Punishment Movies

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

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

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and...

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

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

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

A cynical radio host is banished to Colorado, where he has an on-air spat with a hopeless romantic. Soon, their antagonistic relationship sparks the...

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

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...

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...

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

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place...

In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England,...

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

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

Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they...

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...

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...

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