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30 films 18+: love on the edge

Desire, secrets and choices that can’t be undone. Erotic thrillers, forbidden love and bold classics, each with one line on why it’s worth your evening.

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18+. These films contain explicit scenes and, in some cases, violence and manipulation. Years are of release.

Passion on the edge

Desire that turns dangerous.

1
A gallery employee and a mysterious broker begin an affair built on games of control.
2
A detective falls for the prime suspect in a murder case, a writer who is always one step ahead.
3
A married man’s brief affair turns into an obsession he can’t escape.
4
A Florida heatwave, a lawyer and a married woman who wants her husband gone.
5
A happily married woman meets a stranger on a windy New York street, and her life splits in two.
6
A Cuban coffee merchant sends for a mail-order bride. The woman who arrives is not the one in the photo.
7
A billionaire offers a couple in debt a million dollars for one night with the wife.
8
After his wife confesses a fantasy, a doctor drifts into a night of secret desires in New York.
9
A wife disappears on their anniversary, and a marriage is taken apart in front of the whole country.
10
A crime writer’s quiet summer in France is disrupted by her publisher’s provocative daughter.

Forbidden love

Love that crosses every line.

11
A young couple in 1950s suburbia dreams of escaping to Paris, and their marriage starts to crack.
12
In occupied Shanghai, a young actress seduces a collaborator for the resistance and loses herself in the role.
13
A con man plans to rob a Japanese heiress with the help of her new maid. The women have their own plan.
14
A respected politician loses his head over his own son’s fiancée.
15
Among the ruins of war, a badly burned man remembers a love that crossed every line.
16
One summer day and one girl’s lie change the lives of two lovers forever.
17
An 18th-century painter must secretly paint a young woman who refuses to pose.
18
1950s New York: a young shop assistant and an elegant older woman fall in love.
19
Tolstoy’s great love story staged like a theatre performance, with Keira Knightley.
20
A poet and doctor torn between his wife and his great love in the years of revolution.

Daring and bold

Films people whispered about.

21
A young woman just out of a clinic becomes secretary to a strict lawyer, and a strange game begins between them.
22
A literature student and a young billionaire with very particular tastes.
23
Four people in London fall in love, lie and betray each other with brutal honesty.
24
Paris, 1968: an American student and a French brother and sister lock themselves in a world of cinema and desire.
25
A respectable doctor’s wife secretly spends her afternoons in a Paris brothel.
26
A diplomat’s wife explores freedom and desire in Bangkok. The film that brought erotica to mainstream cinemas.
27
A famous London couturier and his muse, in a love that is a battle of wills.
28
A former tennis prodigy, her husband and her ex: a love triangle played out on the court.
29
A charming drug salesman and a free-spirited woman who doesn’t want anything serious.
30
A penniless poet and the star courtesan of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, 1899.

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