Source: SBS Movies
Here are only a few examples of the torrid films, including some R rated films you can’t see anywhere else on Australian television, that will light your fire all throughout January:
Love
Friday 1 January
(France/Belgium, 2015)
Gaspar Noé's (Irreversible) controversial new film tells the story of Murphy, an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbour into their bed.
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Source: SBS Movies
Duke of Burgundy
Monday 4 January
(UK/Hungary, 2015)
Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) stars in Peter Strickland's new movie, a treat for both the senses and the intellect. Two women act out a simple yet provocative daily ritual that ends in both pleasure and pain. When one of the women yearns for a more conventional relationship, her partner's obsession with erotic spellmaking quickly becomes an addiction that may push the relationship to its breaking point.
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Source: SBS Movies
Welcome to New York
Saturday 9 January
(USA/France, 2014)
This film by Abel Ferrara was inspired by the 2011 scandal relating to the sexual assault by the then-head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn on a maid at a New York hotel. Gérard Depardieu stars as Mr. Devereaux, a powerful man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger.
Source: SBS Movies
The Smell of Us
Saturday 16 January
(France, 2014)
Larry Clark, the scandalous director of Ken Park continues his observation of youth subcultures, and the sex, drug and violence surrounding them. Twenty years after his powerful and raw movie Kids, Clark focusses on a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris, some of whom revert to prostitution to fuel their lifestyle.
Source: SBS Movies
Young & Beautiful
Tuesday 19 January
(France, 2013)
French director François Ozon (8 Women, In the House) draws the portrait of a 17 year-old girl over four seasons and four songs. After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts, but showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
Watch our interview with director François Ozon
Source: SBS Movies
Enter the Void
Friday 22 January
(France/Germany/Italy/Canada, 2009)
By the Love director, Enter the Void follows an American drug dealer living with his sister, a stripper, in Tokyo, who is hit by a bullet during a police raid in a night club. While he lies dying, his soul, faithful to the promise made to his sister to never abandon her, refuses to leave the world of the living. His mind then wanders through the city on an hallucinatory and nightmarish trip.
Source: SBS Movies
Sex and Lucia
Saturday 23 January
(Spain/France, 2001)
A Madrid waitress, Lucia (Paz Vega), is mourning the loss of her boyfriend, a young novelist who died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. Unable to come to terms with his death, she takes a trip to a Mediterranean island, which hols the key to some elements of his novels, and tries to reconcile her unresolved feelings while sorting through the events of the confusing weeks leading up to his death.
Watch the original Movie Show review
Source: SBS Movies
In the Cut
Thursday 28 January
(Australia/USA/UK, 2003)
With her thriller In the Cut, New Zealand's acclaimed director Jane Campion (The Piano) gave America's then-sweetheart Meg Ryan her most controversial role as a New York writing professor, who engages in an erotic affair with a police detective (Mark Ruffalo) investigating a murder in her neighbourhood.
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Source: SBS Movies
Don Jon
Sunday 31 January
(USA, 2013)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt directs this clever comedy following a young man from New Jersey whose porn surfing habits have skewed their expectations about sex. When he falls for the beautiful Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), he struggles to enjoy "regular" sex with her, and it takes some tough talk (by the always perfect Julianne Moore), to get him come to er, grips, with his issues.
Source: SBS Movies
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