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Plot Summary:
A romanced story of Attila the Hun, from when he lost his parents in childhood until his death. Attila is disclosed as a great leader, strategist and lover and the movie shows his respect to the great Roman strategist Flavius Aetius, his loves and passions, the gossips, intrigues and betrayals in Rome, all of these feelings evolved by magic and mysticism.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
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Pathonpatham Noottandu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a 19th century fiery social reformer and his unswerving fight against the dominant caste oppressions by the upper classes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
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Rusalka (2002)
Plot Summary:
A production of Antonín Dvořák's opera performed by the Opéra national de Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Music
Country: France
Duration: 160 min
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea (2000)
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Experience Claudio Monteverdi's three-act opera in the environment it was meant to be seen with this release of a filmed performance captured live during a 2000 production staged at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France. Mireille Delunsch, Anne Sofie Von Otter, and Sylvie Brunet star, and conductor Marc Minkowski leads the Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble. Klaus Michael Grüber directs for stage.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: baroque
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Madama Butterfly (2010)
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The heroine of this beloved opera finds herself faced with a dreadful choice: life without dignity or death with honor. Hear some of Puccini's most soaring and captivating music in this classic story of colliding hearts and cultures.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
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Cavalleria Rusticana (1968)
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Film of the opera Cavalleria Rusticana conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 76 min
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Orpheus (1978)
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Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Filmed 28 march - 20 April. Sound recorded 1 - 25 December 1977.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Music, Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
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Carmen (2007)
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Georges Bizet's Carmen, filmed at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, and conducted by Antonio Pappano, tells the tragic story of a soldier who falls for the sultry Carmen and abandons his career and family to be with her.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min
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Samson et Dalila (1981)
Plot Summary:
While the rest of the Hebrews bewail their fate, Samson alone trusts in God's promise of liberty. Abimelech, the Philistine satrap of Gaza, enters to mock the Hebrews' God, proclaiming the superiority of Dagon, and the Hebrews are afraid of him. But calls them to show some defiance, so Abimelech attacks Samson with his sword. Samson seizes the sword and strikes him dead. The Hebrews scatter and the High Priest of Dagon appears, cursing the Hebrews. When a messenger reports that the Hebrews are ravaging the harvest, the High Priest forms a plan to use Delilah to overcome Samson's strength. Delilah's beauty is such that Samson can't resist her for long. She begs to know the secret of his supernatural strength, but he refuses, though he says he loves her. Delilah betrays Samson by having some Philistine soldiers seize him and throw him into a prison in Gaza, where his hair is cut off.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: biblical
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1979)
Plot Summary:
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Music, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 164 min
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Macbeth (1993)
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Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany, France
Duration: 149 min
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The Roe's Room (1997)
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Bound to a suffocating existence, a young man embarks on a marvelous journey of the imagination, transforming ordinary details of his room into fantastic images of natural beauty, where the cycles of life mysteriously play themselves out.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
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The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)
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An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean. While the ship is docked in Alexandria, a maid discovers that four of the passengers are actually members of the Palestine Liberation Organization traveling incognito. Startled by their discovery, the PLO cadre is forced to act. They take the passengers on board hostage and demand the release of 50 Palestinian activists held in Israeli jails. As Egyptian, American, Italian, and Palestinian authorities bicker over the best way to handle the situation (and who would negotiate with the terrorists), the kidnappers find themselves dealing with rebellion among their captives, and an argument between the four PLO members and Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American confined to a wheelchair, eventually escalates into violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
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Un Ballo In Maschera (1991)
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Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine. Starring Luciano Pavarotti.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
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Eugene Onegin (2007)
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The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, starring Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Anna Samuil and Renée Morloc. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor lends added musical accompaniment, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 210 min
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Rodelinda (2005)
