Punishment movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant punishment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with punishment, violence, female nudity, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, beating, abuse, prison, society and death plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as punishment: Perfect Obedience (2014), King of Devil's Island (2010), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Prison School (2015), Level 16 (2018), The White Ribbon (2009), The Story of O (1975), Dogtooth (2009), Escape from Hell (1980), The Welts (2004).

List of punishment movies

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Perfect Obedience (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his ...
Style: suspense, disturbing
Plot: pedophile priest, punishment, child abuse, teenager, bullying, pedophile, catholic church, catholic priest, child sexual abuse, gay interest, corporal punishment, obedience ...
Place: mexico
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King of Devil's Island (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Based on a true story: 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 youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, ...
Style: bleak, tense, visually appealing, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: punishment, sexual abuse, prison life, island, juvenile detention, prison, rebellion, child abuse, protest, isolation, survival, coming of age ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, brutal, controversial, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nun, convent, life is a bitch, human spirit, corporal punishment, mistreatment, catholic church, evil nun, religion, sexual harassment, humiliation, catholic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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Prison School (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: There was a time when the Hachimitsu Private Academy was a revered and elite all-girls' boarding school on the outskirts of Tokyo but a recent policy revision is allowing boys into the student body. On his first day, Kiyoshi Fujino discovers ...
Style: anime, ecchi, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gross out humor, masochism, punishment, teamwork, school, female nudity, abuse, teenage protagonist, prison, prison escape, secret love, escapades ...
Place: japan
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 16K
Level 16 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, melancholic, suspense, mysterious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: imprisonment, dark secret, boarding school, punishment, discipline, girls' boarding school, female protagonist, isolation, distopia, secrets, obedience, women's prison ...
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The White Ribbon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style: disturbing, black and white, art house, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, punishment, sexual abuse, priest, physical appearance, suicide, small town, death, child abuse, cruelty, family secret, village life ...
Time: year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, 90s, 1920s ...
Place: germany, europe, northern germany, italy
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The Story of O (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bdsm, sex, sexual abuse, sexual perversion, sexualized violence, nudity, rape victim, coitus, dangerous attraction, sexual cruelty, lesbian sex, sadism ...
Place: france
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style: erotic, controversial, disturbing, psychological, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: torture, sex, fascism, atrocity, sexual perversion, brutality, libertine, rape, world war two, kidnapping, sexual abuse, bdsm ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
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 7.2
 109K
Dogtooth (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family ...
Style: disturbing, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, cat, child abuse, brother sister incest, eccentric family, overprotective father, confined, sexual awakening, perversion, greek ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: greece, europe
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Escape from Hell (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp doctor is ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: adult
Plot: jungle, prison, women in prison, female whipping, punishment, exploitation, murder, death, brutality, captivity, prison life, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s
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 7.1
 1K
The Welts (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: family relations, parent child relationship, punishment, love, fear, fall in love, male female relationship, father son relationship, father, redemption, emotional abuse, violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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 6.5
 2K
Mistress (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her "train" her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually he ...
Style: erotic, sexy, disturbing, sex comedy, intellectual ...
Plot: dominatrix, decadence, sadomasochism, wine, bare butt, belt whipping, pain, torture, punishment, sex, dungeon, bdsm ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: paris france, europe, france
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The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover.
Style: erotic, sexy, surreal, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, bdsm, sex game, dominatrix, foot fetish, women, lesbian relationship, all female cast, punishment, deadpan, sex, erotica ...
Time: year 2014
Place: indiana
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 7.4
 111K
Malena (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hot and sexy, world war two, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, older woman younger man, wartime, longing, unrequited love, women, sexuality, life is a bitch, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, ancient times, 20th century, year 1940
Place: italy, sicily, europe, southern italy, mediterranean sea
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School of the Holy Beast (1974)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to ...
Style: erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, realistic ...
Plot: nunsploitation, erotica, nun, lesbian sex, incest, sexual abuse, rape, revenge, sexual desire, pervert, decadence, moral corruption ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: japan
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 8.6
 9K
Death's Game (2023)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating
Plot: death, reincarnation, punishment, afterlife, grim reaper, suicide, survival, life & death, life, graphic violence, martial artist, student ...
