Caligula

1979 · 156 min · IT · NC-17 · 6.0 (1,035 votes)

Dir. Tinto Brass · Starring Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner, Guido Mannari · Music Renzo Rossellini

“Absolute power corrupts”

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After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

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This is a descent into an unbridled, shocking spectacle of Roman excess. It feels depraved and relentlessly decadent, a grandiose historical epic drenched in moral decay and unchecked hedonism. The experience is disturbing, designed to provoke and confront with its infamous, explicit portrayal of absolute power's corrupting influence.

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