aristocracy
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    Don Giovanni (1979)

    Joseph Losey's 1979 film adaptation of the Mozart opera Don Giovanni adheres faithfully to the...

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    Maurice (1987)

    Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject --...

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    Diane (1955)

    Asked by Francis I (Pedro Armendáriz) to tutor his son (Roger Moore), Diane de Poitiers (Lana...

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    The Princess Academy (1987)

    Lowbrow humor is the feature in this slight comedy setting students at a finishing school against...

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    The Right Hand Man (1987)

    Harry Ironmaster (Rupert Everett) is an aristocratic and wealthy young man, which in his time and...

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    Lionheart (1991)

    A French Foreign Legion deserter (Jean-Claude Van Damme) enters a U.S. arena of bare-knuckle brawls...

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    Barry Lyndon (1975)

    Thackeray's 18th-century Irish rogue (Ryan O'Neal) woos and wins a rich widow (Marisa Berenson),...

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    Mamma Dracula

    A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay alive. The trouble is that...

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    The King's Whore

    Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King...

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    Dragonheart (1996)

    A medieval dragon-slayer (Dennis Quaid) teams up with his intelligent prey to rid the land of a...

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    Orlando (1993)

    The hero/heroine (Tilda Swinton) of Virginia Woolf's novel lives about 400 years, from the time of...

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    The Drowning Pool

    A New Orleans oil heiress (Joanne Woodward) hires private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to unravel a...

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    Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)

    The very eccentric English peer Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts, with the help of his mad family &...

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    The Go-Between

    Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.

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    Pourvu que ce soit une fille (1986)

    A critique of the role of the male in modern Italian society and has demonstrated the possibility of...

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    Frankenstein - 1970 (1958)

    The baron's grandson (Boris Karloff) rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival...

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    From Hell to Texas (1958)

    A kindly cowboy suddenly finds himself the object of a massive manhunt after he accidently kills the...

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    The Blue Max (1966)

    A lowborn World War I German ace (George Peppard) covets a medal of honor and his highborn...

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    The Music Room

    An aristocrat is too proud to curb his extravagant lifestyle even though his riches are turning into...

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    Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

    Czar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston) and his German bride (Janet Suzman) obey mad monk Rasputin (Tom...

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    The Hidden Fortress (1960)

    Two medieval misfits help a beaten Japanese warlord (Toshirô Mifune) and his princess (Misa Uehara)...

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    Tales of Beatrix Potter

    The Royal Ballet Company brings Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Jeremy...

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    Fraternity Row

    Story of an upper class college in the early '50s and how a "harmless" hazing resulted in a...

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    Von Richthofen and Brown

    Top World War I flying ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen (John Phillip Law) meets Canadian farmer Roy...

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    Crossed Swords (1954)

    In medieval Italy an adventuring swashbuckler must abide by an archaic Italian law whic requires...

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    Mack the Knife (1990)

    The well-known story, set during Queen Victoria's coronation, about an underworld thief who finds...

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    Silent Night (1988)

    Biography of the priest, Franz Gruber, who composed the Christmas carol "Silent Night".

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    The Jokers

    Two pranksterish brothers plan a theft of the Royal Crown Jewels just to see if they can pull it...

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    Plunkett & Macleane (1999)

    In 1748 a robber (Robert Carlyle) and a seedy aristocrat (Jonny Lee Miller) team up to steal from...

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    Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1954)

    The courageous Roy Roy MacGregor leads a revolt of the Scottish clans against the English monarchy,...