The Best Erotica Drama Films.
A type of drama with an emphasis on eroticism and where a sexual relationship plays an important role in the plot. Often these frank films contain elements of graphic nudity, sexual intercourse, and fetishism, yet these acts rarely are portrayed gratuitously or for simple voyeuristic pleasure. Often, the attention is drawn to issues of pleasure, companionship, and emotional and physical necessity. Unlike exploitation or porn flicks, erotic dramas offer more elaborate dramatic structure, deeper psychological character motivations and display a higher artistic level; some of them have become acknowledged classics. Unfortunately, Hollywood's traditional reluctance in dealing with overtly sexual and erotic topics in a serious manner (studios prefer to link sex with violence, exemplified by the erotic thriller, or with humor in the teen sex comedy) have given this subgenre a predominantly international flavor since the mid-'60s. A few notable examples include Last Tango in Paris, In the Realm of the Senses, Betty Blue, Henry and June, Crash, The Lover, Lovers, The Hairdresser's Husband, Breaking the Waves, The Piano, Matador, and The Pillow Book. Domestically, the abandonment of the Hayes Code in the late ‘60s offered American filmmakers chances to maturely explore eroticism for the first time. Disappointingly, between Hollywood's squeamishness, the underground's ‘70s sexploitation movement and the ‘80s post-AIDS age of abstinence, little of interest was made. However, the rise of the American independents in the late-'80s and ‘90s finally produced filmmakers willing to address eroticism without shyness, leading to domestic starting points like Blue Velvet, sex, lies and videotape and Female Perversions.
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1.
Bad Timing (1980)
The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt... (123 mins.)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
2.
Exotica (1994)
The 'Exotica' is a nightclub on the outskirts of Toronto, where Eric, DJ and MC, watches nightly as his ex-girlfriend Christina performs... (103 mins.)
Director: Atom Egoyan
3.
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant... (104 mins.)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
4.
The Blue Angel (1930)
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer. (124 mins.)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
5.
Ekstase (1933)
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion... (82 mins.)
Director: Gustav Machatý
6.
Un chant d'amour (1950 Short Film)
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. (26 mins.)
Director: Jean Genet
7.
Juvenile Jungle (1956)
Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for. (86 mins.)
Director: Kô Nakahira
8.
Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956)
In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other. (95 mins.)
Director: R. Vadim
9.
Les liaisons dangereuses (1959)
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both... (106 mins.)
Director: Roger Vadim
11.
The Silence (1963)
"The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city... (96 mins.)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
12.
The Pornographers (1966)
Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to... (128 mins.)
Director: Shôhei Imamura
13.
Gate of Flesh (1964)
After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory... (90 mins.)
Director: Seijun Suzuki
14.
Belle de Jour (1967)
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. (101 mins.)
Director: Luis Bunuel
15.
Eros Plus Massacre (1969)
In the 20's, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka... (202 mins.)
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
16.
Women in Love (1969)
The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian's industrial Midlands in the 1920s... (131 mins.)
Director: Ken Russell
17.
Môjû (1969)
A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model. (86 mins.)
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
18.
The Conformist (1970)
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. (111 mins.)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
19.
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal (1971)
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan... (102 mins.)
Director: Joël Séria
20.
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide. (87 mins.)
Director: Harry Kümel
22.
Two English Girls (1971)
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown... (120 mins.)
Director: François Truffaut
23.
The Decameron (1971)
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples... (112 mins.)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
24.
Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori (1972)
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao), a conniving and crooked detective... (87 mins.)
Director: Shunya Ito
25.
Turks fruit (1973)
Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy... (108 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
26.
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex. (136 mins.)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
27.
The Night Porter (1974)
Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel... (118 mins.)
Director: Liliana Cavani
28.
Arabian Nights (1974)
In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of the Middle East, the main story... (130 mins.)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
29.
Emmanuelle (1974)
Emmanuelle is a beautiful young model and lives in Bangkok together with her husband Jean, who's several years older... (105 mins.)
Director: Just Jaeckin
30.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. (116 mins.)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
31.
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their... (109 mins.)
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
34.
Querelle (1982)
French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that... (108 mins.)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
35.
L'été meurtrier (1983)
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon... (133 mins.)
Director: Jean Becker
36.
De vierde man (1983)
A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom. (102 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
37.
Betty Blue (1986)
Zorg is a handyman working at in France, maintaining and looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life... (120 mins.)
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
38.
Blue Velvet (1986)
The gruesome discovery of a severed human ear he found in a field leads a young man on a dark and dangerous journey into a dark and sinister underworld that exists in his hometown. (120 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
39.
Matador (1986)
Ex-bullfighter who is getting turned on by killing, lady lawyer with same problem and young man driven insane by over-religious upbringing... (110 mins.)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
40.
Less Than Zero (1987)
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit. (98 mins.)
Director: Marek Kanievska
41.
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner... (118 mins.)
Director: Peter Greenaway
42.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. (171 mins.)
Director: Philip Kaufman
43.
A Short Film About Love (1988)
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars... (86 mins.)
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
44.
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France play high-stakes games of passion and betrayal. (119 mins.)
Director: Stephen Frears
45.
The Rainbow (1989)
A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England. (113 mins.)
Director: Ken Russell
46.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything. (100 mins.)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
47.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron. (124 mins.)
Director: Peter Greenaway
49.
Ju Dou (1990)
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with... (95 mins.)
Director: Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
50.
Le mari de la coiffeuse (1990)
Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets... (82 mins.)
Director: Patrice Leconte
51.
Henry & June (1990)
In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding... (136 mins.)
Director: Philip Kaufman
52.
Amantes (1991)
Set in '50s Spain, a young man (Sanz) leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée (Verdu) can get married... (103 mins.)
