Here we've displayed a list of the best Repression films : K-PAX(2001), The Tale(2018), Fire(1996), Equus(1977), Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989), The Ninth Day(2003), Mayerling(1936), The Brood(1979), Sun Alley(2000), Bleeder(1999), Marion Bridge(2002), Footloose(1984) ... ...
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Drama
USA|Germany
2001
120 Minutes
Kevin Spacey Jeff Bridges Mary McCormack Alfre Woodard David Patrick Kelly Saul Williams Peter Gerety Celia Weston Ajay Naidu Tracy Vilar Melanee Murray
patient doctor therapist solemn moving hospital manhattan office repression supernatural psychoanalysis beliefs hypnosis alien discovery fall 2000s
PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Drama
USA|Germany
2018
114 Minutes
Laura Dern Elizabeth Debicki Laura Allen Jason Ritter Ellen Burstyn Common Frances Conroy John Heard Tina Parker Isabella Amara Isabelle Nélisse
journalist professor mother coach boyfriend emotional disheartening moving profound uneasy intense house farm childhood home school child abuse molestation going home past crimes repression
A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.
Drama
Canada|India
1996
104 Minutes
Shabana Azmi Nandita Das Kulbhushan Kharbanda Jaaved Jaafei Ranjit Chowdhry Kushal Rehki Karishma Jhalani Ramanjeet Kaur Dilip Mehta Alice Poon Ram Gopal Bajaj
wife husband brother-in-law sister-in-law mother lesbian passionate emotional india city household desire repression marital problems arranged marriage homosexuality tradition forbidden love transformation 1990s
Two women who are abandoned by their husbands, find love and solace in each other.
Drama
UK|USA
1977
138 Minutes
Richard Burton Peter Firth Colin Blakely Joan Plowright Harry Andrews Eileen Atkins Jenny Agutter Kate Reid John Wyman Elva Mai Hoover Ken James
teenager psychiatrist mother father stableman dark emotional psychiatrist's office psychoanalysis religion repression violence discovery fall 1970s
A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
Drama
USA
1989
101 Minutes
James Spader Andie MacDowell Peter Gallagher Laura San Giacomo Ron Vawter Steven Brill Alexandra Root Earl T. Taylor
husband wife counselor drifter sister lawyer offbeat sultry louisiana office apartment marriage sex love triangle confession repression sister relationship love discovery 1980s
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
Drama, War
Germany|Luxembourg|Czech Republic
2003
97 Minutes
Ulrich Matthes August Diehl Germain Wagner Bibiana Beglau Jean-Paul Raths Ivan Jirik Karel Hromadka Adolf Filip Vladimir Fiser Peter Varga Petr Janis
catholic priest inmate dissident ss officer bishop brother somber disturbing gripping powerful dachau concentration camp luxembourg difficult decision nazis world war ii moral dilemma holocaust repression temptation sacrifice
A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Romance
France
1936
89 Minutes
prince mistress emperor franz josef baroness count winsome emotional sad touching vienna court opera house prater hunting lodge archduke rudolf affair repression austro-hungarian empire catholic church tragic love
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry... See full summary »
Horror
Canada
1979
92 Minutes
Oliver Reed Samantha Eggar Art Hindle Henry Beckman Nuala Fitzgerald Cindy Hinds Susan Hogan Gary McKeehan
psychologist couple daughter creepy dark disturbing house psychiatrist's office relationships repression psychology mystery discovery quest 20th century
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Comedy, Romance
Germany
2000
87 Minutes
Alexander Scheer Alexander Beyer Katharina Thalbach Detlev Buck Ignaz Kirchner Robert Stadlober Annika Kuhl
teen boy teen girl soldier rebel love interest mother cool dreamy winsome east berlin east germany west berlin street friendship young love repression teen angst rebellion communism rivalry
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The ... See full summary »
Drama
Denmark
1999
100 Minutes
Kim Bodnia Mads Mikkelsen Rikke Louise Andersson Liv Corfixen Zlatko Buric Claus Flygare Gordana Radosavljevic Marko Zecewic Levino Jensen
factory worker girlfriend waitress brother best friend security guard bleak gritty raw intense copenhagen, denmark apartment movie theater bar cemetery video store domestic violence relationships unwanted pregnancy repression
Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get aquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo beats his pregnant wife, Louise, which is a VERY bad idea, as her brother, Louis, is a violent racist.
