Genre: Erotica

Adult fiction where desire drives the story. These pieces treat intimacy as character work, revealing who people are by what they want and what they risk to get it. For adult readers.

Heavy Metal (1981) film posterAnimated

Heavy Metal (1981)

Multiple animation studios contributed individual segments under different supervising animators. The film made approximately twenty million dollars on a nine million dollar budget.

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Barbarella (1968)

Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…

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The Most Seductive Films Ever MadeErotica

The Most Seductive Films Ever Made

Twenty films that understand how desire actually works on screen — from Body Heat's oppressive heat to Carol's charged glances across a department store. The most seductive films are not the most explicit. Desire lives in the space before. Tension…

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Crimson Hunger

A 237-year-old vampire who hasn't fed in nine days walks into a Paris bar and meets a hematologist who knows what she is, offers his blood, and asks to study her in return.

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Tango in a War Zone

In a basement milonga during Argentina's Dirty War, a resistance courier dances tango with an intelligence operative who carries a list of seven people scheduled to disappear.

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