Keyword: french revolution

Dear Caroline

5.9

1951

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14th July 1789. While the wedding of her older unprepossessing sister Louise to a wealthy aristocrat is being celebrated, sixteen-year old beauty Caroline falls in love with an attractive young libertine. But Gaston wont hear of marriage and out of spite she weds Georges Berthier, a politician. Two years later she meets Gaston again and once again it is love at first sight. But her husband being declared an outlaw Caroline must go into hiding.Gaston gives her a helping hand but someone gives her away and she gets arrested. Miraculously saved she must hide again and tries to flee to England. But it is now the Chouans who arrest her.

The Night of Varennes

6.9

1982

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During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

5.6

1937

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Paris is Burning! Under the Iron Fist of Robespierre hundreds are executed, by the swift and bloodstained guillotine. Through these acts of injustice a new heroism is born - The League of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

A Tale of Two Cities

7.8

1935

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A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

7.7

1982

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Paris, 1792: After France becomes a republic, aristocrats are guillotined. The English Sir Percy tries to save as many as he can as The Scarlet Pimpernel in disguises.

Carry On Don't Lose Your Head

6.5

1967

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Scaramouche

7.6

1952

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In France during the late 18th Century, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman.

The Lady and the Duke

6.9

2001

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During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Lloyd's of London

7.1

1936

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Blake is in love with an aristocratic woman whose husband seriously injures him. Blakes friendship with Lord Nelson provides the basis for Blakes part in the growth of Lloyds insurance business following the Battle of Trafalgar. Only very slightly based on history.

A Tale of Two Cities

6.5

1980

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Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Cartons undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

7.4

1934

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A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

Les Misérables

7.3

1978

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Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan), convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for several decades by the relentless and cruel Policeman Javert (Anthony Perkins).