Morgana

Morgana is a 2008 Dutch short film starring Hugo Metsers and Carlijn van Ramshorst about a hypnotist who sells his services to a Chinese gang, with unfortunate consequences.

Plot Summary
Jules (Metsers) is a master of hypnosis, with the ability to entrance any woman almost instantly. He uses the beautiful Eva (van Ramshorst) as his test subject, placing her into a mindless trance. This gets him an audience with the local Triad, who hire him to hypnotize and deliver fifty more women to them for shipment to China. They pay him half of his fee up front.

The gangsters only give Jules three days to capture all fifty women, so he goes to the local dance club and hypnotizes all of the young women dancing there. Now with an apartment full of mindless thralls, the confident Jules takes time out to dance at the club and seduce a beautiful woman (without hypnosis) at the bar. Suddenly, he wakes to find himself battered and bloody, with the angry Triads standing over him.

In a flashback, Jules runs into Eva at a coffee shop. The meeting is frosty; their relationship ended at some point in the past when Jules assaulted Eva. Jules pulls out his hypnotic watch...

...and it turns out that Eva is the real hypnotist, having hypnotized Jules into thinking that he is a master hypnotist when in fact he has no powers at all. The events of the previous three days were all a product of Eva's hypnotic suggestions, with the exception of the deal with the Chinese, who are less than pleased when they arrive to pick up 50 hypnotized women and find instead Jules sitting with 50 cardboard boxes. Jules is beaten and tortured by the Triads while a triumphant Eva escapes with the gang's money.