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- A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
- In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
- The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
- Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
- Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.
- Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.
- Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of the women who love him a la folie, spurring jealous retribution in high places from those who in turn want her. From his prison window, Fabrice falls in love with the jailer's daughter who takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again if his escape succeeds.
- The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In a bitter struggle of the individual against the collective, three people stand forth with the mark of the unconquered in their bearing: Kira, who wants to be a builder, and the two men who love her - Leo, an aristocrat, and Andrei, a Communist. In their tensely dramatic story, Ayn Rand shows what the theories of Communism mean in practice. We the Living is not a story of politics but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what dictatorship - of any kind - does to human beings, what kind of men are able to survive, and which of them remain as the ultimate winners. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? Who are the winners in this conflict? Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand offers an answer that challenges the modern conscience.
- A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
- An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
- Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other family members. But the quarrels between them are continuous, making evident the open wounds left by the Spanish civil war.
- An insurance investigator looks into the death of a man who drove his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. After looking into the incident, the investigator begins to suspect it may not have been suicide after all.
- Non professional actors, filmed in a semi documentary style, show the lives of sailors and their officers ,some of whom are transferred to a hospital ship ,during WWII in Italy .
- Theatrical adaptation: Rigoletto the hunchbacked clown has a daughter who becomes involved with the lecherous King.
- After having been captured in Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.
- French-Italian version of the famous opera by Georges Bizet.
- Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom.
- In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
- The rivalry between two Venetian families, the Foscaris and the Faredanas, causes first the death of old Faredana and then of Doge Foscari, after his son is wrongly accused.
- Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia's many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova who has been laying claim to the throne from the Crimea. Once there, he finds the local charms of the Princess hard to resist.
- When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
- In a young republic of South America lives Angélica, a woman of rare beauty. She will literally bewitch General Manrique Ruiz, nicknamed "El Salvador", then at the height of his glory. This one ends up finding himself under the influence of the beautiful but cruel Angélica. "El Salvador" then burns its wings for having succumbed to the charms of the young woman and sees its star gradually tarnish with the population before falling into full decline.
- An argumentative man and wife leave Rome and take a boat with other immigrants to Argentina, in search of a new life in Latin America.
- After the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was sent into exile on the small island of Saint Helena. Surrounded by the few who were faithful to him, he spent his last years between an unyielding pride and the discouragement of freedom denied.
- Sir William murders an Earl who left his fortune to his long-lost son.
- There has been no Catholic church in the Italian district of London since the only one was bombed during the Blitz. Guido Marchi, a journalist wishing it to be restored, decides to organize a show in which great names of the Italian opera will appear, deceitfully using Carlo Scala's restaurant as collateral to get the loan so as to organize the show. Despite formidable, self-interested opposition he will finally realize his goal, and he will manage to marry the one he loves.
- A banker has been locked away by his family due to his erratic and possibly immoral behavior.Escaping, he hides out in a boarding house and tries to bring happiness to several of its residents.
- Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
- The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Jugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.
- Late-fall sunshine for an aging man.
- The great Greek philosopher Socrates, is accused of corruption of the young.
- Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
- A young American composer separates from his wife, and moves to Rome. Soon, he falls for Mirella, a beautiful girl in that country. As his work and relationship progress, the dangers of war arise.
- Eleonora, daughter of the governor of Venice, dresses as a warrior to defend the last fortress on the island of Cyprus from the Turkish siege. Both her troops and her enemies know him as Captain Storm.
- All are artists (painters,musicians,poets...) ,all are bound for glory .
- The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.
- A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
- A girl, about ten, tries to catch a butterfly but all the other insects intervene to save it.
- Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
- A 19th century count of declining fortunes is approached by three ambitious men who have designs on whatever wealth he still maintains.A mysterious document plays a part in this drama.
- Left without reinforcements, Italian troops in Libia must defend themselves down to the last man against the British.
- Carlo Marini is a cocaine trafficker. While at the bedside of Anna, a former lover who is dying, Carlo learns that he is the father of Mario, a young man and - incidentally - a coke dealer like him. Mario lives under the influence of his mate Renata, a girl who is greedy for luxury. Not knowing that Carlo is his father and that he is trying to help him, the young man takes part in a burglary at a countess's. The old woman, also a drug supplier , is found murdered and everything points Mario's guilt. Carlo decides to investigate...
- A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity.
- During maneuvers a submarine collides with a surface vessel and drops to the ocean floor. The crew have thirty hours worth of air to get it back to the surface.