Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sexual-abstinence"

1. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Romance

Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.

Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco

Votes: 467,830 | Gross: $109.45M

2. Teeth (I) (2007)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.

Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein | Stars: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman

Votes: 46,512 | Gross: $0.35M

3. Manodrome (2023)

R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller

Conflicted about his girlfriend's pregnancy, Ralphie's life spirals out of control when he meets a mysterious family of men.

Director: John Trengove | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Odessa Young, Philip Ettinger

Votes: 2,574

4. Yes, God, Yes (2019)

R | 78 min | Comedy, Drama

After an innocent AOL chat turns racy, a Catholic teenager in the early 2000s discovers masturbation and struggles to suppress her new urges in the face of eternal damnation.

Director: Karen Maine | Stars: Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, Wolfgang Novogratz, Francesca Reale

Votes: 17,883

5. Hemel (2012)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama

A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.

Director: Sacha Polak | Stars: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet, Mark Rietman, Barbara Sarafian

Votes: 1,803

6. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

PG | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey

Votes: 52,092

7. 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.

Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo, Adam Trese

Votes: 75,853 | Gross: $37.95M

8. The Road to Wellville (1994)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama

A story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack

Votes: 13,238 | Gross: $6.51M

9. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau

Votes: 24,848 | Gross: $0.06M

10. American Virgin (2009)

R | 88 min | Comedy

A night of debauchery threatens a sexually abstinent student's college standing.

Director: Clare Kilner | Stars: Jenna Dewan, Bo Burnham, Brianne Davis, Rob Schneider

Votes: 8,220

11. Permission (I) (2017)

96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.

Director: Brian Crano | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens, Gina Gershon, François Arnaud

Votes: 4,936

12. Jeffrey (1995)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

A poignant romantic comedy about the quest for love and intimacy in the age of AIDS. A story of a thirtyish gay actor/waiter who decides to become celibate...the risk of AIDS has taken all the joy from sex.

Director: Christopher Ashley | Stars: Steven Weber, Michael T. Weiss, Peter Jacobson, Tom Cayler

Votes: 6,775 | Gross: $3.49M

13. Westward the Women (1951)

Passed | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire

Votes: 3,810

14. Chastity Bites (2013)

TV-MA | 93 min | Comedy, Horror

In the early 1600s, Countess Elizabeth Bathory slaughtered more than 600 young women, believing that if she bathed in the blood of virgins, she would stay young and beautiful forever. Still... See full summary »

Director: John V. Knowles | Stars: Allison Scagliotti, Francia Raisa, Louise Griffiths, Eddy Rioseco

Votes: 1,056

15. Ned Rifle (2014)

Unrated | 85 min | Drama

Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Rifle family.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Parker Posey, Robert John Burke, Martin Donovan

Votes: 1,857

16. Natural Selection (2011)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Having discovered that her dying husband has an illegitimate child living in Florida, a devout Christian housewife leaves her sheltered world on a mission to reunite father and son.

Director: Robbie Pickering | Stars: Matt O'Leary, Rachael Harris, John Diehl, Gayland Williams

Votes: 1,477 | Gross: $0.05M

17. Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)

R | 92 min | Comedy

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido, Ugo Pagliai

Votes: 748

18. A Sexplanation (2021)

TV-MA | 76 min | Documentary, Comedy, News

To right the wrongs of his all-American sex education, a 36-year-old goes on a quest to uncover naked truths and hard facts - no matter how awkward it gets. He's on a mission to strip away ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Liu | Stars: Laurie Betito, Kristen Gilbert, Donal Godfrey, Barry Komisaruk

Votes: 150

19. Match (2014)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

As a Juilliard professor is interviewed by a woman and her husband for her dissertation on the history of dance in 1960s New York City, it becomes increasingly clear that there are ulterior motives to the couple's visit.

Director: Stephen Belber | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Tirelli

Votes: 2,585 | Gross: $0.03M

20. Cousinhood (2011)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.

Directors: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Raúl Arévalo | Stars: Quim Gutiérrez, Inma Cuesta, Raúl Arévalo, Antonio de la Torre

Votes: 5,163

21. Conspiracy of Silence (2003)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Catholic priest's suicide and seminarian's expulsion for homosexuality spark a local journalist's investigation, uncovering celibacy controversies and abuse cover-ups within the Irish Catholic church.

Director: John Deery | Stars: Jonathan Forbes, Brenda Fricker, Niall O'Brien, Catherine Cusack

Votes: 426 | Gross: $0.00M

22. Stephanie Daley (2006)

R | 92 min | Drama

Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.

