The Beguiled
One man... seven women... in a strange house!
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1/23/1971Runtime
105 minsOverview
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$475,000Revenue
$1,100,000Homepage
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A claustrophobic psychological thriller where a wounded soldier becomes trapped in a girls' school, surrounded by women whose desire and resentment curdle into something dangerous. The atmosphere grows increasingly hostile and sinister as power dynamics shift beneath a veneer of Southern civility.
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