A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.

The War Zone

1999

English

7.2

♡ 17

84%

Tim Roth Director

Kate Ashfield as Lucy

Tilda Swinton as Mum

Colin Farrell as Nick

Annabelle Apsion as Nurse

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

A Girl's Own Story

1984

English

6.5

♡ 1

Jane Campion Director

Jane Edwards as Deidre

John Godden as Graeme

Katharine Cullen as Little Pam

Jocelyn Moorhouse as Unmarried mother

This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.

Cinderella

1977

English

5.6

♡ 17

Michael Pataki Director

Cheryl Smith as Cinderella

Bobby Herbeck as Court Jester

Sy Richardson as Fairy Godmother

Elizabeth Halsey as Farm Girl

Cinderella, with the help of her "fairy" godmother, is granted heightened sexual prowess to win over Prince Charming. After a blindfolded orgy at the royal castle, the nerdy Prince must sleep with every willing woman in his kingdom until he finds that one, mysterious lover who so "stood out" on the night of the sex Ball.

Female Leopard

1985

Japanese

4.7

♡ 41

Kôyû Ohara Director

Kenzo Ogiwara as Gorô

Akiko Hyûga as Takako / Takuya's wife

Yûko Asuka as Takuya's Mother

Kozue Tanaka as Yûko / Takuya's Sister

A young and beautiful woman goes to stay with her "eccentric" brother in the country. He - a crazed millionaire painter - is entranced by his sister's beauty, the very reason they were separated in their youth. Unable to hide his yearning for his own flesh and blood, the lady of the house decides to take matters into her own hands to preserve her status...

Linda and Abilene

1969

English

3.9

♡ 7

Herschell Gordon Lewis Director

Sharon Matt as Abilene / Sister

Bambi Allen as Linda

Larry Martinelli as Rawhide

Kip Marsh as Todd / Brother

19th century siblings Abilene and Tod, orphaned on their farm, become sexually attracted to each other. The confused Tod flees to a nearby town where he meets local bar girl Linda, and begins a sexual relationship with her. Meanwhile, a cowboy rapes Abilene, leading Tod seeking revenge despite Linda's wariness and growing compassion for Abilene.

Alpine Fire

1985

German

7.0

♡ 2

78%

Drama

incest

Fredi M. Murer Director

Irene Calcagni as Belli / Daughter

Jörg Odermatt as Großvater / Grandfather

Annemarie Germann as Mutter / Mother

Tino Arnold as Vater / Father

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.

Local Color

1977

English

7.0

♡ 1

Mark Rappaport Director

Jane Campbell as Andrea

Tom Bair as Andrew

Bob Herron as Fred

Randy Danson as Viv

Mark Rappaport's off center soap opera parody concerning several characters including a barber, his wife, and a pair of incestuous twins.

Appassionata

1974

Italian

5.4

♡ 10

60%

older man younger woman relationship

seduction

Gianluigi Calderone Director

Carla Mancini as Client at Dentist

Valentina Cortese as Elisa Rutelli

Ornella Muti as Eugenia Rutelli

Eleonora Giorgi as Nicola

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

Grand Jeté

2022

German

4.7

♡ 7

Isabelle Stever Director

Stefan Rudolf as Daniel

Anke Stelling as Geburtshelferin / midwife

Carl Hegemann as Herrmann / Hanne's friend

Maya Kornev as Sofia

Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.

An Impossible Love

2018

French

7.0

♡ 13

100%

mother daughter relationship

Romance

Catherine Corsini Director

Arthur Igual as Cédric

Jeanne Moreau as Florence Carala

Iliana Zabeth as Gaby Schwartz

Virginie Efira as Rachel

A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.

