Punishment Movies

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

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

Professor Henri Laborit uses three people's stories to discuss behaviourist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety:...

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.

The true story of Victor of Aveyron. In a French forest circa 1798, an abandoned child — feral, filthy and mentally impaired — is found....

In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angine, an unhappy...

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced to take a harsh sentence; and a mother and her...

After celebrating his graduation by spray-painting graffiti on a protected heritage site, a young man finds his family haunted by an entity.

After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman...

Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her...

Four siblings go missing and wake up in the afterlife, undergoing punishment for their worldly sins in the depths of hell.

Sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions. What chances do a conniving kleptomaniac, a gullible...

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

Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

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...

A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself...

France in the fifties. The teenage orphan Sylvie is put in an institution for "fallen" or endangered girls, subjected to harsh treatment by the...

This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the...

Not America, nor Africa, but the Lazio countryside provides the backdrop for this intricate story of death and more or less incestuous love affairs,...