Sins (1986)

The powerful head (Joan Collins) of a fashion magazine empire has amassed many enemies in her rise to the top. Four of them (Lauren Hutton, Giancarlo Giannini, Steven Berkoff, Neil Dickson) band together to bring about her downfall. When she is presented with evidence that her four enemies have banded together, she reflects back on her life which began in Nazi occupied France when she was 13 years old and her first enemy, a Nazi commandant (Berkoff). Based on the lurid Judith Gould best seller, it's trash but the kind of trash you can't take your eyes off of. It has Nazis, murder, rape, suicide, killer dogs, embezzlement, blackmail, torture, adultery, sado-masochism crammed into a six hour running time and set in Paris, Venice, Vienna and New York City while Collins makes over 80 costume changes, all designed by Valentino. It's all rather ludicrous especially the murderous finale but eminently enjoyable in a guilty pleasure way. Dickson's performance is particularly bad but the character is so ill conceived that there's not an actor who could have played the part decently. Directed by Douglas Hickox (THEATER OF BLOOD). The massive cast includes Gene Kelly, Capucine, Timothy Dalton, Jean Pierre Aumont, Marisa Berenson, James Farentino, Allen Garfield, Joseph Bologna, Judi Bowker, Paul Freeman, Arielle Dombasle, Alexandra Stewart, John McEnery, Peter Vaughan, Regine, Faith Brook and Catherine Mary Stewart who plays Collins' younger self from 13 to early 30s.