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Oedipus Complex

by nikhilsarode • Created 1 year ago • Modified 4 months ago
List of cinema that deals with complex and delicate taboo of incestuous relations between mother and son.
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  • Oedipus Complex (2015)

    1. Oedipus Complex

    201510mShort
    4.8 (6)
    DirectorLok Kwan WooStarsDiego DelpianoGavin HageyAlessandro Delpiano
  • Tao Zhao in Mountains May Depart (2015)

    2. Mountains May Depart

    20152h 6mNot Rated79Metascore
    6.9 (6.7K)
    The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
    DirectorJia Zhang-keStarsTao ZhaoYi ZhangLiang Jingdong
  • Rør mig (2016)

    3. Rør mig

    201623mShort
    6.8 (31)
    Louis is unable to father a child and his wife Sascha has been inseminated artificially. As she gives birth to Daniel, Louis is hit with an unbearable sadness and detachment that only grows bigger as Daniel grows up and the rift between husband and wife grows bigger.
    DirectorIsabel BildeStarsMajken Blaess MøgelbjergThomas BiehlOdette A.S. Bilde
  • My Son (2006)

    4. My Son

    20061h 19m
    6.8 (861)
    Tragedy strikes a young boy and his over-protective mother.
    DirectorMartial FougeronStarsNathalie BayeVictor SévauxOlivier Gourmet
  • George Segal in Where's Poppa? (1970)

    5. Where's Poppa?

    19701h 22mR
    6.4 (2.4K)
    When an attorney meets the girl of his dreams, he fears that his batty mother will scare her off, so he schemes to eliminate the senile old woman.
    DirectorCarl ReinerStarsGeorge SegalRuth GordonRon Leibman
  • Child's Pose (2013)

    6. Child's Pose

    20131h 52mNot Rated77Metascore
    7.3 (9K)
    After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.
    DirectorCãlin Peter NetzerStarsLuminita GheorghiuBogdan DumitracheNatasa Raab
  • The Idol (1966)

    7. The Idol

    19661h 49m
    5.4 (185)
    Arrogant young art student Marco is friendly with medical student Timothy and his girlfriend Sarah. Timothy is dominated by his beautiful mother Carol, who is divorcing her husband. Marco finds a studio apartment, and Timothy pays the first two months' rent, planning to move in with his friend. Carol prevents the move, and Sarah, who has fallen in love with Marco, moves in instead. During a party at her weekend cottage, Carol becomes furious when she finds Marco and Sarah making love in Timothy's room, and she orders Marco from the house. Later, Marco seduces Carol, then scornfully leaves for the party. He arrives drunk, accompanied by a streetwalker, and tells Sarah how he took Carol to bed.
    DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsJennifer JonesMichael ParksJohn Leyton
  • Shock (1977)

    8. Shock

    19771h 33mR
    6.3 (5K)
    A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.
    DirectorsMario BavaLamberto BavaStarsDaria NicolodiJohn SteinerDavid Colin Jr.
  • Laia Marull in The Mother (2016)

    9. The Mother

    20161h 29m
    5.7 (125)
    14-year-old Miguel faces neglect by his unstable mother. When she disappears, he gets help from her ex-lover Bogdan and a kind bar owner María who provide much-needed support.
    DirectorAlberto MoraisStarsLaia MarullNieve de MedinaJorge Motos
  • Le baiser sous la cloche (1998)

    10. Le baiser sous la cloche

    19981h 35mTV Movie
    6.2 (34)
    1962. Joseph, 13 years old, a choirboy and a true "light" of religion, set out to become Pope. Not less. Of Spanish origin, Angela and José, her parents, fled their country and misery to settle in a small village around Perpignan. Angela, sensual and beautiful to damn a saint, is an attentive and possessive mother. Joseph, this only son, she feels that she has received him as a gift from heaven. So she puts all her energy and maternal love overflowing to encourage the vocation of her son, unlike José who wishes for him a "normal" life, a life of man, simply.
    DirectorEmmanuel GustStarsGaspard Génard ClausÁngela MolinaPierre Forest
  • I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)

    11. I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive

    20091h 31mNot Rated73Metascore
    6.7 (600)
    Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single, with a small child, living in a nearby suburb and begins a relationship with her which slowly drives him to an act of madness.
    DirectorsClaude MillerNathan MillerStarsVincent RottiersSophie CattaniChristine Citti
  • I Killed My Mother (2009)

    12. I Killed My Mother

    20091h 36mNot Rated77Metascore
    7.4 (32K)
    A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
    DirectorXavier DolanStarsAnne DorvalXavier DolanFrançois Arnaud
  • Mater amatísima (1980)

