Maria Beatty
Director · Caracas, Venezuela
Maria Beatty has produced and directed films for over thirty years that are on the cutting edge of art and female eroticism. A precursor of the so-called new wave of “erotic noir,” she is renown for her profound explorations of female sexuality, body politics and lesbian desires. Her vision is inspired by expressionist German cinema, French surrealism, American film noir, and gay underground filmmakers such as Jean Genet and Kenneth Anger, who set new standards in erotic cinema.
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Movie4.8DocumentaryMutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archives about the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances.
Movie4.8DocumentaryDIDN'T DO IT FOR LOVE is a documentary portrait of Eva Norvind, a.k.a. Mistress Ava Taurel, born Eva Johanne Chegodaieva Sakonskaya in Trondheim, Norway. The film follows Eva's many careers, from her time as a showgirl in Paris to becoming Mexico's Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s to establishing herself as New York's most famous dominatrix in the 1980s. Using clips from Norvind's Mexican films, stills from various periods, and interviews with friends, partners and family, Treut's documentary traces Eva's search for the wellspring of her obsessive and dark sexuality.
Didn't Do It For Love
1998 · 4 votes
Movie5.7RomanceThis nouveau, sleekly produced film features the story of a unique lesbian S&M relationship between a mistress and her maid. Enter their fantasy: a seductive chain of nostalgically hot images, shocking, amusing and dripping with sexual perversion. The masquerade of dominance and submission is performed in the spirit of decadence, sexual freedom and spiritual abandonment. Goddess Rosemary is a hypnotic dancer with a beautiful body who seduces and punishes her Kitty. She knows how to snap the desire, feed the soul and materialize the unrelenting passion of kitty.
The Elegant Spanking
1995 · 3 votes
Movie7.0The Seven Deadly Sins reveals a new setting for a mistress and her young maid: the roaring 20's when decadence was a privilege. The mistress is an expert in the art of sensual torment, and she punishes her servant in a re-enactment of the lessons of Seven Deadly Sins.
The Seven Deadly Sins
2002 · 1 votes
Movie4.5FantasyTwo women are bonded by strange rituals; a blurred sense of blood relation portrayed through a game of domination, submission, voyeurism and cruel tenderness.
Let the Punishment Fit the Child
1997 · 4 votes
Movie5.9The brooding aura of total sexual abandon is present in every gesture, every slap & caress in this theatre of passion. The flame of the candle that illuminates and torments, reveals the wondrous form of the willing submissive, whose haunting wide eyes and full moist parted lips recall the classic silent screen goddesses Pola Negri, Louise Brooks … but they never dared reveal themselves so totally, so openly to the camera’s eager and demanding gaze.
The Black Glove
1996 · 7 votes