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Release Date: 1999

Cast: Willy Holt, Barbara Jefford, José López Rodero, Lena Olin, Frank Langella, Jack Taylor, Tony Amoni, James Russo, Johnny Depp, Allen Garfield, Emmanuelle Seigner

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Horror, Supernatural, Psychological thriller, Mystery, Fantasy

The Ninth Gate is a 1999 thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. The plot involves a rare book business, wherein rare-book dealer Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is hired by bibliophile Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) to validate a seventeenth-century copy of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, by Aristide Torchia, and what he encounters en route. The Nine Gates is an imaginary book, but is heavily inspired by the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. The film, based upon Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 novel The Club Dumas, comprises three genres, and was co-written by director... MORE

The Ninth Gate is a 1999 thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. The plot involves a rare book business, wherein rare-book dealer Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is hired by bibliophile Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) to validate a seventeenth-century copy of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, by Aristide Torchia, and what he encounters en route. The Nine Gates is an imaginary book, but is heavily inspired by the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. The film, based upon Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 novel The Club Dumas, comprises three genres, and was co-written by director Roman Polanski. The premiere showing was at San Sebastián, Spain, on 25 August 1999, a month before the 47th San Sebastian International Film Festival; in North America, it failed critically and commercially, because, reviewers claimed, it was a lesser effort than Rosemary's Baby (1968), his best supernatural-theme film; nonetheless, The Ninth Gate earned a worldwide gross of $58.4 million against a $38 million budget. Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a New York City rare-book dealer motivated solely by financial gain. Wealthy book collector Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) hires Corso to compare his LESS