Reviewed 2012-09-05 l Last update on 2020-09-27
When you want something that offers much more than your average porn movie, then you want Lust Cinema. This re-designed site has been going from strength to strength since we last saw it, adding more full titles and more scenes, more models and directors and more high class hardcore than you see in most other adult sites. You have HD viewing, with Mp4 downloads suitable for phones, regular weekly updates, a model and director index and a great variety of excellent hardcore scenes.
Erika Lust founded Lust Cinema, an adult movie production company, in 2004. Since then she has been making some of the best-looking porn movies in the biz, with high production values, top models, innovative ideas behind the full DVDs and award winning content. She sometimes directs - she is an award-winning writer and director - and sometimes other directors take charge of the storyline, atmospheric and high class scenes and full DVDs. Erika is also a feminist film maker and so the videos are not your standard, gratuitous 'fuck on the bed' style porn flicks, they have elegance and atmosphere, giving you content here this really is a cut above to average.
Your actual content is set up in two ways. First, you have the 'Movies.' There were 218 of these here and a new one was being added each week. Some of these are series and on-going, such as X Confessions and others are standalone scenes, such as Horny Beasts or Dacrifilia; as you can see, some of the titles are as creative as the actual scenes and their direction. Some scenes here are also short, at eight minutes while others are longer, at 15 or more. Some were over 100 minutes and played out a full DVDs. They are all well shot and very inventive. There are unusual settings and costumes, there are your more traditional style scenes, with storylines, there's good music, sound and evocative lighting and high class production values all round. You're certainly not going to have any issues with quality.
The second content area houses the Chapters. I wasn't sure what this was at first, but opening the index pages there I found 294 movies, some of which were shorts at four minutes and others which were longer. These are more chapters of on-going series such as Housemates, and The Fantasy Project, Second Chance and Sonata. The themes in all these movies are richly varied with lesbian sex, erotica, male BDSM, and couples, threesomes and even group scenes, so you have lots of variety.
Viewing is simple as well and now the site has been redesigned, you have even better viewing options. There's a large stream screen for each one and, depending on the age of the videos, there are up to four downloads. You can stream HD or SD, and download in the same with 1,920 x 1,080 HD on offer now and with mobile versions at 480 x 270 @ 500 kbps. The files are all Mp4 and so they will be fine on just about every kind of device. Content also comes with details like runtimes and descriptions and models' names, plus links to the models in the model index. Where you have a chapter from a movie you also have a visual list of other chapters from the same, and you can easily click through to the next one.
There are no galleries here but there is a Lust Cinema cast list, a model index. Here you find body shots of most, but not all, of the models, and there were some names I recognised: India Summer, for example, and Riley Reid. This means the girls (and guys) may not be exclusive to the site, in fact, with some you get details of other studios they have worked for, but that's no problem. It's a good line-up and includes the guys as well as the girls, so lady viewers will be able to pick out their favourite hunk and see what else he has appeared in. Similarly, you have the index of Directors to check out and there's more news about Erika Lust there so you can really bone up on tour background before boning up with the excellent movies.
The site has been redesigned of late and looks great. It's modern and functional and has everything you're going to need for easy navigation and comes with some nice interactive elements. The top menu is a simple affair and gets you to the content with no hassles. The viewing pages hold all that info and those details, liked tag words for easy searching, links to other movies from the same series and there are also places where you can leave comments.
The model index has some info about the guys and girls and the Directors area tells you some more. There is a brief About page, you can link to a store to buy any of the released DVDs that are available and there's a Blog link as well. This gives you more backstage news and is being updated regularly. Technically the site is fine and it's nicely interactive.
When it comes to signing p, I found my prices were in Euros and they started off at 34.95 per month; this is high because this is high class entertainment and exclusivity from Lust Cinema. However, if you go longer-term and take the three-month option or the annual one, you save money. These longer-term options are good value, they get down to 11.09 per month on the annual one (paid in one instalment for the year) and they are worth considering because the site is updating all the time. Whichever you take you get good value.
Lust Cinema is getting better and better. With its unique approach to high quality film making and its new design, it's looking better than ever. Innovative scenes with hot girls and hunky guys, variety, good viewing options, HD videos and mobile versions, weekly updates and some full length DVDs with the varied length scenes, you won't find anything better than these exclusives, not until someone else comes up to the high standards of Erika Lust and her amazing moviemakers.
