I moschettieri del re (1999)

Actors: Alberto Rey (actor), Alexandre Dumas père (writer), Steve Morelli (director), Steve Morelli (writer), Nikki Andersson (actress), David Perry (actor), Zenza Raggi (actor), Reinhard (actor), Judith Kostner (actress), Marco de Bernardi (producer), Giorgio Bellini (composer), Eva Unger (actress), Angela Pitti (costume designer), Carlo Schiavi (miscellaneous crew), Desire Vinci (actress),

Plot: France, 1625. After a dalliance with the Duke of Buckingham, Queen Anne of Austria, consort to Louis XIII of France, presents the Duke with her diamond necklace. Informed of the Queen's indiscretion Cardinal Richelieu seizes the opportunity to discredit her and destabilize the throne. He dispatches Milady de Winter to seduce the Duke and steal back the necklace as proof of Anne's infidelity. The Queen's servant, Constance, enlists her lover, D'Artagnan, and his friends, the King's Musketeers, to retrieve the necklace, save the Queen, and foil the cardinal's plot.

Keywords: hardcore, sex
Genres: Adult,

The Hunchback (1997)

Actors: Ed Shearmur (composer), John Fasano (writer), Robert Lantos (producer), Mandy Patinkin (actor), John Fasano (producer), Victor Hugo (writer), Salma Hayek (actress), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Zoltán Gera (actor), Nickolas Grace (actor), Richard Harris (actor), Jim Dale (actor), István Hunyadkürthy (actor), Julia Jones (miscellaneous crew), Jay Cassidy (editor),

Plot: Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.

Keywords: 1400s, 15th-century, abandoned-baby, archbishop, archdeacon, based-on-novel, bell, bell-ringing, bell-tower, bellringer
Genres: Drama, Horror, Romance,

Quotes:

Quasimodo: Why was I not made of stone like these?

The Three Musketeers (1993)

Actors: Julie Delpy (actress), Michael Wincott (actor), Rebecca De Mornay (actress), Erwin Leder (actor), Kiefer Sutherland (actor), Oliver Platt (actor), Gabrielle Anwar (actress), Tim Curry (actor), Charlie Sheen (actor), Paul McGann (actor), Paul McGann (actor), Herbert Fux (actor), Hugh O'Conor (actor), Chris O'Donnell (actor), Maria Ford (actress),

Plot: The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D'Artagnan, to stop the Cardinal Richelieu's evil plot: to form an alliance with enemy England by way of the mysterious Milady. Rochefort, the Cardinal's right-hand man, announces the official disbanding of the King's Musketeers. Three, however, refuse to throw down their swords - Athos the fighter and drinker, Porthos the pirate and lover, and Aramis the priest and poet. Arriving in Paris to join the Musketeers, D'Artagnan uncovers the Cardinal's plans, and the four set out on a mission to protect King and Country.

Keywords: 17th-century, action-hero, adventure-hero, anti-hero, assassin, assassination-attempt, assassination-plot, attempted-seduction, axe, bar
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance,
Taglines: They're Scoundrels, Playboys, Outlaws . . . The Greatest Heroes Who Ever Lived. All for one and one for all! A place of betrayal. The fate of a king. A time for heroes.

Quotes:

Bad Guy: [referring to the ship's deceased crew] Dead. They're all dead!::Aramis: Not all of us. [kicks the minion]

Porthos: [disguised as an executioner at D'Artagnon's execution] This axe was given to me by the Czarina of Tokyo.

Porthos: [a really drunk Porthos sees Athos] Ooh. May I have this dance?

Porthos: You, boy, are arrogant, hot tempered and entirely too bold. I like that. Reminds me of me.::Aramis: Don't encourage him. By helping us the boy has made himself an outlaw as well.::Athos: Not if he leaves Paris right now.::D'Artagnan: I can't leave now, I just got here.::Porthos: Go home. Find a wench, raise fat babies, live a good long life.::D'Artagnan: What about the motto of the Musketeers? All for one and one for all.::Athos: Wake up boy. The Musketeers are just a dream.

Porthos: Rochefort. Isn't that a smelly kind of cheese?

King Louis: You've failed.::Cardinal Richelieu: Oh, you're so naive. Things couldn't be more perfect if I planned them myself. The King of France dies at the hands of his own personal guard. Grief stricken, terrified, the hudled masses turn for comfort to their devout spiritual leader who, ever so humbly, assumes the throne. With the Queen by his side.::Queen Anne: I would rather die!::Cardinal Richelieu: That can be arranged!

