mystery &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:mystery @settima@mograph.social Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:47:55 +0100 Les gommes [The Erasers] (Lucien Deroisy + René Micha, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tqxw <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Les gommes [The Erasers] (Lucien Deroisy + René Micha, 1969)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" Sat/div div class="img" Les gommes (1969).png)/div div class="caption" A man walks down the street, reading a newspaper. Children run along. DP: Frédéric Geilfus./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #LucienDeroisy #RenéMicha #AlainRobbe-Grillet #ClaudeTitre #FrançoiseBrion #GeorgesGenicot #AndréGevrey #GeorgesDelerue #FrédéricGeilfus #drama #mystery #crime #mythology #Bookadaptation #Liège #Belgium #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Les gommes [The Erasers] (Lucien Deroisy + René Micha, 1969)

Oct

27

Sat

Les gommes (1969)

A man walks down the street, reading a newspaper. Children run along. DP: Frédéric Geilfus.

 

#FilmDuJour #October #LucienDeroisy #RenéMicha #AlainRobbe-Grillet #ClaudeTitre #FrançoiseBrion #GeorgesGenicot #AndréGevrey #GeorgesDelerue #FrédéricGeilfus #drama #mystery #crime #mythology #Bookadaptation #Liège #Belgium #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tqxw Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0100 La donna del lago [The Lady of the Lake / The Possessed] (Luigi Bazzoni +... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0sf3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La donna del lago [The Lady of the Lake / The Possessed] (Luigi Bazzoni + Franco Rossellini, 1965)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="X" /div div class="img" La donna del lago (1965)/div div class="caption" Tilde (Virna Lisi) caressing a man's hand, resting on her shoulder, with her cheek. DP: Leonida Barboni./div div class="txt" Until November 20. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #November #LuigiBazzoni #FrancoRossellini #GiovanniComisso #VirnaLisi #PeterBaldwin #RenzoRossellini #LeonidaBarboni #BookAdaptation #giallo #FilmNoir #crime #mystery #Italy #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

La donna del lago [The Lady of the Lake / The Possessed] (Luigi Bazzoni + Franco Rossellini, 1965)

Oct

25

La donna del lago (1965)

Tilde (Virna Lisi) caressing a man's hand, resting on her shoulder, with her cheek. DP: Leonida Barboni.

Until November 20.

#FilmDuJour #October #November #LuigiBazzoni #FrancoRossellini #GiovanniComisso #VirnaLisi #PeterBaldwin #RenzoRossellini #LeonidaBarboni #BookAdaptation #giallo #FilmNoir #crime #mystery #Italy #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0sf3 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Nattmara [Nightmare] (Arne Mattsson, 1965) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5vnw <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Nattmara [Nightmare] (Arne Mattsson, 1965)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Nattmara (1965)/div div class="caption" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to read/summary Hands hold up a small diary. The camera is focussed on Tuesday the 19supth/sup of October, 1965. Handwriting, a chicken scrawl, reads CITROEN A66692 MAJ BERG ✝. Besides that the week is uneventful. DP: Max Wilén./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #ArneMattsson #UllaJacobsson #GunnarHellström #SvenLindberg #MimiPollak #MonaMalm #TordPeterson #GeorgRiedel #MaxWilén #drama #mystery #crime #thriller #Sweden #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Nattmara [Nightmare] (Arne Mattsson, 1965)

Oct

19

Tue

spoiler warning: click to toggle image Nattmara (1965)
spoiler warning: click to read

Hands hold up a small diary. The camera is focussed on Tuesday the 19th of October, 1965. Handwriting, a chicken scrawl, reads CITROEN A66692 MAJ BERG ✝. Besides that the week is uneventful. DP: Max Wilén.

#FilmDuJour #October #ArneMattsson #UllaJacobsson #GunnarHellström #SvenLindberg #MimiPollak #MonaMalm #TordPeterson #GeorgRiedel #MaxWilén #drama #mystery #crime #thriller #Sweden #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5vnw Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Un posto ideale per uccidere [An Ideal Place to Kill / Oasis of Fear] (Umberto... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-75f6 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Un posto ideale per uccidere [An Ideal Place to Kill / Oasis of Fear] (Umberto Lenzi, 1971)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" 1970/div div class="img" Un posto ideale per uccidere (1971).png)/div div class="caption" A cop berates a sheepish hippie couple. Captions read "Arrested for selling pornography October 17, 1970". DP: Alfio Contini./div div class="txt" "Arrested for selling pornography October 17, 1970." ### – Policeman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #UmbertoLenzi #IrenePapas #RayLovelock #OrnellaMuti #MichelBardinet #SalBorgese #CarlaMancini #UmbertoRaho #FrancoRessel #BrunoLauzi #AlfioContini #hippies #Mansonsploitation #crime #thriller #drama #mystery #Italy #France #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Un posto ideale per uccidere [An Ideal Place to Kill / Oasis of Fear] (Umberto Lenzi, 1971)

Oct

17

1970

Un posto ideale per uccidere (1971)

A cop berates a sheepish hippie couple. Captions read “Arrested for selling pornography October 17, 1970”. DP: Alfio Contini.

