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- A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one. After he beds a woman he's after, he murders her.
- An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.
- After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.
- In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
- Dr. Seung-hoon sedates his landlord before medical check-up, when the old man begins telling him a convincing murder confession.
- Based on the Bela Bartok opera. Bluebeard woos his women and then swiftly disposes of them.
- Follows a family man who meets women through lonely-hearts ads.
- A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
- A golddigger inspires her older lover to murder wealthy women for the finances to keep her happy.
- In order to escape the demands on his time and energy by female admirers, Larry Charters, a popular writer of popular songs, arranges to have his friend Bob Hawley impersonate him. Traveling on the Continent, Bob meets a French actress, Colette, on a train. In France, Bob and Colette are accidentally left behind at a village station, and they go to the mayor to find rooms for the night. Believing that they want to get married, the intoxicated mayor marries Bob to Colette in Larry's name. Bob and Colette later take the train for Paris, where Larry is introduced to his new and unexpected wife. Larry immediately falls in love with Colette and arranges for her to stay with him, but she remains his wife in name only. Bob becomes engaged to Gloria, one of Colette's friends. At a house-party, Collette disguises herself as one of Larry's old girl friends in an attempt to test his love and loyalty. After considerable confusion and misadventure, Colette and Larry perceive their mutual love and make plans actually to be married.
- Based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Bluebeard tells the tale of Rabo Karabekian, a retired abstract expressionist artist, who guards a mystical secret in his potato barn and believes his life has been an epic fiasco--until he's commandeered by a bossy, provocative young widow.
- Judith arrives at Bluebeard's dark castle hoping her love can convince him to reveal the secrets behind the locked interior doors.
- Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache. The idea of that shakes him up so much that he gets distracted at work, comes up short in his accounts and gets fired. Unable to find another job, he begins to work as an extra at a nearby film studio to earn money. One day the leading man of a picture John is working on gets into an argument with the director and storms off the set. Angered, the director sees John and, deciding that he'll show his arrogant star that he can make a movie idol out of just about anybody, picks John to replace him. As it turns out, John has a real talent for acting and before he knows it he becomes a star. Unfortunately, "stardom" isn't what John thought it would be.
- Bluebeard the killer is at large, and in Porky Pig's home, a crafty mouse disguises himself as Bluebeard to scare Porky into providing him with a generous serving of food. Just as Porky realizes the mouse is too tiny to be Bluebeard, the real Bluebeard appears and ties Porky onto a rocket, intending to blast the pig into orbit! But when Bluebeard is distracted by Porky's food and decides to help himself to it, he his challenged by the mouse, who leads him on a chase.
- Perrault's fairy tale presented in claymation with choral voices. Bluebeard goes courting, all six of his wives having died. He arrives at the house of a widow with two daughters. He's greatly feared, but he overcomes objections with a generous dowry. One sister (Anne) refuses him; the other accepts. At his castle, the damsel delights in precious minutes away from Bluebeard in the rose garden. The Saracens declare war; Bluebeard goes off to fight them, leaving the keys to the castle in the damsel's hands. He warns her not to enter the forbidden room. As war rages, she discovers riches in the castle and then enters the forbidden room. Will Bluebeard discover her act? Can she escape death?
- Mona deBriac, the beautiful daughter of a French nobleman, is induced to marry wealthy American John Brandon because her family needs his money. When she learns that her husband has divorced seven wives, she becomes so angry that she tries to force Brandon, who really loves her, into another divorce. Brandon refuses to release her, and they are finally reconciled.
- A detective investigates the crimes of a medieval duke: is he really guilty of the death of his wives?
- Based on the classic fairytale "La Barbe Bleue" (Bluebeard, 1697) by Charles Perrault, author of Cinderella, which tells the story of a wealthy and feared aristocrat with a blue beard who has the bad habit of killing his wives.
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- A six times widowed man lives with his six mothers-in-law and is looking for a new wife.
- ShortBluebeard is a terrifying French folktale from oral tradition that was transcribed into writing by Charles Perrault in 1679 and included in the Histoires ou contes du temps passé. Later the Brother's Grimm included the story in their 1812 compendium of Fairy Tales. The origin of the story is unclear but one reference indicates that the character Bluebeard may have been derived from the 15th century serial killer Gilles de Rais. The story of Bluebeard has been adapted many times in literature, TV, theater and film including a novel by Kurt Vonnegut and the science fiction film Ex Machina in 2016.
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- When faced with evidence that her husband may have committed a terrible crime, a woman is forced to make a choice. Will she risk the stability of her suburban life to find the truth, or is ignorance truly bliss?
