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.

With this orgiastic immersion in the mystic reveries of a real-life historical figure, the king of the erotic thriller Paul Verhoeven gives the nunsploitation flick a high-art makeover. Elegant, perverse, and teasingly scandalous, Benedetta critiques religious hypocrisy with an impish grin.