Punishment Movies

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

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

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

A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the...

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

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...

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

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

After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Should a punishment fit the crime?

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...

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...

A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.