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'The Woman and the Puppet', Italian: Femmina), released in the United Kingdom and the Philippines as A Woman Like Satan, is a 1959 drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It is the fourth film adaptation of the 1898 novel La femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs. The film stars Brigitte Bardot and António Vilar, with Darío Moreno.
Madame Bovary is a 1991 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the 1857 novel Madame Bovary by French author Gustave Flaubert.. Set in Normandy in the 1850s, the film follows the story of Emma Bovary, an attractive young woman full of romantic notions, whose marriage to an unexciting country doctor leads her to adulterous affairs and tragedy.
Males are more dominant than females, and they possess more political power and occupy higher status positions illustrating the iron law of androcracy. [18] As a role gets more powerful, Putnam ’s law of increasing disproportion [ 19 ] becomes applicable and the probability the role is occupied by a hegemonic group member increases.
A dominatrix (plural dominatrices or dominatrixes) or mistress is a woman who takes the dominant role in bondage and discipline, dominance and submission or BDSM. As fetish culture has become more prevalent in Western media, depictions of dominatrices in film and television have become more common.
Story of Women (French: Une affaire de femmes) is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined on 30 July 1943 for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area, and the 1986 book Une affaire de femmes by Francis Szpiner.
Maîtresse (English: "mistress" or "teacher") is a 1975 French sex comedy film co-written and directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Bulle Ogier and, in one of his earliest leading roles, Gérard Depardieu. The film provoked controversy in the United Kingdom and the United States due to its graphic depictions of BDSM.
Phyllis and Aristotle, a fictional tale written in the 13th century, as depicted by artist Giovanni Buonconsiglio in the early 1500s. A dominatrix (/ ˌ d ɒ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ t r ɪ k s / DOM-in-AY-triks; pl. dominatrixes or dominatrices / ˌ d ɒ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ t r ɪ s iː z, ˌ d ɒ m ɪ n ə ˈ t r aɪ s iː z / DOM-in-AY-triss-eez, DOM-in-ə-TRY-seez), or domme, is a woman who takes the ...
The Ape Woman (Italian: La donna scimmia, French: Le Mari de la femme à barbe) is a 1964 Italian-French satirical drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. [5] The film was inspired by the real-life story of Julia Pastrana , a 19th-century woman who was exploited as a freak show attraction.