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The Vicar of Bray
🇮🇪 Ireland The 17th CenturyThe Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.
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Rembrandt
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 17th CenturyHe knew all women! Their lives...Loves...Their souls! — This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.
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Captain Blood
England 🇯🇲 Jamaica The 17th CenturyA million dollars worth of adventure! — Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Carnival in Flanders
🇧🇪 Belgium The 17th CenturyThe Spanish soldiers were not as ruthless as they were depicted. — Flanders, Spanish Empire, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic like rats on a sinking ship, the brave female citizens, led by the bold wife of the burgomaster, decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet.
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Restless Knights
England The 17th Century The Middle AgesThe stooges learn they are of royal blood — Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
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Three Cornered Hat
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th CenturyA comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
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Joymoti
The 17th CenturyIn the late 17th century, a boy-king ruled the Ahom dynasty of Assam. But the executive power over the whole administration was vested on the Prime Minister. Owing to the presence of a large body of princes, each of whom was a positive material for insurrection, no king could sit on the throne safely. The Prime Minister, therefore, instituted search for the suitors to capture and kill them, or let off after mutilating thereby banning them for succession. The principal target of massacre was Godapani, a man of personal - vigor and energy. But Godapani became aware of The Prime Minister's design and fled to the Naga hills. Unable to trace Godapani, the army led by, one Gathi Hazarika, came upon his wife Joymoti. Gathi inflicted tortures on her to elicit the much sought-after information. She stuck to plea of ignorance, and replied to the increasing tortures by silence and patience. She breathed her last in the midst of torture.
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Cardinal Richelieu
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyShould CLERGYMEN Actively Participate in POLITICS? — The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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Stradivari
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The Immortal Gentleman
The 17th CenturyIn the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.
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Queen Christina
🇸🇪 Sweden The 17th CenturyTriumphant Return To The Screen! — Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturySwordsman! Robinhood! Rogue! — What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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The Scarlet Letter
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyThree Generations have Thrilled to its Absorbing Drama! — In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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Lorna Doone
England The 17th CenturyHigh drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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Ye Happy Pilgrims
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyYe Happy Pilgrims is a short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions, starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
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Nell Gwyn
England The 17th CenturyKing Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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Captain Fracasse
The 17th CenturyA nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits
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The Man Who Laughs
England The 18th Century The 17th CenturyGwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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Shiraz: A Romance of India
🇮🇳 India The 17th CenturyA historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz. She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan, who falls for her, to the chagrin of the wily Dalia. When Selima is caught is Shiraz, the young man is condemned to be trampled to death by an elephant. A pendant reveals Selima's royal status and she saves her brother, marries the prince and becomes Empress Mumtaz Mahal while Dalia is banned for her machinations against Selima. When Selima dies (1629), the emperor builds her a monument to the design of the now old and blind Shiraz, the Taj Mahal.
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Wolga Wolga
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Lady Juan
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyA Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life. Possibly an early example of genderqueer representation.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyThe screen's great lover in a dashing role! — Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
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Nell Gwyn
England The 17th CenturyAn actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
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The Chronicles of the Gray House
The 17th CenturyHinrich, the son of a feudal German landowner, falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his father's serfs despite opposition from both families. But when he actually offers marriage to her, this is going too far. The return of his brother Detlev, with an unscrupulous aristocratic bride of his own and a rival claim to their father's estates, proves to be the trigger for tragedy.
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Karl XII
🇸🇪 Sweden The 18th Century The 17th CenturyThe film depicts the life of Charles XII of Sweden who oversaw the expansion of the Swedish Empire until its defeat at the Battle of Poltava. It was the most expensive production in Swedish history when it was made, and inspired a string of large budget Swedish historical films
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Die Anne-Liese von Dessau
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Claude Duval
England The 17th CenturyA Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.
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The Spanish Dancer
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyThe Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a gypsy girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her gypsy occupation, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar de Bazán, if only the King of Spain would stay out of their way!
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Rosita
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyThe King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.
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Under the Red Robe
The 17th CenturyUnder the Red Robe is a 1923 silent historical drama directed by Alan Crosland based upon the Stanley Weyman novel Under the Red Robe. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
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The Fighting Blade
England The 17th CenturyIn the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.
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The Royal Oak
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The Betrothed
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th CenturyBased on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy "northern Italy" during the Spanish domination, tells of the contrasted marriage between the two young textile workers Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is the most ambitious and spectacular film in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that triggered the censorship.
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The Glorious Adventure
England The 17th CenturyAn Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
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The Hand of Fate
🇩🇰 Denmark The 17th CenturyThe God-fearing vicar Niels Quist lives with his beloved daughter Mette in the small Jutland town of Vejlby. The newly elected county bailiff and local magistrate, Erik Sørensen, is the lucky fellow who wins Mette’s heart, but their happiness is short-lived: One day, the vicar’s farmhand mysteriously disappears, and all signs suggest that the vicar is the killer. But is Erik Sørensen willing and able to sentence his own true love's father to death? (stumfilm.dk)
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The Three Musketeers
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyA 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
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The Black Tulip
The 17th CenturyIn 17th century Holland, a faction of royalists is scheming to restore the monarchy and jail the De Witt brothers, who control the Republic. At the same time Tulip Fever is raging, and bulb-grower Cornelis van Baerle tries to obtain the secret of black tulips. Van Baerle will soon find himself threatened by radical royalists and rival bulb-grower Isaac van Boxtel.
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The Monastery of Sendomir
🇵🇱 Poland The 17th CenturyWhen two riders come to the monastery seeking shelter for the night they inquire from one of the monks about the founding of the monastery. The old monk reluctantly recounts the story of Count Starschensky, a nobleman of wealth and property. Starschensky is blessed with domestic happiness, however, he later finds that his young wife, Elga, has been sneaking her lover into the castle in evenings when he is away, and that their only child is not his, but a product of this affair. Tragedy ensues and the count sells his estates and establishes the monastery as part of his penance.
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Der Galante König
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The Black Tulip Festival
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 17th CenturyBased on the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas.
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Barnaby Lee
The 17th CenturyPirate melodrama.
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th CenturyFenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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