Penetrate the moody, sensual world of 'Last Tango in Paris', and prepare yourself for "the most controversial film of its era". Nominated for two Academy Awards and excluding a sexual energy unlike any film before or after, this is the scintillating classic that shocked a nation and altered the face of an art form.



He (Brando) is a 45-year-old American living in Paris, haunted by his wife's suicide. She (Maria Schneider) is 20 year old Parisian beauty engaged to a young filmmaker. Though nameless to each other, these tortured souls come together to satisfy their sexual cravings in an apartment as bare as their dark, tragic lives. Caught up in the frenzied beat of a carnal dance they cannot seem to stop, these unlikely lovers take their passion to erotic heights - and depths - beyond anything they could ever have imagined...