from wikipedia:
"Agalmatophilia (from Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma) 'statue', and φιλία (philía) 'love') is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or other similar figurative object. The attraction may include a desire for actual sexual contact with the object, a fantasy of having sexual (or non-sexual) encounters with an animate or inanimate instance of the preferred object, the act of watching encounters between such objects, or sexual pleasure gained from thoughts of being transformed or transforming another into the preferred object. Agalmatophilia may also encompass Pygmalionism (from the myth of Pygmalion), which denotes love for an object of one's own creation."
"In Greek mythology Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of…
from wikipedia:
"Agalmatophilia (from Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma) 'statue', and φιλία (philía) 'love') is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or other similar figurative object. The attraction may include a desire for actual sexual contact with the object, a fantasy of having sexual (or non-sexual) encounters with an animate or inanimate instance of the preferred object, the act of watching encounters between such objects, or sexual pleasure gained from thoughts of being transformed or transforming another into the preferred object. Agalmatophilia may also encompass Pygmalionism (from the myth of Pygmalion), which denotes love for an object of one's own creation."
"In Greek mythology Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus, who was a king and a sculptor. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved."
in this list are films that feature, depict, are related to, or can be understood as representations of agalmatophilia--a paraphilia centered around dolls, automatons, mannequins, sex dolls, statues, gynoids etc--and/or pygmalionism or the pygmalion narrative in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue they themself carved.
i have not seen every film on this list, and i do not necessarily recommend each film on the list; the list is meant to be essentially encyclopedic. this being the case, there will be many films that i can't be personally certain fit the list description. if you disagree about a certain film's inclusion in the list, please feel free to leave a comment about it. also, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST ADDITIONS TO THE LIST!!! i certainly don't claim to be aware of all films to ever touch on this subject!
LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER BY RELEASE DATE
DSM-5 ENTRY ON PARAPHILIA:
www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Psychiatrists/Practice/DSM/APA_DSM-5-Paraphilic-Disorders.pdf
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2022.2031848
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224497809551011
www.proquest.com/docview/221222423
muse.jhu.edu/article/543701
www.jstor.org/stable/637802
www.jstor.org/stable/40649546
www.jstor.org/stable/40649546
www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/visit-us/exhibitions/silent-partners-artist-and-mannequin-from-function-to-fetish
ON SPECIFIC FILMS/TEXTS:
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
www.jstor.org/stable/41510912
The Sandman
www.proquest.com/docview/1825191488
The Stepford Wives
www.proquest.com/docview/1825191488
