Spank You Very Much: The 20 Kinkiest Movies

Now that Hollywood’s awards season has officially kicked into overdrive, movie followers will hear a handful of names uttered endlessly for their potentially Oscar-caliber performances, amazing screenplays, or superlative directorial work. On the acting front, one of the year’s most celebrated fresh faces is Michael Fassbender, who you should know as Magneto from this summer’s badass X-Men: First Class; currently the film world’s hottest “It” actor, the Irish-German thespian is heading into 2012 with a pair of buzzworthy and Academy Awards friendly pictures, Shame (in theaters next Friday) and A Dangerous Method.

And with that one-two combination of impressive moviemaking, Fassbender has also flagged an unexpected preference: Dude is by no means prudish. In Shame, for instance, he walks around in the buff, jacks off, and intensely knocks down several prostitutes; A Dangerous Method, though, is a different kind of freaky beast. Directed by the almighty David Cronenberg, the film covers the sado-masochistic love between psychologist Carl Jung (Fassbender) and one of his patients, Sabina Speilrein (Keira Knightley)—spanking and all.

Let those other movie sites focus on A Dangerous Method’s excellent acting; around here, we’re unable to get the image of Knightley bent over out of our heads. Shake your heads all you want. Before you do, though, reacquaint yourselves with The 20 Kinkiest Movies and see the hallowed ranks that Fassbender is about to join.

Written by Matt Barone (@MBarone)

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