Genders, sexualities, and relationships merge lanes in one of the sexiest and most controversial films of the 1990s. 

After a near-death experience colliding with another vehicle, filmmaker James Ballard (James Spader) discovers a community of symphorophiliacs aroused by car crashes, and he never looks back. All of the central characters of Crash attain fulfillment in queer intimacy or gender nonconformity. The phenomenal cast also include Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, and Rosanna Arquette, who plays a car crash survivor in an intricate body brace that resembles fetish couture in its layering of steel and black leather. 

The film received the Special Jury Prize “for originality, for daring, and for audacity” at the Cannes Film Festival, and it was met with extreme censorship and public outrage around the world.