Fetishes (1996)
• September 12th, 1996 • 1h 24min
Documentary
Overview
Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Sex, Death & Eyeliner
Released on: 1999-01-01
Documentary
Documentary directed by W.K. Border, that which dives into the aspects of contemporary Gothic subcul...
The Re-Up
Released on: 2012-11-19
Music, Documentary
A backstage and on-stage look at Nicki Minaj's career during the Pink Friday Tour, festivals, and mo...
Kim's Video
Released on: 2023-09-27
Documentary, History
Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of...
Kink Shame
Released on:
Documentary
Wild sex, fetish, and kink culture has never been so prevalent in the mainstream. Sex work is all ov...
Into
Released on: 2020-11-15
Documentary
What are you into? Explore the world of BDSM and kink in this documentary featuring rubber, latex, l...
Vanilla
Released on: 2017-04-08
Documentary
Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Released on: 1997-01-24
Documentary
The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past...
Violent Femmes
Released on: 1998-01-01
Documentary
Analog video by Sylvère Lotringer. Extended conversation between two dominatrixes, a younger America...
Sex Positive
Released on: 2009-06-12
Documentary
Sex Positive explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M hustler turned AIDS act...
Crumb
Released on: 1994-09-10
Documentary
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew...
The Pleasure in Pain
Released on: 2022-12-15
Documentary
A short film that follows key figures of the London kink scene on an exploration into BDSM and the n...
Methadonia
Released on: 2005-10-06
Documentary
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
Graphic Sexual Horror
Released on: 2009-01-18
Documentary
Graphic Sexual Horror takes a peek behind the terrifying facade behind the most notorious of bondage...
Cinemania
Released on: 2002-07-06
Documentary
This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned wo...
The Tales of the Bound & Restrained
Released on: 2024-05-30
Documentary
SamHel follows several groups of bondage enthusiasts as they illustrate their hobby.
Bill Cunningham New York
Released on: 2011-03-16
Documentary
Doubling as a cartography of the ever-changing city, Bill Cunningham New York portrays the secluded ...
The Legend of Pale Male
Released on: 2011-11-24
Documentary
This is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of...
The Wolfpack
Released on: 2015-06-12
Documentary
Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers le...
Age of Consent
Released on: 2014-11-01
Documentary, History
The story of the HOIST, London's first and only Gay Fetish Bar, coincides with the political struggl...
Slave Trade in the World Today
Released on: 1964-06-27
Documentary
The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule...