Movies and TvShows featuring "theatre-of-cruelty" theme.

A group of inmates in an insane asylum perform a play about the French Revolution, led by the infamous Marquis de Sade.

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress, and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness, and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.

One evening three friends go on a joyride, only two return. The other, accidentally killed. They thought no one had witnessed their accident, they were wrong.