At once one of the sexiest and most frightening thrillers of its era, Nicolas Roeg’s film follows a married couple played by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, who move to Venice to flee the memory of their daughter’s accidental death, only to be haunted by a childlike apparition in a red cloak who leads a twisted chase through the picturesquely crumbling alleyways and piazzas of the old city.

John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.