Cinema of the Forbidden Family

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bertolucci's second film. Aunt-nephew relationship. Political passion and forbidden desire intertwined. Pre-Last Tango.

Bellocchio

Epileptic man's destructive family obsession. Family as metaphor for Italy's sick bourgeoisie. Bellocchio's debut.

Luchino Visconti

Claudia Cardinale. Electra complex. Visconti brings prestige to forbidden family desire.

Vilgot Sjöman

Swedish. Sjöman (I Am Curious) tackles sibling love. Scandal on release.

Roger Vadim

Jane Fonda, Peter McEnery. Stepmother-stepson affair. Vadim adapts Zola. Pre-Barbarella Fonda.

Roger Vadim

French. Jane Fonda. Passion between wife and stepson. Vadim adapts Zola.

Jack Hill

Children with degenerative condition regress. Implied family dynamics. Shelved for years. Cult classic on VHS.

Pasolini

Visitor seduces entire family. Prosecuted.

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1960s exploitation. Family game dynamics.

Shohei Imamura

Imamura's epic. Island family with incestuous bonds. Anthropological approach. Two Palme d'Or director.

Salvatore Samperi

Italian. Paralyzed man infatuated with aunt. Erotic psychological battle.

Vilgot Sjöman

Sjöman's second version. Even more explicit than 1966 original.

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Sexploitation era. Unusual family desire dynamics.

Mauro Bolognini

Italian. Gina Lollobrigida. Family estate. Forbidden desire between relatives. Bolognini's prestige.

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Western sexploitation. Siblings on frontier.

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1960s sexploitation. Family arrangement.

Mauro Bolognini

Italian. Sicilian teen bonds with aunt. Gina Lollobrigida.

Joseph W. Sarno

Sarno. Cousin visits, devises all-girl party to expose hypocrisy.

Yvan Lagrange

French. Early post-censorship exploration of the theme. Part of the wave that followed the Hays Code collapse.

Joseph W. Sarno

Sarno's Danish production. Father-daughter. One of the first explicit treatments.

John Newland

Romy Schneider. Mother-son. Hollywood attempts the European approach.

Robert Ellis Miller

British. Cousins and sexual entanglement. Swinging London era.

Malle

Coming-of-age with incest. Treated with tenderness.

Claude d'Anna

French. Surreal erotic fantasy with family undertones.

Joseph W. Sarno

Sarno's Swedish production. Family seduction dynamics.

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French. Heat/desire. Early post-censorship family theme.

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Title-on-tin sexploitation.

Sergio Martino

Giallo with incestuous undertones. Martino's take on Poe's The Black Cat. Edwige Fenech.

Leopoldo Savona

Italian gothic horror. Title says it all. Eurosleaze rarity.

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Japanese pinku. Multiple perspectives on family transgression.

Sauro Scavolini

Italian. Exotic location. Siblings and forbidden passion.

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Italian. Ten Commandments exploitation series. Family forbidden content.

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Sexploitation era. Family members at same campus.

Ernst Hofbauer

German Report series. Anthology includes family transgression segments. Massive box office in Germany.

Yasuzô Masumura

Japanese. Woman undergoes psychiatric treatment. Masumura's exploration of sexual hang-ups and music.

Howard Avedis

American. Blackmail forces woman to seduce new husband's son. Murder ensues. Drive-in era.

Nina Companeez

French. 16-year-old Faustine discovers love during summer. Isabelle Adjani early role.

Don Edmonds

Farm girl flees abusive father to LA hippies, LSD, satanic cult.

Giulio Petroni

Italian. Barbara Bouchet. Young man falls for girl in Assisi.

Ted Post

Mother keeps adult son in infantile state. Social worker intervenes. Genuinely disturbing cult film.

Joe D'Amato

Gothic horror. Twins, resurrection, forbidden desire. D'Amato's most atmospheric.

Claude Pierson

French exploitation. Pierson specialized in literary erotica with forbidden themes.

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1970s exploitation. Family seduction theme.

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European exploitation. Rural family desire.

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European. Mother controls family desire.

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1970s exploitation. Family theme.

Jess Franco

Franco's De Sade adaptation. Father-daughter dynamics. Soledad Miranda.

Tiziano Longo

Italian. 16-year-old seduces mother's new lover after parents divorce.

