History Film / TheNinthGate

* BloodyHandprint: The Girl, after rescuing Corso, leaves this upon Corso's face (in the eerie shape of a strident) after wiping her nose and staring at Corso. He is [[BloodSplatteredInnocents: visibly shaken after this]] and demands answers.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[TagLine The only thing more terrifying than searching for the Devil...is finding him.]]]]

* Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: One case being the deceased elderly Andrew Telfer and his young, beautiful widow, Liana Telfer.

* FanDisservice: The Girl's [[spoiler: face morphing into several times before revealing herself as The Devil during sex with Corso outside the burning castle]].

* UnusualEuphemism: At one point, Liana tells Corso "don't fuck with me," to which he responds, "I thought I just did." The TV Edit changes "fuck" to "mess" making Corso's response unintentionally bizarre.

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* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Corso in his infatuation with The Girl, who is a tall foreign woman with long blonde hair and striking green eyes (which tend to glow from time to time)...And who can blame him?

* ShownTheirWork: The Ceniza Brothers tell Corso that the difficulty of forging or restoring an antique book is so difficult and costly it wouldn't be profitable. Even with modern technology, forging old books well enough to fool the types of collectors and historians who will be interested in buying them is rather expensive, taking a lot of time and resources including the proper paper and ink and a ''very'' good eye for detail. But even if you pull off a passable forgery of a rare book, it's probable you'll be found out anyway because those kinds of books are going to have their owner histories known by collectors, and questions will be asked about how you acquired your copy.

''The Ninth Gate'' is a 1999 mystery thriller film by Creator/RomanPolanski, freely adapted from ''Literature/TheClubDumas'' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, starring Creator/JohnnyDepp as Dean Corso, an expert on rare books. A client, Boris Balkan, played by Frank Langella, asks Corso to authenticate his copy of ''The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows''. The book has three copies surviving, due to the rest being burned in 1666 along with its author - because the book is supposedly an adaptation of another book, the ''Delomelanicon'', written by Lucifer himself.

''The Ninth Gate'' is a 1999 mystery thriller film by Creator/RomanPolanski, freely adapted from ''Literature/TheClubDumas'' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, starring Creator/JohnnyDepp as Dean Corso, an expert on rare books. A client, Boris Balkan, played by Franck Langella, asks Corso to authenticate his copy of ''The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows''. The book has three copies surviving, due to the rest being burned in 1666 along with its author - because the book is supposedly an adaptation of another book, the ''Delomelanicon'', written by Lucifer himself.

* MindScrew: The ending.

* ShownTheirWork: The Ceniza Brothers tell Corso that the difficulty of forging or restoring an antique book is so difficult and costly it wouldn't be profitable. Even with modern technology, forging old books well enough to fool the types of collectors and historians who will be interested in buying them is very tricky, needing the right types of paper and ink even. And if you aim to forge one so rare and desired that the price they'll pay is enough to make it profitable, it just increases the chances that someone who knows about that book will investigate and find out that it's a fake.
** And we're talking about forging a book into ''two'' other books, not just one : it doubles the risks, and makes it impossible by requesting a perfect copy ''twice''. Yet, it's still said early that the books (or parts of it) are forgery [[spoiler: : a {{Foreshadowing}} that there was a DealWithTheDevil involved with the author, Aristide Torchia]].

''The Ninth Gate'' is a 1999 movie by Creator/RomanPolanski, freely adapted from ''Literature/TheClubDumas'' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, starring Creator/JohnnyDepp as Dean Corso, an expert on rare books. A client, Boris Balkan, played by Franck Langella, asks Corso to authenticate his copy of ''The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows''. The book has three copies surviving, due to the rest being burned in 1666 along with its author - because the book is supposedly an adaptation of another book, the ''Delomelanicon'', written by Lucifer himself.

''The Ninth Gate'' is a 1999 movie by Creator/RomanPolanski, freely adapted from ''Literature/TheClubDumas'' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, starring JohnnyDepp as Dean Corso, an expert on rare books. A client, Boris Balkan, played by Franck Langella, asks Corso to authenticate his copy of ''The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows''. The book has three copies surviving, due to the rest being burned in 1666 along with its author - because the book is supposedly an adaptation of another book, the ''Delomelanicon'', written by Lucifer himself.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Liana Telfer's main henchman in the movie is a [[DarkSkinnedBlond bleach-blonde black man.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Bernie the bookshop owner is killed early on. His book counterpart, Flavio la Ponte, is a major supporting character and stays very much alive. Also Liana Telfer,her henchman, and Boris Balkan, although [[CompositeCharacter it's not really the same character as in the book.]]]]

* AdaptationDistillation: The movie removes several subplots from the novel, combines numerous characters and changes the ending.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Bernie the bookshop owner is killed early on. His book counterpart, Flavio la Ponte, is a major supporting character and stays very much alive. Also Liana Telfer and Boris Balkan, although [[CompositeCharacter it's not really the same character as in the book.]]]]

** It was also the goal of Aristide Torchia, who published in 1666 "''De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis'' ''[[labelnote:Lat.]]The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadows [[/labelnote]]''" which he based on the "''Delomelanicon'' ''[[labelnote:Lat.]]Invocation of Darkness [[/labelnote]]''", a work supposedly written by Lucifer and that would allow the reader to summon devils.

** It was also the goal of Aristide Torchia, who published in 1666 "De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis [[labelnote:Lat.]]The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadows [[/labelnote]]" which he based on the "Delomelanicon [[labelnote:Lat.]]Invocation of Darkness [[/labelnote]]", a work supposedly written by Lucifer and that would allow the reader to summon devils.

** It was also the goal of Aristide Torchia, who published in 1666 "De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis" [[labelnote:Lat.]] The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadows [[/labelnote]] which he based on the Delomelanicon [[labelnote:Lat.]] Invocation of Darkness [[/labelnote]], a work supposedly written by Lucifer and that would allow the reader to summon devils.

* NumberOfTheBeast: Balkan has the largest collection in the world of books about the Devil. Guess what the password to his library is? Also, the author of the book he's seeking, which reputedly is capable of summoning the Devil, was burned along with all of his works in 1''666''.