Helmut Berger

A deranged murderer lights the fuse on a deadly trap set by an obsessed cop when he brutalizes a beautiful young woman.

Berlin 1939: SS officer Helmut Wallenberg is tasked, under the strictest secrecy, with developing the high-class brothel “Salon Kitty” into a facility for spying on diplomats and Nazi officials. But when a young sex worker discovers the wiretapping, her revenge ignites a plot of pain and perversion.

The story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting “the enemy.”

From Don Quixote to Louis XIV, Albert Serra is notorious for radically reimagining the costume drama, but little will prepare you for this. A gorgeous tableaux of the nocturnal cruising and sexual fantasies of desperate aristocrats, its confrontational form challenges cinematic vulgarity and excess.

Fact and fiction blur when a writer’s wife returns from Germany with a young man in tow, leading to an affair and a dustup with a group of gangsters.