The beauty of the day
YEAR: 1967
The surreal classic Luisa Buñela sees a middle-class housewife, Séverine (Catherine Deneuve), decides to become a prostitute during the day while her husband is at work. The key content of BDSM lies in the dream sequences in which Séverine fantasized about S&M's relationship with her husband.
The night porter
YEAR: 1974
A concentration camp survivor develops SadoMaso's complex relationship with her torturer in this controversial drama by Italian director Liliana Cavani. Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling star as a couple who resume their relationship after WWII while he works as a night porter.
Mistress
YEAR: 1975
Gerard Depardieu stars as a petty crook who has been called in to fix the plumbing. It might sound like a straight porn message, but it pushed the censors to the limit with its explicit dungeon scenes, this French movie was cast for an 18 year old UK audience in 2003.
9 1/2 Weeks
YEAR: 1986
9 1/2 Weeks is based in part on the autobiographical book by Elizabeth McNeill and sees a mysterious middleman Mickey Rourke of Wall Street casting a sexual spell on shy divorcee Kim Basinger. Initial disguise and public sex eventually lead to flogging and testing the limits of what is possible.
Crash: dangerous lust
YEAR: 1996
Most viewers can handle a slight smack, but Crash raises your refractive index as you explore a world where characters satisfy their sadomasochistic urges through car crash engineering. A definitely provocative film, and certainly not for sensitive people.
Preaching To The Perverted
YEAR: 1997
A movie named "the first featured film with fetish" has become a favorite fetish scene that is avoiding the pornographic tag
Pianist
YEAR: 2001
This Franco-Austrian thriller, which explores the intricate subject of self-mutilation as a form of sexual arousal, benefits from Isabelle Huppert's masterly play as a music professor who hides a wealth of fetishes behind a muffled outward appearance.
Secretary
YEAR: 2002
A clumsy, awkward young woman meets a mysterious dominant businessman named Mr. Gray and develops a submissive relationship with him. Sounds familiar? The movie tries to normalize the idea of a BDSM relationship. The movie created a star starring Maggie Gyllenhaal who brought the fragility of every girl to her role.
Cell
YEAR: 2000
Jennifer Lopez is bound by a man in the BDSM re-issue.
Dangerous method
YEAR: 2011
Fifteen years after the crash, David Cronenberg discovers BDSM through the love triangle between Jung (Michael Fassbender), Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and their complicated patient Sabina (Keira Knightley), who was fond of spanking. Knightley certainly does not hold back from getting whipped by Michael Fassbender, although she did admit to having a vodka ball prior to filming this particular scene.
Venus in Furs
YEAR: 2013
Roman Polański's film, based on a play by David Ives, has a theatrical tone. After arriving late for an audition at the theater, an apparently chaotic actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) starts playing sex games with a director (Mathieu Amalric). The story follows the 1870 novel Venus In Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a groundbreaking portrait of female domination and male submission.
Fifty Shades of Grey
YEAR: 2015
A classic of the genre in recent years. Johnson and Dornan star in the film adaptation of the Fifty Shades trilogy, meaning they have engaged in a lot of on-screen BDSM scenes.
Basic Instinct
YEAR: 1992
The infamous leg crossing scene grabs all the attention, Stone's character, Catherine Tramell, grabs the viewer's attention.
Head in the Clouds
YEAR: 2004
Billions
YEAR: 2016
On Billions, Paul Giamatti stars as Chuck Rhoades, Jr., the US attorney for the New York South District who enjoys a private BDSM relationship. Noteworthy is the role of the submissive wife (played by Maggie Siff).
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
YEAR: 2007-2011
A young girl tries to reconcile her private life with the work of a professional call girl.
What guys dream about
YEAR: 2001
Liv Tyler donned a tight PVC costume for her BDSM scene in the comedy One Night at McCool's.
The famous Bettie Page
YEAR: 2005
Gretchen Mol starred as Bettie Page's pin-up girl in this biopic, which also delved into her work by posing for photos in captivity.
