Films with this label were quite violent and disturbing, and the title was often held by pornographic and other X-rated films.
But in "Contempt" Mr. Godard draws something deep and disturbing from her: the title summarizes her feelings for her second-rate husband (Michel Piccoli), a screenwriter who can stand up neither to his producer (Jack Palance) nor his director (Fritz Lang).
Emma Donoghue's disturbing tale of an imprisoned boy, Room, is at the forefront of the 147 titles competing for one of the world's most lucrative literary prizes, the €100,000 (£85,000) Impac Dublin literary award.
The posthumous publication (by Hughes) of Plath's brilliant and deeply disturbing last poems under the title "Ariel" turned this doomed woman into an icon.
Of the shortlisted volumes, perhaps the furthest from experience is David Harsent's Legion (Faber & Faber), whose long title sequence consists of disturbing reports from some imagined, yet horribly familiar, war zone.
One of the rule's more disturbing provisions is the announcement that Title X family planning funding will now be open to grantees who refuse to counsel women on the availability of abortion.
Disturbed people and disturbing images.
The art world's fascination with Strother's titles, however, reveals a disturbing fetishization of urban slang.
"Hellboy" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned) for violence, alcohol consumption, hordes of disturbing, soul-sucking creatures and, arguably, its title character's name.
Some acknowledgment of this power comes in a conversation with her husband, who tells the story that gives the movie its title, but everything that is radical, disturbing and true about "Catfish" belongs to the fabulist at its center.
