Thomas Vinterberg’s latest is a troubling meditation on the damage done by a single lie, upending a rural village and unearthing some dark truths at the heart of its close-knit community. Mads Mikkelsen won Best Actor at Cannes for his performance as Lucas, a nursery teacher who becomes a pariah when he is wrongly accused of terrible crime.

Some movies are just plain miserable. Presenting bleak and morbid subject matter, these films delight in depressing. This is all very unseasonal, and here are our suggestions of how to bring some festive fun back to the most upsetting movies we have seen. Although some (not many!) of these have happy endings, they are still a pretty tough ride…