I wish we could have a movie of the month club but can’t see how it could be done. We can compile a list of movies one would associate with each of the planets though so let’s give it a whirl starting with Scorpio, Pluto and the 8th house.
These movie picks should involve sex and psychology… perhaps betrayal, double cross, you get the idea. Please leave as many details as you can (without spoilers).
My pick is The Beguiled.
This is a Clint Eastwood movie filmed in 1971 that holds up completely 35 years later. Can’t even complain about the hairstyles as it is a period peace.
I saw this movie last weekend (first time) and was shocked. It has a lot of audacity even for today. It is overtly twisted but also sublime and as sophisticated as you may be, you could probably spend many months unraveling just exactly what is going on and who is to blame for what.
Here’s the Rotten Tomato Review.
Your turn!
94 Responses to “Scorpio, 8th House, Pluto Movies”
Love Clint Eastwood flicks. He’s just got something about him, very sexy 
I’ll have to check this one out!
If you like mystery and want something to unravel over and over again, here are 2 picks for pluto/scorpio/8th house:
Tell No One – twisted and well put together w/great soundtrack. Has all the ingredients – crime, betrayal, corruption, the underworld, deep love and lots of twists and turns. French w/English subtitles. Loved this one.
Mulholland Drive – dark, mysterious and hard to unravel. Also great soundtrack. Betrayal, crime, mafia, love gone awry, decomposition of dreams. Slight neptunian flavor. David Lynch’s best.
OMG–I was just looking up this movie online the other day for a poem I was writing. I saw The Beguiled only once–when I was 12, I think, and it STILL sticks with me; the ending scene is seriously messed up, worthy of any Poe short story. Weird sychronicity that you should mention it. “Blue Velvet” is very Scorpio twisted; I saw that movie three consecutive nights when it first came out in the theater way back when (Scorpio Moon conjunct Neptune here). My other fave: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Cult classic with my favorites, Bette & Joan! And what’s interesting about that movie is that there is an astrological chart hanging on the wall in the sisters’ kitchen (if I am remembering correctly). Always wanted to freeze frame that scene and take a closer look…
I think Fatal Attraction has to be mentioned.
but I also think Harry Potter movies fit that bill as well.
here’s one that might seem a bit of a stretch but I think so
and I LOVE it:
Shaun of the Dead. hello, zombies… plus the protagonist faces death and has a major transformation from working stiff to hero. and zombies.
The Eyes of Laura Mars! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/
And Caché. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/
“Closer”… definitely.
Mulholland Drive
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Double Jeopardy
Frida
Manchurian Candidate
The 6th Sense
Ghost
Rob! I loooved “Closer”.
Especially that song at the end by Damien Rice.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a Scorpio book…
I recently watched “A Passage to India” (again). I love this movie for its distinct subtleties and obvious wisdom and mystique of Mrs. Moore and Professor Godbole.
What exactly happened in the Marabar Caves? ? ?
I don’t know that he’s actually a Scorpio, but anything with Ralph Fiennes. What a freaking hot and twisted mofo. Deep. Sexy. Completely mental and manipulative and knows what you’re thinking before you think it. It’s not just raw, stupid anger or aggression or sex, it’s intensified and refined through a mental filter. An cool exterior that hides his depth.
Yeah, I like old Ralph a lot 
indecent proposal
What about Sunset Boulevard?
It’s narrated by a corpse, for one. (That’s gotta count for something, right?) But it’s all twisted up with sex and psychology – I don’t wanna go into TOO much detail but the Norma Desmond character is a study in manipulation and madness. (She’s got neptoon, too, you KNOW she’s gotta) Plus there’s the creepy butler who has his hand in turning everything sideways, and the main character is just jacked up seven ways to Sunday.
I (fingers crossed) linked to the Rotten Tomatoes review up there if you wanna read the synopsis and such.
Last Tango in Paris with Marlon Brando
anything film noir…
henry & june…
Pixie, i think Ralph is a Virgo. I think some Virgo´s get to be scopionish, especially the guys. I like him too.
Ralph Fiennes is actually a Capricorn with Moon and Venus in Scorpio..
http://www.astrodispatch.com/2008/10/02/we-look-at-ralph-fiennes-horoscope-after-the-air-hostess-controversy-by-glorija-lawrence-2/
Here’s another: “Quills” with Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, and Joaquin Phoenix (he is my Ralph Fiennes). This film is about the Marquis de Sade being held in a madhouse for his deviant writings, and all the Scorpionic shenanigans that take place there. Not for the squeamish, rated R, and the film did receive 3 Academy Award noms. Intelligent, intense, sexual, manipulative, power games…all very Scorpio. The real obsession, though, in my opinion, in the film is how far de Sade will go to write, for at one point his writing materials are taken away from him…but he is not thwarted! (I won’t give away the details).
