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Nikki, Wild Dog of the North
Yukon The 1890sAn unsurpassed wilderness adventure of three strange friends...a rugged man, a huge bear, and NIKKI - fighting king of a majestic breed! — A family film about Nikki, a half-wolf, half-dog raised in the Yukon during the gold rush era. After being separated from her master, Nikki must fend for herself amidst bears, the harsh Yukon weather, and a trapper who wants her skin.
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The Snake Woman
England The 1890sWeird! Supernatural! Horrifying! Serpent-Girl Terrorizes Town! Teen-age beauty turns into deadly reptile at will...spreading horror with fang and forked tongue! Nothing ever struck you like The Snake Woman! — A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.
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Kappalottiya Thamizhan
The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sChidambaram Pillai, a revolutionary leader, starts the first shipping company in India. With the help of this company, he fights against the monopoly of the British over maritime trade out of India.
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The Time Machine
England The 1960s The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800sYou Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future! — A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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North to Alaska
Alaska Washington The 1900s The 1890sThese were the adventures . . . fighting, laughing and brawling their way from Seattle to Nome! — Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.
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Can-Can
🇫🇷 France The 1890sThe Entertainment Event of the Year! — Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache (Shirley MacLaine) is known for her performances of the can-can, a provocative dance recently outlawed for being immoral. Though her dancing delights patrons to no end, it also attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier (Louis Jourdan), who aims to punish her. The judge hatches a plot to photograph Simone in the act and ends up falling for her -- much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, handsome lawyer François Durnais (Frank Sinatra).
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Frau Warrens Gewerbe
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The Mummy
The 1890sTorn from the tomb to terrify the world! — One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
🇫🇷 France The 1890sHIS HIDEOUS OBSESSION LED HIM TO COMMIT GHASTLY CRIMES OF PASSION AND VIOLENCE. — Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Pennsylvania The 1890sHe Had Two Wives And Led Two Lives... He's The Best Dad Two Families Ever Had - At The Same Time! — In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1890s The 1880sAn American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.
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The Badlanders
Arizona The 1890sA treasure to steal...a woman to win...a past to forget... — Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme.
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Serenade of Texas
Texas The 1890sMusic seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big Bend in Texas.
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I Accuse!
🇫🇷 France The 1890sBased on the celebrated Captain Dreyfus case! — Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
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Wild Strawberries
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1950s The 1890sCrotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
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Confessions of Felix Krull
The 1890sThomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.
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City of Gold
Yukon The 1890sThis classic short film from Pierre Berton depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold fields over 3000 km north of civilization. Using a collection of still photographs, the film juxtaposes the Dawson City at the height of the gold rush with its bustling taverns and dance halls with the more tranquil Dawson City of the present.
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After the Ball
England The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sThe life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
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Lust for Life
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France The 1890s The 1880sHe had a lust for life. Sometimes he was brutal, sometimes delicate – always he lived with insatiable passion! — An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
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Smiles of a Summer Night
The 1890sA Sexy Frolic About the Sport of Love — Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
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The Seven Little Foys
The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sThe story of a husband who didn't have time to come home! Daddy couldn't get home, so the kids all trouped down to Broadway and got into the act. The incredible, incomparable story of America's most fabulous family! — Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone
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French Cancan
🇫🇷 France The 1890s The 1880sNineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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Storm Over the Nile
England 🇸🇩 Sudan The 1890sStorm Over the Nile is a 1955 film adaptation of the novel The Four Feathers, directed by Terence Young. The film not only extensively used footage of the action scenes from the 1939 film version stretched into CinemaScope, but exactly the same screenplay, almost line-for-line also then directed by Zoltan Korda as well as several pieces of music by the original composer Miklos Rozsa. It featured Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Ian Carmichael, Michael Horden and Christopher Lee.[2] The film was shot on location in the Sudan.
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Tall Man Riding
Montana The 1890sHis Guns Put Little River On The Map... And His Guns Could Wipe It Off! — Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
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The Spoilers
Alaska The 1890sREX BEACH'S IMMORTAL SAGA OF THE YUKON! — In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
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Geliebte Feindin
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The Far Country
Alaska Yukon The 1890sRENEE...the innocent...and the untamed...BEN...the gambler...and the loser...GANNON...the law...and the noose...RUBE...the friendless...and the afraid. — In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home.
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A Lost Letter
🇷🇴 Romania The 1890sThe plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess....
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Melba
🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇦🇺 Australia The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sThe story follows the career of Melba from the time she left her father's Australian cattle ranch and a suitor to travel to Paris to get her voice training, and picks up another suitor. She debuts in Brussells and is a smash hit followed by international fame. The suitor from Australia shows up in Monte Carlo, marries her and soon is cast in the role of "Mr. Melba" until he can take it no longer and returns to Australia, while Melba decides her voice belongs to the world and sadly goes on alone.
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Golden Ivory
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1890sWhite Woman vs. The Deadly Python — Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century.
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Der rote Prinz
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House of Wax
New York The 1890s The 1910sUNLIKE ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE! — A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
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The Earrings of Madame de...
🇫🇷 France The 1890sIt was her vanity that destroyed her. — In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
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Houdini
The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sHis feats of magic were GREAT! The magic of their love was GREATER! — By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
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So Big
The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sHow Big is a Big Picture? — After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.
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The Sun Shines Bright
Kentucky The 1890sJUDGE BILLY PRIEST...the only man who ever called Mallie Crump a Lady — John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.
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Tom Tom Tomcat
The 1890sTweety Bird is being taken by his mistress, Granny, on a trip across a prairie in a horse-drawn wagon when they are attacked by a tribe of Indian cats, all of whom are Sylvester or Sylvester variants.
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City of Bad Men
Nevada The 1890sYou Ride into Carson City AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS GUN-SLINGING GLORY ON THE EVE OF THE CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS FIGHT! — Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
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Laughing Anne
🇮🇩 Indonesia The 1900s The 1890sStory of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
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Die Unbesiegbaren
🇩🇪 Germany The 1890s The 1880sThe film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.
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Puccini
The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sProduced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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The Upstarts
🇮🇹 Italy The 1890sFilm about moral decay of Trieste elite during 1890s based on novel by Slovenian writer Janko Kersnik.
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Men Against the Sun
The 1890sAn adventure story dealing with the building of a railway in Africa at the turn of the century.
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Moulin Rouge
The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sWild, wicked, wonderful Paris...all her loves, ladies and lusty legends! — Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
England The 1890sThey don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality! — Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.
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