Taboo movies and TV shows – page 2
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List of taboo movies
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, India, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an ...
Style:
sincere, touching, costume drama, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot:
forbidden love, interracial romance, taboo, british raj, master and servant, love affair, social differences, love and romance, society, dishonesty, indian woman, hindu ...
Time:
1930s, year 2007, year 1937
Place:
india, europe, asia, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy results and word gets out the public is outraged.
Style:
ambiguous ending, crying
Plot:
incest, incestuous sex, forbidden love, accidental incest, pregnant by incest, taboo, family affairs, love affair, family relations, fishing, living together, death of husband ...
Place:
hungary, budapest
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When Jenny Cross has to spend summer vacation with her deadbeat dad in his creepy commune, she thinks clean living and boredom will kill her. But some fates are worse than death.
Style:
avant garde, surprise ending, dark comedy, suspense
Plot:
taboo, sex crime, religion, sadomasochism, swimming pool, fate, nudity, striptease, twister, ritual, mythology, loss of virginity ...
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A bizarre don't-even-try-to-make-sense-of-it bombardment of sexual imagery that plays like stream of consciousness from a degenerate: threesomes, foursomes, lesbians, bondage, hair-whipping (!) and, believe it or not, even kung-fu. Avant-garde ...
Style:
experimental, controversial, transgressive, avant garde, erotic ...
Plot:
explicit sex, sexual exploration, taboo, sexploitation, bondage, threesome, stream of consciousness, underground, fetishism, group sex, orgy, counterculture ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Yaki just wanted to make a porn film. As a child growing up in an ultra-orthodox family (very religious), he never even heard about this "dubious" genre. Actually, he never even encountered the world of television and film. After shooting ...
Style:
experimental, independent film, avant garde, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
religion, sexuality, taboo, religious conflict, filmmaking, creative process, identity, gay, intimate, identity crisis, mature, transgression ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A dive down to the collective subconscious, where the man's stinking corpse is broken down into nourishing soil from which we are born again and rise to the surface with a new feminine thinking and feeling and unimaginable perversions. An ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, art house, art film, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rebirth, death, lifestyle, life philosophy, life & death, secret, mysticism, symbolism, perversion, sexual content, visceral, taboo ...
Is relevant?
215
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Neil and Max are bank robbers. Max swallows an expensive jewel, gets shot and dies. Neil takes off with Max and meets Carrie the necrophile.
Style:
controversial, transgressive, suspense, independent film, road movie ...
Plot:
necrophiliac, necrophilia, jewel theft, taboo, macabre, bank robbery, body horror, obsession, fetishism, desperation, moral ambiguity, criminal underworld ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
The True Vue Motel is a rendezvous for couples looking for a few hours of "playtime." Unbeknownst to them, the motel's manager has hidden cameras in the rooms and films all of the encounters, then blackmails the victims.
Style:
tension, suspense, noir, period piece, indie film ...
Plot:
peeping, blackmail, voyeurism, motel, exploitation, sexploitation, surveillance, privacy invasion, sleazy, taboo, scandal, paranoia ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Stop thinking about Girls! Start laughing!
Style:
erotic, sex comedy, transgressive, period piece, psychological ...
Plot:
sexploitation, mature, nymphomania, sexual obsession, exploitation, infidelity, taboo, escort, revenge, entrapment, hollywood, murder ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems, each as each relates her particular case, we see it in flashback.
Style:
erotic drama, controversial, psychological, independent film, period piece ...
Plot:
sexploitation, exploitation, sexuality, nudity, sexual exploration, taboo, nymphomania, threesome, voyeurism, infidelity, promiscuity, casual sex ...
Time:
60s
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Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Yuriko is a miserable house wife forced to live under the emotional and physical abuse of her husband until a criminal breaks in and sets her free.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, dark, crime drama, psychological horror ...
Plot:
sexploitation, mature, taboo, sexual abuse, rape, murder, body horror, yakuza, male protagonist, rape and revenge, desperation, tragic romance ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A wealthy man falls for a woman who does not accept his courtship which forces him to enters a dangerous and erotic dream world.
Style:
erotic, sexy, erotic drama, sensual, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
seduction, lust, jealousy, prostitute, erotica, brothel, dancer, murder, female nudity, bondage, sexuality, desire ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to.
Style:
emotional, controversial, psychological, art house, aesthetic ...
Plot:
organ, teenage girl, gardener, coming of age, children, female protagonist, taboo, small town, female sexuality, intimate, moral ambiguity, mute character ...
Place:
france
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423
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
In the shadows of history, the secret beats like a pulse. Vampire sisters survive the shortage of 'clean human blood' caused by the Black Death, but the true poison is the silence that surrounds them. Centuries later, one of their ...
