Gabriele Lavia’s Typical Vibe
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Gabriele Lavia has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Deep Red.
Recurring themes

Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971
Horror · Mystery

Bruiser
2000
Thriller · Horror

Where the Truth Lies
2005
Drama · Mystery

All the Colours of the Dark
1972
Horror · Mystery

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
1971
Horror · Thriller

Sisters
1973
Thriller · Horror

Fierce People
2006
Drama · Thriller

The Ninth Gate
1999
Mystery · Thriller

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry
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.
Dir. Dario Argento · With David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia

A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli

A middle-class Italian family is tore apart when the father meets an old flame, the mother—a frustrated onetime actress—auditions for a play, their insecure son tries to make friends through drugs, and their underaged daughter—who has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage—does what she does best to appear on TV.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Monica Bellucci
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