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Other movies about incest... (some spoilers possible)

posted 19 years ago by Bladerunner
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***UPDATED 5/11/2009***

Here is a list I put together myself, the ratings are all mine, and therefore subjective.

First, there are some spoilers within, however minor some may be...
Second, incest — in real life — is NOT sensual, or sexy, or beautiful, it is ugly and horrid and about taking power away from the victim. However, since it is a taboo — in *film* — it can be sensual and tender. To all incest victims, please take no offense in this, it is a list about *film* only, and in no way minimizes your ordeal.

That being said...

* Stars are for the quality of the film [0 = none]
+ Pluses are given for the sensuality (not explicitness) of the incest

**** ++ Lone Star - brother and sister (consummated on screen)
* ++++ Amityville II - The Possession - brother and sister (very sensual, on screen kissing, nudity, and flirting)
** +++ Spanking the Monkey - mother and son (consummated on screen)
(haven't seen) 8 1/2 Women - father and son (on screen)
* ++ Cruel Intentions - brother and sister (lots of titillation, nothing on screen)
** + The House of Yes - brother and sister (nothing on screen)
*** +++ The Hotel New Hampshire - brother and sister (consummated on screen in fast forward)
**** +++ The Royal Tenenbaums - brother and sister (consummated off screen)
**** 0 Chinatown - father and daughter (nothing on screen, suggested in history)
*** 0 The Two Jakes - father and daughter (nothing on screen, suggested in history)
*** 0 The Shipping News – brother and sister (off screen recollection)
*** ++ The Weight of Water - brother and sister (mild flashback recollections and discussion)
** +++ Little Boy Blue - mother and son (consummated on screen)
*** ++++ Beau Pere - father and step-daughter (consummated on screen, but mostly petting)
** ++++ Blue Lagoon and Return to the Blue Lagoon - suggestive of brother and sister
*** + Cousins - well, uh, cousins (by marriage) (consummated on screen)
0 0 Flowers in the Attic - suggestive of brother and sister - nothing on screen
* +++ Sleepwalkers - mother and son (titillation on screen, not consummated)
**** 0 The Cider House Rules - father and daughter (discovered during the film, but not consummated)
**** 0 Forrest Gump - Jenny tells of her father molesting her
** ++++ Luna - mother and son (explicit petting onscreen)
**** 0 The War Zone - father and daughter (one horrific and explicit scene)
**** ++++ Lolita (both versions) father and stepdaughter - 1997 version is consummated on screen and included several onscreen titillating scenes.
**** ++++ (The finest ever) Jude - cousins (the single most erotic and romantic of the lot, VERY explicit on screen foreplay)
0 + Ritual - (2000 Denise Nicholas) brother and sister - one scene, blurry and boring.
(Haven’t seen) Beatrice - father and daughter
** ++++ The Ballad of Jack and Rose - father and daughter (a kiss on screen)
*** ++++ Close My Eyes - brother and sister – consummated onscreen, several scenes. This is the single most erotic incest film. Consensual, adult, romantic and tragic.
* + Cat People - brother and sister (suggestive, not consummated)
(Haven’t seen) Suddenly Last Summer - dunno
**** ++ Angels and Insects – brother and sister - VERY explicit on screen - brief
**** +++ Miss Firecracker - brother and sister (LOTS of flirting)
** +++ Wicked - father and daughter (consummated off-screen, during the movie)
** 0 This World, Then the Fireworks – nothing onscreen
** +++ Sister My Sister - sister and sister, pretty explicit
** 0 Priest - Father-daughter, discussed explicitly
**** + Gladiator - brother and sister (rough on-screen attempts at consummation only)
0 + Eurotrip - brother and sister (on-screen kissing)
*** +++ Forbidden Relations (Visszaesök) - brother and sister, 1982 Hungary movie which may be based on a true story.
*** 0 Heart of the Stag - father and daughter (consummated on screen)
* ++ In Dark Places - brother and sister (consummated on screen)
** + Blood - brother and sister (on screen touching) Indy Canadian film
**** 0 The Quiet - father and daughter (on screen touching)

There are others, especially (for instance) Star Wars (5, 6 and 7) Luke and Leia. I skipped this, and others because they offer no real on-screen insight or passion.

Can you name others?

"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

[–] izebella 18 years ago

*** 0 The Shipping News - father and daughter (off screen recollection)

Actually it was an older brother that raped his sister, not a father and daughter incident.

Close My Eyes is an excellent film, quite twisted, the brother sister are not only in a destructive and ill-advised relationship, they're being very selfish too. The only person who comes out of it as a good person is Sinclair, the husband.

An Awfully Big Adventure has a shock ending where you find a father has been sleeping with his daughter. He had no idea she was the product of an affair he had 17 years previous, he thought he had a son somewhere out there, has even been looking for the woman he got pregnant and her child, when he came back and got involved with a younger woman he had no clue she could be his daughter. When he finds out who her mother is the fact he'd seduced her upsets him to say the least.

[–] skaterscooties24 18 years ago

I haven't read any of the reply posts, but I have a very good example- SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY! Son (Norman Reedus) and Mother (Debbie Harry). It's mostly just a creepy overbearing mother situation/sexual tension throughout the movie, but SPOILERRRRRRRRR they finally do it at the end and then she kills herself. He just puts her in a body bag and moves to a new town! GREAT movie though.

[–] psboston7 18 years ago

The War Zone - Father and Daughter sexual acts shown on screen

The Piano Teacher - Daughter grabs mother for some heavy akward kissing and groping. ~ just weird if you ask me lol

The Color Purple - Father rapes daughter but it is later found out that the Father is not the father after all but a stepfather

And so it goes....

[–] Rufus-T 18 years ago

A hungarian film "Forbidden Relations" deals exactly this topic. A man and a woman didn't know they are half-brother and sister until after they spent a night together. Yet unwilling to yield to the community and started a family. A very serious movie. Supposedly based on a true story.

[–] honestlyimaliar 18 years ago

little boy blue with Ryan Phillippe and Nastassja Kinski. Mother and son.

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[–] mc_swirl_girl 18 years ago

Chances Are -- (plot summary) -- Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.

It stars Robert Downey Jr. At the end, his memory totally gets erased and he's free to date his "daughter". But I guess it wouldn't be considered incest since he was just reincarnated and isn't biologically related. But I still had those thoughts!

[–] jeebusenroute 18 years ago

Implied

Ma Mère
The Dreamers (not really, unnaturally close relationship between brother and sister)
The Cider House Rules (I believe that it was consummated, because the daughter was pregnant with her father's child.)

"I don't know about what happened. . . because once you start writing, it all becomes fiction."

[–] keenvj 18 years ago

They weren't brother and sister.

[–] silvershine-1 18 years ago

Transamerica -
SPOILER***

Son falls in love with a trans-gendered woman whom he doesn't know is his biological father.

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