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The Libertine

IMDB Rating: 6.50
6930 votes

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Storyline
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual intercourse flourish. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from the exile to London. John is a morally corrupt, drunkard and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make him pleased. John meets the aspirant actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her a great star. He falls in love for her, and she becomes his mistress; during the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls in disgrace in the court. When he was thirty-three years old, he was dying of syphilis associated to alcoholism and he converted to a religious man.
Actors
RochesterJohnny Depp
Elizabeth BarrySamantha Morton
King Charles IIJohn Malkovich

What a Girl Wants

IMDB Rating: 5.70
6285 votes

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Storyline
Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.
Actors
Daphne ReynoldsAmanda Bynes
Henry DashwoodColin Firth
Libby ReynoldsKelly Preston
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