NEW ROSE HOTEL (1998)

 

Directed By: Abel Ferrara

Written By: Abel Ferrara and Christi Zois

Based on a short story by William Gibson

Cinematography: Ken Kelsch 

Editor: Jim Mol and Anthony Redman

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, Victor Argo, Gretchen Mol, John Lurie 

In the not-too-distant future, two New York businessmen plot to play two multinational rival corporations against each other, with a little help from a shady Italian street woman, to obtain an important Japanese businessman for the company they work at, only things are not always as they appear.

A QUIET PLACE TO KILL (Aka PARANOIA) (1970)

 

Directed By: Umberto Lenzi

Written By: Marcello Coscia, Rafael Romero Merchant, Bruno Di Geronimo and Marie Claire Solleville

Story By: Marcello Coscia and Rafael Romero Merchant 

Cinematography: Gugliemo Mancori

Editor: Enzo Alabiso and Antonio Ramirez 

Cast: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Luis Davila, Alberto Dalbres, Marina Coffa, Anna Proclemer, Liz Halvorsen

A troubled race-car driver plots to kill her ex-husband at the behest of his new wife, but their scheme quickly goes awry.

AND GOD CREATED WOMAN… (1988)

 

Directed By: Roger Vadim

Written By: R.J. Stewart 

Cinematography: Stephen M. Katz

Editor: Suzanne Pettit 

Cast: Rebecca DeMornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella, Donovan Leitch, Judith Chapman, Benjamin Mouton, Gail Boggs 

In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out of prison, but soon decides to seduce James Tiernan, who runs for state governor.

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME - FILE #0073: AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (1956)

 

Directed By: Roger Vadim 

Written By: Roger Vadim and R. Levy 

Cinematography: Armand Thirard 

Editor: Victoria Mercanton

Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Curd Jurgens, Jeanne Markel, Jean Tissier, Isabelle Corey 

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp. While Antoine's away, his younger brother Michel, who worships Juliette, proposes to her. But what will happen when Antoine returns?

MURDERCISE (2023)

 

Directed By: Angelica De Alba and Paul Ragsdale

Written & Edited By: Paul Ragsdale 

Cinematography: Carlos Rodriguez

Cast: Kansas Bowling, Nina Lanee Kent, Jessa Flux, Ginger Lynn Allen, Drew Marvick, Luis Maya, Bryan Hurd, Adriana Uchishibia, August Kyss 

Phoebe is an obsessed fitness nerd who gets her big break on a sleazy workout video. After being ridiculed by her co-stars, Phoebe befriends a mafia princess wild child, who teaches her how to murder her way to the top.