Films about polyamory, polygamy and alternative relationships

Borders of Love - How far would you go for desire? Hana feels that her relationship with Petr is falling into a routine and starts to share her erotic fantasies with him. But what starts as an unpretentious conversation soon turns into an intense sexual adventure that can get out of control. With a good dose of drama and eroticism, this film invites you to self-reflect on sex and non-monogamous relationships.

The acclaimed American filmmaker Ira Sachs (Frankie, Love is Strange) presents one of his most emotionally demanding films in ages, the story of a gay marriage that unravels due to jealousy and narcissism. In ages, it all starts when Tomas (Franz Rogowski), after finishing shooting a movie, meets a girl (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and decides to sleep with her. He then proudly tells his husband, Martin (Ben Whishaw), thus unleashing a spiral of obsession that puts their marriage in crisis. It's a proposal that's as sensual as it is piercing, reflecting the most selfish and destructive side of relationships. And Sachs, firmly in control of his narrative, abstains from providing easy answers and absolutions for his characters.

Few people know, but Wonder Woman, the comic book hero, was created by a psychologist, named William Moulton Marston – who intended to use comic books with "great educational potential" and which sought to portray a modern woman, not submissive. This film traces Marston's journey and mainly the women who inspired him, resulting in a mature love story anchored in the good performances of the trio of protagonists (Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote). A movie to please comic book fans, feminists, or those looking for unconventional love stories.

If the New Wave French was one of the most important cinematic avant-gardes of the second half of the 20th century, 'Jules and Jim' is one of its gems, for some still more important than the most known work of its director, 'The 400 Blows'. With this movie, François Truffaut and his photographer Raoul Coutard proposed a highly fluid visual style, which included war archive images and innovative and very unconventional camera movements for its time. That same fluidity is transferred to its protagonists, in a love triangle that contrasts completely with classic cinema, in a story about friendship and love as daring as it is entertaining and reflective.

Spike Lee often dares to talk about sexuality here and there. This was the case in 'Chi-Raq' (2015) and in 'She’s Gotta Have It', the director's first feature film which, after many years, ended up becoming a Netflix series. In the story, we follow the loves, disappointments and heartbreaks of Nola, a woman who does not want to live just one love story and ends up relating to three men at the same time. Even today, 'She’s Gotta Have It' could still sound provocative. Imagine in 1986, when sexual liberation was taboo. Although with a weak script and some visual exaggerations, the film surprises with its visionary and provocative story, as well as putting the black woman without stereotypes, filters and other things of the kind. It is a raw movie, clearly of very low budget, but which has its historical importance and warns, from an early age, how Lee is an unusual filmmaker, perceiving topics and needs that arise ahead.