Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "taboo"

1. The Greatest Showman (2017)

PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

Director: Michael Gracey | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya

Votes: 311,500 | Gross: $174.34M

2. The Boy and the Heron (2023)

PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon

Votes: 50,920

3. His Dark Materials (2019–2022)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons.

Stars: Dafne Keen, Kit Connor, Ruth Wilson, Amir Wilson

Votes: 84,623

4. There's Something About Mary (1998)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Romance

A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.

Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee Evans

Votes: 328,878 | Gross: $176.48M

5. Das Boot (1981)

R | 149 min | Drama, War

A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 264,341 | Gross: $11.49M

6. High Life (2018)

R | 113 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.

Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André 3000, Mia Goth

Votes: 41,022 | Gross: $1.23M

7. Cruising (1980)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox

Votes: 28,042 | Gross: $19.80M

8. The Celebration (1998)

R | 105 min | Drama

At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen

Votes: 93,880 | Gross: $1.65M

9. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)

R | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.

Director: Angela Robinson | Stars: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton

Votes: 28,649 | Gross: $1.59M

10. The Forgiven (III) (2021)

R | 117 min | Drama

A fatal accident disrupts the lives of Western visitors to a lavish party in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and will ultimately lead to a reckoning in the desert.

Director: John Michael McDonagh | Stars: Aissam Taamart, Omar Ghazaoui, David McSavage, Anas El Baz

Votes: 9,186

11. Kinsey (2004)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard

Votes: 50,959 | Gross: $10.21M

12. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

R | 88 min | Comedy

Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, Louise Lasser, John Carradine

Votes: 41,784

13. David's Birthday (2009)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?

Director: Marco Filiberti | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Maria de Medeiros, Massimo Poggio, Michela Cescon

Votes: 2,539

14. Ator, the Fighting Eagle (1982)

PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister from the evil Dakkar and his spider cult.

Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Miles O'Keeffe, Sabrina Siani, Ritza Brown, Dakar

Votes: 2,948

15. Sticky: A (Self) Love Story (2016)

TV-MA | 72 min | Documentary, Comedy

Everything your mother was ashamed to tell you about masturbation, in a stimulating documentary.

Director: Nicholas Tana | Stars: Denise Acosta, Muhammad Ali, Ant, Joani Blank

Votes: 237

16. Beyond Paradise (II) (2015)

PG | 101 min | Drama, Romance

Haunted by a tragic past, Shahrzad, a stunning music student, flees her homeland and ends up in an estranged marriage in Los Angeles, where her piano teacher's lover sparks a passion in her that threatens to destroy everything.

Director: J.J. Alani | Stars: Ryan Guzman, Daphne Zuniga, Spencer Grammer, Francia Raisa

Votes: 456

17. Ex Drummer (2007)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.

Director: Koen Mortier | Stars: Dries Vanhegen, Norman Baert, Gunter Lamoot, Sam Louwyck

Votes: 10,968

18. Inside Deep Throat (2005)

NC-17 | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, History

An examination of the infamous pornographic film Deep Throat (1972), covering aspects from the film's creation to its cultural impact.

Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Stars: Linda Lovelace, Harry Reems, Dennis Hopper, Gerard Damiano

Votes: 7,035 | Gross: $0.65M

19. Night Games (1966)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

The story about a man who's trying to get rid of his memories from his past. He grew up in an upper-class family in a castle and now revisits the castle with his fiancee.

Director: Mai Zetterling | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm, Lena Brundin, Jörgen Lindström

Votes: 719

20. Detention (2019)

TV-MA | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

In 1962 Taiwan, student Fang and teacher Mr. Chang fall in love amidst the restrictive White Terror period banning sensitive books. Despite this, Mr. Chang secretly organizes a banned book study group with fellow teacher and student.

Director: John Hsu | Stars: Gingle Wang, Meng-Po Fu, Jing-Hua Tseng, Cecilia Choi

Votes: 3,838

21. Pad Man (2018)

PG-13 | 140 min | Comedy, Drama

Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.

Director: R. Balki | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte, Sonam Kapoor, Jyoti Subhash

Votes: 29,023 | Gross: $1.66M

22. Dog Lay Afternoon (1976)

Unrated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Jeanine is a girl who has been traumatized since childhood after having inadvertently seen her mother mate with the family's Doberman dog.

