Human Desire

Human Desire

1954 · 91 min · EN · 6.7 (102 votes)
Dir. Fritz Lang · Starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case, Peggy Maley · Music Daniele Amfitheatrof

A rarity on the screen … a RAW slice of life!

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Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair-trigger temper and penchant for explosive violence. Jeff becomes reluctantly drawn into a sordid affair by the compulsively seductive Vicki. After Buckley is fired for insubordination, he begs her to intercede on his behalf with John Owens, a rich and powerful businessman whose influence can get him reinstated.

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A steamy, noir-drenched descent into dangerous obsession. The air crackles with unspoken desires and the suffocating weight of bad decisions. It's a slow burn of fatal attraction where every glance promises ruin.

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