The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

I looked at the Magdalene Sisters. A beautifully terrifying drama about girls who end up in a shelter for fallen women. There they have to go through pain, torture and suffering, but in the end they get out of hell. The film scares not only with the atrocities that take place at the St. Magdalene orphanage, but also with the method of shooting (emphasis on close-up, close-up faces) makes goosebumps run a marathon through the body. It is unusual to see Geraldine McEwan after watching Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the role of a domineering nun, but she plays beautifully, even, one can say, I admire the way she played this vile character. I advise all fans of films about mental hospitals and wonderful methods of atonement before the Lord.

P.S. Useless fact #1 The Vatican opposed the screening of this film
Useless fact #2 but this time about Geraldine McEwan. The actress refused to be assigned in 1986  The Order of the British Empire, and in 2002 from the title of Dame Commander. I think she has some kind of problem with the British Crown.

It seems to me that these nuns will be stewing in the hottest soup.

Without reading the description, I realized that this was Ireland. I didn't know anything about Ireland for a long time. Then I got acquainted with the modern works of Sally Rooney and their film adaptations. And then I read "Invisible Furies of the Heart" and found out how they lived in Ireland until the end of the 90s under the yoke of the Catholic Church. It's so scary that the flowers are shown in this movie. It is not surprising that the Vatican opposed the release of the film: the truth stings the eyes. Roughly speaking, we are looking at a women's prison, but we ended up in it for being beautiful, giving birth out of wedlock, and being raped. As Sister Bernadette said, men are animals, so you have to keep temptation (women) away from them. So why shouldn't men be locked up in such institutions? Such films are scarier than any thrillers and horror films, because they show us the truth. The truth about how disenfranchised women lived, and still live in some countries, whose lives are controlled by anyone but themselves. I really wanted them to cut these sisters into pieces!
The scariest thing is that there are only a few "guards" in such institutions, much fewer than the prisoners, but they cannot rebel, kill them and escape, and day by day they increasingly get used to the roles of victims.