Thrilled to Death (1988)

1988

A mystery writer and his wife are terrorized by a swinger couple. Cliff, a marginally successful writer of a paperback detective series, has found the perfect setting for mu..er. He is using an adult club for swingers as a backdrop for his questionable characters to commit their lurid crimes. While reluctantly researching the seedy swing scene, he and his cosmopolitan wife Elaine meet Daryll and Nancy; an outgoing, unusually charming couple. They unwittingly become caught […]

Liebestraum (1991)

1991

Two affairs, a generation apart. Nick, a professor of architecture in upstate New York, comes to an Illinois town to be with his birth mother in the final days of her illness; he was adopted and has never known her. On the first day, he runs into Paul, a college friend, whose construction company is demolishing an old, downtown department store where a mu..er-suicide happened 30 years before. The building is of beautiful cast-iron construction, […]

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

2008

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. Sexually adventurous Cristina and her friend Vicky, who is bright but cautious, holiday in Barcelona where they meet the celebrated and wholly seductive painter, Juan Antonio. Vicky is not about to dive into a sexual adventure being committed to her forthcoming marriage. But Cristina […]

Match Point (2005)

2005

Tennis pro Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) takes a job as a tennis instructor and hits it off immediately with one of his students, wealthy young Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode). Tom introduces Chris to his family, and Chris falls quickly into a romance with Tom’s sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer). But despite the growing certainty that Chris and Chloe will marry, and the enormous professional and financial advantages that come Chris’ way through his relationship with […]

Stuck in Love (2012)

2012

Meet the Borgens. William Borgens is an acclaimed author who hasn’t written a word since his ex-wife Erica left him 3 years ago for another man. In between spying on Erica and casual romps with his married neighbour Tricia, Bill is dealing with the complexities of raising his teenage offsprings Samantha and Rusty. Samantha is publishing her first novel and is determined to avoid love at all costs – after all, she’s seen what it […]

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

1988

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction. Valmont is someone who measures success by the number of his conquests and Merteuil challenges him to seduce the soon to be married Cecile de Volanges and provide proof in writing of his success. His reward for doing […]

Short Cuts (1993)

1993

“Okay Ralph, you wanna know what happened? He kissed me, and I kissed him back. And then we did it right there in the car. He screwed me right there in the car. But he didn’t come in me, Ralph, I swear to God. “ – part of wife’s confession to her husband

Valmont (1989)

1989

France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin’s daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl’s virginity. But first, she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman. Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though […]