Ohh, great topic:)
Two of my favourites in this genre would be
“Dangerous liaisons” (1988) and “The Shawshank redemption” (1994).
I also heartily recommend “The celebration” (Denmark, 1998) if you can get hold of it…:) It takes on family secrets and -scapegoating. Unforgettable!
I really like this idea. Im going to have to make a list and watch some I havent seen.
I few that I think can be quite scorpio are
Cruel Intentions (one of my favorites)
Silence of the Lambs
Tristan and Isolt ( another favorite)
Perfect Stranger
Gossip (A gemini scorpio theme!)
Ooohhh, I loved Closer too!
Shell – that song is “The Blower’s Daughter”, and it is so good
These are all some great movie picks, I’m gonna write them down.
Uh, I spaced out and shared a Pisces-type movie. Doh!
my husband (scorp rising) is big on scorpio flix so we see a lot of them. last night, for example, he had to watch half of Bladerunner to see which version was being played on tv, the regular or director’s cut. why he felt compelled to know i have no idea.
One that I haven’t seen mentioned here is A Simple Plan – other people’s money bringing a heck of a lot of shadow.
And Boogie Nights, loosely based on John Holmes life is another (which Mulholland Drive is also, although less loosely and a lot more Neptuney version).
Shell… Wonderful movie, yeah? Damien Rice’s music is used as the score to this almost completely throughout…
Come to think of it, “Closer” isn’t just Plutonian… it’s Neptunian and Saturnine, also.
Will be back to post it for those threads
What a great idea! There are so many I can think of but really “In The Realm of the Senses” would have to be my recommendation. It’s a Japanese film about the the true story of a woman who became obsessed with her lover’s penis and eventually chopped it off and carried it around with her in her purse. You kinda just have to watch it.
Oh “True Romance,” for sure. I always thought that Alabama Whitman was the most Scorpio of female lead characters.
@spidermoon – I can’t believe I forgot Quills. You’re so right!! (and write ) Good call, definitely Scorpio action there, and definitely not for the faint of heart. *smile*
I thought of a few, but as much as I remember liking them they’ve gotten horrible reviews on RT. I haven’t seen them in this century so I won’t list them.
Does “Pan’s Labyrinth” count as Plutonian?
No one’s mentioned “Flowers in the Attic?!” Abuse, incest, power struggles, murder, cheese, it’s got it all!
Someone listed “Silence of the Lambs,” but I think “Red Dragon” (with Ralph Fiennes, Ed Norton, and ex-Sir Hopkins) is a better fit here.
I’m more attuned to books.
I would recommend “In the Cut” by Susanna Moore, although the movie slaughtered the awesomeness right of it. See also “Lunch” by Karen Moline, which is so distinctly Scorpionic it’s variously amusing and appalling. Both are about sex, murder, and obsession, although the treatments are vastly different.
In fantasy, The Black Jewels series (especially the first three) by Anne Bishop follows a marvelously Plutonian family through a time of trouble and war, as the child grows up and learns how to wield her enormous magical power responsibly.
How about the movie Charly, based on the book “Flowers for Algernon”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charly
an oldie, but a goodie.
Eyes wide shut
Sex, Lies & Videotape
Yikes – I remember being HORRIFIED by The Beguiled! Most Scorpionic film I think I ‘ve ever seen is Bad Timing, a Nic Roeg film with Art Garfunkel as a Psychology Professor in an obsessive love affair with can’t-remember-her-name-Nic-Roegs-wife, and Harvey Keitel as the weirdo detective who investigates the ensuing events. Sex, death, psychology, the whole damned eighth house is there.
Double Indemnity, 1944, with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck… “The story was based on a 1927 crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover. Ruth Snyder persuaded her boyfriend, Judd Gray, to kill her husband Albert after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy—with a double-indemnity clause. The murderers were quickly identified and arrested.”
Sex, death, betrayal, AND insurance money! Whee!
Turns out Art Garfunkel is a Scorpio too
Another Clint Eastwood movie that fits: TIGHTROPE. Sexual, psychological and kinky.
Also Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO. A man with an all-consuming obsession and love for a dead woman. I’d say that counts.
