Dita Von Teese is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, entrepreneur, singer, and actress. She is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker “Queen of Burlesque”. Written and co-produced by French songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sébastien Tellier, her album, inspired by von Teese’s erotic… Continue Reading
Fascination is a 1979 erotic horror film from controversial cult director Jean Rollin, considered one of his best. Set in 1916, it tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie)… Continue Reading
Trouble Every Day is a 2001 French erotic horror film directed by Claire Denis and written by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau. It stars Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle and Alex Descas. Two strangers share a strange and terrible bond in this stylish horror tale that juggles sex and graphic bloodshed.… Continue Reading
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera, published in 1984. Director Philip Kaufman and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière portray the effect on Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the 1968 Prague Spring of socialist liberalization preceding the invasion by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact that ushered in… Continue Reading
The Lickerish Quartet is a 1970 drama film produced, written and directed by Radley Metzler, in which a wealthy Italian matriarch finds an unlikely object of lust in the form of a mysterious blonde visitor. Metzger created R-rated movies with widescreen ambition and this film marked the… Continue Reading
Caligula is a 1979 Italian-American erotic historical drama film focusing on the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Caligula. It stars Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren and Peter O’Toole between others. It is the only feature film produced by the men’s magazine Penthouse. Producer Bob Guccione, the magazine’s founder, intended to… Continue Reading
Valerie a tide divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders in the english version) is a 1970 Czechoslovakian surrealist horror film directed by Jaromil Jireš and based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Vítězslav Nezval. The film portrays the heroine as living in a disorienting dream, cajoled by priests, vampires,… Continue Reading
Love is a 2015 French-Belgian 3D erotic romantic drama film written and directed by Gaspar Noé. The film marked Noe’s fourth directorial venture after a gap of five years. The film revolves around the lives of a cinema school student named Murphy, and his former girlfriend Electra, whom… Continue Reading
9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne. The film is based on the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day. It stars Kim Basinger as Elizabeth McGraw and Mickey Rourke as John Gray. McGraw is a New York City art gallery employee who has… Continue Reading
Really bizarre, drama, fantasy, drug film combo. A man spends time in his lonely mansion, picks up a loose chick and brings her home. The man’s wife turns up and the two femmes ignore him for some lesbian fun. Things… Continue Reading
Chuck Blazevic’s laptop and Alice Hansen’s voice work are equals, playing off each other to create haunted caverns of sound, melody and meditation. What separates You’ll Never Get to Heaven‘s hypnotic LP crackle from that of City Center or High… Continue Reading
The Hunger is a 1983 British erotic horror film directed by Tony Scott, and starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon. It is the story of a love triangle between a doctor who specialises in sleep and ageing research and a vampire couple. The film is a loose adaptation of the… Continue Reading
Cicciolina (Ilona Staller) stars in this 1979 film which is the first showcase of this future Italian porn star and politician. One man, Riccardino, obsesses over her and it begins to effect his relationship with his girlfriend. Cicciolina though helps… Continue Reading