Borowczyk

Four erotic stories. The transition film.

Gianluigi Calderone

Italian. Ornella Muti. Forbidden desire within family.

Nello Rossati

Italian commedia sexy. Uncle-niece dynamics played as comedy.

Damiano Damiani

Italian. Glenda Jackson. Family corruption and desire.

Luciano Ercoli

Italian. Borgia family. Historical incest as exploitation spectacle.

Joseph W. Sarno

Sarno. Sisters and mother navigate forbidden desires. His most explicit family-theme work.

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Japanese. Family dynamics within pink film.

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European. Cousin desire explored.

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Italian. 'My Beloved Grandchildren.' Family comedy with taboo elements.

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Family drama. Isolated setting breeds forbidden desire.

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Japanese pink film. Family transgression.

Massimo Dallamano

Italian. Young man from seminary falls for father's new wife. Edwige Fenech. Dallamano directed What Have You Done to Solange.

Errikos Andreou

Greek. Girl has lesbian affair with stepmother on island vacation. Fisherman intervenes. Rare Greek exploitation.

Noboru Tanaka

Japanese. Prostitute's hardships. Uncompromising Nikkatsu.

Borowczyk

Most notorious. Unsimulated bestiality. Art as provocation.

Franco

Romay in gothic island mystery.

Salvatore Bugnatelli

Italian exploitation. Forbidden family dynamics.

Chris Warfield

American drive-in. Father-daughter forbidden territory.

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European exploitation. Family setting.

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European softcore. Aunt-nephew dynamics.

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Title-on-tin exploitation. Drive-in era.

Arthur Marks

Father and sons compete for same woman. American exploitation.

Benson Fong

Occult exploitation. Family ritual and forbidden acts.

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European exploitation. Family game of forbidden desire.

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Mexican. Turtle's cry. Family transgression.

Mario Imperoli

Italian. Inexperienced teen under care of three desiring aunts.

Bruno Gaburro

Italian. Nephew takes uncle's possessions and women. Michele Placido.

Brass

Nazi brothel. Huge budget. Genuinely disturbing.

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Italian. Cousin romance. Commedia sexy era.

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Italian. Title translates to 'Family Scandal.' Direct in its subject.

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American exploitation. Family secrets.

David Miller

American. Lana Turner. Couple discovers they're half-siblings after marriage. Hollywood melodrama.

Richard Franklin

Australian exploitation. Sexual fantasies anthology includes family segment.

Jeanne Moreau

Moreau directs. Coming-of-age with forbidden family elements. Simone Signoret.

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Family agreement. Forbidden dynamics.

Andrea Bianchi

Italian. Aging wife loses husband's interest. She falls for his son. Carroll Baker. Bianchi exploitation.

Gonzalo García Pelayo

Spanish. Andalusian beauty attracts conflicting passions including stepfamily. Fernando Rey.

Marcello Andrei

Italian. Girl loves stepmother's brother. Forced marriage. Gloria Guida.

Giuliano Petrelli

Italian erotic thriller. Voyeurism and family secrets. Rare Eurosleaze.

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European exploitation. Family forbidden desire.

Jess Franco

Franco's take on sibling desire. Part of his massive exploitation output.

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Spanish. Call of sex. Family forbidden theme.

Alain Nauroy

French. Nurse marries wealthy industrialist, begins affair with his son.

Alberto Lattuada

Nastassja Kinski, Marcello Mastroianni. Man suspects young lover is his daughter. Italian art-house.

John D. Lamond

Australian. Boarding school girl and erotica. Lesbian affair.

Walter Boos

German Report series. Young women seeking love in five episodes.

Alfredo Rizzo

Italian erotic drama. Family forbidden desire.

Bertolucci

Mother cures son's heroin addiction through intimacy. Desperate maternal love. Critics divided. Commercial failure, studied in film programs.

Brass/Guccione

Most infamous production ever. Unsimulated inserts without director consent.

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European drama. Family desire.

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Exploitation. Sisters and forbidden dynamics.

Enrique Guevara

Spanish. Young man moves in with unknown aunt and her husband after mother dies.

Kirdy Stevens

Kay Parker. Incest drama. Massive franchise. Culturally notorious.

