The Face of an Angel (2014)

Director Michael Winterbottom helms this fictionalized pseudo-retelling of the Amanda Knox murder case, adapted from the real-life nonfiction account "Angel Face: Sex, Murder and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox" by journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau, here portrayed as Simone Ford by Kate Beckinsale. After the murder of a British student in Tuscany leads to the trial and conviction of her American flat mate and Italian boyfriend, a media circus erupts, attracting the attention of Thomas, a once successful filmmaker played by Daniel Bruhl. Things get extra metatextual as Thomas heads to Siena, spiraling into a personal and professional hell, as scenes from the script he's writing become enacted on screen. In one scene, Bruhl is seen doing a line of coke in the bathroom and coming out in a pair of bulging briefs to yell at Kate Beckinsale. Given Winterbottom's history with graphic unsimulated sex and full frontal male nudity ("9 Songs") The Face of an Angel (2015) is surprisingly light on skin.