Wolfgang

Given Christine's success with building her doomsday and time travel and my Lolita collections, I wonder if you can come up with any suggestions for my forbidden love/incest collection. If you type 'incest' into IMDB you get hundreds of matches, most of them French. Since I cannot get through them all what would you recommend, especially British ones?

My list so far:

Ages of Lulu
Amityville 2
Angel Heart
Cat People
The Cement Garden
Chances Are
Chinatown
Close My Eyes
The Dreamers
Excalibur
Exotica
Festen
Godfather 3
Great Balls of Fire
The Grifters
Hamlet
Haunted
Hotel New Hampshire
I am Frigid...Why?
Jude
Killing Me Softly
Lone Star
Mephisto Waltz
Obsession
Say It Isn't So
Scarface
Society
The Sweet Hereafter
This World and Then Fireworks
U-Turn
A Very Brady Sequel
The War Zone

Moor Larkin

"Keep It in the Family" (1980)

batman

'Summerfield' (1977)

Aussie though, not British.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Ljelja

Bonjour Tristesse (1958) Otto Preminger

Has Deborah Kerr & David Niven!

sippog

There are 590 entries listed in IMDB under "incest" themed films. You could start with "La Luna" (Bertolucci) and click on a theme tag. Okay, so it kinda takes the fun out of it but . . . (I don't mean that sort of fun - he adds quickly)

Steve Crook

Steve

silverwhistle

Why is Jude listed? Cousins are legal.

Curse of the Golden Flower
Pacte des Loups/Brotherhood of the Wolf

"Trust me, I'm a doctor...!"

Steve Crook

Legal according to the law of the land, but not according to many faiths

Steve

WiseFilms

Excellent! I love that one. And it immediately brings me to recall the other Preminger I saw it with, on a double-bill : Bunny Lake Is Missing.

Only other ones I can think of of the top...
you list The Dreamers, which was obviously inspired by Cocteau/Melville's Les Enfants Terrible

Agnieszka Holland's Olivier, Olivier has a mystery behind it, and is debatable whether they are blood siblings, but...
Bergman's The Silence show us two Sisters/sisters, and a strange relationship with heavy implication of lesbianism.

And Louis Malle made (after his erstwhile "scandalous" The Lovers, but before his American Pretty Baby) two that qualify:
Murmer of the Heart , and Black Moon.

Ljelja

Oh yes, Bergman's Tystnaden and Melville's Les Enfants Terribles are something I always kept in the same box. They both don't show explicit incestuous or sexual imagery, though Bergman gave some shy attempts. It's about fraternal attraction subtly elaborated on both sides. Emotions sparkle in the air causing grievances and hard feelings, but never revealing themselves in actual physicalities. Anyhoo, Bergman had to put up with much trouble fighting censoring boards. What's funny, both ticklish scenes in Tystnaden didn't contain incestuous sex at all. Gee, couldn't even imagine the loss World Cinema would have to put up with if French were Protestant society!
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At the same time, each of the two processes (I'd say) even stronger points (besides incest). Enfants are rather timid concerning sexuality in French cinematic tradition, but they openly speak of horrors rampant teenagers could wreak upon themselves. It's a sort of pre-hippie posh flower-power community that finds it sexy brandishing guns in order to solve issues. On the other side, Tystnaden deals a lot with an individual's (Ester's) fear of death. Both incestuous parties are grown up here.

All in all, two nice studies with a shared interest coming from two different traditions and agendas.

Ljelja

I must add another one to the list. I just saw Visconti's "La Caduta degli Dei" with Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling. Mother and son scene par excellance!