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Lemon Incest

By: Ally the Manic Listmak​er

Inappropriate familial relationships in cinema.

Not in the Auteurs’ database yet:
-Sylvia (Gordon Douglas)
-Daddy, Darling (Joseph W. Sarno)
-Fear, Anxiety, and Depression (Todd Solondz)
-Tune In Tomorrow… (1990)

Types of incest:

Aunt/Nephew (not related by blood)
Tune In Tomorrow… (1990)

Aunt/Nephew (related by blood)
Domain (Patric Chiha)
Prima della rivoluzione/Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)

Brother/sister
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Cement Garden (Andrew Birkin)
Alpine Fire (Fredi M. Murer)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
The Color Wheel
Close My Eyes
Eskiya/The Bandit
Dogtooth
Beautiful Kate
Scarface (1983)
Tangos volés
Hancock

Brother/adopted sister
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Enchantment

Cousin/Cousine
The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)

Father/daughter
Fear, Anxiety, and Depression (Todd Solondz)
Charlotte for Ever (Serge Gainsbourg)
Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noé)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
Madeinusa (Claudia Llosa)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
Obsession (Brian De Palma)
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
Aguirre (Werner Herzog)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
Elisa, vida mia/Elisa, My Life (Carlos Saura)
Three Places for the 26th (Jacques Demy)

Father/son and/or brother/brother
Capturing the Friedmans

Grandmother/Granddaughter
Voyage en douce (Michel Deville)

Mother/daughter
The Story of Piera (Marco Ferreri)
It Wasn’t Love (Sadie Benning)

Mother/son
La luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell)
Ma mère (Christophe Honoré)
Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
Anonymous (Roland Emmerich)
Sagan (Diane Kurys)
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)

Sister/sister
Les Blessures Assassines/Murderous Maids
Alice (Sylvie Ballyot)

Step-father/Step-daughter
Sylvia (Gordon Douglas)
Lazybones (Frank Borzage)

Uncle/niece
The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa)
VIridiana (Luis Bunuel)

Caesar says to Cleopatra in the 1963 epic: “You, a descendant of generations of inbred, incestuous, mental defectives!”

To be sorted:
-Daddy, Darling (Joseph W. Sarno)

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy Martin Arnold Juvenile Court Frederick Wiseman Shock Corridor Samuel Fuller Ten Days Wonder Claude Chabrol Ophélia Claude Chabrol Valley of the Bees František Vláčil The War Zone Tim Roth Viva la muerte Fernando Arrabal Careful Guy Maddin The Red House Delmer Daves On Guard Philippe de Broca

Curse of the Golden Flower
Yimou Zhang

Here is the video which the name of this list references featuring Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg:

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

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Zach Wood

7Mar12

Great list! Have you seen Pola X?

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Monsieur Arkadin

1Mar12

The Phantom of Liberty by Bunuel is another Aunt/Nephew one.

The King of Mediterranean Avenue

22Feb12

Oldboy? (Park Chan-Wook)

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Tellechea

21Feb12

prima della rivoluzione for aunt-nephew

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