The 10 best BDSM movies (Images are NSFW)

​BDSM-themed movies, and films with hot kink scenes in them provide us with two very important things: mainstream popular-culture acceptance, and something to jerk the gerk/smack the peach to when we're bored.

Depictions of BDSM in film can be serious, campy, ridiculous, artistic, graphic, funny or just plain hot, but all of them are memorable. We would have a gaping hole in our collective cultural consciousness without ever seeing Dennis Hopper huffing nitrous oxide and domming Isabella Rossellini, or James Spader ordering Maggie Gyllenhaal to bend over the desk. Filling that hole is our top ten list of the best BDSM movies -- you know you want them.

​10. The Story of O (1975).
Between the then-classy-now-campy sets, costumes -- or lack thereof -- and crazy 1970s pube bushes, this film is based on the Pauline Réage book of the same name, and one of the few movies that is actually better than the book.

​9. Blue Velvet (1986).
Nothing says "I love you" like Isabella Rossellini begging Kyle MacLachlan to hit her in lieu of foreplay, and Dennis Hopper's sociopathic, drug-huffing character is a classic for the ages. David Lynch deserved an Oscar for this film. Or at least some rough sex afterward.

​8. 9 ½ Weeks (1986).
The 1980s gave us some of the most intense BDSM movie scenes, including Kim Basinger getting iced, getting girly, and getting herself off. This film taught us that food isn't just for eating, and Mickey Rourke didn't look so much like a boiled ham back then.

​7. Body of Evidence (1993).
Madonna getting handcuffed and buggered is almost as awesome as Willem Dafoe just being in the movie, period. The plot was hole-ier than a pegboard, but we get to see Julianne Moore in the buff, which is never a bad thing.

​6. The Pet (2006).\
Servitude can be beautiful -- with lots of naked -- and this movie appeals to the submissives at heart. Also, the archetypal rich male benefactor-dominant is well-portrayed. This movie is relatively low-budget and harder to locate, but well worth the effort.