History Film / FleshAndBlood1985

* StockholmSyndrome: It's not clear how much Agnes fakes her attraction to Martin.

* BettyAndVeronica: Agnes is desired by noble gentleman Steven and adventurous mercenary Martin.

* CreepyChild: Anna's son, who plays drums while watching a girl being raped.

* {{Fanservice}}: Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is often nude. The bath scene is of particular note. Polly (Marina Saura) is also often topless.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: All the members of the gang except Martin]].

* IllGirl: The girl who lived in the castle that Martin sacked.

* AristocratsAreEvil: The noble Arnolfini does not keep his promise to let the mercenaries plunder the city. Instead, he orders his soldiers to disarm them and to chase them out of the city.
** It's doubtful you could call preventing mass looting with attendant murders, rapes etc evil.

%%* HandsomeLech: Martin

* IWillFindYou: Steven spends most of the movie trying to get Agnes again.

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:Steven and Agnes reunite, but Agnes sees Martin being alive and says nothing to Steven, leaving open if Martin will come back or not. It's also entirely possible that she has the plague.]]

* TheBlackDeath: There is an epidemic of plague. Hawkwood is infected but survives. Many of the thieves die from it after being infected by Hawkwood, who has catapulted body parts of an infected dog in the castle.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Martin is an unrepentant rapist and villain, and escapes free with his loot at the end.]]

%%* StormingTheCastle

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:Steven and Agnes reunite, but Agnes sees Martin being alive and says nothing to Steven, leaving open if Martin will come back or not.]]

* PinkIsErotic: Agnes wears a pink dress and wants to learn how to seduce older men.

%%* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A nightmarish one.
%%* RapePillageAndBurn: Lot of this.

The movie centers around a gang of mercenaries and thieves lead by Martin (Hauer), who find themselves in an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores, which their noble employer [[UngratefulBastard refuses to pay after having used them to regain a city]].
The ungrateful nobleman is Arnolfini, whose son Steven is a dorky but [[NerdsAreSexy attractive]] young man who is interested more in [[RenaissanceMan learning]] than fighting and whoring, unlike most of the people he hangs out with. His father has arranged his marriage with a beautiful, highborn, and virgin young girl named Agnes (Leigh), but Steven is not interested at all until, y'know, he sees her. Agnes is beautiful and very interested in learning how [[FilleFatale seduce men and enjoy love]]. While they are enjoying their blossoming romance, they are caught by Martin's gang, who start a fight with Arnolfini's men and rob them. Agnes founds herself unfortunately hidden in the gang's chariot, and when they discover her, she's [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] by Martin who's manipulated by Agnes in falling and caring for her (though the attraction is somewhat mutual) and so he wants to [[CrazyJealousGuy keep her to himself]]. Steven does not give up and tries to regain his girlfriend [[StormingTheCastle storming the castle where she hides in]], while we don't know how much exactly Agnes is manipulating Martin to stay alive until the very end.

The ungrateful nobleman is Arnolfini, whose son Steven is a dorky but [[NerdsAreSexy attractive]] young man who is interested more in [[RenaissanceMan learning]] than fighting and whoring, unlike most of the people he hangs out with.
His father has arranged his marriage with a beautiful, highborn and virgin young girl named Agnes (Leigh), but Steven is not interested at all until, y'know, he sees her. Agnes is beautiful and very interested in learning how [[FilleFatale seduce men and enjoy love]]. While they are enjoying their blossoming romance, they are caught by Martin's gang, who start a fight with Arnolfini's men and rob them. Agnes founds herself unfortunately hidden in the gang's chariot, and when they discover her, she's [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] by Martin who's manipulated by Agnes in falling and caring for her (though the attraction is somewhat mutual) and so he wants to [[CrazyJealousGuy keep her to himself]]. Steven does not give up and tries to regain his girlfriend [[StormingTheCastle storming the castle where she hides in]], while we don't know how much exactly Agnes is manipulating Martin to stay alive until the very end.

The movie centers around a gang of mercenaries and thieves lead by Martin (Hauer), who find themselves in an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores, which their noble employer [[UngratefulBastard refuses to pay after have used them to regain a city]].

''Flesh+Blood'' is a 1985 dramatic adventure film directed by Creator/PaulVerhoeven, set in UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance (in Italy, it seems) though the themes are more typical of TheMiddleAges and often is called a medieval drama. The first American movie from Dutch director Verhoeven, it stars Creator/RutgerHauer and Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh.

The ungrateful nobleman is Arnolfini, whose son Steven is an {{Adorkable}} but [[NerdsAreSexy attractive]] young man who is interested more in [[RenaissanceMan learning]] than fighting and whoring, unlike most of the people he hangs out with.

* WomanInWhite: Agnes and Martin, who were at the beginning in red.

* BookEnds: Opens and cloese with a siege.

* DamselInDistress: Agnes is kidnapped by a gang of thieves and Steven, his father and Hawkwood fight to deliver her. {{Subverted|Trope}} because Agnes suffers from some form of StockholmSyndrome: she has feelings for her kidnapper, Martin. Also subverted because she saves her saviour, Steven, when Martin tries to drown him.

* FilleFatale: Agnes developes in one since her early scenes. Later combined with TheVamp.

* ManipulativeBitch: It's shown that Agnes is basically a manipulative girl since the beginning, when she lures her servant to show her how she has sex with a man, then seduces Steven who initially refused to be engaged, ''and then'' manipulates Martin in taking her for himself so she won't be gang-raped.

* StockholmSyndrome: It's not clear how much Agnes fakes it.

%%* TheVamp: Oh, Agnes!

* InfantImmortality: Cruelly {{Averted|Trope}}. Little John, the boy who is part of the gang of thieves dies from the plague.

According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, ''Flesh+Blood'' is a 1985 dramatic adventure film directed by Creator/PaulVerhoeven, set in UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance (in Italy, it seems) though the themes are more typical of TheMiddleAges and often is called a medieval drama. The first American movie from Dutch director Verhoeven, it stars Creator/RutgerHauer and Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh.

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* TheCavalry: In the end, when Steven is chained and Martin is in the well, Arnolfini returns with an army and besieges the castle.