And I second Del’s suggestion of DOUBLE INDEMNITY. One of the best movies ever made and all about Pluto/Scorpio/8th house. I love classic Hollywood.
Freaking love this thread.
La Femme Nikita
Naked
The Krays
After Dark My Sweet
Memento
The Departed
American Psycho
and probably the most plutonian film I have ever seen; a Clockwork Orange.
….OK I’ll stop now.
One more: CARNIVAL OF SOULS. A nice little spooky movie that was made in the 1960′s and has become a cult classic. It’s a perfect Halloween movie.
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2 of my all-time favorites: “Dangerous Liasons” (Malkovich, Glen Close, Michele Pfeifer) and
“Body Heat” – (Kathleen Turner, and William Hurt” – Hot, hot.
Ooh, Dorothy, BODY HEAT is a good one. So much hot.
Match Point – a Woody Allen flick with Scarlett Johansson. Sex, lies, self-serving interests, and a shocking finale. If you like Closer, you’ll like Match Point.
”Cruel Intentions ”
There is a lot of manipulation , revenge and seduction
and I would say ”Butterfly effect”! ( ability to change the past(as in transformation)
I cant think of anything else!
“Burn After Reading,” from the Cohen brothers, who do shock, betrayal, sex and the Dark Side really well I think, ‘coz they make you laugh while they’re at it. It’s got George Clooney, Brad Pitt (lotsa eye candy there), and of course Frances McDormand, plus an English actress whose name escapes me but she’s good too.
Love this thread.
And I love satori’s suggestion of the Harry Potter movies – they even have a Phoenix! I’ve made a list of all the suggestions here that I have yet to see – thanks everyone for your contributions.
Oh and how about Robert Altman’s Gosford Park? It’s Scorpio Lite, in a way, but still a beautiful film I think.
I’d pick the Anniversary with Bette Davis (who had a scorpio moon). It’s all about power, control, manipulation and rejection within a family. The matriarch has obviously been denied her wants her whole life so all her power has just turned to poison. Bette Davis is a pure charismatic bitchpants!
I liked a clockwork orange and memento, but I don’t know if they are overtly Scorpy.
I also liked Mongol- I think that Timudgen was a Taurus and his lady was a scorp. That whole thread about her being kidnapped and getting pregnant and Ghengis raising the boy as his own was historically accurate. The son was eventually killed by the first legitimate son in a war over inheritance 
I love blade runner too! The director’s cut is much better- no stupid moralising voiceover. How disturbing is the bit where deckard practically rapes rachel?
Now I’ve had time to think some more here goes:
The Alien series, in particular aliens3 and alien:resurrection. Talk about embracing your shadow side!
Blood Wedding (Spanish) A woman’s husband is killed in front of her the night of their wedding so each night she dresses in her bloody wedding dress and dances with his ghost under the moon.
Secretary- the whole selfharm, bondage, sex with the boss, punishment as pleasure etc. A subnote to this one: I tried to get my parents to watch it and my dad couldn’t stomach more than 1/2 an hour. My mum watched the whole thing, then lectured me about sexual harassment in the workplace.
And last but by no means least, Battlestar Galactica!!! Yeah it’s a series, but it’s freakin’ SICK. Humans nearly annhialated, being chased through the galaxies by evil cylons. Lots of references to the zodiac AND the old testament AND ancient Roman society. Women just as aggressive and sexually predatory as men. Brilliant! My scorp brother and I both love it and we disagree about everything else-(he would say the Bond series are the ultimate scorp movies.) Also, nearly all the core cast are aries’- makes sense, with all the war!
The Vanishing (the original Dutch version more so than the American remake w/ Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges)
The Last Seduction
Klute
Match Point
Body Heat
Vertigo
Just Tell Me What You Want
Blood Simple
The Andromeda Strain
Monsoon Wedding
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Batman (1989, starring Michael Keaton–I’m serious)
Hello Elsa and Company,
I’m enjoying the postings on this topic. I have one Scorpionic movie suggestion that is actually fun and campy. It’s The Fifth Element (1998). Regeneration, action and transformation of the characters. The female lead (Milla Jovovich) is fashioned to look like Venus de Milo. And the smoldering Pisces Bruce Willis is the hero who saves the day.
Thank you–great blog!
Oh wow!! Hats off to Little Miss Hermit. I just watched “The Celebration” and was a hoot! So very Scorpionic, I’m talking a free for all in emotionality–whoo! A perfect movie for us emotional scuba divers. I loved how the guests kept trying to party in the mayhem LOL.
