The Night Porter

Liliana Cavani directs and co-writes this erotic drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde. Set in 1950s Vienna, former concentration camp inmate Lucia (Rampling), now the wife of an American opera conductor, recognizes a hotel porter Max (Bogarde) as the SS Commandant who sexually abused her as a teenager. As they embark upon a sado-masochistic affair once again their reliance and obsession for one another knows no bounds.