BY JOANNA C. VALENTE

Most of these need no introduction. And if you don't know about them, just watch them. You won't regret it. Or maybe you will...and that's part of the point.

1. Secretary

Secretary (2002) Official Trailer - Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader Movie HD Subscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u43jDe Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/1QyRMsE Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

2. The Piano Teacher

Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. Watch Michael Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher' as part of our Isabelle Huppert Collection on Curzon Home Cinema: http://bit.ly/CHCThePianoTeacher

3. Belle De Jour

Screen icon Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion) plays Severine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs cold with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clémenti), and ignites an obsession that will court peril.

4. Nymphomaniac

Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 TRAILER 1 (2014) - Christian Slater, Shia LaBeouf Movie HD A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.

5. Kuso

Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, Kuso is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles' worst quake nightmare. Travel between screens and between aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.

6. The Night Porter

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7. Maitresse

Maîtresse (1976) - Barbet Schroeder (Trailer) | BFI. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI Barbet Schroeder's Maîtresse (1976), starring a youthful Gérard Depardieu and Bulle Ogier as leather-clad dominatrix Ariane, caused controversy with its graphic scenes of torture and fetishism. Originally confined to a handful of club cinemas upon its release, it was then given an 'X' certificate in 1981 after the BBFC requested a number of cuts.

8. Crash

Trailer for David Cronenberg's Crash (1996).

9. Sex, Lies, & Videotape

Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a 1989 independent film that brought director Steven Soderbergh to prominence. It tells the story of a man who films women discussing their sexuality, and his impact on the relationship of a troubled married couple. With: James Spader, Andie MacDowell

10. Thirst

Attention Asian horror buffs! Coming soon to limited release is Park Chan-Wook's latest, Thirst. When a botched medical experiment turns a Catholic priest into a vampire, the end result leaves him thirsty, but not only for human blood.

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.