Martyrs
Why this pick
Its relentless ordeal and spiritual preoccupation echo the punishing moral intensity of Nothing Bad Can Happen, sustaining dread without softening the cruelty.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its relentless ordeal and spiritual preoccupation echo the punishing moral intensity of Nothing Bad Can Happen, sustaining dread without softening the cruelty.
Why this pick
Haneke similarly traps decent people in an arbitrary, escalating violation, using emotional distance and merciless tension rather than conventional catharsis.
Why this pick
Another chilling study of abuse concealed behind domestic normality, delivered with a controlled, austere style and mounting sense of helplessness.
Why this pick
Its raw naturalism and refusal to turn family abuse into easy drama make it a similarly upsetting, intimate experience centered on endurance and complicity.
Why this pick
This is equally uncompromising about coercion and the slow erosion of a vulnerable young person’s agency, with grim realism rather than thriller spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A pious teen (Julius Feldmeier) endures torture at the hands of a sadistic couple (Sascha Alexander Gersak, Annika Kuhl) because he thinks God is testing him.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Tore
Arzt

Cora
Lilli
Prediger am Kreuz
Krankenschwester

Astrid
Bordellbesitzer