    13. Mater amatísima

    19801h 30m
    6.5 (118)
    Clara, an attractive unmarried woman, and her autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life, provide an extreme dissection of the mother-child bond in an uneasily honest way.
    DirectorJ.A. SalgotStarsVictoria AbrilJulito de la CruzJaume Sorribas
  • Max Ovaska in Taiteilija isänsä tahdosta (2014)

    14. Taiteilija isänsä tahdosta

    201426mShort
    8.4 (19)
    Matias is a young artist. Following his father's advice, he tries to fight against the rat race.
    DirectorJarno HarjuStarsMax OvaskaMaija RissanenHennariikka Laaksola
  • Grass Labyrinth (1979)

    15. Grass Labyrinth

    197940mShort
    7.3 (800)
    A young man, haunted by his past, travels the land in search of the lyrics to a lullaby his mother used to sing to him.
    DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsHiroshi MikamiTakeshi WakamatsuKeiko Niitaka
  • Antti Reini and Heli Takala in Eros and Psyche (1998)

    16. Eros and Psyche

    19981h 34m
    4.9 (80)
    Interpretation of the poem Eros Ja Psykhe by Eeva-Liisa Mannerin, which in turn is an allegory of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche.
    DirectorTimo LinnasaloStarsAntti ReiniHeli TakalaMarkku Blomqvist
  • Shameless (2010)

    17. Shameless

    20101h 38m
    5.4 (308)
    The summer of 1951 a couple get their first and only child. A boy. Or is it? Ouside the birds stop singing, and there's a solar eclipse. The parents deny an operation which could make Adrian a whole human being.
    DirectorPetter NæssStarsMarcus Mathias AarnsethAndrea Pharo RondeMaria Bonnevie
  • Gemini (2003)

    18. Gemini

    20031h 31mNot Rated
    3.8 (146)
    Lars' life is dedicated to his disabled mother and his job at a petrol station. The only light in his life is Julie, who lives in his apartment building and often drops by his petrol station. One day when she faints at his feet, he seizes the opportunity and takes her home. When she wakes up confused and in denial, she believes that Lars is her dead boyfriend Soren. Now Lars must decide whether he wants to help Julie back to reality or let her remain in the belief that he is her boyfriend--and he chooses to become Soren. For the first time in his life he focuses on himself and his own hopes and dreams for the future. Soon Lars and Julie disappear into their own closed, happy world, where only they know the rules. Lars' mother and Julie's parents fight to bring their adult children back to reality. Simultaneously Lars and Julie fight the forces trying to separate them. Until a magic moment when they decide to escape.
    DirectorFabian WullenweberStarsJanus Nabil BakrawiTrine DyrholmKaren-Lise Mynster
  • Paw Terndrup, Oskar Mogensen, and Anna Fabricius in Før stormen (2011)

    19. Før stormen

    201120mShort
    6.4 (9)
    15-year-old Sigurd lives with his young mother Marianne in a seedy apartment in Copenhagen. She just met Peter, who wants to make a good impression on Sigurd. But Sigurd is worried about his mother and is skeptical of Peter.
    DirectorAndreas ThaulowStarsAnna FabriciusOskar MogensenPaw Terndrup
  • Toby Jones, Anne Reid, and Sinead Matthews in Kaleidoscope (2016)

    20. Kaleidoscope

    20161h 40mNot Rated52Metascore
    5.9 (1.2K)
    A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
    DirectorRupert JonesStarsToby JonesAnne ReidSinead Matthews
  • The Transparent (2015)

    21. The Transparent

    20151h 51m
    5.3 (28)
    Although Zehra was pregnant with her lover Onur when she was only 18, she left him. Nowadays, she lives with her son Anil and husband Görkem in a coastal town close to the city. One day she realizes that she was raped suspiciously. A private investigator follows this suspicious event.
    DirectorHakan YilmazStarsSeyrek SimgeUmut ÖzkanOkan Yilmaz
  • Ein Leben auf Probe (2010)

    22. Ein Leben auf Probe

    2010
    6.0 (26)
    DirectorDavid EmmenlauerStarsAlexander BeyerJanin UllmannRainer Furch
  • Glass Lips (2007)

    23. Glass Lips

    20071h 40mNot Rated
    5.7 (250)
    This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.
    DirectorLech MajewskiStarsJoanna LitwinGrzegorz PrzybylPatryk Czajka
  • John Savage, Ruth Roman, Ann Sothern, and Cindy Williams in The Killing Kind (1973)

    24. The Killing Kind

    19731h 35mR
    6.1 (1.4K)
    A young Terry Lambert returns home after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.
    DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnn SothernJohn SavageRuth Roman
  • Oedipus (2004)

    25. Oedipus

    20048mNot RatedShort
    7.3 (135)
    A short film, done in epic style, on the story of Oedipus.
    DirectorJason WishnowStarsDick RodsteinJ. David BrimmerBilly Dee Williams

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