Plot Summary:
Live from Munich 2004.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 203 min
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Roberto Devereux (1997)
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A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereux was composed in the summer of 1837, the year, according to biographers, in which Donizetti seems to have suffered most, having lost his third son and his adored wife Virginia Vasselli. The opera made its debut at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples on October 28th in the same year and was a great success. The rehearsals of the original performance were postponed for a month due to censorship of the decapitation scene of the leading actor.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min
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Rigoletto (2010)
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Guiseppi Verdi's opera about Rigoletto, the unattractive, hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. The Duke has noticed a young lady going to church each Sunday and he plans to seduce her. When Count Monterone confronts the Duke for seducing his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Italy, UK, France, Japan, USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min
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Othello (1992)
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The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Gala Performance in honour of Sir Georg Solti's 80th birthday.. 27 October 1992. BBC 2 Television live relay.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min
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Tarkan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Attila the Hun raiders Tarkan Mars is about the struggle with the Romans and vandals to get a magic sword.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min
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Triumph of the Ten Gladiators (1964)
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The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: campy
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1967)
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Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994. Dmitri Shostakovich also wrote the screenplay for the screen version of Katerina Izmailova.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 118 min
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Ursus in the Land of Fire (1963)
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Hamilan, a cruel and ambitious general, murders his king and places himself on the throne with the former king's evil niece as his queen. He then wages war against his peaceful neighbors, killing their women and enslaving their men. A hero named Ursus appears at a tournament to challenge Hamilan's authority. Though victorious at the tournament, Ursus is arrested and forced to turn a grist-mill under an overseer's lash. Meanwhile, the former king's virtuous daughter, Diana, is tormented by her evil cousin, the new queen. Sentenced to a slow and tortuous execution, Ursus breaks free and a revolt breaks out. Ursus throws Hamilan to his death in a fiery pit and then Ursus and Diana enjoy the cheers of a grateful populace. - Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: campy
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The Tartars (1961)
Plot Summary:
A barbarian army attacks Viking settlements along the Russian steppes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min
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Gold for the Caesars (1963)
Plot Summary:
A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
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Colussus and the Huns (1962)
Plot Summary:
King Bohlem, brother of the late Attila, reconquers former Hun territory. To secure this territory, he sends his son, Otto, and his nephew, Tharus, to forge an alliance with King Haadem, strongest of the neighboring rulers. Haadem, however, is just concluding an alliance with Kudrum, the ambitious son of a king hostile to Hun interests. To cement this alliance, Haadem has agreed to marry his daughter, Tamall, to Kudrun, but Tamall dislikes Kudrum. She quickly falls in love with the newly-arrived Tharus. Kudrum inflames Haadem's feelings against Tharus and arranges to have Tharus publicly flogged. Not satisfied, Kudrum then murders Haadem and has the crime blamed on Tharus. Tamall's love for Tharus is tested but then she comes to believe Tharus's claims of innocence and works on behalf of Tharus as Kudrum's forces arrive for a decisive battle.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
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Rigoletto (1987)
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Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The Duke is a ladies man who feels his life would be meaningless if he couldn't chase every skirt he sees. In fact, we learn as the opera begins that he's recently been noticing a young lady every Sunday on her way to church, and he's vowed to have his way with her. What nobody realizes is that the girl is the jester's beloved daughter, Gilda, and that Gilda has seen the Duke every Sunday and is smitten with him. Suddenly Count Monterone appears at court, furious that the Duke has seduced his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them. Later, the courtiers discover that Rigoletto is secretly living with Gilda.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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The Two Gladiators (1964)
Plot Summary:
The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
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Duel of Champions (1961)
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A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce and bloody duel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious
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The Invincible Gladiator (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Roman warrior leads a revolt against an evil ruler. A young, diminutive ruler makes a big decision to unseat a nobleman whose ego has outgrown him. But can the 10-year-old take on such an impressive nemesis?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized, cult film
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The Last Roman (1968)
Plot Summary:
A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany, Romania
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, epic
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