Voglia di guardare (1986)

 Italian softcore porn. Christina is a wealthy heiress living a life of luxury and lovers. Late one night, she is kidnapped by a gang of all-female paramilitary terrorists hoping to hold her for ransom. After befriending one of her captors, she manages to escape with the unexpeceted aid of a mysterious smuggler, who in turn decides to hold her for ransom as well. At each stage of her adventure, Christina takes every opportunity to make love to whomever or whatever is available.

Director: Joe D’Amato
Writers: Joe D’Amato, Donatella Donati
Stars: Jenny Tamburi, Marino Mase, Sebastiano Somma, Laura Gemser, Lilli Carati, Aldina Martano

This 80’s softcore porn film which for about the first half seems like a Douglas Sirk melodrama about a neglected housewife (Jenny Tamburi) who has a love affair with a friend of her husband’s (albeit with a few fully-clothed sex scenes and a bizarre scene where her voyeuristic husband watches her “freshening” herself in the bidet). This movie, at least at first, is a far cry from the lurid sex and violence, we’ve come to expect from the infamous Joe D. Finally, though the movie takes several implausible turns when her lover takes her to a brothel and convinces her to service a number of (uniformly unattractive) strange men, and we finally get to see the impressive female cast (Tamburi, Lili Karati, and Laura Gemser) naked.

Alternative Title:
Skandalose Emanuelle – Die Lust am Zuschauen