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- An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
- A comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
- The story of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, fierce and somber man, grand master of the viola da gamba and professor of Marin Marais, prestigious musician in the court of Louis XIV.
- On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.
- Anthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce. A British diplomat buys the car for his French wife. A mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy. An American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan
- In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.
- In the 1920s, two rival brothel madames have a bet on who has the sexiest girls.
- In Victorian England, an American showman uses a wealthy Frenchman's finances to build a German explosives expert's giant cannon designed to fire a people-filled projectile to the Moon, but spies and saboteurs endanger the project.
- A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.
- In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
- The adventures and the exploits of notorious English thief and prison-breaker Jack Sheppard in 1720s London.
- A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumors that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot?
- In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
- Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom.
- Rupert Street, a piano player and composer, decides to write a musical and marry before he reaches his thirtieth birthday. One minor problem: he'll be 30 in six weeks...
- A group of (literally) drifting popsters find themselves involved in a grim sand-and-sandals desert movie. They reckon a few song-and-dance numbers would liven things up.
- Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
- Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.
- A French singer is captured by the Germans and made to broadcast for them.
- A man's death of smallpox at London airport sends officials into a panic as they conduct a frantic search for the carrier.
- Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
- Three generations of a Scottish family suffer from the effects of heredity
- Chrissy contemplates suicide with her son. Rob, a former police psychologist, intervenes and asks her on a date. The two, along with Chrissy's son and elderly Pat, become trapped in an elevator after a drunken gang damages it.
- In London, a wealthy playboy, an American adventurer, a small-time thief and a retired safe-cracker team-up to rob a foreign embassy's safe by digging a tunnel from the London Underground into the embassy's cellar.
- Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
- The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
- In this British farce, a legendary duel is destined to be repeated in an old house at Hyde Park Corner when the two descendants of the original combatants mysteriously reconvene. Based on Walter Hackett's play.
- Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
- A family struggles to try to put their life back together after the eldest son is convicted of, and then executed for, murder.
- Felipo and Hernan, two Spanish American brothers come into conflict over the honourable way to make a living in the harsh times of the Great Depression. Their bedridden mother, who is sick with yellow fever and oblivious to Felipo's unlawful lifestyle, convinces Hernan to join Felipo for an electrical job. What was supposed to be an overnight arrangement at a run-down factory, has Hernan backed up into a moral corner.
- When Don Juan learns that the lovely Henrietta is staying at the same inn as he, he longs to make her his 1000th conquest. She rejects him initially, but then offers to submit to him on the condition that he breaks up Marchese Luigi and his young lover. In executing the challenge, Don Juan learns that he's not as young as he used to be.
- A ne'er-do-well Irish hobo auctions himself to a woman who needs a farm laborer.
- Enemies of the King of England capture him. It's up to army officer Capt. Morton (Errol Flynn) to rescue him.
- A heartless ruthless English lord, swimming in gambling debts, attempts to settle with his creditors by intimidating and blackmailing a well-to-do heiress by threatening to use his superior dueling skills against her suitor.
- Woman on honeymoon in Europe begins experiencing major déjà vu when passing through a German town, even though she has never been to Europe in her life. She is strangely drawn to the town's 1000 year old castle.
- Jim Bishop tells how, during World War Two, a Norwiegian underground fighter switched places with a Nazi officer with the aid of plastic surgery.
- An American reporter relates how the Czar's daughter, who escaped her family's murder, now incognito as a nurse, is sought by soviet agents who would prevent her from collecting a hidden inheritance.
- Frederic Sondern tells of Father Maggiore of Naples, who removes his robes to became a member of a dangerous street gang. The priest wins the boys over, providing the means to schooling and shelter, which lead to a better way of life.
- Having arrived in Munich ahead of the liberation army, a US airman joins forces with the local resistance to dupe Bavarian Nazis into surrender.
- In Paris 1938, an American journalist is warned of a plot to devalue the French economy by printing duplicate banknotes, but there is more to this story than at first appears.
- Maurice Dekobra tells the story from the 1930s, where a Chinese warlord is wooed by a stern Scottish missionary, in order to save the lives of a number of children.
- A lady reporter covers the murder of CBS newsman during the 1947 Greek civil war, but she's unexpectedly accused of complicity in it.
- A public relations scheme to honour the millionth repatriated French soldier from Prisoner of War camps runs into some comedic snags when the man selected won't go without his unsavoury comrade.
- Stevadores unloading a ship in London discover a weak stowaway suffering from lack of food and water, but the captain of the communist Polish ship has him hauled away. The free Polish embassy works hard through a holiday weekend to have him freed, enlisting help from high judges and prime minister Churchill.
- An American correspondent with a Russian wife and children faces increased hostility in Moscow during Stalin's reign, and try desperately to secure a way out of the country.