Divorce, Italian Style (1962), Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back) (1980), The White Ribbon (2009), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961), The Lower Depths (1937), Camille (1936), Jewel Robbery (1932) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Baron movies.
Storyline: Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms (shown as fully as 1933 mores permitted) soon melt away his 'strictly business' attitude, and they become lovers. But Richard, wanting his freedom, connives at her marriage to his wealthy client Baron von Merzbach... whose household includes a jealous former mistress and a susceptible farm manager. Has Richard still a role to play in her life?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: model, country girl, aunt, sculptor, baron, love interest, mushy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...—M.E. Nelson
Plot Keywords: baron, father, wife, doctor, butler, old flame, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: entertainer, aristocrat, wife, baron, girlfriend, madcap, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Framed for murder by his own half brother, Sir Oliver Tressilian (Milton Sills) is impressed into service aboard a British ship. When that ship is captured by the Spanish Armada, he is put to work as a galley slave. Escaping to a band of Barbary pirates, he eventually becomes their leader. He gains wealth and fame during his adventures as "The Sea Hawk," but he dreams of returning to England to exact revenge on his brother -- and to reclaim his fiancée.
Plot Keywords: baron, pirate, fiancée, half brother, slave, thrilling, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs. Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to the strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce, with the help of a gold-digging French baron. Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not so easy...—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: ghost, husband, wife, baron, dog, banker, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Irrestisible charm and talent help Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even the most influential members of the French industrial and political elite during the early '30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed, the result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: businessman, wife, baron, lawyer, physician, inspector, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late nineteenth century Paris, Briton Charles Swann, a man of wealth and culture, runs among the social set. That life is threatened when he falls in love with Odette de Crécy, a courtesan, that love all consuming in that he thinks about how he can be with her when they aren't together. He also despises himself for loving her to the extent he does in knowing that if that love is ever destroyed, he won't be able to survive the emotional pain. He is also made quite aware that if he does marry Odette, whose services he pays for while he allows her to continue with her life, he will lose his social position as most will not be able to welcome her into their house. The wealthy Verudins may be the exceptions as they are considered vulgar and gauche despite their wealth, they who have their own choice for Odette, a man named de Forcheville. The other other exception is Charles' old friend, the Baron de Charlus, who introduced the two to each other. The Baron's support for Charles regardless of what he ends up doing is because he has already reconciled himself to his own socially taboo life, that of a homosexual with a penchant for younger men.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: intellectual, jew, prostitute, wife, baron, homosexual, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: singer, manager, baron, best friend, amusing, melodramatic, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, baron, spy, secret police, singer, major, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Greed, corruption, ignorance, stupidity, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. A family of strolling players travel to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army, while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local Jewish apothecary tries to find a treatment for the plague. The Priests charge him with heresy and witchcraft. A mysterious minstrel (Donovan), who joined up with the players and who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for a fee. The Mayor agrees, then reneges after the rats have been dealt with. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's execution, and the Piper's revenge come at once.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: gypsy, guitarist, daughter, alchemist, baron, outlandish, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Peter Devereaux is a former CIA agent who is asked by the man he worked for to extract a woman who is in Russia and is presently close to a man running for President, who is believed to have committed crimes during the Chechen war. She can give them the name of someone who can prove it. His friend says that she will only come to him. So he goes and she gets the info and tries to get out but the man finds out and tries to stop her.
Plot Keywords: baron, daughter, young woman, young man, villager, somber, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Loosely based on a true story, Christopher Plummer plays British bank robber Eddie Chapman who finds himself caught between the warring parties in WW2, the British and the Germans. working as a spy for both sides he tries to play the 3rd reich and the British against each other. The real life Chapman described himself as a completely 'amoral' person, which adds a nice philisophical touch to this somewhat colourful spy-flic. Is there any moral in making war? Even if you're the 'good' fighting 'evil'?—Void-4 <stringybark@iname.com>
Plot Keywords: safecracker, spy, double agent, baron, englishman, prisoner, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her.—<CherylC894@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: poor person, seamstress, brother-in-law, baron, niece, sculptor, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is the year 1215 and the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal to the Magna Carta, a noble, seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebel's momentous struggle for justice and freedom.
Plot Keywords: rebel, baron, brutal, confident, crafty, engaging, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: count, scientist, daughter, engineer, baron, campy, spectacular ...
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