La gabbia AKA The Trap (1985) - Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Synopsis:
'An international co-production with dialogue in both Italian and English, this erotic thriller from writer Lucio Fulci and director Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi stars Tony Musante as Michael Parker, a successful American businessman living in Italy with his girlfriend. When she leaves on vacation, Michael is soon involved in a torrid, passionate affair with Marie (Laura Antonelli), a woman with whom he once enjoyed a one-night stand. This time, however, Marie is not about to let Michael off the romantic hook so easily, exacting horrific revenge on her lover. Further complicating Michael's love life is Jacqueline, Marie's nubile preteen daughter, whose attraction for Michael pits mother and daughter against each other in an incestuous love triangle.'
- Karl Williams (Rovi)

Follie di notte AKA Crazy Nights (1978) - Joe D'Amato

Somewhat crazy semi-documentary by porn director Joe D'Amato is a strange series of Burlesque performances from around the globe. Actress and dancer Amanda Lear hosts these mostly musical numbers designed to get people naked on stage.

Nude per l'assassino AKA Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975) - Andrea Bianchi

 

 When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a Farouk-like dissolute. One suspect is Carlo, a playboy photographer who has a hot temper and refuses to share information with the police. He becomes the lover of Magda, another photographer at the agency, who's probably in danger. The murderer wears a black motorcycle outfit and helmet. Will anyone discover the murderer's identity before the entire agency dies?

Holocausto Porno AKA Porno Holocaust (1981) - Joe D’Amato

 

 A group of castaways wash ashore on a deserted island in this Italian sex/gore movie. They are unaware that a sex-crazed radioactive monster is also on the island. He attacks and rapes several of the women, who die horrible deaths because his sperm is radioactive. The survivors must find a way to either escape the island or kill the monster.

Camille 2000 [Extended Version] (1969) - Radley Metzger

 

 Quote: Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.

L'uomo che guarda AKA The Voyeur (1994) - Tinto Brass

 

 Synopsis At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover. Wile visiting his father he meets his dad's very sexy live-in nurse who takes care of much more than his broken leg. She tells Dodo of a beautiful young woman who has been having a sexual relationship with his father.

 

Le altre (1969) - Renzo Maietto

 

 The direction of the film is normally attributed to the producer Renzo Maietto, who is said to have hidden behind the stage name Alex Fallay: in reality the real director was the Iranian Alex Fallay who, by law at the time, could not sign an Italian film. Erna Schurer was already the star of the Salamanders, while Monica Stroebel was launched by Fernando di Leo's films. "Courageous, grotesque, exciting, funny." Nocturno

Moglie nuda e siciliana AKA Naked Sicilian wife (1978) - Andrea Bianchi

 

 Synopsis Erotic comedy classic 70’s where a Sicilian chaste and naive moving to Milan lost many of her inhibitions. The Milanese truck driver Nino Bertini, who has run out of water in the radiator at a farm in Sicily where he is on a wine shipment, is attacked by Rosalia Ciubardi who has mistaken him for her fiancé Antonio. Discovered in the barn by Pino and Alfio, the girl's brothers, Nino, under threat of a sawn-off shotgun, is forced to get married to make up for something that didn't happen and returns to Milan with his bride.

Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage AKA Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976) - Joe D'Amato

 

Emmanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.

Emmanuelle bianca e nera aka Passion Plantation (1976) - Mario Pinzauti

 

 Quote: In the pre-civil war American south, Emanuelle, a plantation owner's daughter, while outwardly a dainty southern belle, brutally abuses the slaves in her charge. When her fiance is bitten by a snake, he falls for Emanuelle's beautiful African-American maid who's kindness and skill saved his life. Insanely jealous, Emanuelle continues her sadistic behaviour towards her charges, and when her fiance announces he plans to wed the maid, Emanuelle "gives" her to her even more brutal hired men, and her fiance is powerless to stop them. Can Emanuelle learn an important lesson in love before it's too late for everyone?

Il Futuro è donna AKA The Future Is Woman (1984) - Marco Ferreri

 

Plot summary
This is the story of a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three protagonists is strange, at the very least. After Anna (Hanna Schygulla) and Gordon (Niels Arestrup) invite the expecting Malvina (Ornella Muti) to live with them, Anna becomes neurotically jealous and attempts suicide but is thwarted and in the end decides she really wants to be there for the baby when he/she comes into the world. Rather than trying to get rid of Malvina and the baby, both Gordon and Anna are in agreement on keeping it.

Decameron: Tales of Desire (1995) - Luca Damiano

A group of folks is celebrating at the dinner table, with each man recounting a peculiar sexual experience he has had. Set in Medieval times, Decameron: Tales of Desire tells the story of a castle full of nymphomaniacs.

Nana (1983) - Dan Wolman

 

 Synopsis: In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims. She bankrupts him, arranges the debauching of his wife, and seduces his son on his wedding day. What else can she accomplish before she leaves Paris airborne?