[the Queen is alone, contemplating a map of the world]::Cardinal Richelieu: Homesick?::Queen Anne: Cardinal Richelieu. You surprised me.::Cardinal Richelieu: I often have that effect on people. I can't imagine why, I'm really a very gentle person. You seem a little unhappy in your new home.::Queen Anne: Lonely. Is that the same thing?::Cardinal Richelieu: Austria's loss is France's gain.::Queen Anne: I'm not sure the King shares your opinion. We've barely spoken since our wedding day. Whenever we're together he seems so... uncertain.::Cardinal Richelieu: Arranged marriages can be difficult. Your father and I thought yours would bring Austria and France closer together.::Queen Anne: Well countries align more swiftly than people, I'm afraid.::Cardinal Richelieu: What a pity. Love is, I think... wasted on the young.

[to Athos, in a whisper]::Milady: There was a time when I would have given my life for a kind word from you.

D'Artagnan: Athos, why don't you come join us?::Athos: You fight like a man. See if you can drink like one.::D'Artagnan: I'll drink anything you put in front of me.::Athos: Famous last words... What should we drink to?::D'Artagnan: Let's drink to love.::Athos: [Snorts] To love. Let me tell you a story about love, D'Artagnan. I knew a young man once, a Count, who feared he would never fall in love. One day, he met a woman. This woman was more than beautiful. She was intoxicating, mysterious, everything he'd ever dreamed of. He felt his heart would burst if he couldn't have her.::D'Artagnan: What happened?::Athos: The poor idiot married her.::D'Artagnan: Isn't that what people do when they fall in love?::Athos: Shut up and listen to me. They were riding through the forest one day. She was thrown from her horse and knocked unconscious. When he rushed to her side, he noticed a mark on her body... something he'd never seen before, something she'd managed to keep hidden all this time.::D'Artagnan: What was it?::Athos: The brand of the fleur-de-lis, the mark given to those who are to be executed for murder. The Count was crushed. The woman he loved, his bride, had betrayed him. She'd lied to him. When she came to, she swore that she'd been falsely accused of these crimes, but he didn't believe her; he rejected her for her lies and for her past. Then he banished her from his province. When the guards came to take her away to be executed, she... she was still professing her undying love. Soon after, the Count realized how much she had meant to him, but it was too late. His betrayal was far greater than hers could ever have been. He gave up his title, his land, everything he believed in, never to be seen or heard from again, all because of love.

Porthos: A lively tune... I'm inspired to dance!

The Return of the Musketeers (1989)

Actors: Bob Todd (actor), Jack Taylor (actor), Aldo Sambrell (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Bill Paterson (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Ricardo Palacios (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Billy Connolly (actor), Jean-Pierre Cassel (actor), Philippe Noiret (actor), Richard Chamberlain (actor), C. Thomas Howell (actor), Michael York (actor),

Plot: It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.

Keywords: 1600s, 1640s, 17th-century, action-hero, adventure-hero, ambush, attack, axe-murder, bar-fight, based-on-book
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: Swashbuckling action, comedy capers and rollicking adventures, bigger and better than ever. They're back... all for one and one for all!

Quotes:

Cardinal Mazarin: The people of England will permit anything - except cruelty to horses and a rise in the price of beer.

Justine de Winter: King Charles' death is inevitable, and France must not interfere. General Cromwell insists.::Cardinal Mazarin: Roundhead diplomacy. Does he think he can cut off a crowned head, even an English one, and royal France will stand by doing nothing?::Justine de Winter: What will France do?::Cardinal Mazarin: Stand by... protesting.

Yellowbeard (1983)

Actors: Eric Idle (actor), Ronald Lacey (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), David Bowie (actor), Peter Bull (actor), Álvaro Carcaño (actor), John Cleese (actor), Peter Cook (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Carlos East (actor), Marty Feldman (actor), Tommy Chong (actor), Cheech Marin (actor),

Plot: Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure. He finds that his wife neglected to tell him that he now has a son, 20, and shame of shame, an intellectual. The British Navy, Yellowbeard, his son, and members of Yellowbeard's old crew all go after the treasure.

