Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

Justine

Based on the depraved and libertine eroticism of the Marquis de Sade's "Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue." A teenager who uses all social methods to preserve her virtue finds instead only incitement to vice.

Justine

Based on the depraved and libertine eroticism of the Marquis de Sade's "Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue." A teenager who uses all social methods to preserve her virtue finds instead only incitement to vice.

Justine

Based on the depraved and libertine eroticism of the Marquis de Sade's "Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue." A teenager who uses all social methods to preserve her virtue finds instead only incitement to vice.

Justine

Based on the depraved and libertine eroticism of the Marquis de Sade's "Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue." A teenager who uses all social methods to preserve her virtue finds instead only incitement to vice.

Justine

In this artistic rendering of De Sade's classic novel, Justine endures extreme torture and violation at the hands of the Marquis De Sade's disciples of pain in a number of perverse practices illustrating that virtue is no match for vice.

120 Days of Sodom

Three libertines, occupying high positions in the political, religious and social spheres, gather in a castle to enjoy the benefits of exacerbated power. For the good progress of their celebrations, they hire prostitutes and fuckers and kidnap young people to satisfy their most outrageous desires. In 120 days of pure debauchery, the limits of human imagination are gradually tested to the last consequences.

The Sentimental Education of Eugenie

The clever and passionate Madame De Saint-Ange has taken into consideration the education of the young and illiterate Eugenie and at the same time wants to seduce Marquis Dolmance, a famous homosexual philosopher. In two days, with the help of her brother, the Cavalier de Mirvel and the young servant Augustin, Madame will bring the company to completion with more or less mischievous geniuses, put in place through a combination of sensuality, eroticism and feeling.

Helter Skelter

Another de Sade hommage by Jess Franco. It was original credited as "Helter Skelter Part One: Pleasure and Pain" but were never followed by a sequel.

Sade en procès

In 1956, the rich French publisher of the works of the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, was summoned to court for violating good morals and publishing pornography. Sade was born in 1755 and already in 1778 he was sentenced to a years-long prison, which was renewed by himself because of the writing of "scandalous" texts. This saved his life after the French revolution, but he soon came into conflict with Robespierre.

120 Days of Sodom

Before the French Revolution came along and spoiled their fun, the rich aristocrats spent most of their time indulging in the pleasures of the flesh - on a grand scale. Huge banquets would be laid out for the so-called “ladies and gentlemen” of the court- with the main course being an orgy of unbridled debauchery. Shot entirely on film by Europe’s acclaimed director Joe D’Amato, 120 Days of Sodom is a lavish period production that lives up to its portrayal of the “beautiful people” and their pursuit of pleasure in every possible form. Shot on location in Europe with an all-star cast from America and abroad, this beautiful, sensual, and provocative film celebrates the art of making love - with a decidedly kinky twist.

Ravissement

A small, empty boudoir slowly becomes populated by a series of young women, their still and open expressions gradually engulfing the screen, as a nun narrates an account of religious rapture. Belgian filmmaker Olivier Smolders continues a brilliant exploration of religious ecstasy, figured in and epitomized by the erotic, death-defying gaze of the camera lens, in this sublime black-and-white treatment set to excerpts from the theological writings of Saint Teresa of Avila. - Robert Avila

La philosophie dans le boudoir

Some footage and shots of expressionless actresses seen in Ravissements are repurposed in La philosophie dans le boudoir / Philosophy in the Boudoir (1991), wherein Smolders takes extracts from the Marquis De Sade’s nutbar text and applies them to scenes of a man in a prison cell, and single or groups of women often standing with the same blank expressions as the man. Perhaps to characterize De Sade’s libertine philosophy and rude text as words and ideas worthy of anyone, Smolders alternates his actors, with several men portraying (presumably) the incarcerated De Sade. - kqek.com

Arietta

A young widow becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She's a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected to every cruel whim concocted by her clients. She's dedicated to the misery - even finding comfort in it - stumbling through life like a zombie.

Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice

A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer’s novels and recruits thieves, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies on stage for the delectation of his rich, jaded friends. In search of new sensations the nobleman orders one of the actors, on pain of death, to make love to the nobleman’s wife while he watches. Unfortunately, this incursion of real life into his fantasy world will have dire consequences for the count and his divinely decadent coterie.

Too Naughty to Say No

Two students at a Catholic girls schools are best friends. One is a shy, withdrawn girl, and the other is a wild, party-'til-you-drop hellraiser. The partier decides to give her "good girl" friend an education in the ways of the world.

Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie

Eugenie is the capricious daughter of a rich diplomat, living in a seaside resort in Spain. She exhibits her young and splendid body in the beach and night-clubs. She feels an incredible adoration for her father who returns his daughter's passion.

Erotic Symphony

Jess Franco film about a woman returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her husband is now living with a man. The two men eventually find a nun who's been raped and the three come up with a plot to kill the wife for her money.

Cruel Passion

Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange desires, perverse pleasures and the ultimate corruption of innocence as told by the Marquis de Sade.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Justine and Juliette

Justine and Juliette is a modern re-telling of the classic sex tale from the Marquis de Sade. Beautiful actresses Marie Forsa and Anne Bie Warburg play two sisters caught in a web of sex and sensual pleasures.

How to Seduce a Virgin

Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven home by her chauffeur, Mathias. She is welcomed by the demented hunchbacked gardener Malou and the mute servant girl Adèle, and impatiently demands the key to her mysterious private chamber. There, set out like exhibits in a waxwork, are the bodies of beautiful girls frozen in postures of terror on the point of death. With Mathias' help, Martine has just added another girl, a prostitute, to her collection when her husband and accomplice, Charles, arrives home with slides of a further prospective victim: Cécile the virginal daughter of a diplomat...

Eugénie de Franval

Reflection on the relationship between image and voice-over in cinema, punctuated by the reading of a short story by Sade recounting the incestuous love of a father for his daughter.

Woods Are Wet

Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.

Eugenie de Sade

Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power so affects her that begins to find herself sexually attracted to her stepfather. He notices this, and eventually brings her into his dark world of sexual perversion and murder.

Justine de Sade

Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her.

Beyond Love and Evil

Loosely adapted from de Sade's play "Philosophy in the Bedroom". Set in the present day, a cult of depraved hedonists cavort at a remote, elegant mansion.

De mes amours décomposées

Fiction based on texts by Baudelaire, Sade, Lovecraft and Lautréamont.

Marquis de Sade: Justine

Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.

L'Âge d'or

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.