11 OEDIPAL FILMS

Arts and Culture
Written By Marshall Byler

How many of these Freudian flicks have you seen?

In publishing “Oedipus Returns,” the TAP team put together a list of movies to write home to Mom about. 

 

Back to the Future (Zemeckis 1985)

Beau Is Afraid (Aster 2023)

Blue Velvet (Lynch 1986)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry 2005)

Hamlet (Zeffirelli 1990)

Luna (Bertolucci 1979)

Murmur of the Heart (Malle 1971)

Rushmore (Anderson 1998)

Spanking the Monkey (Russell 1994)

The Graduate (Nichols 1967)

To Die For (Van Sant 1995)

The latest entry on the list is Beau is Afraid (2023), a surreal story about the protagonist’s relationship to his mother with multiple notable bedroom scenes. Image courtesy A24.

Marshall Byler

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