Highest-Rated Movies about 'Sadomasochism'

Fight Club (1999), The Wages of Fear (1953), The Conformist (1970), Pokiri (2006), Le fantôme de la liberté (1974), Blue Velvet (1986), The Innocents (1961), Blow (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sadomasochism movies.

#16. Bitter Moon (1992)

Storyline: 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. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin.

Plot Keywords: infidelity, extramarital affair, male rear nudity, adultery, adulterous wife, sex game, female nudity ...

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#17. Audition (1999)

Storyline: In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his intention. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami?

Plot Keywords: torture, oral sex, sadism, murder, female frontal nudity, female nudity, woman undressing ...

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#18. Blind Beast (1969)

Storyline: A blind sculpter kidnaps a beautiful young model and takes her back to his home. He and his mother live in a warehouse that he has turned into a surreal tribute to the senses. It is filled with huge sculptures of body parts and the female form. He is obsessed with exploring the senses to the fullest. At first, the model only wants to escape from this bizarre scene, but eventually she succumbs to his strange vision and even surpasses his obsession.—Fred Cabral <ftcabral@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: captive woman, dismemberment, kidnapping, sex, blind man, breasts, nipples ...

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#19. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Storyline: Details the unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941. Marston was in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Elizabeth, a psychologist and inventor in her own right, and Olive Byrne, a former student who became an academic. This relationship was key to the creation of Wonder Woman, as Elizabeth and Olive's feminist ideals were ingrained in the character from her creation. Marston died of skin cancer in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive remained a couple and raised their and Marston's children together. The film is said to focus on how Marston dealt with the controversy surrounding Wonder Woman's creation.

Plot Keywords: polyamory, taboo, comic book, sadomasochism, bisexual, bdsm, lesbian kiss ...

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#20. Payback (1999)

Storyline: Porter is bad, but his neighbours are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie wife. He survives and returns, looking to recover his share from the robbery of an Asian crime gang. The money has passed into the hands of "the Outfit", a slick gangster organisation that runs the city. He has to make his way through a world populated by heroin dealers, prostitutes, sado-masochists, gunmen and crooked cops, a place where torture is a way of life. His only friend is a former employer, a prostitute, and her loyalty is in question, given she now works for the Outfit. He makes good early progress, but then falls into the hands of Fairfax, the crime boss.

Plot Keywords: revenge, anti hero, neo noir, based on novel, greed, tough guy, criminal ...

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#21. Clash by Night (1952)

Storyline: The bitter and cynical Mae Doyle returns to the fishing village where she was raised after deceptive loves and life in New York. She meets her brother, the fisherman Joe Doyle, and he lodges her in his home. Mae is courted by Jerry D'Amato, a good and naive man that owns the boat where Joe works, and he introduces his brutal friend Earl Pfeiffer, who works as theater's projectionist and is cheated by his wife. She does not like Earl and his jokes, but Jerry considers him his friend and they frequently see each other. Mae decides to accept the proposal of Jerry and they get married and one year later they have a baby girl.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: loveless marriage, anger, rumor, gossip, pier, cafe, fishing boat ...

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#22. Time to Leave (2005)

Storyline: Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: Treatment? Work? How to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing death, he pushes people away - what's the point? He visits his grandmother to tell her; on the way, he chats briefly with a waitress. He looks at old photos, visits a childhood tree house. He takes pictures. Returning from his grandmother's, he stops for food and sees the waitress, Jany, again. She makes a request. He returns to an empty flat - his lover has left. Can Jany's proposition give him a way to move past self-pity?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: erection, gay relationship, catholic church, breast feeding, banging head against wall, adultery, french ...

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#23. Seom (2000)

Storyline: Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a fish hook, when he tries to commit suicide.

Plot Keywords: suicide attempt, female nudity, fishing pole, guilt, investigation, island, madness ...

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#24. Koroshiya 1 (2001)

Storyline: When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara?

Plot Keywords: pain, severed foot, exploitation, breasts, gun, rooftop fight, stabbed in the foot ...

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#25. Secretary (2002)

Storyline: An emotionally fragile woman 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.

Plot Keywords: secretary, employer employee relationship, bdsm, submissive woman, pantyhose, sexual fantasy, sexual attraction ...

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#27. Sid and Nancy (1986)

Storyline: Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.

Plot Keywords: vomiting, bruise, camera, camper, champagne, christmas, cigarette smoking ...

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#28. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)

Storyline: Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince her to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up. Will this approach endear him to her?

Plot Keywords: handcuffs, bound and gagged, female masturbation, tied to a bed, lust, misogynist, tied up while barefoot ...

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#29. Hellraiser (1987)

Storyline: When Kirsty's father, Larry, and stepmother, Julia, move into Larry's childhood home, Kirsty and her boyfriend take a room nearby. Unfortunately for all involved, Larry's house is already occupied: before the family's arrival, Larry's disreputable brother, Frank, used a supernatural puzzle box to summon a gang of other-dimensional demon sadists. Now, Frank requires a series of blood sacrifices to escape the clutches of Pinhead and the cenobites.

Plot Keywords: demon, adaptation directed by original author, cult film, british horror, based on novella, hook, sadomasochism ...

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#30. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

Storyline: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. The segments range from "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?" in which a court jester gives an aphrodisiac to the Queen and is, in the end, beheaded to "What Happens During Ejaculation?" in which we watch "control central" during a successful seduction.

Plot Keywords: dildo, television, talking to the camera, actor talks to audience, breaking the fourth wall, looking at the camera, desire ...

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