Drama
Canada
2002
90 Minutes
Molly Parker Rebecca Jenkins Stacy Smith Marguerite McNeil Elliot Page Hollis McLaren Emmy Alcorn Joseph Rutten Nicola Lipman Jackie Torrens
alcoholic sister mother teen girl daughter emotional tender solemn nova scotia house mother/child relationship alcoholism child abuse repression reconciliation sisterhood sacrifice rescue rivalry love
Three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.
Drama
USA
1984
107 Minutes
Kevin Bacon Lori Singer John Lithgow Dianne Wiest Chris Penn Sarah Jessica Parker John Laughlin Elizabeth Gorcey Frances Lee McCain Brian Wimmer
newcomer best friend girlfriend student reverend mother inspiring spirited midwest small town high school household city hall church dance rock 'n' roll teenage rebellion repression prom underdog
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
Drama
USA
1957
113 Minutes
Rock Hudson Dana Wynter Sidney Poitier Wendy Hiller Juano Hernandez William Marshall Robert Beatty Walter Fitzgerald Michael Pate Ivan Dixon Ken Renard
settler wife witch doctor tribal leader revolutionary powerful suspenseful brutal touching kenya plains jail battle race relations repression native people religion rivalry metamorphosis revenge
Although Peter and Kimani grew up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. After Kimani's father is jailed for following tribal customs, Kimani joins a band... See full summary »
Comedy
UK|USA
1957
117 Minutes
Marilyn Monroe Laurence Olivier Sybil Thorndike Jeremy Spenser Richard Wattis Esmond Knight Paul Hardwick Rosamund Greenwood Aubrey Dexter Maxine Audley Jean Kent
king prince government official actress ambassador queen amusing winsome melodramatic london embassy bedroom ballroom nightclub coronation treason courtship secret performance repression
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
86 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Harvey Stephens Gale Sondergaard Louise Dresser Bennie Bartlett Edward Ellis Beulah Bondi Bonita Granville Virginia Weidler Donald Meek
lover adventurer young woman judge townsperson passionate thrilling emotional salem, mass. courtroom town hall town square puritanism affair repression wrongfully accused witch trials witchcraft love wretched excess
Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1991
95 Minutes
Michael Palin Connie Booth Trini Alvarado Alfred Molina David Calder Simon James Robert Eddison Alun Armstrong Sheila Reid Edward Rawle-Hicks Jonathan Firth
professor american woman teen girl enemy witty swiss alps oxford university wilderness love triangle career vs. love reputation mother/daughter relationship repression rumors rivalry forbidden love temptation victorian era
Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA|Germany
1990
109 Minutes
Natasha Richardson Robert Duvall Faye Dunaway Aidan Quinn Elizabeth McGovern Victoria Tennant Blanche Baker Traci Lind David Dukes Zoey Wilson Elizabeth Doby
husband chauffeur wife slave friend bleak chilling dark melodramatic united states house garden bedroom post-apocalypse repression sex pregnancy dystopia unrequited love forbidden love
In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Horror
UK
1972
87 Minutes
Ann Todd Patrick Magee Tony Beckley Suzanna Leigh Percy Herbert David Lodge Ronald Allen Maxine Barrie Jeannette Wild Diana Chappell Susanna East
serial killer religious fanatic mother brash fiery unrestrained london england church religious fanaticism serial murders repression fall temptation escape 20th century
A trio of scientists plan to create a self-replicating, immortal, hermaphrodite using the Final Programme developed by a dead, Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
Horror
USA
1991
105 Minutes
Sharon Stone Steve Railsback Ronny Cox Michelle Phillips Vicki Frederick Will Leskin Larry Moss Ed Crick
victim twin therapist patient wife actor dark brooding shocking apartment elevator doctor's office dining room brother relationship love triangle hypnosis murder repression mental breakdown escape
After a young woman is attacked in the elevator she meets her neighbours (two brothers) for the first time. One of the brothers has a secret, the other has a crush on her. Her analyst tries... See full summary »