Betty Blue
(1986)
Starring:
Beatrice Dalle, Jean-Hughes Anglade
Director:
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Sizzling hot, unpredictable French
thriller about disturbed woman's psychological disintegration.
Bitter Moon
(1993)
Starring:
Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director:
Roman Polanski
Puckish black comedy explores kinky sex
and devious betrayals as it retraces couple's dysfunctional
relationship.
Bound
(1996)
Starring:
Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon
Director:
Andy Wachowski
Genre-twister features lesbian couple
outwitting male mobsters. Stylish, bloody, funny, and gripping.
Carried Away
(1996)
Starring:
Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving
Director:
Bruno Barreto
Overlooked drama about middle-aged school
teacher's affair with student. Intelligent, well-written, heartfelt.
Caught
(1996)
Starring:
Edward James Olmos, Maria Conchita Alonso
Director:
Robert M. Young
Underrated, melancholy noir about quiet
drifter who overturns couple's complacent life.
Crimes of Passion
(1984)
Starring:
Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins
Director:
Ken Russell
Offbeat, kinky tale of woman who
moonlights as hooker and encounters the strange and deranged. This over-the-top satire of American sexual mores features a blisteringly sexy and
courageous performance from Kathleen Turner, and a turn from Anthony Perkins
that outdoes Psycho
For a Lost Soldier
(1993)
Elegiac film about the love between an adolescent boy and an older soldier
handles difficult subject matter with grace and tact.
The Lickerish Quartet
(1970)
Voyeurism, obsession, and the nature of sexual fantasies are only some of the
subjects considered in this fabulously entertaining and gorgeously shot film.
Ghost
(1990)
Starring:
Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore
Director:
Jerry Zucker
Murdered man's ghost returns to help
lover track his killer. Super-romantic.
Gilda
(1946)
Starring:
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford
Director:
Charles Vidor
Bombshell Rita Hayworth lights up the
screen in this steamy (for its time), noirish love triangle.
The Hairdresser's Husband
(1992)
Starring:
Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena
Director:
Patrice Leconte
Clever, somewhat odd French film is a
fascinating look at obsession and fetishism.
Henry and June
(1990)
Starring:
Fred Ward, Uma Thurman
Director:
Philip Kaufman
Lush portrait of bohemian writer Anais
Nin's 1930s-era Parisian sexual odyssey. Fine performances,
cinematography.
The Hunger
(1983)
Starring:
Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie
Director:
Tony Scott
Lushly filmed vampire tale, most notable
for notorious sex scenes between Sarandon and Deneuve.
Belle de Jour
(1968)
Director: Bunuel conjoins reality and
fantasy in his inimitable way in this story of a bourgeois housewife
entertaining fantasies of bondage and submission.
Paris France
(1994)
Unhinged, nigh-pornographic look at a frustrated writer of erotica, her
sexually confused husband, and the bisexual artist that enters their world.
Witty, intelligent, and ever-so-slightly shocking, this film is a true erotic
find.
Score
(1972)
Adventurous couple seduces sexual neophytes in this campy spectacle. Bisexual
chic done with just the right combination of wit and lubricity!
Summer Lovers
(1982)
Unbelievable? Yes. Corny? Absolutely. But the sheer exuberance of this
film about a menage-a-trois in the Greek Isles will win you over every time.
Therese and Isabelle
(1968)
The pinnacle of schoolgirl lesbian flicks. Erotic and uninsulting.
Bound
(1996)
Slick, suspenseful
tale of mobster's wife discovering that Sapphic seduction and spousal
swindling is the best form of revenge.
Like Water for Chocolate
(1992)
Starring:
Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardiuve
Director:
Alfonso Arau
Daughter gives selflessly to domineering
mother. Romantic, wistful, sexy, and sad.
The Lover
(1992)
Starring:
Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai
Director:
Jean-Jaques Annaud
Hot, languid sexuality permeates this
story of a French girl's "loss of innocence" in Indochina.
Elliptical look at young French girl involved with older Chinese man in
Vietnam. Thought-provoking in its examination of colonialism, racism, and
classism, with some of the most sensual love scenes on film.
May Wine
(1990)
Starring:
Guy Marchand, Joanna Cassidy
Director:
Carol Wiseman
Montenegro
(1981)
Starring:
Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson
Director:
Dusan Makavejev
Nice acting rounds out this risque,
tawdry film about a housewife looking for kicks.
