Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) 
This pitch-black psychological thriller from writer-director Elio Petri (The 10th Victim) won the 1970 Foreign Language Film Oscar, and Petri and Ugo Pirro were also nominated for their original screenplay. Gian Maria Volontè (A Fistful of Dollars) stars as a police inspector who murders his mistress and flaunts his guilt to demonstrate his untouchable power. Investigation was the second of six films Ennio Morricone scored for Petri, and his droll, quirky music expertly evokes the inspector’s twisted psyche. 

A Quiet Place in the Country (Un tranquillo posto di campagna) 
Suffering from an artistic block, successful painter Leonardo (Franco Nero) takes the suggestion of his gallerist and lover Flavia (Vanessa Redgrave) and moves his practice to a massive mansion in the Italian countryside. Drawn instead to a neighboring decrepit villa, Leonardo’s mania only intensifies as supernatural forces impact both his physical surroundings and his psychological state. Controversial on its release and contemporaneously misunderstood by critics, this giallo was Elio Petri’s first collaboration with composer Ennio Morricone, who uses cacophony and Edda Dell’Orso’s deceptively alluring vocals to disquieting ends for a psychosexual thriller that belies the film’s ironic title.