Helmut Berger

A girl is murdered in a park. A man is tried and convicted for the crime but afterwards the killings continue.

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.

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 decadent German family of great wealth wallows in its own decay as its factories produce armaments for Hitler and his followers.