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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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- Time of Wickedness
- Tehran Taboo
- From Beginning to End
- Notes on A Scandal
- Fish Tank
- The Reader
- La Luna
- Harold and Maude
- The Graduate
- Lolita
Directed by Yasuo Furuhata, ‘Time of Wickedness’ deals with a taboo relationship that is as taboo as it can get. It explores the affair between a son and his mother, one that thankfully doesn’t end in either of the two killing himself/herself. For the son, guilt is primary, a feeling that makes him run away but is in conflict with his desire for he...
This Ali Soozandeh-directed Persian-language animated romantic flick revolves around four characters (3 women and a man) in an Iranian society that is underscored by hypocritical aspects of sex, patriarchy, and religion, among others. How the lives of these four people intersect is showcased in a brilliant manner while addressing the aforementioned...
This Brazilian film has been directed by Aluizio Abranches and explores incest and homosexuality through the eyes of two guys who are step-brothers who have the same mother but different fathers. As expected, intolerance and prejudice are everywhere, and the question, as always, is whether love will survive because, more often than not, it doesn’t....
Starring Dame Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Andrew Simpson, and Bill Nighy and directed by Richard Eyre, this psychological drama is based on Zoë Heller’s 2003 novel of the same name. It revolves around veteran teacher Barbara Covett, who diverts her attention to new art teacher Sheba Hart, a wife and a mother of two, and gets a much-needed escape fr...
Directed by Andrea Arnold, ‘Fish Tank’ won the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Best British Film BAFTA. It tells the story of solitary teenager Mia, who finds herself attracted to her skanky mom’s new boyfriend Connor. After all, he is the only one who cares for what she likes, something that’s not the case with either he...
Most people dismiss ‘The Reader’ as a mediocre, Oscar-bait drama that’s nothing more than a skin show. But I, for one, love the film. It’s deeply flawed and may come off as a bit of a drag at times, but just too beautiful and humane to dismiss. The film depicts the complex sexual relationship between a teenage kid and a woman in her mid-30s. Kate W...
Bernardo Bertolucci’s controversial drama ‘La Luna’ aka ‘Luna’ explores the disturbing relationship between a mother and her son. Joe, a teenager, has a troubled relationship with his parents, and after his mother’s husband commits suicide, he moves along with her to Rome. However, the boy’s emotional troubles begin to take a toll on him, and he be...
How, in our world, could the love story of a 20-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman not be a case of forbidden love? Hal Ashby’s black comedy romantic drama centers around a young man obsessed with death who frequently attends funerals, stages fake suicides, and grows increasingly detached from his mother. While romance might not seem to be the f...
It’s quite difficult to relate to a coming-of-drama that’s more than 50 years old. But there are some amazing moments in ‘The Graduate’ that still hold up well and manage to move me tremendously. It was a trendsetting phenomenon that changed the way coming-of-dramas were made. The feeling of angst and sexual tension felt by Benjamin is palpable. He...
Arguably, one of Stanley Kubrick’s more underrated works, ‘Lolita’ tells the story of a middle-aged man deeply infatuated with a gorgeous teenage girl. Adapted from Vladimir Nokobov’s novel of the same title, ‘Lolita’ generated controversy due to its bold subject and was panned by critics. Kubrick infuses a dark, perverse sense of humor that works ...
- Two (2021) Directed by Mar Targarona, ‘Two’ is a mystery drama movie that follows David and Sara, two strangers who wake up one day and find themselves stitched together.
- Black Island (2021) Written by Miguel Alexandre and Lisa Carline Hofer and directed by Alexandre, ‘Black Island’ or ‘Schwarze Insel’ is a German thriller film starring Hanns Zischler, Alice Dwyer, and Mercedes Müller.
- The Four of Us (2021) ‘The Four of Us,’ a daring German film directed by Florian Gottschick, spotlights the intricacies of a taboo relationship. Starring Jonas Nay, Nilam Farooq, and Paula Kalenberg, the plot revolves around two couples entangled in an unconventional experiment.
- In the Tall Grass (2019) 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.
- 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.
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.
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