aristocracy
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    Gates to Paradise

    Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival, this tragic historical film from...

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    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de La Cruz (1961)

    The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime.

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    Return From Witch Mountain (1978)

    Teens help psychic children from another world thwart a mad scientist (Christopher Lee) and his...

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    Stiff Upper Lips (1999)

    A woman's (Georgina Cates) brother and aunt (Prunella Scales) try to pair her with a fop in 1908...

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    The Abdication (1974)

    17th-century Queen Christina of Sweden journeys to Rome to embrace the Catholic church and falls in...

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    The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987)

    A girl learns about self-worth when she helps the Care Bears rescue the kidnapped princess of...

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    Lola Montes (1955)

    The 19th-century courtesan (Martine Carol) recalls Franz Liszt and the king of Bavaria (Anton...

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    Calcutta (1969)

    Filmmaker Louis Malle examines overpopulation and poverty in the Indian metropolis.

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    The Wings of the Dove (1997)

    A young British aristocrat (Helena Bonham Carter) arranges for her working-class beau (Linus Roache)...

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    The Opium War

    An attempt to stop the British from selling opium to the Chinese leads to war when mass quantities...

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    Quentin Durward (1955)

    Sir Walter Scott's Scottish Guard hero (Robert Taylor) foils Louis XI (Robert Morley) and wins...

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    The Leopard (1963)

    An Italian prince (Burt Lancaster) ponders his fate and finds a wife (Claudia Cardinale) for his...

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    Tall Man Riding (1955)

    Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low...

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    The Virgin Queen (1955)

    Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) loves and loses Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) to a maid of honor (Joan...

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    Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

    A Belgian captain brings the ape-raised son (Christopher Lambert) of shipwrecked aristocrats home to...

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    Anastasia (1956)

    An expatriate Russian general (Yul Brynner) grooms a refugee (Ingrid Bergman) to pose as the lost...

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    Paul et Michelle

    English Paul and French Michelle come together again in this sequel to the 1971 film Friends....

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    The Lower Depths

    A fallen high priest visits a landlady (Isuzu Yamada), her sister (Kyoko Kagawa), a thief (Toshirô...

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    Forty Guns (1957)

    An Arizona rancher (Barbara Stanwyck) rules with her cowboy army until a U.S. marshal (Barry...

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    Shinsengumi (1970)

    The Japanese title of Band of Assassins was Shinsengumi, which pinpointed the assassins in question....

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    Omar Khayyam (1957)

    The Persian poet and philosopher defends his Shah against the Assassins.

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    Torrents of Spring (1990)

    Tragic romantic triangle in 19th century Europe, based on Ivan Turgenev's short story.

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    Where Angels Fear to Tread (1992)

    Love, death and a birth stir Edwardian Britons (Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves) in...

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    Age of Innocence (1977)

    Veterans and war-sympathizers get angry when a Canadian professor begins speaking out with his...

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    Great Catherine (1968)

    A British military officer and his ambassadors are received by Catherine, queen of Russia, in her...

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    Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

    In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the...

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    In Enemy Country (1968)

    Occasionally listed as In Enemy Hands (evidently a working title), In Enemy Country is a war film...

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    El Triunfo de un Hombre Llamado Caballo

    This is the second sequel in the saga of an English aristocrat who was captured by the Sioux in 1825...

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    Lionheart (1987)

    A young knight (Eric Stoltz) and company go to 12th-century Paris to find King Richard and fight the...

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    Magnat

    A noble family struggles to survive the political upheaval and social change of the early 20th...