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    Dil Se...

    The clash between love and ideology is portrayed in this love story between a radio executive and a...

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    Indochine (1992)

    Set in 1930 in French Indochina against a backdrop of political tension between the French and...

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    Map of the Human Heart (1993)

    From the 1930s to the 1960s, the story of an Inuit (Jason Scott Lee) and his lover (Anne Parillaud)...

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    Temptation of a Monk (1994)

    Set during the Tang dynasty. After inadvertently setting the stage for the assassination of the...

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    Rapa Nui (1994)

    Members (Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales) of two clans race by land and sea to name a ruler and wed a...

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    Russki Bunt

    After Empress Catherine II has her husband Peter killed, 16-year-old rookie soldier Pyotr Grinyov...

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    Les Miserables (1995)

    Loosely based on Victor Hugo's classic 1862 novel. Henri Fortin is a rough-hewn but good-hearted man...

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    The Barber of Siberia (1999)

    Jane Callahan travels to Russia in the late 19th Century to help a man who may be her father with...

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    Earth (1999)

    In 1947 India, an 8-year-old girl is witness to the political strife ripping through her hometown of...

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    Farewell My Concubine (1993)

    Two male Peking Opera stars (Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi) and a prostitute (Gong Li) form a strange...

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    War and Peace

    Epic adaptation of Tolstoy's novel centers around the lives of two families during Napoleon's 1812...

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    The Red Mantle

    The mountain slopes of Iceland are shown to excellent advantage in the Scandinavian epic Hagbard and...

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    Potop (1975)

    Set during the 17th-century Polish-Swedish war and based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Deluge...

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    Unhaeng Namu Chimdae

    A ghost meller about a vengeful soul whose restless spirit is trapped inside a bed. However, when it...

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    La Ciudad de los Prodigios

    Born into poverty in the 1920s, as a young man Onofre Bouvila moves from the countryside of Spain to...

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    Novel Romance (2007)

    Max Normane's eye for the undiscovered literary gem is famous. And nowhere is this talent more...

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    Fabiola (1951)

    After several years of wartime austerity, the Italian film industry returned to spectacle with...

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    The Little American (1917)

    A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in...

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    The Captive

    In the years before he became known for his sexy domestic films and elaborate spectaculars,...

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    The Dishonored Medal

    This tragedy is set in the Algerian desert and begins as a selfish French Foreign Legion officer...

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    Evangeline (1929)

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline briefly abandoned the curriculum of English...

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    Naked Hearts

    Rupert Julian was both star and director of the episodic historical drama Naked Hearts. The story...

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    A Throw of the Dice

    Following up on the success of Prem Sanyas and Shiraz, director Franz Osten and star Himansu Rai...

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    De Mayerling a Sarajevo

    Director Max Ophuls managed to get three productions before the cameras in 1940, the best of which...

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    Messalina

    In ancient Rome, tyrannical Emperor Caligula is assassinated through the machinations of Messalina...

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    Das Weib des Pharao

    While he was working in his native Germany, Ernst Lubitsch directed a number of historical pictures...

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    Deception

    Passion wasn't the only spectacular Ernst Lubitsch film which he made in Germany before coming to...

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    Ranakdevi

    Gujarati filmmaker V.M. Vyas directs this historical drama and tribute to marital fidelity. Though...

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    Jodhaa Akbar (2008)

    An emperor faces his greatest battle when he marries a defiant princess.

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    Partition (2008)

    Gian and Naseem are a latter-day Romeo and Juliet. With the partition of India and Pakistan...