Bleak Moments (1971) is Mike Leigh’s first feature film. The film presents a stark portrayal of human isolation, centring on the failure of personal communication and social interaction. In its uncompromising outlook, it is closer to Meantime (1983) and Naked (1993) than to Leigh’s more optimistic works.
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Peccati di gioventù (1975) Silvio Amadio, Gloria Guida, Dagmar Lassander, Fred Robsahm, Drama, Erotic
Angela is not happy about her daddy’s choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be.
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Common Law Cabin (1967) Russ Meyer, Jackie Moran, Babette Bardot, Adele Rein, Drama, Erotic
After stealing a fortune in unclaimed jewelry, ex-detective Barney Rickert arrives at a run-down dude ranch in Arizona to hide out. When the owner, Dewey Hoople, refuses to sell the land to Rickert, he proceeds to win over the female inhabitants by seducing them one by one which leads to one refusing his advances and a dangerous game played out in which Rickert ruthlessly sets out to get what he wants.
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Private School (1983) Noel Black, Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine, Comedy, Romance, Erotic
Christine (Phoebe Cates), a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim, who attends an academy for boys nearby. Christine’s arch rival Jordan also has her eye on Jim, and she is willing to do whatever she can to steal him away. Jim’s uber-slob buddy Bubba is going with Betsy, Christine’s cynical friend, though he would probably be unfaithful if any other woman were willing to get near him. Bubba and his pals sneak into the girls’ school dressed in drag in hopes of reaching the Promised Land (better known as the women’s shower room), while Christine and Jim run away together for the weekend, though their escapade isn’t as romantic as they had hoped.
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Monella (1998) Tinto Brass, Anna Ammirati, Patrick Mower, Max Parodi, Comedy, Romance, Erotic
The story takes place in northern Italy in the 1950’s. Lola and Masetto are about to get married. Masetto wants to keep Lola as a virgin until they are married. But Lola is impatient to remain in chastity until the wedding night. She wants to be sure that Masetto is a good lover, before she commits herself into marriage. She does everything to trick Masetto into breaking the moral tradition.
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Pitfall (1948) André De Toth, Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
John Forbes is a family man who’s tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has embezzled from a store insured by Forbes’ company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair. The only problem is that MacDonald, a private dick who freelances for the insurance company, has had his eyes on Mona first. The obsessed MacDonald turns the soon-to-be-released boyfriend against Forbes.
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When Love Is Lust / Quando l’amore è sensualità (1973) Vittorio De Sisti, Agostina Belli, Gianni Macchia, Ewa Aulin, Drama, Erotic
A young girl marries a handsome and successful but brutish local butcher at the behest of her contessa stepmother. The new wife turns out to be frigid on their wedding night, and the couple have a big fight. The wife goes out of town to stay with her older, married sister and gets involved with her sister’s jaded swinger friends. The husband consoles himself by picking up prostitutes and carrying on with a sexy, voluptuous neighbor right in his new mother-in-law’s villa. For some reason the mother-in-law considers this a turn-on and becomes sexually drawn to her loutish son-in-law.
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Bad Girls Dormitory (1986) Tim Kincaid, Carey Zuris, Teresa Farley, Natalie O’Connell, Action, Drama, Horror, Erotic
Inmates at a women’s prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.
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Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977) Norman Cohen, Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard, Comedy, Erotic
In a typical British holiday camp during summer the employees are bored to hell. In order to enjoy the summer and have some holiday while working they celebrate erotic parties. This is great pleasure for them until the arrival of a new manager who tries to change the bad habbits and turns their lives into hell.
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Moontrap (1989) Robert Dyke, Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, Leigh Lombardi, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
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Caitlin Plays Herself (2011) Caitlin Stainken, Joe Swanberg, Kurt Chiang, Megan Mercier, Drama
Caitlin, a young Chicago performance artist, struggles to create work that is both personal and political. A piece she performs about the BP oil spill sends her relationship into a tailspin because her onstage nudity bothers her boyfriend.
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Skin Deep / Senza buccia (1979) Marcello Aliprandi, Olga Karlatos, Juan Carlos Naya, Maurizio Interlandi, Comedy, Romance, Erotic
In a group of teenagers on holiday in the Aeolian islands and dealing with problems of sexual nature stumbles Adriana, thirty years old and experienced, which resolves the situation by releasing the taboos of shy Daniel.
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Telling Lies in America (1997) Guy Ferland, Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Maximilian Schell, Drama, Music
Karchy (Brad Renfro) is a boy in school who has moved from Hungary to America in the 1960’s. He is struggling in school and trying to adjust to America’s culture. He then hears about a radio DJ Billy Magic (Kevin Bacon) who holds a contest for a Student Hall of Fame every week. When Karchy finally wins after several weeks, he spends more time with Billy Magic…a man with money, girls, and glam. Karchy thinks that by spending time with Magic, he can become “cool”. He then starts telling lies, to make himself seem greater than he really is. But when his lies begin hurting the people he cares about, he realizes that it isn’t worth telling lies if it affects your friends. Afterwards, he learns to accept himself for the person he is, and gives up lying. And as for Billy Magic, it turns out that he pays his price for all the lies that he has told as well….
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The Libertine / La matriarca (1968) Pasquale Festa Campanile, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gigi Proietti, Comedy, Drama, Erotic
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to used the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
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Eaten Alive / Mangiati vivi! (1980) Umberto Lenzi, Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Adventure, Horror, Erotic
A young woman teams up with an adventurer to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea and they stumble upon a religious cult led by a deranged preacher whom has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.
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