Donate & keep LugaTv alive
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 so will be to spend the night with Merteuil. He has little difficulty seducing Cecile but what he really wants is to seduce Madame de Tourvel. When Merteuil learns that he has actually fallen in love with her, she refuses to let him claim his reward for seducing Cecile. Death soon follows.
Eighteenth century France. Former lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, who are among the Paris aristocracy, take pleasure in their games of sexual manipulation. While Valmont, who is renowned as a rakish playboy, does it to prove to himself that he can have any woman he wants with love never in the equation, Merteuil does it in an effort to level the playing field between the sexes in their class, while truly enjoying the cruelty of it all. No person is immune as collateral damage in their end goals. In order to get back at Bastide, the first and only man to have ever jilted her, Merteuil wants Valmont to deflower Bastides intended, the innocent Cécile de Volanges, Merteuils niece who spent her teenaged years in a convent and whose mother has just released her in order for her to enter into womanhood with Bastide, about which she is unaware. Bastide would only find out about Cécile not being a virgin on their wedding night. Merteuil offers herself sexually to Valmont as a reward. Valmont, however, declines as it would be too unchallenging a task, and as he has his eyes set on another conquest, namely Madame de Tourvel, a highly virtuous married woman who is staying temporarily with Valmonts aunt, Madame de Rosemonde, at her country château. Valmonts goal is not only to sleep with Madame de Tourvel, but to get her truly to want him. As such, Merteuil decides to enlist the unwitting help of the Chevalier Danceny, a poor music teacher, in her game, she planning to maneuver Danceny and Cécile into a relationship, which in reality could never happen due to their differing social classes. Danceny taking Céciles virginity would be a bonus as the shame to Bastide would be greater than if Valmont did so. As Valmonts own set quest is a greater challenge, Merteuil does still offer herself to him if he succeeds in seducing Madame de Tourvel. As Merteuil and Valmont spend time with this collective group in their games of sexual manipulation, they may find that their modus operandi may be forever changed, but each for different reasons.
Glenn Close
Marquise de Merteuil
John Malkovich
Vicomte de Valmont
Michelle Pfeiffer
Madame de Tourvel
Swoosie Kurtz
Madame de Volanges
Keanu Reeves
Chevalier Danceny
Mildred Natwick
Madame de Rosemonde
Uma Thurman
Cécile de Volanges
Peter Capaldi
Azolan
Joe Sheridan
Georges
Valerie Gogan
Julie
Laura Benson
Emilie
Joanna Pavlis
Adèle
Nicholas Hawtrey
Major-domo
Paulo Abel Do Nascimento
Castrato
François Lalande
Curé
François Montagut
Belleroche
Harry Jones
Armand
Christian Erickson
Bailiff
Related Movies
Donate & keep LugaTv alive