Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-marquis-de-sade"

1. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

TV-MA | 117 min | Drama

In 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.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti

Votes: 65,770

2. The Howling (1981)

R | 91 min | Horror

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone

Votes: 40,165 | Gross: $17.99M

3. The Big Feast (1973)

NC-17 | 130 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi

Votes: 14,689

4. Waxwork (1988)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Horror

A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.

Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Jennifer Bassey, Joe Baker

Votes: 14,032 | Gross: $0.81M

5. Love Me If You Dare (2003)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.

Director: Yann Samuell | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Joséphine Lebas-Joly

Votes: 72,440 | Gross: $0.55M

6. Baba Yaga (1973)

Unrated | 89 min | Horror

A photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.

Director: Corrado Farina | Stars: Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funès, Ely Galleani

Votes: 2,238

7. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1977)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama

Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Boger | Stars: Koo Stark, Martin Potter, Lydia Lisle, Katherine Kath

Votes: 570

8. This Special Friendship (1964)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin, François Leccia, Dominique Maurin

Votes: 3,036

9. The Chinese (1967)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako

Votes: 8,334 | Gross: $0.04M

10. The Milky Way (1969)

M/PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob

Votes: 8,093

11. The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)

TV-MA | 96 min | Crime, Drama

Robert Carmichael, is a talented cello player in the town of Newhaven. He becomes associated with several other unsavory teenagers and he is soon tempted into the use of hard drugs like cocaine and ecstasy.

Director: Thomas Clay | Stars: Nikki Albon, Zoey Campbell, Stephanie de Whalley, Phil Deguara

Votes: 1,390

12. A Girl Cut in Two (2007)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Thriller

A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand, Mathilda May

Votes: 3,802 | Gross: $0.41M

13. Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by ... See full summary »

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant

Votes: 1,248

14. The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)

72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A man keeps a young employee tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Miharu Shima, Hatsuo Yamaya

Votes: 928

15. At Night All the Cats Are Black (2022)

Unrated | 110 min | Fantasy

A crew is shooting a libertine costume film when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigate, the film shoot continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director's lover, follows a promise.

Director: Valentin Merz | Stars: Robin Mognetti, Valentin Merz, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Dogartzi Magunagoicoechea

Votes: 105

16. Justine: Wild Nights (1995)

113 min | Adventure

Justine is a young student who dreams of various adventures and erotic relationships in which she undresses in countless places, either during a kidnapping or during a train ride.

Director: Kevin Alber | Stars: Michael Andrew, Art Baer, Roneique Banks, Jennifer Behr

Votes: 98

17. Tre tigri contro tre tigri (1977)

115 min | Comedy

An Italian priest met an American priest and discover how are different their lives, a guy escaped from prison is seduced by a gorgeous woman but there is a trick, and a layer is engaged by a mad client.

Directors: Sergio Corbucci, Steno | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Cochi Ponzoni, Enrico Montesano, Dalila Di Lazzaro

Votes: 344

18. Fol-de-Rol (1972 TV Movie)

60 min | Family

A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair.

Director: Tony Charmoli | Stars: Cyd Charisse, Howard Cosell, Totie Fields, Milt Kamen

Votes: 15

19. Howlings in Favour of De Sade (1952)

64 min | Drama

The director renders tribute to the Marquis of Sade without images. The screen is white when the testimonies speak, and black when they don't, in this experimental film.

Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Serge Berna, Isidore Isou, Barbara Rosenthal

Votes: 201

20. Datai (1966)

75 min | Crime, Drama

A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs.

Director: Masao Adachi | Stars: Mikio Terashima, Reiko Ensho, Nami Katsura, Yuri Nishi

Votes: 67

21. Birth Control Revolution (1967)

76 min | Drama

The insane gynecologist Dr. Marukido Sadao theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.

Director: Masao Adachi | Stars: Mikio Terashima, Kozue Hidori, Atsushi Yamatoya, Kuniko Masuda

Votes: 14

22. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Cyrano/The Magician (1981)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Philadelphian Marjorie Denton seeks the most chivalrous romantic man of all time and meets Cyrano de Bergerac; Cleveland magician Timothy Potter trying to perfect his craft faces a huge problem after he makes his assistant Suva vanish.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Wendy Schaal, Lloyd Bochner

Votes: 68

23. Forever Knight (1992–1996)
Episode: False Witness (1992)

Not Rated | 48 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror

A known pornographer being investigated by Nick kills Nick's snitch when he finds a wire on him. Will Nick have to commit perjury to convict him?

Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Geraint Wyn Davies, Gary Farmer, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett

Votes: 56

24. Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990)
Episode: The Charnel Pit (1990)

TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A two-sided painting acts as a portal back to the time of the Marquis de Sade.

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Louise Robey, Steve Monarque, Chris Wiggins, Neil Munro

Votes: 126

25. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Cruel and Unusual (1995)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Evidence indicates that the death, in police custody, of an autistic teenager was the result of longstanding abuse. Suspicion falls on the treatment center where he lived and on its therapist, Dr. Colter.

Director: Matthew Penn | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 291

26. Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode: Sugar & Spice (1991)

TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Having bought a collection of erotic prints by Fuseli from teen-aged Khadija, Lovejoy joins his ex-wife Susan for the speech day at their daughter's school, where Lovejoy recognises Khadija... See full summary »

Director: Baz Taylor | Stars: Ian McShane, Phyllis Logan, Chris Jury, Caroline Blakiston

Votes: 71

27. Balthazar (2018–2023)
Episode: La loi du plus fort (2019)

TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Thriller

Lt Bach's former boss and mentor Cat Meyer is in town to give evidence at a trial. When Cat is found stabbed to death in the woods, Bach has step in but quickly discovers something is very wrong with the case.

Director: Nicolas Capus | Stars: Tomer Sisley, Hélène de Fougerolles, Yannig Samot, Philypa Phoenix

Votes: 67

28. Whitechapel (2009–2013)
Episode: Episode #3.4 (2012)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

After Buchan identifies the killer's modus operandi as aping the Marquis De Sade, who murdered women after poisoning them with an aphrodisiac, Chandler and Miles hunt for the individual who... See full summary »

Director: Richard Clark | Stars: Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, Sam Stockman

Votes: 320

29. The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
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30. Outlander (2014– )
Episode: Through a Glass, Darkly (2016)

TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Returning to her own time, Claire must reconcile her future with the life she left behind. Shifting back to the 18th century, Jamie, Claire and Murtagh arrive in France, but learn that Paris presents its own challenges.

Director: Metin Hüseyin | Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Duncan Lacroix

Votes: 4,179

31. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Intent (2017)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The cops get tangled in an elaborate online hoax that leads to the rape of a popular social media star. Meanwhile, Benson sets firm ground rules with Sheila.

Director: Adam Bernstein | Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, Ice-T, Peter Scanavino

Votes: 829

32. I Am the Night (2019)
Episode: Queen's Gambit, Accepted (2019)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As Los Angeles erupts in racial violence, Fauna decides she has no other choice than to confront George Hodel about his activities herself, while Jay is stuck in jail, again.

Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Chris Pine, India Eisley, Jefferson Mays, Leland Orser

Votes: 379