Three lovers spin in a vortex of pent-up desire and resentment in Ira Sachs’ fresh, honest and acerbically funny take on messy, modern relationships. Just like its dynamic leads—Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben Whishaw—this refreshingly fluid relationship drama simply oozes sex appeal.

With this orgiastic immersion in the mystic reveries of a real-life historical figure, the king of the erotic thriller Paul Verhoeven gives the nunsploitation flick a high-art makeover. Elegant, perverse, and teasingly scandalous, Benedetta critiques religious hypocrisy with an impish grin.