Repressed sexuality movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant repressed sexuality movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out queer cinema, psychological, realistic, crying, touching and serious films and TV shows about / with repressed sexuality, gay, lgbt, female nudity, lgbtq, bare chested male, bare breasts, cigarette smoking, couples and nudity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as repressed sexuality: Clair Obscur (2016), The Catholic School (2021), Forbidden Sun (1988), Orpheus' Song (2019), The Power of the Dog (2021), Boulevard (2014), The Country Teacher (2008), Thelma (2017), Cecil B. DeMented (2000), Flesh and Lace (1965).
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Turkish writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in this study of the possibilities and limitations that ...
Style:
sexual, psychological, captivating, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
psychiatrist patient relationship, abusive relationship, repressed sexuality, small town, female psychiatrist, psychiatric patient, women, small town life, opposites attract, family relations, female protagonist, family problems ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, period piece
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
rape and murder, male nudity, male pubic hair, closeted homosexual, rape victim, violence, lgbt, cause and meaning, massacre, strong violent content, graphic violence, sexualized violence ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake and her twelve gorgeous students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual activity with the locals, thus the girls spend their evenings in quiet frustration.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
rape, extramarital affair, flirting, revenge, sexual frustration, rape and revenge, repressed sexuality, female nudity, bare breasts, possessed girl, suicide attempt, culture clash ...
Place:
crete
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Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Two best friends from Berlin win a trip to Greece. On their excursion, they get lost on an island. They wander in the woods until they find an abandoned village where they encounter a mysterious creature, who calls himself Hercules. They spend the ...
Style:
sexy, homoerotic, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay love, gay relationship, male objectification, gay lead character, gay couple, gay sex, sexual tension, male nudity, male male relationship, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: New Zealand, UK, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A domineering, magnetic rancher responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son, until the unexpected comes to pass.
Style:
psychological, costume drama, period piece, tense, mindfuck ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
cowboy, mother son relationship, male full rear nudity, homosexuality, brother brother relationship, power relations, male nudity, repressed homosexual, animal cruelty, gay cowboy, gay subtext, sexual repression ...
Time:
2020s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
montana, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Nolan Mack, a soft-spoken bank employee, undoubtedly loves his wife Joy, though their cavernous empty house only underscores how disconnected they’ve always been from each other. Nolan finds himself drifting from his familiar present-day life in ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, independent film, touching ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay, older man younger man relationship, gay interest, male prostitute, bare chested male, gay husband, unrequited love, repressed sexuality, couples, secret relationship, male male relationship ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. The teac... read more read more...her has no romantic ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
age-gap relationship, hopes, unrequited love, gay rape, introspection, starting over, friendship, self control, couples, human nature, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, prague, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, twisted, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, bird, university, teenage girl, faith, lesbian attraction, healing power, hysteria, disappearance, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, indiana, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage film makers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
Style:
cynical, dark comedy, satirical, independent film, absurd ...
Plot:
filmmaking, satire, kidnapping, satanist, showbiz, misfit, dark humor, nothing goes right, violent woman, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, female psychopath, stockholm syndrome ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Beverly a teaser bar girl, that think she hates men, but is in fact suffering from repressed nymphomania. She finds out when she flirts with her best friends man and gets thrown out in the street. Beverly runs into a toy store owner.
Style:
psychological, independent film, erotic drama, controversial, intense ...
Plot:
nymphomania, repressed sexuality, sexual repression, sexploitation, desire, sexual awakening, infidelity, female protagonist, taboo, shame, obsession, character study ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A television survey says over sixty percent of women in Chile are unfaithful. True or not, this movie presents some interesting answers.
Style:
realistic, serious, humorous, erotic, sexual ...
Plot:
cheating wife, couple relations, sex with stepson, sexual satisfaction, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, family relations, breakup, sex scene, social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america, south america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Secrets, lies, surprises and more are explored in this rich selection of gay short films from Israel.
The 6 short films are: Three (2018); A Trip to the Desert (2016); Rubber Dolphin (2018); Stav (2018); After His Death (2017); Leave of Absence ...
Style:
touching, compassionate, thought provoking, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot:
gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay interest, homosexuality, male male relationship, homosexual, affair, friendship, forbidden love, threesome, fall in love ...
