Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

Can she be blamed for a past she didn't create?

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Produced by Gainsborough Pictures

192870 min5.3 / 10

A romantic melodrama about a woman fleeing scandal who finds love but cannot escape her past, told with the visual elegance and moral complexity of 1920s silent cinema.

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.

Questions people ask

  • Is Easy Virtue sad? Yes. More sad than 82% of films.

  • Is Easy Virtue violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is Easy Virtue scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is Easy Virtue easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Does Easy Virtue end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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15/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity56

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Like Easy Virtue

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

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Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Easy Virtue, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Easy Virtue, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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