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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

★ 7.2 · 1,262 ratings on TMDB

Lust. Seduction. Revenge. The game as you've never seen it played before.

Dangerous Liaisons poster★ 7.2

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

DirectorStephen Frears
CastGlenn Close, Joe Sheridan, John Malkovich, Keanu Reeves, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mildred Natwick
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Dangerous Liaisons keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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