Maria Beatty

Directing

Maria Beatty

Place of birth

Caracas, Venezuela

Known for

Directing

Credits

47 titles

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.

Known for

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism poster
4.8

Mutantes 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.

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

2009

Sluts & Goddesses poster
7.0

A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.

Sluts & Goddesses

1992

Didn't Do It For Love poster
4.8

DIDN'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

Boy in a Bathtub poster
1.0

At the height of the 1920's Paris, Flora, a beautiful courtesan and a kept woman by a famous surgeon falls madly in love with Virgil, a cherubin florist, 20 years younger than her who wants to become a painter.

Boy in a Bathtub

2006

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets poster
5.0

Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Also expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired social change.

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

1989

Ladies of the Night poster
7.3

A young woman is kidnapped off the street by a gang of sex criminals, and taken to a deserted mansion where she is subjected to various torments.

Ladies of the Night

1998

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

Didn't Do It For Love poster
4.8

DIDN'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

The Elegant Spanking poster
5.7

This 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

Let the Punishment Fit the Child poster
4.5

Two 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

The Black Glove poster
5.9

The 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

A Lot of Fun for the Evil One poster
NR

Where art & erotica meet! Using a series of exciting sex games in which sadism and punishment are central, dark masturbation tales are portrayed. On the soundtrack, John Zorn & David Shea inter-wires with mastery magician Aleister Crowley with sound of acoustic instruments to an invigorating soundscape.

A Lot of Fun for the Evil One

1994

Behind the camera

Sluts & Goddesses poster
7.0

A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.

Sluts & Goddesses

1992

Sluts & Goddesses poster
7.0

A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.

Sluts & Goddesses

1992

Boy in a Bathtub poster
1.0

At the height of the 1920's Paris, Flora, a beautiful courtesan and a kept woman by a famous surgeon falls madly in love with Virgil, a cherubin florist, 20 years younger than her who wants to become a painter.

Boy in a Bathtub

2006

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets poster
5.0

Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Also expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired social change.

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

1989

Ladies of the Night poster
7.3

A young woman is kidnapped off the street by a gang of sex criminals, and taken to a deserted mansion where she is subjected to various torments.

Ladies of the Night

1998

Sphinxes Without Secrets poster
NR

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In "Sphinxes Without Secrets", performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.

Sphinxes Without Secrets

1991

Sphinxes Without Secrets poster
NR

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In "Sphinxes Without Secrets", performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.

Sphinxes Without Secrets

1991

Spit and Ashes poster
3.0

Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The High Priestess embodies the wild, sexual and grotesque - the un-tamable hunger of female desire and the ultimate threat to male power. The Midwife is the spirit of all women who sought knowledge and agency over their own bodies and paid for their agency with their lives. Through a series of erotic and brutal rituals these women come together to reclaim their bodies and prepare for the fight ahead.

Spit and Ashes

2019

Spit and Ashes poster
3.0

Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The High Priestess embodies the wild, sexual and grotesque - the un-tamable hunger of female desire and the ultimate threat to male power. The Midwife is the spirit of all women who sought knowledge and agency over their own bodies and paid for their agency with their lives. Through a series of erotic and brutal rituals these women come together to reclaim their bodies and prepare for the fight ahead.

Spit and Ashes

2019

Spit and Ashes poster
3.0

Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The High Priestess embodies the wild, sexual and grotesque - the un-tamable hunger of female desire and the ultimate threat to male power. The Midwife is the spirit of all women who sought knowledge and agency over their own bodies and paid for their agency with their lives. Through a series of erotic and brutal rituals these women come together to reclaim their bodies and prepare for the fight ahead.

Spit and Ashes

2019

The Boiler Room poster
8.0

It is a beautiful spring day as Mistress Tara pulls her ship out of the harbor to set course for Her Personal Island. Then suddenly, she is rudely interrupted by the disturbing news that there is a stowaway on board.

The Boiler Room

1998

The Boiler Room poster
8.0

It is a beautiful spring day as Mistress Tara pulls her ship out of the harbor to set course for Her Personal Island. Then suddenly, she is rudely interrupted by the disturbing news that there is a stowaway on board.

The Boiler Room

1998

Vampire Sisters poster
3.0

Anastasia Pierce brings all of her vampire survival techniques to revive her beautiful submissive vampire sister who has made the mistake of drinking the blood of the dead. Pierce and Ariel X's sexual hunger for each other is eternal.

Vampire Sisters

2010

Fucking Different XXX poster
7.1

In Fucking Different XXX, the passion for explicit sex scenes brought eight international filmmakers together. The eight short films shot in Paris, Berlin and San Francisco are about intensive sex, quick sex, romantic sex, funny sex, the first sex, and the last sex. The range goes from a lesbian quickie in the toilet, a bloodthirsty orgy, romantic fisting all the way to wet teenage dreams. The result is a never seen before look upon sexual tastes and varieties, far from clichés, with a fresh and sometimes humorous approach.

Fucking Different XXX

2012

Mistress Tara's Finishing School, or, The Sassy Schoolgirl poster
8.0

A peek behind the doors of a private all-girl finishing school of yesteryear. Head Mistress Tara disciplines sassy schoolgirl Cindy Ireland who has been caught masturbating.

