Dangerous Charm (Original title: Опасен чар [opasen char]) is a 1984 Bulgarian comedy film about the adventures of Gencho Gunchev, a scoundrel who woos various women to milk profits from them, always on the run from the police.
- Borrowed Catch Phrase: How the agent who lures him into a Honey Trap let him know he's been caught:Agent Mateva: (referencing his tendency to play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata) We have a tapestry project going on. Music, notes, piano, and front and center - the composer..."Ilia Burevestnikov": Ludwig Van Beethoven?Agent Mateva: Frank. Lloyd. Wright.
- Brawn Hilda: One of the women he seduced (while posing as "Radul Misirkov"). She was heartbroken and recognizes him immediately, attacks him with a shovel and then turns him in.
- Celebrity Lie: He boasts about being friends with world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright when he poses as an architect himself.
- Gold Digger: A male version, seducing women for money, then dumping them when the mine runs dry.
- In Medias Res: The opening scene is "Yastrebovski"'s last scam, after which he spends all his money at a cabaret bar and gets caught by his old nemesis.
- Ladykiller in Love: His usual m. o. involves seducing women and then robbing them, and he's not attracted to those women. When he escapes captivity, he falls in love with a woman he seduces, but has to run away because her uncle is a police inspector who genuinely offered to have him looked up so they can find his "lost" passport.
- Lovable Rogue: He exploits this, appealing to women who then defend him and bust him out of difficult situations.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he meets Boriana, he leaves without stealing anything from her, and she's the one woman he wanted to stay with because he fell in love.
- Retirony: When he met Boryana, he fell in love and sincerely intended to quit his criminal activities and settle down... but her cop uncle most good-naturedly offered to have him looked up so they can help him find the passport he lied about losing so Boryana would take him home.
- Soul-Crushing Desk Job: The main character reveals his motif to have been his disgust with the dull, mind-numbingly repetitive, depressing desk job:"And you, Citizen Investigator, have you ever worked a desk job? On a chair, from dawn till dusk, then you get home tired, tomorrow the same all over again... Everything's scheduled, "from - to, from - to"... The streets you walk are scheduled, the people you meet are scheduled, your time is scheduled. You don't make it to retirement. Then your funeral, the funeral march, Chopin, the next day you're forgotten. And if you asked yourself, a moment before death, how did you live? No, thank you! Dankeschön! I want the choice to be my own. Free or in jail, the choice shall be my own.
- Theme Naming: The protagonist's aliases are all bird-based: Orelski* , Pelikanski, Yastrebovski* , Sokolov* , Misirkov* , Burevestnikov* .The police inspector: There are over 6000 species of birds in the world. So we can't know his next reincarnation.
- Trope Namer: In Bulgarian culture.
- "Bad, Sedlarov, B-A-D!"*
- "Relative, cop, relative, cop" *
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: He frequently appeals to women by acting like a playboy at first, then posing as a man who's wound up in trouble.
