forbidden relationships

His surrealist masterpieces like 'Viridiana' and 'Belle de Jour' obsessively explore taboo desires, moral transgression, and the subconscious violation of social boundaries.

His body horror and transgressive cinema deliberately provoke through forbidden intimacies and the breakdown of biological and social taboos in films like 'Crash' and 'A History of Violence.'

His sexually explicit and politically radical films like 'In the Realm of the Senses' confront forbidden desire, power dynamics, and the intersection of eroticism with obsession and destruction.