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Aug 29, 2018 · What's more sleazy than an erotic film, one that pushes the boundaries of desire and sexual taboos? These movies run the gamut from cult classics to smutty art house films.
Movies and/or TV shows with Taboo or Forbidden Relationships. I only add titles I have actually seen. In no particular order.
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- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Shot in a scant fifteen days, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a timeless classic, and a love story of great unshakeable power.
- Harold and Maude (1971) Hal Ashby’s heartfelt Harold and Maude is a taboo smashing work of bravado and pitch-dark humor. Bud Cort’s cherub-like visage as Harold Chasen, a death-obsessed young man in his twenties, is a revelation, but Ruth Gordon’s eccentric 79-year-old Maude Chardin, is the free-spirited tour de force that all but steals the show.
- Boys Don’t Cry (1999) Sexual repression and passionate sympathetic connection lay at the heart of Kimberly Peirce’s award-winning film of real-life trans male Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank, brilliant in an Oscar-winning role).
- Never Let Me Go (2010) Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian sci-fi novel is elegantly adapted into an agonizingly exquisite and hauntingly poetic film of dangerous and unrequited love from director Mark Romanek.
- Hard Feelings
- 365 Days
- Faithfully Yours
- Bulbbul
- Rebecca
- Fatal Affair
- The Beguiled
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Lust Stories
- In The Tall Grass
Unlike the other films in this list, this Granz Henman directorial explores a friendship that finds itself to be taboo, thereby giving it a humorous angle. In other words, we meet high school students/best friends Charly (Tobias Schäfer) and Paula (Cosima Henman), who are grappling with their respective puberties and genitals that can speak to them...
Directed by Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes, ‘365 Days‘ is a controversial Polish film that explores a taboo relationship through the lens of Stockholm Syndrome. Starring Michele Morrone as Massimo Torricelli and Anna Maria Sieklucka as Laura Biel, the story revolves around a young woman, Laura, who is kidnapped by a mafia boss, Massimo, and giv...
Directed by André van Duren, ‘Faithfully Yours’ follows two married women, Isabel (Elise Schaap) and Bodil (Bracha van Doesburgh), who are best friends. They live in the Netherlands with their respective families but set off to Belgium one weekend to vent out their taboo cravings while keeping their husbands under the impression that they are on a ...
Directed by Anvita Dut Guptan, this Indian Hindi-language horror film is set in the 1880s Bengal presidency. It follows a young 5-year-old girl named Bulbbul (Tripti Dimri) whose attraction towards her 20-year-older husband Indranil’s (Rahul Bose) brother, the much younger Satya (Avinash Tiwary), makes Indranil send Satya to foreign. When Satya ret...
The 2020 Netflix film is not the first time Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel ‘Rebecca’ has been adapted for the screen. Arguably, the most famous adaptation was by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940, which won an Oscar for Best Picture. In the 2020 web film, the 20-something unnamed British female protagonist (Lily James) meets the dashing widower Maxim “Max” ...
‘Fatal Affair,’ a gripping thriller directed by Peter Sullivan, dives deep into the treacherous terrain of taboo relationships. Starring Nia Long and Omar Epps, the film weaves a suspenseful narrative around an extramarital liaison that quickly spirals into a nightmare. Long’s character, Ellie, rekindles a past connection with an old flame, David (...
This gothic thriller is directed by Sofia Coppola and based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Thomas P. Cullinan. Set during the Civil War, the film shows how a group of women at the Seminary for Young Ladies take in wounded soldier Corporal John McBurney, who belongs to the enemy party. As the ladies tend to his wounds, Miss Martha Farnsworth,...
When D. H. Lawrence’s original book came out, it caused massive controversy. At one point, it was banned in multiple countries around the world, and its publisher faced an obscenity trial in Britain because of it in 1960. The story follows a torrid affair between an upper-class married woman and the working-class man who serves as the gamekeeper of...
This anthology film comprises four shorts directed by four strong directorial voices from India. Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar are the four directors who joined hands for this venture after their 2014 project together in the same format, called ‘Bombay Talkies.’ Each of the stories has something to do with sexual de...
Directed and written by Vincenzo Natali, ‘In the Tall Grass’ is a supernatural thriller movie based on Joe Hill’s novel of the same name. The Harrison Gilbertson and Laysla De Oliveira-starrer follows Cal DeMuth and his sister Becky, who are traveling to San Diego together. While on their way, the siblings hear a boy calling for help from a vast fi...
- A Short Film About Love (1988) When people say European cinema, the names most often mentioned are Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Luc-Godard, Luis Bunuel, Michael Haneke, and so on.
- Carol (2015) Todd Haynes’ ‘Carol’ is quite simply one of the most beautiful films about what it feels like to fall in love. These are two people dying to fall in each other’s arms, yearning for a sense of emotional liberation from the clutches of a cold society.
- Delta (2008) This Hungarian gem is a criminally underrated drama that explores a poignant incestuous relationship between an estranged brother and sister.
- Ma Mere (2004) Arguably the most controversial film on the list, ‘Ma Mere’ is easily the most disturbing and unwatchable film about incest ever made.
Sep 7, 2016 · The 25 Best Movies About Forbidden Love. Posted on September 7, 2016 by Shane Scott-Travis. Forbidden love is a tantalizing topic for cineastes, offering compelling melodrama, and escapist diversion with aplomb. Who doesn’t like to get swept up in passion’s throes, often while defying convention and shattering taboos?
Taboo: Created by Chips Hardy, Tom Hardy, Steven Knight. With Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin. Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire.
