Murphy is 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 neighbor into their bed.
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
Director:
Gaspar Noé
Stars:
Monica Bellucci,
Vincent Cassel,
Albert Dupontel
A U.S. drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
Director:
Gaspar Noé
Stars:
Nathaniel Brown,
Paz de la Huerta,
Cyril Roy
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adulthood, obsessions and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Director:
Lars von Trier
Stars:
Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Willem Dafoe
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
A horse meat butcher's life and mind begins to breakdown as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Director:
Gaspar Noé
Stars:
Philippe Nahon,
Blandine Lenoir,
Frankie Pain
Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Director:
Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars:
Jacqueline Abrahams,
Roger Ashton-Griffiths,
Jessica Barden
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Director:
Lars von Trier
Stars:
Willem Dafoe,
Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
In London, England, love blooms between an American college student, named Lisa, and a British glaciologist, named Matt, where over the next few months in between attending rock concerts, the two lovers have intense sexual encounters.
Director:
Michael Winterbottom
Stars:
Kieran O'Brien,
Margo Stilley,
The Dandy Warhols
Murphy is 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 neighbor into their bed.
Only lead Karl Glusman was an actor when filming began. Actresses Aomi Muyock and Klara Kristin were not and Gaspar Noé found them accidentally while out partying. He said he would constantly do this, meet beautiful young people and ask them if they wanted to be in the movies but in supporting roles (even though he was testing them for lead roles but he did not want them to get excited and then disappointed). If they showed interest, he would pull out his mobile phone camera and film them to see if they were photogenic and if yes, he would finally have them test with lead Karl Glusman to finalize them for the project. See more »
Goofs
Murphy uses a Loreo 3D camera to take pictures of Electra. At one point he turns the camera on end to shoot. This means the two resulting images will not align correctly to make a single stereoscopic picture.
He also neglects to use the flash in the dimly lit room. See more »
Quotes
Murphy:
I'm a loser. Yeah, just a dick. And dick has no brain. A dick has only one purpose: to fuck. And I fucked it all up. Yeah. I'm good at one thing: fucking things up.
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...not just to film-making as an art, but also to porn. This is by far the most deplorable excuse of a motion picture I have ever seen. The script is what a 9-year-old living in a cave without an Internet connection imagines sex to be like. I've seen better acting in Brazzers. BRAZZERS!!!! The scenes are making 80's porn look like a masterpiece. And the music?!?!? Hahahahah!! Yo, like, how old is Gaspar Noe, mid-50s? I saw he's married, but I don't think he's ever banged his wife in over 20 years and this is the closest thing of ever seeing a naked person on screen. Honestly, after seeing this, I would give Twlight an Oscar. Damn, I would Gigli one, because at least that was so bad that it was hilarious. This is just pure cringe. Don't get me wrong, I've seen Nymphomaniac, Salo, Fat Girl, Last Tango in Paris, Shame, and probably a dozen more 'art films', all good. But this is just cheese-balls central. I honestly don't see how this got Cannes recognition...
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...not just to film-making as an art, but also to porn. This is by far the most deplorable excuse of a motion picture I have ever seen. The script is what a 9-year-old living in a cave without an Internet connection imagines sex to be like. I've seen better acting in Brazzers. BRAZZERS!!!! The scenes are making 80's porn look like a masterpiece. And the music?!?!? Hahahahah!! Yo, like, how old is Gaspar Noe, mid-50s? I saw he's married, but I don't think he's ever banged his wife in over 20 years and this is the closest thing of ever seeing a naked person on screen. Honestly, after seeing this, I would give Twlight an Oscar. Damn, I would Gigli one, because at least that was so bad that it was hilarious. This is just pure cringe. Don't get me wrong, I've seen Nymphomaniac, Salo, Fat Girl, Last Tango in Paris, Shame, and probably a dozen more 'art films', all good. But this is just cheese-balls central. I honestly don't see how this got Cannes recognition...