From Hell (film)
2001
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Ebert praises the film noir feel and the engravings of the rare book, but criticizes the lack of payoff and the ambiguous ending. He gives the film two stars out of four and wonders what happens at the end.
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Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) has recently acquired a seventeenth-century satanic text called The Nine Gates- a legendary book written by Satan himself. With The Nine Gates in his...
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- Roman Polanski
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- Johnny Depp
Read what IMDb users think of The Ninth Gate, a film about a bookseller who seeks out a rare and dangerous text. See ratings, spoilers, and comments on the plot, the style, and the actors.
Mar 10, 2000 · With average at best acting performances and an insanely over the top third act, "The Ninth Gate" might be appealing to some if they are fans of Johnny Depp or Roman Polanski, but for he majority of people, it will probably be a disappointment.
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- Roman Polanski
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- 2 min
Dec 10, 2012 · Thirty years after Rosemary’s Baby, Polanski conjured the devil again and mixed it with his noir classic Chinatown for the 1999 French-Spanish-American thriller The Ninth Gate.
Frank Langella, wearing a hairpiece that is most assuredly from the Stygian depths of Hell, is Boris Balkan, a wealthy and therefore evil collector of Devil-inspired antiquities who hires Dean...
Mar 10, 2000 · The Ninth Gate: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner. Dean, a rare book dealer, is hired to find the last two copies of a text that holds the key to summoning the devil.
