Box office sensation Robert Pattinson stars in this adaptation of the classic 1885 French novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant, a literary powder-keg of its time - a story full of sexual intrigue, scandal and manipulation. Paris, 1890s.

Handsome, smart, charismatic and resourceful, George Duroy (Pattinson), known to his friends as "Bel Ami", is offered a job as a journalist on the newspaper La Vie Francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt Parisian high society to which he aspires: the sleazy colleagues, the wily financiers, and manipulative mistresses. He swiftly learns to become an arch seducer and blackmailer, in a world where love is only a means to an end. He will stop at nothing to move into the high echelons of Paris society.

Duroy will seduce, manipulate and charm the most powerful and beautiful.