A sadomasochistic Killer is out to murder a beautiful dancer. Drugs seduction and hate fill the screen. But Concetta the dancer still believes that love conquers all.

Daughters of Darkness

1971

English

6.5

♡ 10

84%

husband wife relationship

Harry Kümel Director

Delphine Seyrig as Countess Bathory

Paul Esser as Hotel clerk

Georges Jamin as Retired Policeman

John Karlen as Stefan / Valerie's husband

Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.

Preaching to the Perverted

1997

English

5.8

♡ 9

83%

Stuart Urban Director

Georgina Hale as Miss Wilderspin

Roger Lloyd Pack as Mr. Cutts Watson

Guinevere Turner as Tanya Cheex

Coral Beed as Tanya's Priestess

A computer wizard infiltrates a London sex club to get evidence for a shutdown, but falls for the proprietress.

How Much Do You Love Me?

♡ 32

relationship problems

Romance

sadomasochism

Bertrand Blier Director

Gérard Depardieu as Charly

Monica Bellucci as Daniela

Bertrand Blier as Le client de Muguet

Sara Forestier as Muguet

After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.

The Night Porter

1974

Italian

6.6

♡ 22

67%

Liliana Cavani Director

Marino Masé as Atherton

Manfred Freyberger as Dobson

Charlotte Rampling as Lucia

Dirk Bogarde as Max

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

Martha

1974

German

7.5

♡ 10

86%

88%

Action

Drama

husband wife relationship

marriage

neglect of one's spouse

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Günter Lamprecht as Dr. Herbert Salomon

Peter Chatel as Kaiser

Wolfgang Schenck as Meister

Kurt Raab as Secretary - German embassy

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.

Blind Beast

1969

Japanese

7.0

♡ 9

100%

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Mako Midori as Aki / Model

Eiji Funakoshi as Michio / sculpter

Noriko Sengoku as Michio's Mother

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.

Fairy in a Cage

1977

Japanese

5.3

♡ 18

Kôyû Ohara Director

Naomi Tani as Kikushima / Jewelry shop owner

Ken Mizoguchi as Military policeman A

Tatsuya Hamaguchi as Sennosuke Inoue / Actor

Hiroshi Gojô as Shimojima / student rebel

During World War II a moral corrupt judge uses the military police to falsely accuse and imprison a high class business woman who captures his eye at a party. In his personal underground dungeon he subjects her to various humiliations and sexual abuse.

Tokyo Decadence

1992

Japanese

5.9

♡ 35

71%

Ryû Murakami Director

Hiroshi Mikami as

Yayoi Kusama as Fortuneteller

Kan Mikami as Man in Restaurant

Chie Sema as Opera Woman

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

The Number 23

2007

English

6.4

♡ 113

7%

56%

Action

based on novel or book

psychological thriller

sadomasochism

suicide

Thriller

Joel Schumacher Director

Tara Karsian as Box Company Clerk

Rhona Mitra as Laura Tollins

Logan Lerman as Robin Sparrow

Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow / Fingerling

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

Loose Cannons

1990

English

4.9

♡ 11

Bob Clark Director

Tobin Bell as Gerber

Alex Hyde-White as Moderator

Thomas Kopache as TV Station Man

Leon Rippy as Weskit

Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning-fast deductions. But he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.

The Duke of Burgundy

2014

English

6.5

♡ 27

94%

dominance submissiveness

Peter Strickland Director

Sidse Babett Knudsen as Cynthia

Eugenia Caruso as Dr. Fraxini

Kata Bartsch as Dr. Lurida

Chiara D'Anna as Evelyn

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.

Baby Girl

2018

English

2.9

♡ 3

Kevin Van Stevenson Director

Sara Catherine Bellamy as Cody Fields

Cory Tucker as Detective Antonio Velez

Art Roberts as Gas Man

Jonathan Adam Cousens as Gimp #1

Unspeakable grief and the seductive explorations of young adulthood lead Cody, a beautiful 18-year-old girl, into a tawdry world of sex, drugs and sadomasochism. When Cody meets a mysterious and provocative new friend Diablo, she finds herself experimenting with enhanced forms of eroticism through pain, pleasure, exhibitionism and more.... The turmoil of losing her father and rebelling against her mother blur the lines between fantasy, humiliation and friendship. As Cody sorts through painful memories and discovers secrets locked in her psyche, Diablo takes her on a shocking thrill-ride. A terrifying, yet titillating story pushing boundaries that you'll never forget.

Order of Death

1983

English

5.5

♡ 4

psychological thriller

sadomasochism

Thriller

Roberto Faenza Director

Leonard Mann as Bob Carvo

John Lydon as Leo Smith

Harvey Keitel as Lt. Fred O'Connor

Sylvia Sidney as Margaret Smith

A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.

In a Glass Cage

1986

Spanish

6.7

♡ 4

Agustí Villaronga Director

Ricardo Carcelero as Angelo Niño

Günter Meisner as Klaus

David Cuspinera as Niño barracon

Josuè Guasch as Niño Cantor

A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung.

The Whip and the Body

1963

Italian

6.6

♡ 4

Mario Bava Director

Harriet Medin as Giorgia

Christopher Lee as Kurt Menliff

Daliah Lavi as Nevenka

Jacques Herlin as Priest

Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.

The Story of O

1975

French

5.3

♡ 28

33%

45%

Action

based on novel or book

Just Jaeckin Director

Corinne Cléry as O

Udo Kier as Rene

Anthony Steel as Sir Stephen

Martine Kelly as Therese

The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

1962

Italian

6.3

♡ 7

80%

Riccardo Freda Director

Lamberto Antinori as (as Spencer Williams)

Barbara Steele as Cynthia Hichcock

Silvano Tranquilli as Dr. Kurt Lowe

Robert Flemyng as Prof. Bernard Hichcock

In late 19th century London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.