Best Movies About Sexuality
by elvis smit | created - 11 May 2015 | updated - 22 Mar 2016 | PublicThe 25 Best Movies About Youth and Sexuality BY ESTHER ZEILIG Read more: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/the-25-best-movies-about-youth-and-sexuality/#ixzz3ZrxXjs4t
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1. Summer with Monika (1953)
R | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell
Votes: 16,171
2. Crazed Fruit (1956)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Spending 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.
Director: Kô Nakahira | Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara, Shinsuke Ashida
Votes: 2,254
3. Shadows (1958)
PG | 87 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd, Anthony Ray
Votes: 12,551
4. Masculine Feminine (1966)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord
Votes: 17,318 | Gross: $0.20M
5. The Last Picture Show (1971)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
In 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.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson
Votes: 52,369 | Gross: $29.13M
6. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
As 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.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 10,843 | Gross: $0.35M
7.
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (1993–1994)
Episode:
US Go Home
(1994)
58 min | Drama
In the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Alice Houri, Jessica Tharaud, Grégoire Colin, Martine Gautier
Votes: 726
8. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
R | 99 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Two teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent
Votes: 67,398 | Gross: $3.05M
9. Kids (1995)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama
A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
Director: Larry Clark | Stars: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Sarah Henderson
Votes: 84,623 | Gross: $7.42M
10. Breaking the Waves (1996)
R | 159 min | Drama
Oilman 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.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr
Votes: 71,546 | Gross: $4.04M
11. Lolita (1997)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella
Votes: 66,516 | Gross: $1.40M
12. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,210,719 | Gross: $130.10M
13. Fat Girl (2001)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
Two sisters confront their sexual attitudes and experiences while on a family holiday.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian
Votes: 12,816 | Gross: $0.72M
14. Ken Park (2002)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.
Directors: Larry Clark, Edward Lachman | Stars: Adam Chubbuck, James Bullard, Seth Gray, Eddie Daniels
Votes: 30,806
15. The Dreamers (2003)
NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 131,523 | Gross: $2.53M
16. Mysterious Skin (2004)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
Two 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.
Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison
Votes: 76,302 | Gross: $0.70M
17. Palindromes (2004)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Aviva 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.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Matthew Faber
Votes: 12,867 | Gross: $0.55M
18. Eros (2004)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Gong Li, Chang Chen
Votes: 7,329 | Gross: $0.19M
19. Never Like the First Time! (2006)
15 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Four 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jonas Odell | Stars: Michael Brolin, Hanna Eklöf, Rebecca Haridi, Jenny Holmström
Votes: 393
20. Superbad (2007)
R | 113 min | Comedy
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
Director: Greg Mottola | Stars: Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader
Votes: 632,441 | Gross: $121.46M
21. Fish Tank (2009)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths
Votes: 65,034 | Gross: $0.37M
22. Stoker (2013)
R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
After 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.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney
Votes: 114,516 | Gross: $1.70M
23. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
NC-17 | 180 min | Drama, Romance
Adèle'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.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 163,038 | Gross: $2.20M
24. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf
Votes: 131,506 | Gross: $0.79M
25. Paradise: Hope (2013)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama
The 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 ('... See full summary »
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas
Votes: 4,991 | Gross: $0.01M
26. The Beast (1974)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
An 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.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Michel Constantin, Giuseppe Maffioli, Giuliana Calandra
Votes: 208
27. Pink Flamingos (1972)
NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
Notorious 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".
Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole
Votes: 27,895 | Gross: $0.18M
28. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Votes: 25,917
29. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
NC-17 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui
Votes: 22,794
30. Crash (1996)
NC-17 | 100 min | Drama
After 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.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger
Votes: 66,341 | Gross: $2.04M
31. Nekromantik (1988)
Not Rated | 71 min | Horror
A 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.
Director: Jörg Buttgereit | Stars: Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt, Collosseo
Votes: 10,969
32. The Pornographers (1966)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
While 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.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa, Masaomi Kondô
Votes: 2,527
33. Flaming Creatures (1963)
45 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial.
