Movies: Grotesque

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death....

Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves....

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and...

A young woman, Miyako responds to an advertisement for a live-in maid and is given a job alongside the playfully alluring Mai-chan. Miyako quickly learns that housecleaning is the least of her duties, as the master and his wife use the maids as toys ...

The shocking finale of the titular trilogy, which features graphic footage of the macabre and grotesque as directed by Brazilian filmmaker Lázaro Hahn....

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right....

The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health....

A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen....

The film presents a series of unrelated "pictures": a police commissioner who, faced with four friars stripped by two women, must decide whether they are real or false friars (but he can't); a professor who, suffering from acute dysentery, is dismiss...

August Underground's Penance is the personal home video of two sociopathic killers on a murder spree. Again two killers videotape their bloodthirsty madness, but Penance also shows their slow decline....

A teenage orphan and delinquent rebels against her evil family during a global virus outbreak....

A businessman swims away from time and reality......

A devout priest welcomes a struggling couple into his house at Christmas time. What begins as a simple act of kindness quickly becomes the ultimate test of faith once the sanctity of his home is jeopardized....

Yasha recently retired after serving many years at a factory, with a highlight of his career being a delegate of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1976. Yet his future is left unknown when he emerges in new realities that he finds difficult ...

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses....

In a lonely, rocky area dotted with human bones, the vulture takes its latest sacrifice. It then disappears into the rock hole to leave as a dove of peace with an olive branch in its beak....

Dario, a young electronics enthusiast, decides in the late evening to take a trip down the street to throw out the garbage to kill time - waiting for his "freeze-dried tart" to finish ...getting ready - but his return to home is hindered by many biza...

An average company employee is thrust into a delirious night after a mugging and faces a world of lost souls that he had not considered before....

Forced by the parents to be married, a young couple in Paris discover things about themselves as they mature through their romance together....

The “meaning of life” told by Eros Puglielli in his peculiar directing style: weird characters, odd mishaps, fates that meet, skim and loose each other. A student in love with her philosophy lecturer, a disabled man seeking for his legs recovery, a y...