That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Outrage (2009), The Wicker Man (1973), Pleasantville (1998), Bettie Page Reveals All (2011), Angelica (2015), Kinsey (2004), Wifemistress (1977) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sexual Repression movies.
Storyline: Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...
Plot Keywords: dancer, wealthy man, mother, daughter, dwarf, brutal, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker Kirby Dick examines the hypocrisy of certain closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community to which they secretly belong.
Plot Keywords: politician, filmmaker, homosexual, homophobe, passionate, powerful, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On Sunday, April 29, 1973, Sergeant Neil Howie with the West Highland Constabulary flies solo to Summerisle off the coast of Scotland. He is there to follow up on a letter addressed specifically to him from an anonymous source on Summerisle reporting that a twelve year old girl who lives on the island, Rowan Morrison, the daughter of May Morrison, has long been missing. The correspondence includes a photograph of Rowan. Upon his arrival on Summerisle, Howie finds that the locals are a seemingly simple minded lot who provide little information beyond the fact that they know of no Rowan Morrison and do not know the girl in the photo. Mrs. Morrison admits to having a daughter, seven year old Myrtle, but no Rowan. As Howie speaks to more and more people, he begins to believe that Rowan does or did live on the island, but that the locals are hiding their knowledge of her. He also begins to see that the locals all have pagan beliefs, their "religion" which centers on procreation as the ...
Plot Keywords: police officer, magistrate, daughter, teacher, cult member, shocking, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: David Wagner is a kid whose mind is stuck in the 1950s. He's addicted to a classic 50's sitcom television show called "Pleasantville". Pleasantville is a simple place, a place where all of its citizens are swell and simple-minded folks, a place where the word "violence", and life outside of Pleasantville, is unbeknownst to its inhabitants; things are perfect down in Pleasantville. One evening, the life of David and his obnoxious sister Jennifer take a bizarre turn when an eccentric repairman hand them a supposed magical remote. After a quarrel between the siblings, they inexplicably zap themselves into the world of "Pleasantville". Now, David and Jennifer must adjust to a 50s lifestyle of repressed desires and considerably different societal values while trying to find their way home.
Plot Keywords: teenager, sister, father, mother, repairman, bully, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The pinup model and cult icon recounts how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.
Plot Keywords: model, interviewee, family member, hugh hefner, engaging, fascinating, united states ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Victorian era, a young wife and her husband go through a difficult time in their marriage after the birth of their child, which is heightened by a mysterious ghost that enters their house.
Plot Keywords: mother, father, daughter, doctor, medium, creepy, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Called Prok as an adult (short for Professor Kinsey), Alfred Kinsey has been interested in biology since he was a child growing up in the early twentieth century, despite the criticisms of such being evil nonsense from his overbearing and devoutly Christian father, professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey. Prok goes on to become a biology professor at Indiana University, initially focusing on the study of gall wasps. But those studies in combination with questions from his students, coming to terms with the needs of sex with his own wife, a former student of his named Clara McMillen (who he calls Mac), and what he sees as the gross misinformation on the subject currently within popular belief makes him change his focus to human sexuality. Many of those gross untruths - as he sees them - are that oral sex and masturbation cause a slew of maladies, which are perpetuated by what is presented in the university's hygiene class taught by Professor Thurman Rice. With the approval of faculty head ...
Plot Keywords: professor, wife, student, dean, reporter, confident, university ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Since her husband pronounced her frigid on her wedding night, Antonia DeAngelis has been an invalid. When he disappears, she believes him dead: she leaves her bed and takes over his business, traveling to see clients. She discovers her husband's passions, his political writing, mistresses, and his indifference to the peasants on her family's land. She improves their lot, begins an affair with a young foreign doctor, and publishes her husband's writings. All this time, he's hiding from a murder charge in a house across the square. Amazed, he watches her become his sexual and social equal. After the police drop the murder charge, will he disappear, end his life, or rejoin her on new terms?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: unfaithful husband, wife, mistress, hedonistic, lighthearted, madcap, italy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1845 London, the Barrett family is ruled with an iron fist by its stern widowed patriarch, Edward Moulton-Barrett. His nine grown children are afraid of him more than they love him. One of his rules is that none of his children are allowed to marry, which does not sit well with youngest daughter Henrietta as she loves and wants to marry Captain Surtees Cook. Of the nine, the one exception is his daughter Elizabeth, who abides faithfully to her father's wishes. Elizabeth does not think too much about the non-marriage rule as she has an unknown chronic illness which has kept her bedridden. She feels her life will not be a long one. With her time, she writes poetry, which she shares by correspondence with another young poet, Robert Browning. Elizabeth's outlook on her life changes when she meets Mr. Browning for the first time, he who has fallen in love with her without even having met her. She, in return, falls in love with him after their meeting. With Mr. Browning's love and support, Elizabeth tries to get well and enjoy life, this all against the thoughts of her father, who physically and emotionally traps Elizabeth and by association all of his children, all in the name of protecting her and them in the name of God.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: father, sister, doctor, love interest, chilling, melodramatic, london ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1951, the story follows Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression and pines after a troubled girl.
Plot Keywords: dean, teacher, student, jewish man, emotional, engaging, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 19th century Dublin, Albert Nobbs, an eccentric man in the latter part of middle age, works as a waiter in Morrison's Hotel run by the stingy and controlling Marge Baker. Albert is hard working and saves his money so that one day he will be able to eke out a better life for himself by owning his own business rather than work at the hotel. Beyond his work colleagues, he is all alone in the world. One day, a man named Hubert Page is hired by Mrs. Baker to paint one of the rooms in the hotel. She forces Hubert to share Albert's bed for the one night he is required to stay to complete the work, much to Albert's horror. Hubert discovers the reason Albert did not want to share a room with him. But rather than the issue being a problem, Hubert shows Albert that he can follow a slightly different life path than the one he envisioned for himself - one closer to the life that Hubert leads with his wife Cathleen - which includes getting married and having a wife to support him emotionally. ...
Plot Keywords: butler, transvestite, painter, maid, partner, love interest, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young girl, Louise (Mélanie Laurent), meets an intriguing youth named Simon (Gaspard Ulliel) during a train ride and accompanies him back home to visit his family for Christmas. The situation there is troubling: Simon's relationship with his parents is fraught with tension, and things only get worse when Mathieu (Thibault Vinçon), Simon's childhood friend, shows up. When Louise and Mathieu express an interest in each other, Simon is forced to confront feelings he has long repressed.
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, best friend, mother, father, sister, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for a drug designed to make gay men straight.
Plot Keywords: gay man, married man, promiscuous man, coworker, researcher, brooding, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Plot Keywords: father, sister, doctor, love interest, creepy, melodramatic, london ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: lesbian, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, mother, girlfriend, playful, melodramatic ...
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