Must-Watch List in the Vein of The Two Orphans: Cult Guide

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The secret marriage of a farmer and servant girl in an English household leads to a child born that is not believed to be legitimate.

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A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Fall of the Romanoffs perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A dramatization of the Russian revolution and the influence upon the Russian royal family of the famous "mad monk," Rasputin.

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Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is killed by five conspirators, the fathers of Gennaro's dearest friends, Lucretia tortures the old men to death. Later, Gennaro and his companions journey to Lucretia's domain, and she sees her son for the first time. The Duke, who believes him to be her lover, poisons him, but Lucretia administers the antidote in time and saves his life. Then she schemes to poison her sons' five friends for their fathers' mistake. She succeeds in poisoning them all at a dinner at which Gennaro is an uninvited guest. In dismay, she pleads for him to take the antidote, but he refuses and in a fury avenges his friends by stabbing Lucretia. As he lies dying, he learns that she was his mother.

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A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Eternal Sin perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In her third picture, Bara is the wife-vampire.

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Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.

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A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Clemenceau Case perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

To a rooming house which has fallen on hard times comes The Stranger, an unknown but gentle man who is given the back room on the third floor. His arrival marks a change in the lives of all the boarders, from the girl resisting her parents' pleas that she marry the lecherous Mr. Wright, to an architect and a pianist, both of whose dreams are near destruction from their own discouragement.

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A sultan agrees to help a wicked witch destroy a mysterious young lady if the witch will bring his young son back from the dead with magic.

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A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Ivanhoe perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A wealthy man attracted to his stepdaughter tasks his servant to break up her marriage but this only leads to murder and tragedy.

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A French orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy British nobleman. The family lives happily, unaware that a plot is afoot to kidnap the girl and make away with the nobleman's fortune.

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Ann Hunniwell, innocently accompanying Frank Devereaux, her employer's son, to a questionable New York cafe, is arrested in a raid and is photographed by a newspaperman, although Devereaux manages to obtain the negative. Five years later she is the wife of "Lafe" Regan, a man of high character and social standing. Her stepdaughter, Helen, becomes involved with Devereaux, who has also had an affair with the wife of Colonel Gaunt. When the colonel threatens to shoot Devereaux, Regan stalls him, while Ann follows Helen to Frank's apartment; after an oral conflict, Regan shoots Devereaux and leaves a "Not To Be Disturbed" sign on the door. Ann tries to take the blame and shield her family, but the district attorney, having posed as the photographer years before, believes Ann is equally guiltless now and frees her and her husband, stating that no jury would convict Regan on his plea of "Self-Defense."