
Directing
Maria Beatty
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.
Acting credits
4.8Mutantes 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
7.0The 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
5.7This 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
4.5Two 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
4.8DIDN'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
5.9The 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
NRWhere 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
1.3A 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
1.3A 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
1.3A 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
6.1The 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
7.1In 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
3.0Spit 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
3.0Spit 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
3.0Spit 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
3.8Since 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
3.8Since 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
7.0The 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
7.0The 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
7.0The 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
5.7This 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
7.0A 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
7.0A 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
8.0It 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
8.0It 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
1.0At 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
8.0A 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
7.3A 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
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
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
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