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Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.

Based on Oscar Wilde's namesake drama. While praying, John the Baptist is captured and taken to Herod's palace, where he's locked in an underground...

A film based on the drama of the same name by Antonio Gutiérrez, which formed the basis for Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera Il Trovatore. Count...

Gerolamo Lo Savio's version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

With a friend desperate for money, a merchant takes out a loan from a ruthless money-lender. Confident that his ships will soon be bringing him great...

Aristocrat Armand Duval meets the courtesan Marguerite Gauthier, after which he never stops thinking about her. The young man’s family is...

A early film adaptation of "The Rape of the Sabines" which is an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally said to have taken place in...

Stellina, the humble daughter of a Venetian fisherman, is seduced by a wealthy aristocratic libertine. What begins as a deeply sentimental love story...

Maddalena, a poor flower girl, meets Jandolo, a promising painter, and becomes his model, muse, and lover. After a carefree period, financial...

Don José Navarro, a cavalry brigadier in the Almanza regiment, meets Carmen, a gypsy girl from Seville whose beauty and provocative air...

He is a brave and gallant young lieutenant of the Italian army at a time when his country is on the eve of war with Turkey. He becomes infatuated...

Hippolytus, the handsome son of Theseus, the great legendary hero of the Greeks, is beloved by all the women. His father's second wife, Phaedra, is...