Rebel With a Clause

Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship.

William Friedkin’s 1980 film CRUISING, based on a book inspired by a series of murders, explores gay sexuality on screen and the fragility of an undercover policeman's identity.