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Adventures of Giacomo Casanova
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th Century1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Scotland The 18th CenturyAfter the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
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Madame du Barry
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThe daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThe history of the palace of Versailles from it's founding to the present. — Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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The Adventurer of Seville
🇪🇸 Spain The 18th CenturyBandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then Figaro decides to join the army as a volunteer to fight in Puerto Rico. He returns covered with glory and his faults are condoned. However, the adventures of Figaro continue in Seville in the false scene of the aristocracy
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba
🇮🇷 Iran The 18th CenturyIn Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends Fawzia for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.
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The Iron Glove
England The 18th CenturyGlorious Adventure Out of the Golden Age! — Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I on the throne of England.
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The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
The 18th CenturyIn the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
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John Wesley
England The 18th CenturyWhen young John Wesley is saved from the flames burning his family's home, he believes God has chosen him for a higher mission. He grows up to become a minister in the Church of England but disapproves of concern within the church over the social position of the clergy. He concerns himself more with the common people and with individual religious experiences. He tries to accomplish his purposes by remaining within the church but the methodical way in which he and his followers go about their duties soon sets them apart as a special group jeeringly called Methodists.
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The Frigid Sea
The 18th CenturySeveral commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...
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The Master of Ballantrae
Scotland The 18th CenturyThe Thundering Crusaders of the White Cockade! — Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
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The President's Lady
The 1820s The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyThey branded her adulteress! — The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
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The Bandits of Corsica
The 18th CenturyI'll take the island by storm . . . and the woman with it! — Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
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Sea Devils
🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturySix-Feet-Four of fighting Man ... to Tame a Wildcat Beauty ! — Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
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The Ship of Condemned Women
The 18th CenturyThe fury of 100 love-starved women! — After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella (Tania Weber) pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo (May Britt). Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva (Ettore Manni), Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners.
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Ben and Me
Pennsylvania The 18th CenturyA revisionist version of American history as a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin and turns out to be responsible for many of his ideas; including the beginning of the Declaration of Independance!
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Botany Bay
New South Wales The 18th CenturySAVAGE as the Great Continent They Invaded! — Based on the story of Australia's colonization, this atmospheric drama stars Alan Ladd as Hugh Tallant, an American medical student falsely convicted of robbery and sent on a torturous voyage with other prisoners to the penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.
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Sangaree
Georgia The 18th CenturyLamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
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Fort Ti
New York The 18th CenturyTHE FIRST GREAT OUTDOOR EPIC OF AMERICA IN 3-DIMENSIONS — Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this juncture, however, Major Rogers (Howard Petrie) is more concerned with helping the British forces at Fort Ticonderoga during a series of French and Indian raids. Top billing is bestowed upon George Montgomery as Captain Pedediah Horn, Rogers' right-hand man. The film boasts two leading ladies: Joan Vohs, as a suspected French spy, and Phyllis Fowler as a married Indian woman who falls in love with Captain Horn. Fort Ti was filmed in 3D, and in typical William Castle fashion the stereoscopic gimmick is exploited to the hilt.
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Admiral Ushakov
England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 19th Century The 18th CenturyHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
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Attack from the Sea
🇬🇷 Greece The 19th Century The 18th CenturyThe historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. Suvorov. The victory in the fortress of Corfu is ensured by operation of the admiral Ushakov.
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Treasure of the Golden Condor
🇫🇷 France 🇬🇹 Guatemala The 18th CenturyA nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.
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The Beggar's Opera
England The 18th CenturyAdaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
The 18th Century The 17th CenturyTwo British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy.
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Flame of Calcutta
🇮🇳 India The 18th CenturyA British captain and a French official's daughter save the East India Company.
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The Crimson Pirate
Caribbean Sea The 18th CenturyMAN OF NINE LIVES AND 1000 SURPRISES! — Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.
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The Black Castle
🇦🇹 Austria The 18th CenturyA Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
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Scaramouche
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThe Company that made "Quo Vadis" brings the world another spectacular romantic triumph! — In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
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Against All Flags
🇲🇬 Madagascar The 18th CenturyHe Ravished The Pirate Port Of Madagascar To Steal The Love Of Its Corsair Queen! — British Naval Officer fights pirates on Madagascar.
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The Two Mouseketeers
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyTom, a castle soldier in 18th century France, is assigned to guard the food laid out on a banquet table. Jerry and a smaller mouse companion, two wandering "mouseketeers", make the situation miserable for Tom as they abscond with (and occasionally eat) all the food they can.
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The Golden Coach
🇵🇪 Peru The 18th CenturyA viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 16th-century Peru.
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyFanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.
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Caribbean
The 18th CenturyFrancis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
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Battles of Chief Pontiac
The 18th CenturyIn pre-Revolutionary America, the efforts of a Colonial officer trying to broker a peace deal between Indian chief Pontiac and British and American settlers are threatened by the commander of a Hessian mercenary unit who embarks on a campaign of extermination against the Indians.
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The Painted Hills
California The 18th CenturyAfter years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.
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The House in the Square
England The 1950s The 18th CenturyAtomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefather's cousin Helen but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possess.
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Anne of the Indies
The 18th CenturyThe storming, slashing, sweeping saga of history's fabulous pirate queen ! — After seizing an English ship, buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle from walking the plank - as he's in irons he is presumably no friend of England. He signs on as a pirate and she is increasingly drawn to him, a feeling that seems to be reciprocated. When fearsome Captain Blackbeard, her teacher in the ways of pirating, sets eyes on LaRochelle he recalls him as a French navy officer. Anne sticks by her man but the truth, when it is uncovered, is even more painful.
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Dear Caroline
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyFrance, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
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The Lady and the Bandit
England The 18th CenturyRide the Highways in Adventure's Heyday! — Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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When the Redskins Rode
Virginia The 18th Century...on the warpath in SUPERcineCOLOR! — A French spy (Mary Castle) flirts with an Indian chief's son (Jon Hall) amid war in 1753 Williamsburg, Va.
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Treasure Island
England The 18th CenturyPIRATE'S PLUNDER a young cabin boy, a roguish buccaneer... match wits in a swashbuckling adventure! — Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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Heart of Stone
The 18th CenturyLavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.
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