Best Movies About Sexuality
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The 15 Best Movies About Twisted Sexuality by EMILIO MARTÍNEZ FRAUSTO
The 20 Best Movies about Repressed Sexuality BY LILY SCOTT
20 Subversive Films Dealing With Sexual Perversion
BY HASSAN HUSSEINI
The 15 Best Movies About Twisted Sexuality by EMILIO MARTÍNEZ FRAUSTO
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- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonLars EkborgDagmar EbbesenA pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsYûjirô IshiharaMasahiko TsugawaMie KitaharaSpending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.
- DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsBen CarruthersLelia GoldoniHugh HurdCassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Pierre LéaudChantal GoyaMarlène JobertA romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTimothy BottomsJeff BridgesCybill ShepherdIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsLea MassariBenoît FerreuxDaniel GélinAs France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.
- 1993–199458m7.8 (728)TV EpisodeDirectorClaire DenisStarsAlice HouriJessica TharaudGrégoire ColinIn the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMelanie LynskeyKate WinsletSarah PeirseTwo teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
- DirectorLarry ClarkStarsLeo FitzpatrickJustin PierceChloë SevignyA day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEmily WatsonStellan SkarsgårdKatrin CartlidgeOilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsJeremy IronsDominique SwainMelanie GriffithAn English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsAnaïs RebouxRoxane MesquidaLibero De RienzoTwo sisters confront their sexual attitudes and experiences while on a family holiday.
- DirectorLarry ClarkEdward LachmanStarsAdam ChubbuckJames BullardSeth GrayKen Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMichael PittLouis GarrelEva GreenA young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
- DirectorGregg ArakiStarsBrady CorbetJoseph Gordon-LevittElisabeth ShueTwo pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
- DirectorTodd SolondzStarsJennifer Jason LeighEllen BarkinStephen Adly GuirgisAviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniSteven SoderberghKar-Wai WongStarsRobert Downey Jr.Alan ArkinGong LiThree short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.
- DirectorJonas OdellStarsMichael BrolinHanna EklöfRebecca HaridiFour people get to tell the story of their "first time", an animated film based on documentary interviews. Contemporary stories and some even from the 1920's range from comedy to tragedy and are remembered with nostalgia, embarrassment or even horror.
- DirectorGreg MottolaStarsMichael CeraJonah HillChristopher Mintz-PlasseTwo co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsKatie JarvisMichael FassbenderKierston WareingEverything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsMia WasikowskaNicole KidmanMatthew GoodeAfter India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsLéa SeydouxAdèle ExarchopoulosSalim KechioucheAdèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsCharlotte GainsbourgStellan SkarsgårdStacy MartinA self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMelanie LenzVerena LehbauerJoseph LorenzThe final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsGiancarlo GianniniMichel ConstantinGiuseppe MaffioliAn experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsDivineDavid LocharyMary Vivian PearceNotorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiKei FujiwaraNobu KanaokaA businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiEiko MatsudaAoi NakajimaA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames SpaderHolly HunterElias KoteasAfter getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
- DirectorJörg ButtgereitStarsBernd Daktari LorenzBeatrice ManowskiHarald LundtA street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsShôichi OzawaSumiko SakamotoKeiko SagawaWhile avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.
- DirectorJack SmithStarsFrancis FrancineSheila BickJoel MarkmanAn experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsAl PacinoPaul SorvinoKaren AllenA police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKen'ichi EndôShungiku UchidaKazushi WatanabeA troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.
- DirectorDon EdmondsStarsDyanne ThorneGregory KnophTony MumoloIlsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments." Ilsa's goal is to prove women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines.
