10 erotic films that are better than Fifty Shades of Grey..

5. Querelle 

Sailors. Brothels. Knives. Cardboard backdrops. Graffiti phalluses. Ever want a look into gay male sexuality in the late 70s and early 80s? Here it is. Based on the 1947 novel “Querelle de Brest” by Jean Genet, Querelle tells the story of Georges Querelle, a sailor on leave and in search of his brother in a town known for its strange sexuality.

Fassbinder’s tongue-in-cheek direction creates a shockingly campy film filled with murder, betrayal, and hilarious soft-focus sex scenes. This is one film you have to see to believe. Because of the film’s release just before the HIV/AIDS breakout in the 1980s, the film serves as an important historical document showing what queer sexuality was like before the epidemic. It was pretty raunchy.