David Hamilton

Hamilton's softcore pastoral. Adolescent cousins in French countryside. His signature gauzy aesthetic.

Julián Soler

Mexican melodrama. Forbidden passion within family. Latin American exploitation.

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European softcore. Family dynamics.

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Italian commedia sexy. Title sums up the era's approach to the theme.

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French. Heart turned upside down. Family desire.

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European erotic drama. Family transgression.

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French softcore. Household forbidden dynamics.

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Japanese. Family hunting dynamics.

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Spanish exploitation. Family seduction.

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Mother-child forbidden farewell.

Giuseppe Pulieri

Italian. Beautiful aunt comforts teen. Sicilian setting.

Vicente Aranda

Spanish. Aging Falangist, niece arrives. Victoria Abril.

José Fonseca e Costa

Portuguese. Sea woman and forbidden desire. Art-house erotica from Portugal's post-revolution cinema.

David Paulsen

American exploitation. Family secrets and forbidden relationships. Drive-in era holdover.

Marguerite Duras

Duras directs. Sibling desire as literary exploration. Bulle Ogier.

Matt Cimber

Pia Zadora. Father-daughter in Nevada mining country. Razzie winner but genuine cult following.

Bertrand Blier

French. After mother dies, 14-year-old falls for stepfather. Blier (Going Places) at his most provocative. Patrick Dewaere.

Otto Jongerius

Dutch. Man recalls teenage love for sensual aunt. Jan Decleir.

Bruno Mattei

Italian. Seductive Messalina stops at nothing for Roman power.

Haroldo Marinho Barbosa

Brazilian. Sexy teen seduces cousin on engagement day. Horrible family secret.

Kirdy Stevens

Parker returns. Expanded family dynamics. Cemented 'taboo' as permanent adult cinema category.

Damiano Damiani

Horror sequel. Brother-sister relationship central to the possession narrative. Based on DeFeo case.

Walter Hugo Khouri

Brazilian. Boy in a political brothel. Xuxa's controversial film debut. Banned repeatedly.

Roberto Bianchi Montero

Italian. Borgia family. Historical exploitation.

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Japanese pink film. Family forbidden theme.

Bruno Mattei

Italian. Historical exploitation. Imperial Roman family transgression.

Katsuhiko Fujii

Japanese pink film. Family taboos played as sex comedy. Nikkatsu era.

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Exploitation. Women captive in household with forbidden dynamics.

Marco Ferreri

Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla. Mother-daughter relationship. Ferreri (La Grande Bouffe) provokes again.

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Japanese pink film sequel. Continued family theme.

Alfonso Balcázar

Spanish. Aunt learns to love from niece's friend. Spanish exploitation.

Bud Townsend

American erotic drama. Twins and forbidden attachment. Straight-to-video era.

Tony Richardson

John Irving adaptation. Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski. Sibling relationship central.

Michael Firth

New Zealand. Rural family. Father-daughter dynamics. Bruno Lawrence.

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Siblings at same dormitory. Exploitation.

Yutaka Ikejima

Japanese. Female desire and family transgression. Pink film.

Fredi M. Murer

Swiss. Isolated siblings on an Alpine farm. Won Swiss Film Prize. Tender, unsettling. Art-house treatment.

Fina Torres

Venezuelan. Woman returns to family hacienda, uncovers forbidden memories. Torres won Camera d'Or at Cannes.

Masayuki Suo

Japanese. Family desire in horror context. Suo later made the acclaimed Shall We Dance.

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Family deception drama. Forbidden secrets.

Gérard Loubeau

French period sex comedy. Family dynamics in rural France. Commercial softcore hit.

Giovanni Trezza

Italian exploitation. Shameless family transgression. Part of Italy's 1980s erotic drama wave.

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Obscure erotic drama exploring one-sided forbidden family desire.

Hisayasu Satô

Japanese. Satô's extreme cinema. Family transgression as horror.

Joe D'Amato

Italian. Mute young man's fantasies about stepmother and aunt. D'Amato exploitation.

Gianfranco Mingozzi

Teen's summer education in house of women. Serena Grandi.

Bertrand Tavernier

Medieval France. Father returns from war, terrorizes family including daughter. Tavernier's darkest. Julie Delpy debut.

Eriprando Visconti

Italian. Eriprando Visconti (Luchino's nephew) explores forbidden family desire. Aristocratic decadence.