Keywords: box-office-flop, breasts, cult-movie-cast, funeral-march-by-chopin, historical-fiction, hook-for-hand, independent-film, piracy, pirate, sea
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy,
Taglines: A picture filled with public floggings, saucy tarts, looney lords, outrageousness, offensiveness, even a stuffed crocodile and sheep! [Australia Theatrical] The greatest comedy cast ever assembled for a movie! Everyone who's ever been funny!!! [Australia Theatrical] Swashbucklers, pirates, public floggings, saucy tarts, beggars, queens, & jolly rogers. A Shipload of Laughs.

Quotes:

[Examining Yellowbeard's treasure]::El Nebuloso: Who is it more important to please: the King of Spain, or God?::El Segundo: Why, God, of course.::El Nebuloso: And who is God's personal representative in these parts?::El Segundo: Why, you, your holy ruthlessness.::El Nebuloso: Well, God wants to keep all of it.

Narrator: The pirate Yellowbeard captured many other galleons, killing over five-hundred men in cold blood. He would tear the captains hearts out and swallow them whole. Often forcing his victims to eat their own lips, he was caught and imprisoned... for tax evasion.

Yellowbeard: She couldn't be your mother. No woman ever slept with me and lived.

Betty: When little Dan was two minutes old I tattooed it on his head.::Yellowbeard: Does he know about this?::Betty: Oh, no no no, that's why I kept him in the cupboard for three years. That may be why he's a bit odd with all these books, and reading, and stuff like that.

Dan: Look, if you cut my head off it'll start to putrify!::Yellowbeard: Do what?::Dan: Putrify, go rotten!::Yellowbeard: Yeah, it would ooze a lot, heads do. But I could live with that.

Yellowbeard: Betrayin's all part of piratin'. If you don't know that you're not even close to being a pirate, "Prawn of my loins", my foot!::Dan: What?::Yellowbeard: You're either born a pirate or not! It's in the blood Dan, and it's not in your blood or you'd have betrayed me long ago!

Betty: That's Yellowbeard.::Yellowbeard: I'm in disguise, you stupid tart!

Yellowbeard: Where's the map?::Betty: What map?::Yellowbeard: If you say you don't know where it is, I'll nail your tits to the table!

Dan: Everyone will be following you and if they catch you they'll have the map.::Yellowbeard: Bugger them! I'll eat it first. Won't be the first head I've eaten.

Betty: It's been twenty years since we had a little cuddle, and what do you do? Come in and give me a kiss? No, you rush in and hack a hole in the wall.

Soldier in Love (1967)

Actors: Jean Simmons (actress), Nicholas Hammond (actor), Dick O'Neill (actor), George Schaefer (director), Basil Rathbone (actor), Claire Bloom (actress), George Schaefer (producer), Frances Sternhagen (actress), Keith Michell (actor), Roy Poole (actor), Bernard Green (composer), Roderick Cook (actor), Earl Montgomery (actor), George Turner (actor), Truman Gaige (actor),

Plot: When Princess Anne ascends to the English throne in 1702, she lifts to royal eminence two of her closest friends, John Churchill, one of the Crown's illustrious soldiers, and his wife Sarah. Anne's childhood friend. Shy and inhibited, Anne had few friends other that the Churchills. In time, they would be accused of running the kingdom for their Queen, who suffered from alcoholism and gout.

Genres: ,

At Sword's Point (1952)

Actors: Lucien Littlefield (actor), Ed Hinton (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Fred Kohler Jr. (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Edmund Breon (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), Robert Douglas (actor), Barry Brooks (actor), Art Dupuis (actor), Gregg Barton (actor), Alan Hale Jr. (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), George Magrill (actor),

Plot: France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one!

Keywords: 1600s, arms-tied-overhead, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-novel, boy, branding-iron, chandelier, countess, duke
Genres: Adventure,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Narrator: The year 1648 was a grim one for France. With the death of the great Cardinal Richelieu, the strong hand holding the country together was gone. Terror and violence ruled as the power-hungry nobles plotted to gain control.

Soldier: [holding back his attack] I'll not fight with a lady.::Claire: [thrusting her rapier at the soldier] I'm no lady when I fight!

D'Artagnan: You sent for me, Mother?::Madame D'Artagnan: A messenger has just brought this, my son.::D'Artagnan: The Queen's ring!::Madame D'Artagnan: Her Majesty must be in great danger, else she would not have sent that.::D'Artagnan: Then I must go at once - for my father. Planchet, saddle my horse!