Melissa P. (2005) - Luca Guadagnino

 

 Melissa (Maria Valverde, see also La Flaqueza del bolchevique ) is an adolescent girl who lives with her mother and her grandmother (Geraldine Chaplin) in Sicily. The girl carries a closer relationship with her grandmother, a quite smoker woman, the only person in the world who understands Melissa. Melissa's father lives in other country. One day, Melissa and her friend go to a party at the house of some school friend. There, Melissa will have her first sexual experience with Daniele (Primo Reggiani), a boy from the school. The experience is far from being what Melissa always has imagined, because Daniele forces her to make out and later forgot her for several months. But now Melissa is in love with Daniele. When they're back to school, Melissa will try to call Daniele's attention, but he barely remembers her. Nevertheles, Daniele will seize the opportunity of taking advantage of Melissa's crush, convincing her of having sex every time he wants. However, Melissa finds out Daniele's real intentions, and she will take a sort of revenge against him, having heavier sexual experiences with him and other boys. In fact, she will start a diary, in which she'll write all her sexual experiences in the future. Melissa's mother is worried, trying to approach to her distant daughter, while the grandmother will be sent to an old's people home.

Maladonna (1984) - Bruno Gaburro

 

 Since Osvaldo is a wealthy landowner, his beautiful wife Maria is forced to live in the countryside. But some wild party with neighbors is certainly not enough to alleviate her dissatisfaction. She has long lover, Alessio, a depleted man and hardened player. At one of the parties in question, the banker Tesser intervenes, who has every intention of taking Osvaldo's vast property possession, as well as Claudia, an elegant woman whom Osvaldo has fortuitously met in the woods and rescued during a fall from a horse- in fact she is Alessio's wife. But the presence of Claudia at the villa is not occasional: it is Tesser who is in agreement with Alessio, so that in a gambling night Maria, an avid gambler, is played by them. Maria loses a large sum of money to Alessio and he makes her sign a paper for this debt. Alessio gives this paper to the banker Tesser against some money. Meanwhile Osvaldo and Claudia fall in love (and then meet in the inn of the nearby village). After a quarrel Alessio, since he obtained what most urged, wants to get rid of Maria, she holds a revolver: a blow starts, but she dies, while the lover flees. In the villa Osvaldo and Claudia are now free to live united.

Capriccio (1987) - Tinto Brass

 

 Quote: Tinto Brass somewhat reigns in the more comic and explicit aspects of his brand of erotica for this well-made tale of a couple in post-war Italy trying to recapture the magic of their wartime romances with other lovers. Fred (blues musician Andy J. Forest, who did a handful of Italian movies in the late eighties), an American soldier now working for UNESCO assessing the state of Roman art after the war, reconnects with a prostitute Rosa (Francesca Dellera) while former British nurse Jennifer (Nicola Warren) waits apparently in vain to meet up with Ciro (Luigi Laezza), a waiter/pimp who pursued her years before. Jennifer's part of the film is dominated by flashbacks and tormented narration as she professes her love for her absent Italian. Fred's part of the film has he and Rosa on the road with his attempts to relive their whore-client dalliances complicated by Rosa's wanting more from him. Brass' film is better made and better written than much of the similar Italian erotica of the late eighties and benefits from the period setting. While satisfying, it does feel as though Brass reigned himself in to make the film more mainstream but the added production value makes up for that.

La Donna lupo AKA The Man-Eater (1999) - Aurelio Grimaldi

 

 Quote: Reminiscent of Catherine Breillat similarly explicit Romance (1999), this erotic thriller is a portrait of a mysterious woman with a voracious sexual appetite. Guila (newcomer Loredana Cannata) picks up the young Valerio (Arturo Paglia) for a one-night stand. After a round of lovemaking and midnight skinny-dipping in the ocean, she gives him a false name and number. In spite of this, the utterly smitten Valerio tries to hunt down his dream girl. In the process, he learns of her multiple identities and multiple sexual exploits

Fermo posta Tinto Brass AKA P.O. Box Tinto Brass (1995) - Tinto Brass

 

 This film is a series of letters, photos and video cassettes which women often send in to certain newspapers. By visualizing their story-telling (the name given by the psychologists to their fantasies) the film portrays the confessions, the secret longings, the adventures, recollections, dreams, desires and fantasies of these women. It is an open secret that most women dream of forbidden affairs, secret lovers and hasty encounters but when it comes down to it they lack the courage to pursue their dreams.

Le notti erotiche dei morti viventi AKA Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980) - Joe D'Amato

 

 With a 20 year lease on an tropical island, horny John heads out with Fiona on a yacht skippered by horny Larry, to inspect the island for resort development. They meet Luna/Laura Gemser. John didn't expect zombies.

Lezioni private AKA Private Lessons (1975) - Vittorio De Sisti

Trama: Il diciottenne Alessandro, iscritto al conservatorio, è interessato più alla musica che al sesso. Ne insidieranno la virtù la vivace coetanea Emanuela, il di lei fratello gay Gabriele, una servetta di casa e perfino la nuova insegnante di piano.

A sexy piano teacher is the object of desire of one of the young boys in her class. One of his classmates finds out where she lives and hides outside her place, taking pictures of her undressing and writhing naked on her bed. He uses those photos to blackmail her into dressing up and acting like a hooker while teaching the class, and from there things get interesting.