Eriprando Visconti

Italian. Same film as Il fascino sottile del peccato. Alternate English title.

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Family identity and desire.

Masayuki Asao

Japanese. Gambling debts. Mother and daughter sold as sexual slaves.

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Family jealousy and forbidden desire.

Doug Campbell

American. Inventor's son becomes involved with beautiful young stepmother. Ray Wise.

Bigas Luna

Spanish. Almudena Grandes adaptation. Woman's sexual awakening includes family transgression. Bigas Luna's provocation.

Fernando Ayala

Argentine drama. Forbidden family dynamics. South American art-house.

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Erotic thriller. Family transgression.

Nikos Nikolaidis

Greek. Mother-daughter torture a man. Film noir as family psychosis. Cult classic. Genuinely extreme.

Charles T. Kanganis

American. Italian neighborhood. Cheating with cousin. Shotgun brother.

Stephen Poliakoff

British. Adult siblings begin affair. Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves. Restrained, literary approach.

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Japanese. 'Lewd Family: Stepmother's Bedroom.' Roman Porno era continuation.

Hitoshi Yazaki

Japanese. Brother-sister relationship. Art-house approach. Based on literary source.

Walter Hugo Khouri

Brazilian. Daughter investigates father's love life seductively. Ben Gazzara.

Roman Polanski

Cruise ship. Passenger infatuated with paraplegic's wife. Polanski.

Andrew Birkin

Ian McEwan adaptation. Orphaned siblings in isolation. Charlotte Gainsbourg. British art-house — restrained, literary, psychologically precise.

Duane Clark

American thriller. Patsy Kensit. Rural family secrets.

Sergio Martino

Italian. Martino returns to forbidden territory. Erotic thriller.

Andrew Stevens

Vengeful widow seduces relatives. Shannon Tweed erotic thriller.

David O. Russell

Russell's debut. Son cares for injured mother. Sundance Audience Award. Before he went mainstream.

Nancy Meckler

Based on Papin sisters case. Julie Walters, Joely Richardson. Servants murder employers.

Catherine Cyran

American. Husband and stepdaughter conspire to murder wheelchair-bound wife. Erotic thriller.

Atom Egoyan

Man frequents strip club. Past never far away. Egoyan's masterpiece.

Philip Haas

A.S. Byatt adaptation. Victorian naturalist discovers wife's family secret. Revelation handled with era-appropriate horror. Kristin Scott Thomas.

He Jianjun

Chinese. Postman reads private letters, discovers family secrets. Banned in China. Sixth Generation cinema.

Lewis Gilbert

Gothic horror. Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale. Ghost story with sibling desire at its center.

Patrick Dewolf

British-French. 1930s mystery with family transgression at center.

Jan Sardi

Family desire explored through Australian lens.

Robert Jan Westdijk

Dutch. Brother obsessed with younger sister makes documentary about her. Unresolved past surfaces.

Hisayasu Satô

Japanese. Three Tokyo women's sexual experiences. Mother-in-law's sex club.

Zalman King

Anaïs Nin inspiration. Sordid affair in 1940 Paris on brink of WWII.

Marleen Gorris

Dutch. Matriarch oversees matriarchal community. Feminism thrives. Oscar winner.

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Family genetics and forbidden desire.

David Cronenberg

Car crash fetishism. Underground subculture. Cronenberg. NC-17.

Mark Griffiths

American thriller. Family secrets and forbidden desire.

Lance Young

Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee. Sexual therapy uncovers childhood family abuse.

Mary Lambert

American TV movie. Nurse falls for son of ruthless new husband. Rachel Ward. Lambert directed Pet Sematary.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Porn producer discovers hot talent. 1970s-80s adult film industry. PTA masterpiece.

Michael Steinberg

Julia Stiles. Daughter manipulates father after mother's death.

Amos Kollek

Anna Thomson as woman recounting family abuse. NYC indie. Unflinching.

Tim Roth

Roth's directorial debut. Father abusing daughter. Devastating. One of the most unflinching British films ever made.

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Erotic thriller. Family transgression.

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Family desire pushed to excess.

Jane Campion

Brainwashed woman isolated with deprogrammer. Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel. Campion.

