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Caligula
ITALY · 1979

Caligula

Tinto Brass
absolute power and corruption roman empire and politics madness and psychological breakdown sexual depravity and excess moral decay and nihilism
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Synopsis

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

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