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Lucrèce Borgia
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th Century The 14th CenturyIn the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.
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Jeromín
The 16th CenturyIn the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles V and the values of Franco.
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Prince of Pirates
The 16th CenturyTyranny drove him to piracy! — In a 16th century kingdom in the Netherlands, the newly crowned King Stephan concludes a secret treaty with the Spanish. This puts him at odds with his younger brother, Prince Roland, who favors a treaty with the French. Stephan orders Roland imprisoned but Roland escapes and leads a revolt.
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Anarkali
The 16th CenturyBased on a popular historical legend, Prince Salim has a passionate love affair with a beautiful, sassy commoner.
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The Veils of Bagdad
🇮🇶 Iraq The 16th CenturyFor gold ! For glory ! For wild pagan lips ! — Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!
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The Emperor and the Golem
🇨🇿 Czechia The 16th CenturyThe Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order. However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyOrson Welles' magnificent screening of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy — When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.
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Malliswari
The 16th CenturyDuring the days of the Vijayanagara Empire there was a system to bring willing women to the royal palace and render them official residents. This was called 'Rani Vasam'. According to this royal tradition, they sent palanquins to their houses, after they presented the family with gifts and jewelry. These Rani Vasam women should never have any contact with any man or let any man see them without permission. If any one violated the law, they were beheaded. Malleswari (Bhanumathi) was taken to this Rani Vasam. She was forced to accept this, for lure of money and jewelry by her parents. But she was already in love with her 'Bava' Nagaraju (N.T. Rama Rao), a sculptor. He stealthily got into the garden of the palace to meet his beloved and was caught. He was to get the death penalty. Krishnadevaraya for once pardoned the hero and allowed Malleswari to go with him.
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Flame of Araby
🇹🇳 Tunisia The 16th CenturyAn Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.
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Hurricane Island
Florida The 16th CenturyThat Lady pirate's on the loose! — Ponce de Leon searches for the Fountain of Youth, but it's not an easy quest, thanks to bad weather, a treacherous lady pirate, warring Florida tribesmen, and a ship's cargo of man-hungry, marriage-minded maidens.
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La Leona de Castilla
🇪🇸 Spain The 16th CenturyCrown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperial armies, his wife, María de Pacheco, rules the city of Toledo, capital of the rebels.
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Prince of Foxes
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th Century The 14th CenturyKing of Romantic Epics! — In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
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Bride of Vengeance
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyA female Borgia is sent out to live up to the family name by killing someone, but falls in love with her intended victim. [IMDB]
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Felipe de Jesús
🇯🇵 Japan The 16th CenturyBiography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
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Locura de amor
🇪🇸 Spain The 16th CenturyThe passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the Netherlands and son of Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, is not reciprocated. Her temperament, her jealousy and an unexpected tragedy will throw Joan into the dark realm of madness and obsession with death, the only realm where she will be a true queen…
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Captain from Castile
🇪🇸 Spain 🇲🇽 Mexico The 16th CenturyMaster of Women's Hearts . . . . . . . Conqueror of a New World. — Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
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La dama del armiño
The 16th CenturyToledo, 1585. Samuel, a young Jewish goldsmith, falls in love with Catalina, daughter of Doménikos Theotokópoulos el Greco, a famous painter.
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Patrie
🇧🇪 Belgium The 16th CenturyShown in Cannes 1946.
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Time Flies
England The 16th CenturyTime-Travel Into the Past, to Merry Olde England... The Most Historical & Hysterical Comedy Hit of the Year! — The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
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La fornarina
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyDuring Italian renaissance, young painter Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people, becomes her lover and lives with her. But this relationship arouses the jealousy of a beautiful aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl. Raffaello falls into a state of prostration and does everything he can to find Margherita...
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Paracelsus
The 16th CenturyA 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). The film is one of several big nazi era productions with main characters regarded as propaganda-parables to Adolf Hitler (see also Ohm Krüger and Der grosse König).
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Tansen
The 16th CenturyRenowned, talent singer Tansen is settled in a small village. He has a lover whom he loves madly namely Tani. His singing talent pampers everyone in his village namely the animals, the Maharaja's and other living organisms.
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The King's Jester
🇫🇷 France The 16th CenturyFERRUCIO TAGLIAVINI sings the glorious arias of Guiseppe Verdi's "RIGOLETTO" — Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
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Beatrice Cenci
The 16th CenturyItalian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
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Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th Century The 16th CenturyCaravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.
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The Sea Hawk
The 16th CenturyDashing... romantic... Errol Flynn at his thrilling best! — Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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The King of the White Elephant
🇹🇭 Thailand The 16th CenturySet in the Ayutthaya Kingdom of the 16th century, King Chakra is going about his usual palace duties, granting audiences to his advisers, including his Lord Chamberlain, who is keen to see the king fulfill his royal duty of taking 366 wives, including, hopefully among them, the chamberlain's own daughter. Based on a novel and produced by Pridi Banomyong and released before Thailand's involvement in World War II, the English-language film carried a propaganda message from anti-war interests in Thailand, that Thailand should remain neutral, and only go to war to defend its sovereignty against foreign invaders.
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The Heart of a Queen
Scotland The 16th CenturyAs the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.
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Lucrezia Borgia
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The Immortal Heart
The 16th CenturyNuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullets more accurate by designing a new form. Just as he welds together two round balls into an elongated shape, he believes he's discovered that his assistant Konrad is trying to alienate his wife from him. There is a struggle, during which Henlein's new kind of bullet strikes him in the chest. The doctor, unaware that there are two bullets lodged in his body, because there was only one shot, only removes one.
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Ettore Fieramosca
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th Century The 14th CenturyETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
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The Rebel Son
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 16th CenturyDuring the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
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Fire Over England
England 🇪🇸 Spain The 16th Century. . . A truly brilliant producer brings you a thrilling tale of love and danger that will live in your memory as long as there is romance in your heart ! — The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
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The Prince and the Pauper
The 16th CenturyMark Twain's Immortal Classic ! — Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
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The Pearls of the Crown
England 🇫🇷 France The 19th Century The 16th CenturyThe story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937; three of them missing.
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Giovanni de Medici: The Leader
The 16th CenturyReturned from exile where he accompanied his mother Caterina Sforza, Giovanni de 'Medici (1498-1526), becomes, under the name of Giovanni delle Bande Nere, captain of fortune at the service of the idea of a united Italy.
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Mary of Scotland
Scotland The 16th CenturyHistory called her "The Temptress"! — The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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Taras Bulba
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 16th CenturyIn war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
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The Golem
🇨🇿 Czechia The 16th CenturyThe Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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Tudor Rose
England The 16th CenturyThey gave her a Perfect Lover, then Plotted her Excecution. A Romance which Out-Triumphed the Most Terrible Crime in History — The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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The Cardinal
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturySet in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
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Lucrezia Borgia
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
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