Lyndon Chubbuck

American indie. Siblings explore feelings.

Miike

Dysfunctional family. Nothing off limits.

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German. Family bond drama.

Nonzee Nimibutr

Thai. Based on bestselling novel. Stepmother-stepson desire. Beautifully shot. Sequel in 2012.

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Family drifting and forbidden bonds.

Lee Rose

TV movie. NYC shrink sees four women: attraction to woman, sisters, cheating, revenge.

Kornél Mundruczó

Hungarian. Roma community. Mundruczó's debut. Brother-sister bond.

Giada Colagrande

Italian. Sisters' destructive bond. Art-house debut.

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Family transgression drama.

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Russian. Moonlit meadows. Family transgression.

Daniela Fejerman

Spanish. Classical pianist introduces female lover to three daughters.

Jean-Claude Brisseau

French. Two women use sexual transgression to climb social hierarchy in a bank.

Park Chan-wook

Imprisoned 15 years. The twist redefines shocking.

Bertolucci

Paris 1968. Twins and an American student. Eva Green's debut. Bertolucci's return to explicit territory.

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Family desire drama.

Jason Hreno

Canadian TV movie. Graduate begins affair with father's much younger new wife. Murder follows.

Boris Quercia

Chilean. Parents debate children's sex ed, re-examine own views.

Honoré

Isabelle Huppert introduces her son to sexual transgression after his father dies. Based on Bataille. Huppert's most provocative role.

Erin Brown

Softcore. Family transgression within exploitation framework.

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Psychological drama. Family pathology.

Charly Cantor

Family bonds and transgression.

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American softcore. Family neighborhood secrets.

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Family transgression drama.

Yutaka Ikejima

Japanese. Eccentric family with disturbing secrets.

Albertina Carri

Argentine. Upper-class twins. Carri is one of Latin America's most important queer filmmakers.

Jamie Babbit

Elisha Cuthbert. Deaf girl discovers host family's secret. Father-daughter abuse.

Cristina Comencini

Italian. Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Woman uncovers repressed memories of childhood abuse by brother.

Ira Sachs

American indie. Russian woman with older rock legend drawn to his estranged visiting son. Rip Torn. Sundance Grand Jury Prize.

Sion Sono

Novelist writes story of family destroyed by incest. Sono's darkest.

Jessica Nilsson

Danish. Independent single girl focused on fun. Commitment vs freedom.

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Family drama exploring forbidden bonds.

Pascal Arnold & Jean-Marc Barr

French. Brother investigates sister's murder. Explicit. Sexual fluidity.

Matthias Luthardt

German. Summer vacation. Family tension and forbidden bonds between young relatives.

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Family desire as illness metaphor.

Jean Châteauvert

French. Married mother's consuming affair with her brother. Canadian-French production.

Nick Guthe

American. Rebellious girl hooks up with escort agency where stepfather is client. Alec Baldwin, Nikki Reed.

Tom Kalin

Julianne Moore as Barbara Baekeland. True story of Bakelite heir family. Mother-son relationship ends in murder.

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Family transgression drama.

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European family drama with forbidden undertones.

David Mackenzie

Jamie Bell. Voyeur who spies on women who resemble his dead mother. Oedipal obsession. Edinburgh Film Festival.

Francisco Franco Alba

Mexican. Sibling desire. Latin American art-house.

Carl Bessai

Canadian. Deadly car accident connects strangers dealing with emotional fallout. Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers.

Lloyd A. Simandl

Post-apocalyptic. Sister tries to stop woman who sells beautiful women.

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Family transgression drama.

Kornél Mundruczó

Hungarian. Half-siblings meet as adults, begin relationship. Danube delta setting. Cannes selection.

Josué Méndez

Peruvian. Wealthy stepsiblings disconnected from reality in oceanfront villa. Class and desire.

Lanthimos

Children in total isolation. Deeply disturbing.

Rachel Ward

Australian. Writer returns home, confronts memories of twin sister. Rachel Ward directs.

Michel Franco

Mexican. Siblings kidnapped and forced into sexual acts on camera. Franco's most controversial.

Marco Martins

Portuguese. Brother-sister relationship. Art-house approach.

Atom Egoyan

Julianne Moore hires Amanda Seyfried to test husband's fidelity. Egoyan.

