Punishment Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

The film shows Shiva in a very traditional representation--in bronze and standing within a circle of bronze flames. Suddenly, a fly lands on Shiva's...

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

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...

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...

7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find...

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...

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

Tim holds Dave, the man that he loved in school when they were teenagers, captive in a motel room - the same man who as a boy betrayed and humiliated...

Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a...

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

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...

Popeye spanks Swee'Pea and sends him to bed without supper. He wrestles with his conscience over this, while Swee'Pea packs a bundle and runs away...