Style:
dark comedy, historical drama, tragicomedy, horror comedy, gothic ...
Plot:
vampire, social commentary, silence, prejudice, compassion, survival, forbidden love, sisters, taboo, black death, satire, isolation ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his necrophiliac butler--to bring it back to his castle and use it for ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological horror, grim, transgressive, suspense ...
Plot:
necrophilia, rape, obsession, macabre, taboo, madness, obsessive love, body horror, castle, serial killer, dog, female nudity ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Anita, a 15 year old teen fells in love with the new neighbor who happens to be twice her age, they romance is stopped by the parents of the girl, the man tells her to hid in a Dovecote until he comes back and they could escape together.
Style:
romantic drama, controversial, tension, suspense, period drama
Plot:
forbidden love, female protagonist, teen romance, coming of age, adolescence, family conflict, loss of innocence, young love, hiding, first love, moral dilemma, taboo ...
Time:
90s, year 1962
Place:
santiago chile, chile
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Shaw production
Style:
controversial, sociological, emotional, period piece, compassionate ...
Plot:
abortion, social issues, coming of age, social commentary, relationships, taboo, youth culture, sexuality, city life, gender roles, empathy, realism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Exploitation film about prostitution.
Style:
erotic drama, dark, sensual, retro, noir ...
Plot:
exploitation, scandal, prostitution, corruption, sexploitation, showbiz, backstage, celebrity culture, taboo, sleaze, underground, nightlife ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Nunsploitation from Japan. Part of the Shûdôjo series.
Style:
controversial, dark, intense, erotic drama, sensual ...
Plot:
sexploitation, convent, nun, female protagonist, hypocrisy, religion, sin, sexual repression, moral ambiguity, repression, temptation, female sexuality ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A man and woman share in some bizarre and masochistic sex-games, including chain-bondage, shoe-licking, watersports, and car-antenna f!cking. There is a side-plot about a female slavery ring where the captors are imprisoned in cages to be used at ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, transgressive, dark, sensual ...
Plot:
piercing, bondage, sexual perversion, domination, fetish, bdsm, sadomasochism, manipulation, submission, taboo, sexual exploration, humiliation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
For fun, two men kidnap and torment women in bondage.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, intense, dark, art house ...
Plot:
bondage, kidnapping, sexploitation, exploitation, abduction, sexual abuse, captivity, mature, female victim, psychological torment, sadomasochism, taboo ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Jorge nightmares in which he finds himself in a certain manor, where all day having sex. But who, and why - do not give burglars find two strong guarding the villa. It seems that young people want to save someone from there for some reason, but ...
Style:
erotic, dark, psychological horror, pornographic, grotesque
Plot:
group sex, sexploitation, orgy, sexual abuse, forced sex, voyeurism, sleazy, taboo, predator, betrayal, hostage situation, decadence ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This Japanese thriller finds a beautiful policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist ...
Style:
erotic, dark, psychological thriller, erotic drama, sensual ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, masochist, sadomasochism, policewoman, lesbianism, making love, sex scene, sexual tension, seduction, lesbian, investigation, bondage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, controversial, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
kidnapping, older man younger woman relationship, schoolgirl, abduction, high school, mature, hostage, coercion, taboo, manipulation, control, sexual abuse ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Poor virginal Shinobu! Her dream is to become a nurse and live a comfortable life, but that dream turns into a nightmare when she becomes the object of obsession for Junior, the sex crazed son of a major shareholder at the hospital where she works. ...
Style:
erotic, tense, medical drama, dark, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexy nurse, nurse, hospital, obsession, abuse of power, sexual assault, sexploitation, virginity, stalker, manipulation, victimization, taboo ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
asia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, art house, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
guilt, prostitute, religion, sexual repression, character study, midlife crisis, morality, loneliness, taboo, neighbor, obsession, scandal ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's ...
Style:
crime drama, controversial, period piece, poliziottesco
Plot:
prostitution, corruption, sexploitation, moral ambiguity, investigation, police procedural, small town, scandal, taboo, female sexuality, bureaucracy, satire ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger.
Style:
surreal, absurd, controversial, satirical, dark comedy ...
Plot:
role playing, mansion, age regression, taboo, elderly man, social satire, family conflict, home invasion, body transformation, retirement, burlesque, magic realism ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline ...
Style:
sex comedy, black comedy, period drama
Plot:
curse, priest, sexual arousal, witchcraft, revenge, embarrassment, taboo, sexual obsession, supernatural, satire, witch burning, scandal ...
Time:
17th century, 1810s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
TV show
Style:
hentai, erotic drama, ecchi, erotic, anime
Plot:
lactation, milf, sexual content, mature, nursing, sexual exploration, taboo, motherhood, adaptation, supernatural, creature feature, voyeurism ...
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