Erotica
Erotica often has negative connotations of sleaze and gratuitous nudity. Yet as these movies show, cinema can be sexy and titillating without being purely pornographic. From suggestive silent striptease to graphic pinnacles of the genre from directors such as Tinto Brass and Walerian Borowczyk, with films which made stars out of Christina Lindberg, Sylvia Kristel - and even Robin Asquith - these DVDs prove that erotica is an artform in its own right.
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- Blu-ray 32 titles
- Classic Movies 42 titles
- Contemporary Film 272 titles
- Horror 31 titles
- World Cinema 164 titles
Blu-ray 59 titles
Classic Movies 42 titles
How did directors show classic erotica on screen in the conservative, censor-bullied years of cinema? One way was to show sex as a sin. In The Joy of Sex Education, sex... More
Contemporary Film 272 titles
Unsurprisingly contemporary erotica films have managed to get away with more explicit representations of sexuality than what came before. The real sex shown in Shortbus... More
Horror 31 titles
The best films blending erotica and horror explore the link between the two very different genres. While detestable torture porn movies linger on the distress and humil... More
World Cinema 164 titles
It is undeniable that the world of erotica has been more thoroughly explored in world cinema than in British cinema. Although recent films like 9 Songs or Brilliantlove are... More
