To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him.

After Andre Moreau finds he is the secret bastard son of a recently deceased noble, he realizes that it his own sister that he's romantically drawn to.

Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.

在英国宫廷电影中，英皇亨利八世和继承他皇位的伊丽莎白女主都是编导最喜欢拍摄的热门人物。本片将他们父女集中在一起演出，焦点则放在年轻的贝丝跟初恋情人汤玛斯西摩之间的一段情上面。查尔斯．劳顿重复他在金像奖得奖作《亨利八世的私生活》的角色，将自我主义的英皇诠释得十分精彩，年轻的简．西蒙斯散发出公主的漂亮和英气，斯图尔特．格兰杰和德博拉．克尔的搭配演出亦佳。此外，导演乔治．悉尼擅于掌握皇室的大方得体气氛，摄影和美术等都部分显得美仑美奂。

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.

莎乐美（丽塔·海华斯 Rita Hayworth 饰）是风情万种的美丽少女，她的母亲希罗底（ 朱迪丝·安德森 Judith Anderson 饰）曾经犯了弑父之罪，之后改嫁希律王（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）。施洗约翰（艾兰·巴德尔 Alan Badel 饰）非常鄙视希罗底曾经犯下的罪孽，对她出言不逊，希罗底因此怀恨在心，并且开始寻找报复施洗约翰的机会。 希律王将施洗约翰关入牢中，他的坚贞和正义吸引了莎乐美的注意，莎乐美在施洗约翰面前跳了一支求爱之舞，但施洗约翰不为所动。之后，莎乐美又在希律王面前表演了美妙绝伦的七层纱之舞，龙颜大悦的希律王答应满足莎乐美的一切要求。

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.