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsArt GarfunkelTheresa RussellHarvey KeitelA psychiatrist, living in Vienna, enters a torrid relationship with a married woman. When she ends up in the hospital from an overdose, an inspector becomes set on discovering the demise of their affair.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsWillem DafoeCharlotte GainsbourgStorm Acheche SahlstrømA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
- DirectorNorifumi SuzukiStarsYumi TakigawaEmiko YamauchiYayoi WatanabeIn order to investigate her mother's strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki PapouliaA controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsCarole LaurePierre ClémentiAnna PrucnalAfter winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsMalcolm McDowellPeter O'TooleHelen MirrenA dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsVanessa RedgraveOliver ReedDudley SuttonIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsErnie AlloBruce ByronFrank CarifiA gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsCatherine DeneuveIan HendryJohn FraserA sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveJean SorelMichel PiccoliA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsDirk BogardeRomolo ValliMark BurnsWhile recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDirk BogardeCharlotte RamplingPhilippe LeroyA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsRachel RobertsAnne-Louise LambertVivean GrayDuring a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy IrvingCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando ReyCarole BouquetÁngela MolinaRecounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaOlaf LubaszenkoStefania IwinskaA naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsMonica BellucciGiuseppe SulfaroLuciano FedericoAmidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungSiu Ping-LamTwo neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsAnaïs RebouxRoxane MesquidaLibero De RienzoTwo sisters confront their sexual attitudes and experiences while on a family holiday.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsVincent GalloTricia VesseyBéatrice DalleTwo American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsIsabelle HuppertAnnie GirardotBenoît MagimelA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsCharlotte RamplingCharles DanceLudivine SagnierA British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.
- DirectorMitchell LichtensteinStarsJess WeixlerJohn HensleyJosh PaisStill a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsMichael FassbenderKeira KnightleyViggo MortensenA look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMargarete TieselPeter KazunguInge MauxTeresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsDarío GrandinettiSandra BallesterosNacha GuevaraOliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?“The Dark Side of the Heart” takes the work of poets like Oliverio Girondo, Mario Benedetti and Juan Gelman as a starting point to develop a love story with a very Latin American sensuality. Set mostly in Buenos Aires, it follows Oliverio, a poor, infantile poet who is searching for a “woman who can fly”. It is lyric and poetic, although a bit corny and clichéd in its imaginarium.
As the work of a poet, the film deeply idealizes love, and sex is just a shallow shell that means nothing unless there is a spiritual connection, an alignment of the souls. Eros and Thanatos are also together in this film, as if love were our only escape from death or the fear it inspires us, our contradictory duality is exploited through poetry.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/#ixzz43ecA1GDI - DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsMaribel VerdúGael García BernalDaniel Giménez CachoIn Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.“Y Tu Mamá También” is one of the best Mexican road-movies ever made, and it is also the film that got Alfonso Cuarón his first Oscar nomination and consolidated him as one of the best Mexican directors.
It narrates a story of discovery and exploration. Tenoch and Julio, played by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, are two friends who go on a road trip to the beach with Luisa, a seductive older woman who will make them experiment quite a bit.
The journey begins in emptiness; they go looking for a beach that do not exist, living a fake friendship in the wake of the events, but soon enough feelings arise, the hidden becomes clear and they all discover new things about themselves.
In one of the final scenes, which touches on the veiled homophobia that is still a part of Mexican culture, the three of them, drunk, engage in a threesome. After that, emptiness comes back and reality manifests itself at the end of the idyll.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/#ixzz43ecJEnN5 - DirectorLars von TrierStarsCharlotte GainsbourgStellan SkarsgårdWillem DafoeThe continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adulthood, obsessions and what led to her being in Seligman's care.“Nymphomaniac” takes a darker approach on sexual obsession. Rather than an uncommon love story like the aforementioned “In the Realm of the Senses”, von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” is a dark pessimistic story that seems to be taken out of the pages of a Marquis de Sade book. With a runtime of over four hours, it follows Joe, a nymphomaniac whose turbulent sex life we get to know through her testimony.
Sex is not presented as a source of pleasure and satisfaction, but as a sickness. More than desire, the main drive of Joe’s sexual enterprises is need, like a drug addict who takes his fix when the body demands it. Joe is a victim of her need to always feel more, to always demand more from the world.
