10 Most Controversial Arthouse Movies of All Time, Ranked

If you watch a fair few arthouse movies, it’s probably inevitable that eventually, you'll run into something alarming or confronting, because that’s what some of them try to be. Sometimes, the arthouse feeling will come more from challenging film conventions (see Breathless), rather than being shocking or exploring taboo subjects, and some of the movies below do a bit of both, but the focus here is on controversy.