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- Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- Set in 1348 during the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in human history, explores the timely themes of class systems, power struggles, and survival in a time of pandemic.
- Young Florentines take refuge from the black plague and engage in bawdy adventures and lusty exchanges.
- A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
- In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
- In the Middle Ages, Prince Edmund the Black Adder constantly schemes and endeavors to seize the crown from his father and brother.
- In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.
- 14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce that her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.
- Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
- The English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France while Europe deals with the outbreak of the Black Death.
- Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.
- While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion examination, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
- In 1349, while the Black Plague threatens Germany, the town of Hamelin hires a wandering pied piper (Donovan) to lure rats away with his magic pipe, but then refuses to pay for his services, causing him to lure the town's children away.
- To avoid a death sentence for her prior acts of bloodshed, the vengeful swordswoman Lady Snowblood is conscripted by the Japanese Secret Police to assassinate political dissidents.
- In 1348, with the horrors of the Black Death haunting Europe, English soldiers return home from war with a French nobleman as hostage. When people in their home village soon after begin to die, it is believed that the Black Death has struck once more. However, there are other dark reasons behind the sudden deaths.
- Executive transvestite Eddie Izzard takes his show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England and of Western empires, and the need for a European dream. Along the way, he dramatizes Dr. Heimlich's search for a maneuver, the naming of Engelbert Humperdinck, Scooby and Shaggy as archetypes, Neil Armstrong on the moon, society's tolerance of mass murderers, how we sing anthems and carols, Hollywood adapting British films, JFK's trip to Berlin, thoughts on puberty, and how to work schoolbook-French phrases into Parisian conversation. Closeups catch the glint in his eye and his carefully-applied make-up.
- A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
- Remy and Emile plead the case for rats by illustrating the historical and scientific facts about the species and their interaction with humans.
- Maren, a young girl, is the sole survivor of the Black Death in her Norwegian village. Using instincts, folklore, luck, and the clairvoyant powers granted her by being born with a "Victory Cap," Maren survives on her own, waiting for other people to discover her plight. Painstaking recreations of medieval customs and settings dominate the film.
- When an evil corporation threatens to unleash the black plague, Evan Grail, is recruited by his grandfather,Max, into the order of the Black Knights - a secret band of warriors who have been called upon in the past to fight evil
- Portugal struggles for its very existence against the mighty Castile (Spain) invasion drawing in Britain and France during the Hundred Year's War in Medieval Europe.
- Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
- WW1 African American war hero, Henry Johnson, fights a platoon of German stormtroppin, to protect fellow combatant, 15 year old Needham Roberts. An exploration of masculine roles, as well as the human spirit. This real life story comes to life, in this blood pumping action drama filled to the brim with mayhem. When everything is taken from us, who are we, was that always God's plan?
- The real-life Plague of Justinian that killed half of the world population in 6th century AD reappears in modern day New York City. As mass panic leads to chaos, a female doctor tries to stop the outbreak.
- We write the year 1370, the time of the Inquisition. Two popes are fighting a fierce battle for domination in the Catholic Church: Clement VII in Avignon and Urbanus VI in Rome. Grand Inquisitor Guillermo Barnal is commissioned by Clement VII to investigate a satanic murder. An abbot was crucified at his church, after which his body was set on fire. A Jewish father and son are found near the scene of the crime. The inquisitors see the two as perfect scapegoats and arrest them. But on the day of the trial the father makes a desperate attempt to save his son: he claims that the young man is not his son at all. He is not even a Jew but a Christian. His name is Nicolas and he has been adopted as a child. To everyone's surprise, Barnal believes the story and decides to release Nicolas. But then again a murdered clergyman pops up. And this time the crucified corpse also shows signs of the 'black death' .