Films with theme "BDSM in films", sorted by rating

, 20minutes
Directed by Peter Christopherson
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about sexuality, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Trent Reznor, James Duval

The film begins with a scene of a person being executed by hanging. The trap door opens and the person drops with a maniacal smile on his face.

, 2h39
Directed by Lars von Trier
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, BDSM in films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Adrian Rawlins

Breaking the Waves tells the story of Bess McNeill, a pretty young Scottish woman with a history of psychological problems. She marries atheist oil rig worker Jan, despite disapproval from her community and her Free Scottish Presbyterian Calvinist church. Bess is steadfast and pure of heart, but extremely simple and childlike in her beliefs. During her frequent visits to the church, she prays to God and carries on conversations with Him using her own voice, believing that He is responding directly through her.

, 2h
Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Serial killer films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell

Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns to his logging home town of Lumberton, North Carolina from Oak Lake College after his father suffers a near-fatal stroke. While walking home from the hospital, he cuts through a vacant lot and discovers a severed ear. Jeffrey takes the ear to police detective John Williams (George Dickerson), through whom he reacquaints with the detective's daughter, Sandy (Laura Dern). She tells him details about the ear case and a suspicious woman, Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), who may be connected to the case. Increasingly curious, Jeffrey enters Dorothy's apartment by posing as an exterminator, and while Dorothy is distracted by a man dressed in a yellow suit at her door (whom Jeffrey later refers to as the Yellow Man), Jeffrey steals her spare key.

, 3h7
Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, BDSM in films
Actors Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Tim Robbins

A fleet of helicopters sprays for medflies, revealing all the characters along the path of their flight. Dr. Ralph Wyman and his wife, Marian, meet another couple, Stuart and Claire Kane, at Zoe Trainer's cello concert and make a spontaneous Sunday dinner date. Marian's sister Sherri is married to philandering cop Gene, who makes up unbelievable stories to hide his affair with Betty Weathers. Betty is in the process of divorcing one of the helicopter pilots, Stormy. Waitress Doreen Piggot is married to an alcoholic limo driver named Earl. TV commentator Howard Finnigan lives with his wife Anne and their young family next door to Zoe and her mother, cabaret singer Tess Trainer. Their pool cleaner is Jerry Kaiser, whose wife, Lois, works from home as a phone sex operator, tending to the children while she talks off strange men. Jerry and Lois are friends with Doreen's daughter, Honey and her husband Bill, who works as a makeup artist.

, 1h41
Directed by Mary Harron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, Samantha Mathis

Patrick Bateman is a wealthy investment banker living in Manhattan in the late 1980s. His life revolves around dining at trendy restaurants while keeping up appearances for his fiancée, Evelyn, and for his circle of wealthy and shallow associates, most of whom he dislikes. Bateman describes the material accoutrements of his lifestyle: his daily morning exercise and beautification routine, his music collection including performers such as Huey Lewis and the News, Phil Collins, and Whitney Houston, his taste for expensive designer clothes, and the lavish couture of his apartment.

, 1h41
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin France
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Pierre Clémenti

Séverine Serizy (Catherine Deneuve), a young and beautiful housewife, is unable to share physical intimacy with her husband, Dr. Pierre Serizy (Jean Sorel), despite their love for each other. Her sexual life is restricted to elaborate fantasies involving domination, sadomasochism, and bondage. Although frustrated by his wife's frigidity toward him, he respects her wishes.

, 2h10
Directed by Michael Haneke
Origin Austria
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Piano, Erotic thriller films
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot, Susanne Lothar, Anna Sigalevitch, Eva Green

Erika Kohut is a piano professor at a Vienna music conservatory. Although already in her forties, she still lives in an apartment with her domineering mother; her father is a long-standing resident in a psychiatric asylum.

