Breaking the Waves (1996)

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman’s paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.

• authority
• church
• disabled
• dying and death
• excommunication
• faith
• god
• independent film
• oil platform
• paraplegic
• parent child relationship
• prayer
• priest
• prostitute
• scotland
• social coercions
• society
• tradition
• underdog
• world religion