Libido

Apr 6, 1973

1h 57m

★ 4.2

A film quartet about the erotic drive within us all

Overview

Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Producers' & Directors' Guild of Australia

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Cast

Penelope (segment "The Husband")

Elke Neidhart

Jonathon (segment "The Husband")

Bryon Williams

Harold (segment "The Husband")

Mark Albiston

Mother (segment "The Child")

Jill Forster

Sybil (segment "The Child")

Judy Morris

David (segment "The Child")

Bruce Barry

Housekeeper (segment "The Child")

Louise Homfrey

Elderly Nun (segment "The Priest")

Vivean Gray

Arthur Dignam

Robyn Nevin

Judy Morris

Penne Hackforth-Jones

Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.

6.5

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Oct 13, 1967

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

5.9

54

Aug 28, 1998

Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar - and a front-row ticket to the most legendary party on the planet.

7.5

Gilda

Apr 25, 1946

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

7.6

Laura

Oct 11, 1944

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

7.5

Obsession

Apr 8, 1944

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

4.8

Three of Hearts

Apr 30, 1993

A lesbian hires a male escort to break the heart of the bisexual woman who has just dumped her.

5.6

The Glass Castle

Dec 16, 1950

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.

6.6

In the Realm of the Senses

Sep 15, 1976

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

3.3

Bolero

Aug 31, 1984

Follows the tale of a young woman’s sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany her and help to arrange her couplings.

6.7

Secret Weapons

Mar 3, 1985

Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.

6.0

Mudhoney

May 25, 1965

In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she is married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.

5.5

Vixen!

Oct 15, 1968

Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she makes it clear that she won't do the wild thing with her brother's biker friend, who is black.

6.8

L'Âge d'or

Nov 28, 1930

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

5.7

Lorna

Sep 11, 1964

Lorna and Jim have been married for a year but Lorna remains sexually unsatisfied. While he's at work, she is raped by an escaped convict, then becomes lustfully involved with him.

5.5

Idiot Love

Nov 12, 2004

Pere Lluc is thirty five and is living an unclear period in his life. He finds out that one of his friends has death 5 months ago and to forget the sorrows he goes out and get drunk and he falls in love.

5.1

Cruel Intentions 2

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After his precocious behavior has gotten him bounced out of one more in a string of exclusive private schools, 16-year old Sebastian Valmont has arrived in New York City to live with his father and stepmother. The cunning and handsome Sebastian may have met his match, however in his equally manipulative and beautiful stepsister Kathryn Merteuil.

4.8

Cruel Intentions 3

Aug 10, 2004

Meet Cassie, Jason and Patrick, three amoral college students who, through a series of sexual wagers, take malicious pleasure in ruining the lives of their fellow classmates.

6.5

Shock Treatment

Jan 18, 1973

Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner Dr. Berbard. But after a series of tragic events, Hélène goes further in her investigation of the clinic.

5.1

Madame and Her Niece

May 9, 1969

Michelle De Winter lives the good life, wining and dining with only the richest men who are fortunate to cross her path. Her daughter Yvette, whom Michelle insists on introducing as her 'niece', is a fashion model. She is saving herself for the right man, despite the fact that she is part of the free love generation and lives with a group of promiscuous creative types. While Michelle is searching for a new millionaire playboy, Yvette falls for the handsome Peter Von Hallstein. She asks the fatherly Dr. Fink to help her come up with a scheme to get Peter to propose to he