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- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsCharles LaughtonGertrude LawrenceElsa LanchesterThe respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsGino CerviAnneliese UhligEnrico GloriIn Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsThorkild RooseLisbeth MovinSigrid NeiiendamThe young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJoan FontaineArturo de CórdovaBasil RathboneAn English lady falls madly in love with a French pirate.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Maria MontezPaula CordayCharles II, the King of England, finds himself in exile in Holland, where he falls in love with a beautiful farm-girl.
- DirectorPierre BillonStarsDanielle DarrieuxJean MaraisMarcel HerrandExiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsBarbara HaleRichard GreeneCarl Benton ReidSet in 17th century England, a young woman falls in love with a humble villager whose community suffers under the rule of her despotic landowning family.
- DirectorÅke OhbergStarsEdvin AdolphsonAlf KjellinHjördis PettersonWhen the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede to prove his love for Anna Ryding.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsGeorges MarchalYvonne SansonGino CerviD'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsCornel WildeJean WallaceHerbert LomSquire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess. Katrina offers to return Pierre's property if he will help her get possession of the 'Star of India,' a fabulous sapphire, held at the moment by Narbonne. The Dutch government wants it returned to its Indian worshipers, in order to keep peace. Pierre is a guest at Narbonne's château during a visit from King Louis IV, who wants to acquire the sapphire for his new court-favorite, Mme. de Montespan. Pierre discovers that the "Star" is hidden in the hilt of Narbonne's sword, He challenges Narbonne to a duel, gains possession of Narbonne's sword, extracts the jewel and escapes the castle with Narbonne's men in pursuit. Katrina is on a Dutch ship in the harbor and is soon joined by Pierre and his pursuers.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVladimír RázJana DítetováJarmila KurandováWhen the ancient privileges of Chodové were threatened by Wolf Maximilian Laminger von Albenreuth, "Lomikar", Jan Sladký Kozina defended their rights. He was arrested and executed in 1695.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsDanielle DarrieuxViviane RomancePaul MeurisseMadame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsViktor DobrovolskyYulian PanichEvgeniy SamoylovA Soviet propaganda film on the subject of mockery of Ukrainians, the film distorts the history of the Hetmanate, and elements of Ukrainophobia are present.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsJean MaraisBourvilElsa MartinelliThe young King Louis XIII is dominated by his mother Marie de Medici and her favorite Concino Concini. Francois de Capestang, a faithful knight falls for the daughter of the Duke of Angouleme that conspires against the Crown by his side.
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsLucyna WinnickaMieczyslaw VoitAnna CiepielewskaA priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
- DirectorPierre Gaspard-HuitStarsJean MaraisGeneviève GradGérard BarrayThe ruined Baron Philippe de Sigognac, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors. Attracted by Isabelle, and by the enthusiasm of his acting companions, he joins the troupe.
- DirectorBernard BorderieStarsGérard BarrayMylène DemongeotPerrette PradierTo avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Milady de Winter kidnaps both D'Artagnan and Constance, in order to spur a war between the French and the English, as per the Cardinal's wish.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsJean MaraisSylva KoscinaJean-François PoronThe story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
- DirectorJohan JacobsenStarsPoul ReichhardtJens ØsterholmBirgitte FederspielAfter the Swedish invasion of Denmark in 1657 described in Gøngehøvdingen (1961), Copenhagen is now besieged and they are starving there. Svend and Ib help a noble family escape and bring food and weapons to Copenhagen.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTotòNino TarantoErminio MacarioIn 1630 Italy, widower Pasquale loses his job as a cobbler, so to get food for his 12 children, he and a poor companion disguise themselves as mendicant monks and knock for help at the castle of beautiful widowed Marquise Fiorenza, who begs them to prevent an unwelcome wedding to the sinister Don Egidio.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsPetr KostkaEmília VásáryováMiroslav HolubKarel Zeman's brilliant animation, cowritten with Jurácek: ironic, surreal, following the adventures of a plowboy and a mercenary to the battlefields of the Thirty Years War.
- DirectorBernard BorderieStarsMichèle MercierClaude GiraudJean RochefortIn the second of the Angélique series, the heroine joins a group of bandits, rescues her children, becomes a successful businesswoman, and once again becomes entangled in politics and matters of the heart.