Strange Circus

2005

Japanese

6.9

♡ 10

80%

parent child relationship

principal

Thriller

Sion Sono Director

Yûya Ishikawa as

Yûko Yamada as Yuka

Yuka as

Masumi Miyazaki as Mitsuko Ozawa / Sayuri / Taeko

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

This Transient Life

1970

Japanese

7.6

♡ 11

Akio Jissôji Director

Eiji Okada as

Isao Sasaki as

Michiko Tsukasa as

Akiji Kobayashi as

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Marguerite & Julien

2015

French

5.2

♡ 1

20%

Valérie Donzelli Director

Sami Frey as Abbé de Hambye

Frédéric Pierrot as Jean de Ravalet

Geraldine Chaplin as La mère de Lefebvre

Anaïs Demoustier as Marguerite de Ravalet

Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet, son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other tenderly since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion.

Subconscious Cruelty

2000

English

4.8

♡ 26

53%

Karim Hussain Director

Karen Wiener as Female Hand

Vince Sheffield as Man On Television

Annette Pankrac as Secretary

Sylvain Rivard as Subliminal Body

A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream...

Wicked

1998

English

5.3

♡ 5

20%

Michael Steinberg Director

William R. Moses as Ben Christianson

Julia Stiles as Ellie Christianson

Chelsea Field as Karen Christianson

Patrick Muldoon as Lawson Smith

A cul-de-sac in an oppressive suburb becomes a literal dead end for wife and mother Karen Christianson when she is brutally murdered in her own home. In the wake of the event, Karen's teenage daughter Ellie begins to exhibit bizarre behaviors as she slowly acquires her mother's demeanor and mannerisms. Meanwhile, Karen's husband Ben nurtures a less-than-innocent interest in the family's sultry live-in nanny, Lena.

Sinthia: The Devil's Doll

1970

English

3.6

♡ 4

Ray Dennis Steckler Director

Lynn Levin as Asagorah

Brett Zeller as Carol / Sinthia's mother

Ted Royer as Lennie / artist

Charles Reynolds as The Devil's Messenger

Cynthia Kyle enters puberty with a vengeance, murdering her parents as they make love: she's wanted her father to love only her. Eight years later, she's free and wants to marry, but nightmares plague her so she seeks psychiatric help. The doctor asks her to describe a dream: it's long and elaborate with dreams within dreams of Lucifer, Hell, and her parents in various guises. To shed her guilt, the shrink recommends that she commit suicide in her next dream. In it, she falls in love with an artist who reminds her of her father, responds to a woman who finds her attractive, and celebrates her first school-yard kiss. The dream takes her back to her parents' bedside. Is any cure possible?

March Comes in Like a Lion

1991

Japanese

6.7

♡ 4

amnesia

Drama

incest

Hitoshi Yazaki Director

Shunichi Nagasaki as

Kôen Okumura as Grandpa

Bang-ho Cho as Haruo / Brother

Kiyomi Itô as Housewife

The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are. They are brother and sister, she is seven and he is eight. She goes on to say that when she was seven and he was eight, she told her brother that she would marry him.

Profound Desires of the Gods

1968

Japanese

7.5

♡ 3

Shôhei Imamura Director

Chikako Hosokawa as

Chôichirô Kawarasaki as Kametaro Futori / the backward son

Kazuo Kitamura as Kariya / Engineer

Rentarô Mikuni as Nekichi Futori / the chained son

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Accused

2005

Danish

7.0

♡ 3

68%

Jacob Thuesen Director

Troels Lyby as Henrik

Charlotte Sieling as Miriam

Sofie Gråbøl as Nina

Louise Mieritz as Pernille

On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is believed by seemingly eager social workers, their family is thrust into crisis. Could Henrik have done it? And when Stine prepares to return home, the ugly side of family life is exposed.

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The Mephisto Waltz

The War Zone

A Girl's Own Story

Cinderella

Female Leopard

Linda and Abilene

Alpine Fire

Local Color

Appassionata

Grand Jeté

An Impossible Love

Strange Circus

This Transient Life

Marguerite & Julien

Subconscious Cruelty

Wicked

Sinthia: The Devil's Doll

March Comes in Like a Lion

Profound Desires of the Gods

Accused