6.7
Monsieur Beaucaire
IMDb: 6.7 1946 93 min
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the ...
6.2
Flame of Barbary Coast
IMDb: 6.2 1945 91 min
Duke Fergus falls for Ann ‘Flaxen’ Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler ...
8
The Shop Around the Corner
IMDb: 8 1940 99 min
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other’s ...
6.1
Phantom Raiders
IMDb: 6.1 1940 70 min
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick ...
5.9
The Three Musketeers
IMDb: 5.9 1939 73 min
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D’Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king’s Musketeers. ...
7
The Man in the Iron Mask
IMDb: 7 1939 112 min
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father’s trusted ...
6.1
Lady of the Tropics
IMDb: 6.1 1939 92 min
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
6.5
Idiot’s Delight
IMDb: 6.5 1939 107 min
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
6.5
Suez
IMDb: 6.5 1938 104 min
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it’s just the place for a canal.
7.3
Marie Antoinette
IMDb: 7.3 1938 149 min
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for ...
6.3
Slave Ship
IMDb: 6.3 1937 92 min
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
7.1
The Life of Emile Zola
IMDb: 7.1 1937 116 min
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola ...
6.2
Lancer Spy
IMDb: 6.2 1937 78 min
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and “returns” to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is ...
5.8
The Garden of Allah
IMDb: 5.8 1936 79 min
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
6.5
The Crusades
IMDb: 6.5 1935 125 min
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
6.8
Cleopatra
IMDb: 6.8 1934 100 min
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
7.4
The King of Kings
IMDb: 7.4 1927 155 min
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in ...
7.3
Orphans of the Storm
IMDb: 7.3 1921 150 min
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their ...