Director: Jack Smith | Stars: Francis Francine, Sheila Bick, Joel Markman, Mario Montez
Votes: 1,662
34. 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: 65,807
35. Cruising (1980)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox
Votes: 28,020 | Gross: $19.80M
36. Bijitâ Q (2001)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô
Votes: 17,052
37. Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Ilsa 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.
Director: Don Edmonds | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo, Maria Marx
Votes: 8,206
38. Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980)
R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 9,617
39. Antichrist (2009)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Votes: 136,497 | Gross: $0.40M
40. The Transgressor (1974)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
In order to investigate her mother's strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi, Yayoi Watanabe, Ryouko Ima
Votes: 1,712
41. Dogtooth (2009)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis
Votes: 110,369 | Gross: $0.11M
42. Sweet Movie (1974)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
After 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.
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey
Votes: 6,447
43. Caligula (1979)
Unrated | 156 min | Drama, History
A 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.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy
Votes: 38,349 | Gross: $23.44M
44. The Devils (1971)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 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.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Votes: 18,658 | Gross: $1.13M
45. Scorpio Rising (1963)
28 min | Short, Music
A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell
Votes: 5,706
46. Black Narcissus (1947)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A 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.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird
Votes: 27,652
47. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 521,933 | Gross: $36.76M
48. Repulsion (1965)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 57,266
49. Belle de Jour (1967)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page
Votes: 49,040 | Gross: $0.03M
50. Death in Venice (1971)
GP | 130 min | Drama, Romance
While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci
Votes: 23,031 | Gross: $0.15M
51. The Night Porter (1974)
R | 118 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 14,713 | Gross: $0.63M
52. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
During 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.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Votes: 41,020 | Gross: $0.23M
53. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie 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.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,605 | Gross: $33.80M
54. Taxi Driver (1976)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
A 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.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Votes: 920,298 | Gross: $28.26M
55. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Votes: 24,809 | Gross: $0.06M
56. A Short Film About Love (1988)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska, Piotr Machalica
Votes: 26,064
57. Malena (2000)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Votes: 111,960 | Gross: $3.45M
58. In the Mood for Love (2000)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Two 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.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Votes: 166,786 | Gross: $2.73M
59. Fat Girl (2001)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
Two sisters confront their sexual attitudes and experiences while on a family holiday.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian
Votes: 12,816 | Gross: $0.72M
60. Trouble Every Day (2001)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas
Votes: 9,303 | Gross: $0.01M
61. The Piano Teacher (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 71,762 | Gross: $1.90M
62. Swimming Pool (2003)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance, Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Marie Lamour
Votes: 48,335 | Gross: $10.11M
63. Teeth (I) (2007)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein | Stars: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman
Votes: 46,451 | Gross: $0.35M
64. A Dangerous Method (2011)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 108,332 | Gross: $5.70M
65. Paradise: Love (2012)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama
Teresa, 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.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz
Votes: 10,031 | Gross: $0.02M
66. The Dark Side of the Heart (1992)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
Oliveiro 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... See full summary »
Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara, André Melançon
Votes: 4,128
“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
67. And Your Mother Too (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 128,868 | Gross: $13.62M
“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
68. Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
The 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.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Bell
Votes: 98,154 | Gross: $0.33M
“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
69. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 102,942 | Gross: $2.12M
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.
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70. A Short Film About Love (1988)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska, Piotr Machalica
Votes: 26,064
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.
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71. The Dreamers (2003)
NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 131,523 | Gross: $2.53M
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.
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72. Belle de Jour (1967)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page
Votes: 49,040 | Gross: $0.03M
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.
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73. Shame (2011)
NC-17 | 101 min | Drama
A sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Lucy Walters
Votes: 206,201 | Gross: $4.00M
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.
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74. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The 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.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,647 | Gross: $8.55M
“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.
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75. Irreversible (2002)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Events 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.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Votes: 147,613 | Gross: $0.75M
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.
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76. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Votes: 24,809 | Gross: $0.06M
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.
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77. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
NC-17 | 129 min | Drama, Romance
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti
Votes: 58,331 | Gross: $36.14M
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.
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78. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
R | 159 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field, Sydney Pollack
Votes: 374,987 | Gross: $55.69M
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.
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79. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
NC-17 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui
Votes: 22,794
“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.
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80. 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: 65,807
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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