Director: Hilary Brougher | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton, Vincent Piazza

Votes: 1,896 | Gross: $0.03M

23. Manfast (2003)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

4 women fast from men for 100 days. No talking to, no touching of, no flirting with, and above all: no sex with men. When $1 million is offered to the first man who can break the fast, all hell breaks loose.

Director: Tara Judelle | Stars: Lala Sloatman, Jeremy Sisto, Klea Scott, Jenny Judelle

Votes: 269

24. A Courtship (2015)

TV-PG | 71 min | Documentary, Romance

A documentary about Christian Courtship, an alternative to dating that seeks to ensure physical and emotional purity until marriage. Kelly, a 33 year old virgin, renounces dating believing ... See full summary »

Director: Amy Kohn

Votes: 71

25. Love Waits (I) (2015)

115 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

A small-town girl who has just moved to the big city is pressured by peers at school to lose her virginity.

Directors: Chip Rossetti, Donald James Parker | Stars: Brittany Mann, Collin Alexander Brown, Hunter Johnson, Haleigh Johnson

Votes: 62

26. Scharf wie Chili (2005 TV Movie)

107 min | Comedy, Romance

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Director: Markus Bräutigam | Stars: Kristian Kiehling, Alexandra Neldel, David A. Hamade, Elisabeth Niederer

Votes: 178

27. Jackson (2016)

Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary

With a single abortion clinic remaining in the state of Mississippi, the city of Jackson has become ground zero in the nation's battle over reproductive health-care. Jackson is an intimate ... See full summary »

Director: Maisie Crow | Stars: Barbara Beavers, Shannon Brewer, April Jackson, Willie Parker

Votes: 168

28. The Education of Shelby Knox (2005)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary

A 15-year-old girl's transformation from conservative Southern Baptist to liberal Christian and ardent feminist parallels her fight for sex education and gay rights in Lubbock, Texas.

Directors: Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt | Stars: Yvonne Caudillo, Shelby Knox, Rene Maquilleur, Amanda Noble

Votes: 444

29. Samba in Mettmann (2004)

89 min | Comedy

Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store. When Olaf runs into three Brazilian ladies not knowing where to go, he invites them to stay with him and his deaf pot-smoking grandfather which turns everyone's lives topsy-turvy.

Director: Angelo Colagrossi | Stars: Hape Kerkeling, Rolf Nagel, Alexandra Neldel, Pamela Knight

Votes: 666

30. The Young Believers (2012)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama

Four Christian teens struggle to keep a promise to remain pure and righteous in The Young Believers. Bound to a mutual pact to avoid drinking, drugs, and premarital sex throughout high ... See full summary »

Director: Jay Gerren | Stars: Kelsey Tanaka, Ryan N. Taylor, Eryn Moore, Brandon Vielkind

Votes: 20

31. Guardians of the Flutes (1994 TV Movie)

70 min | Documentary, War

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Star: Christian Rodska

Votes: 24

32. Mr. und Mrs. Right (2004 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

Despite all the differences: the catering entrepreneur Louise and the business journalist Felix maintain a deep friendship. Louise doesn't fit Felix's dream of a girly type at all and Felix is much too nervous and feminine for Louise.

Director: Torsten C. Fischer | Stars: Maria Furtwängler, Matthias Brandt, Udo Wachtveitl, Marion Breckwoldt

Votes: 62

33. Tongues (2014)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Daniel is a young man hopelessly in search of hope: from a London mega-church, from his pastor, his pastor's hot daughter, and the mysterious business of "tongues."

Director: Nathan Deming | Stars: William French, Stephen Christos, Michelle Lehane, Trevor Murphy

Votes: 11

34. Biography (1987– )
Episode: Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind (1996)

TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History

The life and work of the great and influential psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), is examined. Archive footage of Freud and a unique sound recording of his voice are included.

Stars: Sigmund Freud, Jack Perkins, Joe Aguayo, Harold P. Blum

Votes: 132

35. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Rockabye (2005)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A teenage girl runs away from home to get an abortion and winds up brutally attacked, killing her unborn child.

Director: Peter Leto | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 787

36. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Caught in the Act (1995)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A bashful woman gets possessed by an incorporeal alien that feeds on sexual energy. A series of killings starts. Her boyfriend, his scientist friend and a skeptical cop try find a way to stop the alien without killing her in the process.

