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Maison close (2010)
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Maison close (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client, and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care of her girls and resist pressure from a suburban thug who is charging her money.
Style: erotic, realistic, tense, psychological, captivating, sensual, sexy, serious, stylized, sexual
Plot: brothel, sexual relations, prostitute, workplace, lifestyle, power relations, society, women, woman, slice of life, nordic, lesbian, female nudity, lesbianism, lesbian interest, workplace situations, nudity, strong sexual content, strong female presence, nude, dimension, female full frontal nudity, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: paris france, france
Keyword: french

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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Style: sexy, manga, explicit, realistic, serious ...
Plot: writers, female nudity, erotica, art, prostitution, literary, exodus, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, womanizer ...
Time: 1930s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
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Style: sexual, erotic, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: adult
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Gigola (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: sexy, controversial, stylized, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: lesbian, prostitute, murder, lifestyle, couples, destructive relationship, sexual relations, nightlife, gangster, lgbt, gays and lesbians, prostitution ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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House of Tolerance (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
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Audience: adult
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 52 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century
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The Paradise (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style: captivating, costume drama, stylized, realistic, period piece ...
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1900s, 1870s, 20th century ...
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Moonlighters (2010)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A jealous classmate exposes the fact that Olympe has 2 gay parents. Feeling ostracized and humiliated, Olympe lashes out at her closeted mother. Life unravels so that the truth can set them free.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, sexual ...
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Place: paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Style: erotic, serious, psychological, realistic, sexy ...
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The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 274 min.
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Style: historical drama, costume drama, serious, captivating, realistic ...
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
Place: england, britain, london, europe
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The Final Girl (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three Parisian women discover that their lives are delicately interconnected to a mysterious fourth woman, who remains tantalizingly out of reach.
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Beverly Hills Bordello (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Beverly Hills Bordello was a softcore series aired on premium cable. It was an anthology series that centered around the fictional Winston Spa located in Beverly Hills. The spa was a bordello run by Madam Veronica Winston. The only recurring ...
Style: erotic
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 60 min.
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Red Shoe Diaries (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Red Shoe Diaries is an erotic drama series that aired on the American cable television network Showtime from 1992 to 1997 and distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas. Most episodes were directed by either Zalman King, Rafael Eisenman or both.
Style: sexy, erotic, realistic, anthology, sexual ...
Plot: erotica, strong sexual content, sex, infidelity, looking for sex, looking for love, lifestyle, couples, sexual relations, passionate interest, forbidden love, diary ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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Van Vlees en Bloed (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 337 min.
TV show
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Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious
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Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, flanders, europe
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Hip Moves (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: obsession, pregnancy, prostitute, unfulfillment, hospital, nightshift, love, couples, society, lonely, gays and lesbians, dull life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Lip Service (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lip Service was a British television serial drama portraying the lives of a group of lesbians living in Glasgow, Scotland. Production on the show, which stars Laura Fraser, Ruta Gedmintas and Fiona Button, began in summer 2009 in Glasgow. The show ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sexy, semi serious, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
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Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Let's Talk About Sex (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Four women filmmakers examine sexuality in this anthology. Segment 1 is entitled "Let's Talk About Sex" and is the story of an aspiring actress whose day job is as a phone-sex operator. Tiring of listening to callers' fantasies, ...
Style: erotic, sexy, anthology, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lesbian sex, female masturbation, erotica, lesbianism, threesome, opposites attract, phone sex, nudity, thirtysomething life, couples, gender, love and romance ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
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