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A mild mannered school teacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance

A self proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the 10,000 hed stolen in a robbery

The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies

First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real life 1789 mutiny

Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre World War II Paris

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending

After her banishment from Rome, Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman ruled native land of Galilee, where prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salomes parents, King Herod and Queen Herodias

King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon

Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesnt want to pay settlements, so theyll just have to outsmart him

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star

A dying tycoon gives million dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory

Noble born cad Denis Stapley has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit Laughton, an evil madman who cant get over the death of his beloved, 20 years after she married his broth

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself

In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers shes living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit

After a long absence from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living When

A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise

An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her

Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate

German raider, using various disguises, forces British ship to surrender Story told from German point of view

A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero

In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat check girl to impersonate his fiancee, but complications arise when the fathers health suddenly improves

An unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action

The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress

While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous She and the plantations overseer de

The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising