The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.
Countess Hedvig von Wärnfelt (born Wärnfelt), receives her orphan's granddaughter Marianne to educate her in tukt and her reverence. Marianne is an iron and vibrant young girl, who also carries theater grills. The Countess is staggered over her uneducated facials and treats her severely, hard and joyless.
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy.
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Η διάσημη γερμανική ηθοποιός σκηνής Έμμι Ρίτερ (Alla Nazimova) κρατείται σε στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης των Ναζί. Έχει προγραμματιστεί να εκτελεστεί σύντομα, αλλά ο συμπαθητικός γιατρός Ντίτεν ( Philip Dorn ), είναι θαυμαστής της από την παιδική ηλικία και προσφέρετε να παραδώσει μια επιστολή στα παιδιά της. Ο γιος της Έμμι, Mαρκ Πράισινγκ (Robert Taylor), ένας Αμερικανός πολίτης, ταξιδεύει στη Γερμανία αναζητώντας τη μητέρα του, αλλά κανείς, ούτε καν οι παλιοί οικογενειακοί φίλοι, δεν θέλουν σχέση μαζί του. Ένας Γερμανός αξιωματούχος λέει στον Μάρκ ότι η μητέρα του έχει συλληφθεί και τον συμβουλεύει να επιστρέψει στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Αλλά με την βοήθεια της Κόμισσας Ρούμπι φον Τρεκ, καταφέρνει να...
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
Ο συγγραφέας Χάρι Στρητ τραυματίζεται σοβαρά έχοντας πάει για κυνήγι στο όρος Κιλιμάντζαρο. Ενώ κείτεται τραυματισμένος στη πλαγιά του Αφρικάνικου βουνού, κάνει έναν απολογισμό της ζωής και του έργου του: η μεγάλη του αγάπη και τα λάθη που τον οδήγησαν στο να την χάσει, οι συμβιβασμοί του ταλέντου του για λόγους εμπορικότητας και οι ανούσιες επιτυχίες του τον γεμίζουν απογοήτευση. Εκεί που αισθάνεται τη ζωή του κενή και δεν επιθυμεί να τη συνεχίσει, η αφοσίωση και η αγάπη της γυναίκας του Έλεν θα τον κάνει να αποκτήσει πάλι τη χαμένη του αυτοπεποίθηση και όρεξη για ζωή.
In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Ιταλία, 1866. Ο ιταλο-αυστριακός πόλεμος για την ενοποίηση της Βενετίας με την υπόλοιπη Ιταλία φτάνει προς το τέλος του. Κατά τη διάρκεια μίας παράστασης της όπερας Il Trovatore, μια ομάδα Ιταλών εθνικιστών διαμαρτύρεται κατά των Αυστριακών αξιωματούχων που βρίσκονται στο θέατρο. Εν μέσω των ταραχών, η κόμισσα Λίβια Σερπιέρι προσπαθεί να προστατεύσει τον ξάδερφό της, μαρκήσιο Ρομπέρτο Ουσόνι, συγκαλύπτοντας το γεγονός ότι εκείνος υποκίνησε τη διαμαρτυρία. Ωστόσο, η γνωριμία της με τον νεαρό Αυστριακό αξιωματικό Φραντζ Μάλερ θα την παρασύρει σε έναν αυτοκαταστροφικό έρωτα, ο οποίος τελικά θα την οδηγήσει στο να προδώσει όχι μόνο τον ξάδερφό της, αλλά και ολόκληρη τη χώρα της.
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
A troupe of beautiful dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister castle, not knowing it is home to a group of vampires.
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.
Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in keeping with the age and character of the characters, to give it rhythm. At once "a comic baroque play, a bourgeois drama, a chansonnier's number, a social satire, a farce and a very pretty love story" according to Marcel Bluwal, it can also be summed up, according to Beaumarchais, as "the most bantering of intrigues".
A woman is tormented by dreams that she is the reincarnation of a dead countess. Her father, trying to get her to stop the dreams, takes her to a village near the castle of the late countess. In the village she meets a reporter who is investigating reports of the deaths of two young women who it is believed were killed by a creature that lives in the castle.
Danish family film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Dirch Passer.