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    Shatranj ke Khilari

    In 1856, two obsessive chess players fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian...

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    Black Venus (1983)

    This standard softcore film actually has a plot of sorts that is adapted from a story by Honoré de...

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    Shogun Mayeda (1992)

    A historical epic set in 1600 Japan involving the Eastern and Western Armies engaged in the Battle...

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    Fiesta (1995)

    A young aristocratic military cadet gets a dose of reality that shakes his high ideals to the core...

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    The Queen's Guards (1962)

    A young British guard looks back on his life and tries to reconcile his feelings regarding his...

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    The Adventures of Galgameth (1997)

    With the help of a metal-eating dragon, a young prince (Devin Oatway) tries to save his people from...

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    Grotesque (1997)

    Set in the 1940s, an English butler conspires with the mistress of the house to take his master's...

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    Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

    Henry VIII (Richard Burton) leaves his wife (Irene Papas) and forms the Church of England to marry...

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    Heaven With a Gun (1969)

    An ex-gunfighter preacher (Glenn Ford) starts a church and enters a water war between cattlemen and...

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    Hsia Nu

    An influential martial arts film and an acknowledged influence on Ang Lee's amazing Crouching Tiger,...

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    Mayerling (1968)

    Rudolf (Omar Sharif), son of Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph (James Mason), has a tragic love for...

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    Me, Natalie (1969)

    The story of a young girl struggling to gain independence.

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    Chouans!

    The conflicts of the French Revolution are explored with the story of one family torn apart by war.

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    An Ideal Husband (1999)

    A devoted womanizer (Rupert Everett) is called upon to help an old friend (Jeremy Northam) whose...

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    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)

    A director tries to shoot an adaptation of a novel that is considered to be impossible to film.

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    Royal Flash (1976)

    The escapades of an adventurer land him in the arms of a notorious courtesan and on the wrong side...

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    King David (1985)

    The prophet Samuel condemns Saul (Edward Woodward) and secretly anoints David (Richard Gere) king of...

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    The Sheepman (1958)

    A cattleman (Leslie Nielsen) and a sheepman (Glenn Ford) fight over land and a girl (Shirley...

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    Masquerade (1965)

    The British send an American (Cliff Robertson) and a war hero (Jack Hawkins) to kidnap and hide an...

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    Raise the Red Lantern (1992)

    In 1920s China, a 19-year-old student accepts the marriage offer of a powerful patriarch who has...

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    You'll Like My Mother (1972)

    Though it sometimes looks like a TV "Movie of the Week' deflected to big screen, You'll Like My...

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    Puss in Boots (1988)

    A miller's son (Jason Connery) leaves home with a cat which can change into a man (Christopher...

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    Kaspar Hauser (1996)

    Based on the renowned, 19th-century German legend. Who was Kaspar Hauser? Kept in a dungeon his...

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    The Madness of King George (1994)

    The 18th-century British monarch (Nigel Hawthorne) loves his devoted queen (Helen Mirren) but...

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    Valmont (1989)

    The Marquise de Merteuil (Annette Bening) and the Viscomte de Valmont (Colin Firth) bet on dangerous...

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    Next!

    This dubbed Italian/Spanish thriller offers non-stop shocks. George (George Hilton) and his wife...

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    John Paul Jones (1959)

    The Scottish-born U.S. naval officer (Robert Stack) becomes a Revolutionary War hero and falls in...

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    Miss Mary (1986)

    In this drama about women living in a repressive society, Julie Christie plays Miss Mary Mulligan, a...

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    The Good Die Young (1954)

    An English aristocrat (Laurence Harvey) masterminds an armed robbery with an ex-GI (Richard...

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    A Countess From Hong Kong (1967)

    A Russian countess in Hong Kong uses an American man as a facilitator for getting to New York.