1975·88 min·Released

Waves of Lust

“Lured...into a voyage of Desire...and danger!”

Thriller
Drama

A young couple become embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.

4.9(27 votes)

Popularity1

Videos

$Wave of Lust - Clip #1 (Ita Sub Eng) by Film&Clips$

CinemaView Experience

62/100

Watch

CinemaView Score

Best Format

STANDARD

Worth Premium Ticket

✗Skip Premium

Confidence

72%

Why we recommend it

✓Worth watching — solid reviews and rating
✗TMDB rating 4.9/10 from 27 votes
✗Premium formats add little value for this title.
·Limited technical metadata reduces recommendation confidence.

Cast & Crew

Al Cliver

Irem

Silvia Dionisio

Barbara

John Steiner

Giorgio

Elizabeth Turner

Silvia

Saverio Deodato

Watch Options Nearby

These theatres support recommended formats for this movie. This does not mean the movie is currently showing.

Find theatres near you

Enter your city or let us detect your location

MoHA

Written on 3/28/2015

wo carefree youngsters, Irem and Barbara, are invited for a weekend cruise on a yacht owned by Giorgio, a ruthless and cynical industralist, whom is married to Silvia, a disturbed woman whom allows herself to be physically and mental abused by this devil-may-care man. Silvia then forms a love triangle with Irem and Barbara whom conspire against Giorgio, whose misogyny and paranoia pushes him over the edge into murder. This movie is kind of a cross between an Italian giallo, with it's murder plot and jaded European bourgeois characters, and an Italian "terror" film like "Late Night Trains", "Terror Express" (which also featured actress Dionisio) or "House by the Edge of the Park" (also directed by Ruggiero Deodato). It's not quite as nasty as your typical "terror" film, and the emphasis much more on swinging 70's sex than rape/revenge or other violence. It also somewhat resembles the later Australian film "Dead Calm", which may not be a coincidence as the the popular Charles Williams novel that that movie was based on was actually written back in the 1950's and was being kicked around at about that time in Europe and America as a possible Orson Welles project. But while "Dead Calm" was about sexual tension, this movie is all about sex. The beautiful Silvia Dionisio (who Deodato later married, and I don't blame him a bit) spends more time with her clothes off than on, as does the unknown actress who plays the industrialist's long suffering wife. There is straight sex, lesbian sex, three-way sex, attempted rape, sexual humiliation--the whole nine yards. The half-baked murder plot doesn't occur until the end, and seems pretty perfunctory. But it is good to have a nasty burst of violence to kind of cleanse your palate after sitting through what is almost too much gratuitous sex. Of course, this film not nearly as nasty or harrowing as Deodato's later "Cannibal Holocaust" or "House by the Edge of the Park", but it's probably more fun to watch. And it does show the emergence of some promising exploitation talent in its leading lady and especially in its director.

Media

$Wave of Lust - Clip #1 (Ita Sub Eng) by Film&Clips$

Wave of Lust - Clip #1 (Ita Sub Eng) by Film&Clips

No editorial yet

Guides and articles for this movie will appear here after content sync.

Release Timeline

This title has already released. Showing historical dates and streaming availability.

Theatrical · confirmed
Theatrical
Waves of Lust
August 4, 1975

No awards linked

No Wikidata award or festival records were found for this title yet.

7.5

In Cold Blood

15 December 1967

4.3

Todos los días son tuyos

8 October 2007

7.3

Cochin Express

28 October 1967

5.3

Kill Theory

7 October 2009

5.3

Swinging Safari

18 January 2018

0.0

Trio

23 November 2024

6.8

Mystery Street

23 June 1950

5.7

Diary of a Nymphomaniac

17 October 2008

Waves of Lust

Videos

CinemaView Experience

Why we recommend it

Cast & Crew

Watch Options Nearby

Social

Media

Release Timeline

Related Movies

Watch Options Nearby

Related Movies

Social

Media

Release Timeline

CinemaView Experience

Why we recommend it