Malicious

Malicious (Malizia, 1973) is an Italian erotic comedy directed by Salvatore Samperi that you can watch online on iFILM. Running 93 minutes, it is the film that turned Laura Antonelli into a defining face of 1970s Italian cinema — and a sharp, sly study of a household where everyone has an angle.

A Sicilian widower (Turi Ferro) hires a beautiful housekeeper named Angela (Antonelli) to keep the house running after his wife's death. Three sons live under the same roof: one too calculating, one too obvious, and the youngest, fourteen-year-old Nino (Alessandro Momo), who runs his own private campaign with a teenager's particular mix of nerve and delusion. The father is planning a proposal. Samperi watches all three schemes collide with a lightness that makes the ending land harder than expected.

Antonelli plays Angela as neither victim nor predator, which is the film's best trick — her intentions stay just opaque enough to keep the audience guessing alongside the characters. Lean, dark around the edges, and funnier than the premise suggests. Watch Malicious (1973) online on iFILM.