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Erotica (from the Greek Eros—"desire") or "curiosa," are works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing descriptions. Erotica is a modern word used to describe the portrayal of the human anatomy...
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Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill is a 1980 suspense film written and directed by Brian de Palma. It stars Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. The film is marketed with the tagline "Brian de Palma,...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 23, 1980

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Runtime:

  • 105 min (63 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 6,500,000 (US$)

Screenplay by:

Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) is a neo-noir psychological thriller film that is considered a cult film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler. It was Kubrick's last...

Initial release date:

  • 1999

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Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 159 min (95.4 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 65,000,000 (US$)

Original Sin

Original Sin is a 2001 movie starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas. It is based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, and is a remake of the 1969 Truffaut film Mississippi Mermaid. Jolie was nominated for a Golden Raspberry...

Initial release date:

  • 2001

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Runtime:

  • 116 min (69.6 hs )

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Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholic and a prostitute from Las Vegas, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. Ben Sanderson is a late-stage alcoholic who has hit rock bottom. Trashing...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 27, 1995

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Runtime:

  • 112 min (67.2 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 4,000,000 (US$)

Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American feature film starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The movie is a comedic and dramatic appropriation of the 18th-century French epistolary novel Les Liaisons...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 5, 1999

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Runtime:

  • 97 min (58 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 11,000,000 (US$)

Produced by:

Showgirls

Showgirls is a 1995 film directed by Paul Verhoeven. It stars former teen actress Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon. The film centres on a drifter who ventures to Las Vegas and climbs the seedy hierarchy from stripper to showgirl....

Initial release date:

  • Sep 22, 1995

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Rating:

NC-17 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 131 min (78.6 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 45,000,000 (US$)

Screenplay by:

Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris (Italian: Ultimo Tango a Parigi) is a 1972 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci which portrays a recent American widower who takes up an anonymous sexual relationship with a young, soon-to-be-married Parisian woman. It...

Initial release date:

  • 1972

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Runtime:

  • 136 min (81.6 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 1,250,000 (US$)

Produced by:

¡Átame!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spanish: ¡Átame!) is a 1990 film by Pedro Almodóvar, a Spanish drama starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril. The film was somewhat controversial upon release, and it earned an NC-17 rating in the United States from the...

Initial release date:

  • Jan 22, 1990

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Runtime:

  • 111 min (66.6 hs )

Ken Park

Ken Park is a controversial 2002 drama film. The screenplay was written by Harmony Korine, who based it on Larry Clark's journals and stories. The film was directed by Larry Clark and Ed Lachman. The film revolves around the abusive home lives of...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 31, 2002

Runtime:

  • 96 min (58 hs )

Gojitmal

Lies (거짓말, Gojitmal) is a controversial 1999 South Korean film depicting a sadomasochistic sexual relationship between a 38-year-old sculptor and an 18-year-old high school student. It was the debut film for both of its stars; Lee Sang-hyun is a...

Initial release date:

  • 1999

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The Lover

The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated to 43 languages and was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. It was adapted to film in 1992 as The Lover....

Initial release date:

  • Jan 22, 1992

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Runtime:

  • 115 min (69 hs )

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Secretary

Secretary is a 2002 sadomasochism-themed romantic comedy-drama film directed by Steven Shainberg. It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway and James Spader as E. Edward Grey. The film is based on a short story from Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill....

Initial release date:

  • Jan 11, 2002

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Runtime:

  • 104 min (62.4 hs )

Produced by:

Caligula

Caligula is a 1979 film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Giancarlo Lui and Penthouse founder Bob Guccione. The film concerns the rise and fall of Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula. Caligula was...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 14, 1979

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 156 min (93.6 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 17,500,000 (US$)

Jude

Jude is a 1996 English film, based on the novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is written by Hossein Amini. The original music score is composed by Adrian Johnston. Playing the title character,...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 4, 1996

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Runtime:

  • 123 min (73.8 hs )

Produced by:

Gia

Gia is a 1998 American HBO television film about the life of model Gia Marie Carangi starring Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl, Faye Dunaway, and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney. The...

