Movies Better Than Sex

Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding. Starring Tyrone Power, with Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker.  Stan (Tyrone Power) joins a seedy carnival as the assistant to Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell). She and her alcoholic husband had a great, convincing system at "telling fortunes" until some misfortune caused them to come to the seedy carnival and work. Zeena hasn't told anyone their ingenious code.  Stan - even flirtatiously -  seduces Zeena to get her to work together using the secret code while his " by mistake " involvement in an event related with alcohol leads to the death of her husband ..Eventually he manages to convince the young Molly (Coleen Gray) -  who he had actually fallen in love with -  to  help him learn the code and work together in popular theaters in big cities...  His plan is noticed by Zeena and  Molly's boyfriend and they forcefully led the couple ( Stan and Molly...