Four erotic stories revolving around taboos—virginity, female masturbation, bloodlust, and incest—take place, each one delving further back in time. Spanning humanity’s history, the tales cover Italian noblewoman Lucrezia Borgia, Hungarian serial killer Erzsébet Báthory, and present-day teenagers.

A hit in France but problematic for the UK censors, this anthology film from Walerian Borowczyk opened a new chapter in the Polish iconoclast’s studies of the flesh. A headily stylised examination of female eroticism and sexual taboos, Immoral Tales is an atmospheric masterclass in suggestion.