BY JOANNA C. VALENTE

Most of these need no introduction. And if you don't know about them, just watch them. You won't regret it. Or maybe you will...and that's part of the point.

1. Secretary

2. The Piano Teacher

3. Belle De Jour

4. Nymphomaniac

5. Kuso

6. The Night Porter

7. Maitresse

8. Crash

9. Sex, Lies, & Videotape

10. Thirst

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.