The dark corners where she ends up lurking, the long road she travels, could be explained by her profound ability to suffer, using Nietzsche’s expression. In the end, pain and pleasure are just two sides of the same coin.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/#ixzz43ed0dEVP - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja SmitsA programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.David Cronenberg’s work is fascinating; his films are repulsive, insane, disgusting, yet we can’t stop watching them. Their weirdness is magnetic and it is easy to see the world we live in portrayed and reflected in its strange and unreal, even surreal, symbols and metaphors.
“Videodrome” talks about many things, like politics, media, and violence, but it also talks about sex, exploring the very thin line that separates pleasure from pain.
While the main subject of the film is televised violence, and the desensitization it generates in us, it also reflects on its relationship with pleasure. In one of the most erotic moments of the film, Nicki Brand (played by Debbie Harry) puts out a cigarette by pressing it against her bare chest.
The film questions the place of the media in our lives, where TV (and now Internet) creates a different reality where we allow ourselves things we would not allow in our daily life. It goes to show that whether we like it or not, we satisfy our sexual desires in one way or another, so we better embrace them. Long live the new flesh indeed.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/#ixzz43ed6nYXU - DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaOlaf LubaszenkoStefania IwinskaA naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.A part of Kieslowski’s “Decalogue” that was extended, “A Short Film about Love” tells the story of Tomek, a young man who lives with the mother of his friend and is hopelessly in love with his front neighbor, Magda, who he spies on every night. The film is both innocent and devastating, sweet and raw, fun and disheartening. In short, the film feels the way a first love feels, and we are invited to witness Tomek’s first love.
Does love really exist or is it just a (sometimes) happy illusion? The film confronts both perspectives, with its unhappy ending leaving us with a bittersweet taste in the mouth. After several ups and downs, Tomek finally manages to establish a relationship with Magda that goes beyond his solitary and passive voyeurism, and when the joy and excitement of the first date vanishes away, Magda reveals to Tomek the bitter truth: there is no love, just sex.
The humiliation to which she submits him afterwards sets the mark for the ending of the film, when Tomek’s illusions are shattered and sex is used to damage and destroy.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/#ixzz43edDAYQs - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMichael PittLouis GarrelEva GreenA young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.Bertolucci was already 63 years old when he directed “The Dreamers”, yet it is a very youthful and restless film. Filled with energy, “The Dreamers” portrays the wet dream of every young cinephile. Michael Pitt plays Matthew, a young American student who goes to France to learn the language and spends most of his time at the Cinémathèque française, where he meets Isabelle and Theo, who take him on a wild journey to the discovery of love, art and politics.
Sexual tension surfaces quickly, as their at first innocent games develop into sexual challenges that take the shy and conservative Matthew out of his comfort zone. Matthew is surprised by Theo and Isabelle’s almost incestuous relationship, by their uninhibited behavior, and he feels attracted and repulsed at the same time.
After he takes Isabelle’s virginity, he becomes a part of their relationship, a love triangle is formed and complex feelings arise as a result. This film is a love letter to cinema, but it is also an exploration of contradictory feelings, of the complexity of our emotions.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/#ixzz43edJiQpj - DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveJean SorelMichel PiccoliA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.Luis Buñuel is one of the many filmmakers who have thoroughly explored sexuality through his films, so it is no surprise that, just like Bertolucci, he appears twice on this list. In “Belle de Jour”, lust and desire are portrayed from the female perspective.
Catherine Deneuve plays Severine, a woman facing a division; she loves her husband, yet she can’t get intimate with him. For her, sex and love are two completely different worlds, so she starts living two completely different lives when she starts working at a brothel under the name Belle de Jour.
Buñuel attempts to attain in this film the surrealist ideal of bringing the dreams, the machinations of the unconscious mind, to the waking world. Severine has erotic dreams where she is submissive, abused by men, and she tries to bring these dreams to reality, to liberate all of the psychic energy she has accumulated, by joining a brothel where she would be in touch with a masochist environment, used as a sex object just like in her recurring dreams.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/#ixzz43fLBDXrI - DirectorSteve McQueenStarsMichael FassbenderCarey MulliganJames Badge DaleA sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.Sex brings up conflictive and contradictory feelings; for instance, pleasure and guilt often come together as parts of an indivisible whole. Since Freud started studying hysteria and neurosis, it has become very clear that the huge gap between our sexual desires and that which is socially accepted is the key to understanding most of our psychological disorders.
Brandon, played by Michael Fassbender, is a sex addict whose only concern is sexual satisfaction. His life is constructed in a way that his sexual affairs are anonymous and always far from becoming sentimental relationships.
When his sister arrives to stay with him indefinitely, his whole order falls into chaos and the dysfunctions of his life start manifesting. Emptiness, fear and denial come to the light as the root of his sexual obsession. There is no doubt that sex has a serious impact in every aspect of our lives, and that’s what we see in Steve McQueen’s masterpiece.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/2/#ixzz43fyLPZn9 - DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.“Blue Velvet” is the fourth feature film by David Lynch, and even though it’s probably the easiest one to watch of his entire filmography, it is still very haunting and perturbing; it feels like spying on someone else’s dreams. The film is a descent into suffering, fear and trauma that begins with a cut ear found by Jeffrey Beaumont (played by Kyle MacLachlan) in his hometown and ends with a dream about love.
Voyeurism is something present in every cinephile because we like peeking into the lives of others, of finding out what happens behind closed doors. It is also one of the prime motors of the film, as Jeffrey assumes the role of a detective, trying to know more about the story of the ear he found. He sneaks into the apartment of Dorothy Vallens, played by Isabella Rossellini, a nightclub singer whose husband and son have been kidnapped by a deranged, sexually deviated Dennis Hopper.
The character of Dorothy is interesting for it is eminently erotic, with a sensitivity that goes beyond the approved moral. In “Blue Velvet” we see curiosity as one of the motors that move us, and the magnetic force imposed by other people’s sexual lives as an irresistible temptation.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/2/#ixzz43fyQYbnk - DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert DupontelEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.Irréversible” is the film that gave Garpar Noé the notoriety he possesses today in the film industry. Both extremely violent and movingly tender, it is a strange film. It is hard to watch it and remain indifferent.
One of the most outstanding traits of the film is the way it portrays two completely different sides of sexuality. Starting with the cruel, nausea-inducing violence of rape and murder, the film traces back the story to find playful love, the tender laughs of two young lovers.
Among the many metaphysical subtleties of the film, we find the clash of the opposites. The first half of the movie is obscure and raw, it is a descent into hell where we are face to face with the lowest of human emotions and impulses.
It synthesizes feelings like despair, hate, suffering, it portrays our brutal face, and in such context things like sex can only be presented as a low, underground activity with Monica Bellucci’s rape kick starting a spiral of revenge and pain.
On the other hand, the second half of the film feels light and ethereal; the last scenes of the film are bright and playful, the camera moves softly and everything is lit with a yellow light, the color of the sun, of life. Sex here is a statement of love, of tenderness, and ideas like malice and fear are unthinkable.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/2/#ixzz43fyVwDyj - DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando ReyCarole BouquetÁngela MolinaRecounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.Luis Buñuel is one of the greatest filmmakers of the past century, being innovative and groundbreaking since his first short film, “The Andalusian Dog”, which he made with Salvador Dalí and is now considered one of the most important pieces of experimental and surrealist cinema.
While he lived in México he directed a few films, which are now regarded as classic Mexican films, like “Nazarín”, “El Ángel Exterminador” and “Los Olvidados”. His last film, “Cet obscur objet du désir”, was shot in France and it narrates in the form of flashbacks the obsession of Mathieu with Conchita, a young woman who won’t allow him to satisfy his desires with her.
Mathieu is a man tied by the obsession Conchita provokes on him. She knows he wants her so she uses that to her benefit. In a sense, it could be considered a left-wing film in its ideology, for it inverts the class dynamics by putting Conchita, a lower-class woman, in a position of power over Mathieu, a bourgeois who is used to being obeyed.
