Sexual Repression Movies, Movies about Sexual Repression

Here we've displayed a list of the best Sexual Repression films : That Obscure Object of Desire(1977), The Wicker Man(1973), Pleasantville(1998), The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1934), Wifemistress(1977), Albert Nobbs(2011), Indignation(2016), The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1957), Hard Pill(2005), Go Fish(1994), Ed Gein(2001), Split(2016) ... ...

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That Obscure Object of Desire

Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.

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The Wicker Man

A puritan Police Sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl who the locals claim never existed.

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Pleasantville

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom, where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

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Wifemistress

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 ... See full summary »

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Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

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Indignation

In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

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Hard Pill

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.

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Go Fish

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 ... See full summary »

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Ed Gein

The story of Ed Gein, who dug up the corpses of over a dozen women and made things out of their remains before finally shooting two people to death and butchering their bodies like beef sides.

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Split

Split is the surreal and epic journey a young woman takes to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young ... See full summary »

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Mademoiselle

Villagers blame an outsider (Ettore Manni) for poisonings, fires and floodings committed by a disturbed schoolteacher (Jeanne Moreau).

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Bettie Page Reveals All

The pinup model and cult icon recounts how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.

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We Think the World of You

A middle-aged homosexual (Alan Bates) in postwar Britain forms a bond with his ex-lover's (Gary Oldman) German shepherd dog.

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Angelica

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.

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Outrage

Filmmaker Kirby Dick examines the hypocrisy of certain closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community to which they secretly belong.

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