Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

The winner of our Audience Choice vote as part of our unmissable Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair programme, Pier Paolo Pasolini's final and most controversial masterpiece - banned, censored and reviled since its first release - follows a group of fascists who subject a group of nine adolescents to 120 days of grueling, unspeakable torture.