Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-the-marquis-de-sade"

1. Se7en (1995)

R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker

Votes: 1,799,026 | Gross: $100.13M

2. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

TV-MA | 117 min | Drama

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti

Votes: 65,832

3. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Levi Stubbs

Votes: 86,385 | Gross: $38.75M

4. Swimming Pool (2003)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance, Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Marie Lamour

Votes: 48,345 | Gross: $10.11M

5. The Howling (1981)

R | 91 min | Horror

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone

Votes: 40,206 | Gross: $17.99M

6. Nine (2009)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori

Votes: 45,256 | Gross: $19.68M

7. One from the Heart (1981)

R | 107 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A couple has a fight after living together 5 years in Las Vegas. They go out and celebrate 4th of July, each with a new partner. Breakup?

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski

Votes: 7,236 | Gross: $0.64M

8. Slacker (1990)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey

Votes: 23,472 | Gross: $1.23M

9. The Big Feast (1973)

NC-17 | 130 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi

Votes: 14,704

10. Savage Grace (2007)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

A dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...

Director: Tom Kalin | Stars: Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Stephen Dillane, Anne Reid

Votes: 12,058 | Gross: $0.43M

11. Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site, unleashing unspeakable horror.

Director: Crispian Mills | Stars: Jassa Ahluwalia, Asa Butterfield, Jamie Blackley, Finn Cole

Votes: 16,296 | Gross: $0.00M

12. Waxwork (1988)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Horror

A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.

Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Jennifer Bassey, Joe Baker

Votes: 14,037 | Gross: $0.81M

13. Liberté (2019)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History

Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.

Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Helmut Berger, Marc Susini, Iliana Zabeth, Laura Poulvet

Votes: 1,397

14. The Night of the Generals (1967)

Not Rated | 148 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 8,777

15. Beginner's Guide to Sex (2015)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy

After experiencing a series of sexually related mishaps, a high school adds sexual education to its curriculum to rehabilitate the student body, and hires Laci Cox to teach it - the only catch is Laci is a virgin.

Director: Andrew Drazek | Stars: Whitney Moore, Tom Arnold, Laura Cayouette, Colby Arps

Votes: 695

16. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)

R | 90 min | Drama

Penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful, chaste orphan must endure an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who covet her virtue and life.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Romina Power, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter

Votes: 2,049

17. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, Martita Hunt

Votes: 10,231

18. L'Age d'Or (1930)

Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Drama

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst

Votes: 14,808 | Gross: $0.03M

19. Getting Straight (1970)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.

Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey

Votes: 1,644 | Gross: $3.86M

20. Barcelona (1994)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An American working in Barcelona, having sworn off beautiful women, is forced to be host to his playboy cousin in this witty comedy of good intentions and mixed signals.

Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Tushka Bergen, Mira Sorvino

Votes: 6,654 | Gross: $7.27M

21. How Sweet It Is! (1968)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy

Photographer Grif Henderson is assigned a photo shoot in Paris. He decides to take his wife Jenny and his hippie son Davey with him on the shoot. Jenny unknowingly rents a house that ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: James Garner, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Ronet, Terry-Thomas

Votes: 788

22. The Skull (1965)

Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Thriller

A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by an evil spirit.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett

Votes: 3,580

23. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1977)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama

Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Boger | Stars: Koo Stark, Martin Potter, Lydia Lisle, Katherine Kath

Votes: 572

24. The Milky Way (1969)

M/PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob

Votes: 8,094

25. The People Who Own the Dark (1976)

R | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search ... See full summary »

Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Nadiuska, Alberto de Mendoza, Teresa Gimpera, Emiliano Redondo

Votes: 506

26. Lunacy (2005)

Not Rated | 118 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Martin Huba

Votes: 3,951 | Gross: $0.05M

27. Incubus (2002 Video)

88 min | Horror

Twenty years ago an artist made a deal with a mysterious woman. In return for a successful life he would give his unborn daughter to her. Now with his daughter Lucy an adult, the strange woman has come to collect.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Carsten Frank, Carina Palmer, Fata Morgana

Votes: 272

28. The Reader (1988)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her... See full summary »

Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Miou-Miou, Christian Ruché, Sylvie Laporte, Michel Raskine

Votes: 1,811 | Gross: $0.70M

29. They Have Changed Their Face (1971)

92 min | Drama, Horror

In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.

Director: Corrado Farina | Stars: Adolfo Celi, Geraldine Hooper, Giuliano Esperati, Francesca Modigliani

Votes: 585

30. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)

178 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his ... See full summary »

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt

Votes: 1,704

31. Vice and Virtue (1963)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTURE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers Roger Vadim.

Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse

Votes: 426

32. I, Marquis de Sade (1967)

73 min | Drama, Horror

Tale of a writer, obsessed with the Marquis De Sade, who begins to live out De Sade's violent sexual fantasies.

Director: Richard Hilliard | Stars: Sheldon Pearson, Cindy Ellis, Penelope, Ann Grant

Votes: 71

33. Howlings in Favour of De Sade (1952)

64 min | Drama

The director renders tribute to the Marquis of Sade without images. The screen is white when the testimonies speak, and black when they don't, in this experimental film.

Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Serge Berna, Isidore Isou, Barbara Rosenthal

Votes: 201

34. Enigma: Sadeness - Part I (1990 Music Video)

4 min | Music

Official music video for Sadeness - Part I by Enigma

Director: Michel Guimbard | Stars: Sandra, Kati Tastet

Votes: 67

35. Venom and Eternity (1951)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and ... See full summary »

Director: Isidore Isou | Stars: Isidore Isou, Jean-Louis Barrault, Blanchette Brunoy, Blaise Cendrars

Votes: 452

36. Tre tigri contro tre tigri (1977)

115 min | Comedy

An Italian priest met an American priest and discover how are different their lives, a guy escaped from prison is seduced by a gorgeous woman but there is a trick, and a layer is engaged by a mad client.

Directors: Sergio Corbucci, Steno | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Cochi Ponzoni, Enrico Montesano, Dalila Di Lazzaro

Votes: 344

37. La philosophie dans le boudoir (1991)

14 min | Short

Extracts from the De Sade's nutbar text and applies them to scenes of a man in a prison cell, and single or groups of women often standing with the same blank expressions as the man.

Director: Olivier Smolders | Stars: Jean-François Stévenin, Sylvaine Maias, Marc Chapiteau, Aurélia Alcaïs

Votes: 57

38. Jean-Paul Marat förföljd och mördad så som det framställs av patienterna på hospitalet Charenton under ledning av herr de Sade (1967 TV Movie)

110 min | Drama

Set at Charenton mental hospital July 13, 1808. A play about Charlotte Cordays murder of the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat July 13, 1793, is staged by the committed patient, Marquis de Sade.

Director: Tom Segerberg | Stars: Gustav Wiklund, Pehr-Olof Sirén, Hilkka Östman, Gösta Bredefeldt

39. Le procès d'Emma Bovary (2021 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary, History

At the end of January 1857, Gustave Flaubert was sitting in the dock of the sixth correctional chamber of Paris, accused of insulting public morality and religion because of his novel "... See full summary »

Director: Audrey Gordon | Stars: Julian Barnes, Sophie Barthes, Natalia Dontcheva, Régis Jauffret

Votes: 20

40. Ortel (2000 TV Movie)

99 min | Drama

The story of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, master of dramatic points and surprisingly unfolding stories, depicts an early evening of Alfredo Traps, a successful business traveler. Our hero is ... See full summary »

Director: Frantisek Filip | Stars: Václav Postránecký, Radovan Lukavský, Ludek Munzar, Radoslav Brzobohatý

Votes: 11

41. La prise de la Bastille heure par heure (2022 TV Special)

44 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Paris, July 14, 1789. The kingdom has been in crisis for several months, and the city is buzzing with unrest. Citizens are angry and have had enough of inequality, unemployment and hunger. ... See full summary »

Director: Juliette Desbois | Stars: Mirabelle Kirkland, William Doyle, Guillaume Mazeau, Jean-Christian Petitfils

Votes: 16

42. Enigma: Sadeness - Part II (2016 Music Video)

4 min | Music

Official music video for "Sadeness - Part II" by Enigma.

Director: Thomas Job | Star: Anggun

Votes: 22

43. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: Mona Sammy (1970)

TV-G | 24 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Endora zaps in a picture of Samantha's look-a-like aunt (Serena's mother?) painted by Leonardo Da Vinci and then puts Darrin's name on it. Larry demands that he paint Louise's picture.

Director: Luther James | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White

Votes: 260

44. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: Your Witch Is Showing (1965)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Darrin suspects that his new assistant is a warlock out to get him.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Alex Gerry

Votes: 408

45. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Slaves of Las Vegas (2001)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The death of a woman named Mona whose body was dumped in a sand pit leads Grissom and Catherine to a fetish club run by Lady Heather. Since Mona was a dominant, Lady Heather was surprised ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 1,012

46. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Cyrano/The Magician (1981)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Philadelphian Marjorie Denton seeks the most chivalrous romantic man of all time and meets Cyrano de Bergerac; Cleveland magician Timothy Potter trying to perfect his craft faces a huge problem after he makes his assistant Suva vanish.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Wendy Schaal, Lloyd Bochner

Votes: 68

47. Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990)
Episode: The Charnel Pit (1990)

TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A two-sided painting acts as a portal back to the time of the Marquis de Sade.

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Louise Robey, Steve Monarque, Chris Wiggins, Neil Munro

Votes: 126

48. Jack of All Trades (2000)
Episode: X Marquis the Spot (2000)

22 min | Adventure, Action, Comedy

Em and Jack visit a luxury resort to recover the Crown of King George. However, the place turns out to be Marquis de Sade's private S&M haven called the Agony Island. Jack must pretend to be Em's "pet" long enough to recover the crown.

Director: Eric Gruendemann | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Angela Marie Dotchin, Stuart Devenie, Stephen Papps

Votes: 72

49. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Stalked (1999)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An ADA who had worked on sex crimes is raped and murdered. The detectives suspect it may have been someone whom she had prosecuted.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek

Votes: 1,193

50. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: The Cell Within (1989)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tubbs is held prisoner by a "reformed" psycho he put away years ago, who is obsessed with eradicating crime through extreme methods.

Director: Michael B. Hoggan | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 285