Belle de Jour (1967)

1967

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her […]

More Sexy Canterbury Tales (1972)

1972

The story of a group of monks, who are enjoying the forbidden pleasure of sexual adventures. In the first episode (Italian: Le due cognate), an old husband leaves his young wife for a business trip, and his wife uses his absence to invite a young sculptor to have sex. When her husband’s sister unexpectedly arrives, she too has sex with the sculptor. In the second episode (Italian: Fra’ Giovanni), a young priest falls in love […]

Intrigo d’amore (1988) aka Fatal Exposure 2

1988

Billy is a young photographer specializing in erotic services for wives intent on rekindling the derision in their husbands. Three friends ask to be photographed without the knowledge of each other: the first, Janet, is the wife of Bob, a policeman, the second, Lauren, wife of Frank, a banker, and the third, Evelin, is married to Ralph, a lawyer. During the photographic sessions Billy seduces the three women with vehemence, winning the initial resistance. Someone, […]

Amanti miei (1979)

1979

Barbara finds her fiancé Sergio in bed with a young hitch-hiker and discovers that he has been unfaithful with other women too. She takes her revenge by shying away from Sergio for a day and has three different sexual encounters including a hot threesome with Stephen and his Brazilian girlfriend.

The Cat in Heat (1972) aka La gatta in calore

1972

Giallo rarity with the delightful Eva Czemerys. Well worth a viewing for those who obsess over the giddy realms of Gialli. (Photography by everyone’s favorite filth hound Joe D’amato) ‘La Gatta In Calore’ is quite a dark, erotically charged Giallo about a beautiful, bored and neglected housewife’s decent into a drug debauched relationship with her abusive and hedonistic neighbour. (The scenes when Czemerys is tormented by her young demented beau and his sleazy, dope-fiend friends […]

Frivolous Lola (1998)

1998

The story takes place in northern Italy in the 1950’s. Lola and Masetto are about to get married. Masetto wants to keep Lola as a virgin until they are married. But Lola is impatient to remain in chastity until the wedding night. She wants to be sure that Masetto is a good lover, before she commits herself into marriage. She does everything to trick Masetto into breaking the moral tradition.

Malena (2000)

2000

On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who’s moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband, Nico. He promptly goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few years, […]