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1. The Wild Child (L'Enfant sauvage)

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.

It has an average vote of 7.065 on TMDB.

2. Dead Man's Shoes

A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

3. The Magdalene Sisters

Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.

It has an average vote of 7.424 on TMDB.

4. Dragonard

In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded "dragonard" whip. This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the island's era of savage whippings.

It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.

5. The Hill

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

6. Run with Fear

A medieval nun's convent is the only refuge for women trying to escape from Turkish raiders looking for slaves. But the beautiful mother superior is actually in league with the raiders and her convent is no refuge but a secret market for the beauties who also succumb to her wild desires.

It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.

7. Erotic Tales (Contes pervers)

Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.

It has an average vote of 1.5 on TMDB.

8. The Devils

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

9. The Lobster

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

10. Scrubbers

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.

11. King of Devil's Island (Kongen av Bastøy)

Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.

It has an average vote of 7.165 on TMDB.

12. Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession (修道女ルナの告白)

Sisterhood is powerful. Before leaving for a mission in Africa, Runa, a nun, visits her sister three years after entering the convent when her sister stole Runa's boyfriend. Runa comes to forgive and to help her sister make enough money buying and selling some convent property so she can marry. The old boyfriend has new women in his life, but he and the sister tell Runa they're a couple in order to keep the property deal. To make even more money, Runa's sister wheedles large gifts from various men she's stringing along. There are flashbacks to Runa's sexual awakening at the convent. But what are her real reasons to close this deal?

It has an average vote of 4.1 on TMDB.

13. Mädchen in Uniform (Mädchen in Uniform)

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

14. Kite

Following a rare punishment. Tomás, 10 years old, discovers himself as a human being. This punishment becomes the most precious gift of his life. His Freedom.

15. Caligula (Caligola)

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

It has an average vote of 6.017 on TMDB.

16. Frailty

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

It has an average vote of 6.971 on TMDB.

17. The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

18. The Welts (Pręgi)

Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, bond with him, but soon snaps back to his short-fused habits. Apart from Wojciech's friend Bartek, no one does anything to help. Jump to present day, Wojciech is a furrow-browed journalist who spends most of his spare time spelunking alone. Just like his father, he has serious anger management issues. Fellow caver Tania feels inexplicably attracted to him, but the love of a good woman may not be enough.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

19. Flavia the Heretic (Flavia, la monaca musulmana)

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

20. I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother… (Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère…)

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of “truth” and “history”.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.