Unfaithful Wife

Unfaithful Wife (1986)

1986

The film concerns the attempts of Fidel to resume a normal life after the devastation wrought by his wife’s death. He returns to his old friend Crispin and wife Irene. A tentative effort with another woman fails, and Fidel finds himself in Irene’s arms. That same evening a young girl is brutally murdered. Fidel, unable to account for his whereabouts, is named the principal suspect, which later leads to his imprisonment. Crispin, meanwhile, learns of […]

Checkmate (1956) aka Le Coup du berger

1956

Claire (Virginie Vitry) is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Claude (Jean-Claude Brialy). As this 28-minute trifle opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Jean (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) at his apartment; after some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro indians used […]

Boiling Point (aka Intimate Illusions)

1978

This wild romp starts out as a pot-boiling thriller before turning into a full-fledged group sex spectacular. The first half of the film concerns hold-up man Jon Martin, who flees the scene of his crime — only to end up hiding out at the house of the same cop who’s chasing him! He makes the most of his time there, getting down and dirty with the cop’s delectable young wife. Soon enough, the cop comes […]

That’s Adultery!

1975
August 4, 2018

Renowned director Li Han-hsiang writes and directs the anthology film of four sexy, salacious and scandalous stories. There’s a general’s sedan-chair bearer who dallies with each of the soldier’s four wives until he suffers the fate of Samson, a Japanese pot maker who molds his wife’s lover, a courtesan who fools her drunken husband, and a scissors shop owner’s wife who has too many lovers to cut. It is four helpings of lascivious, lewd and […]

Club Butterfly

2001
August 4, 2018

Hyuk and Kyung have their share of marital problems, one of them being a stagnating sex life. Kyung again rejects Hyuk’s advances and Hyuk goes to bed feeling hurt and angry. The next morning, the couple discuss their problems and decide to take a romantic weekend trip to add fire to their marriage. But when Hyuk fails to perform, they are back to square one. The following Monday, Hyuk confesses his story to his colleague […]