Initial release date:

  • Jan 31, 1998

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Runtime:

  • 126 min (75.6 hs )

Produced by:

Striptease

Striptease is a 1996 erotic comedy film starring Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, and Ving Rhames. The film was directed by Andrew Bergman. Based on the book Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen, it is about a stripper who becomes involved in both a child custody...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 28, 1996

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Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 115 min (69 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 50,000,000 (US$)

Spetters

Spetters, a Dutch film released in 1980 directed by Paul Verhoeven. Spetters led to many protests across the board about the caricatural manner in which Verhoeven portrayed gays, Christians, the police, and the press. Although Verhoeven made one...

Initial release date:

  • 1980

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Runtime:

  • 120 min (72 hs )

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Sex and Lucia

Sex and Lucia (Spanish: Lucía y el sexo; lit. Lucía and the Sex) is an award winning 2001 Spanish drama film, written and directed by Julio Medem, and starring Paz Vega and Tristán Ulloa. The film begins with Lucía (Paz Vega) at work as a waitress,...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 24, 2001

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Runtime:

  • 128 min (76.8 hs )

Exotica

Exotica is a 1994 Canadian film set primarily in and around the Exotica strip club in Toronto, Canada. It was written and directed by Atom Egoyan. Exotica presents a disparate group of characters whose lives are interconnected through the Exotica...

Initial release date:

  • 1994

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Runtime:

  • 103 min (61.8 hs )

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Scarlet Diva

Scarlet Diva is a 2000 Italian movie by actress and first time director and writer Asia Argento. The film won a Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival Award for Best New Director, which actually tied with two other films. It is a semi-autobiographical...

Initial release date:

  • 2000

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Runtime:

  • 91 min (55 hs )

The Opening of Misty Beethoven

The Opening of Misty Beethoven is an American hardcore pornography film released in 1976. Produced with a relatively high budget and filmed on elaborate locations in Italy and New York City with a musical score, it owes much to its fastidious...

Initial release date:

  • 1975

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Runtime:

  • 86 min (52 hs )

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Romance

Romance (Romance X) is a 1999 French movie written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, pornographic actor Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. The film features explicit copulation scenes, especially one...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 17, 1999

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Runtime:

  • 99 min (59 hs )

Screenplay by:

Fear

Fear is a 1996 thriller film directed by James Foley, starring Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, and William Petersen. The film also features Amy Brenneman and Alyssa Milano. Nicole (Witherspoon) is a fairly innocent teenager, but with a rebellious...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 12, 1996

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Runtime:

  • 97 min (58 hs )

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

American Gigolo

American Gigolo is a 1980 thriller film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. Schrader based the film on French director Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959). It is also (informally) considered the second installment in his "night workers" trilogy,...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 8, 1980

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 117 min (70.2 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 4,800,000 (US$)

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

White Palace

White Palace is a 1990 film starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader. It is a romantic drama about the unlikely relationship between a young middle class widower (Spader) who falls in love with a middle-aged working class waitress (Sarandon) in St....

Initial release date:

  • Oct 19, 1990

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 103 min (61.8 hs )

Young Adam

Young Adam is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by David Mackenzie. The screenplay is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alexander Trocchi. The film is set in Scotland in the early 1950s. Shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 26, 2003

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Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

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Baise Moi

Baise-moi (Fuck Me in English) is a French film co-directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, released in 2000. It is based on the novel by Despentes, first published in 1999. The film and the lead actress Coralie Trinh Thi, received...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 28, 2000

Runtime:

  • 77 min (46 hs )

Taking Lives

Taking Lives is a 2004 psychological thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. The film was marketed with the tagline "He would kill to be you." The original music score was composed by Philip Glass and the main title's theme was...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 16, 2004

Runtime:

  • 103 min (61.8 hs )

Belle de jour

Belle de jour is a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve as a woman who decides to spend her days as a prostitute while her husband is at work. The title is the French name of the daylily (literally: "daylight beauty"), a flower that blooms...

