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The Man Who Laughs
England The 18th Century The 17th CenturyDuring a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.
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The Guillotines
🇨🇳 China The 18th CenturyIn the time of the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor Yongzheng created a secret army known as the Guillotines. It was the job of the Guillotines to protect the Emperor by killing anyone who posed a threat to him or his rule. After 348 successful missions to eliminate their target, the 349th assignment proves to be their last.
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Toussaint Louverture
The 18th CenturyMaking of a revolution — Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
England 🇪🇸 Spain The 18th CenturyLive Forever Or Die Trying. — Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.
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Detective K: Secret of Virtuous Widow
The 18th CenturyThere Is No Perfect Murder — In 1782, King Jeong-jo of Joseon asks detective K to investigate a series of murders related to a case of corruption within the government.
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Case départ
The 18th Century The 2010sTwo contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.
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Smugglers' Songs
The 18th CenturyEarly on in this engaging historical drama, a marquis (played by the singularly droll Jacques Nolot) offers a peddler a carriage ride on a remote country road. After sizing up his benefactor, the peddler fights motion sickness to deliver his sales pitch: “I have here a few objects of wonder, pious images, pamphlets against men of the cloth, newspapers from Amsterdam and London, holy cards, quills, writing paper…”
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Young Goethe in Love
The 18th CenturyAfter aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
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Mozart's Sister
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.
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Barbie and the Three Musketeers
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyCorinne (Barbie) is a young country girl who heads to Paris to pursue her big dream – to become a female musketeer! Never could she imagine she would meet three other girls who secretly share the same dream! Using their special talents, the girls work together as a team to foil a plot and save the prince. It's all for one and one for all!
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Janosik: A True Story
The 18th CenturyThe story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he becomes the troop's leader and is recognized as a brave and honorable commander, he never kills anyone he robs. Along with the fame he starts enjoying popularity among women. But Janosik's success raises jealousy in one of the troop's members, greedy and brutal Huncaga.
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I, Don Giovanni
🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturyA drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his "Don Giovanni" opera.
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Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja
🇮🇳 India The 1800s The 18th CenturySet in the backdrop of the seventeenth century, the royal family of Kottayam is ruled by Pazhassi. The British government begins to impose heavy taxes on the locals in the Thalassery region of Kerala.
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The Duchess
England The 18th CenturyBased on the incredible true story. — A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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The Accidental Gangster
The 18th CenturyKorea, 1724. Once upon a time in the Choson Dynasty, Chun-doong falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman whilst in the middle of a fight.When she is delivered by accident to Chun-doong's tavern to work as a maid, he is the happiest man in the land until she is snatched away by her rightful owner.He vows to get her back, but alone he is no match for Man-deuk.
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Portrait of a Beauty
The 18th CenturyBorn to a family of established court painters, seven-year-old Yoon-jeong is a young girl gifted at painting. However, the pressure is on her brother to carry on the proud family tradition, as women aren’t allowed to become professional painters. While her brother trains to take his place in the court, Yoon-jeong helps him out by secretly painting for him. The little girl’s life is turned upside down when her brother kills himself. In order to preserve the family honor, she is forced to take her brother’s name and lives as a man. Yun-bok’s genius and talent captures the heart of another great master of the time, Kim Hong-do. But her daring depictions of women are condemned by the royal institute as obscene. Yun-bok meets Kang-mu and falls deeply in love. For the first time, she feels the strong desire to abandon everything she has built and simply be a woman in front of the man she loves. Kang-moo sacrifices all for his love as well.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
🇸🇬 Singapore The 18th CenturyAt the end of the world, the adventure begins. — Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.
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The Sovereign's Servant
The 18th CenturyEurope, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.
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The Legend of the Nahuala
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1800s The 18th CenturyLeo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The 18th CenturyCaptain Jack is back! — Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyBased on the best-selling novel — Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
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Marie Antoinette
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria The 18th CenturyRumor. Scandal. Fame. Revolution. — The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
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Goya's Ghosts
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyPainter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
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Amazing Grace
England The 1800s The 18th CenturyBehind the song you love is a story you will never forget. — The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
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Pirates of Treasure Island
The 18th CenturyStarting as a prequel to the novel "Treasure Island", we see the infamous pirate treasure buried by Billy Bones and Long John Silver
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Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi
The 18th CenturyUgraputran discovers his royal origins and decides to swap places with his dumb twin brother. He exposes his evil uncle and also manages to save the kingdom from the Britishers.
