Oh good! You found us.
We’re an on-demand movie theater where you can discover hand-picked films from festivals and collections around
the world. We make it easy for you to find films you’ll love, no matter what your interests are.
Employing a complex multi-narrative structure, PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS dramatizes case histories of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, drawn from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. Among the cases are a sexually repressed man who discovers an unhealthy appetite for blood; a homosexual man who submits himself to a doctor who promises to 'cure' his condition; and a masochist who hires a pair of corseted prostitutes to enact a most peculiar performance. In the final chapter, a woman who has spent her life suppressing her lesbian desires is hired to tutor a sexually curious young woman. These stories are bound together by the thread of an ambitious doctor who not only studies the patients but uses them as pawns and playthings.
GENRES
Cast & Crew
- Zoë Cooper - Shepherdess
- Ted Manson - Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
- Daniel Thomas May - J.H.
- Patrick L. Parker - Emil Fourquet
- Steven Westdahl - Joseph Vacher
Festivals
Related Films
-
Kingdom of Shadows
Narrated by Academy Award® winner Rod Steiger (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), KINGDOM OF SHADOWS is a haunting, sometimes shocking documentary that explores the evolution of horror in world cinema with a danse macabre of religion, science, carnivals, sex, nightmares, monstrosity and death. More than fifty...Start your free trial to watch
-
Let Me Die a Woman
From Doris Wishman, the “Queen of Exploitation,” comes LET ME DIE A WOMAN, one of the most jaw-dropping and unclassifiable films ever to ooze forth from the 1970s grindhouse. A stunningly sordid shockumentary on the medical condition known as gender dysphoria, this doco-style sleaze-fest includes...Start your free trial to watch
-
The Little Death
An erotic thriller from the director of PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel where a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) and a corrupter of innocence battle over the fate of a young woman (Christie Vozniak) who seems to be held...Start your free trial to watch
-
Olga's Girls
Headquartered in New York’s Chinatown (where Communists provide a steady stream of dangerous drugs from the Orient), sadist Olga Saglo deals in narcotics and white slavery. Her drug-addicted slaves, brutally tortured for the slightest offense, rely on each other for comfort. When Olga suspects there is an informant among...Start your free trial to watch
Reviews
(see the best reviews)Join the conversation. Log in or subscribe to write a review!
A fascinating critical examination of Dr. Kraff-Ebing's narrow-minded treatment of so-called abnormal sexual behavior. It suffered from an unimaginative and overtly serious re-telling of some of his case histories. More scenes like the shadow puppets performance of necromancy would have made it more powerful.
For any lesbian who has ever had a crush on a special female teacher or felt she was in love with a favorite same-sex professor...a very erotic scene is yours if you can wade through the rest of this. Four stars for their romance and lovemaking only