The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.

影片根据Marjorie Wallace撰写的同名书籍改编，讲述一对双胞胎姐妹非常沉默，她们只用一种专有的语言来彼此交流。她们迷恋于写小说、男孩以及青少年间的犯罪活动，她们之间的紧密关系使得某些事情变得十分危险。

改编自美国J.凯恩的小说《邮差总按二次铃》，完成于1941年，在剧本必须由法西斯政府审查的拍摄条件下，维斯康提把这个通奸谋杀亲夫的畸恋故事，拍成充满绝望宿命气息的作品。　　片中一方面是出身贫家的女主角，身不由己嫁给肥胖粗俗的酒店老板，她完全没有逃脱被豢养（并不时被羞辱）生活的勇气，而男主角则是个流浪的无业游民，他经不起女主角的诱惑，犯下致命的罪行，艰困的社会生活条件，明确烘托出男女主角各自别无选择、一拍即合的宿命孽缘。初执导演筒的维斯康提，在片中已经展现他后期作品中最大的特色：对人物不克自拔情欲心理的细腻描画，在饮食间两性对对方身体的凝视中，维斯康提把艰困的物质生活和不受拘束的内心肉欲作了明确的并列，弥补了通奸过程的简略。

　　一部结合了罗密欧与朱丽叶、邦尼与克莱德元素的爱情罪案惊悚片。Seven（Zovatto饰）是一名高端毒贩，Maddie（Turner饰）是他的挚爱，他的生活围绕着富二代客户，模特派对和充斥着毒品的冒险。他们美好的生活被他儿时好友Dave（Darrell Britt-Gibson饰）的出现打断了，他在一次不可靠的交易中寻求帮助，由此引发了一系列事故，每个人都难辞其咎。