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- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòSophia LorenEnzo Turco"Miseria e Nobiltà" tells the story of the humble families of Felice Pasquale and his colleague who are hired by a Marquis who wants to marry the daughter of a rich but simple cook, so they pose as aristocrats.
- DirectorDavid ButlerSidney LanfieldStarsBob HopeVirginia MayoWalter BrennanA cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
- DirectorRichard PottierStarsRoger MooreMylène DemongeotGiorgia MollThe classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.
- DirectorGus TrikonisStarsElizabeth TaylorJane AlexanderRichard DysartStruggling actress Hedda Hopper (Jane Alexander) can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintance of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumor industry. What they couldn't foresee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons - and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's heyday.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam PowellIrene DunneElizabeth TaylorA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsUgo TognazziGiovanna RalliPierre BrasseurLiolà is a single father of three children, a free spirit wandering from city to city without wanting to commit to anyone.
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsHeidelinde WeisHarald LeipnitzKarin HübnerThe story of free-spirited German Princess Liselotte who, giving in to her father's wish, marries Philippe, the Duke of Orleans. Initially she is met with arrogance by her new husband and his court, and especially by his mistress Palatine, who flaunts her affair with Philippe in her face. Liselotte uses her charm and the weapons of womanhood and soon wins over the court and also the affections of her husband. But her enemies spin intrigues against her and skulduggery is afoot.
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsMark StevensRhonda FlemingNancy GuildA belly dancer causes a scandal with her "suggestive" and "immoral" dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsLev SverdlinKonstantin MikhaylovEmmanuil GellerFollows the adventures of the "Robin Hood of the East". Posing as a wise man from Damascus Nasreddin becomes the tyrannical Emir's trusted adviser. Little does the Emir know that Nasreddin's secretly working against him - a plot that includes stealing the Emir's prize harem girl.
- DirectorMariano OzoresStarsGracita MoralesJosé Luis López VázquezAntonio OzoresThe spy and dancer Mata Hari escapes with a quiet man with the help of her maid Guillermina, then she should take her place to meet Von Faber (head of Kaiser's counterintelligence service).
- DirectorBob KellettStarsDanny La RueAlfred MarksLance PercivalShakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he's a girl, they let him go. He mustn't break his character until he reaches safety.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsBetty HuttonJohn LundBilly De WolfeThe real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAlberto SordiPaolo StoppaCaroline BergA mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious troubles when a practical joke endangers the Pope.
- DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsAnn MichelleJulian BarnesDudley FosterLoosely bases on Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, this is the story of Pamela who goes to work in the kitchen of Lord Devenish who is determined to rape her.
- DirectorGabriel AghionStarsVincent PerezFanny ArdantJosiane BalaskoThe 'philosopher' (modernist intellectual of the French 18th-century Enlightenment) Denis Diderot is part of an aristocratic circle which practices the libertarian principles on the rural castle estate of the baron of Holbach, and prints their forbidden publication, the Encyclopédie, drowning the noise of the presses in Jewish assistant Abraham's organ playing. Then arrives Madame Therbouche, a flirtatious painter, from the Prussian metropolis Berlin, and convinces Diderot to pose for her more daring then his idol fellow-philosopher Voltaire in Berlin: in the nude, leading to an animated row with his wife Antoinette, still naked except for a very unsteady sheet, all over the estate's park. Worse, the saucy scene is witnessed by a feared visitor, Holbach's brother the Cardinal, who is hunting for the illegal Encyclopaedia printers; to divert him, the baroness confesses her real and imagined sins since years and next sends in every female to do the same, later joined spontaneously by chevalier (marquis in the end credits) de Jerfeuil, who got a livelier show the he bargained for when accepting to be shown two inseparable marquis's 'sabre collection' which proves not of the military variety. The baroness also treats her guests to (then) most exotic foods and naughty pictures, yet even for her the freedman Turkish hamam eunuch Mohamed takes hospitality for female guests too far into intimate massage to their taste. His personal experience keeps changing Diderot's ideas, and therefore the article he is writing on 'morale' (morality). Secrets end up getting out, both the portraitist's true agenda and what goes on in the chapel, which the Cardinal finally gets into to 'recollect himself' after hearing so many unsettling lustful sins...
- DirectorTonino CerviStarsAlberto SordiLaura AntonelliGiuliana de SioDuring the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsAlbert FinneySusannah YorkGeorge DevineThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsTeri TordaiMike MarshallPascale PetitIn the former Kingdom of Westphalia, where Napoleon's brother Jeröme rules, there is an old inn not far from the university town of Giessen an der Lahn that is owned by the beautiful, red-haired Suzanne.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsPaul HenreidPatricia MedinaHans ConriedIn ancient Baghdad, a magician uses his powers and his magic box to save slave girls.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsMichel AuclairJean-Pierre AumontJean-Louis BarraultThe history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.
- DirectorTze-Chung LamStarsWallace HuoTian JingDylan KuoEr Dan (Wallace Huo) accidentally traveled to the past to Tang Dynasty. In Tang Dynasty he met Shi Ke Jin (Dylan Luo) whom his elder brother Shi Ke Yan wanted to kill him. Without a doubt he tried to save Shi Ke Jin and brought him back to the future. Because Shi Ke Jin knows so much about the future, he decided to go back to kill his brother and conquer the world. When ErDan discovered his intention, he intended to go back to Tang Dynasty to stop his plan.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsFrankie HowerdDavid KernanNora SwinburneQueen of England gives birth to twins, one kept in a pig sty, and the other hidden. Lurkalot, raised by pigs, fights to protect his daughter and her royal line.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsFrankie HowerdBill FraserWilliam MervynFrankie Howerd stars in this comedy as a lowly boot-boy who is a terrible coward. He only goes to war in 1914 after he has been hypnotised to 'save England'. With the German master plan tattooed on his backside (this is the only way he could get the plan back to the British), he goes to the British headquarters, with the Germans in hot pursuit, to try and 'hand over the plans'!!!
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsMarika RökkWilly FritschAribert WäscherA seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsFrankie HowerdPatrick CargillBill FraserRoman slave Lurcio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero. Administering to the participants of his master's orgy guests seems small compared to the trouble the scroll brings, but all are in for a nasty shock when Mount Vesuvius decides to erupt.