Lot off great movies mentioned here:) Looove What ever happened to baby Jane. Clockwork orange!! I dont know if I love it , but its very …I dont know really, but I am glad it was made:)
A really good and unique scorpionic film, in my eyes..is Dogville….It is very special…I think it is Nicole Kidmans greatest act. I really tells u the truth about human nature..
Hey ya’ll I’ve got another one–a good one! The movie is “The Civilization Of Maxwell Bright”. It covers ALL of the Scorpionic bases, sex and death are on full display wrapped in spirituality. It’s heavy and it’s deep and I LOVED IT. Check it out Scorp Family. Happy Birthday to all!
“The Beguilded” is probably one of the earliest cinema related memories I have. I remember being around 8 years old and trying to sneak back to the living room to watch this film. My Scorpio stellium Dad – who I think had seen the film when it first came out – had decided it was not appropriate for kids. I think he ultimately gave up, because I do remember watching the final scene.
I adore me some film noir…
Requiem for a Dream – Ellen Burnstyn was incredible
Secretary – James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal- kinky
The Dark Crystal- self-explanatory
Less Than Zero – Robert Downey Jr., John Cusack
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, sexuality and transformation – bittersweet
Happiness- Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Lara Boyle Flynn- straight up twisted, but very well made
Go- OMG!
Kids- Hard to watch
All very Scorpionic… All could be disturbing to sensitive viewers
Be forewarned
Polanski’s BITTER MOON with Peter Coyote
CAMILLE CLAUDEL with Adjani and Depardieu
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
DAMAGE with Jeremy Irons
Bergman’s SARABAND
Made a mistake…I meant: FAITHLESS…not SARABAND! (Saraband was his last movie…)
Forgot…Had to add: THE PIANO TEACHER, all about passion and agony, with Isabelle Huppert (scorpionic themes fit her so well)…
The Last Mistress – hands down the sexiest film I’ve ever seen.
Nine 1/2 weeks
http://www.trailerfan.com/movie/nine_1_2_weeks/trailer
The Hunger
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3998220313/
V for Vendetta = the whole stripping yourself of fear to really be free, that and having a totalitarian government regime..very scorpionic
Spider by David Cronenberg = it’s got the theme of sexuality either as a repressed memory or fabricated entirely by a schizophrenic mind.
I think most David Cronenberg films, Kubrick films, and Louis Malle films are very scorpionic. They’re my 3 fave directors. It’s interesting to see why they excel at that.
Also very scorpionic: Andrei Roublev by Tarkovsky and Fight Club
Oh yeah… how could anyone forget There Will Be Blood… awesome film.
Oh Thanks Elsa
Betty Blue, 37,2 degrees in the morning.
No one for Gilda?! Classic noir Plutonian film, imo: abuse, deceit, power struggles in love/desire, murder and corruption. But a film with class
A favorite scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVI0A4DTVgg
Mr. Brooks would definitely be on my Pluto movie list.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780571/
Love love love Kevin Costner in this.
Delores Claiborne.
Miller’s Crossing. Gabriel Byrne as Tom Regan. There is no other movie that more clearly develops the character of Scorpio.
This is hard to put into words because it’s been in my head so long, and if you haven’t seen the movie I don’t know if I can explain it at all. But Tom is an intensely moral character in an absolute nest of immorality and betrayal. He’s consigliere to an Irish crime boss ( King) and banished from the kingdom over a woman. Every decision he makes is strategic, every action is a blend of honor, compassion, controlled rage — and every one of them has a sting. It’s a nest of scorpions and he is the most tactically brilliant one of them all — in fact it begins to develop in your consciousness that there is not a single character in the film who is his match in any way. He’s perfectly capable of fighting, and winning, absolutely alone; he protects and honors the people he loves although to they don’t have the capacity to understand that this is what he is doing. They just don’t know ,or are used to it, or have no way to value the man.
It’s such a stunning depiction of a Scorpio in action it takes my breath away every time I watch it. To my knowledge there is not a single story like it anywhere on film.
The Godfather
The Wave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_%282008_film%29 which is based on book based on a real life social experiment. An anarchy teacher is made to be the autocracy teacher during project week, and from there you see how he teaches about autocracy and fascism in an *unconventional* way by employing various manipulations.
7 Khoon Maaf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Khoon_Maaf is a Venus-Pluto movie about a femme fatale who seems to attract and mostly be attracted to and marry men who are abusive, unreliable, or of questionable character. At first, she seems to kill them for what looks like legitimate reasons, but some of them are dispatched for no real reason at all. This is a dark comedy, and I think this genre was done very well. It shared great dark and comedic elements.
