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Tommy (Brian Cox) and Austin Tilden (Emile Hirsch) are father-and-son coroners tasked with performing an autopsy on the body of an unidentified, recently murdered woman. Their examination reveals a series of strange and disturbing facts about the victim and how she died, which, accompanied by increasingly bizarre occurrences around their lab, lead the Tildens down a dark path fraught with unspeakable horrors. Ophelia Lovibond, Michael McElhatton, and Olwen Kelly co-star in this intense chiller. 99 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English. Two-disc set.

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In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani (RIPLEY'S GAME), a concentration camp survivor (SWIMMING POOL's Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (DEATH IN VENICE's Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, THE NIGHT PORTER deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.

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Based on the short stories of Curzio Malaparte, The Skin is Liliana Cavani s controversial look at the aftermath of the German occupation of Italy during WWII and the equally difficult results of life during the Allied liberation. Marcello Mastroianni stars as writer Malaparte, who chronicled the desperate measures taken by his countrymen in order to survive. Burt Lancaster co-stars as the liberating American General unable to understand the devastation around him.