Incest in Popular Culture - Film - Parent/children Incest - Father/daughter Incest

Father/daughter Incest

A notable example of censorship in this area surfaces in Kings Row (1942). While the relationship is explicit in Henry Bellamann's best-selling 1940 novel of the same name, Joseph Breen, director of the Production Code Authority and his superior, Will H. Hays, first president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America forbade clearly showing that Dr. Tower (Claude Rains) commits incest with his daughter Cassandra (Betty Field) in the film. Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) features father-daughter incest, resulting in the daughter giving birth to her own half-sister.

In Stay As You Are (1978), a girl (Nastassja Kinski) falls in love with a man (Marcello Mastroianni) who may be her father.

In the Mexican film Angel de Fuego, after his mother left her circus-born Alma starts an affair with her father, has sex with him and becomes impregnated by him.

In Butterfly (Matt Cimber, 1982), a miner living in the Nevada desert, who has not seen his daughter for years, is confronted then seduced by his now sexy and troubling teenage child, while struggling against his own reluctance as well as the 1937 rural society.

In the 1997 film U Turn, Grace (Jennifer Lopez) and Jake (Nick Nolte) are initially thought to be husband and wife. In a plot twist, it is revealed that after the death of her mother, Grace married her father Jake.

Wicked (1998), starring Julia Stiles and William R. Moses, features an incestuous father-daughter relationship.

The 1999 film The Cider House Rules depicts a father-daughter incestuous relationship that results in the daughter's pregnancy.

Tim Roth's 1999 film The War Zone explores the effect of father-daughter incest on a family.

In Girl, Interrupted (2000), a recently released patient of the mental institution, Daisy Randone (Brittany Murphy), is well known to have had an incestuous relationship with her father, which eventually leads her to commit suicide.

The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005), Rose (Camilla Belle) is in love with her father, Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis), although he is unable to accept his romantic feelings for her.

In The Quiet (2005), A young woman (Camilla Belle) discovers an incestuous relationship between her God-father (Martin Donovan) and his daughter (Elisha Cuthbert).

In Madeinusa (2006), The Mayor of an indigenous community lusts after his 14 year old daughter and has off screen sex with her in the days between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, the days when his village believes God is dead and cannot see what is happening in the world.

In Burning Palms (2010), One of the short stories features a woman who meets her fiance's 15 year old daughter. The father and daughter seem to have an incestuous relationship from the way they touch and talk to each other. It is not known whether or not they actually have committed incest.