Product Details

• Actors: Adrian Dunbar, Florence Hoath, Sophie Aubry, Joanna Lumley, Gabrielle Anwar
• Directors: Patrick Dewolf
• Writers: Patrick Dewolf, Kerry Crabbe
• Producers: Daniel Delume, Philippe Carcassonne, Philippe Guez, Simon Perry
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ALM4FI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,274 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Innocent Lies" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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INNOCENT LIES - DVD Movie

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I loved the complexity of this movie, May 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Innocent Lies [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm not usually into crime films like this one, but there was definately something unique about the way this film was put together. I am a huge fan of Stephen Dorff's, but even if I wasn't I think this movie would have been just as intriguing. This film goes into areas that most others are afraid to enter and really makes the best of a great story line. It also has a cast of fantastic actors who play their roles with the right amount of mystique and venomous betrayl. I loved the character of Jeremy, he was well-played and had an amazing level of complexity. He's a completely dispicable person, but you can't help but to be drawn to the cunning and disregardful nature of his character. The young lady playing Jeremy's sister is also very believable in her role as the childish, and incestuous girl who can't quite bring herself to get away from her brother. The whole movie is a work of art, and very well done. I recommend it to anyone who loves crime and drama, as well as good acting.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping story, Stunning photography, Stupefying girl, July 19, 2009

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T. W. Combs "Sand Dollar" (Coastal Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Innocent Lies (DVD)

Was this movie released under another title? Did some other reviewers see a bad copy? I saw the last few minutes of it on TV and went out to rent it. Nobody had it. It wasn't even in any of my movie books. Then I found it and the story was one of the best mysteries stories I have seen.
You need to understand the times. Frightened by communist spread, many in Europe turned to Nazis for help in fighting the menace -- especially the wealthy. In 1938, into this milieu, a British detective, played by Adrian Dunbar, seeks to find how a friend had died. The only clue he has leads to the Graves, an English family living in France. The mother is pro Nazi. Two of the siblings seem possibly be in an incestuous relationship. Another sibling had been slain in an accident years before. This "accident" leads to blackmail and incest. This may be what the deceased friend had discovered that lead to his death.
Stephen Dorff and Gabrielle Anwar play the nearly-grown siblings. Anwar is at the peak of attractiveness. I usually hate to see girls who look like their lips have been smashed by a brick but in this one case I make an exception. She seems to want out of the relationship but can't resist Dorff's touch, even on the eve of her wedding.
More murders occur as Dunbar seems about to break the case. But he, too, is under Anwar's spell. He wants to help her escape, when Dorff shows up again.
I don't want to spoil it. The photography is marvelous. The music fits the scene. A enchanting look at pre-war France. And I'm sure if Hitler had seen the mother's taste in art, he'd have had her shot.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The truth about innocent lies, September 16, 2007

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Movie Freak "Will" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Innocent Lies (DVD)

I saw this movie years ago and remembered Anwar's turn as an incestuous killer recently after seeing her in another movie. After seeing it again I'm amazed at how truly gifted she was during this film. Amazingly crafted suspenseful tale of humanities frailness in the face of true evil. A must see for Anwar fan's for others a simply haunting reminder of what they're missing. Sophie Aubry also gives a compelling performance.