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The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)

98 min · Fantasy, Romance Film, Vampirfilm, crime film, drama film, romance film, vampire film

Popularity3.5/5
12-month trend2.2k874Expand

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2.2k02025-09: 2,177 views2025-10: 1,592 views2025-11: 1,318 views2025-12: 1,286 views2026-01: 1,214 views2026-02: 1,042 views2026-03: 1,247 views2026-04: 947 views2026-05: 958 views2026-06: 874 views2026-07: 1,000 views2026-08: 1,150 views
Sep2.2kOct1.6kNov1.3kDec1.3kJan1.2kFeb1.0kMar1.2kApr947May958Jun874Jul1.0kAug1.2k

2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Po-Chih Leong

Cast

Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Timothy Spall, Jack Davenport, Kerry Fox, Ashley Artus, Antony Cotton, Neran Persaud, Carlton Headley

The story

Steven Grlscz, a charming, intelligent and reclusive vampire, selects single women as targets for his feedings. Steven can only feed on victims who fully feel love for him, as blood alone isn't enough; to this end he thoroughly researches each woman, and then manipulates her into falling in love before feeding on and killing her. Afterwards Steven is forced to expel slender, intricate crystals (physical forms of a person's dominant emotion) from his body if the love she felt was overshadowed by another emotion, such as despair or disappointment.

Catalogue themes and tags

1990s, Asthma, Aufzug, Civil Engineer, Cowardliness, Crocodile, Cross, Drawing and Painting, Ermordung, Female Nudity, Frauenmörder, Geheimnisse, Große Blutlache, Homicide division, Inspector, Jagd auf Mörder, Krankheit, Life-Saver, London, Love of One's Life, Lovestory, Male Nudity, Photography, Police, Polizeibeamter, Research, Sterben, Terminal Illness, Vampire, Verabredung, Victim, Victim and perpetrator, Wissenschaftlerin

Genres

Fantasy, Romance Film, Vampirfilm, crime film, drama film, romance film, vampire film

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