Dangerous Beauty

About Dangerous Beauty

Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men.

Dangerous Beauty is a 1998 romance film directed by Marshall Herskovitz. The film is filed under 16th century, beauty, inquisition, and courtesan.

Catherine McCormack stars as Veronica Franco, Rufus Sewell as Marco Venier, Oliver Platt as Maffio Venier, and Fred Ward as Domenico Venier. Released in February 1998, it runs 111 minutes.

The screenplay is by Jeannine Dominy. It was produced by Arnon Milchan Productions and Bedford Falls Productions. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

The Merchant of Venice, Death in Venice, and Storm: Letter of Fire make useful companions to Dangerous Beauty. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 300 votes and it carries a R rating.