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New French Extremity films

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Martyrs
2008 film by Pascal Laugier
Intimacy
2001 film by Patrice Chéreau
High Tension
2003 film directed by Alexandre Aja
Baise-moi
Baise-moi is a 2000 French erotic crime thriller film written and directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi and starring Karen Lancaume and Raffaëla Anderson. It is based on the novel by Despentes, first published in 1993. The film received intense media coverage because of its graphic mix of violence and explicit sex scenes. Consequently, it is sometimes considered an example of the "New French Extremity".
Fat Girl
2001 film by Catherine Breillat
Inside
2007 film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
Don't Look Back
2009 film by Marina de Van
Pola X
1999 film directed by Leos Carax
Frontier(s)
Frontier(s) () is a 2007 French-Swiss independent horror film written and directed by Xavier Gens in his feature length debut and stars Karina Testa, Aurélien Wiik, Estelle Lefébure, and Samuel Le Bihan. It follows a group of young criminals from Paris who lodge at a countryside inn run by neo-Nazis in the aftermath of riots spurred by a controversial presidential election.
Secret Things
2002 film by Jean-Claude Brisseau
Demonlover
Demonlover is a 2002 French neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, and starring Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, and Gina Gershon. The plot focuses on the entanglement between various corporations vying for the financial control of an interactive 3-D hentai company, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
Sheitan
2006 film by Kim Chapiron
Trouble Every Day
2001 film directed by Claire Denis
The Pornographer
2001 film by Bertrand Bonello
In My Skin
2002 film by Marina de Van
Caged
2010 film directed by Yann Gozlan
Glowing Eyes
2002 film by Jacques Nolot
Get In
film directed by Olivier Abbou
La vie nouvelle
2002 film by Philippe Grandrieux