Heathers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathers is a cult classic which is one of the original ‘popular clique’ movies. The main character is part of the popular clique but hates her mean friends. She meets the cool J.D. who seems to be a rebel, but after a while, she gets in way over her head.
Cruel Intentions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_intentions is one of those “mean rich people manipulate people around them to their whims and destroy them” type of movies. If you’re looking for sex, manipulation, and destructiveness, you’ve got it here.
Citizen X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_X is based on a real-life serial killer, so it may be disturbing for some. This is not very dramatized. The movie focuses more on the investigation.
Dear Mr. Gacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Mr._Gacy is also based on a real life serial killer. It is more dramatized than Citizen X, and reflects Jason Moss’s experience of John Gacy. I believe that William Forsythe played his role of John Gacy very well. He was super creepy. Jason Moss, an Aquarian with Mercury in Aquarius, decides to send a letter to John Gacy to study Gacy for his thesis, but gets in over his head as the sociopath slowly gains power over him and influences his life.
Rosemary’s Baby…I was pregnant with my first child when I saw it, over 40 years ago. Also, Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. My husband nearly jumped in my lap during this one! Neither one is gory, but OMG…were they ever terrifying.
My pick is THE CONVERSATION starring Gene Hackman. It got an 8.0 rating on IMDB.
“A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.”
Gene Hackman has Pluto opposing his Mercury-Mars in Capricorn and he was perfectly cast for this part.
The Road
Dark City
Ryan Gosling (who is a smoldering Scorpio) in Drive is an archetypal Scorpio character in that movie.
Some older/not oldies…Off the top of my head;
Sliver, Pacific Heights and War of the Roses
I noticed along the way that these all have “home” and privacy/security as a central element…Maybe my 4H focus gets an extra ‘eek’ bump when it is the home that’s endangered? ;D
Oh crap! How about “Death and the Maiden”? Susan Sarandon…Anyone else get their world rocked with that one?
She’s living her life after release as a detainee where she was tortured and sexually abused by her unseen torturer.
A man appears at her door. Hearing his voice and something about his mannerisms. She *knows* this is her torturer–delivered to her for justice…
…or is he? Is it possible that her abused tormented mind has made a mistake? That an innocent man is in her grasp?!
Augh!! Loved this movie.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Shattered – and, it has Tom Beringer
Dead Again
I remember The Beguiled…gave me the shivers as a little girl….
I,m gonna have to agree with Whatever happened to baby Jane ,also I love Lady in a cage with Olivia De Havilland and James Caan 1964,also in 1964 Dead ringer with Bette Davis and Karl Malden and Hush hush sweet Charlotte Bette Davis Olivia De Havilland and Joseph Cotton ….oh and The Lover 1992 Jane March and Tony Leung one and all scorpionic on so many levels ,so much going on I never tire of watching them …I love B movies and noir!!!!! also Bette Davis … Can u tell? lol
also tripped 1st time i saw Beguiled ,saw it as a kid and never cursed a day in my life but i was like wtf at the ending and Clock work orange WOW!!
Basic Instinct, Valmont, 9 1/2 weeks, Lady Beware, The Crush, Eyes Wide Shut, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Black Swan, Wide Saragasso Sea (the one from the 90s please).
I am sure I will think of more later.:)
“The Piano” and maybe “Lady Chatterley” too, both theme a transforming affair
“Sea of Love” with Al Pacino and Ellen Burnstyn (sp?)
I just watched “The Housemaid”, and wow, could completely relate since I a stellium in 8th. Complete Scorponic undertones.
Great movie.
I love so many of these movies. Hitchcock is a favorite director. I think one of his most Scorpio movies is Notorious with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Cary Grant convinces Ingrid Bergman to spy for the US. She owed it to her country because her father was a traitor. The govt has Bergman marry a man to spy on him and his nazi ring. Of course, Cary Grant is in love with her but he treats her like a tramp for sleeping with the enemy. As far as Ralph Fiennes goes, he was an outstanding Heathcliff in Wurthering Heights, a Scorpio movie.
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“Unfaithful” with Richard Gere and Diane Lane.
I think it’s very Scorpionic……..
And even if you don’t think so, at least you’ll get some hoooot sex scenes involving Oliver Martinez…(whew…fanning myself at the thought of it). I think it portrays all of the emotions of having an affair, and also the rage a spouse feels when they discover they’ve been betrayed. I love it!