THEME EXPLORATION

repressed_sexuality

12 films · 2 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
1975 · Chantal Akerman
Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves
1996 · Lars von Trier
...And God Created Woman
...And God Created Woman
1956 · Roger Vadim
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Repulsion
Repulsion
1965 · Roman Polanski
À ma soeur!
À ma soeur!
2001 · Catherine Breillat
Pelo Malo
Pelo Malo
2013 · Mariana Rondón
Manodrome
Manodrome
2023 · John Trengove
Life Is
Life Is
2026 · Lorena Villarreal
Action vérité
Action vérité
1994 · François Ozon
Someone Like Me
Someone Like Me
2026 · Tam Wai-Ching
Belle de jour
Belle de jour
1967 · Luis Buñuel
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His visually poetic cinema frequently captures unspoken attraction and emotional yearning between characters trapped by circumstance and societal expectations.

 Ingmar Bergman Sweden

His psychologically probing films dissect marital tension, unfulfilled desire, and the suffocating gap between public propriety and private longing.