Housebound (2000)

Actors: Ann Magnuson (actress), Joan Scheckel (miscellaneous crew), Peter Sarsgaard (actor), Joan Scheckel (miscellaneous crew), Joan Scheckel (miscellaneous crew), Billy 'Sly' Williams (actor), Art Bonilla (actor), Angeline Ball (actress), Liz Stauber (actress), Oualid Mouaness (producer), Oualid Mouaness (editor), Scott Ryan Whinery (actor), Audrey Ellis Fox (actress), Darryl Taja (producer), Roseanne Fiedler (costume designer),

Nanà (1999)

Actors: Assumpta Serna (actress), Émile Zola (writer), Antonello Fassari (actor), Bernard Giraudeau (actor), Günther Maria Halmer (actor), Sebastian Koch (actor), Sergio Donati (writer), Natalia Wörner (actress), Alberto Molinari (actor), Jacques Perrin (actor), Ennio Morricone (composer), Alberto Negrin (writer), Alberto Negrin (director), Emilio Bonucci (actor), Marco Landolfi (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: After a film of "Nana" is shown in 1914, the young cinema owner BORDENAVE # nephew of the former owner of the disreputable "Théâtre des Variétés" # asks an OLD LADY to tell him all about the legendary NANA. She begins to tell him the true story of Nana's life (unjustly altered by Zola). 1867-70: the young Nana, a street harlot, celebrates her acting debut at the "Théâtre des Variétés". She has average talent, but her incredible femininity and the magical attractions of her body soon gain her power over ministers, aristocrats, and numerous gentlemen in the respectable upper echelons of society, all of whom shower her with valuable gifts # even a villa of her own. The upper classes are not prepared to treat Nana as an equal, however # whereupon Nana promptly ends her liaison with COUNT MUFFAT. After her next relationship with the brutal, violent and alcoholic actor FONTAN, who takes her back onto the streets, Nana's heart is broken. Using her body as a weapon, she decides on a campaign of revenge. Falling for her yet again, Muffat buys her a lead role in the theater. Nana, the femme fatale, becomes a symbol of social success, and many aristocrats pay a small fortune to conquer her, even if only for one night. Anyone who comes into contact with her goes crazy about her and ends up destroyed (jail, suicide). When the winning horse in a race bears Nana's name, and all the most influential men in Parisian society throng around Nana, she revels in her social triumph. She then leaves Paris, only returning to take care of her sick girlfriend SATIN until her death. 1914: the old lady now informs young Bordenave that she is actually Nana. She tells the astonished young man that she bought a phony death certificate, and spent many happy years far away from Paris with Count Muffat until his death.

Mignon è partita (1988)

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli (actress), Micheline Presle (actress), Massimo Dapporto (actor), Alfredo Muschietti (editor), Valentina Cervi (actress), Francesca Archibugi (director), Francesca Archibugi (writer), Francesca Archibugi (actress), Leo Pescarolo (producer), Paola Marchesin (costume designer), Monique Annaud (producer), Francesca Antonelli (actress), Guido De Laurentiis (producer), Daniela Morelli (actress), Gloria Malatesta (writer),

The Devils (1971)

Actors: Geoff Freeman (miscellaneous crew), Murray Melvin (actor), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Gemma Jones (actress), Ken Russell (producer), Ann Skinner (miscellaneous crew), Ken Russell (writer), Oliver Reed (actor), Ken Russell (director), Dudley Sutton (actor), John Woodvine (actor), Kenneth Colley (actor), Michael Bradsell (editor), Brian Murphy (actor), Andrew Faulds (actor),

Plot: Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial.

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Nana (1955)

Actors: Paul Amiot (actor), Franck Maurice (actor), Jacques Castelot (actor), Nerio Bernardi (actor), Marcel Loche (actor), Walter Chiari (actor), André Dalibert (actor), Jean Debucourt (actor), Daniel Ceccaldi (actor), Paul Frankeur (actor), Marcel Charvey (actor), Charles Boyer (actor), Charles Lemontier (actor), Pierre Leproux (actor), Daniel Mendaille (actor),

La femme idéale (1934)

Actors: André Alerme (actor), Robert Le Vigan (actor), André Lefaur (actor), René Lefèvre (actor), Sinoël (actor), Marie Glory (actress), André Berthomieu (writer), Georges Van Parys (composer), André Berthomieu (director), Marcel Cravenne (editor), Arlette Marchal (actress), André Siméon (actor), Schiaparelli (costume designer), Paul Marthès (actor), Henry Prestat (actor),

Plot: Grégoire Vachette is a bashful librarian, forced to listen to the daily boasting of his colleague Courgéan, a great seducer according to what he says. But when, while on holiday, Grégoire meets beautiful Madeleine, the shy young man becomes fired up. Back to his place of work, he can't help communicating his enthusiasm for Madeleine, so much so that he too is taken for a Don Juan. But Madeleine is not for him. Nevertheless, his unexpected change of attitude will have helped him to conquer the heart of Denise, a typist who loved him in secret.

Trois balles dans la peau (1933)

Actors: Roger Lion (writer), Roger Lion (writer), Colette Darfeuil (actress), Jean Angelo (actor), Roger Vincent (actor), Madeleine Guitty (actress), Piero Pastore (actor), Eddy Debray (actor), Max Maxudian (actor), Pierre Juvenet (actor), Sinoël (actor), Alexandre Mihalesco (actor), Charles Lemontier (actor), Roger Lion (director), Roger Lion (writer),

Plot: Open and shut case: Maxime Dartois, the painter, is found dead in his penthouse with three bullets in his body, but the pistol that killed him is still being held by the (fainted) young lady by his side. A detective will find a few odd notes, and the plot thickens when plenty of people are interviewed, and more than one could have the will, and the opportunity, to be the killer, and it is not clear what the relationship of the girl was with the deceased.

The Side Show of Life (1924)

Actors: Willis Goldbeck (writer), Maurice de Canonge (actor), Neil Hamilton (actor), Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew), Ernest Torrence (actor), Herbert Brenon (producer), Katherine Lee (actress), Anna Q. Nilsson (actress), Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew), Herbert Brenon (director), Louise Lagrange (actress), Effie Shannon (actress), William J. Locke (writer), William Ricciardi (actor), Julie Herne (writer),

The Girl from Rocky Point (1922)

Actors: Milton Ross (actor), Theodore von Eltz (actor), Walt Whitman (actor), Ora Carew (actress), Fred Becker (director), Gloria Joy (actress), Sherwood MacDonald (writer), Charles Spere (actor), Verna Brooks (actress), E.G. Davidson (actor),

Storstadens Hyæne (1912)

Actors: Olga Svendsen (actress), Jørgen Lund (actor), Jon Iversen (actor), Aage Brandt (actor), Carl Petersen (actor), Knud Rassow (actor), Holger Reenberg (actor), Schiøler Linck (actor), Knud Lumbye (writer), Knud Lumbye (actor), Knud Lumbye (director), Alfred Arnbak (actor), Vera Brechling (actress), Emma Christiansen (actress), Alma Lagoni (actress),