Desperate Housewives Season 1: The Celluloid Dungeon
Desperate Housewives was a mystery/dramedy TV series concerning a group of four housewives in a suburban neighborhood who attempt to solve the mystery of the death of one of their friends. They also...
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Live Nude Girls (1995): The Celluloid Dungeon
Live Nude Girls is a 1995 comedy-drama film, about a group of women who gather for a bachelorette party and mostly talk about sex. The film starts with women as tween girls having a slumber party in a...
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Tomcats (2001): The Celluloid Dungeon
Tomcats is a 2001 sex comedy. Tomcats is a catalog of white heterosexual male anxieties at the turn of the millennium: castration, marriage, children, public humiliation, romantic and sexual...
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Love and Human Remains (1993): The Celluloid Dungeon
Love & Human Remains is a 1993 drama film. It tells several interwoven stories of people in the big city, while in the background a serial killer murders women. The main character is David (Thomas...
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Romance (1999): The Celluloid Dungeon
Romance is a 1999 French drama film, written and directed by Catherine Breillat. [Unless noted otherwise, all quotations are from the subtitles.] Breillat is notorious for explicitly showing sexual...
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House S01E20: The Celluloid Dungeon
House is an American TV medical procedural drama. “Love Hurts”, aired May 10, 2005, is the twentieth episode of the first season. The episode begins with a man in the Emergency Room with what appears...
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Legend of the Seeker S01E08: The Celluloid Dungeon
Episode S01E08, “Denna”, aired January 10, 2009 Legend of the Seeker (IMDB) is a 2008 fantasy television series based on the Sword of Truth novel series by Terry Goodkind. It’s pretty boilerplate,...
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Bored to Death S02E01: The Celluloid Dungeon
“Escape from the Dungeon!”, aired September 26, 2010 Bored to Death is an American comedy TV series (IMDB) about Jonathan Ames, a struggling writer who moonlights as an “unlicensed private detective”....
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The L Word S02E11 “Loud and Proud”: The Celluloid Dungeon
“Loud and Proud”, aired 1 May 2005 IMDB The L Word was a night-time soap about a group of lesbian and bisexual women in West Hollywood, with multiple continuing storylines. “Loud and Proud” is...
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Elementary S02E04: The Celluloid Dungeon
“Poison Pen”, aired October 17, 2013 Elementary is a detective TV series of a modern-day retelling of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories and novels by Arthur Conan Doyle. The case begins with a pro...
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Body of Evidence (1992): The Celluloid Dungeon
Body of Evidence (IMDB) is a 1992 erotic thriller/neo-noir film starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe. It was part of the genre epitomized by Fatal Attraction (1987) and Basic Instinct (1992), but didn’t...
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The General’s Daughter (1999): The Celluloid Dungeon
The General’s Daughter (IMDB) is a 1999 mystery/thriller. US Army Captain Elizabeth Campbell, a psychological warfare expert and the daughter of a famous general, is found staked out nude and dead on...
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Scandal S04E16: The Celluloid Dungeon
Scandal episode S04E16 “It’s Good to be Kink”, aired March 19, 2015 IMDB Sue Thomas (Lena Dunham) is about to publish a memoir of her sexual exploits in Washington, DC. One of the men mentioned is a...
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Nip/Tuck S05E01: The Celluloid Dungeon
Episode S05E01 “Carly Summers”, aired November 1, 2007 IMDB Nip/Tuck is a drama series focused on a pair of cosmetic surgeons. In the season 5 opener, Doctor Sean McNamara and Doctor Christian Troy...
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CSI:NY S01E16 “Hush”: The Celluloid Dungeon
CSI:NY S01E16 “Hush”, aired February 23, 2005 IMDB Yet another dead naked woman in bondage. CSIs Aiden and Danny investigate. It turns out that the deceased was strapped to a device on the front of a...
View ArticleFamily Guy S02E14: The Celluloid Dungeon
Family Guy, episode S02E14 “Let’s go to the hop”, aired June 6, 2000. IMDB This is the episode of Family Guy with the infamous “your safeword is banana” scene. The town of Quahog goes into a moral...
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Eurotrip (2004): The Celluloid Dungeon
Eurotrip is a 2004 teen comedy. Eurotrip is a very parochial movie, with the American teens treating Europe as if it is a terrifying land of threatening depravity. The plot itself is premised on...
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Bones S01E08: The Celluloid Dungeon
Bones S01E08 “The Girl in the Fridge”, aired November 29, 2005 IMDB Bones is another forensic investigation procedural TV series. The case begins with the discovery of a decayed skeleton in an...
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Bones S10E03: The Celluloid Dungeon
Bones S10E03, “The Purging of the Pundit”, aired October 9, 2014 IMDB Unlike in the previous Bones episode, “The Girl in the Fridge”, BDSM is closely integrated into both the mystery and Booth’s...
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Sex and the City S02E12: The Celluloid Dungeon
Sex and the City S02E12, “La Douleur Exquise!”, aired August 22nd, 1999 IMDB Title translates to “the exquisite pain” Sex and the City was a popular dramedy series about single women in New York City...
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