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Jessica Chastain as a powerful socialite begins a dangerous erotic affair with a young ballet dancer. Tense, carnal age-gap drama from the director of New Order.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff. Fennell described her intent as "primal, sexual" — desire gives way to obsession and vengeance. From the director of Saltburn.

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.

A country boy arrives in 1930s Shanghai and is swept into the world of a Triad boss and his captivating mistress Gong Li. Gangster drama charged with her magnetic, siren-like presence.

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

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

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

A controlling 1950s London couturier (Daniel Day-Lewis) has his meticulous life disrupted by a young woman who becomes his muse and lover. Obsession, power, desire, and the erotic pull of control.

Two neighbors discover their spouses are having an affair and are drawn to each other. Perhaps the greatest film about suppressed desire ever made. Every frame aches with unspoken longing.

Irène Jacob plays dual roles — two women connected by a mysterious bond. Deeply sensual, almost mystical. Her luminous physicality is central. Q&A with Irène Jacob on Apr 25.

Based on the famous literary hoax novel. A radio host's wife seduces various men to get revenge on her cheating husband. Metzger's most playful erotic satire. Newly restored DCP.

A 19-year-old postal clerk obsessively watches his beautiful neighbor through a telescope. Voyeurism, longing, and the raw vulnerability of desire. Expanded from Dekalog VI.

The legendary seducer Giacomo Casanova through a series of erotic encounters across 18th-century Europe. Lavish, dreamlike Fellini spectacle exploring sensuality and emptiness.

Adaptation of Jean de Berg's novel about dominance and submission. Metzger's most artistically ambitious erotic film. Intro by curators Rob King & Ashley West.

A Sicilian laborer's romantic and sexual entanglements become inseparable from political machinations. Classic Italian erotic-political comedy. New 4K restoration.

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

A young woman in 1940s Shanghai is recruited to seduce and assassinate a powerful collaborator (Tony Leung). NC-17 explicit sex scenes central to the plot. Venice Golden Lion winner.

Two lovelorn Hong Kong cops and the mysterious women who orbit them. Intoxicating, romantic, kinetic — saturated with longing and playful sensuality. Wong Kar-wai at his most alive.

A young female chef encounters her abuser and lures him into an affair through her mastery of Thai cuisine. Erotic revenge thriller shot by Christopher Doyle (Wong Kar-wai's DP). Stars Tadanobu Asano.

Set in high-end courtesans' quarters of 1890s Shanghai. Hypnotic, languid, opium-scented atmosphere. Sensuality woven into every frame — achingly, intoxicatingly sensuous.

Continuation of In the Mood for Love's themes of desire and memory. Tony Leung drifts through a series of erotic encounters, each woman a reflection of the one he lost. Gorgeous and aching.