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A Harlot's Progress
The 18th CenturyDrama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
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Waris Shah: Ishq Daa Waaris
The 18th CenturyIshq daa waaris — Based upon Life story of Punjabi poet Waris Shah
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The Amazing Grace
The 18th CenturyJohn Newton is captain of a slave ship moored off the coast of Nigeria. He stands at a crossroads in his life, his morality and religion at odds with the brutality of his chosen profession. Stepping ashore, he starts on a journey of redemption that will end in tragedy but prove the catalyst for greater achievements. A local anthem sung in adversity by the slaves whom he captures punctuates the film. It will be the inspiration for Newton's redemption and for his writing of the hymn Amazing Grace.
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Devilwood
England The 18th CenturyIn a lawless outpost in 17th Century England, the people have ceased to be God-fearing but learn to fear the Devil instead.
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George Washington: We Fight to be Free
🇺🇸 United States of America The 18th CenturyWe Fight to be Free' vividly illustrates defining moments that made George Washington an indispensable leader. You'll see Washington take command of British forces during the French and Indian War, and later leading the Army across the icy Delaware River. Charming scenes show Washington's first encounter with the widow Martha Custis and his return home to Mount Vernon after resigning his military commission at the end of the war. Special features include George Washington Quiz and Mount Vernon Picture Gallery and bonus videos Saving Mount Vernon and a Mount Vernon overview.
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Casanova
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturyHe won every woman's heart. She won his. — With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself falling in love.
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Nomad: The Warrior
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan The 18th CenturyCourage know no limit — The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.
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Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
Virginia The 18th CenturyPre-American Revolution Virginian girl whose love for the outdoors leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Felicity loves horses, and though her parents plead with her to remain indoors, she years to ride the open plains. When Felicity comes into contact with a beautiful mare which has suffered at the hands of its callous owner, she takes it upon herself to care for the creature.
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BloodRayne
The 18th CenturyRevenge never tasted so sweet. — In 18th-century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human-vampire hybrid Rayne escapes and plots to take down her father, Kagan, the evil vampire king. When she's discovered by three vampire hunters, she manages to convince them to spare her life and join her cause. But slaying a vampire as powerful as Kagan will be no easy task.
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National Treasure
New York Massachusetts New Jersey Pennsylvania District of Columbia The 1970s The 2000s The 18th CenturyThe greatest adventure history has ever revealed. — Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
🇵🇪 Peru The 18th CenturyFive lives bound by one fate. — The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[ A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.
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The Remains of Nothing
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturySet in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy.
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Battle of the Brave
Quebec The 18th CenturyRise. Unite. Fight. — In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
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My Name Is Bach
The 18th CenturyComposer Johann Sebastian Bach is introduced to King Frederick II of Prussia in 1747. The aging composer and the young monarch clash and a battle of egos ensues.
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Luisa Sanfelice
🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 18th CenturyAn 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
🇭🇹 Haiti 🇯🇲 Jamaica The 18th CenturyPrepare to be blown out of the water. — Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 18th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.
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The Horseman
🇭🇷 Croatia The 18th CenturyThe movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
The 18th CenturyIn this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters
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Proteus
🇿🇦 South Africa The 18th CenturyAn exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics takes place in 18th century South Africa, telling the passionate (true) story of two men caught in an unjust system rife with racism, homophobia and cruelty.
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Untold Scandal
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 18th CenturyBased on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' this film is set in aristocratic 18th-century Korea at the end of the Chosun Dynasty. The irresistible temptress Lady Cho asks her cad of a younger cousin, Jo-won, to deflower the innocent young Soh-ok, who is to become her husband's concubine. But, his attentions soon shift to the graceful and aloof Lady Sook, who lives according to her convictions as a Catholic. Jo-won becomes obsessed with seducing this chaste woman who has remained celibate for nine years since her husband's death. However, conquering the most virtuous woman in the land proves to be more difficult than Chosun's notorious playboy expects.
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The Return of Cagliostro
The 18th CenturyIn the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".
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Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
New York Maine Connecticut New Jersey Pennsylvania England The 18th CenturyOn the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves; George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Washington is remembered as America's founding father, Arnold as America's most notorious traitor. Benedict Arnold rose from humble origins to become the most respected and feared of America's generals. He won brilliant military victories against the English colonists and was Washington's favorite soldier. But two conflicting forces battled inside Arnold's heart; a deep concern for his country and his passionate love for an enchanting and manipulative English woman, Peggy Shippen. Blinded by desire, Arnold defected to the English army, orchestrating an attempt to assassinate his own mentor, George Washington.
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The Abduction Club
🇮🇪 Ireland The 18th CenturyA group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.
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The Lady and the Duke
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyGrace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.
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