Juliette Mayniel, born in 1936, emerged from the French cinema scene in the late 1950s, quickly establishing herself in cult and genre films. She appears in Assassination in Rome (1965), where her performance captures the tension of espionage, and later in The Bloodstained Shadow (1978), a giallo that highlights her ability to navigate complex narratives. Mayniel's collaborations with notable directors and her roles in films like Listen, Let's Make Love (1968) and I prosseneti (1976) contribute to her unique position in the landscape of exploitation and thriller cinema.
I prosseneti
David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several characters. Odile, the daughter of a woman tortured by mercenaries, meets in the villa one of the torturers and want to relive over his own body the suffering endured by the mother. An ambassador who was abandoned by his companion, imposes its new partner to take his place. An eighteen year old, very open-minded, staged an orgy.