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Criterion Channel
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69
7.2
/5469/
69
/97/
71
/86/
3.5
/3397/
100
/11/
83
/102/

That Hamilton Woman (1941)
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Amazon Prime Video
72
64
7.0
/5319/
67
/81/
63
/87/
3.4
/4323/
94
/18/
74
/67/

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Criterion Channel
83
62
7.8
/2821/
79
/70/
73
/98/
3.9
/2891/
100
/9/
91
/18/

Marius (1931)
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.
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Criterion Channel
71
49
7.0
/2183/
68
/36/
68
/37/
3.5
/1234/
75
/8/
76
/29/

Rembrandt (1936)
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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68
26
7.1
/1709/
70
/15/
66
/24/
3.5
/906/
63
/6/

Perfect Strangers (1945)
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
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Criterion Channel
63
16
6.3
/869/
63
/19/
59
/20/
3.4
/485/
65
/3/

The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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Criterion Channel
64
15
6.5
/903/
64
/11/
63
/14/
3.3
/339/

An Ideal Husband (1947)
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
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Criterion Channel
56
14
6.1
/347/
67
/8/
46
/5/
50
/32/

Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off.
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Criterion Channel
52
11
5.6
/856/
70
/13/
62
/13/
3.0
/427/
15
/4/

The Lion Has Wings (1939)
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
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6.3
/31/

Madame Wants No Children (1926)
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5.6
/35/
30
/1/

Women Everywhere (1930)
Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French Foreign Legion for running guns to the rebel forces in Morocco fighting against the rule of the French in north Africa. He is saved by Lili La Fleur, a singer/dance in a Morocco café and, through her, eventually becomes a hero to the Foreign Legion.
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3.3
/28/

Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
The story tells of a family tragedy that is based (not always factually accurate) on a well-known tragedy involving the ruling family of Austria-Hungary in 1889. Various names have been changed.
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73
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6.2
/180/
75
/2/
68
/3/

Service for Ladies (1932)
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
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4.1
/27/

A Modern Dubarry (1927)
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6.5
/45/
60
/1/
50
/1/

The Yellow Lily (1928)
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
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5.7
/99/
60
/1/
10
/1/
81
/26/

The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly underdressed coquette, oblivious to all the political turmoil she's causing when she allows the handsome Paris (Ricardo Cortez) to kidnap her. Meanwhile, poor King Menelaus (Lewis Stone), Helen's husband, stands by in stoic silence, just as he's done on previous occasions when his wife succumbed to the charms of various sexy suitors (one of whom is played by future cowboy star "Wild Bill" Elliot). Finally galvanized into action, Menelaus reclaims his bride, who seems none the worse for wear for her experiences.
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4.8
/10/

Faun (1918)
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6.4
/90/
35
/2/

Lilies of the Field (1930)
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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5.5
/21/
50
/1/

La Dame de chez Maxim's (1933)
Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad Môme Crevette, a dancer at the famous Paris restaurant, by his side. It is the moment General Petypon du Grêlé, Lucien's rich uncle, chooses to make an unexpected visit. The good doctor has no other choice but to pass Crevette off as his lawful wife.
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6.0
/12/

The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
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6.0
/24/

The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.
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6.6
/30/
50
/1/

Love and the Devil (1929)
A famous Venetian opera singer marries a rich, but very jealous man. After moving to London with him, she misses the opera and all the attention she used to get. Once back in Venice, an old lover shows up causing trouble.
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40
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4.7
/472/
34
/5/

The Squall (1929)
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
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5.7
/22/

Her Dancing Partner (1925)
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6.8
/24/
50
/1/

The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
Alexander Korda's early German adaptation of Mark Twain's historical fiction novel about two young boys who are born on the same day and identical in appearance but of very different origin: Edward the Prince of Wales son of Henry VIII and Tom Canty the son of an lowly pauper.
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5.8
/46/
50
/1/

Samson und Delila (1922)
One of the first epic films made in Austria, as in some of the similar Cecil B De Mille entries, a fusion of a biblical story with a modern update.
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5.2
/20/
10
/1/

Her Private Life (1929)
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
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58
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5.9
/195/
61
/5/
56
/7/

The Man of Gold (1919)
Faithful to his word, Michael Tímar, captain of the St. Barbara, becomes the guardian of Kondya, daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run. Later, he weds the grateful young Turkish girl whom he saved from the waters of the Danube. While skillfully managing his wife's fortune, entrepreneur Tímar becomes an important wholesaler of wheat and exports his products to Brazil. But his marriage of convenience proves a failure. He is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization, governed by money, and the ideal of freedom, consisting of living simply within nature. He then takes refuge by the side of the sweet Noemi on an island on the Danube.
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6.7
/20/
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/1/

Mágnás Miska (1917)
Based on a popular stage musical comedy by Károly Bakonyi and Andor Gábor, the film tells the story of a young engineer who tries to construct a railway in his hometown, helped by the Count's daughter, Marcsa (Lili Berky).
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Eine versunkene Welt (1922)
Was based on the novel Serpoletto by Lajos Bíró. A Habsburg archduke enlists as an ordinary seamen. The film won the gold medal for Best Dramatic Film at the Milan International Cinema Concourse.
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Gólyakalifa (1917)
A baron has recurring nightmares of being a dock worker on the run.
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Night Watch (1928)
Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.
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The men around Lucie (1931)
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Harrison and Barrison (1917)
A silent comedy from Hungary.
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5.4
/12/

Left Bank (1931)
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Mary Ann (1919)
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The Stolen Bride (1927)
The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
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5.5
/8/

The Unknown Tomorrow (1923)
A melodrama about a virtuous wife unjustly abandoned by her husband, who get him back with the help of a Hindu mystic.
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White Rose (1919)
A drama based on the novel by Mór Jókai.
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Herren der Meere (1922)
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Jedermanns Weib (1924)
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