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Erotic drama about a passionate affair between two girls at a French boarding school. Newly restored. Introduction by curators Rob King & Ashley West.

Based on the famous literary hoax novel. Metzger's most explicit and playful work. Newly restored DCP.

Adaptation of Jean de Berg's novel about dominance and submission. Metzger's most artistically ambitious erotic film.

A Manhattan call girl juggles clients and her own desires. Metzger's signature blend of elegance and explicit cinema.

The world's best indie erotic film fest. Wildly creative short films (under 5 min each) celebrating pleasure, play, and self-expression.

Gong Li as a young woman sold to an impotent dye-mill owner. She begins a dangerous affair with his nephew. Banned in China for its raw depiction of forbidden desire.

Gong Li carried through sorghum fields, a wild wedding night, raw primal energy. Zhang Yimou's debut — sensual, earthy, intoxicating. Golden Bear winner.

A tailor slowly falls in love with a beautiful courtesan through the intimate act of measuring her body for dresses. Pure Wong Kar-wai sensuality — touch, longing, silk.

Shu Qi drifts through Taipei's nightlife — clubs, cigarettes, toxic love. The opening slow-motion walkway shot is one of cinema's great erotic images.

Young Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche. A disease kills anyone who makes love without feeling. Physical, electric, breathlessly romantic cinema.

Isabelle Adjani's body becomes a battleground of desire, madness, and something inhuman. The subway scene. The kitchen scene. Cinema at its most physically overwhelming.

Juliette Binoche as a witch-like doctor aboard a prison spaceship, harvesting bodily fluids for reproduction experiments. Denis at her most provocative.

Juliette Binoche as a divorced Parisian artist navigating a series of unsatisfying lovers. Opens with one of cinema's great sex scenes.

The Betty/Rita love scene — tender, dreamy, then shattered. Lynch's LA nightmare on 35mm.

Fassbinder's most personal and devastating film. A trans woman's final days — desire, rejection, the body as site of both ecstasy and suffering.