aristocracy
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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...

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    Knight Without Armour (1937)

    A British spy (Robert Donat) released from Siberia helps a widowed countess (Marlene Dietrich) flee...

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    Orphans of the Storm (1921)

    Two sisters (Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish) are lost in the French Revolution, with a...

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    The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

    Laughton won an Oscar for his portrayal of the 16th-century English monarch in Alexander Korda's...

  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex picture
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    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

    Matronly Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) loves the dashing Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn), but politics come...

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    Tempest (1928)

    In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.

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    That Hamilton Woman (1941)

    British naval hero Lord Nelson's (Laurence Olivier) affair with another man's (Alan Mowbray) wife...

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    The Three Musketeers (1921)

    Douglas Fairbanks' longest and most elaborate production up to 1921, The Three Musketeers was...

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    The White Cliffs of Dover

    A woman (Irene Dunne) from Oklahoma marries an English aristocrat (Alan Marshal) and raises a son...

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    The Great Love

    This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from...

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    Great Moment

    Author Elinor Glyn knew how to generate publicity, and she created quite a bit when Paramount...