[D'Artagnan's mother has given her son her husband's famous sword]::D'Artagnan: My father's sword! Now I have a legend to live up to.::Madame D'Artagnan: Use it well and wisely.::D'Artagnan: I will use it as my father would have - with honor and in the Queen's name.

D'Artagnan: A moment, monsieurs. Why do you follow me?::Regent Guard: We do not follow you.::D'Artagnan: Then let me put it this way... why is it that I always seem to be a little ahead of you?::Second Regent's Guardsman at Fallen Tree: Perhaps it is because we happen to be going your way.::D'Artagnan: And which way is that, Monsieur?::Third Regent's Guardsman at Fallen Tree: Bordeaux.::D'Artagnan: Bordeaux? You lie! The road to Bordeaux is half a league back.::Regent Guard: Regent's Guards are not accustomed to being called liars!::D'Artagnan: And the King's Musketeer is not accustomed to being followed... by liars!

Old Porthos: Ah, it is useless. I had hoped to ride with you, but I cannot. Devil take this gout! And yet, young D'Artagnan and Aramis ride in their fathers' steeds.::Porthos: Then I shall ride for you!::Old Porthos: Then one for all!::D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos: One for all!::Old Porthos: And all for one!::D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos: All for one!::Old Porthos: Ride hard and fast, my lads!

[D'Artagnan has just rescued the Dauphin from the Duke de LaValle, who was holding the Prince hostage]::D'Artagnan: And now your Grace, hide behind your sword!

[last lines]::D'Artagnan: God bless the King!::The King's Musketeers: God bless the King!

Duc de Lavalle: [to D'Artagnan] You stood pain well, monsieur. Now we'll see how you can face death.

D'Artagnan: My father used to say: who hunts the eagle does not notice the sparrow.

Cardinal Richelieu (1935)

Actors: Halliwell Hobbes (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Keith Hitchcock (actor), Lionel Belmore (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), Jack Harvey (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), John Carradine (actor), David Clyde (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Gilbert Emery (actor), Reginald Barlow (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor),

Genres: Drama, History, Romance,
Taglines: To thwart a king's passion, he gambled the fate of a nation!

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Actors: Edgar Norton (actor), Joe Murphy (actor), Henry A. Barrows (actor), Brandon Hurst (actor), Torben Meyer (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Sam De Grasse (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), J.C. Fowler (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), John George (actor), Howard Davies (actor), Cesare Gravina (actor), Broderick O'Farrell (actor),

Plot: Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.

Keywords: 1690s, 1700s, 17th-century, 18th-century, acrobat, arranged-marriage, attic, based-on-novel, bathing, beefeater
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,

Quotes:

Gwynplaine: [Via subtitles, to the House of Lords] A king made me a clown! A queen made me a Peer! But first, God made me a man!

Lord Clancharlie: I came back to find my little son. What have you done with him?::King James II: By our grace he is still alive, and quite well, I believe. A Comprachico surgeon carved a grin upon his face so he might laugh forever at his fool of a father.

Ursus: Who disturbs the rest of Ursus the philosopher?::Gwynplaine as a child: My name is Gwynplaine and I am cold and hungry.

Ursus: [while getting Gwynplaine some food, Gwynplaine takes the baby out of his coat and puts her on the table, turning around] What, are there TWO of you?

Ursus: [looking at the baby] Blind! [sees Gwynplaine grinning] Stop laughing! Stop laughing I say!::Gwynplaine as a child: I'm not laughing!::Ursus: [looks at Gwynplaine's grin] Comprachicos!

Dea: God closed my eyes so I could see only the real Gwynplaine.

Clown: What a lucky clown you are! You don't have to wipe off your laugh.

Gwynplaine: A woman has seen my face and yet may love me.

King James II: The proud rebel who refused to kiss our hand returns to kiss the iron lady!

The Three Musketeers (1916)

Actors: Thomas H. Ince (miscellaneous crew), George Fisher (actor), Alfred Hollingsworth (actor), Wedgwood Nowell (composer), Victor Schertzinger (composer), Charles Swickard (director), Harvey Clark (actor), J.P. Lockney (actor), Arthur Maude (actor), Walt Whitman (actor), Dorothy Dalton (actress), Louise Glaum (actress), Rhea Mitchell (actress), Alexandre Dumas père (writer), J.G. Hawks (writer),

Plot: The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

Keywords: 1600s, 17th-century, against-the-odds, bad-guy, based-on-novel, france, gascon, historical-fiction, mission, rescue
Genres: Adventure,