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The Girl in a Swing (1988)

The Girl in a Swing poster
Directed by
Gordon Hessler
Genre
fantasy film, erotic film, romance film, mystery film, erotic thriller
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 59m
Rated
R
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An English antique dealer travels to Copenhagen and falls for a mysterious secretary. He marries her quickly, then starts to uncover unsettling secrets about her past.

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What happens

The Girl in a Swing is a 1988 American supernatural erotic drama film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Meg Tilly, Rupert Frazer, Nicholas Le Prevost, and Elspet Gray. Based on the 1980 novel The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams, the film is about an English antique dealer who travels to Copenhagen where he meets and falls in love with a mysterious German-born secretary, whom he marries. Knowing nothing about her family or background, he soon discovers a darker side to his new bride. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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