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Which is the most disturbing French movie you have seen?

The most disturbing French films :

• Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal , 1971 : During summer break, two bored Catholic schoolgirls vow to become Satanists and play a series of increasingly dangerous and morbid games.

• The Iron Rose by Jean Rollin, 1973 : A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
• The Beast by Walerian Borowczyk , 1975 : A late businessman's daughter is heading with her aunt to the crumbling estate of her soon-to-be husband, unaware of the strange rumours that cloud the family's name.
• Beau-père , 1981 : After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy.
• Possession by Andrzej Zulawski, 1981 : A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
• Seul contre tous , 1998 : A horse meat butcher's life and mind begins to breakdown as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
• Sombre by Philippe Grandrieux, 1998 : A sexually frustrated serial killer takes a liking to a woman he comes across.
• Romance , 1999 : Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.

• Baise-moi , 2000 : Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences.
• Trouble Every Day , 2001 : Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.
• Le pornographe , 2001 : acques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and '80s, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60s counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre.
• Irréversible by Gaspar Noé , 2002 : Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
• Dans ma peau by Marina de Van , 2002 : A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.
• Demonlover by Olivier Assayas , 2002 : Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.

• Ma mère , 2004 : When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
• Anatomie de l'enfer by Catherine Breillat , 2004 : A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
• Ils , 2006 : Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
• Frontières , 2007 : A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
• Martyrs by Pascal Laugier, 2008 : A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
• Les 7 jours du talion , 2010 : A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who raped and murdered his young daughter.
• Dark Touch by Marina de Van , 2013 : In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Niamh finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother.
• Climax by Gaspar Noé , 2018 : French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
• Zombi Child ,2019 : A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret - not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable.

Notes & Articles :

1. The citation comes from Georg Lukács, Soul and Form, trans. Anna Bostock (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974)
2. Flesh & blood: sex and violence in recent French cinema by James Quandt is senior programmer at Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto. Feb. 2004 Artforum International Magazine, Inc.
3. Le sex and violence by Jonathan Romney , Sunday 12 September 2004 Independent British daily newspaper
4. Terry Eagleton, Holy Terror (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
5. Style and Sensation in the Contemporary French Cinema of the Body by Tim Palmer , Journal of Film and Video Vol. 58, No. 3 (Fall 2006), pp. 22-32
6. The 8 Most Disturbing Films of The New Wave of French Horror by Simon Augustine , June 17, 2008 , Green-Cine
7. Extreme Cinema - Wikipedia
8. New French Extremity - 2000’s-2010’s - Wikipedia
9. Finding The French Gothic by Robert Barry , February 13th, 2012 , Glasgow Film Festival.
10. The Future of French Cinema by Richard Brody , January 2, 2013 , The New Yorker
11. From the Banal to the Extreme… and Back Again: Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema by Alison Taylor , March 2018 , Issue : 86 , Senses of Cinema.