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París, 1928. Tras la Revolución Rusa de 1917 y, después de varios años de exilio, un grupo de súbditos leales al zarismo sigue buscando el rastro de la Gran Duquesa Anastasia, la única superviviente de la matanza de Ekaterimburgo (1918), ciudad donde los bolcheviques de Lenin acabaron con la dinastía de los Romanov.
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Alejandro Magno (356-323 a.C.) tuvo como preceptor a Aristóteles y su libro de cabecera fue la Ilíada, de Homero. A los veinte años sucedió a su padre como rey de Macedonia y fue un general excepcional, capaz de conducir inmensos ejércitos. Sus numerosas y brillantes victorias le permitieron crear un gran imperio que se extendía desde Grecia hasta la India.
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La vida de la cantante de ópera Nellie Melba, una soprano nacida en Australia.
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Ambientada en la época victoriana, la película cuenta la historia de Adelaide, una joven de buena familia que renuncia a todo para casarse con un artista venido a menos. Cuando su marido muere en un accidente, Adelaide es chantajeada por una despreciable arpía que la acusa de haber matado a su marido.
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Inglaterra, 1912. Los Winslow, una honorable y acaudalada familia británica, preparan el compromiso matrimonial de su hija, Catherine, con John Watherstone. Durante la reunión presidida por el cabeza de familia, Arthur, llega inesperadamente su hijo menor que ha sido expulsado del colegio por haber robado un giro postal de 5 chelines.
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Stefan Oblonsky pide a su hermana Anna Karenina que abandone San Petersburgo y regrese a Moscú para ayudarle a resolver ciertas desavenencias con su esposa Dolly. En el tren Anna viaja en compañía de la condesa Vronsky, a la que espera su hijo en la estación. El coronel Vronsky y Anna se enamoran a primera vista y cuando vuelven a San Petersburgo continúan intimando en las fiestas. Pero ella está casada y tiene un hijo pequeño, por lo que deben ser muy discretos y prudentes en sus encuentros.
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En St. Robin, Francia, la paz del pueblo comienza a perturbarse cuando, el Dr. Rémy Germain, comienza a recibir anónimos firmados como El Cuervo, en los que se le exige que rompa su relación con Laura Vorzet, esposa del psiquiatra de la misma institución. Pronto, las misivas comienzan a señalar las faltas de muchos otros personajes del pueblo y se vuelve urgente descubrir quien está detrás de esta conspiración.
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Un artista en apuros compra un talismán que le da amor, fama y riqueza. El talismán es una mano izquierda cortada, y funciona perfectamente, de hecho, mágicamente. Pero, por supuesto, no hay nada gratis en este mundo, y después de un año, el diablo viene y pide lo que le corresponde.
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En París, en el barrio de Montmartre, actúa un misterioso asesino que tiene el cinismo de dejar una tarjeta de visita sobre sus víctimas. En un mes ha asesinado ya a cuatro personas.
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The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.
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Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures.
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Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.
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The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
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A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
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Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un espía alemán y una espía británica se conocen y no pueden evitar enamorarse.
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El despótico alcalde de un pequeño pueblo británico maltrata a una pobre vendedora ambulante, cuya perrita le ha sido confiscada por no haber pagado las tasas municipales. Un periodista que presencia la escena y la publica en su periódico será llamado a declarar en el juicio como testigo.
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Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
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Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
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El Golem, un ser gigantesco creado por un rabino a partir de la arcilla, adquiere vida para proteger a los judíos de Praga de la persecución.
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Film sobre la vida del archiduque Rodolfo, hijo de Francisco José de Austria, y del romance que vivió cuando tenía 17 años con la baronesa Maria Vetsera.
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The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed. He comes across a man who has lost his way in the blizzard and takes him to the safety of an inn. Arriving at the garrison, Orloff meets and falls immediately in love with Macha, the daughter of his commander. The town is suddenly attacked by a hoard of bandits who claims to be the true Tsar of Russia.
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A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.
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Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.
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Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
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In this fast-moving fantasy, an unsophisticated student escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the "toast of Paris."
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This German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid Rosa Valletti. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Forst manages to steal the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing his sweetheart. But when the girl proves to be a fickle sort, the crestfallen hero confesses his crime and is carted off to jail. Unwilling to admit that he'd been led astray by a woman, Forst claims that he stole the Mona Lisa to restore it to his native Italy, and as a result is hailed as a national hero! Raub der Mona Lisa was distributed in the U.S. by RKO Radio, under the title The Theft of the Mona Lisa.
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In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
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Una banda de soldados prusianos que luchan contra Napoleón se guardan ellos mismos en un molino de viento rural, la hija del molinero insiste en quedarse con ellos.
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The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and decides to use the excavator there.
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Lulú (Louise Brooks) es mujer ambiciosa y sin moral que usa a los hombres a su voluntad. Desinhibida y atractiva, el aprovechamiento de sus encantos conllevará también sus peligros. Obra mayor del expresionismo que encumbró a Louise Brooks, una joya del cine mudo que adaptó magistralmente la obra teatral "Lulu" de Wedeking.
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Adaptación silente de la novela "Crimen y castigo", de Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
