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    The House of Rothschild (1934)

    George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish...

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    Little Miss Rebellion

    Lively comedian Dorothy Gish plays an unlikely grand duchess in this Paramount picture. Marie Louise...

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    Love's Wilderness

    Linda Lou Heath (Corinne Griffith) is raised in a small Louisiana town by her two maiden aunts...

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    Perfect Understanding

    Star Gloria Swanson also co-produced this British film, a romantic comedy/drama that teamed her with...

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    A Thousand and One Nights (1945)

    Aladdin's (Cornel Wilde) magic-lamp genie (Evelyn Keyes) is a redhead who does her best to end his...

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    Trifling Women

    Both Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr had just appeared in Prisoner of Zenda and their careers were...

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    The Prisoner of Zenda

    Previously filmed in 1913 by Edwin S. Porter, Anthony Hope's classic swashbuckler The Prisoner of...

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    Young Bess (1953)

    Henry VIII's (Charles Laughton) daughter Elizabeth (Jean Simmons) has a forbidden romance with naval...

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    Utz (1993)

    Story about a reclusive Baron whose priceless porcelain collection mysteriously disappears after his...

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    Diabel

    Though presumably dealing with the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, this ambitious and...

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    Tower of London (1962)

    Roger Corman's remake of the 1939 classic about Richard III's murderous rise to power in...

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    Come Fly With Me (1963)

    Stewardesses (Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin) flirt with a gem-smuggling baron, a rich Texan and a...

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    Beg

    The English title is a translation of the Russian word "Beg," which means run, flight or escape....

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    The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones

    The 18th-century English hero (Nicky Henson) takes the highroad to his worldly due.

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    Land Raiders (1969)

    Vince Carden (Telly Savalas) is the violent Apache-hating landowner obsessed with driving the...

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    Decadence

    Two grotesque British aristocrats go through their decadent motions.

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    The Scapegoat (1959)

    An Englishman (Alec Guinness) doubles for a decadent French count who has an Italian mistress...

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    La Partita (1988)

    After gambling himself into the clutches of a wicked noblewoman, a young rake takes flight.

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    The Ruling Class

    An insane man inherits his father's estate, but the other family members plot to take it away from...

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    The Swan Princess (1994)

    A vengeful wizard curses a princess to exist as a swan by day until her prince declares his undying...

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    Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)

    Women's lib in Denver affects several male-female relationships in the same family.

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    Anna Karenina (1997)

    Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based...

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    The Brides of Dracula (1960)

    Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) drives a stake through the heart of a vampire baron (David Peel) who...

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    Basil (1998)

    A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England stuggles to meet the approval of his...

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    Cinderfella (1960)

    Both director Frank Tashlin and his comic star Jerry Lewis dilute their comic talents to play for...

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    The Draughtsman's Contract

    Peter Greenaway's first fiction feature (after the mock-documentary The Falls) made him immediately...

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    Force of Circumstance (1990)

    A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.

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    The Grass Is Greener (1960)

    An English earl (Cary Grant) and his wife (Deborah Kerr) open their stately home to the public,...

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    Dangerous Beauty (1998)

    Unable to wed the nobleman she loves, a 16th-century Venetian woman opts to improve her lot by...

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    Allonsanfan (1974)

    Disillusioned by the 1816 Restoration in France, a middle-aged Italian nobleman betrays the leader...