Movies and TvShows featuring "self-denial" theme.

Babette, a French gourmet cook, wins the lottery and spends all her winnings on a luxurious feast for the community of a small Danish village. As they enjoy the extravagant meal, the guests are transformed and their relationships are healed.

David Greene, a talented young football player, receives a scholarship to an elite preparatory school in Massachusetts. As the only Jewish student, David faces anti-Semitism and must confront the pressures of conformity and assimilation. He forms friendships, experiences betrayal, and is forced to make difficult choices that will shape his future.

Balkan Spy is a comedy film set in Belgrade, Serbia during the Stalinist era. The story revolves around twin brothers who get involved in espionage, interrogation, and hostage-taking. With elements of satire and political comedy, the movie explores themes of paranoia, brainwashing, and self-denial. The brothers find themselves in absurd situations as they navigate through a world of double-talk and political intrigue.

A surgeon gets involved with a troubled woman named Petulia, leading to a doomed romance. The story is told in flashbacks, revealing the unraveling of their relationship and the dark secrets they both hold. Set amidst the backdrop of San Francisco in the 1960s, the film explores themes of domestic abuse, self-denial, and social commentary.

Chivalrous swordsman Jun-zhao goes in search of a fugitive named Li Yueh in order to reunite him with his love, Liu Xian. Though the two men meet and become loyal brothers, Li does not reveal his true identity until Jun-zhao's life is endangered by swordsmen from Flying Fish Island who are looking for revenge.

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

Fact and fiction collide in this exploitation flick that employs documentary footage depicting the bizarre self-flagellation rituals of the fanatical Catholic sect known as the Penitentes. Mixed with those truly disturbing sequences is a story concerning a killing in New Mexico, itself inspired by the murder of real-life reporter Carl Taylor as he worked on an article on the Penitentes.