故事发生在20世纪初的纽约,在这样一个动荡的时代中,女人是无法依靠自己的力量立足的,她们想要得到稳定的生活,只有一种方法,那就是结婚,去寻求男人的庇护。莉莉(吉莲·安德森 Gillian Anderson 饰)是衔着金汤匙出生的千金小姐,聪慧的她自然懂得这个社会的规则,她亦明白,任何想要挺身而出和这个规则抗衡的女人,必定都不会有什么好下场。 所以,莉莉选择了妥协,把自己锋利叛逆的一面深深的隐藏起来,活跃在虚与委蛇的交际场之中,寻找着自己的庇护所。岁月如梭,年岁渐长的莉莉在情急之下未经慎重考虑就嫁给了一名富有的商人,虽然这场婚姻让莉莉暂时得到了自己想要的一切,但与此同时,她将会失去更多。
When a travelling troupe of performers accept a commission from the mysterious Count Drago (Christopher Lee) and fail to heed the warnings of a local witch (Donald Sutherland), they find themselves trapped in the CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD. Terror ensues as they are picked off one-by-one as the Count enacts a diabolical scheme the perversion of science to achieve immortality. A grim dwarf hero battles the Count's scythe-wielding henchman; a surreal secret museum of the Count's victims (whose number includes British horror filmmaker Michael Reeves) and the arresting Italian baroque setting all make for a uniquely cult film experience.
This utterly gorgeous Gothic melodrama would be widely hailed as a masterpiece, had it not been made in Italy during the Mussolini regime. A gross injustice, as Malombra - unlike Piccolo Mondo Antico, Mario Soldati's earlier film of an Antonio Fogazzaro novel - contains not one moment of triumphalist flag-waving or Fascist family values. Oddly akin to Rebecca in its atmosphere of death-haunted romance and voluptuous doom, it reaches a peak of visual refinement of which Hitchcock could only dream. Its star is Isa Miranda (famous, and not without reason, as Italy's answer to Garbo and Dietrich) playing a headstrong but unstable young noblewoman, confined by her uncle to a gloomy villa on the shores of Lake Como. A yellowed and crumbling letter, found in an old spinet, convinces her that she is the reincarnation of her uncle's first wife - another troubled beauty who died a virtual prisoner after being caught in a forbidden love affair. When a handsome young writer (Andrea Checchi) comes to stay, Miranda decides that HE is the reincarnation of the dead woman's lover. Gradually, she lures him into her web of sex and revenge... What more to say without spoiling the fun Miranda gives a performance to rival any of the great divas of Hollywood. Only Davis and Stanwyck, perhaps, could play a bad girl so boldly without losing all sympathy. The evocation of 19th century aristocracy, in its full decadent splendour, is visually and dramatically flawless - a model for such later Italian gems as Visconti's Senso and The Innocent. It helped, perhaps, that Soldati himself was a leading novelist. Blessed with an absolute respect for the classics he adapted, but in no way inhibited by them. He was also the guiding spirit of the now-forgotten 'calligraphic' movement, which brought the Italian cinema to such wondrous aesthetic heights during World War Two, only to collapse before the horror of Neo-Realism. Can we blame Soldati for giving up film-making in disgust and going back to writing novels So if you've ever felt (as I do) that Rossellini's much-touted Rome - Open City is the work of an amateur...well, Malombra is the film you have to see!
Stephen Arrowsmith (Paul Muller), a scientist experimenting with the possibility of regenerating blood through electricity has his home and laboratory in the castle owned by his wife Muriel (Barbara Steele). Arrowsmith finds her later having sex with a gardener and disfigures him with a hot poker and burns Muriel's face with acid before electrocuting both of them. Arrowsmith hides their hearts in an urn and then uses their blood to rejuvenate the aged servant Solange (Helga Liné). Later, Arrowsmith realizes that he is not Muriel's heir, but that the estate has been willed to her sister Jenny (Barbara Steele). Jenny is mentally unstable, and Arrowsmith marries her, later planning to have Solange drive her to the brink of sanity. Jenny begins having nightmares which include the sound of beating hearts and Muriel's voice urging her to murder Stephen. Arrowsmith brings Jenny to the doctor Derek Joyce (Marino Masé) who is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Arrowsmith later tries to give Solange another blood transfusion, the doctor then discovers the hidden hearts of Muriel and the gardener. The two return as ghosts with Muriel burning Stephen alive while David reduces Solange to a skeleton by sucking her blood. The doctor and Jenny leave the castle and consign the two found hearts to a fire.
The film deals with reincarnation and had a gothic noir feel to it. While driving his car on a rainy night, Anand's car breaks down, and he goes to seek shelter in a nearby house. He is let into the house by the servant, and he is permitted to stay until the rains stop, and he is able to get his car fixed. It is here that Anand will find out about his previous birth, his true love, Madhumati, their ill-fated, star-crossed and tragic romance, and how this the events in his previous birth are going to effect him in this life-time.
故事发生在十九世纪的英国,霍布森(查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰)经营着一家鞋铺,辛辛苦苦拉扯着三个女儿玛姬(布伦达·德·班泽 Brenda De Banzie 饰)、爱丽丝(达芙妮·安德森 Daphne Anderson 饰)和维奇(普鲁内拉·斯凯尔斯 Prunella Scales 饰)长大,一转眼,三个姑娘都已经到了谈婚论嫁的年纪,但吝啬的霍布森并不准备支付女儿们的嫁妆。 玛姬爱上了鞋匠威利(约翰·米尔斯 John Mills 饰),尽管霍布森极力的反对这段不合时宜的感情,但独立好强的玛姬还是同威利结了婚。在玛姬的帮助下,威利的事业蒸蒸日上,很快便成为了霍布森最强劲的商业对手,与此同时,玛姬还帮助两个妹妹解决了嫁妆的难题。
It's the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe and have a somewhat bohemian lifestyle reflective of their travels throughout Europe. Felix, who has little money, is interested in painting and the arts. Eugenia is a baroness by marriage. They decide to travel to New England to meet their maternal uncle and their three cousins, the Wentworths, for the first time, the Wentworths who live just outside of Boston. The Wentworths are highly puritanical, the uncle in particular who looks to a neighbor, Mr. Brand, to provide a moral compass to his three children, especially the shy Gertrude, who Mr. Brand wants to marry. The Wentworths are somewhat suspicious as to the reason for their relatives' visit, but nonetheless the uncle puts them up in a neighboring house on their property. While Felix enjoys the company of his cousins - especially Gertrude - Eugenia is a bit more standoffish and cognizant of the real reason for their trip to the United States. For Eugenia, another of their uncle's cousins, a Mr. Robert Acton, may just fit the bill related to her goal, which concerns her current marriage and financial security.
鄉間一個門第家庭,一個新寡的年輕媳婦(崔銀姬)與守節多年的家姑同住。農忙時節,由城市前來打工的現代青年 (申榮均) 暗地跟媳婦相戀,婦人更因此懷孕。貞節牌坊屹立的村落自是容不下一個寡婦有孕,而女子結果也由得所愛男子與初生兒子被逐離村,自己終其節婦身份度過一生。 本片可視作申相玉前作《媽媽和畫家叔叔》(Mother and a Guest, 1961)的變奏,片中寡婦同樣為了保存家族聲譽而犧牲了自己的愛情。《烈女門》於第二屆大鐘獎(1963)獲得最佳電影、最佳男主角及最佳剪接三個大獎,並參展第十三屆柏林電影節。