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Jason London, Saul Rubinek, Garry Chalk, Alyssa Milano

Votes: 536

37. Popular (1999–2001)
Episode: Fire in the Hole (2001)

TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ms. Glass gives a lecture on STDs and prepares a Cabaret-type musical on the subject. The students are to play the STDs. Sam wants to lose her virginity with George but he's not ready. Sugar and Josh hire a cool prostitute for Harrison.

Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham

Votes: 64

38. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode: The Abstinence (1996)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

Abstinence allows George to become a genius, but it turns Elaine into an idiot. Jerry gets bumped from career day at his old Jr. High School. Kramer turns his apartment into a smoking lounge and all the smoke disfigures his face.

Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander

Votes: 4,377

39. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode: Abstinence (2006)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Documentary

Penn and Teller look at how the religious right have persuaded the government to pay for abstinence programs in schools that do not work.

Directors: Star Price, Scott Firestone, Chip Selby | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Cheryl Biddle, Rita Brock

Votes: 138

40. According to Jim (2001–2009)
Episode: No Nookie (2001)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Jim and Cheryl find their romantic getaway to the Bahamas set to work out perfectly, with Dana babysitting the kids. However, at the last minute, Dana is not able to babysit. In the ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Cadiff | Stars: Jim Belushi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Larry Joe Campbell

Votes: 237

41. Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode: Episode #2.6 (1977)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Romance

Whitworth becomes sexually frustrated when Behanna asks him to abstain for his wife's health, and Warleggan stands for Parliament after Ross declines the opportunity.

Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Jill Townsend, Ralph Bates

Votes: 27

42. Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode: Episode #2.7 (1977)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Romance

George, newly elected to Parliament, has become obsessed over Valentine's as Whitworth takes on his teenage sister-in-law as mistress.

Director: Roger Jenkins | Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Jill Townsend, Ralph Bates

Votes: 25

43. True Life (1998–2020)
Episode: I'm Celibate (2007)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Romance

Not everyone is doing it. Whether obligated by religion, afraid of STDs, or just disillusioned by sex - many young people are now choosing abstinence over intercourse.

Director: Carlos Puga

44. The Jon Dore Television Show (2007–2009)
Episode: STD (2007)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

Jon has a horrible nightmare and thinks he has contracted a sexually transmitted disease. In this touching episode, Jon gets tested for various "wang" ailments, tells his partners about his... See full summary »

Director: Mark Mainguy | Stars: Jon Dore, Steve Dylan, Katie Crown, Adam Brodie

Votes: 14

45. The Young Offenders (2018– )
Episode: Episode #3.5 (2020)

31 min | Comedy

Jock gets caught up in a row with a local tearaway, leading to a challenge to a boxing match, which Jock reluctantly agrees to.

Director: Simon Delaney | Stars: Alex Murphy, Dominic MacHale, Chris Walley, Jennifer Barry

Votes: 22

46. The Dating Guy (2009–2010)
Episode: Cherry Sundae (2009)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy

A porn star named Cherry Sundae takes a liking to Mark. Because that always happens in real life.

Director: Joseph Sherman | Stars: Fab Filippo, Sean Francis, Lauren Ash, Anand Rajaram

47. Blue Mountain State (2010–2011)
Episode: Born Again (2010)

TV-MA | 22 min | Comedy, Sport

The team becomes celibate in order to boost their performance on the field, but it backfires when Mary jo, out of frustration, stirs them into a frenzy.

Director: Fred Savage | Stars: Darin Brooks, Alan Ritchson, Frankie Shaw, Chris Romano

Votes: 399

48. The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013)
Episode: Rules of Engagement (2010)

TV-14 | 46 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Ashley shows up in Ricky's bed telling him that she wants to get "it" over with and for it to be with him. Ben finds out the value of the ring that he gave to Adrian and decides to earn ... See full summary »

Director: Keith Truesdell | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Ken Baumann, Mark Derwin, India Eisley

Votes: 47

49. Rules of Engagement (2007–2013)
Episode: Play Ball (2010)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy, Romance

Audrey contemplates her career as she plays on Jeff's softball team, Timmy becomes frustrated after his girlfriend cuts him off, and Adam and Jennifer try to come up with an interesting fictional story about how they met.

Director: Ted Wass | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Megyn Price, Oliver Hudson, Bianca Kajlich

Votes: 417

50. Franklin & Bash (2011–2014)
Episode: Bachelor Party (2011)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Peter (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is asked to defend ex-girlfriend Janie Ross's (Claire Coffee) fiancé Nathan Connor (guest star James Van Der Beek) in a prostitution case. And as representing a ... See full summary »

Director: Jason Ensler | Stars: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Breckin Meyer, Reed Diamond, Dana Davis

Votes: 148