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Nightmare in Venice

4.0(9)19891h 31m1

A brilliant surgeon and millionaire, married to a beautiful woman, and highly regarded in the society of Venice, wants more from life and searches for new sensations. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.

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Italian
  • life and death
  • based on novel or book
  • sexual obsession
  • free love
  • venice, italy
  • eroticism
  • masked ball
  • lust
  • erotic movie
  • erotic thriller

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  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical1 Sept 1989

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Nightmare in Venice was released on 1 September 1989.

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    TheQuietSignal

    2/12/2026

    6/10

    A Nightmare in Venice is a low-budget, late-80s erotic thriller that loosely reconstructs the conceptual spine of Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle, later adapted by Kubrick into Eyes Wide Shut, but trades psychological ambiguity for explicit criminal conspiracy. Set against the Venice Carnival, the film follows Ricardo, a successful but internally dissatisfied cardiac surgeon who becomes entangled with a prostitute, …

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