Category
page 1Films about sexual repression
Brokeback Mountain
2005 film directed by Ang Lee
American Beauty
1999 US film directed by Sam Mendes
Taxi Driver
1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and his disturbed mother. A private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin) and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.
Black Swan
2010 film directed by Darren Aronofsky
Rebecca
1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Midnight Cowboy
1969 film directed by John Schlesinger
The Piano
1993 film directed by Jane Campion
Carrie
1976 film directed by Brian De Palma
Belle de Jour
1967 film directed by Luis Buñuel
J. Edgar
2011 film by Clint Eastwood
Bad Education
2004 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Death in Venice
1971 film directed by Luchino Visconti
The Piano Teacher
2001 film directed by Michael Haneke
Emmanuelle
1974 film by Just Jaeckin
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985 film by Jack Sholder
A Dangerous Method
2011 film by David Cronenberg
The Conformist
1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
The Virgin Suicides
1999 film directed by Sofia Coppola
Splendor in the Grass
1961 film by Elia Kazan
Carrie
2013 film directed by Kimberly Peirce
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975 film by Peter Weir
Black Narcissus
1947 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
The Children's Hour
1961 film directed by William Wyler
That Obscure Object of Desire
1977 film by Luis Buñuel
Far from Heaven
2002 film by Todd Haynes
The Night Porter
1974 film by Liliana Cavani
The Tenant
1976 French film directed by Roman Polański
Notes on a Scandal
2006 film directed by Richard Eyre
X
2022 film directed by Ti West
Repulsion
1965 film directed by Roman Polanski
The Magdalene Sisters
2002 film by Peter Mullan
Swimming Pool
2003 film by François Ozon
Apt Pupil
1998 film directed by Bryan Singer
The Devils
1971 film by Ken Russell
Baby Doll
1956 film by Elia Kazan
The Innocents
1961 film directed by Jack Clayton
But I'm a Cheerleader
1999 film by Jamie Babbit
The Paperboy
2012 film by Lee Daniels
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 US film by John Huston
Human Nature
2001 film by Michel Gondry
The Day of the Locust
1975 film by John Schlesinger
Rachel, Rachel
1968 film by Paul Newman
Beau Travail
1999 film by Claire Denis
Thelma
2017 film directed by Joachim Trier
Priest
1994 film directed by Antonia Bird
Happening
2021 film directed by Audrey Diwan
Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 film by Charles Sellier
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
2022 film directed by Sophie Hyde
The Key
1983 film directed by Tinto Brass
Don't Torture a Duckling
1972 film directed by Lucio Fulci
Fat Girl
2001 film by Catherine Breillat
Sweet Movie
1974 film directed by Dušan Makavejev
Sleepaway Camp
1983 film by Robert Hiltzik
The Entity
1982 film by Sidney J. Furie
The Weight of Water
2000 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Carrie
2002 TV film directed by David Carson
A Dirty Shame
2004 film by John Waters
Indignation
2016 film by James Schamus
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst