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Addams Family Values(1993)

PG-13
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 1,283 votes)

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

The Curse of Frankenstein(1957)

NR
| 1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 119 votes)

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.

Two Men in Town(1973)

NR
| 1h 40min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 65 votes)

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

House of Wax(1953)

1h 30min | Horror, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 135 votes)

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days(2005)

1h 57min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 183 votes)

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.

Frankenstein Created Woman(1967)

NR
| 1h 32min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 52 votes)

A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.

The Revenge of Frankenstein(1958)

3.4/5 (with 53 votes)

Baron Frankenstein, working under the protective pseudonym Dr. Victor Stein, together with his assistant Dr. Kleve, transplants a dwarf's brain into another body and unleashes a deranged being.

The French Revolution(1989)

5h 20min | Drama, War, History, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.

Women in Cages(1971)

R
| 1h 21min | Action, Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.

Directed by Gerardo de León - With Pam Grier, Jennifer Gan, Roberta Collins, Judith Cora Brown

The Flying Guillotine(1975)

1h 45min | Action
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins decapitating anyone he fears might be a threat, his guard Mau Tang becomes disillusioned with the excesses of his master. He leaves his post and takes up the quiet life of farming and raising a family. Eventually, though, his past catches up with him, and he must find a way to fight the flying guillotine if he is to save his head.

Directed by Ho Meng Hua

The Married Couple of the Year Two(1971)

1h 38min | Adventure, Comedy, History
3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.

Carry On Don't Lose Your Head(1966)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes "The Black Fingernail", scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel(1934)

NR
| 1h 37min | Drama, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

Mad Love(1935)

NR
| 1h 8min | Horror, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 44 votes)

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.

Magicians(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 30 votes)

A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.

Flying Guillotine II(1978)

1h 28min | Action
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties.

Directed by Cheng Kang, Hua Shan - With Ti Lung, Lo Lieh, Yuen Biao, Corey Yuen, Fung Hak-On, Yuen Cheung-yan, ...

Uncertain Glory(1944)

NR
| 1h 42min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller, War
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.

A Tale of Two Cities(1935)

3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.

Reign of Terror(1949)

1h 27min | Drama, Adventure, History
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.

Two on a Guillotine(1965)

NR
| 1h 47min | Mystery, Horror
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?

A Tale of Two Cities(1958)

3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.

Liberté, égalité, choucroute(1985)

1h 53min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.

I Escaped from Devil's Island(1973)

R
| 1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Crime
2.2/5 (with 8 votes)

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Danton(1921)

1h | History
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Show of Shows(1929)

NR
| 2h 8min | Music
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.

Monsieur Beaucaire(1946)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.

Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers(2004)

51min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

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The Fatal Flying Guillotines(1977)

R
| 1h 28min | Action
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Those rascally Shaolin monks are at it again, and this time they're tracking down some vitriolic villains who have heisted a sacred book. Throw in an evil prince, a flying guillotine, and manic martial hijinks, and you've got a potent mix for action.

Get Out(2009)

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A doctor unrelentingly tries to convince a phobic guy to come out of his isolation room.

Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez(2009)

1h 23min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Juan Perez is a wizard who begins to remember how he lost his head, after an economic crisis in the Circus where he works, he promises to mount a spectacular act of beheading that it could again return it to its glory years. But without any fifth in the bag and with time running out to build a machine is forced to rob a real guillotine without this weighs a terrible curse.

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