Oppression and abuse are then imposed by Conchita, making Mathieu satisfy her whims and paying him with the hope that eventually she would sleep with him.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/2/#ixzz43fyhm0QF - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMarlon BrandoMaria SchneiderMaria MichiA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.Probably Bertolucci’s most famed film, “Last Tango in Paris” is beautiful, nostalgic in its depiction of Paris, profoundly in touch with human emotions, and very controversial for its infamous rape scene. The film feels like a muffled scream brought to us by a gust of wind, and it is autumnal and elusive. Marlon Brando plays a man in mourning named Paul, and Maria Schneider is Jeanne, a young Parisian looking for an apartment.
The film is about that which is hidden; they don’t share their name with each other, yet they begin a passionate sexual affair. Paul and Jeanne are castaways, looking for a safe haven from the turmoil of their lives. They both are feeling what Sartre called the “nausea”, the existential crisis everybody experiences at least once when our heroes fall apart and our expectations are shattered.
The animal, merely physical sex they engage into deconstructs the idea of idealized love, of the happy marriage we all think ourselves destined to, so the institution of family is strongly questioned as a fake construction, a product of advertisement. If anything, this film makes us reflect on what we expect out of love.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/2/#ixzz43fymHnIn - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsTom CruiseNicole KidmanTodd FieldA Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.You are having a dark, twisted dream, everything seems confusing and unreal but it is fascinating and you are intrigued, then you wake up disoriented, with nothing but faded memories and the haunted feeling that you are still dreaming. That’s what watching “Eyes Wide Shut” feels like; it is a bizarre, nightmarish construction where certainty is nonexistent and the deepest desires emerge unveiled.
The final film by Stanley Kubrick, which is also his strangest and most complex psychologically, it follows Dr. William Harford, played by Tom Cruise, as he manages to sneak into a strange sexual ritual performed by powerful politicians and businessmen.
The key element is the emergence of our deep sexual desires, of our repressed impulses. Sex is presented as a force that goes beyond our individual egos.
In the secret ritual orgies that take place in the film, everybody is wearing a mask; it portrays magnificently what happens when we cover our “social masks”, our faces, putting aside all of the constraints and limitations that culture and civilization force on us. Deeply psychological, it is a great film to reflect about the idea we have about ourselves and to observe our desires as manifested in dreams.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/2/#ixzz43fyqkPuM - DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiEiko MatsudaAoi NakajimaA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.“In the Realm of the Senses” is one of Nagisa Ôshima’s most controversial films, even putting him in front of a court of law under charges of obscenity.
It narrates without any kind of modesty the insanely passionate love story between Sada Abe and Kichizo Ishida, her master, and their borderline insane obsession with each other. Lust, desire and love are taken to their most extreme consequences, morality fades away as a social construct, and pleasure becomes the only thing that exists.
They cannot stand the idea of being separated, and both Kichizo and Sada are completely absorbed by obsession. The world ceases to exist as they indulge in their sexual extravaganzas, breaking all kind of boundaries, always looking for new ways to satisfy themselves, even if that means losing that which makes them who they are, Eros and Thanatos together in this film as the snake eating its own tail.
Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-15-best-movies-about-twisted-sexuality/2/#ixzz43fyzFlLS - DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.Pasolini is controversial, cruel, raw, and acutely critical. His films are difficult to watch, taking the art to radical levels. Often spiritual and even metaphysical, the world of images he constructs is challenging, both intellectually and morally. With “Saló”, he took the equally controversial Marquis de Sade to criticize the military regime and the fascism that tragically swept through Europe from the beginnings of the 20th century, and whose scars can still be felt to this day.
The film is an adaptation of the book “The 120 Days of Sodom” that narrates how four powerful political and spiritual leaders lock themselves in a mansion to perform all kinds of physical and emotional torture on a bunch of disgraced adolescents kidnapped by them. All kinds of sexual abuses and humiliations take place and our capacity to feel physical pain in exploited thoroughly. It is a soul-crushing, hopeless film.
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