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, romantic
Plot:
adultery, affair, sensuality, attraction, forbidden romance, sexual awakening, marital infidelity, sexual tension, illicit affair, middle aged woman, guilt, betrayal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
TV show
Story:
Friends since childhood, Giulio and Tommaso are at a university party, when, a little 'shine, end up kissing in the bathroom of the room. Since then, Thomas does everything to erase that episode and even Giulio from its existence. But, ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, emotional, romantic drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay love, closeted gay, gay lead character, male male relationship, lgbtq, friendship, gay best friend, friends, couple relations, love affair ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
Richard Armitage stars in Yael Farber's powerful production of Arthur Miller's timeless witch hunt parable.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, tense, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
witch hunt, salem witch trial, false accusation, jealousy, betrayal, social injustice, literary, revenge, small town, moral ambiguity, haunting, repressed sexuality ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
salem massachusetts
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Reportedly the first film to come out of East Germany to deal openly with gay issues. Philipp, a closeted teacher is dating a female collegue to keep up appearances. One night, by 'accident' he stumbles into a gay bar, meets and promptly ...
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay, gay cruising, love triangle, gay teenager, gay bashing, gay slur, gay bar, gay student, lgbtq, gay relationship, passion, sexuality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
germany, east germany, berlin germany, east berlin, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A competent lawyer is infatuated with his young caretaker and becomes consumed with desire and obsession after losing touch with reality.
Style:
psychological thriller, crime drama, surreal, dark comedy, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, stalker, paranoia, threat, isolation, mental breakdown, obsessive love, character study, moral ambiguity, manipulation, caretaker ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, teen, humorous, psychological, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay interest, gay lead character, first gay sexual experience, sexual confusion, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male homosexuality, gay teenager, high school ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, psychological thriller, crying, french noir
Plot:
lawyer, repressed sexuality, bureaucracy, jury, judge, witness, judgment, old man, narration, trauma, wrongful accusation, voice over narration ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bruno's plan to win back his ex-girlfriend hits a snag when he becomes attracted to her boyfriend.
Style:
lgbt cinema, humorous, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
gay interest, lgbtq, gay love, gay, gay relationship, bisexual, rivalry, first gay sexual experience, love triangle, lgbt, revenge, sexual tension ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Austria, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Three air-hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry
Style:
rom com, detective
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
stewardess, aviation, jewelry, bike, screwball, pilot, travel, airline, millionaire, repressed sexuality, trafficking, female friendship ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
vienna, new york, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When hordes of gays and lesbians come out "of the closet" in the fictional town of Azalea Springs, Texas, intolerant residents go into a panic about the water supply.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, lesbian love, aids, lesbian sex, lgbt, female impersonator, friends in love, lesbian teen, lesbianism, gay bar ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, contemplative, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
swimming pool, exploring sexuality, starting over, hidden identity, disorder, hopes, introspection, sexuality, gender, synchronized swimming, sexual attraction, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, albania, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three attractive University students and their equally attractive teacher seek refuge in a house on a dark and stormy night. The house is occupied by the strange “Miss Leslie” and her strangely lifelike “dolls”.
Style:
grindhouse, crying, psychotronic, lgbt cinema, independent film ...
Plot:
see through clothes, mental disorder, sexual repression, sexual perversion, serial killer, college, woman, mental patient, folk horror, trauma, traumatic memory, mystery woman ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an ...
Style:
psychotronic, dark, lovecraft
Plot:
writers, christmas, barbie, ferry, contamination, murder, fog, crypt, technology, goddess, seagull, mind control ...
Time:
future
Place:
britain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
Style:
anthology, sitcom, offbeat, situational comedy, period piece ...
Plot:
satire, homosexuality, societal hypocrisy, mature, taboo, sexual identity, social commentary, irony, moral dilemma, humanism, realism, character study ...
Time:
80s
Place:
milan italy, rome italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Monty is a bodybuilder. His gym is the very heart of his existence. He is aggressively male, outrageously narcissistic and a bigot. Sharing this strange world is Monty's cerebral and emotionally wounded younger brother, Bertin. One stormy day, ...
Style:
thought provoking, entertaining, humorous, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
nun, mother son reunion, exorcism, self loathing, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, patricide, orphan, martyr, sexual abuse, drug abuse, boxing ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Prime example of the very silly humor / sexploitation genre coming out of Italy in the 70's. A black women (Carla Brait) begins work as a maid in an apartment complex filled with wacky characters. All the men are over-the-top horndog ...
Style:
erotic drama, sexy, melancholic, art house, sex comedy ...
Plot:
black maid, obsession, sexual tension, sexploitation, female protagonist, jealousy, seduction, female rivalry, manipulation, voyeurism, infidelity, scandal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
venice
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Style:
southern gothic, sexy, sexual, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
military, murder, american south, voyeur, mental illness, stallion, adultery, voyeurism, sexuality, gay, stalking, boxing match ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
long island, georgia
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks ...
Style:
fairy tale, psychiatric, touching, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
alice in wonderland, writers, female protagonist, flashback, memory, dream, poet, artist, love, dying, rabbit, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
victorian era, 1860s, year 1985, 1930s, 19th century
Place:
new york, usa, england
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