one adult who seems to understand her; Daria is physically present but emotionally somewhere else. Melissa has spent a year worshipping handsome, wealthy...
An exotic drama of Kings, Queens, Courtesans, Lovers, Lust, Desire, Sex, Love, Power, Kamasutra and 🔥🔥 Indira Varma 🔥🔥 Hats off to director Mira Nair for having pulled off this Epic Erotic Movie, Kamasutra: A Tale of Love (1996) and that too in India, one of the most sexually repressed, frustrated, hostile & hypocritical countries on the planet, as far as Sex is concerned. Apparently, in order to film in India, the production had to use a fake title "Tara and Maya", as indian authorities...
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...
Two rich young lovers share a house, a secret and, inconveniently, the same parents—welcome to the family wedding from hell. (es.wikipedia.org) Meme and Jeremías live in a wealthy Buenos Aires household where everyone performs “normal family” so vigorously that nobody notices the fuse burning upstairs. Their father Daniel is emotionally absent, while their formidable mother Lucía drinks, meddles and runs the home like a society hostess defending a besieged palace. Into this polished madhouse...
A blue-haired art student walks into Adèle’s life, and first love becomes a three-hour feast of desire, class friction and bruising heartbreak. Adèle is a shy Lille schoolgirl doing what everyone expects: reading novels, gossiping with friends and half-heartedly dating Thomas, a handsome boy who leaves her cold. Then she passes Emma in the street—a slightly older art student with cropped blue hair—and one exchanged glance knocks her carefully ordinary life sideways. Adèle follows that desire...
A breakup, a half-unpacked flat and one beautiful Chilean woman discovering that solitude can be considerably more stimulating than self-pity. Victoria has just moved into a Santiago apartment, surrounded by cardboard boxes, newspaper and the emotional debris of a relationship that has clearly ended badly. An unwelcome phone call leaves her irritated and restless; she lights a cigarette, lies back on the carpet and gradually turns her attention from the absent man to her own neglected body...
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...
