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In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancee, with tragic consequences

An aging heir less millionaire wants to leave his fortune to the unsuspecting family of his first love but not before testing his prospective heirs by living with them under the guise of a poor boarder

Born in a French prison in 1775, Francois Eugene Vidocq becomes a professional thief and is later appointed chief of Parisian police

When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life

The story of a young woman, Helen Banning, who travels to Munich in search of life experience and romance While working for America House, she meets a famous symphony conductor, Tonio Fischer, and begins a relationship with him

Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot

An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed race daughter is desperate to be seen as white

A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops

A pair of Irish rebels have swashbuckling adventures in 1815

When peacemaking Apache chief Cochise dies, the Chiricahua Apaches are torn between following Cochises peace loving son Taza and following the warlike renegade Apache warrior Geronimo

An upper class widow falls in love with a much younger, down to earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers

Convicted murderess Valerie Carns Ann Blyth is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital Nurse Sister Mary Claudette Colbert becomes convinced of her innocence and

In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume her dead

Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland

A parole officer falls in love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and hes determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend

On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isnt the same country he left behind

A remorseful bomber pilot turned minister rejoins for the Korean War

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyles nymphomaniac sister

A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna Maria von Tasnady gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way i

With the Roman Empire divided, Attila the Hun hopes to conquer In his way are a brave centurion, a beautiful princess and Christianity

Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs

In 1846 the actress Gloria Vane is performing at the Adelphi Theatre, London She is in love with the destitute nobleman Albert Finsbury, who is shortly departing to Australia to become an officer in the Queens regiment He is suppo

In 1910, a wayward mother re visits the family she deserted

In this rural film drama, an unwed mother, shunned by her conservative community, goes to court to try to salvage her reputation