Movies and TvShows featuring "desensitization" theme.

Max Renn is the president of a sleazy Toronto UHF television station specializing in adult entertainment. He discovers a dangerous and bizarre broadcast called Videodrome, which depicts brutal torture and murder. As he investigates the origins of Videodrome, he uncovers a political ideology movement with violent goals. Renn begins experiencing hallucinations and realizes that Videodrome is actually a carrier of a malicious broadcast signal that causes the viewer to develop a malignant brain tumor. He must fight against the Spectacular Optical Corporation, the producer of Videodrome, to save himself and defeat the conspiracy.

High-school student Yasuko, indulges in sex to liberate herself from a corrupt adult society. Driven by the encouragement of her peers to feel what it is like to be a prostitute, Yasuko sets out an odyssey of self-exploration in search of complete satiation.

Adah and Aaron are recovering addicts who are struggling to stay sober. After meeting in their psychoanalyst’s waiting room, they fall in love, relapse on poppers, and become the biggest assholes in New York City.

A bluntly satiric look at the iconography of pornography narratives, this video reconstitutes typical porn dialogue into deadpan banter, devoid of passion, calling attention to the absurdly constructed nature of the sex film and its audience's subsequent desensitization.

A group of people working in film and television are gathered at a dinner party to discuss Australian media coverage of the Gulf War.