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1	Euroshlock refers to a number of European arthouse films built around depictions of transgressive material that may shock and/or offend audiences. Often there is explicit sexual content ([[MaleGaze generally female]]). {{Gorn}} may also appear. The content of these films may be maudlin in tone and have the [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate message]] that "depraved" sex will lead to misery and death.
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3	Creator/GasparNoe, Creator/LarsVonTrier, Creator/MichaelHaneke, Creator/PierPaoloPasolini, and Creator/CatherineBreillat are names associated with these films. France and Italy are also associated with the genre. Early example of this trope can be found in the 70s with Pier's ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'', Thierry Zeno's ''Film/VaseDeNoces'', Dusan Makavejev's ''Film/SweetMovie'' and Creator/BernardoBertolucci's ''Film/LastTangoInParis''. It has seen a resurgence in the 2000s.
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6	* LeFilmArtistique: Opaque, incomprehensible, and monochrome.
7	* ExploitationFilm: Emphasizes over-the-top violence, gore, sexuality, and has a more morbid nature.
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9	'''Films associated with this genre:'''
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12	* Anything by Creator/GasparNoe.
13	* ''Film/{{Caligula}}'', of course. The writer was American, the director, setting and filming-location Italian, and the actors British.
14	* ''Film/FunnyGames''
15	* ''Film/TheGreenElephant''
16	* ''Film/HighTension'': It has a lot of the elements of Euroshlock, {{Gorn}}, a DownerEnding, and LeaveTheCameraRunning (Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, the beginning is hilarious), but it is has elements of a standard SlasherFilm with a GenreShift to action and another GenreShift to PsychologicalHorror at the end.
17	* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede''
18	* ''Film/InTheRealmOfTheSenses'' is an odd example. The film is Japanese-language, set in Japan and by a Japanese director, but because of the ban on depictions of genitalia, it was listed as a French production and the final editing was completed there.
19	* ''Film/KenPark''
20	* ''Film/LastTangoInParis'' - Arguably the TropeMaker.
21	* ''Film/ManBitesDog''
22	* ''Film/{{Martyrs}}''
23	* ''{{Film/Nekromantik}}''
24	* ''Film/ThePianoTeacher''
25	* ''Film/{{Possession}}''
26	* ''Film/{{Romance}}''
27	* ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom''
28	* ''Film/ASerbianFilm''
29	* ''Film/SweetMovie''
30	* ''Film/WRMysteriesOfTheOrganism''
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34	!!Tropes common to these films:
35	* {{Anvilicious}}
36	* CrapsackWorld
37	* DeliberatelyMonochrome
38	* DownerEnding
39	* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory
40	* {{Gorn}}
41	* GrayAndGrayMorality
42	* HumansAreBastards
43	* ItsNotPornItsArt
44	* LeaveTheCameraRunning
45	* LeFilmArtistique
46	* MaleFrontalNudity
47	* NauseaFuel
48	* {{Squick}}
49	* TrueArtIsAngsty
50	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic
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