The best Basil Rathbone’s romance movies

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

13/06/1892- 21/07/1967
Today we present the best Basil Rathbone’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Basil Rathbone’s movies.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood
7.9/10
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

Captain Blood

Captain Blood
7.7/10
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro
7.5/10
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/08/1935
  • Character: Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
7.8/10
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.

We're No Angels

We're No Angels
7.4/10
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.

The Black Cat

The Black Cat
6.1/10
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.

David Copperfield

David Copperfield
7.4/10
Charles Dickens' classic tale of an orphaned boy's fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him.

Heartbeat

Heartbeat
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1946
  • Character: Professor Aristide
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

The Adventures of Marco Polo

The Adventures of Marco Polo
5.6/10
The Venetian traveler meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.

Tovarich

Tovarich
7.1/10
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.

Private Number

Private Number
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 05/06/1936
  • Character: Wroxton
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet
6.5/10
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Love from a Stranger

Love from a Stranger
6.5/10
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.

A Notorious Affair

A Notorious Affair
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/04/1930
  • Character: Paul Gherardi
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

Paris Calling

Paris Calling
6.2/10
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...

The Garden of Allah

The Garden of Allah
5.8/10
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

Frenchman's Creek

Frenchman's Creek
6.1/10
An English lady falls in love with a French Pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and swept off her feet into a world of adventure.

The Lady of Scandal

The Lady of Scandal
5.7/10
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

The Flirting Widow

The Flirting Widow
6.1/10
An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.

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