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The Beguiled(1971)

R
| 1h 45min | Drama, Thriller, War
3.5/5 (with 182 votes)

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Melody Thomas Scott, ...
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Splendor in the Grass(1961)

NR
| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 107 votes)

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Directed by Elia Kazan - With Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Zohra Lampert, Gary Lockwood, William Inge, ...
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The Long, Hot Summer(1958)

1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

Directed by Martin Ritt - With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, ...
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Picnic(1956)

PG
| 1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.

Directed by Joshua Logan - With William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Rosalind Russell, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, ...
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Beauty(2011)

1h 41min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.

Directed by Oliver Hermanus - With Deon Lotz
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Porn to Be Free(2016)

1h 19min | Documentary, History
2.8/5 (with 37 votes)

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.

Directed by Carmine Amoroso - With Judith Malina, Riccardo Schicchi, Ilona Staller, Giuliana Gamba

WR: Mysteries of the Organism(1971)

1h 24min | Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 36 votes)

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

Directed by Dušan Makavejev - With Jackie Curtis, Zoran Radmilović, Milena Dravić, Ivica Vidović, Miodrag Andrić, Živka Matić, ...

One Way or Another(1976)

2h | Drama
3.8/5 (with 63 votes)

Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

Directed by Elio Petri - With Gian Maria Volonté, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Renato Salvatori, Ciccio Ingrassia, Michel Piccoli, ...

Drown(2015)

1h 33min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay.

Directed by Dean Francis - With Matt Levett, Harry Cook, JayR Tinaco, Maya Stange
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Consequences(2019)

1h 33min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.

Directed by Darko Štante - With Matej Zemljič

The Fiend(1972)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis - With Ann Todd, Tony Beckley, Patrick Magee

Against the Law(2017)

1h 24min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, TV Movie
3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.

Directed by Fergus O'Brien - With Charlie Creed-Miles, Mark Gatiss, Daniel Mays, David Robb, Richard Gadd, Paul Keating, ...
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Good News(1979)

1h 50min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.

Directed by Elio Petri - With Giancarlo Giannini, Ángela Molina, Paolo Bonacelli, Aurore Clément, Ombretta Colli, Ninetto Davoli, ...

Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer(2004)

10min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

In this, her first non acting effort, writer/director Jamie Donahue parodies the 1950's high school educational film.

With Spencer Daniels, Robert Gant

The One(2011)

NR
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

Hunky Daniel couldn’t have it better – great parents, a successful career as an investment banker, and the beautiful Jen as his fiancée. A seemingly perfect life… but there is one temptation that may derail his best laid plans for the straight-and-narrow: he has a thing for Tommy, a charming former college classmate who is now openly gay.

Directed by Caytha Jentis - With Jon Prescott, Natalya Rudakova, Margaret Anne Florence, Lauren Francesca, Kelly Coffield Park, Franchesca Ramsey, ...

Music(1972)

1h 44min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.

Directed by Yasuzō Masumura - With Noriko Kurosawa, Toshiyuki Hosokawa

Black Maid(1976)

1h 39min | Romance / Love, Comedy
1.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Prime example of the very silly humor / sexploitation genre coming out of Italy in the 70's. A black women (Carla Brait) begins work as a maid in an apartment complex filled with wacky characters. All the men are over-the-top horndog caricatures who beat each other senseless, chase around loose women and get slack-jawed when they see so much as a bared thigh from the "Black Maid". Silly slapstick humor from the building's doorman, a topless catfight, some role-playing , interracial sex, the amazing Femi Benussi .

Directed by Mario Bianchi - With Carla Brait, Femi Benussi, Gianni Dei, Magda Konopka, Carla Calò, Franco Latini, ...

BAB(2020)

1h 45min | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

In a dying 1950s town, a mysterious traveler propositions a young farmhand, Donnie, to help take down the town's tyrannical leader in exchange for the release of Donnie's mother from a primitive mind-rehabilitation center.

Blood Rage(1979)

1h 18min | Crime, Thriller, Horror
1.8/5 (with 4 votes)

A sexually frustrated young man kills hookers.

Directed by Joseph Zito

Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy(2021)

1h 3min | Documentary, History
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43); intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.

The Goat(2014)

12min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Ukwaluka is an ancient circumcision ritual for young men still widely practiced by the Xhosa in South Africa. It marks the transition from youth to manhood. A boy who has just undergone circumcision sits in semi-darkness in a simple hut on a hill, far away from the village, as prescribed by the initiation ritual. He is covered from head to toe with a paint made from clay which makes him look as white as a goat. This should be a period of healing, but he is cold and in pain. His grandfather, who is supposed to induct him into his new life, has not yet appeared. According to the belief system of the Xhosa, Ukwaluka also purges the boy from homosexual desires, for which there is no place in the world of adults.

La caza de brujas(1967)

36min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

When, in a very strict Catholic school, a teacher enters a bathroom and surprises two students engaged in forbidden sexual practices, some of their classmates do not know whether to remain silent or rat out their own friends when questioned by school authorities.