John Barrymore
2) The tempest
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An epic romance set in Russia during the final days of the Tsarist autocracy, Barrymore stars as Sgt. Ivan Markov, a dedicated soldier who defies the rigid class system to receive an officer's commission. But even as he rises through the ranks of military and society, he must contend with resentment from the aristocratic officers-including the monocled Ullrich Haupt, who delivers a sinister performance worthy of Erich von Stroheim, himself an uncredited...
3) Eternal love
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
During the War of 1806, French soldiers occupy a Swiss hamlet and order the villagers to surrender their rifles. Everyone but Marcus, a hunter in the mountains, complies. Marcus and Ciglia, the minister's niece, are deeply in love. But Pia, a wild mountain girl, vows to win him for herself.
5) Night flight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
As a worried mother comforts her desperately ill son in Rio de Janeiro, the child's physician, Dr. Decosta, assures her that, thanks to the new night flying schedule of the Trans-Andean European Air Mail, which is being inaugurated that evening, they will receive a life-saving serum the next day. Makes its DVD debut with a remastered feature!
6) Svengali
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
"Drummond's fiancee is kidnapped by the diabolical Mikhail Valdin, a past foe who is being pursued by international authorities for murdering an American millionaire in Paris. With the help of his butler and partner, Drummond pursues Valdin in a chase through waterfront dives in search of his beloved Phyllis, while Scottland yard inspector Colonel Nielson follows their trail by slipping into an amazing series of disguises"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
When a young prince is accused of a crime that could embroil him in international scandal, debonair supersleuth Sherlock Homes comes to his aid, and quickly discovers that behind the incident lurks a criminal mastermind eager to reduce Western civilization to anarchy.
10) Tempest
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Markov, a peasant soldier, becomes an officer in the Imperial Russian Guard and falls in love with Princess Tamara, who scorns him and has him stripped of his rank and thrown in prison. Markov becomes an important Red official with the advent of the Revolution and saves Tamara from execution. Together, they escape from Russia.
11) Grand Hotel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens." The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein...
13) Midnight
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A penniless showgirl, impersonating a Hungarian countess, quickly adapts to her new lifestyle with the help of an aristocrat. But she finds herself falling in love with yet another poor man.
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
High-powered attorney George Simon frantically juggles the scandals, crimes, and crises that pass through the chrome-and-glass doors of his art deco office high in the Empire State Building. Balanced on an ethical tightrope, Simon engages in insider trading and bleeds funds from wealthy clients, while tending to the needs of the less fortunate New Yorkers who come from his own working-class background. A political enemy uncovers a past legal indiscretion...
16) Marie Antoinette
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Marie Antoinette and the chaos of the French Revolution.
17) Don Juan
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
None
Description
Don Juan was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia and then killing Count Donati in a duel.
18) Romeo and Juliet
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c1936.
Language
English
Description
Even though their families are feuding, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly marry. Romeo gets in a fight and kills Juliet's cousin Tybalt, resulting in his banishment from Verona. When her parents insist that she marry Paris, Juliet and the friar devise a plan that she hopes will make things right.
19) Dinner at eight
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
20) Arsène Lupin
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Crime pays handsomely in this smart and stylish double feature based on the adventures of Arsène Lupin, fiction's most famous gentleman thief.