Ritratto di borghesia in nero (1977)

If you thought Fascist Italy just before the Great War was a place to avoid, then you have another thing coming to your thing. In Ritratto di borghesia in nero (1977), Venice is the setting of a heated sex melodrama. A student goes to the romantic city on the water to study music but instead ends up playing his gay friend’s mother. But this student can appreciate more than just a fine melody, as he proves when his sights are set on a millionaire’s daughter. It doesn’t hurt that she’s hot too. The building tension leads to murder most foul, but there’s also enough nudity most fantastic from Senta Berger and Ornella Muti to keep this tune humming in your pants for days.