Considering the widespread popularity of bdsm subculture it is no wonder that the number of bdsm movies and drawings, bdsm fashion accessories and other kinds of bdsm artwork is also great.
Bdsm movies range from amateur pictures shot with a hand-held camera to cinematographic masterpieces like 9 1/2 Weeks starring world-renowned actors and boasting various awards and huge box-office receipts.
Bdsm movies can be explicitly pornographic or erotic or very symbolic and only imply bdsm orientation in partner sexual relationship. Different Internet bdsm communities have large bdsm libraries with all kinds of bdsm movies one could think of. Some bdsm movies are comedies, other bdsm movies are thrillers, yet more bdsm movies are just home videos, and they all reveal such bdsm practices as bondage, discipline, sadism and/or masochism in greater or lesser degree.
One of the famous bdsm movies that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival of 1967 is Belle de jour by Louis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve acting out Severine Serizy's masochistic fantasies; more bdsm movies include The Story of O by Henry-Georges Clouzot based on the celebrated novel by Anne Desclos of the same name and giving the bdsm world a number of symbols and terms such as SAMOIS. The “O” here represents a woman as an object, or simply means any orifice. Such bdsm movies as Maitresse with Gerard Depardieu, 9 1/2 Weeks with Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger, the Basic Instinct with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, and the Bitter Moon with Hugh Grant cannot but be singled out as well.
The pop icon, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Ritchie, known as Madonna also starred in some bdsm movies, including the Body of Evidence (1993).
Other bdsm movies that are worth mentioning are Tightrope (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Venus in Furs (1994), Exit to Eden (1994), The Piano Teacher (2001), Secretary (2002), etc. |