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Le salamandre (1969)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population could only reach freedom by declaring violence towards their occupiers, Cavallone’s tale sees a white photographer (Erna Schurer) who seduces a black model (the lovely ebony Beryl Cunningham). A doctor then arrives on the scene – Anthony Vernon (Antonio Casale) who took his pseudonym from Jesus Franco stalwart Howard Vernon – and Schurer falls for his charms.
Style:
erotic drama, tense, controversial, intense, art house, experimental, avant garde, erotic, sensual, underground film ...
Plot:
interracial relations, racial tension, colonialism, racial violence, lesbian, forbidden love, identity crisis, romantic triangle, emancipation, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity, black lesbian, erotica, lgbt, betrayal, photographer, sex, female nudity, lesbian sex, lesbianism, execution, nudity, post colonialism, interracial romance ...
Place:
africa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out erotic, erotic drama, sensual and art house films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, erotica, lesbian, sex, obsession and lesbian sex mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Le salamandre: Open My Heart (2002), The Bitches (1973), Young Playthings (1972), My Rabbit is the Best (1982), La strana voglia (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Maria lives with her 18-year-old sister, Caterina in a small apartment, tutors her at home, lets her out only for dance classes. Yet Maria sees no reason to hide her work as a prostitute from her sister. Men come in and out of the apartment ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, erotic, tragic ending
Plot:
lesbian incest, sister sister incest, taboo sex, half sister half sister incest, teenage sex, lesbian sex, lesbian, forbidden love, prostitute, lesbianism, family relations, sister sister relationship ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, erotic drama, intense, art house
Plot:
sexual tension, lust, castle, gigolo, jealousy, erotica, lesbian sex, intimate, manipulation, luxury, sexploitation, obsession ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
They're the erotic toys of the mindless generation... trapped in a never-neverland of distorted sexual practices
Style:
erotic drama, sensual, controversial, erotic, art house ...
Plot:
sexual exploration, lesbian sex, erotica, threesome, sexually liberated, love triangle, taboo, moral ambiguity, clown, collector, voyeurism, manipulation ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire ...
Style:
erotic, controversial, erotic drama, intense, dark ...
Plot:
bdsm, male nudity, erotica, lesbian, sexploitation, sexual abuse, taboo, female protagonist, manipulation, teenage sexuality, emotional abuse, underage ...
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man who is a theater director and music composer picks up a young homeless woman off the street. But as soon as she starts living with him she becomes his object of desire. Soon his ex-girlfriend finds out about his new lover in his life and ...
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, sensual
Plot:
lesbian sex, seduction, sexual tension, obsessive love, love triangle, obsession, emotional manipulation, homeless woman, romantic rivalry, loneliness, sexual jealousy, manipulation ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, art house, sensual ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, theatrical troupe, romantic triangle, ambition, lesbian romance, passion, forbidden love, lesbian, jealousy, rivalry, desire for fame, eroticism ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A decadent countess (Françoise Prévost), middle-aged but still attractive, forces her young and timid daughter (Agostina Belli) to marry a rich butcher. But the couple’s sexual relation is troubled, because the girl has her fair share of ...
Style:
erotic, erotic drama
Plot:
lesbian sex, female nudity, lust, infidelity, sex, sensuality, sexual repression, adultery, seduction, sexual awakening, female sexuality, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1970
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Style:
romantic drama, period piece, tragic ending, sensual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, love triangle, seduction, femme fatale, passion, romantic rivalry, fascism, jealousy, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1920s, year 1975
Place:
italy
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Story:
Juliette and Paul move into their dreamhouse but they soon realize that the rent is too high for the two of them alone so that they decide to rent out their spare room to a young woman named Nathalie. She becomes Paul’s mistress but cannot get him ...
Style:
tense, erotic drama, psychological thriller, erotic, moody
Plot:
revenge, jealousy, infidelity, ex lover, betrayal, romantic triangle, manipulation, domestic drama, obsession, seduction, sexual tension, sexual jealousy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.
Style:
erotic, sensual, anthology, sexy, psychological
Plot:
nudity, prostitution, seduction, sexploitation, taboo, desire, lesbian sex, fetish, role playing, moral ambiguity, voyeur, underground ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ...
Style:
erotic, ambiguous ending, tense, noir
Plot:
voyeurism, hotel, suicide, female protagonist, loneliness, alienation, melancholy, sex, obsession, tragic romance, political unrest, sexual tension ...
Place:
west berlin west germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Cynthia, new lady of Chatterly, feels neglected by her husband. During his absences she tries to amuse herself with gardener Thomas, but always gets interrupted by new visitors. While she's busy her staff amuses itself. One of her guests is a ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, independent film, sexploitation film
Plot:
lesbian sex, lesbianism, erotica, older woman younger man relationship, fetish, exploitation, nudity, female nudity, seduction, lesbian, sex, infidelity ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A bored couple separately seduces young girls, when the husband becomes obsessed with and begins to pamper a young neighbor with disastrous results.
Style:
controversial, erotic drama, independent film, erotic, period piece ...
