A Short Film About Love (1988), Hyenas (1992), Dangerous Liaisons (1959), Paradise: Hope (2013), Like Water for Chocolate (1992), Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002), Eyes Wide Open (2009), Faithless (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Desire movies.
Storyline: Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Stirred by her resemblance to his late wife, he attempts to seduce her and tragedy ensues. In the aftermath, Viridiana tries to assuage her guilt by creating a haven for the destitute folk who live around her uncle's estate. But little good comes from these good intentions.
Plot Keywords: religion, morality, poverty, charity, hypocrisy, desire, sin ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John McTeague was a simple slow man who became a dentist after working at the Big Dipper Gold Mine. He is now being hunted in Death Valley by his ex-best friend Marcus and the law. His lot was cast the day that he meet his future wife Trina in his office. She was with Marcus and she bought a lottery ticket. Well Mac fell for her and Marcus stepped aside. When Mac and Trina married, she won the Lottery for $5000 and became obsessive about the money in gold. Marcus is steamed as he stepped aside and now she is rich so he has the law shut down Mac as he has no official schooling for his dentistry. Trina fearful that they will take her gold away sells everything and takes all Mac earns when he is working. She adds to her stash of gold as they both live as paupers. When Mac has no job and no money, he leaves and Trina moves. Driven to desperation at being poor and hungry he finds Trina and demands the gold.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, satire, capitalism, greed, moral decay, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, thriller, erotic, mystery, crime, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pair of neighboring Mexican couples have domestic lives that are far from blissful. Ana (Susana Zabaleta) and Carlos (Victor Huggo Martin) struggle with his jealous temperament and her need for more physicality. Meanwhile, Miguel (Jorge Salinas) and Andrea (Cecilia Suárez) have constant, heated arguments. When Ana's ex-boyfriend, Tomás (Demián Bichir), drops in on her and Carlos, and old flame Maria (Monica Dionne) visits Miguel and his wife, fractures are created and tensions come to a head.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, erotic, contemporary, emotional, relationships, complex ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During World War II an opportunistic Czech waiter (Ivan Barnev) climbs the ladder of success and becomes involved with an idealistic Nazi (Julia Jentsch).
Plot Keywords: comedy, history, war, drama, adaptation, satire, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A nurse (Regina Orozco) abandons her children and teams up with a seedy gigolo (Daniel Giménez Cacho) to bilk wealthy widows and spinsters.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, film noir, biography, romance, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis...
Plot Keywords: reincarnation, nature, seasons, growth, solitude, reflection, redemption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The family of "Big Daddy" Pollitt convenes at his and Big Momma's. Among the attendees is alcoholic son, Brick; an ex-football player, who spends his time drinking and avoiding the ministries of his libidinous wife, Maggie - 'the cat'. As this gathering isn't so much as a gathering but a farewell (Big Daddy is terminally ill) a lot of memories and revelations which had been hidden come to the surface of both father and son.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, marriage, romance, desire, inheritance, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the Fourteenth Century, during a civil war in Japan, a middle-aged woman and her daughter-in-law survive in a hut in a field of reed killing warriors and soldiers to trade their possessions for food. When their neighbor Hachi defects from the war and returns home, they learn that their son and husband Kichi died while stealing supplies from farmers. Soon Hachi seduces the young widow and she sneaks out of her hut every night to have sex with him. When the older woman finds the affair of her daughter-in-law, she pleads with Hachi to leave the young woman with her since she would not be able to kill the warriors without her help. However, Hachi ignores her request and continues to meet the young woman. When a samurai wearing a demon mask stumbles upon the older woman at her hut asking her to guide him out of the field, she lures him and he falls in the pit where she drops the bodies of her victims. She climbs down the hole to take his possessions and his mask, and she finds he is a ...
Plot Keywords: horror, drama, erotic, mystery, psychological thriller, historical, war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Blanche DuBois, a high school English teacher with an aristocratic background from Auriol, Mississippi, decides to move to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans after creditors take over the family property, Belle Reve. Blanche has also decided to take a break from teaching as she states the situation has frayed her nerves. Knowing nothing about Stanley or the Kowalskis' lives, Blanche is shocked to find that they live in a cramped and run down ground floor apartment - which she proceeds to beautify by putting shades over the open light bulbs to soften the lighting - and that Stanley is not the gentleman that she is used to in men. As such, Blanche and Stanley have an antagonistic relationship from the start. Blanche finds that Stanley's hyper-masculinity, which often displays itself in physical outbursts, is common, coarse and vulgar, being common which in turn is what attracted Stella to him. Beyond finding Blanche's delicate ...
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, psychological, family, conflict, desire, decadence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet), a successful insurance broker, employs a private investigator on suspicion that his wife, Hélène (Stéphane Audran), is cheating on him. After acquiring evidence of his wife's infidelity, Charles confronts and murders Hélène's lover, Victor Pégala (Maurice Ronet). When the police question the married couple about their connection to the murdered man, both Hélène and Charles continue their perilous dance of deception.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, romance, mystery, marriage, betrayal, french film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 5 nuns openi a convent in the Himalayas, where they encounter conflict and tension - not just with the nearby inhabitants, but also amongst themselves, as they attempt to surmount the difficulties inherent in trying to adjust to their new environment.
Plot Keywords: religion, himalayas, cultural clash, repression, desire, psychological drama, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...
Plot Keywords: surrealism, erotic, psychological, drama, romance, art film, french cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family's 17th-century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio's sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on his...
Plot Keywords: romance, lgbt, coming of age, italy, summer, youth, art film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, satire, dreamlike, absurd, social critique, french cinema ...
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