Initial release date:

  • 1967

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Runtime:

  • 101 min (60.6 hs )

The Image

The Image is a 1975 American film, re-released in an edited version in 1976. The film is also known by two other titles: The Punishment of Anne and The Mistress and the Slave and was directed by Radley Metzger. The film is based upon the classic...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 1976

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Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

Produced by:

Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon is a 1992 film starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote and directed by Roman Polanski. The film is known as Lunes de fiel in France. The script is inspired by a book with the same name, written by...

Initial release date:

  • 1993

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Runtime:

  • 138 min (82.8 hs )

The Night Porter

The Night Porter (Italian: Il Portiere di notte) is a controversial 1974 film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling. Dirk Bogarde plays Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer, and Charlotte...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 1, 1974

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Runtime:

  • 122 min (73.2 hs )

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher (French: La Pianiste) is a 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel. The film is based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in...

Initial release date:

  • 2001

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Runtime:

  • 130 min (78 hs )

Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal is a 1993 film drama directed by Adrian Lyne. It stars Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel and Oliver Platt. It is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Engelhard. Childhood sweethearts David (Woody...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 7, 1993

Directed by:

Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 118 min (70.8 hs )

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I Am Curious (Yellow)

I Am Curious (Yellow) (original Swedish title: Jag är nyfiken - gul) is a 1967 Swedish film directed by Vilgot Sjöman and starring Lena Nyman as a character named after her. It is a companion film to 1968's I Am Curious (Blue); the two were...

Initial release date:

  • 1967

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Runtime:

  • 121 min (72.6 hs )

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

Intimacy

Intimacy is a 2001 film directed by Patrice Chereau, starring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox. Intimacy is an international co-production among production companies in France, the U.K., Germany, and Spain featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 23, 2001

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Runtime:

  • 105 min (63 hs )

Screenplay by:

Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool is a 2003 French-English psychological thriller and mystery film, directed by François Ozon and starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. The plot focuses on a British crime novelist, Sarah Morton (Rampling) who travels to her...

Initial release date:

  • May 18, 2003

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 102 min (61.2 hs )

Produced by:

Lemora

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (also called Lemora: The Lady Dracula and The Legendary Curse of Lemora) is a 1975 American horror film, written and directed by Richard Blackburn. Blackburn later gained fame as the co-writer of the Paul...

Initial release date:

  • May 1975

Sex: The Annabel Chong Story

Sex: The Annabel Chong Story (1999) is a documentary, directed, filmed, and produced by Gough Lewis, and edited by co-creator Kelly Morris, which profiles porn star Annabel Chong (real name: Grace Quek). Quek, a sexology student at the University of...

Initial release date:

  • 1999

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Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby (1978) is an Academy Award-nominated historical fiction, dramatic film directed by Louis Malle. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt. The title is inspired by the Tony Jackson song, "Pretty Baby", which is used in the soundtrack....

Initial release date:

  • Apr 5, 1978

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Runtime:

  • 109 min (65.4 hs )

The Immoral Mr. Teas

The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) is the first commercially successful film of director Russ Meyer. Tagline: A Frenchy Comedy for Unashamed Adults! The name "Teas" is of course a homophone of the word tease, and one of the meanings of tease includes to...

Initial release date:

  • 1959

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Runtime:

  • 63 min (38 hs )

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf, also known by its French title Le Pacte des loups (literally "The Pact of the Wolves"), is a 2001 French movie directed by Christophe Gans, starring Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Émilie Dequenne and Mark...

Initial release date:

  • Jan 31, 2001

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Runtime:

  • 142 min (85.2 hs )

Flesh & Blood

Flesh & Blood (also known as The Rose and the Sword on some early VHS releases) (1985 film) directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film is set in 1501 in Europe, following a group of mercenaries as they loot, rape and kill. The script is partly based on...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 30, 1985

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Runtime:

  • 126 min (75.6 hs )

Produced by:

Cat People

Cat People is a 1982 erotic horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, and John Heard. The film co-stars Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley, Jr. and John Larroquette. Jerry Bruckheimer served as...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 2, 1982

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 118 min (70.8 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 18,000,000 (US$)

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is an episodic, stylized 1985 film based on the life and work of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, directed by Paul Schrader and written by Paul and his brother Leonard Schrader. The film features original music by...