Directors: Virgilio Mattei, Peter Skerl | Stars: Philippe March, Juliette Mayniel, Leonora Fani, Paul Muller

Votes: 467

23. Tom of Finland (2017)

Not Rated | 117 min | Biography, Drama

Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and celebrated figures of 20th-century gay culture.

Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Pekka Strang, Seumas F. Sargent, Chris Myland, Alf Myreen

Votes: 6,414 | Gross: $0.38M

24. Bird of Paradise (1932)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 1,575

25. Black & White & Sex (2012)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama

Angie is a prostitute, a chameleon - a butterfly. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her.

Director: John Winter | Stars: Katherine Hicks, Anya Beyersdorf, Valerie Bader, Roxane Wilson

Votes: 1,087

26. Goltzius and The Pelican Company (2012)

Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Comedy, History

Hendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Ramsey Nasr, F. Murray Abraham, Hendrik Aerts, Boris Bakal

Votes: 1,378

27. Much Loved (2015)

104 min | Drama

A group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.

Director: Nabil Ayouch | Stars: Loubna Abidar, Asmaa Lazrak, Halima Karaouane, Sara Elhamdi Elalaoui

Votes: 3,042

28. Tabu (1977)

TV-MA | 115 min | Drama

Investigates and sheds light on various sexual identities and sexual peculiarities outside the accepted sexual norms.

Director: Vilgot Sjöman | Stars: Kjell Bergqvist, Lickå Sjöman, Halvar Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand

Votes: 186

29. Toilet: A Love Story (2017)

Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home. To win back her love and respect, he heads out on a journey to fight against the backward society.

Director: Shree Narayan Singh | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Bhumi Pednekar, Divyendu Sharma

Votes: 23,186 | Gross: $1.83M

30. The Cuckold (2009)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama

A controversial dramatic feature that pushes a camera lens through the peephole of American taboo, focusing on the flashpoint where racial and sexual tensions collide. While set against the... See full summary »

Director: Jonathan Butler | Stars: Tracey B. Wilson, Amber Paul, Tobin Tyler, Addison Henderson

Votes: 246

31. Goodbye Mother (2019)

Unrated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Nau Van returns home several years after staying in America on the anniversary of his father's death to meet his family. Unbeknownst to them, he returns with his long-term boyfriend, Ian.

Director: Trinh Dinh Le Minh | Stars: Hong Dao, Lanh Thanh, Vo Dien Gia Huy, Nsut Le Thien

Votes: 1,091

32. Ur kärlekens språk (1969)

X | 102 min | Documentary, Drama

A modern advanced film about sexual education an behaviour based on the clinical research made by famous American and Swedish doctors. The film centres around a panel; Inge and Sten Hegeler... See full summary »

Director: Torgny Wickman | Stars: Inge Hegeler, Sten Hegeler, Maj-Brith Bergström-Walan, Sture Cullhed

Votes: 384 | Gross: $0.03M

33. 100 Vaginas (2019 TV Movie)

47 min | Documentary

A bold, feminist film about how the vagina has shaped our view of the world and the shame around female sexuality. Women from 19 to 77 years old talk about puberty, menstruation, birth, ... See full summary »

Director: Jenny Ash | Star: Laura Dodsworth

Votes: 319

34. Corazón azul (2021)

103 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

In an alternate reality, Fidel Castro turns to genetic engineering to create his elusive New Man and save his socialist utopia. Eventually the experiment fails because these highly ... See full summary »

Director: Miguel Coyula | Stars: Lynn Cruz, Carlos Javier Martinez, Héctor Noas, Mariana Alom

Votes: 45

35. Kya Kehna (2000)

Unrated | 155 min | Drama, Romance

A young college girl faces hardships and challenges after she becomes a mother without marriage

Director: Kundan Shah | Stars: Preity G Zinta, Saif Ali Khan, Chandrachur Singh, Anupam Kher

Votes: 2,234

36. Starcrossed (2005)

Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Drama

Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.

Director: James Burkhammer | Stars: J.B. Ghuman Jr., John Wesley Shipp, Derek Sean Lara, Darcy DeMoss

Votes: 2,388

37. Cult of the Cobra (1955)

Approved | 82 min | Fantasy, Horror

American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Kathleen Hughes

Votes: 1,482

38. A View from the Bridge (1962)

110 min | Drama

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence, Jean Sorel

Votes: 563

39. Taboo (2002)

R | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

While staying at a secluded mansion, six young adults reveal their personal demons during an innocent game called Taboo. They reunite a year later, only to realize that one of them wants them dead for their moral transgressions.

Director: Max Makowski | Stars: Nick Stahl, Eddie Kaye Thomas, January Jones, Lori Heuring

Votes: 1,954

40. Tabu (2010)

25 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Young musician goes on vacation with his family. He meets an older woman there, they fall in love and spend a passionate night together. The next day, his family has something shocking to tell him.

Directors: Vincent Coen, Jean-Julien Collette | Stars: Tony Denman, Warre Borgmans, Angela Muto, Sandrine André

Votes: 141

41. The Cheat (1915)

Not Rated | 59 min | Drama, Romance

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, James Neill

Votes: 2,763 | Gross: $0.21M

42. Childporn (2015)

4 min | Short, Music, Mystery

Tempted by treats which we know that they are not good for us. Packed, pent up feelings. A volcano which is about to erupt, an addiction that makes havoc to you and your surroundings. Before you know it you walk into the trap.

Director: Sjoerd Martens

Votes: 51

43. Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (2020)

Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

The road to achieving a happy ending is a little too rough for two guys Kartik and Aman. While Aman's family tries hard to battle his love for Kartik, Kartik isn't prepared to step back until he marries Aman.

Director: Hitesh Kewalya | Stars: Ayushmann Khurrana, Jitendra Kumar, Gajraj Rao, Neena Gupta

Votes: 10,482

44. Flesh of the Void (2017)

77 min | Horror

Death is imminent and meaning absent in this visual exercise of pointless nihilism. A visual experiment of anger and psychosis, captured on all kinds of manipulated film. Pain and anguish ... See full summary »

Director: James Florian Quinn | Stars: Man Without a Face, Kmsura, Dead Flesh, Elektriking

Votes: 166

45. Doctor Climax (2024– )

Comedy, Drama | Completed

In the late '70s when sex talk is still taboo, the life of a straitlaced skin doctor and specialist in venereal diseases is turned upside down when he starts moonlighting as a sex columnist under the pseudonym "Doctor Climax".

Stars: Chantavit Dhanasevi, Arachaporn Pokinpakorn, Chermawee Suwanpanuchoke, Tonhon Tantivejakul

46. Watching My Daughter Go Black 11 (2020 Video)

150 min | Romance

Daughters, mothers, grandmothers or stepdaughters. All of them white and sexy. All of them united by their attraction to black studs. They don't mind that their fathers watch them ride the BBC, in fact, they and the studs love it.

Director: Billy Watson | Stars: Arietta Adams, Cammille Austin, Casey Ballerini, Vanna Bardot

47. Voodoo Island (1957)

Approved | 76 min | Horror

A scholarly type is asked to investigate the possible island site for a large resort hotel--an island rumored to be infested with zombies.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye, Elisha Cook Jr.

Votes: 912

48. Échange tabou (2002 TV Movie)

85 min | Romance

Pierre (Cerone) and Amelie (Serena Monti) filming their sexual adventures. But then the the video cassette is taken by a model who later blackmails them for some sex games. But the couple seems to like these games.

Director: Marcis de Carrabas | Stars: Serena Monti, Angelina, Lisa Belle, Véronique Deweaver

Votes: 39

49. Tastes of Horror (2023)

118 min | Horror, Mystery

Montage from the Te-i-seu-cheu o-beu ho-reo (2021) series, which is composed of ten short films directed by five of the most acclaimed directors of the genre in South Korea.

Directors: Sang-hoon Ahn, Johnny Chae, Yoon Een-Kyoung, Yong-gyun Kim, Dae-wung Lim | Stars: So-Young Ban, Yoo Da-in, Kim Dong-young, Shin Eun-soo

Votes: 65

50. Tehran Taboo (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Drama

In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.

Director: Ali Soozandeh | Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Milinko Ametovic Beganovic

Votes: 4,981 | Gross: $0.07M