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On the Verge of a Fever (2004)
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On the Verge of a Fever (2004)
Original name: Le goût des jeunes filles
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Against the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat sheltered life with his protective mother, Fanfan experiences a bizarrely terrifying incident involving a Tonton-Macoute. As a result, he decides to hide out at his beautiful neighbor's house for the weekend. There, he is trapped between his fear of being caught and the fulfilling of his deepest fantasy. Based on the book "Le goût des jeunes filles" by famous Haitian novelist Dany Laferriere.
Plot: prostitute, dictator, dictatorship, love, sex, police, violence, female nudity, poverty, bare breasts, pimp, girl next door, coming of age, overprotective mother, sexual initiation, nudity, mother son relationship, nude, bathtub, bathroom, bathing, sleeping on a couch, sex on couch, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time: 70s
Place: haiti

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Cheech (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Six people, some more depressed than others, living through the worst day of their lives.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: prostitute, pimp, who done it, murder, dark humor, suicide, suicidal, nudity, female nudity, bare breasts, pharmacy, pharmacist ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: canada
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Electra (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Born with the beauty of the gods, Electra's lust for sexual gratification is exceeded only by her lust for vengeance. Enter a world of forbidden family love, betrayal and murder.
Style: independent film
Audience: adult
Plot: fate, pimp, clown, poker, phone sex, flashback, chess, female nudity, shoplifting, matricide, drug addiction, beach ...
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Floodhouse (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Two girls are sent to live in the Australian bush with their hippy father. As they gradually bond, a stranger arrives from a town called Paradise.
Plot: flood, coming of age, nature, countryside, bare breasts, female nudity, nudity, bathing, bathtub
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Heading South (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.
Style: serious, sincere, disturbing, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: sexual relations, lust, older woman younger man relationship, tourist, looking for love, unfulfillment, lifestyle, love and romance, rivalry, loneliness, resort, jealousy ...
Time: year 2005, 70s, 20th century
Place: haiti, caribbean, africa, boston
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Joy (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
Style: sensual, erotic, independent film
Plot: lesbian sex, girl, travel, love, female pubic hair, supermodel, nudity, bare breasts, female masturbation, orgy, older man younger woman sex, sex ...
Place: paris france
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Chinese Chocolate (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as the men in their lives reveal dark, unsettling secrets which ...
Style: independent film
Plot: lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian, foreigner, gay subtext, nudity, immigrant, lesbianism, female nudity, marriage, lesbian sex, sex ...
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Girlfriend Experience (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A man obsessed with prostitutes discovers that love is a lot more expensive than sex. An entertaining peek into the world of prostitution from the client's point of view.
Style: fake documentary, hot
Plot: erotica, prostitute, sexual promiscuity, oral sex, rough sex, woman on top, sex, female nudity, bare breasts, bondage, sexually transmitted disease, pimp ...
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Eros, the God of Love (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
Plot: coming of age, bare breasts, erotica, affair, love, sex, female pubic hair, flashback, incest, threesome, english class, woman ...
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Too Much Too Often! (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: When swaggering and conceited teddy boy Mike (played by fleshy-faced BUCK STARR) isn’t combing his wavy hair in a stance reminiscent of The Fonz, he’s latching onto each and every female who crosses his slimy path. The guy is bad news and has ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: sexploitation, nudity, prostitution, female nudity, exploitation, bare breasts, prostitute, sex, sadism, sadist, blackmail, homosexual ...
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Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the ...
Plot: prostitution, pimp, exploitation, women, girl, relationships, sex, physical abuse, brothel, masochism, streetwise, seduction ...
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The Life (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, rough, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, sex, interview, prostitution, women, bare breasts, sex talk, female nudity, nudity, couples, actor's life, aging ...
Time: 21st century
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Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
Plot: voice over narration, writers, female nudity, interview, sex, husband wife relationship, beach, love, police, train station, movie star, producer ...
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The Story of Sin (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
Style: erotic, disturbing, controversial, beautiful
Audience: teens
Plot: erotica, renaissance, crazy love, morality, coming of age, fetish, sex, rape, pregnant woman, casino, love letter, prostitution ...
Time: 1900s
Place: eastern europe
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This Beautiful City (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: prostitute, unhappy marriage, introspection, destructive relationship, family problems, infidelity, addiction, drug abuse, couple relations, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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Escort Girls (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It s Christmas Eve in London, 1974 - and seven lonely people are on the town, looking to grab that elusive slice of enjoyment. So who better to contact than an escort agency- providing high-class ladies and gentlemen for anyone willing to pay the ...
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: sex, prostitute, female nudity, secretary, male escort, loneliness, striptease, model, christmas eve, racism, escort, nudity ...
Time: 70s
Place: london
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Your Caresses (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
Plot: incest, sex with brother, prostitution, coming of age, love, sibling relationship, brother sister incest, brother sister sex, female nudity, bare breasts, father son estrangement, forbidden love ...
Place: ibiza, barcelona
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The Year of Awakening (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
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Plot: coming of age, older woman teenage boy sex, sexually dissatisfied wife, public nudity, teenage sex, sex scene, seductress, military, boxing, love, bare breasts, sexuality ...
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As Long as One Is Intoxicated (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: erotic, period piece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
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Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
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From Now On (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
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Plot: nudity, love, violence, politics, sex, anger, redemption, revolt
Place: portugal
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
Plot: sex with stepson, teenage sexuality, affair, stepmother, lgbt, prostitution, wedding, nudity, homosexual, aunt, gay, widower ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Angel Express (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
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Style: independent film
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Place: berlin germany, germany
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Suspicious River (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young married woman (Parker) sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.
Style: psychological, rough, disturbing, erotic, tense ...
Plot: sexual abuse, prostitute, infidelity, survival, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, family problems, danger, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, small town, strong sexual content ...
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Walser (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The world of the forest people, a tribe called Contehli, is interrupted by a railway administration clerk: Walser. He tries to penetrate their world and learn their incomprehensible language but all he brings is chaos and destruction.
Plot: female nudity, violence, bare breasts, language barrier, dead body, nudity, woods, invented language, body paint, painted face
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The Game Is Over (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
Style: erotic
Plot: sex with stepmother, sex, older woman younger man relationship, revenge, deception, unhappy marriage, bare breasts, sexually dissatisfied wife, nudity, female nudity, incest, sex with stepson ...
Time: year 1966
Place: france, paris france
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Diary of a Sinner (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The revealing story of the shocking exploits of those who fulfill the most bizarre fantasies.
Style: erotic, grindhouse
Plot: sexploitation, pimp, canuxploitation, nudity, sex, female nudity, male nudity, erotica, surrealism, rape, suicide, debauchery ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
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Place: paris france, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband's impotency, she searches for outside affection and seduction within brief, but often passionate encounters. During this web of ...
Plot: coitus, stepmother stepson relationship, sex, boy, stepmother, erotica, milf, cuckolded husband, sex with multiple partners, nudity, adopted son, gambling ...
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