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Directed by James GrayOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
RomanceThemes Films about immigration,
Films about sexuality,
La précarité,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Joaquin Phoenix,
Marion Cotillard,
Jeremy Lee Renner,
Dagmara Domińczyk,
Elena Solovei,
Angela SarafyanRating65%




In 1921, Polish Catholic sisters Ewa (Marion Cotillard) and Magda (Angela Sarafyan) arrive at Ellis Island, New York City as immigrants looking for a better life after escaping their ravaged home in post–Great War Poland. Magda is quarantined because of her lung disease. Ewa is almost deported, but Bruno (Joaquin Phoenix) notices her and her fluency in English, bribes an officer to let her go, and takes her to his house. Knowing Ewa has to make money to get Magda released, Bruno lets her dance at the Bandits' Roost theater and prostitutes her. Bruno also becomes interested in her romantically.
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Directed by James GrayOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films about sexuality,
Films about suicide,
Erotic films,
Gangster filmsActors Joaquin Phoenix,
Mark Wahlberg,
Eva Mendes,
Robert Duvall,
Alex Veadov,
Danny HochRating67%




In 1988 in Brooklyn, New York, Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is the manager of the successful El Caribe nightclub in Brighton Beach that is frequented by Russian black market gangster and drug lord Vadim Nezhinski (Alex Veadov), and owned by Marat Buzhayev, Vadim's uncle and Bobby's boss.
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Directed by Nicolas Winding RefnOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
HorrorThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Erotic thriller films,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Elle Fanning,
Alessandro Nivola,
Karl Glusman,
Keanu Reeves,
Christina Hendricks,
Abbey Lee KershawRating61%




Jesse, an aspiring model, moves to Los Angeles, where her vitality and youth are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means to get what she has.
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Directed by Oliver StoneOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
CrimeThemes Films about families,
Films about sexualityActors Sean Penn,
Nick Nolte,
Jennifer Lopez,
Joaquin Phoenix,
Powers Boothe,
Billy Bob ThorntonRating66%




A drifter named Bobby (Sean Penn) is on his way to pay off a large debt of $13,000 to a gangster in California when his car breaks down, forcing him to drive to the nearest town, Superior, Arizona. He takes the money with him but leaves his gun in the trunk of his car. While waiting for his car to be fixed by the town mechanic, Darrell (Billy Bob Thornton), he wanders around town where he meets Grace McKenna (Jennifer Lopez). Not realizing she is married, he hits on her and helps her carry some drapes to her car. She offers to take him back to her house where he can have a shower.
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Directed by Philip KaufmanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Historical,
Romance,
Erotic thrillerThemes Films about writers,
Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
Erotic films,
BDSM in films,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Films about psychiatry,
Films based on plays,
Erotic thriller films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Geoffrey Rush,
Kate Winslet,
Joaquin Phoenix,
Michael Caine,
Billie Whitelaw,
Stephen MarcusRating71%




Quills begins during the Reign of Terror, with the incarcerated Marquis de Sade penning a story about the libidinous Mademoiselle Renard, an aristocrat who meets the preeminent sadist in her executioner.
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Directed by Samuel FullerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller films,
Gangster filmsActors Cliff Robertson,
Beatrice Kay,
Dolores Dorn,
Richard Rust,
Robert Emhardt,
Larry GatesRating72%




Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate. Ever since his adolescence, Tolly's (Cliff Robertson) goal has been to avenge his father. Tolly has even become a criminal and gotten himself sent to prison so that he could get close to one of the perpetrators. Tolly becomes as vindictive and sadistic as the men he is after. He rejects the two relationships that could redeem him, his mother-figure (Beatrice Kay) and his moll (Dolores Dorn) in favor of cold, hard vengeance.
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Directed by François TruffautOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Piano,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Charles Aznavour,
Marie Dubois,
Nicole Berger,
Michèle Mercier,
Albert Rémy,
Jean-Jacques AslanianRating73%




A washed-up classical pianist, Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), bottoms out after his wife's suicide — stroking the keys in a Parisian dive bar. The waitress, Lena (Marie Dubois), is falling in love with Charlie, who it turns out is not who he says he is. When his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, Charlie inadvertently gets dragged into the chaos and is forced to rejoin the family he once fled.
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Directed by Gilles Grangier,
Jacques DerayOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Jean Gabin,
Danielle Darrieux,
Nadja Tiller,
Paul Frankeur,
Hazel Scott,
Robert BerriRating65%




Georges Vallois (Gabin), a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction.
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Directed by Jez ButterworthOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
BDSM in films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Nicole Kidman,
Ben Chaplin,
Vincent Cassel,
Mathieu Kassovitz,
Stephen Mangan,
Sally PhillipsRating59%




John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin), a lonely St Albans bank clerk, orders a mail-order bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman) from Russia on the Internet. John is uncomfortable and shy, but Nadia is sexually bold. Though Nadia cannot speak English and John cannot speak Russian, they soon bond. Later on, a man she introduces as her cousin Yuri (Mathieu Kassovitz) and his friend Alexei (Vincent Cassel) turn up to celebrate her birthday. Alexei soon shows that he has a temper. After a violent altercation, Alexei holds Nadia hostage and demands a ransom from John. John has grown to care for Nadia and is forced to steal from the bank where he has worked for ten years. After the ransom is paid, he realises that he has been the victim of an elaborate con. Nadia, Yuri, and Alexei are criminals, and Alexei is actually Nadia's boyfriend.
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Directed by Marc RoccoOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Sean Astin,
Lara Flynn Boyle,
Peter Dobson,
Balthazar Getty,
Ricki Lake,
James LeGrosRating64%




Fleeing abusive families, a group of teenage runaways form a protective family on their own, with King as their leader. King is a man in his early twenties who has been living on the street for over six years. In and out of jail, he spends most of his nights with Little J and Greg. Having spent two months in jail for being falsely accused of murder, he feels that the group fell apart in his absence. His friend Brenda, a lot of the time bullied by Little J because of her weight, introduces him to Heather, a 17-year-old girl from Chicago. He soon takes her under his protection and includes her in his revenge on Tommy, the man responsible for the death of his former girlfriend Devon.