Films

Fetish and BDSM in the cinema

Bondage features frequently in mainstream cinema, BDSM less so.

Mainstream films with a fetish/BDSM Element

• Maîtresse (film) is a 1973 French movie with Gerard Depardieu in an early role
• Mano Destra, BDSM as art. A 1986 Swiss film by Cleo Uebelmann; beautiful and stylish.
• Preaching to the Perverted a 1997 British comedy about the fetish scene in London.
• Secretary is a recent, sympathetic and successful mainstream(ish) film about a BDSM relationship.

Mainstream TV programmes with a fetish/BDSM Element

• The Avengers

Factual programmes

• Fetishes (documentary) a 1996 documentry by Nick Broomfield filmed at Pandora's Box
• SICK: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist a 1997 documentary by Kirby Dick about the life and times (and actual filmed death) of performance artist, writer and and CF sufferer Bob Flanagan.

Other sites that discuss films with a fetish/BDSM Element

list of sites

Fetish and BDSM in pornography

Whats is good and what is bad!