The Queen of the Pirates (1960)

Storyline :  In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a despotic duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they try to commit a gross injutice against one of their subdits, the naval officer Mirko and his daughter Barbara get in their way, and end up persecuted and arrested. The count Cesar de Santacroce, Isabella's fiancee, intercedes for them, and they are set free - only to be arrested again by the treacherous Isabella. Isabella (who felt jealous of Sandra's beauty) dispatches her for slavery in the Middle East. Mirko escapes from his attackers, and manages to get control of the ship, and to free his daughter, who quickly becomes the queen of the Adriatic pirates. That will bring Cesare to a difficult choice between two different kinds of beauty, Isabella the powerful or Barbara the bountiful...

Stars :  Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel, Livio Lorenzon, Paul Muller, Moira Orfei, José Jaspe, Giustino Durano, Andrea Aureli, Franco Fantasia, Nando Tamberlani, Giulio Battiferri, Luigi Marturano, Gianni Solaro, Annamaria Mustari, Raf Baldassarre

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Désirée (1954)

Storyline :  In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

Stars :  Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars, Charlotte Austin, Cathleen Nesbitt, Evelyn Varden, Isobel Elsom, John Hoyt, Alan Napier

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Angelique and the Sultan (1968)

Storyline :  The Angélique series comes to a conclusion in this fifth film. Angélique's unparalleled beauty lands her in trouble. She is captured and brought to the harem of the Mulay Ismail, Sultan of Morocco. However, the rebellious beauty refuses to be tamed...

Stars :  Michèle Mercier,  Robert Hossein,  Jean-Claude Pascal,  Jacques Santi, Helmuth Schneider,  Roger Pigaut,  Ettore Manni,  Erno Crisa,  Bruno Dietrich, Pasquale Martino

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Indomptable Angélique (1967)

Storyline :  This is the fourth film of the Angélique series. Having discovered that her beloved is still alive, Angélique boards a galley ship and sails the Mediterranean. However, their ship is attacked by pirates and Angélique once more finds herself in peril...

Stars :  Michèle Mercier,  Robert Hossein,  Roger Pigaut,  Christian Rode,  Ettore Manni, Bruno Dietrich,  Pasquale Martino,  Sieghardt Rupp,  Jean-Claude Pascal, Helmuth Schneider

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Angélique et le Roy (1966)

Storyline :  This is the third of the Angélique films. After the loss of her second husband, Angélique goes home to live quietly with her children. However, King Louis XIV has a mission for her involving the Persian ambassador. Later, rumors spread that she has become the new mistress of the king. As Angélique navigates politics and matters of the heart, she uncovers a secret....

Stars :  Michèle Mercier,  Robert Hossein,  Jean Rochefort,  Jacques Toja,  Sami Frey, Estella Blain,  Fred Williams,  Pasquale Martino,  Jean Paredes,  René Lefèvre, Michel Galabru,  Philippe Lemaire

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Merveilleuse Angélique (1965)

Storyline :  This is the second in the Angélique series. Picking up where the previous adventure ended, Angélique joins her childhood friend Nicolas and his band of bandits. But when tragedy hits, the beautiful and ever resourceful Angélique finds a way to move on. She rescues her children, becomes a successful businesswoman by running her own restaurant, and becomes entangled in politics. But where will her heart lead her next...?

Stars :  Michèle Mercier,  Jean Rochefort,  Claude Giraud,  Jean-Louis Trintignant, Giuliano Gemma,  Claire Maurier,  Ernst Schröder,  Charles Regnier,  Jacques Toja, François Maistre,  Noël Roquevert,  Rosalba Neri,  Serge Marquand, Robert Hoffmann,  Malka Rikowska

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Angélique, Marquise des Anges (1964)

Storyline :  In the first of the Angélique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer. 

Stars :  Michèle Mercier,  Robert Hossein,  Jean Rochefort,  Claude Giraud,  Giuliano Gemma, Charles Régnier,  Jacques Toja,  Madeleine LeBeau,  Jean Topart,  Bernard Woringer, Philippe Lemaire,  Serge Marquand

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Angélique (2013)

Storyline :  In France, prior to Louis XIV ascending the throne, a young baroness is forced to marry against her will and is caught up in a web of treachery and murder, threatening her and her husband, whom she has come to love deeply.

Stars :  Nora Arnezeder,  Gérard Lanvin,  Tomer Sisley,  David Kross,  Simon Abkarian, Matthieu Boujenah,  Miguel Herz-Kestranek

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Troy (2004)

Staryline :  It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband, Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad."

Stars :  Brad Pitt,  Eric Bana,  Orlando Bloom,  Brian Cox,  Peter O'Toole,  Sean Bean, Diane Kruger,  Brendan Gleeson,  Saffron Burrows,  Tyler Mane,  Julie Christie, Rose Byrne,  Julian Glover,  Garrett Hedlund,  Vincent Regan,  James Cosmo, Nigel Terry,  John Shrapnel,  Trevor Eve,  Mark Lewis Jones,  Adoni Maropis, Frankie Fitzgerald,  Nathan Jones

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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

One of the first movies to place British cinema firmly on the international map, "The Private Life of Henry VIII" is a comedy of manners loosely based on the matrimonial adventures of a sixteenth-century English king who was married six times.

Starring Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes, Robert Donat.

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