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List of sexual repression movies
14K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Style:
sad, independent film, crying, period drama
Plot:
abortion, unwanted pregnancy, illegal abortion, pregnancy, female protagonist, post war, unplanned pregnancy, dormitory, final exam, college student, injection, female college student ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
france
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Genre: Horror
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
Style:
scary, demonic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
found footage, demon, priest, nun, monastery, food, cursed, obsession, occult, supernatural, religious, blood ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party takes place over 24 hours at the birthday pool party of 17-year-old preacher's kid Henry Gamble. The party guests include adults and teenagers from his church, as well as Henry's "secular" ...
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, psychological, homoerotic, touching ...
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lgbt teen, teenage boy, gay teenager, masturbation, friendship between boys, teenage protagonist, birthday, birthday party, coming of age ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
lesbian, religion, convent, power relations, clergy, strong female presence, society, celibacy, women's rights, humiliation, abuse of power, confession ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
france, europe
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155K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Style:
suspense, teen, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
bullying, telekinesis, prom, revenge, high school, stephen king, blood, psychic power, supernatural ability, mother daughter relationship, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Style:
sexy, sexual, suspense, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, forbidden love, lesbian, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, obsession, teachers and students, adultery, older woman younger man sex, lust, blackmail, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this ...
Style:
sexy, sensual, ambiguous ending, art house, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, swimming pool, swimming, murder, writers, voyeurism, sex, frenchwoman, lust, murder mystery, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, europe, south of france, london ...
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12K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bleak, teen horror, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
stephen king, bullying, revenge, psychic power, high school, gory, strong violent content, telekinesis, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style:
sincere, emotional, visually stunning, stylized, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, homosexuality, infidelity, gay husband, racism, lgbtq, crumbling marriage, housewife, closeted homosexual, forbidden love, gay, divorce ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2000s, year 1958, year 2002 ...
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa, miami, baltimore ...
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14K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, bleak, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, innocence lost, rape, defloration, virginity, virgin, teenage girl, female nudity, rapist, rape victim, sexuality, first time ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place:
france, rome italy, south of france, paris france
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
College students, Terry, Nancy and Gloria are on their way to a rock concert, driving through a torrential rainstorm...only to crash their car, badly injuring one of them. Seeking shelter and aid they come across a house occupied by a man-hating ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mystery killer, serial killer, murder, psychopath, gory, mansion, secret, blood, violence, sexual relations, woman in danger, destiny ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and ...
Style:
sexual, teen, cult classic, feel good, dark comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, sapphic, lesbian love, gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lgbtq, cheerleader, lesbian relationship, lesbianism ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style:
sexy, gothic, teen, sad, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
suburbs, suicide, depression, suicide attempt, coming of age, overbearing parent, dysfunctional family, teenage life, suicidal, friendship, suburban life, sisters ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
detroit, michigan, yale university
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Miserable with her marriage to a toy-store clerk and obsessed with memories of her long-absent father, child-like Jamie learns that toys are not for children when she turns her life around--by becoming a hooker! Playing "daddy's little ...
Style:
disturbing, psychosexual thriller, controversial, psycho sexual, freeze frame ...
Plot:
erotica, prostitute, female nudity, call girl, exploitation, rape victim, accidental incest, adultery, prostitution, pimp, psychotic, loss of virginity ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, surreal, art house, sexual ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, humiliation, sexuality, sex scene, unrequited love, manipulation, maid, female nudity, frustration, rich man, absurd humor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1977, 70s
Place:
paris france, spain, europe, madrid, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The winner (Carole Laure) of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Style:
sexy, controversial, disturbing, surreal, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
extreme, decadence, orgy, erotica, erotic scene, surrealism, breast feeding, fetish sex, virginity, virgin, female orgasm, woman in a bikini ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
amsterdam, balkan, paris france, france, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, sexual, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sex, nazi, hotel, eroticism, sexual perversion, guilt, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexuality, public nudity, holocaust ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, post world war two, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, vienna, germany, frankfurt germany, italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
Style:
sexy, freeze frame, sex comedy, crying, erotic
Plot:
stepmother stepson relationship, incestuous desire, sexual desire, caught masturbating, stepmother, older woman younger man, mother-in-law, coming of age, erotica, incest, seductive behavior, sexual harassment ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as ...
Style:
sentimental, art house, melancholic, scenic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
obsession, boy, fall in love, lgbtq, hotel, gays and lesbians, love and romance, art, forbidden love, unrequited love, teenage boy, pedophilia ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912 ...
Place:
italy, venice, europe, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, psycho sexual, sensual, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, prostitution, surrealism, sexuality, sexual perversion, sex, sexual relations, infidelity, brothel, unfaithful wife, female nudity, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Is relevant?
783
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, religious horror, independent film, christian horror
Plot:
serial killer, religious cult, religious leader, drowning, murder, supernatural power, maniac, sexual repression, strangulation, lesbian, religion, religion and supernatural ...
Is relevant?
100
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A disillusioned Los Angeles based married couple's twisted sexual relationship is told exclusively through their own private journal entries. What results is a visually stunning exploration of obsession, desperation, and lust in this deeply ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, independent film
Plot:
diary, husband wife relationship, erotica, sexual repression, lust, marriage, artist, adultery, jealousy, love hate relationship, marital crisis, relationship problems ...
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172
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, meditative, atmospheric
Plot:
spirituality, faith, catholicism, religious, mysticism, loyalty, nun, visionary, redemption, morality, artist, transformation ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A re-imagination of the Celso Ad Castillo classic, "Nympha" tells the story of an orphan woman named Nympha living in a backward province with a narrow minded aunt who is a religious fanatic.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, woman, murder mystery, family secret, uncover truth, social problems, murder investigation, problem, crime solving, life is a bitch, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
the philippines
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882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her ...
Style:
indie film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, opposites attract, relationships, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, sex, passionate love, passion ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, enigmatic, cynical, art house ...
Plot:
murder, rape, racism, class differences, master and servant, frigidity, eccentric family, child murder, obsession, moral ambiguity, secrets, marriage ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
france, europe, normandy, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Nancy Stokes doesn’t know good sex. Whatever it may be, Nancy, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had it, but she is determined to finally do something about that. She even has a plan: It involves an anonymous hotel room, and a ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, satirical, powerful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man sex, older woman younger man, male prostitute, sex starved woman, widow, middle aged woman, female orgasm, old woman, sexual relations, sexually dissatisfied wife, sex ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly – during the time homosexuality was a crime – turned Queen's evidence against him in one of ...
Style:
sexy, tense, psychological, suspenseful, romantic ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay interest, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay, gay sex, gay couple, gay lead character, lovers, homosexuality, prison, gay slur ...
Time:
year 1952, 1950s, year 1955, year 1954, 50s
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the ...
Style:
sexual, period piece, gothic, suspense, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot:
civil war, american civil war, jealous woman, sexuality, looking for sex, revenge, incest, unrequited love, boarding school, seduction, obsession, manipulation ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971, 1860s, 1800s, 70s
Place:
mississippi, california
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