, 1h56
Directed by Lina Wertmüller
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, BDSM in films
Actors Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Isa Danieli, Aldo Puglisi, Eros Pagni

An arrogant wealthy capitalist named Raffaella (Mariangela Melato) is vacationing on a yacht in the Mediterranean Sea with friends—swimming, sunbathing, and talking incessantly about the virtues of her class and the worthlessness of the political left. Her nonstop political monologue infuriates one of the underclass deckhands on her yacht, Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini), a dedicated Communist who manages to restrain his opinions to avoid upsetting his boss and losing his good job. Despite her humiliating insults, Gennarino agrees to take her out on a dinghy late in the evening to see the rest of her friends who have gone ahead without her. On their way, the outboard motor gives out, leaving them stranded in the middle of the sea with no land in sight.

, 2h4
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Eva Mattes, Lída Baarová, Katrin Schaake

Petra von Kant (Carstersen) is a prominent fashion designer based in Bremen. The film is almost totally restricted to her apartment's bedroom, decorated by a huge reproduction of Poussin's Midas and Bacchus (c.1630), which depicts naked and partially clothed men. The room also contains numerous life-size mannequins for her work, though only her assistant Marlene (Hermann) is shown using them.

, 1h30
Directed by Kirby Dick
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities
Actors Kirby Dick

The film chronicles Flanagan for several years leading up to his death in 1996. It explores various aspects of his life, artwork, and philosophy through interviews and other personal footage depicting Flanagan, his partner Sheree Rose, and the Flanagan family. Sick also features Flanagan's home movies, performance videos, and video diaries, as well as an excerpt of Flanagan's performance in the music video for "Happiness in Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails.

, 1h43
Directed by Mike Leigh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films
Actors Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis

Andy (Jim Broadbent), a senior chef in a large London catering facility, buys a dilapidated fast-food van from a disreputable acquaintance named Patsy (Stephen Rea). He plans to clean, restore and put it into service on a local fast-food round. Wendy, his hard-working, good-natured and innuendo-prone wife, (Alison Steadman) is sensibly sceptical about the project but understands her husband's ambitions. Their twin 22-year-old daughters (Natalie and Nicola) have profoundly different attitudes: tomboyish Natalie, who works as a plumber's mate (Claire Skinner), thinks it is a good idea if it will make her father happy, whereas the bitter, shut-in Nicola (Jane Horrocks), contemptuously and typically dismisses Andy as a "Capitalist!" Late at night, an anguished Nicola binges on chocolate and snacks, then forces herself to vomit. Natalie – awake in the next room – overhears her.

Origin Espagne
Genres Documentary
Themes Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Films about disabilities, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film

Yes, We Fuck! présente la sexualité de plusieurs personnes handicapées (le terme employé est personnes dotées de « diversité fonctionnelle », pour mettre en avant des modes de fonctionnement corporel différents plutôt que le handicap). À travers six récits, différentes thématiques sont traitées, notamment l'expérience de sa propre sexualité, la vie en couple, la prostitution, ou encore l'assistance sexuelle.

, 1h27
Directed by David Cronenberg
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about films, Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Snuff films in fiction, Films about suicide, Films about television, BDSM in films, Films about pornography, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films
Actors James Woods, Debbie Harry, Leslie Carlson, David Cronenberg, Julie Khaner, Lally Cadeau

Max Renn (Woods) is the president of CIVIC-TV, a UHF television station in Toronto that specializes in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his station's current lineup, Max is looking for something that will break through to a new audience. One morning, he is summoned to the clandestine office of Harlan (Peter Dvorsky), who operates CIVIC-TV's pirate satellite dish which can intercept international broadcasts. Harlan shows him Videodrome, a plotless show apparently being broadcast out of Malaysia which depicts the brutal torture and murder of anonymous victims in a reddish-orange chamber. Believing this to be the future of television (seemingly staged snuff TV), Max orders Harlan to begin pirating the program.

, 2h4
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw, Stephen Marcus

Quills begins during the Reign of Terror, with the incarcerated Marquis de Sade penning a story about the libidinous Mademoiselle Renard, an aristocrat who meets the preeminent sadist in her executioner.

, 2h19
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Erotic thriller films
Actors Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote, Victor Banerjee, Stockard Channing

British couple, Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona Dobson (Kristin Scott Thomas), are on a Mediterranean cruise ship to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner), and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later Nigel meets her much older and crippled American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote), who is acerbic and cynical, having been jaded and a failure as a writer.