Julia Leigh

Emily Browning. Elderly men pay to sleep beside unconscious women. Power dynamics within quasi-familial structures. Cannes.

Wang Xiaoshuai

Chinese. Family displacement and forbidden bonds.

Kevin Ko

Taiwanese anthology. One segment explores sibling desire.

Matteo Rovere

Italian. Man fights attraction to 17-year-old half-sister who moves into his Rome flat.

Frederikke Aspöck

Danish. Couple visits father on desolate island. Abnormal bond.

Nigina Sayfullaea

Russian short. Young Vera's summer changes when older cousin visits.

Lisa Aschan

Swedish. Two girls on equine acrobatics team. Intimate friendship vs competition.

Sean Anders

Adam Sandler comedy. Teacher-student abuse played for laughs. Critically reviled. Cultural document of what was still 'comedy' in 2012.

Filip Marczewski

Polish. Siblings develop romantic feelings. Berlinale selection.

Dan Sallitt

American indie. Sister's obsession with brother. Sallitt's restrained art-house approach.

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Family transgression drama.

Scott Graham

Scottish. Father-daughter isolation in Highland petrol station. BAFTA nominated.

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German. Sea burial. Family secrets and forbidden bonds.

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French. Family failure and forbidden desire.

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Sci-fi family transgression.

Sacha Polak

Dutch. Promiscuous young woman's complex bond with her equally restless father. Raw debut.

Eliav Lilti

Israeli. Orphaned siblings search for birth father.

Alex van Warmerdam

Dutch dark fable. Stranger dismantles a family. Their complicity in their own corruption is the real horror.

Avranas

Birthday hides abuse. Venice Best Director.

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Sketch comedy. One segment features explicit family humor. All-star cast in career worst. Historically awful.

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Family drama exploring forbidden desire without physical contact.

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Family departure and forbidden bonds.

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Family gathering reveals transgressive dynamics.

Deborah Chow

Lifetime remake of V.C. Andrews' gothic novel. Siblings locked in attic. The book series is America's most-read forbidden family fiction.

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Japanese. Comedy-drama exploring sibling dynamics.

David Cronenberg

Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska. Hollywood dynasty's incestuous pathology. Cronenberg's LA satire.

Tetsuya Takehora

Japanese. Three waitress sisters. Thief in store on boyfriend's birthday eve.

Valérie Donzelli

French. Based on true 18th century case of noble siblings in love. Premiered at Cannes.

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Korean softcore. Family dynamics.

Jeff Lipsky

American. Nevada Smith craves place in overachieving family.

Justin Lerner

American indie. Man meets cousin. Discovers dad's secret brother. Deborah Ann Woll.

Sebastián Borensztein

Argentine thriller. Ricardo Darín. Military dictatorship backdrop. Family secrets and complicity.

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Mother-child forbidden bond. Modern treatment.

Adrian Sitaru

Romanian. Siblings' forbidden love. Father is a doctor. No one drew a line between moral and legal.

Miguel Chavez

Bolivian. Cousins discovered sexuality together. Reunite after 10 years.

Valentino Misino

French. Sisters are secret incest lovers. Mother plans marriage. They resist.

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Modern thriller. Family transgression.

Pablo Trapero

Argentine. Bérénice Bejo. Sisters return home, family secrets emerge. Trapero (The Clan) goes domestic.

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Austrian/German. Modern family love story with forbidden elements.

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Scandinavian. 'Brother.' Modern family taboo.

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Israeli. Family attic secrets.

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Spanish. 'The Hypocrites.' Family façade hides forbidden desire.

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French. Day at the sea. Family forbidden desire.

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Modern. Female desire within family context.

May el-Toukhy

Danish. Successful lawyer has affair with teenage stepson. Trine Dyrholm. Sundance winner. Denmark's Oscar submission.

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Modern family transgression. Short film/feature.

Isabelle Stever

German. Mother and adult son reunite. Stever's most provocative. Berlin Film Festival.

Louie Ignacio

Filipino. Wife hires woman to investigate husband. Woman falls for him.

Lanthimos

Triptych of submission. Most disturbing since Dogtooth.

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Modern continuation of the taboo franchise tradition.

Bobby Bonifacio Jr.

Filipino. Sister's girlfriend begins affair with sister's boyfriend.