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The Lost Girls (2013)

Actors: Nick Everhart (producer), Leigh Scott (director), Leigh Scott (writer), Leigh Scott (producer), Brandon deSpain (actor), Eliza Swenson (writer), Eliza Swenson (producer), Eliza Swenson (actress), Brandon Stacy (actor), Ken Burmeister (actor), Julie Anne (actress), Martin Ewens (actor), Alexandra Turshen (actress), Sasha Jackson (actress), Regina Amato (costume designer),

Genres: Action,

Mary Queen of Scots (2013)

Actors: Clive Russell (actor), Jo Cameron Brown (miscellaneous crew), Jo Cameron Brown (miscellaneous crew), Stefan Zweig (writer), Tony Curran (actor), Bruno Todeschini (actor), Thomas Imbach (director), Thomas Imbach (writer), Thomas Imbach (producer), Joana Preiss (actress), Sofiya Gubajdulina (composer), Rebecca Palmer (actress), Udo Happel (producer), Justin Pollard (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Diesselhorst (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,

Byzantium (2012)

Actors: Neil Jordan (director), Kate Ashfield (actress), Consolata Boyle (costume designer), Stephen Woolley (producer), Brendan Gunn (miscellaneous crew), Tom Hollander (actor), Alan Moloney (producer), Thure Lindhardt (actor), Elton Farla (miscellaneous crew), Christos Michaels (miscellaneous crew), Uri Gavriel (actor), Javier Navarrete (composer), Tony Lawson (editor), Daniel Mays (actor), Norman Merry (producer),

Plot: Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.

Keywords: apartment-fire, arson, bare-chested-male, based-on-play, bicorne, blood-spatter, brothel, carnival, coastal-town, crashing-through-a-skylight
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller,

Quotes:

Eleanor: My story can never be told.::Eleanor: ...I write of what I cannot speak, the truth. I write all I know of it, then I throw that pages to the wind, maybe the birds can read it.

Eleanor: It is still a fact that the day you are born is the day you are most likely to be murdered.::Eleanor: More human souls are killed by mothers' hands than by the hands of strangers.::Eleanor: My mother tried to murder me, but love confounded her.

Fear Is the Key (1972)

Actors: Ben Kingsley (actor), John Alderson (actor), John Vernon (actor), Elliott Sullivan (actor), Elliott Kastner (producer), Peter Marinker (actor), Kay Rawlings (miscellaneous crew), Barry Newman (actor), Dolph Sweet (actor), Michael Tuchner (director), Roy Budd (composer), Ray Lovejoy (editor), Hal Galili (actor), Ray McAnally (actor), Alan Ladd Jr. (producer),

Plot: Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. By setting himself up as a criminal, he plans to get close to a certain tycoon who has been approached by the culprits to help them retrieve the cargo of the lost plane.

Keywords: arrest, automobile, based-on-novel, bathyscaphe, boat, car-chase, chase, deception, diving, fight
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: In the right hands, fear is the deadliest weapon of all.

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

Actors: Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Patrick McGoohan (actor), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Glenda Jackson (actress), Hal B. Wallis (producer), Nigel Davenport (actor), John Barry (composer), Ian Holm (actor), Trevor Howard (actor), Jeremy Bulloch (actor), Andrew Keir (actor), Timothy Dalton (actor), Daniel Massey (actor), Richard Warner (actor), Charles Jarrott (director),

Plot: Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at he age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

Keywords: 1500s, 1560s, 16th-century, ambition, assassination, baby, beheading, betrayal, bisexual, brother-sister-relationship
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, who ruled with the heart of a woman. ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, who reigned with the power of a man. They Used Every Passion In Their Incredible Duel! They Used Every Passion In Their Incredible Duel! MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, who ruled with the heart of a woman. ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, who reigned with the power of a man. They used every passion in their incredible duel....and every man in their savage games of intrigue!

Quotes:

William Cecil: But with Dudley comes the future crown of England. No true monarch will turn her back on that, not even Mary of Scotland.::Queen Elizabeth: That monarch is first a woman.::William Cecil: You would never ignore such an offer for a pretty fellow.::Queen Elizabeth: This woman is first a monarch.

[last lines]::Executioner: Forgive me, madam.::Mary, Queen of Scots: I forgive you with all my heart. I thank you even. I hope this death shall put an end to all my troubles. For in my end is my beginning.::[pause]::Mary, Queen of Scots: Lord, into your hands I commend my spirit.

[last title card]::Title card: Elizabeth ruled England for another sixteen years. She died as she had lived, unmarried and childless. The thrones of England and Scotland passed to the only possible claimant... a man, King James the First - only son of Mary Stuart... Queen of Scots.

[first title card]::Title card: 1558 / England and Scotland are torn apart by family and religious wars. Mary Stuart, the Catholic queen of Scotland, is married to the king of France. / When he dies she returns to Scotland to claim her throne and immediately becomes involved in a fight for power with Elizabeth, the Protestant queen of England. This is the story of the fierce struggle between... the rival queens.

[first lines]::Francis - King of France: [screams] La Vierge!::Mary, Queen of Scots: What is it? What is it?::Francis - King of France: My head! My head!::Mary, Queen of Scots: Be still, be still, put your head down.::Francis - King of France: Please, help me.

William Cecil: [to Mary] Madam, you cast an evil spell on all you meet... except me.

Mary of Scotland (1936)

Actors: Donald Crisp (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Lionel Belmore (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Tommy Bupp (actor), Walter Byron (actor), John Carradine (actor), David Clyde (actor), Hallam Cooley (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Jean De Briac (actor),

Plot: Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to rule as queen, to the chagrin of Elizabeth I of England who finds her a dangerous rival. There is much ado over whom Mary shall marry; to her later regret, she picks effete Lord Darnley over the strong but unpopular Earl of Bothwell. A palace coup leads to civil war and house arrest for Mary; she escapes and flees to England, where a worse fate awaits her.

Keywords: 1560s, 1580s, 16th-century, ambassador, aristocracy, arranged-marriage, bagpipes, based-on-play, beheading, broken-sword
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance,
Taglines: One of the greatest love stories of all time... brought to the screen in throbbing glory by a wonderful cast of stars! History called her "The Temptress"!

Quotes:

Mary, Queen of Scots: [to Queen Elizabeth I] I might have known you'd come to gloat like this - stealthily, under cover of night.

Queen Elizabeth I: You were born too close to my throne.

Mary, Queen of Scots: I have loved as a woman loves, lost as a woman loses... My son shall sit on the throne! My son shall rule England! Still, still, I win!

Queen Elizabeth I: Rebellion! How I hate that word!

Mary, Queen of Scots: [to Bothwell] What's my throne? I'd put a torch to it for any one of the days with you.

Moray: I have only followed my conscience.::Mary, Queen of Scots: I hope you have one.

Mary, Queen of Scots: War! Is that all you men know?

Bothwell: Someday you'll meet a man who won't take no for an answer.::Mary Beaton: And...?::Bothwell: And I'll be the godfather.

Bothwell: Dark or bright, I'll always follow your star, Mary.

Darnley: You never can count on a woman. Marry her, and she turns to ice.

The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923)

Actors: Gerald Ames (actor), Lionel d'Aragon (actor), Basil Rathbone (actor), John Stuart (actor), Fay Compton (actress), Denison Clift (writer), Denison Clift (director), Harvey Braban (actor), Jack Cardiff (actor), Ivan Samson (actor), René Maupré (actor), Dorothy Fane (actress), Sydney Seaward (actor), Irene Rooke (actress), Betty Faire (actress),

Genres: Drama, History,