Mistress Tara's Finishing School, or, The Sassy Schoolgirl

1998

The Seven Deadly Sins poster
7.0

The 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

The Seven Deadly Sins poster
7.0

The 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

The Seven Deadly Sins poster
7.0

The 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

Bandaged poster
3.8

Since his wife's death, Arthur, a peculiar and severe surgeon, cloisters his teen daughter Lucille inside a strange mansion. Desperate, Lucille tries to commit suicide and ends up with her face completely burned and bandaged. Arthur, with the assistance of his aunt, prepares a weird skin graft in order to give back Lucille a face, a face that resembles his beloved and deceased wife. To take care of her, the father then hires Joan, an attractive nurse with a somber past. Lucille and Joan start a forbidden and passionate love affair.

Bandaged

2009

Bandaged poster
3.8

Since his wife's death, Arthur, a peculiar and severe surgeon, cloisters his teen daughter Lucille inside a strange mansion. Desperate, Lucille tries to commit suicide and ends up with her face completely burned and bandaged. Arthur, with the assistance of his aunt, prepares a weird skin graft in order to give back Lucille a face, a face that resembles his beloved and deceased wife. To take care of her, the father then hires Joan, an attractive nurse with a somber past. Lucille and Joan start a forbidden and passionate love affair.

Bandaged

2009

The Elegant Spanking poster
5.7

This 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

Lust poster
1.3

A beautiful submissive slave girl emerges from her gilded cage to submit to the slow and deliberate attentions of her ravishing mistress, who rains delicate tortures on her tender white flesh.

Lust

2002

Lust poster
1.3

A beautiful submissive slave girl emerges from her gilded cage to submit to the slow and deliberate attentions of her ravishing mistress, who rains delicate tortures on her tender white flesh.

Lust

2002

Lust poster
1.3

A beautiful submissive slave girl emerges from her gilded cage to submit to the slow and deliberate attentions of her ravishing mistress, who rains delicate tortures on her tender white flesh.

Lust

2002

Leda and the Swan: Nailed poster
9.0

A young woman begins to have flashbacks to when she was a young girl, and sees visions of herself in a lesbian/sado-masochistic relationship with her playmates--but she's not sure if she's remembering things as they were or as she would like them to have been.

Leda and the Swan: Nailed

1999

Silken Sleeves poster
NR

Midori, by turns playful and cruel, captures, overpowers, and binds the delicate butterfly, Mayan, whose heartrending struggles avail her nothing in the presence of Midori’s distinguishable expertise. Exposed and immobilized, Mayan inevitably succumbs to wicked techniques.

Silken Sleeves

2005

No artwork available
NR

An accident leaves a girl in a coma. She awakens to find herself in the care of a beautiful woman. Does she know her? Has she been there before? The girl undergoes a series of challenges.

Coma

2007

No artwork available
NR

An accident leaves a girl in a coma. She awakens to find herself in the care of a beautiful woman. Does she know her? Has she been there before? The girl undergoes a series of challenges.

Coma

2007

No artwork available
NR

An accident leaves a girl in a coma. She awakens to find herself in the care of a beautiful woman. Does she know her? Has she been there before? The girl undergoes a series of challenges.

Coma

2007

The Black Widow poster
5.0

An enigmatic Andalusian tries to forget her former mistress sadistic, cruel and all other sadomasochistic pleasures.

The Black Widow

2014

The Black Widow poster
5.0

An enigmatic Andalusian tries to forget her former mistress sadistic, cruel and all other sadomasochistic pleasures.

The Black Widow

2014

Belle de Nature poster
6.1

The more the knots tighten around her body, the more Clara's imagination flies away. She finds herself naked at the edge of a forest. The grass tickles her feet, a bramble scratches her, her breathing accelerates under the electric shocks of the nettles. Clara joins her lover, the forest.

Belle de Nature

2009

Let the Punishment Fit the Child poster
4.5

Two 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

Fuck Them All poster
1.3

As a chrysalis between dream and reality, to be another body, trans, be «another with others». An intimate deconstruction into the exploration of sexualit(ies).

Fuck Them All

2016

Fuck Them All poster
1.3

As a chrysalis between dream and reality, to be another body, trans, be «another with others». An intimate deconstruction into the exploration of sexualit(ies).

Fuck Them All

2016

The Black Glove poster
5.9

The 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

Ecstasy in Berlin, 1926 poster
4.8

A drug addled fantasy of a mistress and her slave in decadent Weimar era Berlin performing BDSM acts in lush Black and White.

Ecstasy in Berlin, 1926

2004

Skateboard Kink Freak poster
4.0

Michelle takes a very long break from her latest art installation to go and snatch the cutest petite female skateboarder from the playground down the block. Still wet behind the ears Amber is led blindfolded inside Michelle's loft space and with enthusia

Skateboard Kink Freak

2007

Split Milk poster
NR

There’s no use crying over spilt milk. Although there might not be any milk in this video, no sploshing whatsoever, that doesn’t mean that these girls aren’t the cat’s meow. Clad in their sexy cat-suits, they run their hands admiringly over one another, kissing one another every now and again, and eventually endeavor to pleasure each other sexually.

Split Milk

2015

Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls poster
4.0

After the Third World War and global warming have transformed the planet into a desert, what remains? Two post-apocalyptic cowgirls in leather and Stetsons.

Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls

2008