

Tess
She was born into a world where they called it seduction, not rape. What she did would shatter that world forever.
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.
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7.1/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $12M
- Box office
- $20.1M
- Language
- English
- rape
- based on novel or book
- peasant
- marriage
- love
- revenge
- murder
- mansion
- family
- farmer
- nobility
- social climbing
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Produced in
France, United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG12 Dec 1980
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical159 Apr 1981
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG26 Mar 1981
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1814 Aug 1980
AustriaAT
- Theatrical6 Oct 1979
BrazilBR
- Physical14DVD/VHS26 Dec 2005
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical13 Nov 1980
DenmarkDK
- TheatricalA18 Sept 1981
FinlandFI
- Theatrical21 Dec 1979
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP31 Oct 1979
- PhysicalDVD19 Oct 2005
- Digital / OTTVOD24 Nov 2011
- TheatricalRe-release5 Dec 2012
- PhysicalBlu-Ray5 Dec 2012
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1225 Oct 1979
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1331 Oct 1979
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Tess was released on 6 October 1979.
Audience reviews
1- W8/10
Wuchak
9/24/2020
_**Bringing in the sheaves stuck between a demon and an angel**_ During the Long Depression of the 1870-80s in Blackmore Vale, southern England, a peasant family discovers that they are nobility and thus their oldest daughter, an extraordinarily beautiful woman (Nastassja Kinski), is sent to meet the well-to-do family. She is eventually pitted between the interest of two very different men (Leigh Lawson and Peter…
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