“Arrested for selling pornography October 17, 1970.”

– Policeman

#FilmDuJour #October #UmbertoLenzi #IrenePapas #RayLovelock #OrnellaMuti #MichelBardinet #SalBorgese #CarlaMancini #UmbertoRaho #FrancoRessel #BrunoLauzi #AlfioContini #hippies #Mansonsploitation #crime #thriller #drama #mystery #Italy #France #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-75f6 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Le passager de la pluie [Rider on the Rain] (René Clément, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lv4y <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le passager de la pluie [Rider on the Rain] (René Clément, 1970)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Le passager de la pluie (1970)/div div class="caption" Mélancolie 'Mellie' Mau (Marlène Jobert) and Col. Harry Dobbs (Charles Bronson), dancing. DP: Andréas Winding./div div class="txt" – You expect me to eat that? – Americans live on ketchup and milk. I'm a whiz at geography. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #RenéClément #CharlesBronson #MarlèneJobert #FrancisLai #AndréasWinding #crime #drama #mystery #France #Italy #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Le passager de la pluie [Rider on the Rain] (René Clément, 1970)

Oct

10

Le passager de la pluie (1970)

Mélancolie 'Mellie' Mau (Marlène Jobert) and Col. Harry Dobbs (Charles Bronson), dancing. DP: Andréas Winding.

– You expect me to eat that?

– Americans live on ketchup and milk. I'm a whiz at geography.

#FilmDuJour #October #RenéClément #CharlesBronson #MarlèneJobert #FrancisLai #AndréasWinding #crime #drama #mystery #France #Italy #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lv4y Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200 De komst van Joachim Stiller [The Arrival of Joachim Stiller] (Harry Kümel,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-h1d9 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" De komst van Joachim Stiller [The Arrival of Joachim Stiller] (Harry Kümel, 1976)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" 1919/div div class="img" De komst van Joachim Stiller (1976)/div div class="caption" The mysterious letter postmarked September 11, 1919 that one day landed on Freek Groenevelt's (Hugo Metsers) doormat. DP: Eduard van der Enden./div div class="txt" "Tot dusver had ik mij steeds vrij tevreden met het leven gevoeld, zonder er wonderen van te verwachten. Die morgen geloofde ik, dat het voor een mens niet onmogelijk is gelukkig te zijn, kortstondig gelukkig misschien, maar gelukkig onmiskenbaar." ### – Hubert Lampo, De komst van Joachim Stiller (1960) /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #HarryKümel #HubertLampo #HugoMetsers #CoxHabbema #WillekeVanAmmelrooy #DoraVanDerGroen #PieterVerlinden #EduardVanDerEnden #BookAdaptation #mystery #drama #Netherlands #Belgium #1970s ★☆☆☆☆/div /section ]]>

De komst van Joachim Stiller [The Arrival of Joachim Stiller] (Harry Kümel, 1976)

Sep

11

1919

De komst van Joachim Stiller (1976)

The mysterious letter postmarked September 11, 1919 that one day landed on Freek Groenevelt's (Hugo Metsers) doormat. DP: Eduard van der Enden.

“Tot dusver had ik mij steeds vrij tevreden met het leven gevoeld, zonder er wonderen van te verwachten. Die morgen geloofde ik, dat het voor een mens niet onmogelijk is gelukkig te zijn, kortstondig gelukkig misschien, maar gelukkig onmiskenbaar.”

– Hubert Lampo, De komst van Joachim Stiller (1960)

#FilmDuJour #September #HarryKümel #HubertLampo #HugoMetsers #CoxHabbema #WillekeVanAmmelrooy #DoraVanDerGroen #PieterVerlinden #EduardVanDerEnden #BookAdaptation #mystery #drama #Netherlands #Belgium #1970s ★☆☆☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-h1d9 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Professione: reporter [The Passenger] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k634 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Professione: reporter [The Passenger] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" three o'clock/div div class="img" Professione: reporter (1975).png)/div div class="caption" The girl (Maria Schneider) reads out Locke's (Jack Nicholson) calendar: "at three o'clock on the ten of September, don't forget". DP: Luciano Tovoli./div div class="txt" The reporter keeps a detailed calendar with many, many dates to pick from: "Monday 3 September 1973, Munich - airport; Wednesday 5 September 1973, Barcelona, 12 a.m. - Parque Communal, - Umbraculo; Friday 7 September 1973, pick up Lucy; Monday 10 September 1973, Melina - 3 p.m. Plaza de la Iglesia, S. Ferdinando; Tuesday 11 September 1973, Daisy, 6 p.m. - Osuna, Hotel de la Gloria; Thursday 13 September 1973, 47-22, including SM, $40; Sunday 16 September 1973, care Daisy in Madrid." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #MichelangeloAntonioni #JackNicholson #MariaSchneider #JennyRunacre #IanHendry #StevenBerkoff #LucianoTovoli #RoadMovie #drama #mystery #thriller #Italy #France #Spain #1970s ★★★★½ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

Professione: reporter [The Passenger] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)

Sep

10

three o'clock

Professione: reporter (1975)

The girl (Maria Schneider) reads out Locke's (Jack Nicholson) calendar: “at three o'clock on the ten of September, don't forget”. DP: Luciano Tovoli.

