10+ Controversial Movies About BDSM
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10+ Controversial Movies About BDSM

BDSM is a generic term that covers erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism. Inclusion in the community or subculture of BDSM usually depends on identification of self-identification.

It is important to say that BDSM must be practiced with the informed consent of all concerned parties as fundamental principles for the discipline.

 

In literature, the sub-disciplines of BDSM is relatively a long-standing topic and includes many artworks. The list of the BDSM movies also includes films that are based on those novels. It is still a controversial topic for many people. Thus, the films of the list should be also classified as controversial.  However, we made this movie list by selecting only the best artworks of the category. The films that is considered as extreme cinema are definitely excluded. You will see famous and iconic directors such as Michael Haneke, Luis Buñuel,  Lars von Trier etc..

We have made the list for people who are curious about BDSM and stories depicts it. Here are the controversial BDSM movies. 


Beauty of the Day (Belle de Jour) poster

Beauty of the Day (Belle de Jour) (1967)

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage.

1967

7.8/10

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The Piano Teacher (2001)

Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her...

2001

7.5/10

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Bitter Moon (1992)

British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for several years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. ...

1992

7.2/10

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Venus in Fur (2013)

An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.

2013

7.2/10

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Secretary (2002)

An emotionally fragile woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal) recently released from a mental hospital for self mutilation goes to school to gain secretarial skills to gain employment. She has an alcoholic father and a co-dependent mother who are clueless as to who she really is which a tormented soul who really wants to find something with which she can find success. She is a great secretary and finds a job with a unique, old fashioned, but off center in charge boss with a somewhat sadistic sexual proclivity. She grows and evolves and so does he.

2002

7/10

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Spun (2001)

A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues.

2001

6.8/10

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The Night Porter (1974)

Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

1974

6.8/10

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Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013)

Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) continues to tell to Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) the story of her life. Joe (Shia LaBeouf) lives with Jerôme and their son Marcel and out of the blue, she loses sexual sensation in intercourse. Joe seeks kinky sex, perversions and sadomasochism expecting to retrieve her sex drive. Jerôme leaves home with Marcel and gives his son to a foster house for adoption. Then Joe is sent to therapy by her gynecologist but she does not admit that she is addicted to sex. Meanwhile Seligman tells Joe that he is virgin and helps her to understand her actions. Joe believes that Seligman is her friend, but is he?

2013

6.7/10

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Maîtresse (1975)

A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her "train" her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually he discovers that she does this in order to support her son, and he attempts to help her out of this life, which she is not sure she really wants to leave.

1975

6.6/10

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The Duke of Burgundy (2014)

Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.

2014

6.6/10

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Antichrist (2009)

A couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.

2009

6.6/10

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The Story of O (1975)

Story of O is a movie adapted from an erotic novel published in 1954 by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage and published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert. Story of O is a tale of female submission involving a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer named O, who is taught to be constantly available for oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse, offering herself to any male who belongs to the same secret society as her lover.

1975

5.4/10

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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

When Anastasia Steele, a literature student, goes to interview the wealthy Christian Grey as a favor to her roommate Kate Kavanagh, she encounters a beautiful, brilliant and intimidating man. The innocent and naive Ana starts to realize she wants him. Despite his enigmatic reserve and advice, she finds herself desperate to get close to him. Not able to resist Ana's beauty and independent spirit, Christian Grey admits he wants her too, but on his ...

2015

4.1/10

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