Flavorwire's 25 Incredibly Tough Movies for Extreme Viewers

"We've been talking a lot about Lars von Trier lately, prompted by the release of his two-part sex epic Nymphomaniac, and now the fine folks over at the Criterion Collection have given us one more reason to think about his work: a new, fully loaded special edition of his 1996 masterpiece Breaking the Waves . It's a key entry in the von Trier filmography, its themes (and even some sequences) echoing throughout Nymphomaniac and Melancholia, but it takes something big like the Criterion release to warrant a revisit; Breaking the Waves is both a masterful movie and one that's incredibly difficult to subject yourself to. We've looked previously at great books and important albums that are just plain hard to take; here's a few movies that warrant the same kind of anxiety." - flavorwire.com