Director: Vicente Aranda
53.
Naked Lunch (1991)
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa. (115 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
55.
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
This movie is about how life used to be in Mexico. It is a love story between Pedro and Tita, and why... (105 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Arau
56.
Les nuits fauves (1992)
Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura does he come to realize his bisexuality... (126 mins.)
Director: Cyril Collard
57.
Bitter Moon (1992)
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman... (139 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
58.
The Lover (1992)
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other. (115 mins.)
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
59.
The Piano (1993)
A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation. (121 mins.)
Director: Jane Campion
60.
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin. (139 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
61.
The Last Seduction (1994)
A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme. (110 mins.)
Director: John Dahl
62.
God's Comedy (1995)
João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise)... (170 mins.)
Director: João César Monteiro
63.
All Things Fair (1995)
Malmö, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher... (130 mins.)
Director: Bo Widerberg
64.
Kids (1995)
An amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate. (91 mins.)
Director: Larry Clark
65.
Two Deaths (1995)
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country. (102 mins.)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
66.
The Pillow Book (1996)
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book"... (126 mins.)
Director: Peter Greenaway
67.
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another. (159 mins.)
Director: Lars Von Trier
68.
Crash (1996)
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife. (100 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
69.
A Summer Dress (1996 Short Film)
It's summer. Sébastien loves the singer Sheila. Lucia loves boys. And all Luc wants is to get a nice tan... (15 mins.)
Director: François Ozon
70.
Lolita (1997)
A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter. (137 mins.)
Director: Adrian Lyne
71.
Carne trémula (1997)
After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun... (103 mins.)
Director: Pedro Almodovar
72.
Under the Sun (1998)
Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend... (130 mins.)
Director: Colin Nutley
73.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him. (159 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
74.
Gojitmal (1999)
A conscious exploration of fantasy and flesh. The director talks about the novel upon which the film is based... (112 mins.)
Director: Sun-Woo Jang
75.
A Pornographic Affair (1999)
They recount their impressions to the Interviewer. They met through a magazine ad, She and He. They corresponded through the Internet... (80 mins.)
Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
76.
Moonlight Whispers (1999)
Two seemingly innocent school kids are obsessed in fetishistic s&m games. (100 mins.)
Director: Akihiko Shiota
77.
In the Mood for Love (2000)
A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extramarital activities. (98 mins.)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
78.
Quills (2000)
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor. (124 mins.)
Director: Philip Kaufman
79.
Pantaleón y las visitadoras (2000)
The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his... (137 mins.)
Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
80.
Bully (2001)
Based on a true story. Naive teenagers plot to murder one of their own, who has been too much of a bully to them. (115 mins.)
Director: Larry Clark
81.
The Piano Teacher (2001)
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher. (131 mins.)
Director: Michael Haneke
82.
Samsara (2001)
A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's... (145 mins.)
Director: Pan Nalin
83.
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life. (128 mins.)
Director: Julio Medem
84.
Irreversible (2002)
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. (97 mins.)
Director: Gaspar Noé
85.
Secretary (2002)
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one. (104 mins.)
Director: Steven Shainberg
86.
Unfaithful (2002)
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling. (124 mins.)
Director: Adrian Lyne
87.
Blissfully Yours (2002)
The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border. (125 mins.)
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
88.
The Dreamers (2003)
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots. (115 mins.)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
89.
Closer (2004)
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other. (104 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
90.
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91.
Head-On (2004)
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life... (121 mins.)
Director: Fatih Akin
92.
Vers le sud (2005)
Three female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti. (108 mins.)
Director: Laurent Cantet
93.
The Last Mistress (2007)
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy. (104 mins.)
Director: Catherine Breillat
94.
Downloading Nancy (2008)
The story follows the fate of the unhappy wife Nancy who orders the guy she meets over the Internet to kill her, but the two of them fall in love. (102 mins.)
Director: Johan Renck
95.
The Reader (2008)
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. (124 mins.)
Director: Stephen Daldry
96.
Enter the Void (2009)
An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal gone bad. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection. (161 mins.)
Director: Gaspar Noé
97.
The Housemaid (2010)
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to a dark consequences. (106 mins.)
Director: Sang-soo Im
99.
House of Tolerance (2011)
Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. The madam essentially owns the women: their expenses exceed earnings... (122 mins.)
Director: Bertrand Bonello
100.
Shame (2011)
Erotica (from the Greek ἔρως, eros "desire") is any artistic work that deals substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing subject matter. All forms of art may depict erotic content, including painting, sculpture, photography, drama, film, music or literature. Erotica has high-art aspirations, differentiating it from commercial pornography.[1]
Curiosa is erotica and pornography as discrete, collectible items, usually in published or printed form.
Distinction is often made between erotica and pornography (as well as the lesser known genre of sexual entertainment, ribaldry), although some viewers may not distinguish between them. Pornography's objective is the graphic depiction of sexually explicit scenes so as to arouse a quick, intense reaction.[2] Additionally, pornography is often described as exploitative or degrading.[2][3]
In New York City, Brandon's carefully cultivated private life -- which allows him to indulge his sexual addiction -- is disrupted when his sister arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay. (101 mins.)
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Curiosa is erotica and pornography as discrete, collectible items, usually in published or printed form.
Erotica and pornography
See also
- Erotic literature
- Erotic film
- History of erotic depictions
- Love
- Sex museum
- Shunga
- Feminist views on pornography#Pornography vs. erotica
References
- ^ "Pornography". Encarta. Archived from the original on October 31, 2009.
- ^ a b "Erotica Is Not Pornography". William J. Gehrke. The Tech. December 10, 1996.
- ^ "Don't confuse erotica with porn". Jug Suraiya. The Times of India. August 15, 2004.
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