| Mistress (1976) | 6.5 | |
| Oz (1997) | 8.7 | |
| Level 16 (2018) | 6.1 | |
| Silenced (2011) | 8.0 | |
| The White Ribbon (2009) | 7.8 |
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, disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with punishment, female nudity, violence, nude, teenager, beating, life is a bitch, male nudity, nudity and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in France, USA, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as punishment: The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Perfect Obedience (2014), King of Devil's Island (2010), Mai-chan's Daily Life (2014), Prison School (2015), Level 16 (2018), The Story of O (1975), Escape from Hell (1980), The White Ribbon (2009), Dogtooth (2009).
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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, harsh, brutal, controversial, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
nun, convent, catholic church, life is a bitch, corporal punishment, evil nun, human spirit, punishment, religion, catholic orphanage, sexual harassment, violence against women ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, latin america
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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, sex with a priest, bullying, pedophile, seminary, gay interest, boy, gay, teenager, catholic priest ...
Place:
mexico
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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:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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Genre: 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:
prison life, punishment, sexual abuse, juvenile detention, island, prison, rebellion, child abuse, boarding school life, protest, isolation, survival ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, japan, poland
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A young maid who cannot die is rented out by her master to paying customers to do whatever they want to her.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, sadistic, anime, controversial ...
Plot:
maid, violence, punishment, abuse, torture, sadistic horror, sadistic violence, sadistic psychopath, teenage girl, sexual abuse, body horror, sadism ...
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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, humorous, ecchi, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gross out humor, masochism, teamwork, punishment, prison, teenage protagonist, female nudity, school, secret love, prison escape, escapades, big breasts ...
Place:
japan
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19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, 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, suspense, mysterious, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
dark secret, boarding school, punishment, female protagonist, distopia, discipline, isolation, girls' boarding school, obedience, imprisonment, pervert, vaccine ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 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, sexual perversion, sexual abuse, rape victim, nudity, sexualized violence, sadism, sex, bare breasts, sensuality, sexual cruelty, lesbianism ...
Place:
france
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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:
women in prison, punishment, prison, anal rape, death, rape, female whipping, partner, gang rape, female nudity, lesbianism, female prisoner ...
Time:
70s
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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, breathtaking, art house, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punishment, children, sexual abuse, cruelty, physical appearance, suicide, child abuse, death, small town, authoritarianism, transgression, priest ...
Time:
year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, pre world war one, 2000s ...
Place:
germany, northern germany, europe, italy
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122K
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, black comedy, sexy, psychological, art house ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, brother sister incest, paranoia, sadism, brother sister sex, child abuse, overprotective father, eccentric family, abuse, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
child abuse, farm, brother brother relationship, punishment, friendship, survival, intergenerational friendship, dedicated educator, adoption, orphan, boyhood, con artists ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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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:
sexy, erotic, disturbing, controversial, sex comedy ...
Plot:
dominatrix, decadence, belt whipping, sadomasochism, perversion, punishment, male pubic hair, intimacy, breaking and entering, playing footsie, pleasure, dungeon ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
europe, paris france, france
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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, atmospheric, surreal, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, bdsm, sex game, sexual content, sex, sexual satisfaction, punishment, dominatrix, lesbian relationship, foot fetish, lesbianism ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
indiana
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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, abuse, boarding school life, corporal punishment, gay rape, punishment, dedicated educator, child rape, boyhood, reformatory, orphanage ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
ireland, europe, spain
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A weekend get-away for two lovers turns into a nightmare of psychological mind games when their infidelity is discovered.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, exciting
Plot:
sexualized violence, cheating on husband, lovers, tragic love, husband and wife, marital infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, adultery, punishment, revenge, murder, brutality ...
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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:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
childhood trauma, family relations, punishment, parent child relationship, fear, love, father, male female relationship, fall in love, father son relationship, emotional abuse, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, poland
Is relevant?
124K
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:
sexy, erotic, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, world war two, hot and sexy, coming of age, longing, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, fascism, wartime, older woman younger man, dream girl, women ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 2000, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It’s been a year since the “school” where captured schoolgirls were trained as sex slaves was destroyed. But a survivor, Arikawa, has planned to rebuild the school by using Chiaki, the former Number 66, who’s a daughter of the principal. His ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapped girl, sexualized violence, slave girl, sex slavery, sexploitation, exploitation, slavery, torture, punishment, kidnapped woman, kidnapped, schoolgirl ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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 themselves imprisoned in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not ...
Style:
dark comedy, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, prisoner, dystopia, race against time, mind control, voyeur, conspiracy, escape, space station, prison guard, on the run, fugitives ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Eiji Sakuma is a judge. He also leads the group Shinbunshi in secret The group holds court on a video site and imposes punishment against defendants. Detectives, including Erika Yoshino, attempt to take down the group.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
punishment, double life, dual role, duplicity, court, crime and punishment, bully comeuppance, judge, secret, identity crisis, split personality, courtroom drama ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
There is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On an uninhabited island in the Kingdom of Tonga he wants to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, and no stranger to drugs, violence and ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot:
father figure, bully, punishment, vandalism, chores, boy, trial, friends, youth, social worker, juvenile delinquent, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the ...
Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, slapstick, parody ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
police academy, police, farce, officers and cadets, chase, dumb, cadet, misfit, recruit, justice, bully, police officer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 1950s
Place:
usa, israel, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
A cruel and vicious judge, who wields power only for herself, meets a warm and cheerful detective who puts the victims first.
Style:
detective, dark, crime drama, suspense, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
demon, punishment, supernatural, judge, revenge, ethical dilemma, investigation, courtroom, police, morality, moral ambiguity, corruption ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Endres wants to be more than just a farmer's son. He wants to be able to read and write, wear clothes without holes and sleep in a proper bed. He goes to the court of the King, who is said to be the cleverest man in the land. Endres becomes his ...
Style:
fairy tale, colorful, captivating, exciting
Plot:
brother brother relationship, theft, father son relationship, punishment, teenager, bird, bare butt, bare chested male, adolescence, male objectification, male nudity, smuggling ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad Karagoz (Haluk Bilginer), men who apparently lived ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
execution, folk hero, prodigy, invasion, workplace situations, muslim, injustice, pretense, punishment, turk, turkish history, workplace ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
turkey, ottoman empire
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of ...
Style:
period piece, epic, dramatic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
punishment, rescue mission, heroism, exploration, horse riding, political intrigue, expedition, family honor, travelogue, rescue, corporal punishment, jail ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
kurdistan, ottoman empire, middle east
Is relevant?
145K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, visually stunning, grim, mind twisting ...
Plot:
prison escape, prison, life philosophy, escape, prison break, runaway, prison life, jail, protector, human spirit, escape attempt, escape plan ...
Time:
year 1973, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 70s
Place:
south america, persia, guyana, latin america, atlantic ocean
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several plots involving an ensemble cast.
The show ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
police, police detective, murder, police protagonist, nypd, robbery, partners against crime, police interrogation, swat team, police station, partner, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new york state
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, farm, family relations, corporal punishment, religions or cults, parents and children, society, village life, church, wedding, rural setting ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
netherlands, belgium
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