At the end of the 70s, the LGBT community in San Francisco's Castro district was flourishing. Just a few years later, the same community was battling an epidemic no one fully understood nor knew how to stop. In We Were Here, five longtime San Franciscans remember how the AIDS outbreak called into question the community's self perception and how that community managed to coalesce during the hardest of times.
Read MoreA Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) hires a sleazy private detective (M. Emmet Walsh) to spy on his cheating wife (Frances McDormand) and her lover (John Getz). But jealousy and greed soon lead to an intricate web of violence and betrayal.
Read MoreIn a small village of the South of Italy, three children are killed within a few days. Everyone is a suspect, including Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet), a smug, young heiress from the North and a local woman, the "maciara", believed to be a witch by the villagers (Florinda Bolkan). The tortuous investigation takes many of the genre's obligatory twists and turns, but also confirms a broader, darker truth under the radiant landscape: no one is truly innocent. In Don't Torture a Duckling, one of his best works, Lucio Fulci creates a stylistically exceptional mix of thriller and proto-slasher that is not easy to forget.
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