From Dutch provocateur turned Hollywood maverick Paul Verhoeven, this glitter-blasted satire of American materialism owes as much to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk as it does the showbiz classic All About Eve. Widely misunderstood in its day, Showgirls is a luridly entertaining icon of ’90s kitsch.

From showgirls to nuns: the latest sensation from the king of erotic thrillers immerses us in the religious visions and illicit desires of a 17th-century mystic abbess. Sensual, elegant and scandalous, Benedetta offers up a perversely provocative critique of religious hypocrisy.