The Red Shoes (1948), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Chorus (2004), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), The Great Beauty (2013), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000), The Scarlet Empress (1934) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Countess movies.
Storyline: A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing, some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: mother son relationship, entrepreneur, gift, debt collector, dancing, dance teacher, countess ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.
Plot Keywords: homosexual subtext, horse riding, bare chested male, moscow russia, camera, photographer, dying ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A medieval nobleman and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. He enlists the aid of his descendent to try to find a way to return home, all the while trying to cope with the cultural and technological changes distinguishing his time from ours.
Plot Keywords: time travel, medieval times, knight, year 1993, 20th century, 12th century, death ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roistering sea captain Jonathan Clark, who poaches seal pelts from Russian Alaska, meets and woos Russian countess Marina in 1850 San Francisco. Events separate them, but after an exciting sea race to the Pribilof Islands they meet again; now, both are in danger from the schemes of villainous Prince Semyon.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: sea, flogging, threat, self sacrifice, russia, rival, imprisonment ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.—Dragomir R. Radev <radev@cs.columbia.edu>
Plot Keywords: french soldier, military officer, presumed dead, back from the dead, marriage, husband wife relationship, paris france ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
Plot Keywords: sadness, chicken, atheist, field, crying, fiddler, kiss ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. Amid the turmoil of the civil war between the red and white armies, he tries to flee Russia along with the beautiful Countess Alexandra.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: espionage, firing squad, year 1914, 1910s, shot in the head, train station, political assassination ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Farinelli is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes a very famous opera singer, managed by his mediocre brother (Riccardo).—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>
Plot Keywords: madrid spain, fever, father son relationship, falling off horse, eyeglasses, erection, eclipse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond and is sent on his first mission. For help with Marc-Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), he must become very close friends with his daughter, Teresa "Tracy" (Dame Diana Rigg), and heads off to hunt down Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas) one more time. This takes him to Switzerland, where he must pose as Sir Hilary Bray to find out the secret plan of Blofeld. The facility is covered with Blofeld's guards, as well as his henchwoman, Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat). What does Blofeld have in mind this time? Can Bond keep up this act for much longer? Are any Bond Girls safe?
Plot Keywords: bond girl, portugal, secret organization, helicopter, brainwashing, hypnotism, british secret service ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies of all persuasions gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. High society socialites hobnob with jailbirds. Murderous intrigues, scientific secrets and love affairs flourish.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, dead body, bicycle, fight, song, love triangle, refugee ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: based on true story, unhappy marriage, college professor, brother sister relationship, brother in law brother in law relationship, marital separation, aristocracy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hercule Poirot, the best detective in the world decides to travel on the Orient Express. The train accidentally gets stopped because of a small avalanche. Little did he know that a murder was planned and that a person on this train was capable of committing such crime.
Plot Keywords: palestine, palestinian, train, based on novel, whodunit, shorthaired woman, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1465, Quentin Durward travels to France to meet Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, on behalf of his elderly Scottish uncle whom, for political reasons, the Duke of Burgundy intends she marry. A man of honor who may have sworn too many oaths, Durward finds he and Isabelle being used as pawns in a deadly game by the Duke and devious King Louis XI. One look at Isabelle has convinced Durward this is where he and his heart have to be.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: france, knight, based on novel, man in bathtub, crossbow, ambassador, day for night ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France.
Plot Keywords: woman initiating sex, female rear nudity, nudity, public nudity, cake, sex, sexual innuendo ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of agents in the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the C.I.A.) are sent to Italy during World War II to spy on the Germans. Most of them are killed because of an inside betrayal. After the war, one of the agents returns to find the traitor.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: revenge, based on novel, character name as title, countess ...
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