Overview
L'ange Noir is a French drama film directed and written by Jean-Claude Brisseau.
Plot
Stephane is a woman married to a judge. She kills the legendary gangster Aslanian with the help of her maid. She was having an affair with Aslanian yet she pretends not to have known him and tells the police that she killed him because he raped her. The police arrest Stephane.
Her magistrate husband arranges for a top lawyer, Paul, to defend her. Paul starts looking into her past and discovers that Stephane had a criminal past and was once a prostitute who appeared in pornographic films with Aslanian. Paul falls in love with Stephane and continues to defend her even though he knows that her story of rape is a lie.
Stephane is being blackmailed by someone who threatens to reveal her past. Paul negotiates with the blackmailer's lawyer and arranges a meeting to pay the blackmailer's demands. There, Stephane finds her daughter Cécile, who is the blackmailer and had become Aslanian's lover.
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