Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

Esta versão da famosa história de “Les Diaboliques” de Barbey d’Aurevilly (1874) apresenta belas músicas clássicas, figurinos e convenções teatrais que resultam em puro cinema. Um rico e decadente homem do mundo conhece uma mulher das ruas excepcional.

The memory of a man's love for a stranger woman and her mystery death. Based on the short story 'The Crimson Curtain' by Barbey d'Aurevilly.

Nos bastidores da aristocracia francesa, segredos, intrigas e traições cercam o casamento entre um jovem libertino, Ryno de Marigny, e a honesta Hermangarde, garota de classe e refinamento. Apesar do verdadeiro amor entre os dois, a corte considera improvável que Ryno de Marigny conseguirá romper seu longo envolvimento passional com Vellini.

Adapted from Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

Spectacular Italian comedy-drama directed by Carmelo Bene. The narrative follows how Don Giovanni tries to seduce a young woman who is manically searching for Christian icons. The film is loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan", from the collection Les Diaboliques. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.

An adaptation of the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly.

The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?

A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.

"A Woman's Revenge" - In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.