The Beguiled

Set during the American Civil War, The Beguiled follows John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier who finds refuge at an all-female boarding school in Virginia. What begins as sanctuary spirals into obsession and betrayal among the women he seduces, culminating in a tense showdown of jealousy and violence. Thomas Cullinan's Southern Gothic classic was adapted into a 1968 film starring Nicole Kidman.