Initial release date:

  • 1985

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Runtime:

  • 120 min (72 hs )

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Unfaithful

Unfaithful is a 2002 American erotic drama film starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez, directed by Adrian Lyne, and adapted by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. from the French film The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle) by...

Initial release date:

  • May 10, 2002

Directed by:

Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 124 min (74.4 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 50,000,000 (US$)

Concrete

Concrete (コンクリート ,Konkurīto) is a 2004 independently-produced Japanese film that recounts the story of the murder of Junko Furuta. The film deals as much with the social factors that produced Furuta's four assailants as it does with Furuta's...

Initial release date:

  • 2004

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In the Realm of the Senses

In the Realm of the Senses (Japanese: 愛のコリーダ, Ai no Korīda, lit. Bullfight (Spanish: Corrida) of Love; French: L'Empire des sens) is a 1976 Franco-Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of an...

Initial release date:

  • 1976

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Runtime:

  • 105 min (63 hs )

Produced by:

The Hunger

The Hunger is a 1983 English language horror film. It is the story of a bizarre love triangle between a doctor (Susan Sarandon) who specializes in sleep and aging research, and a stylish vampire couple (Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie). The film...

Initial release date:

  • 1983

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Runtime:

  • 100 min (60 hs )

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Castaway

Castaway is a 1986 film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, and directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was adapted from the 1984 book of the same name by Lucy Irvine, telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 20, 1986

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Runtime:

  • 117 min (70.2 hs )

Produced by:

Tacones lejanos

High Heels (Spanish: Tacones lejanos, meaning "Distant Heels") is a 1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Marisa Paredes, Victoria Abril and Miguel Bosé. The plot follows the fractured relationship between a self...

Initial release date:

  • Oct 23, 1991

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Runtime:

  • 112 min (67.2 hs )

Screenplay by:

Shivers

Shivers (filmed as Orgy of the Blood Parasites; alternate titles: The Parasite Murders, They Came from Within, and Frissons for the French Canadian distribution) is a 1975 Canadian horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. Cronenberg won...

Initial release date:

  • 1975

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Runtime:

  • 87 min (52 hs )

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Les liaisons dangereuses

Les liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a 1959 French language film, based on the 1782 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. It was directed by Roger Vadim, and stars Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Phillipe, and Annette Vadim. It was a French/Italian...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 9, 1959

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Runtime:

  • 105 min (63 hs )

Screenplay by:

Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now is an Anglo-Italian horror film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and released in 1973. The film stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a husband and wife whose lives grow complicated after meeting two elderly sisters in Venice, one of...

Initial release date:

  • 1973

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Runtime:

  • 110 min (66 hs )

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9 Songs

9 Songs is a 2004 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The title refers to the nine songs played by eight different rock bands that complement the story of the film. The film was controversial on its original release due to its sexual...

Initial release date:

  • May 16, 2004

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Runtime:

  • 71 min (43 hs )

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W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Serbo-Croatian: W.R. - Misterije organizma, W.R. - Мистерије организма) is a 1971 film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev that explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as...

Initial release date:

  • 1971

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Runtime:

  • 85 min (51 hs )

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Yellow Hair 2

Yellow Hair 2 (Hangul: 노랑머리 2; RR: Norang Meori 2) is a 2001 South Korean film, written, produced, and directed by Kim Yu-min. It is the sequel to Kim's 1999 film Yellow Hair, though it does not continue the same story or feature any of the same...

Initial release date:

  • Jul 21, 2001

Runtime:

  • 109 min (65.4 hs )

Pink Velvet

Pink Velvet (The Innocence of Lesbian Love) is a lesbian porn movie by British director Viv Thomas. It is about Jo, the main character, moving into a house in Budapest, Hungary. This was followed by two sequels: Pink Velvet 2 and Pink Velvet 3. All...

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Embrace of the Vampire

Embrace of the Vampire is a vampire film famous mostly for Alyssa Milano's very revealing scenes. It is a horror film that was rated R by the MPAA for strong sexuality, and for violence and language. A more graphic version (which is 1 minute longer...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 3, 1995

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Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

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The Night and the Moment

The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes...

Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )
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