The Cement Garden

This tour de force of psychological unease, now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack, is a masterpiece of unnerving terror. A middle-aged writer takes an assignment from an old school chum to visit the secluded country hideaway where they spent their childhood holidays. He arrives just in time for another reunion with his friend's three daughters—and one of them isn't his old pal's child at all, but rather a young woman who has been living in the family manor ever since she was abandoned as a newborn baby. Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies.