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Plot Summary:
Juan flees Madrid and an incestuous relationship with his sister, Ana, working at a mine on the Andalucian coast. When his friendship with Rosario, a local shop girl, becomes romance, Ana shows up wanting to rekindle their affair. He resists at first, but she stays, asserting that Juan is the only man she can ever love. Juan distances himself from Rosario. The mine has problems: high cancer rates in the area caused by poorly stored radioactive waste. A foreign safety engineer, Petersen, tries to connect with Ana, is rebuffed, but lets her stay in his sea-front bungalow. Juan seeks her out to demand she leave, only to argue with Petersen. Death, desire, and longing play out.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: manga
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Castle of Purity (1973)
Plot Summary:
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: controversial, manga, avant garde, masterpiece, cult film
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Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market (1974)
Plot Summary:
Noboru Tanaka returned to direct the third of Nikkatsu's pinku eiga melodramas examining prostitution in various Japanese cities. This one focuses on modern-day Osaka, and although it is still a softcore film, is the most outrageous of the lot. The casting is almost demented, with classical ballerina and staunch feminist Genshu Hanayagi smoking a cigarette with her privates, poet Sakumi Hagiwara blowing up some gangsters by suicidally detonating a gas-filled love doll, and similarly peculiar appearances from notorious druggie Meika Seri and genre icon Junko Miyashita. Highly recommended for pinku eiga aficionados, this one must be seen to be believed.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Blood (2004)
Plot Summary:
After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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Your Caresses (1969)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man (Yann Andrea) and his sister (Bulle Ogier) meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy
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My Sister My Love (1966)
Plot Summary:
Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is even happier of meeting his beloved sister Charlotte again. However he has been promised to the Baron Alsmeden, a man of great influence at court, and this fact will awake a feeling like jealousy in Jacob.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Ana's Desire (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ana and her son Mateo live in a middle class apartment in Mexico City. The family routine takes a turn when Juan arrives to visit them after several years of absence. The reunion unleashes memories and secrets of their past that Ana will have to confront in order to find, at last, the peace of mind that has been lacking for so long.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Burn the Bridges (2007)
Plot Summary:
Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. She is cared for by her daughter, Helena, who dreams of traveling the world and wishes she could be a glamorous pop star like her mother was. Helena’s younger brother Sebastian's dreams are simple and he merely wants to move to the beach. Helena is smart and pretty but she has no friends, male or female and is totally devoted to her mother's care and is also on the verge of initiating an incestuous relationship with Sebastian. Sebastian however, is falling in love with a boy at school named Juan who is the school roughneck and the son of a single father who owns a little bar. Juan is the nemesis of the school preppy named Ismael who comes from such a wealthy home that he has his own chauffeur and bodyguards. Ismael's ping-pong obsessed girlfriend Aurora rents a room at Helena and Sebastian's house where Ismael discovers he is also attracted to Sebastian.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema, weird
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The Devils (2002)
Plot Summary:
Les Diables (The Devils) chronicles the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak, serious, weird
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Daniel and Ana (2009)
Plot Summary:
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sincere, erotic, offbeat, controversial, sexual, eros, disturbing, tense
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Love Actually... Sucks! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Love Actually... Sucks! was inspired by real-life events, and opens with a dramatic wedding feast. It tells a variety of stories about love that has gone wrong: a brother and sister in an illicit relationship, a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who is besotted with his senior student, and a lesbian couple, one of whom has role-play paranoia, and is caught in a complex love triangle. The film celebrates the belief that life is love.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, erotic, psychological, rough, disturbing, sexy
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Byleth (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man becomes obsessed with Byleth, the demon of incest, and it leads to an unhealthy infatuation with his sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, naughty
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How to Draw a Perfect Circle (2009)
Plot Summary:
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, offbeat, sexual, eros, emotional, sexy, hot
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Adrift (2001)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the household through his trade in meat declared unfit for human consumption. This situation has sufficed for years but the dedication with which Jacob watches over his little sister leaves her no room to mature as a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Inheritance (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman learns her estranged father has died and returns with her brother and new lover to her childhood home of Belize, where she must face her past while fighting for intimacy in the present.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psycho sexual
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Black Panther: The Story of Emilie and Jacob (2014)
Plot Summary:
After many years apart, Emilie (26) meets her brother Jakob (22) again. She not only shares her sadness about the loss of their parents with him, but also a secret... It is Emilie's wish to arrange the sale of their jointly inherited holiday house in the Swiss Alps.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, melancholic, sentimental, romantic, ambiguous ending, independent film
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True Siblings (2000)
Plot Summary:
The siblings Linus, 19-years-old, who are taking driving license and Vanja, 17-years-old, who's still in school. Their mom Eva works night shift at a hotel. We get to follow them during one month. Linus and Vanja begin to realize that they are living in a universe of their own. And there is neither room for the mom or boy- and girlfriends. At first it is only the longing love in unspoken thoughts. But when thought gets into words they realize that they are each others perfect half. They are drawn closer to each other and finally can't resist the taboo temptation in each others bodies. At first they deny, lie and try to resist. It's about shame and guilt and forbidden feelings which leads to a point where everything is at stake.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, hot
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Illegitimate (2016)
Plot Summary:
At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, Poland, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, touching, psychological, melancholic, contemplative, visually appealing
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Rieke's Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young figure-skater becomes jealous when her brother, also a young figure-skater, falls for another young female figure-skater. She thought she was all that he needs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, bleak, captivating, erotic
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Shameless (2012)
Plot Summary:
In an incendiary story of love, desire, and betrayal between siblings, the rebellious young Tadek returns to sister Anka’s home in search of solace and affection. Bound together by a painful shared family history, brother and sister must find a way to break free in order to survive. This formidable debut fearlessly yet tenderly explores one of society’s last taboos.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic, sexy, suspense
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Torn Apart (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of a love relationship between a brother and sister and an eventual breakup that will forever change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Homesick (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time as an adult, it becomes an encounter without boundaries, between two people who don't know what a normal family is. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never experienced it before? Homesick is an unusual family drama about seeking a family, and breaking every rule to be one.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching
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Kissing My Sister (2000)
Plot Summary:
Teen brother and sister who rarely get to see each other fall in love with one another one summer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, eros
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The Cement Garden (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, sexy, talky, art house, compassionate, psychological, serious, realistic, controversial
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Love Sick (2006)
Plot Summary:
Love. It just happens. No rules. It may look sick, but it's deep and it hurts. For everyone, Alex and Kiki are just good friends. They happen to be two girls experiencing another kind of love. For their family, Kiki and Sandu are sister and brother who sometimes fight. They happen to be lovers. Love Sick is about their stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexual, contemplative, gloomy, crying, inspirational
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Caligula and Messalina (1981)
Plot Summary:
Messalina (played by gorgeous Betty Roland) is a power-hungry nymphomaniac who will stop at nothing to become Empress of Rome. She brings herself to the attention of Caligula by battling in the gladiator arena and it is not long before she achieves her goal, upsetting the Emperor's youngest sister Agrippina, who hopes that her son Nero will eventually become ruler of Rome. Agrippina successfully plots Caligula's downfall, but Messalina rains on her parade by immediately jumping into the sack with his successor, Claudius. But naughty old Messalina can't commit herself to one man, and shags everyone in sight, including a grotesque, but well-endowed, frequenter of brothels, a randy midget, her eunuch(!?!?) and an ex-lover. When she ends up pregnant, and it is obvious that the father is not Claudius (since he has been away fighting in foreign lands), Agrippina finally sees her opportunity to be rid of her nemesis once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, mockbuster, sensual
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The War Zone (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, depressing, heartbreaking, rough, emotional, controversial, atmospheric, brutal, serious
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Close My Eyes (1991)
Plot Summary:
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sensual, bleak, stylized, sexy, erotic, thought provoking, offbeat, sexual
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The Ages of Lulu (1990)
Plot Summary:
The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the young Lulu's affair with the manipulative Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the movie takes a much darker turn once they are wed. It is conventional cinematic wisdom that there's no such thing as sex after marriage, but here Lulu's husband incomprehensibly leads her into blindfolded relationships with others, then is heartbroken when she reacts with disgust.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, emotional, sensual, disturbing, sexual, serious, eros, psychological, controversial
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Gemini (2005)
Plot Summary:
An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, psychological, depressing, sad, eros, erotic