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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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Pietro Micca
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Comrades at Sea
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930s1936: Fahnrich Peter serves on a torpedo boat. Peter loves Carmita, the pretty sister of a fellow seaman. But then his superior officer falls in love with her, too, who offers to marry Carmita and who accepts. Disappointed, Peter's relationship to his superior turns sour, but eventually improves after recognition of his heroic behaviour handling a fire on board his ship. Later on, his unit is sent off to fight in Spain against the Reds. In those same waters, Carmita and her father are taken prisoner by the Communists when they commandeer their cruise ship. Peter's commander receives the order not to take action against the Spanish communist pirates, but Peter and his buddies take it upon themselves to take the situation in hand. However, Peter and his buddies find themselves prisoners of the Commies, too and now his superior must decide what to do about it.
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Life of St. Paul
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
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Ultimatum
🇷🇸 Serbia The 1910sAbout the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
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The Duchess of Parma
🇮🇹 ItalyLa Contessa di Parma was the sole directorial contribution by Allesandro Blasetti in 1937. The first of several expensive costume dramas upon which the director established his international reputation, the film stars Elisa Cegani as Marcella, a model in the dress shop owned by enterprising Umberto Melnati. To improve his business, the owner instructs his models to dress up as society ladies and attend all the best parties. And that's how humble little Marcella comes to be mistaken for the popular Duchess of Parma -- and by extension, how our heroine wins the love of football hero Gino Vanni (Antonio Centa). A little wanting in the way of plot or logic, La Constessa di Parma is at least consistently good to look at.
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The Lady in White
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sThe lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.
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Fire Over 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 Firefly
🇪🇸 SpainJeanette MacDonald Is The Luminous Singing Spy! — Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order for them to reveal Napolean's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets, Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors and returns to Spain, and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but, the 2 nations are now at war... Written by Kelly
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Mister Max
🇮🇹 ItalyVittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
🇮🇹 Italy The 3rd Century BCFacist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic — A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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The Bride Wore Red
🇮🇹 Italy2 weeks to be a lady! 2 weeks to feather her nest! 2 weeks to make one man say "I do!" — A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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The Spanish Earth
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sA propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.
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Love Under Fire
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sA supense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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Der Mustergatte
🇮🇹 ItalyHeinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night.
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Secret Lives
🇪🇸 SpainA German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
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The Last Train from Madrid
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sThe first flaming love drama of the Spanish Civil war. — The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
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Spain in Flames
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sA compilation propaganda film produced during the Spanish Civil War.
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Diego Corrientes
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Felicita Colombo
🇮🇹 ItalyIn the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
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Dodsworth
🇮🇹 ItalyHere is a picture that was marked for greatness before it was ever screened! — A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Anthony Adverse
🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sThe thrill of thrills the world could not forget! — Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Romeo and Juliet
🇮🇹 ItalyThe classic love story by William Shakespeare. — Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
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A Woman Rebels
🇮🇹 Italy The 19th CenturyShe's glorious ...As a Woman In Arms! ...He's Magnificent As the Man She Adores. — A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
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Give Me Your Heart
🇮🇹 ItalyThe Fearless-Yet Tender- Story of a Modern Mother! — An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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The House of the Spaniard
🇪🇸 SpainA man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
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Cavalleria
🇮🇹 Italy The 1910s The 1900sUmberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
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Boccaccio
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturyThe residents of the town of Ferrara are swept up in a tide of emotion and physical passion by the writings of a Renaissance author. Before long, the town is in chaos and it becomes difficult to keep track of which characters have been involved with one another. Is it any wonder the Germans didn't take their Italian allies seriously?!
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Die letzten vier von Santa Cruz
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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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Ave Maria
🇮🇹 ItalyAve Maria was the second film-starring vehicle for legendary operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Mourning the loss of the only woman he ever loved, concert singer Tino Dossi (Gigli) is temporarily shaken from his doldrums by vivacious Montmartre entertainer Claudette (Kaethe Von Nagy). Dossi doesn't realize that Claudette is merely using him to advance her own singing career. Ultimately won over by Dossi's sincerity and courtesy, Claudette falls in love with him for real, only to suffer the pangs of conscience as a result. About to kill herself, she decides instead to return to Dossi's arms, vowing never to confess her original mercenary intentions.
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Pagliacci
🇮🇹 ItalyCanio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how important she is for his husband, but a rejected trouper interferes. As jealous Canio suspects the truth the tragedy approaches. The film was partly made in Ufacolor.
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Southern Roses
🇪🇸 SpainA musical comedy of false identities.
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The Phantom Gondola
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The Gardens of Murcia
🇪🇸 SpainMurcia countryside, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. Pencho, a peasant, and Xavier, son of a powerful landowner, get into a bloody fight after arguing over the distribution of irrigation water. When Xavier is injured, Pencho is forced to flee from justice.
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Top Hat
🇮🇹 ItalyThey're Dancing Cheek-To-Cheek Again! — Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
🇬🇷 GreeceThree Centuries In The Making ! An immortal literary classic becomes a triumph of the ages ! — A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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Amphitryon – Aus den Wolken kommt das Glück
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryLamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.
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The Devil Is a Woman
🇪🇸 Spain The 19th CenturyKiss me .. and I'll break your heart! — In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
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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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La Bandera
🇪🇸 SpainPierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish...
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