Movies and TvShows featuring "poisoned-wine" theme.
In this second installment of the trilogy, the Four Musketeers find themselves entangled in a web of political intrigue as they navigate the dangers of courtly life in France. With love triangles, sword duels, and an ensemble cast, they must protect their king and queen from treacherous forces.
Marquis de Sade: Justine follows the twisted journey of a young woman as she falls into the world of depravity and sadism. From her time in a women's prison to her encounters with evil priests and nuns, Justine's life takes a dark turn filled with torture, sexual obsession, and murder. This exploitative and erotic film explores themes of power, control, and the exploitation of the downtrodden.
In this cult-favorite comedy, a drama critic discovers that his beloved spinster aunts have been poisoning lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. When their nephew discovers the truth, chaos ensues as he tries to cover up their crimes.
Captain Blood tells the story of Peter Blood, a nobleman who is wrongly accused of treason and sold into slavery. He escapes and becomes a notorious pirate, seeking revenge against those who wronged him.
Invisible Waves follows a man who accidentally kills his girlfriend's lover. Struggling with guilt and the consequences of his actions, he embarks on a journey that takes him to Thailand, where he becomes entangled in a web of murder, adultery, and deception. As he navigates through this dark underworld, he begins to question his own morality and the choices he has made.
In 17th-century France, a catholic priest swears loyalty to the rightful king and gets embroiled in a dangerous game of deception and betrayal. The priest's identical twin brother, imprisoned as the Man in the Iron Mask, is the key to uncovering an evil plot orchestrated by the usurper king. A thrilling tale of swashbuckling sword fights, romance, and a quest for justice unfolds in this big-budget action-packed movie.
Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
Monsieur Beaucaire is an impostor who switches places with the real Monsieur Beaucaire, a French nobleman. He falls in love with a princess, gets involved in an assassination plot, and must navigate the politics of the French court to save his life.
When a wealthy Bishop is found dead, detective Philo Vance is called in to solve the case. As he investigates, he uncovers a complex web of lies, secrets, and high society scandals.
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde. In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession. In "The Last Golem," a young rabbi struggles to fashion a massive, silent giant out of living clay — until he's distracted by a mute servant girl. In the second episode, "Bread Slippers," an 18th-century countess indulges her passion for sweet cakes, adulterous affairs, and secret kisses with pretty maids until a mysterious visitor whisks her away to an abandoned mansion, where Fate has a different kind of dance in store for her. And in the final story, "Poisoned Poisoner," a ravishing murderess in the Middle Ages dispatches lecherous merchants to the tune of upbeat '60s Czech pop songs.
Chandu, a scientist and magician, must save his sister from a mad scientist who plans to take over the world. Along the way, he encounters white slavery, vultures, turbans, and skeletons.
A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influential crooks. Only one remains, Larry Laine, who is about to show them what he's made of.
A young woman living in the country is told by her dying father that he is really her uncle and raised her as his own when her mother was sent to prison for killing her husband. Alone and not knowing her mother’s fate, Betty travels to the city in search of work. There she finds employment as a maid in the house of a wealthy couple and their dashing son, Nick, with whom she falls in love...
Himmel, Polt und Hölle is a hilarious comedy crime movie set in a peaceful rural village. The story revolves around a pastor who gets involved in a police investigation regarding a suspicious wine-making incident. As they dig deeper, they uncover a murder case that leaves the whole village in shock. With a twisted plot filled with comedy, mystery, and suspense, this movie will keep you entertained until the very end.
A ninja fighter and his American girlfriend journey to Hong Kong in search of the man who murdered her father and stole a cache of diamonds.
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.