The Mother and the Whore
(1973)
Starring:
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bernadette LaFont
Director:
Jean Eustache
Paperback Romance
(1997)
Starring:
Gia Carides, Anthony LaPaglia
Director:
Ben Lewin
Personal Best
(1982)
Starring:
Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn
Director:
Robert Towne
Explores lesbian themes, championship
pressures with insight and intelligence. Very physical, unself-conscious,
with some intensely erotic moments.
The Piano
(1993)
Starring:
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel
Director:
Jane Campion
Hauntingly beautiful in both theme and
appearance; odd, exceptional offering no serious cinephile should miss.
Queen Margo
(1994)
Starring:
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
Director:
Patrice Chereau
Steamy, complicated, lavish French epic
about Catholic and Protestant wars, against backdrop of one woman's
life.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
(1976)
Starring:
Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson
Director:
Lewis John Carlino
Sea of Love
(1989)
Starring:
Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin
Director:
Harold Becker
Detective in career crisis and personal
chaos falls for potential suspect in serial killings.
Something Wild
(1986)
Starring:
Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith
Director:
Jonathan Demme
Crazy! Careens from ribald comedy to
edgy drama; Griffith drives the circuit like a pro.
Stealing Heaven
(1988)
Starring:
Kim Thomson, Derek De Lint
Director:
Clive Donner
Swept Away
(1975)
Starring:
Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
Director:
Lina Wertmuller
Caste and conviction are tossed aside
when communist sailor and rich woman are shipwrecked.
Unbearable Lightness of Being
(1988)
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche
Director:
Philip Kaufman
Lyrical, historic melodrama about a
womanizing surgeon's multiple loves. Filled with alluring ambiance.
When Night is Falling
(1995)
Starring:
Pascale Bussieres, Rachael Crawford
Director:
Patricia Rozema
Moving and sensual tale of philosophy
teacher's coming out. Endearing and heartfelt.
Delta of Venus
(1996)
Starring:
Costas Mandylor, Eric Da Silva
Another Woman's Lipstick: Red Shoe Diaries 3
(1993)
Starring:
Nina Siemaszko, Richard Tyson
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
(1993)
Starring:
David Duchovny, Ally Sheedy
Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue
(1992)
Starring:
Nina Siemaszko, Wendy Hughes
Red Shoe Diaries2: Double Dare
(1992)
Starring:
Steven Bauer, Joan Severance
Red Shoe Diaries
(1992)
Starring:
David Duchovny, Brigitte Bako
Wild Orchid
(1990)
Starring:
Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset
Two Moon Junction
(1988)
Starring:
Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson
Bliss
(1997)
Starring:
Sheryl Lee, Craig Sheffer
Director:
Lance Young
Body Heat
(1981)
Starring:
William Hurt, Kathleen Turner
Director:
Lawrence Kasdan
Mandingo
(1975)
Starring:
James Mason, Susan George
Director:
Richard Fleischer
Lolita
(1997)
Starring:
Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain
Director:
Adrian Lyne
Indecent Proposal
(1993)
Starring:
Robert Redford, Demi Moore
Director:
Adrian Lyne
Fatal Attraction
(1987)
Starring:
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close
Director:
Adrian Lyne
9 1/2 Weeks
(1986)
Starring:
Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger
Director:
Adrian Lyne
Flashdance
(1983)
Starring:
Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri
Director:
Adrian Lyne
Moll Flanders
(1996)
Starring:
Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman
Director:
Pen Densham
Body of Evidence
(1993)
Starring:
Madonna, Willem Dafoe
Director:
Uli Edel
Lolita
(1962)
Starring:
James Mason, Sue Lyon
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Tendres Cousines
(1983)
Starring:
Thierry Tevini, Anja Shute
Director:
David Hamilton
Stealing Beauty
(1996)
Starring:
Liv Tyler, Sinead Cusack
Director:
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bilitis
(1977)
Starring:
Patti D'Arbanville, Bernard Giraudeau
Director:
David Hamilton
Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman
(1975)
Starring:
Sylvia Kristel, Umberto Orsini
Director:
Francis Giacobetti
Emmanuelle IV
(1984)
Starring:
Sylvia Kristel, Mia Nygren
Director:
Francis Giacobetti
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