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    Das Beil Von Wandsbek

    In this tragic true story based on the novel by Arnold Zweig, a butcher was called upon to execute...

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    Drommen om Amerika

    The true story of the last two criminals to suffer capital punishment in Sweden is the basis for...

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    Morgen Grauen

    Morgen Grauen is a sci-fi action film set in an indeterminate future, when citizens above the age of...

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    The Highest Honor - A True Story (1984)

    The true story of a daring raid on Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour by Australian and British...

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    Que la fete commence...

    The Duke of Orleans (Philippe Noiret) rules for 5-year-old Louis XV in Regency France.

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    The Moro Affair (1986)

    The story of the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro.

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    Woman of Darkness

    As she is led to her execution, a woman reflects on the events that led to the crime, her capture,...

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    Vizi Privati, Pubbliche Virtu

    The son of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Crown Prince Rudolf, is believed to have shot his female...

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    Der Fangschuss

    A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

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    Oily Maniac

    Moments before his uncle is taken to be executed, Shen Yuan (Li Hsiu-hsien) writes down the cryptic...

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    Cronica de un Subversivo Latino-Americano

    In 1964 a U.S. army colonel was kidnapped by a group of Venezuelan radicals who hoped to effect a...

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    Sacco and Vanzetti (1971)

    The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for...

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    Les Aveux les plus doux (1971)

    This drama is based on a 1953 one-act play by Georges Amaudi. It details the confrontation between a...

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    Bronte

    Set in the time of Garibaldi's revolutionary efforts to free and unify Italy (1860s), this Italian...

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    Une Journee bleu remplie

    This black comedy is the first film directed by the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. The story...

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    The Italian Connection (1972)

    This Italian action film focuses on a crook, framed as a drug kingpin, whose wife is killed by the...

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    Kaigenrei

    This black-and-white Japanese movie examines the tortured life and death of the militaristic writer...

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    Last Days of Mussolini (1974)

    The Italian dictator attempts to flee in this dramatization of the events surrounding Il Duce's...

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    El Santo Oficio

    The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century...

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    Bordello

    Gorgeous women (Amber Lynn, Taija Rae, Tish Ambrose) run wild at a New Orleans brothel.

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    Casa Cerrado

    Leaving a lot of paths started but untrodden, this routine drama about a man fighting the system and...

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    Day of the Badman (1958)

    A cow-town judge (Fred MacMurray) stands alone against four related outlaws who aim to free a killer...

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    Bluebeard (1963)

    A model (Jean Parker) suspects an artist (John Carradine) is a notorious strangler in 19th-century...

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    Rising of the Moon (1956)

    Three tales about life in modern Ireland.

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    L' Aube (1986)

    In a drama in which even God has a role (Philippe Leotard) as well as Michael York, it is certain...

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    Rosa Luxemburg (1987)

    After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a...

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    The Hoodlum Priest (1961)

    The Rev. Charles Dismas Clark (Don Murray), a Jesuit, works with St. Louis ex-convicts and juvenile...

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    Ready For the People (1964)

    Murray Brock (Simon Oakland) is a crusading New York district attorney out to prove that young Eddie...

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    Avril brise

    A 100-year-old family feud in Albania continues to target men for vengeful execution in this somber...

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    El Clan de los Inmorales

    Order to Kill was originally shipped out to Spanish-speaking theatres under the title El Clan de los...