The Private Life of Henry VIII
"The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933) is a historical drama portraying the king's marital life, with Charles Laughton's Oscar-winning performance as Henry VIII. Directed by Alexander Korda.
Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden.
Elizabethan intrigue—secret agents, Armada threats, and youthful Laurence Olivier swashbuckling for queen and country.
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife in favor of Juliet Raeburn, but when Juliet's name is involved in murder, he manages to clear her of any charge. After his divorce, Charles marries Julie…
A man posing as Mark Henry is after Henry's oil land but Henry's niece is part owner and he needs to marry her off to his henchman Slager. Mountie Jim Sullivan arives posing as a wanted man and is soo…
An evil duke kidnaps the good king, tries to marry the virtuous queen, and causes peasants to take up arms.
Willis Simpson was born in 1896 but was way ahead of her time. She was a socialite with modern ideas. She cut her hair short, went to parties and had an affair with the then Prince Edward, who was to …
Fate drew them together, and only murder could part them!
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
When small-town real estate agent Henry learns that he hasn't long to live he desperately tries to sell his own worthless property to provide for his family. When an airline gets interested in the lot…
Charles Laughton embodies Dutch master’s triumphs and tragedies behind the easel.
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and h…
Richard, son of the King of Laurentia, who has been living in Monte Carlo with Martha Karrillos for several years because his parents refused to accept this unroyal affair, is called to assume his dut…
Posing as a wealthy widow, a beautiful jewel thief infiltrates British high society. But complications arise when she begins to fall in love with the womanizing nephew of her intended target.
A seductive blonde who blackmails wealthy married men is murdered after demanding $5,000 from her latest victim, leading a detective to uncover she was entangled in far more than blackmail.
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel, snatches French aristos from the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney. Percy fall…
When Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother of France, launches an attack on French Protestants known as Huguenots, the Comte de la Roche saves the life of his enemy, the Huguenot Rupert de Vrieac, by maki…
After escaping from prison and killing a guard, the unscrupulous Brutus Jones manages to bluff and manipulate his way into becoming emperor of a small Caribbean island.
Chronicling the life of Queen Elizabeth II with a focus on her enduring reign, public image, private life and the defining events since her coronation.
Huston’s vivid biopic of Toulouse-Lautrec captures Parisian cabaret and tortured artistry.
A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing t…
Combining fact and fabrication, Edward S. Curtis' dramatization of the life of the Kwakiutl peoples of British Columbia revolves around a chief's son, who must contend with an evil sorcerer in order t…
Lean adapts Dickens’s orphan saga; Alec Guinness’s Fagin lurks in soot-stained London.