Fantasm

1976

English

4.5

♡ 11

Richard Franklin Director

Roxanne Brewer as Harriet

Clement von Franckenstein as High Priest

John Bluthal as Professor Jungenot A. Freud Al Ward

Al Ward as Teacher

Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short segments from his case studies of the most common female sexual fantasies.

Love Like Poison

2010

French

6.3

♡ 4

93%

parent child relationship

sexuality

woman director

Katell Quillévéré Director

Michel Galabru as Jean Falguères Lio

Lio as Jeanne Falguères

Thierry Neuvic as Paul Falguères

Stefano Cassetti as Père François

Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?

The Malibu Bikini Shop

1986

English

4.8

♡ 11

29%

David Wechter Director

Beverly Sanders as Berta Hilgard

Amanda Horan Kennedy as Ronnie

Bruce Greenwood as Todd

Gretchen Palmer as Woman

After inheriting a failing bikini shop, two recent grads decide to make a go of it. One, in the hopes of building it into a successful business, the other, in the hopes of getting to look at lots of women in (and out) of swimsuits. As they try more and more outrageous ways of drumming up business, their antics begin attracting some unwanted attention.

Subjects of Desire

2021

English

6.7

♡ 4

100%

Jennifer Holness Director

Carolyn West as Self

Ryann Richardson as Self

Cheryl Thompson as Self

Seraiah Nicole as Self

Subjects of Desire is a thought provoking film that examines the cultural shift in beauty standards towards embracing (or appropriating) Black aesthetics and features, deconstructing what we understand about race and the power behind beauty.

The Invisible Ones

2012

French

7.6

♡ 8

100%

women's sexual identity

Sébastien Lifshitz Director

Monique Isselé as Elle-même Pierrot

Pierrot as Lui-même Jacques

Jacques as Lui-même Pierre

Pierre as Lui-même

Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.

The Naked Ape

1973

English

5.2

anthropology

based on novel or book

Donald Driver Director

Victoria Principal as Cathy

Marvin Miller as Fat Man

Johnny Crawford as Lee

John Hillerman as Psychiatrist

Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

2000

French

6.7

♡ 6

75%

François Ozon Director

Ludivine Sagnier as Anna / Franz's ex-fiancée

Malik Zidi as Franz

Bernard Giraudeau as Léopold

Anna Levine as Véra / Léopold's ex-lover

In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.

Nude Area

2014

Dutch

5.1

♡ 11

43%

Urszula Antoniak Director

Mimi Jadoenathmisier as Body Double Fama

Jasmin Oulad Abdelaziz as Moroccan Girl #1

Soraya Assoud as Moroccan Girl #2

Youssra Bilal as Moroccan Girl #3

Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam, develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game of love, seduction and attraction.

The Laramie Project

2002

English

7.1

♡ 10

92%

Moisés Kaufman Director

Amy Madigan as Reggie Fluty

Clancy Brown as Rob Debree

Christina Ricci as Romaine Patterson

Bill Clinton as Self

"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.

Timecode

2000

English

6.0

♡ 11

69%

Mike Figgis Director

Leslie Mann as Cherine

Laurie Metcalf as Dava Adair - Take 1

Golden Brooks as Onyx Richardson

Salma Hayek as Rose

A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering divorce, while Rose's girlfriend secretly spies on her and attempts to sabotage the relationship. The four storylines in the film were each shot in one take and are shown simultaneously, each taking up a quarter of the screen.

2nd Date Sex

2019

English

5.5

♡ 24

50%

Rachel Hirons Director

Tom Bell as Adam

Michael Socha as Dan

Tom Palmer as James

Kae Alexander as Tali

Laura and Ryan are perfect for each other: they both love Meryl Streep, have been totally destroyed by previous relationships, and have no idea what they are supposed to do tonight. They also both know that they'll have to pretend to be completely different to how they've ever been previously, in the hope of getting it right this time. How bad can a second date really go and what is there to lose? Ryan and Laura are about to find out.

Sing a Song of Sex

1967

Japanese

6.5

♡ 8

46%

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Hideo Kanze as

Hôryû Nakamura as

Jûzô Itami as Ôtake

Hideko Yoshida as Sachiko Kaneda

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.

Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara

2017

Finnish

5.6

♡ 2

parent child relationship

Romance

sexuality

Hannaleena Hauru Director

Satu Järvi as Geisha-koulun osallistuja

Rosa Honkonen as Heidi

Ilja Rautsi as Sammalhirviö

Samuel Vauramo as Viljami

There's this hot ice-hockey guy called Lauri Mäntyvaara. Satu promises she'll do her best, so that her best friend Heidi will get him. You'd think that the picturesque Finnish Archipelago would be the perfect place to discover your first love (and get rid of your virginity), but it will not be easy, if a cynical protein-shake-slurping ice hockey team thinks the target of your desire should focus only on the European Championship, and the only places you can escape to are the pretentious summer wedding parties - or bitter divorce parties.

Coming Out

1989

German

7.0

♡ 6

Heiner Carow Director

Michael Gwisdek as Achim

Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss as Araber

Gudrun Ritter as Frau Möllemann / Serviererin

Dagmar Manzel as Tanja

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.

Eternal Summer

2006

Chinese

6.9

♡ 20

78%

Leste Chen Director

Kate Yeung as Hui-chia

Ray Chang as Kang Cheng-hsing / Jonathan

Hsiao-chuan Chang as Yu Shou-heng / Shane

Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.

Wild

2016

German

6.4

♡ 4

Nicolette Krebitz Director

Christine Voigt as Chefin Recyclinganlage

Saskia Rosendahl as Jenny - Ania's Sister

Pit Bukowski as Tom Cossa

Cossa as Wolf

An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.

Last Exit to Brooklyn

1989

English

6.8

♡ 6

65%

74%

Action

based on novel or book

Uli Edel Director

Alexis Arquette as Georgette

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Tralala

Bill Mondy as Uptown Doggie

Peter Dobson as Vinnie

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

Tove

2020

Finnish

6.8

♡ 1

93%

Zaida Bergroth Director

Sara Soulié as Coco

Kajsa Ernst as Signe 'Ham' Jansson

Alma Pöysti as Tove Jansson

Krista Kosonen as Vivica / Kurt's wife

Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.

The Renata Road

2022

English

4.8

♡ 1

Ed Greenberg Director

Ed Theakston as The Barman

Alexis Wilson-Fish as The Child

Sharon Sinclair as The Concierge

John Sharp as The Manager

Looking for peace, solitude and an escape from the outside world a mysterious stranger checks into a remote hotel. Reluctantly drawn into the lives and activities of the hotel's guests it soon becomes terrifyingly clear that all is not as calm and serene as the management would have him believe. A chance encounter with the hotel maid sets in motion a chain of events that will take the Stranger to the very edge of sanity, and threatens to destroy the lives of everyone present.