Stefano Patrizi

When a film actor visits his mother's countryside estate with his crew, buried traumas resurface. As eerie dreams blur with reality, the mansion becomes a stage for madness and murder. Riccardo Freda directs this cult psychological thriller, blending gothic horror with surreal atmospheres in one of the director's most audacious late-career works.

Directed by maestro Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, this 1974 drama explores class and cultural clashes in Rome. A reclusive professor’s quiet life is disrupted when a vulgar, wealthy family moves in upstairs. A refined, melancholic portrait of generational conflict and social decay, it won the David di Donatello for Best Director.

A young and splendid Ornella Muti in a vortex of passions during the rising of the fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena. The themes include blackmail, betrayal, seduction, and eventually murder.