Cross-media picks for Tinto Brass fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
If Tinto Brass's films are your kind of cinema — period settings, comedy tangled with desire, and private lives disrupting polite conventions — these picks keep that company. You'll find brothels, bourgeois marriages under pressure, and women deciding to want something, across film, TV, books, and games. The mood ranges from sharp farce to slow-burning drama, with Maison close, Fingersmith, and Sweet Punishment among the closest neighbours in tone and setting.
Film
To Be Twenty
Two young women hitchhike to Rome in search of a commune in this irreverent comedy of freedom and desire.
Film
Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotic Cinema
Tinto Brass in his own words, recounting the stories behind each of his films.
Film
Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 2 - Quattro
Interconnected hotel vignettes of seduction and voyeurism, watched over CCTV by a curious desk clerk.
Film
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
A doctor's unconventional cure for impotence sets off a comedy of infidelity and bourgeois self-deception.
Film
Ubalda, All Naked and Warm
A medieval knight returns to find his wife's chastity belt the last line between faithfulness and comic anarchy.
Film
Craving Desire
A cousin slowly seduces a man and dismantles his comfortable bourgeois life in this drama of obsession.
Film
Maladonna
A wealthy, bored woman pursues erotic adventure and becomes entangled in a dangerous power exchange.
Film
The Secret
A contented door-to-door encyclopedia saleswoman begins to sense her twelve-year marriage is missing something.
Series
1994
Italy's 1994 political upheaval seen through characters whose private ambitions drive very public consequences.
Series
Maison close
Women trapped in a Parisian brothel in 1871 fight for autonomy, survival, and solidarity.
Series
Bangkok Blossom
Three women in 1892 Bangkok stand up for their rights and fight to liberate themselves.
Series
Ika-6 na Utos
A souvenir merchant and a pilot fall in love but struggle against family disapproval in this slow-burning romance.
Series
Fingersmith
A pickpocket posing as a maid is sent to swindle an heiress — but secrets multiply in this period mystery.
Series
Player
A woman betrayed by a fake husband finds herself pursued by the mafia in this drama of deception and survival.
Series
Baby
Two wealthy teenage girls in Rome are drawn into the city's underworld and begin leading dangerous double lives.
Series
Os Maias
A forbidden love and a marriage made against a father's wishes ripple across generations in this Portuguese drama.
Game
Tricolour Lovestory
A Japanese visual novel of colour, longing, and youthful freedom set in autumn 2005.
Game
Bientôt l'été
Two players pretend to be lovers separated by light-years, taking lonely walks along a simulated shore.
Game
Seduce Me the Otome
A wealthy heiress finds her grandfather has sent a string of marriage candidates to her door.
Game
No More Money - Season 1
A twenty-year-old forced to start over in a new city must find work and navigate real financial stakes.
Game
a new life.
A short bittersweet love story asks whether it's better to risk heartbreak than never love at all.
Game
Tender Loving Care
A suspense story that turns into an exploration of the player's own inner desires and psychology.
Game
Variable Barricade
An heiress receives a marriage proposal within five seconds of meeting each candidate her grandfather selected.
Game
Carpe Diem
A short bittersweet story in which Jung spends time with Ai, a girl who is almost everything he wishes for.
Book
In The Venetian's Bed
A Venetian carnival night brings together two people whose old wounds and raw attraction resurface.
Book
Iron cast
Two young illusionists use their abilities to con Boston's elite in an illegal 1919 gangster's nightclub.
Book
Welcome to Temptation
Small-town scandal and titillating politics collide when an outsider filmmaker upends everything in Temptation.
Book
Sweet Punishment
A headstrong 1930s London beauty whose reckless escapades scandalize society and captivate the press.
Book
Surrendering to the Italian's command
An emotionally closed Italian man rescues a stranger from an attack and finds his defences crumbling.
Book
Smoke in the Wind
A woman who swore off desire after a disastrous marriage finds her resolve tested by a documentary filmmaker.
Book
The Tuscan tycoon's pregnant housekeeper
A timid housekeeper in the south of France becomes a plaything for her bored, restless employer.
Start with Maison close, a French series set in an 1871 Parisian brothel focusing on women navigating desire and power, or Fingersmith, a Victorian mystery built around seduction and concealed identity.
Yes — Sweet Punishment is a 1930s romance about a reckless London aristocrat whose escapades scandalise society, while In the Venetian's Bed pairs old wounds and raw desire at a Venetian carnival.
Try Tender Loving Care, a suspense story that turns into an exploration of the player's own desires, or Bientôt l'été, a two-player game about simulated lovers taking lonely walks along a virtual shore.