- A fantasy re-envisioning of the classic fairytale "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault, in which Perrault's young wife reads herself into his dark allegory on marital mistrust.
- About the female serial killer Belle Gunness. Her killings were uncovered following her death in April 1908.
- Forced to abandon their apartment because of an exorbitant increase in rent, Tom and Nan Beech take up residence in a cheaper, smaller flat. During a quarrel over their situation, Tom angrily leaves for work, while Nan goes to a friend's home. Tom discovers that he is to receive an inheritance provided that he is settled and is leading a happy home life, which the lawyer insists on investigating for himself. Tom persuades his wife's best friend to act as his "temporary" wife and borrows a rich man's house. The rich man's wife, the "temporary," and Nan all arrive unexpectedly, and the lawyer is convinced that Tom is a regular Bluebeard. Complications ensue, but the owner of the house arrives and all is explained. The Beeches are happily reunited, and Tom receives the inheritance.
- You can't run away to the past forever.
- "The fate of a beautiful woman" tells a story of Erika Dankwarth that reflects herself in a multitude of men.
- From time immemorial Bluebeard has been one of the most fascinating stories of childhood days. Children of all climes have listened breathlessly to every word of its recital, until the characters have assumed the guise of reality and every word of its narration has sunk deep into lasting memory. Fatima and sister Anne have seemed like living people to their minds, from the time that Fatima, in her mother's lonely hut, accepts the invitation to visit Bluebeard's castle until, after marrying him, he is about to behead her for entering the room where he keeps the heads of his former wives. Time after time, too, they have cheered when Fatima's two brothers rush in, and inwardly rejoice when they dispatch the wicked Bluebeard, just in time to save poor Fatima's life. All this has been pictured by the Edison Company in a manner that will amuse the little ones, and give the older generation many happy thoughts and pleasant memories of their own childhood days when fairy tales held undisputed sway.
- Bluebeard, seeking another favorite, becomes enamored of a photograph and orders his man to find the original, but Bluebeard finds only trouble.
- The life of Henri-Désiré Landru, French serial killer of around 300 women.
- Upon a strongly fortified island dwells the Seigneur D'Yvry, commonly known as Monsieur Bluebeard. This man openly defies God, King Louis and the world in general. Aside from this, Bluebeard preys upon the maidens of his small domain, especially such as leave the altar as newly wedded wives. Louis XI has been patient with the vagaries of Bluebeard, hoping that someday he may win him over to better ways. To this end Louis sends Oliver le Dain to Bluebeard. Oliver's reception is anything but flattering. He returns to Louis, having barely escaped with his life. Whereon, Louis goes into a violent rage. Deep in thought, his mind reverts to Francois Villon as the instrument whereby Bluebeard may be humbled. Villon is summoned before the irate king, who orders him to proceed to the D'Yvry stronghold and cut Bluebeard's claws. Before starting for Castle D'Yvry, however, the crafty Villon takes into his confidence one Petrara, a magician of the period. It is well known that Bluebeard is a devotee to the practice of "black art." Working in the mines of Bluebeard are many men of a peculiar race, the Lhetta. The local priest has succeeded in converting these monsters to a belief in a Higher Being, the good man ruling them with kindness instead of fear. Villon and Petrara arrive at Castle D'Yvry at a time when the community is greatly wrought up over the action of Bluebeard's elder son, Tankred, who has bidden the newly wedded wife of young Carca present herself at the castle. Villon is quick to seize upon this incident. He interviews the priest. Between them they hatch a plot whereby the Lhetta will be permitted to wreak their vengeance upon Bluebeard and his two sons. At a barbecue which is held in the castle courtyard, and to which the villagers and the Lhetta are bidden, the signal being the ringing of the castle bell, the rebellion takes place. Bluebeard, trapped in a tower room by Villon and Petrara hears the battle raging below. Wrenching loose the bars of the window, he climbs out upon a narrow cornice. Here he is seen by the maddened Carca, who lets fly a bolt from the cross. The Seigneur's death follows his two sons meeting a similar fate. The wily Villon then determines to play a joke upon Louis XI. He dresses himself in the clothing of Bluebeard and returns to court. Here he is seen by the nerve-shaken Oliver Le Dainthat they are besieged by Bluebeard. Villon is shown into the presence of the king, who quickly orders the arrest of the visitor. Whereupon Villon discloses his identity, much to the annoyance of the frightened Oliver. Louis XI appreciates the poet's joke and the incident ends happily.
- Over the course of one night, Vida has new questions about the partner with whom she has just moved in with.