The Bloodstained Butterfly
"A brutal murder cannot be solved. But the murderer has been recognized by someone..."
6.1
15
1971
99 min
"A brutal murder cannot be solved. But the murderer has been recognized by someone..."
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.
Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.
A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.
A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.
As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.
1983. In a quiet Midwestern town, a young deputy covers up a murder at the hands of his brother triggering a series of events that sends them and the victim's family towards a shattering climax.
A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Helmut Berger
Giorgio
Giancarlo Sbragia
Alessandro Marchi
Ida Galli
Maria Marchi
Wendy D'Olive
Sarah Marchi
Günther Stoll
Attorney Giulio Cordaro
Carole André
Françoise Pigaut
Wolfgang Preiss
The Prosecutor
Lorella De Luca
Marta Clerici
Silvano Tranquilli
Inspector Berardi
Peter Shepherd
The Inspector's Assistant
Gabriella D'Olive
Gabriella Giusti
Stefano Oppedisano