20. Don’t Move (2004)
A bizarre, unwholesome, sexually explicit melodrama whose depiction of rape would now be considered problematic, to say the least. Penélope Cruz is made up to look authentic and unglamorous as Italia, a vulnerable working-class woman assaulted by a prominent surgeon (played by the film’s director, Sergio Castellitto) who then conceives an obsession with her. Not a great part for Cruz, but the movie does at least approach her with something other than the traditional celebratory/lifeforce reverence.
