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Titles tagged with ‘sexual relationships’

12 titles - sorted alphabetically or by year

C

The Clinic feature film – 1982

Medical student Paul Armstrong spends a day at a Melbourne VD clinic.

A Cold Summer feature film – 2003

Three damaged individuals struggle to deal with pain and grief in different ways as their lives become entangled.

E

Epsilon feature film – 1995

Rolf de Heer combines extraordinary time lapse photography with a drama that argues that the human race is killing the planet.

G

Good Guys Bad Guys – Car Wars television program – 1998

A crime series set in a drycleaners.

K

Kiss or Kill feature film – 1997

This Australian film stood out from others of the time because of its fresh mixture of genre thrills, narrative intrigue and black humour.

L

Least Said, Soonest Mended documentary – 1999

When she was 16, Val had a baby out of wedlock and was coerced to have her adopted out. After 25 years, Val and her daughter make contact.

N

Not In Front of the Kids documentary – 2003

Here is a challenge to common misconceptions about sexuality, relationships and the social and physical needs of people aged over sixty.

Number 96 – Episode 35 television program – 1972

One of the only surviving early black-and-white episodes of Number 96 is a rollicking ride through an apartment building and its class values and sex-obsessed situations.

P

Petersen feature film – 1974

Though promoted as a lusty yarn, the frequent and fairly explicit sex scenes between the film’s unhappy characters are hardly titillating.

Praise feature film – 1998

Praise has alcohol and tobacco, acid and heroin, sex and oblivion and is like a grungy version of Last Tango in Paris.

S

The Secret Life of Us – Now or Never television program – 2001

This final episode of the first season makes reference to the desirable 'trifecta’ of partner, job and home first raised in episode one but adds an unspoken fourth element – friendship.

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Waiting feature film – 1990

A surrogate mother’s home birth turns out more complicated than expected.