The film follows Lya, a woman seeking refuge from Cossack soldiers, who finds herself at the palace of Prince Nicholas. She becomes his majordomo and they fall in love, but their relationship is disrupted when Nicholas learns of her past with a Bolshevik leader. Lya is expelled, becomes a terrorist, and later encounters Nicholas again, now disguised as a servant. When Nicholas is sentenced to death, she rescues him and they escape together.

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
7.0/10

Marie Antoinette
2006
6.7/10

Les Misérables
2012
7.3/10

The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
7.0/10

Copying Beethoven
2006
6.5/10

Othello
1951
7.4/10

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
7.1/10

Amadeus
1984
8.0/10

Reading Lolita in Tehran
2024
7.3/10

Black Narcissus
1947
7.5/10

Mansfield Park
2007
6.1/10

Flowers in the Attic
2014
6.7/10

The Strange Woman
1946
6.2/10

BUtterfield 8
1960
6.3/10

Won't Back Down
2012
6.1/10

Topaz
1969
6.0/10

Albatross
2011
6.0/10

The Dark Corner
1946
6.7/10

Woman of Straw
1964
6.2/10

The Locket
1946
6.3/10
The Ten Commandments
1923
6.6/10