Charles Laughton

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.

Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.

In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.

A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.

In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.

Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.

The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.

King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.

A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.

An unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.

A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

John Steinbeck introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry's most celebrated stories from his New York Period (1902-1910) in this anthology film.

After her banishment from Rome, Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman-ruled native land of Galilee, where prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salome's parents, King Herod and Queen Herodias.

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.

The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.

Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.

A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.

In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves.

Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.

A man sets out for revenge after learning of his wife's affair.

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutua...