BDSM in films

1986 film by David Lynch

2000 film directed by Mary Harron

2015 film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson

EuroTrip is a 2004 American teen sex comedy film directed by Jeff Schaffer, from a screenplay he wrote with Alec Berg and David Mandel. The film was produced by The Montecito Picture Company and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. It stars Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Travis Wester.

1967 film directed by Luis Buñuel

2013 film by Lars von Trier

2011 film by Steve McQueen

2001 film directed by Michael Haneke

Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker in his directorial debut. Based on Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, the film's plot concerns a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between pain and pleasure. It stars Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, and Doug Bradley as the leader of the Cenobites.

1986 film directed by Adrian Lyne

1992 film by Roman Polanski

1976 film by Nagisa Ōshima

2018 film directed by James Foley

2017 film by James Foley

1999 film directed by Joel Schumacher

1999 film by Brian Helgeland

1974 film by Liliana Cavani

1993 film by Robert Altman

2017 film directed by Mike Flanagan

1989 film directed by Mark Goldblatt

2000 film directed by Tarsem Singh

1989 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2013 film directed by Roman Polanski

Shortbus is a 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The plot revolves around a sexually diverse ensemble of colorful characters trying desperately to connect in an early 2000s New York City. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn artistic/sexual salon loosely inspired by various underground NYC gatherings that took place in the early 2000s. According to Mitchell, the film attempts to "employ sex in new cinematic ways because it's too interesting to leave to porn." Shortbus includes a variety of explicit scenes containing non-simulated sexua

Babygirl is a 2024 American erotic thriller film written, directed, and produced by Halina Reijn. The film stars Nicole Kidman as a high-powered CEO who puts her career and family on the line when she begins an affair with a much younger intern (Harris Dickinson). Sophie Wilde and Antonio Banderas also star.

1980 film by William Friedkin

2002 film by Steven Shainberg

1986 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

1984 film by Clint Eastwood, Richard Tuggle

1975 film by Just Jaeckin

2010 film directed by Michael Winterbottom

1989 film by Zalman King

2016 film by Michael Tiddes

2002 film by Vikram Bhatt

Pillion is a 2025 romantic dark comedy drama film written and directed by Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. The film stars Harry Melling as a timid gay man and Alexander Skarsgård as an enigmatic biker who start a BDSM relationship.

1993 American film directed by Uli Edel

1974 film by Lina Wertmüller

2001 film by Takashi Miike

2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright

2017 film by Dome Karukoski

1986 film by Stuart Gordon

2017 film directed by Angela Robinson

2004 film by Christophe Honoré

2011 film directed by Michael Goi

2014 film by Peter Strickland

1990 film directed by Mike Leigh

2023 film directed by JT Mollner

2022 film directed by François Ozon

1998 film by Aleksei Balabanov

1981 film by Shūji Terayama

2008 film directed by Madonna

1971 film by Claude Chabrol

2009 film directed by Scott Sanders

1963 film by Mario Bava

Demonlover is a 2002 French neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, and starring Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, and Gina Gershon. The plot focuses on the entanglement between various corporations vying for the financial control of an interactive 3-D hentai company, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.

1999 film directed by Catherine Breillat

1984 film by Just Jaeckin

2005 film by Mary Harron

2022 film directed by Park Hyun-jin