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What the Butler Saw

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What the Butler Saw was a mutoscope reel, and an early example of erotic films dating from the early 1900s. It depicted a scene of a woman partially undressin..

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British Mutoscope featuring Charlie Chaplin reel

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Insearch of viewable objects

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Naughty nostalgia. - Volume 1 (E)

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The Eye of the beholder

United States, 1958
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Women of the silent era : Virgins, vamps and heroines

Australia, 1997
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Motion pictures produced in Great Britain 1903-1905

United Kingdom, 1905
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Figures in motion

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Screen dreams

United States, 1984
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Freaks

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Variety

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Figures in motion

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The Voyeur

United Kingdom, 1993
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The History of pornography (E)

United States, 1989
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Naughty nostalgia. - Volume 2 (E)

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Diary of a chambermaid = Le Journal d'une femme de chambre

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Motion pictures produced by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1908

United States, 1908
Similarity: 65%

Peeping Tom

United Kingdom, 1959
Similarity: 65%

The Women [DVD]

United States, 1939
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