Criminal Lovers

Criminal Lovers

Their idea of foreplay was murder.

1999•1h 36m•6.5/10

HorrorThrillerRomance

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.5/10(114)

After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking man takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed Luc's sexual appetite.

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Production

Fidélité Productions, ARTE France Cinéma, StudioCanal, Eurospace

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Natacha Régnier

Natacha Régnier

Alice

Jérémie Renier

Jérémie Renier

Luc

Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović

Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović

Man of the Forest

Salim Kéchiouche

Salim Kéchiouche

Saïd

Yasmine Belmadi

Yasmine Belmadi

Karim

Bernard Maume

The Professor

Jean-Louis Debard

The Night Guard

Catherine Vierne

The Jewel Saleswoman

Marielle Coubaillon

The Market's Hostess

Olivier Papot

The Police Officer

Gil Demurger

Gil Demurger

The GIGN

Agnès Accaria

Ranzi Adjeri

Brigitte Albuquerque

Martihino Albuquerque

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