The Conformist

In Mussolini's 1930s Fascist Italy, Marcello Clerici, an eager would-be member of the Party and, above all, a sexually-disordered man, is desperate to fit in. However, soon after marrying his well-off beautiful fiancée, Giulia, the covert assassin is dispatched to Paris to liquidate his former college professor and now a subversive anti-Fascist, Luca Quadri. There, amidst uncomfortable flashbacks from early childhood during his honeymoon, the hesitant Clerici will fall hard for his professor's alluring wife, Anna, threatening the outcome of his mission. Is there a connection between Marcello's childhood and his inner torment?