In Justine Triet’s Sibyl—starring Gaspard Ulliel, Virginie Efira and Sandra Hüller—chaos equates to delight and the ethically wrong is exhilarating. Psychoanalysis and cinema come together in a thrillingly erotic and perilous game blurring fiction and reality, dizzyingly escaping any classification.

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.

In this taut psychological thriller, which seduces with its Hitchcockian intrigue and Chabrolian class critique, Virginie Efira enthralls with her perilous balancing act between multiple identities. Mysterious yet gripping, this portrait of a woman under the influence scales the limits of desire.