Plot:
infidelity, seduction, mature, sexual obsession, jealousy, manipulation, taboo, moral ambiguity, voyeurism, female exploitation, cautionary tale, sexual awakening ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
While on a leisurely ride in the country, a kinky dominatrix picks up a young male hitchhiker. At the first opportunity she handcuffs and blindfolds him, then takes him to a farmhouse where she ties up the young man and brings out three of her ...
Style:
erotic, transgressive, controversial, tension, erotic drama ...
Plot:
dominant woman, hitchhiker, fetishism, sexual content, taboo, sadomasochism, bdsm, humiliation, kidnapping, sexual abuse, abuse, captive ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
70%
65
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tom, an amoral Montreal drifter who supports himself by peddling dope and fleecing lonely woman, hooks up with Vicky, a straight-laced librarian, and initiates her, all too well, into his criminal ways.
Style:
psychedelic, independent film, controversial, erotic drama, experimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nudity, sexual content, counterculture, social commentary, summer of love, moral ambiguity, addiction, initiation, loneliness, sex work, urban, manipulation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
quebec, montreal
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment. Questions of her own racial and sexual identity come to a head as she observes the troubled marriage ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, sensual, sexual, grindhouse ...
Plot:
erotica, emmanuelle, voyeur, oral sex, public nudity, female masturbation, orgy, intercourse, sexploitation, nude model, sex, female pubic hair ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, east africa, kenya
Similarity:
70%
147
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.
Style:
intense, tense, realistic, dark, art house
Plot:
lgbt, cuckolded husband, rejection, unrequited love, obsession, toxic relationship, family drama, emotional abuse, humiliation, jealousy, suffering, character study ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In an effort to break away from her mundane life, Stephanie sets her sights on seducing her handsome teacher, and finds that he has some stimulating secrets. Submission was the name of the game and Mr. Carling demands total control. But, soon their ...
Style:
intense, suspense, dark, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
coming of age, trauma, discipline, moral ambiguity, manipulation, seduction, boarding school, forbidden romance, control, sexual relations, teen angst, deception ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him, Júlio starts an affair with his secretary.
Style:
erotic drama, sensual, tense, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
infidelity, divorce, adultery, seduction, marriage crisis, lesbian sex, lust, betrayal, sexually liberated, middle aged man, promiscuity, midlife crisis ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ben and Jeff are about to take their successful Internet startup company public and hit the jackpot for which they have been working so diligently. Ben is dating a beautiful yoga instructor named Caitlin, while Jeff is seeing Sara, an ambitious ...
Style:
erotic, hot, sexploitation film
Plot:
female nudity, lesbianism, erotica, lesbian sex, white man asian woman relationship, sex, bisexual, lgbtq, woman on top, sexploitation, lesbian, lgbtqi ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A stylish sensual sample of European erotica about an aspiring model in Paris who becomes a participant in a relationship with a lesbian.Her female lover becomes too possessive, the model takes a job with an homosexual painter.
Style:
sensual, romantic drama, erotic, atmospheric, period drama
Plot:
lesbian, possessiveness, erotica, sexual awakening, bisexuality, intimacy, seductive, sexual jealousy, homosexuality, seduction, love triangle, urban ...
Time:
70s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
student, moral ambiguity, escapades, problem, lawyer, criminal, gambling, criminal underworld, mature, identity crisis, law student, obsession ...
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69%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Michel and Paul earn money from passers-by by doing chalk drawings outside the Louvre. They also make the scene at the hot spots of Paris. Sand is a wealthy and luscious blonde artist who paints nude girls and houses at her loft. When Michel's ...
Style:
sensual, erotic drama, period piece, avant garde, experimental
Plot:
nudity, lesbian, artist, love triangle, painting, sexual tension, attraction, jealousy, party, intimate, decadence, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
69%
224
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
When Roxanna discovers her fascination with lesbian sexuality, she finds herself dragged deeper and deeper into it. This leaves her at odds with her boyfriend, with tragic results.
Style:
erotic drama, erotic, independent film
Plot:
sexual attraction, fondling, sexploitation, lesbian interest, female masturbation, sexual desire, erotica, lesbianism, nudity, lesbian, sex, female nudity ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dedicato al mare Egeo is a forgotten and bizarre co-production produced between Italy and Japan from 1979, starring the famous Italian porn star Illona Staller (Cicciolina) and directed by the famous Japanese pinter, printmaker and novelist Masuo ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, art house, avant garde, experimental ...
Plot:
children, sexploitation, infidelity, jealousy, adaptation, taboo, art student, erotica, character study, mediterranean, artist, lesbian sex ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, japan, greece
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, ...
Style:
romantic drama, art house, melancholic, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
teacher student relationship, forbidden love, moral ambiguity, guilt, reputation, infidelity, betrayal, character study, literary, shame, obsession, emotional manipulation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
69%
456
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, sexy, erotic drama, dark drama ...
Plot:
female nudity, absurd humor, rape, surrealism, sexual abuse, violent, alienation, hallucination, desperation, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, character study ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.
Style:
anthology, erotic, erotic drama, sensual, period drama
Plot:
seduction, literary, sexual content, sexual tension, revenge, nudity, jealousy, adultery, infidelity, marital strife, manipulation, forbidden love ...
Time:
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Similarity:
69%
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