This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot ?
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
영국의 황량한 공장 지대. 냉혹하고 잇속이 밝은 노동자 조 램튼(로렌스 하비 분)은 백만장자 도날드 울핏이 경영하는 노스 컨트리의 공장에서 일자리를 잡게 된다. 조 램튼은 밤 시간의 무료함을 달래기 위해 극장의 단원이 되고, 그곳에서 수잔이라는 순진한 소녀를 만나게 된다. 그런데 그녀가 자신이 다 니는 공장 사장의 딸이라는 사실을 알게 되고, 조 램튼은 그녀를 유혹해 반드시 성공하고 말겠다는 야심을 불태운다. 램튼은 그러면서도 다른 한편으로 같은 극단원인 프랑스의 유부녀(시몬 시뇨레 분)와 불륜의 관계에 빠 져든다. 램튼은 프랑스의 유부녀를 한낱 노리개 정도로 여기고 있었지만 유부녀는 수잔이 램튼의 아이를 임신했다는 사실을 알고 자살해버리고 만다. 영혼을 담보로 한 램튼의 야망은 성공할 수 있을까?
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
