Beauty and the Beast

Apr 18, 1977

1h 38m

★ 5.8

Overview

Decameron-style collection of entertaining short stories with such diverse themes as nymphomania, bestiality, and masochism.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Daino Film

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Cast

Slavegirl (segment La schiava) / Varvara (segment Zooerastia)

Lisbeth Hummel

Giovanna's Mother (segment La promessa)

Anna Maria Bottini

Giovanna (segment La promessa)

Franca Gonella

Tsar (segment La schiava)

Claudio Undari

Blonde friend of Masoch (segment "La fustigazione")

Brigitte Petronio

Lover of lady Masoch (segment "La fustigazione")

Brunello Chiodetti

Prince (segment Zooerastia)

Philippe Hersent

Lady Masoch (segment "La fustigazione")

Piera Maria Caretto

Masoch (segment "La fustigazione")

Massimo Cosentini

Harry (segment "La promessa")

Nicolò Piccolomini

Servant (segment La schiava) (uncredited)

Alba Maiolini

After a drastic experience, Nina takes some time out on an island in northern Germany to be away from work and her husband Patrick. She meets the charming and mysterious Daniel, who immediately captivates her. At first she fights her desire, but soon the two become increasingly entangled in a web of eroticism, lust and secrets.

7.5

The Royal Tenenbaums

Oct 5, 2001

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

6.0

Caligula

Aug 14, 1979

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

5.6

Savage Grace

May 18, 2007

This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.

7.2

Strange Circus

Dec 24, 2005

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

6.2

The Quiet

Sep 12, 2005

After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.

4.0

Night Calls: The Movie

Apr 30, 1998

A pair of Playboy TV stars take their show on the road and encounter erotic adventures.

5.5

Insatiable Obsession

Jan 1, 2006

A writer is having writers block. His wife, Amy Lindsay, suggests that they rent a house with the hope it will cause inspiration.The house once was a brothel run by a woman named Stella. Supposedly, there is $.5M hidden somewhere in the house, and a real estate agent and her handyman boyfriend are trying to find it, all the while the writer keeps talking to the ghost of Stella.

4.5

Brother and Sister

Feb 20, 1975

A young man and his pretty step-sister find that they are very much in love with each other when they are reunited after spending years apart. Naturally this leads to both expected and unexpected problems.

2.0

Being Assaulted

Sep 3, 1977

A woman on her honeymoon sees a girl being sexually assaulted. It brings back memories of her own past trauma. At a resort she is shocked to find the man who had raped her is now working there. Since he doesn’t recognize her she plots her revenge… a revenge served cold.

0.0

Incest

Oct 16, 1929

Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife's daughter from her first marriage. Liesbeth Kröger is from his generation and they both get along well straight away. Shortly after his wife's death, Martin brings Liesbeth into his house as a housekeeper, and they both fall in love. The couple live together and soon decide to get married when Liesbeth becomes pregnant by Martin. But now the tragedy begins, because when registering at the registry office, Martin and Liesbeth, in the form of a strict bailiff, are officially declared that they have committed incest in accordance with Section 173 of the Criminal Code.

5.0

Lost Souls

Oct 13, 2000

A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected New York crime journalist, who is devoid of faith, that he is in fact the target of the conspiracy.

4.9

Tropical Ecstasy

Oct 19, 1970

A woman who makes her living as a prostitute must decide her fate between two totally different men.

6.7

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Sep 24, 1986

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

4.5

The Belt

Apr 22, 1989

Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.

3.8

Scandalous Gilda

Nov 11, 1985

A woman catches her husband in bed with a much younger lady. Shocked and distraught, the woman leaves her husband. She decides to embark on a road trip of erotic self discovery. The woman meets a cartoonist during her sensual pilgrimage and gets involved in a torrid sexual affair with him.

2.3

Dark Secrets

Dec 8, 2012

A woman convinces her boyfriend to go to couple therapy with her friend's and things go downhill from there.

4.8

Misty

Oct 1, 1976

Misty arrives in a small town to look for her mother who abandoned her 22 years ago. She stays with a bisexual artist and her friends and models for her. Meanwhile, a Christian woman with a secret tries to save her perverted niece.

2.0

A Great Love

Jan 1, 1995

Two couples meet at a spa when they realize their respective suites share a bathroom.

4.7

The Last Day

Nov 3, 2004

At Christmas time, 19-year-old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine his feelings when Louise develop a liaison of her own with his childhood friend Mathieu.