Every Steve McQueen Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Three years after his debut, McQueen re-teamed with Michael Fassbender for a film that remains one of his most challenging and underseen projects to date.

In the erotic drama, Fassbender stars as successful New York businessman Brandon, who is handsome, rich, and seems to have to all, but begins to feel his life fall apart due to his spiralling sex addiction following his reunion with his estranged and equally troubled sister (Carey Mulligan).

Though not a film for the fainthearted, Shame is yet another unflinching, raw depiction of the human condition from McQueen. Like all of his films, its character-driven narrative is both honest and endlessly compelling, telling a tough story without pandering or talking down to audiences.

Making it all work is the career-best work of Fassbender, a great actor who here outdoes everything he'd done before and makes every sordid twist of Brandon's increasingly bleak story impossible to turn away from.