The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

Burning Palms

2010

English

5.4

♡ 3

38%

Christopher Landon Director

Rosamund Pike as Dedra

Jamie Chung as Ginny

Lake Bell as Mary Jane

Zoe Saldana as Sarah Cotton

A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate

Malicious

1973

Italian

6.3

♡ 24

43%

Salvatore Samperi Director

Laura Antonelli as Angela

Turi Ferro as Ignazio

Tina Aumont as Luciana

Renato Gigli as Man at Funeral

A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

Blame

2017

English

5.8

♡ 21

80%

64%

Action

based on play or musical

Quinn Shephard Director

Chris Messina as Jeremy Woods

Geneva Carr as Mrs. Howell

Tate Donovan as Robert McCarthy

Owen Campbell as TJ

A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to "The Crucible".

Before the Dawn

2019

English

5.8

♡ 5

86%

Jay Holben Director

Houston Rhines as Andrew Matthews

Benjamin Levy as Jason's Friend

Jared Scott as Jason Walker

Mark Krenik as Police Officer Reporting

A young high school teacher moves to a new town for a fresh start and falls for a troubled student.

Say It Isn't So

2001

English

5.0

♡ 9

9%

J.B. Rogers Director

Keith Dallas as Heckler #3

Heather Graham as Josephine Wingfield

Jack Plotnick as Leon Pitofsky

Sally Field as Valdine Wingfield

Boy meets girl; boy falls in love (and had wild, non-stop sex) with girl; boy loses girl... when they discover they are brother and sister! But when he learns that he's the victim of the ultimate case of mistaken identity, the lovesick young man -- whom everyone still thinks is after some taboo thrills -- must race across the country to stop her from marrying another man.

The Last Laugh

2016

English

6.8

♡ 16

98%

political correctness

taboo

woman director

Ferne Pearlstein Director

Jean Stapleton as Herself

Cheryl Hines as Herself

Lorne Michaels as Himself

Liam Neeson as Himself

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.

Memories of a Burning Body

2024

Spanish

6.5

♡ 4

100%

social & cultural documentary

taboo

Antonella Sudasassi Director

David Friedlander as Photographer

José Monge Fallas as Picker

Sol Carballo as The Woman

Paulina Bernini Viquez as Young Woman

Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, Ana, Patricia, and Mayela found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman, who revisits a kaleidoscopic life of intertwined memories, secrets, and hidden desires.

There's Something About Mary

1998

English

7.1

♡ 109

84%

Peter Farrelly Director

Matt Dillon as Healy

Cameron Diaz as Mary

Keith David as Mary's Dad

Ben Stiller as Ted

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.

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