Marnie er en forstyrret pige, der lever af at røve fra sine skiftende arbejdsgivere, men da hun ansættes hos Mark Rutland, kompliceres hendes tilværelse yderligere. Han forelsker sig nemlig i hende, og da han griber hende med fingrene i pengeskabet, tvinger han hende til at gifte sig med ham. Hans plan er at tvinge hende til at blive helbredt, og da han har studeret zoologi, mener han, at han er den rette til jobbet (!). Det er mildt sagt en tåbelig historie, og ligesom i Hitchcocks tidligere Spellbound er det fascinationen af den moderne psykoanalyse, der er det gennemgribende tema, men Marnie har slet ikke den samme naive charme, og det er svært at se gennem fingre med den letkøbte lommepsykologi.
May har altid været fiks på fingrene med saks, nål og tråd og som assistent på en dyreklinik har hun fået en vis kirurgisk grundindsigt. Når det nu er umuligt at finde en rigtig ven, så kan hun måske selv konstruere en? Systematisk udvælger hun de kropsdele, der tiltaler hende hos hendes medmennesker. Hendes ex-kærestes hænder. En kollegas hals. Drømmen om den eneste ene forvandles til et makabert, blodrødt gør-det-selv mareridt...
James og Catherine har mistet gnisten, og deres respektive udenomsægteskabelige affærer er det eneste, der tænder dem. Efter et voldsomt sammenstød mellem James og dr. Helen Remington finder de dog begge en ny sexlyst. Crash viser David Cronenberg i sit es, vulgært kødelig og med et freudiansk sindelag. Filmen blev givet Juryens Specialpris på Cannes af en jury med Francis Ford Coppola i spidsen, da den havde premiere i 1996.
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) er fængselsbetjent med en sæk fuld af hemmeligheder. Hans datter er blevet smidt ud af skolen, og hans kone gør tilnærmelser til en af de indsatte fra Vince’s fængsel, som er blevet løsladt på prøve. Selv sniger Vince sig bort om aftenen angiveligt for at spille poker, men det viser sig, at han har noget helt helt andet for.
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
A partially paralyzed teenager is failing to have sex for the first time. He's eager but clumsy and sickly, so the local country girls reject him. He starts to realize that the only affectionate person in his life is his beautiful mother.
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
Angelina Maccarone's intense drama deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she gets to know Jan, a 16-years-old offender, who frankly offers to submit himself sexually to her. Although being shocked in the beginning, Elsa gets more and more attracted by the young man...
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
Featuring new, previously unseen footage documenting the bizarre and unsettling things that happened to filmmakers David Farrier and Dylan Reeve as Tickled premiered at film festivals and theaters in 2016. Lawsuits, private investigators, disrupted screenings and surprise appearances are just part of what they encounter along the way. Amidst new threats, the duo begins to answer questions that remained once the credits rolled on Tickled, including whether the disturbing behavior they uncovered will ever come to an end.
Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.
Satsuki and Takuya are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki's soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.
Aurora Rumelin is happy because the noble writer Leopold Sacher-Masoch has asked for her hand. Little by little the marriage goes into crisis mainly because Leopold asks his wife to beat him before sexual relations and to treat him like a slave. Both spouses have lovers and, in the end, the marriage ends in divorce.
Dr. Bill Matthews is struck by lighting. While recovering at the hospital where he works, he begins an intimate relationship with Dr. Craig Murphy, who invites Bill to join a strange group of lightning survivors.
The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism, art and love found a way to live decades past his expiration date.
A raucous teen boy with a feminine face is teased everywhere, so his odd biker father dresses him as a girl and sends him to an all-girl school. The lad introduces himself as Sukeban, and a classmate, Michiko, takes him to after-school activities. Lessons on humility turn violent when a masked hatchet-wielding woman turns up. Jealousy, syringes of hormones, bare breasts, a blood bath, and more figure in the resolution.
Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy.