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    Conan the Destroyer (1984)

    An evil queen wants Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to fetch a jewel-encrusted horn that can awaken...

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    Vanity Fair (2004)

    Despite her poverty-stricken background, a young woman (Reese Witherspoon) climbs the social ladder...

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    Caligula (1978)

    Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius...

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    Il Corsaro Nero (1976)

    Il Corsaro Nero (The Black Pirate) stars Cico Verrati in the swashbuckling title role. Set during...

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    Countess Dracula (1972)

    A mad Hungarian countess (Ingrid Pitt) follows a medieval beauty regimen that depletes the local...

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    The Boy and the Pirates (1960)

    Abu the genie sends a boy (Charles Herbert) back in time to the ship of Blackbeard the pirate...

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    The Age of Innocence (1993)

    An upper-class lawyer (Daniel Day-Lewis) falls in love with his fiancee's (Winona Ryder)...

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    The Iron Duke

    Marie Antoinette's daughter (Gladys Cooper) causes the downfall of the Duke of Wellington (George...

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    The Cat Burglar

    A thief (Jack Hogan) lands in hot water after stealing a briefcase that contains a scientific...

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    My Fair Lady (1964)

    Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney...

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    Dracula Vs. Frankenstein (1973)

    Count Dracula (Zandor Vorkov) forces fun-park operator Dr. Frankenstein (J. Carrol Naish) to revive...

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    Rosalie (1937)

    A West Point football hero (Nelson Eddy) falls for a Vassar student (Eleanor Powell), then learns...

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    Jefferson in Paris (1995)

    Set just prior to the French Revolution, the story revolves around Thomas Jefferson, then US...

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    I Start Counting (1969)

    When two teenage girls fantasize about their sexual yearnings, one is stalked by a psychopathic...

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    The Wedding March (1928)

    A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.

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    Il Decamerone (1971)

    The Decameron was the first of director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "trilogy of life." The film, based on...

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    Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

    A nightclub guy (Red Skelton) slips himself a Mickey and dreams that he is French King Louis XV,...

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    Mark of the Vampire (1935)

    A police inspector and a hypnotist (Lionel Barrymore) solve a Czech castle murder with a trick.

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    A Man Called Horse (1970)

    Captured by Dakotas, an English lord (Richard Harris) survives their rituals, absorbs their culture...

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    War and Peace (1956)

    Pierre (Henry Fonda) loves Natasha (Audrey Hepburn), and Napoleon attacks Russia in this epic based...

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    Angels & Insects (1996)

    An 1800s naturalist (Mark Rylance) marries into a family of British aristocrats who reflect Darwin's...

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    The Devil to Pay

    A naughty but likable gentleman (Ronald Colman) returns to London, buys a dog and charms a socialite...

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    My American Wife

    Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to...

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    Four Weddings and A Funeral (1994)

    An English charmer (Hugh Grant) and a lusty American (Andie MacDowell) make love over a course of...

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    Blood For Dracula (1974)

    The pale vampire (Udo Kier) and his helper (Arno Juerging) drive his vintage car to Italy in...

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    Tess (1980)

    A young strong-willed peasant girl, becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling...

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    Richard III (1955)

    Shakespeare's hunchbacked king (Laurence Olivier) works his mad way from the battlefield to the...

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    The Earrings of Madame De... (1954)

    Diamond earrings twist the tragedy of a French countess (Danielle Darrieux), her husband (Charles...

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    Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)

    A British anti-war revue of World War I shows generals playing leapfrog and war as an amusement-park...

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    Lady L (1966)

    An 80-year-old Frenchwoman (Sophia Loren) recalls her adventures with a French anarchist (Paul...

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    Joe Kidd (1972)

    A land baron's (Robert Duvall) gunman (Clint Eastwood) joins a rebel (John Saxon) fighting for...

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    The Warriors (1955)

    The son of the king, Prince Edward is given control of Aquitaine, a French area recently conquered...

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Corrupted by a lord (George Sanders), Oscar Wilde's London aristocrat (Hurd Hatfield) stays young,...

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    The Beloved Rogue (1927)

    Jaunty poet Francois Villon (John Barrymore) falls from royal grace, then rescues Louis XI's (Conrad...

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    Dinner at Eight (1934)

    At least one of the guests (Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow, John Barrymore) misbehaves at a New York...

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    The Crusades (1935)

    Richard the Lion-Hearted (Henry Wilcoxon) heads for the Holy Land with his bride (Loretta Young) in...

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    Under the Rainbow (1981)

    In this comedy, a hotel becomes a chaotic place during the 1938 filming of The Wizard of Oz, when it...

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    Wilde (1998)

    Playwright Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry) espouses personal style, breaks conventions and attacks...

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    McLintock! (1963)

    A cattle baron (John Wayne) tries to tame his wife (Maureen O'Hara) amid a feud with settlers and...

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    The V.I.P.s (1963)

    Very important people (Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan) must wait in a London...

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    Fame (1980)

    Leroy, Coco (Irene Cara), Bruno (Lee Curreri) and others of mixed talents and means attend New...

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    The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

    A Balkan prince regent (Laurence Olivier) courts a Milwaukee chorus girl (Marilyn Monroe) during the...

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    The King and I (1956)

    A young Victorian widow (Deborah Kerr) goes to Siam to teach the king's (Yul Brynner) children....

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    The Naked Maja

    Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya (Anthony Franciosa) pines for an...

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    Marie Antoinette (1938)

    The 18th-century Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) has an affair with a Swedish count (Tyrone Power)...

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    Kismet

    Fate follows a beggar king (Ronald Colman), his daughter, a dancer (Marlene Dietrich), and the...

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    As You Desire Me (1932)

    This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As...

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    The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

    A mad botanist (Bela Lugosi) drains kidnapped brides to keep his 80-year-old wife (Elizabeth...

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    The Emperor Jones (1933)

    A swaggering railroad porter (Paul Robeson) kills a man, escapes from a chain gang and becomes king...

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    A Free Soul (1931)

    A boozing lawyer's (Lionel Barrymore) flapper daughter (Norma Shearer) falls tragically in love with...