Hired by zealous occult scholar Boris Balkan to verify the authenticity of his most prized possession, unscrupulous New York City rare-book dealer Dean Corso is unaware that his life is in grave ...

The Ninth Gate is a confused and confusing thriller about an unscrupulous bookseller (Johnny Depp) trying to work out why people keep dying or trying to kill him over a 17th-century book which may ...

Roman Polanski, whose one-time distinguished career is probably now beyond repair on Earth, goes where the sulphur is most pungent in The Ninth Gate. False trail; the demon never appears ...