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Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, serious, sincere ...
Plot: child abuse, juvenile delinquency, orphan, dedicated educator, boarding school life, reformatory, gay rape, child rape, corporal punishment, sexual abuse, teachers and students, abuse ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939
Place: ireland, europe, spain
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The Little Witch (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The little witch really wants to dance with the other witches in the Walpurgis night, but she is only 127 years old and thus far too young for it. She tries to secretly sneak into the party but is caught doing so, and as a punishment, she has to ...
Style: fairy tale, light, captivating, exciting, colorful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, raven, child in peril, obsessive quest, fire, prank, punishment, evil witch, magical power, magic spell, spell, female protagonist ...
Place: germany, europe, central europe
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Bone Dry (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eddie finds himself being forced at a gunpoint, by an unseen assailant, on a dark and brutal journey through the harsh terrain of the Mojave desert. His nemesis is Jimmy, a man with an aberrant agenda; armed with a rifle, a scope, walkie-talkies and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, mysterious, realistic, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, vengeance, punishment, torture, haunted by the past, manipulation, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, threat, chase, confined, panic ...
Place: mojave desert
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The Christmas Parade (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A popular network morning host finds herself humiliated on the air by her fiancé and disappears to a small town. While there, she helps a budding artist save a community art center for the town's kids, by helping them with their float for the ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, light, sweet, funny ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: christmas, trial, punishment, save the day, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, christmas romance, winter, small town, friendship, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
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The Parent Trap (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: twins, divorce, summer, summer camp, family life, sisters, women, teenage girl, childhood, mischievous children, parents and children, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: california, massachusetts, boston, monterey california
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 6.4
 46K
Lock Up (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, prison warden, corruption, prisoner, prison life, revenge, torture, tough guy, self sacrifice, electric chair, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
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The Brothers Karamazov (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: Russian miniseries based on the novel The Brothers Karamazov.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: punishment, betrayal, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, envy, parents and children, couples, death in the family, family drama, country estate, love, relationships ...
Time: 19th century
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Norte, the End of History (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 250 min.
Story: A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when ...
Style: philosophical, realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: double murder, social problems, revenge, punishment, government corruption, immigrant, society, social relations, working class, village life, prison, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia
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 7.0
 762
This is Jinsy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: This is Jinsy is a British comedy series. The pilot first aired on 1 March 2010 on BBC Three. The programme is about the bizarre residents of the fictional island of Jinsy and based on the island of Guernsey, where the two writers are from. The show ...
Style: surreal, stylized, experimental, humorous, not serious ...
Plot: native, salesman, social relations, goofy hero, partner, silly humor, odd couple, imaginary, disorder, punishment, weatherman, folklore ...
Place: fictional island
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 7.3
 2K
Guilty (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lawyer, prison, legal, courtroom, false accusation, broken family, imprisonment, police brutality, injustice, judge, life turned upside down, courtroom drama ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, flanders
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, depressing ...
Plot: death sentence, executioner, hanging, execution, introspection, politics, punishment, death row, death penalty, criminal, war crime, biopic ...
Time: year 2005, 1950s, 1940s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, germany
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, black and white ...
Plot: prison, bird, redemption, life sentence, warden, alcatraz, prison escape, biopic, rebel, self discovery, isolation, obstacle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place: san francisco, bay area, kansas
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Law & Order: UK (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: legal, forensics, lawyer, courtroom, police detective, workplace, fighting crime, cop witness relations, punishment, power relations, rivalry, jury ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
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Kiss Him, Not Me (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kae Serinuma is a second year high school student and an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her classmates, Igarashi and Nanashima. The death of her favorite anime character causes her to become stressed and lose weight rapidly. Now that Serinuma has ...
Style: anime, shoujo, humorous, light, touching ...
Plot: high school life, school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle, relationships, schoolgirl, couple relations, lgbt, punishment, true love, unlikely friendships, bromance ...
Place: japan
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