Illustrious Corpses

Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti, 1976) is an Italian political thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Someone is methodically killing judges and high officials, and Inspector Rogas is handed the case.

Lino Ventura plays Rogas — weary, meticulous, a man who trusts the evidence and nothing else. At first the theory looks simple: a wronged man, jailed years ago by mistake, taking his revenge. But the deeper Rogas digs, the clearer it becomes that the murders trace back not to one outsider but to the machinery of power itself, ready to do anything to protect itself. And a detective who understands too much becomes a loose end.

Francesco Rosi adapted Leonardo Sciascia's novel at the height of Italy's "Years of Lead," an era of bombings and state secrets. The cast includes Max von Sydow, Fernando Rey and Charles Vanel. A cold, ruthlessly intelligent procedural where the answer is more frightening than the crime. Stream Illustrious Corpses (1976) online on iFILM.