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- DirectorGregory RatoffOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesNancy GuildAkim TamiroffHypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
- DirectorSonia Nassery ColeStarsHaji Gul AserSonia Nassery ColeLeo SolomonThe Mansouri family opens up a new restaurant after the fall of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan only to be subsequently targeted by factional Taliban elements.
- DirectorAlex BryceStarsPatrick WaddingtonAnn SoreenCampbell GullanThis film is based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Pere and set in Holland in 1672. The wealthy but naïve Cornelius Van Baerle spends his time cultivating tulips, ignorant of the fact that his godfather, Cornelius De Witte, was murdered for having supported Louis XIV when most of the Dutch support William of Orange. Cornelius is also unaware of the fact that his success in growing a unique black tulip has created an enemy # his neighbor Isaac Boxtel, another tulip fancier. Boxtel alerts the authorities that Cornelius is connected with political dissidents and the poor fellow is arrested, though he manages to hide the black tulip bulb in his pocket before being thrown in jail. Cornelius becomes friends with Rosa, the daughter of the turnkey Gryphus. He gives her one of the three black tulip flowers, but Boxtel steals it...
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsAlain DelonVirna LisiDawn AddamsIn 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux "plays" this benefactor. When he fought with Mouche, the policeman he was wounded ...
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsJosé FerrerJean-Pierre CasselSylva KoscinaDuelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsMichèle MercierRichard JohnsonJohn MillsNoticed by George Romney (Boy Gobert), an artist, Emma (Michèle Mercier), a young shepherdess, leaves her sheep behind to settle down in London with Romney, who employs her as a model. In return, the painter transforms the young peasant into an elegant young socialite, soon surrounded by a crowd of admirers. Her rise in society is meteoric. Her hand is asked for in marriage by old Lord Hamilton (Sir John Mills), the English ambassador in Naples. Emma accepts the offer and follows her husband to Sicily and becomes the confidante of Queen Marie-Caroline (Nadja Tiller) of Naples. She will also live a great love with Admiral Horatio Nelson (Richard Johnson). Unfortunately, Lord Nelson is killed at the Battle of Trafalgar while Emma is pregnant with her child.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsWillard ParkerAnita LouiseJanis CarterA band of Frenchmen start an uprising against the aristocracy in the days before the French Revolution.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMatheson LangGladys JenningsHenry VictorIn France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an extermination plan.
- DirectorVittorio GassmanStarsVittorio GassmanEleonora Rossi DragoGérard LandryEdmund Kean is a popular British actor and theatrical nineteenth addicted to vices, however, and in debt. He contends with the Prince of Wales, his companion of excesses, the Danish ambassador's wife, but eventually falls in love with Anna, a young but promising rookie actress.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsGerald AmesJanet RossEdward O'NeillAn assassin's daughter learns she is the King's bastard and dies to save his life.
- DirectorSean McNamaraStarsPierce BrosnanKaya ScodelarioWilliam HurtKing Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsLaetitia CastaAdriano GianniniCecilia RothAn 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
- DirectorLeo MenardiStarsLaura SolariMassimo SeratoOsvaldo Valenti
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsTheda BaraCharles ClaryFred ChurchDu Barry attracts the attention of the King of France as he rides through the streets. A meeting follows, she losing her garter and the King his heart. Installed at court, Du Barry holds the King's favor in spite of her love for a soldier. The King dies and Du Barry plans to wed her soldier sweetheart, but she falls a victim of the Revolution.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriEmil JanningsHarry LiedtkeThe story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsJon HallPatricia MorisonAdele JergensRobin Hood, his sidekick Will Scarlet and the rest of the forest rogues try to retrieve another male's captured female from the castle of the evil Prince John as the two sides try to annihilate each other.
- DirectorPatrice ChéreauStarsIsabelle AdjaniDaniel AuteuilJean-Hugues AngladeYoung Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.
- DirectorTony LekainGaston RavelStarsMarcelle ChantalGeorges LannesDiana KarenneAdaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel 'The Queen's Necklace' which portrays the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which occurred before the French Revolution.
- DirectorJean DrévilleStarsJeanne MoreauArmando FrancioliRobert PorteTwo riders ride to Paris carrying a message for their respective lords. One is a faithful servant of Henry of Navarre, the other of the Duke of Guise.
- DirectorOscar EagleStarsGertrude CoghlanThomas CarriganClifford BruceThe story of "The Royal Box" chiefly concerns a favorite actor of a century ago in England. James Clarence, the boon-comrade of the Prince of Wales, and one who occupied a peculiar, popular position with the play-goers of that day. The scene opens with the actors presentation at the Swedish Embassy Ball, by the Princc of Wales. There he meets Lady Felsen, the wife of Count Felsen, and she is at once charmed by his elegant manner. He apparently reciprocates her admiration and the warmth of their first meeting, inspires her noble husband to be very distant and disagreeable. The second party to the plot is Lord Hasset, a petulant old roue, who urges marriage upon his beautiful ward, Celia Pryse, and singularly enough, she comes in to innocently share the big responsibilities that make and mar the close of Clarence's career as a favorite in England. Lord Hasset eventually thinks that he has made a conquest, for he is not slow in notifying the Prime of Wales and other notables of his wedding prospective. Celia temporizes with this hateful old party, but is at her wits' end to know what really to do. Finally, recalling Clarence, the actor, in a similar situation, she feels that she might do something in the dramatic direction, and impulsively writes to him that she is positive she has a career ahead of her, and would like him to consult with her, almost forcing an interview upon him. However, he advises her in a letter that she should take up any other career than that of the stage. Time flies, Celia Pryse's wedding day is set and comes, but the bride has disappeared. Hasset, in his rage and mortification, makes a terrible scene, and declares that his ward has been abducted by Mr. Clarence of the Drury Lane Theater. The actor has, in the meantime, received a pressing invitation for another reception at the Swedish Embassy, but declines. This does not cool the ardor of Lady Felsen, who, with a friend, visits him clandestinely in his dressing-room at the theater. The occasion of this appearance is simultaneous with a great benefit performance given by Clarence for an ailing comrade actor, Bob Widgets, Which although in some ways, a serious matter, involves a great deal of comedy, during the course of the visit, Lady Felsen drops a fan in the actor's room. Shortly after her secret and hurried departure her husband visits the room with the Prince of Wales, and the former picks up the fan and secretes it, adding further fuel to his antagonism for the actor. The performance is gala, and the Prince of Wales has as his guests. Lord and Lady Felsen. They appear in the box, and as Clarence appears as Romeo in the balcony scene of "Romeo and Juliet," their talking is so loud, so persistently annoying, that Clarence forgets his part, comes to the footlights, and in a speech denounces them. Such reckless nerve on the part of the actor toward the heir apparent starts a terrible commotion. The audience is dismissed, and the excited actor, whose feelings are beyond his control, is hustled away to a place of safety by his friends as one out of his mind. Everybody naturally thinks that such an affront to the Prince of Wales will end his career in England, but the Prince takes the rebuke rather good-naturedly, visits Clarence in his lodgings and assures him of his unbroken friendship. Celia Pryse, who has sought sanctuary at her aunt's, has managed to get some instruction in stage work, and keeps in communication with Clarence despite his attempts to dissuade her against the stage career. She is persecuted by her guardian, Lord Hasset, and finally concludes that the only way to escape him is to emigrate to America, she, in the interim, having secured a stage position. Lord Hasset more than ever believes that Clarence, the actor, is at the bottom of all his troubles, and finally secures a warrant for his arrest. This fact becomes known to Lady Felsen, who greatly fears that she may be involved in an exposure, owing to the fact that she has written Clarence a number of letters, and has sent him her portrait. He had previously informed her for her own safety that the fan she left in his dressing-room was found by her husband. Happily this incriminating bit of evidence is taken up by the Prince of Wales, who disarms the jealous count, her husband, by telling him that he himself lost it there. The upshot of all this trouble is that Clarence himself determines for the good of all concerned it would seem well for him to accept an engagement in far-off America. When the Prince of Wales and all his other friends come to see him off, he introduces Celia Pryse, who is a passenger on the same ship, as his new leading lady.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsPierre BrasseurSilvana PampaniniPaul GuersFrance, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsMartine CarolDaniel IvernelGianna Maria CanaleThe daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France. Nor could she anticipate her quick fall and tragic death. The teenage girl was still a mere milliner's assistant when her beauty attracted the attention of Count Jean du Barry, a degenerate noble man who, after making her his mistress, undertook to make her Paris's most successful courtesan. Later, he realized that he could even help her to become one of aging King Louis XV's mistresses. But to qualify as a royal mistress, Jeanne had to be a married noble woman. No problem: Jean, who was already married, provided another husband, his brother Guillaume. This is how Jeanne, who had become Countess du Barry with sleight of hand, could enjoy triumph at Versailles. Unfortunately for her, her reign, which had excited the jealousy of the other courtesans, lasted only while the King was alive. Following his death, she was immediately exiled from Versailles and two decades later was executed on the guillotine.
- DirectorCharles ShyerStarsHilary SwankSimon BakerJonathan PryceIn pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsPierre BrasseurSilvana PampaniniPaul GuersFrance, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.