After a soft-core film entitled Lilli Carati's Dream by Giorgio Grand (1987), the actress moved on to the porn genre, starring in five films in total, four directed by Grand himself, shot between 1987 and 1988, in which she also worked a Rocco Siffredi at the beginning of his career, and the last in 1989, in the United States of America, directed by Alex de Renzy and Henri Pachard.

[22] He recalled the suicide attempts and his recovery journey also as a guest on the program Ricominciare, hosted by Alda D'Eusanio on Rai 2, in the episode of 9 July 2008.

In this film, Carati plays a substitute teacher of natural science named Stefania Marini who soon gets one of her students, Andrea (Marco Gelardini), as her lover and a physician Baron Cacciapuopolo (Michele Gammino) as an admirer.

In 1978, in Candido Erotico (Copenhagen Nights) by Claudio de Molinis, she plays Charlotte, a young student who is drawn into confusion when she falls in love with her stepmother's lover, Carlo (Mircha Carven) who works as an actor in sex shows.

In Il corpo della ragassa (1979) by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Carati plays Teresa Aguzzi, a naïve-looking but cunning country girl involved in a Pygmalion story set in 1950s Italy.

The same year she appeared in Senza buccia (Skin Deep) by Marcello Aliprandi, a story of love relationships at a holiday hideout.

In There Is a Ghost in My Bed (1980), an Italo-Spanish production by Claudio de Molinis, she played newlywed Adelaide Fumagalli who arrives at the "Black Castle" in England with her husband on honeymoon.