The reporter keeps a detailed calendar with many, many dates to pick from:

“Monday 3 September 1973, Munich – airport; Wednesday 5 September 1973, Barcelona, 12 a.m. – Parque Communal, – Umbraculo; Friday 7 September 1973, pick up Lucy; Monday 10 September 1973, Melina – 3 p.m. Plaza de la Iglesia, S. Ferdinando; Tuesday 11 September 1973, Daisy, 6 p.m. – Osuna, Hotel de la Gloria; Thursday 13 September 1973, 47-22, including SM, $40; Sunday 16 September 1973, care Daisy in Madrid.”

#FilmDuJour #September #MichelangeloAntonioni #JackNicholson #MariaSchneider #JennyRunacre #IanHendry #StevenBerkoff #LucianoTovoli #RoadMovie #drama #mystery #thriller #Italy #France #Spain #1970s ★★★★½ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k634 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Maléfices [Sorcery / Where the Truth Lies] (Henri Decoin, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6yrz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Maléfices [Sorcery / Where the Truth Lies] (Henri Decoin, 1962)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Maléfices (1962)/div div class="caption" Myriam Heller (Juliette Gréco) sharing a bed with Nyète, her cheetah. DP: Marcel Grignon./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #HenriDecoin #PierreBoileau #ThomasNarcejac #JulietteGréco #LiselottePulver #JeanMarcBory #MaîthéMansoura #PierreHenry #MarcelGrignon #drama #thriller #crime #romance #mystery #animals #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Maléfices [Sorcery / Where the Truth Lies] (Henri Decoin, 1962)

Sep

10

Maléfices (1962)

Myriam Heller (Juliette Gréco) sharing a bed with Nyète, her cheetah. DP: Marcel Grignon.

#FilmDuJour #September #HenriDecoin #PierreBoileau #ThomasNarcejac #JulietteGréco #LiselottePulver #JeanMarcBory #MaîthéMansoura #PierreHenry #MarcelGrignon #drama #thriller #crime #romance #mystery #animals #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6yrz Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Die Delegation - Eine utopische Reportage [The Delegation] (Rainer Erler, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bfwf <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Die Delegation - Eine utopische Reportage [The Delegation] (Rainer Erler, 1970)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" 0 h 20 GMT/div div class="img" Die Delegation (1970)/div div class="caption" Reporter Will Roczinski (Walter Kohut) picks up mysterieus signals through the ether (via). DP: Charly Steinberger./div div class="txt" description We watch the final report by Will Roczinski, who sadly died in a car crash while working on a TV documentary about UFOs and the like. A fascinating early "faux footage" film from the BRD. One can only wonder how the average West German processed the fantastic premise. /description /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #RainerErler #WalterKohut #HenningGissel #HansHäckermann #HorstNaumann #StephanOrlac #EberhardSchoener #CharlySteinberger #UFOs #TVMovie #SciFi #documentary #mystery #RoadMovie #WestGermany #France #Italy #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Die Delegation – Eine utopische Reportage [The Delegation] (Rainer Erler, 1970)

Sep

9

0 h 20 GMT

Die Delegation (1970)

Reporter Will Roczinski (Walter Kohut) picks up mysterieus signals through the ether (via). DP: Charly Steinberger.

We watch the final report by Will Roczinski, who sadly died in a car crash while working on a TV documentary about UFOs and the like. A fascinating early “faux footage” film from the BRD. One can only wonder how the average West German processed the fantastic premise.

#FilmDuJour #September #RainerErler #WalterKohut #HenningGissel #HansHäckermann #HorstNaumann #StephanOrlac #EberhardSchoener #CharlySteinberger #UFOs #TVMovie #SciFi #documentary #mystery #RoadMovie #WestGermany #France #Italy #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bfwf Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Homicidal (William Castle, 1961) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ddml <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Homicidal (William Castle, 1961)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Homicidal (1961)/div div class="caption" Man's hands hold a picture of Emily (Joan Marshall). DP: Burnett Guffey./div div class="txt" "We've been to Haunted Hills, and through Tinglers, and even Ghosts... but now we're going to meet a group of people who just happen to be… Homicidal." ### – William Castle, introduction\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #WilliamCastle #GlennCorbett #PatriciaBreslin #JoanMarshall #HugoFriedhofer #BurnettGuffey #crime #drama #mystery #USA #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Homicidal (William Castle, 1961)

Sep

6

Homicidal (1961)

Man's hands hold a picture of Emily (Joan Marshall). DP: Burnett Guffey.

“We've been to Haunted Hills, and through Tinglers, and even Ghosts... but now we're going to meet a group of people who just happen to be… Homicidal.”

– William Castle, introduction

#FilmDuJour #September #WilliamCastle #GlennCorbett #PatriciaBreslin #JoanMarshall #HugoFriedhofer #BurnettGuffey #crime #drama #mystery #USA #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ddml Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200