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1. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) (1975), controversial drama film written and directed by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini with uncredited writing contributions by Pupi Avati. Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and 9 teenage girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. |
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2. Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Italian horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes. |
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3. Baise-moi (Rape Me) (2000), French film co-directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi. It is based on the novel by Despentes, first published in 1999. 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. |
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4. Irreversible (Irréversible) (2002), French drama film written and directed by Gaspar Noé. 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. |
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5. Funny Games (1997), Austrian psychological thriller film directed and written by Michael Haneke. Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. |